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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 6h

No, it's the execs who are revolting. (Sorry.)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have been carrying out a campaign of violence and intimidation unmatched in recent memory, attacking and displacing Palestinians and establishing scores of government-backed settlements and illegal outposts. wapo.st/4rXnis7

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 6h

[The seed pod of the common snapdragon looks like a little skull. How could Thoreau mistake it for a new flower? Because his "Canada snapdragon" was actually blue toadflax, Linaria canadensis.]

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 6h

Thoreau Oct. 10, 1851. It was the seed-vessel of the Canada snapdragon in the Marlborough road that I mistook for a new flower. This is still in bloom in the Deep Cut. [Pod by Keir Morse]

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights

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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 09/10/2026

Stephen Miller keeps violating the Hatch Act, disparaging political candidates and calling them extremists and cowards. We just filed a complaint with OSC. Repeat violators must be held accountable.

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amb @amb.fyi · 08/10/2026

the onion saw this coming back in april

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hmmm. Unless I’m forgetting something, the only river cruise in George Eliot’s work does not go well.

A river cruise ship named The George Eliot.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ICE agents drove through a crowd of protesters and blocked our Congressman from seeing the victim. I'm grateful that Governor Hochul, Mayor Mamdani, and my present and future members of Congress, Adriano Espaillat and Darializa Avila Chevalier, are not taking this lying down.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A short walk from where I live, an ICE agent fired seven times into a car where a five-year-old boy was in the backseat. He hit a man named Oscar Belgal, who was wounded in the neck and taken to a hospital.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And then how gently and unobserved they drop their burdens and let in the sun when it is wanted, their leaves not heard when they fall on our roofs and in our streets.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Think of these great yellow canopies or parasols held over our heads and houses by the mile together, making the village all one and compact, an ulmarium.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Under those light-rustling yellow piles, just ready to fall on the heads of the walker, how can any crudity or greenness of thought or act prevail? The street is a great harvest-home. It would be worth the while to set out these trees, if only for their autumnal value.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

...they remind me of yellowing sheaves of grain, as if the harvest had come to the village itself, and we might expect to find some maturity and flavor in the thoughts of the villagers at last.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

[New York's Central Park is one of the few places in the US where you can still see mature American elms.] Oct. 9, 1857. The elms are now at the height of their change. As I look down our street, which is lined with them, now clothed in their very rich brownish-yellow dress... [Photo Chris Ford]

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To every politician in New York: Do not tell the protesters to behave peacefully. Do not tell the protesters to disperse and go home. Instead, tell ICE to behave peacefully. Tell ICE to disperse and go home. Side with your constituents, not the Trump administration.

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ICE grabs, disappears and deports immigrant children. More than 8,000 so far. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/08/c...

themarshallproject.org

Tracking Trump’s Immigration Crackdown on Children

How many kids has ICE arrested, detained, and deported under the second Trump administration?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He makes a good point.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you! Also, another reason to keep boycotting Target.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Academia distilled.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 09/10/2026

The Norwegian Nobel Committee is sending a message to Trump by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, judge of the International Criminal Court, and the Commissioner of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The agent posed as a construction worker and fired multiple rounds into the car while there was a child inside. Now ICE is preventing lawmakers from talking to the victim in the hospital.

theintercept.com

ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says

A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump is desperately trying to incite a riot before the election so he can declare an emergency

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help - and leave the rest to us!
President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Oct 08, 2026, 4:30 PM
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: ICE vehicle RAMS through NYC protesters attempting to block it from leaving after ICE agents SHOT a man in NYC—the man’s young son was in the back seat. WE’RE LIVE ON SCENE ⬇️

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God @thegodshow.com · 09/10/2026

Any nation that live streams executions is a shithole country.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just despicable people. All of them. It’s not just that they’re corrupt and shitty at their jobs - they’re terrible humans.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good. Glad I voted for her. And Mayor Mamdani.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That chainlink fence is there for a reason.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026

BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...

prospect.org

Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect

A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't need a sasquatch whiskey decanter right now, but it's nice to know that one exists.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thoreau, Oct. 7, 1857. Crossing Depot Brook, I see many yellow butterflies fluttering about the Aster puniceus, still abundantly in bloom there. [Purple-stemmed aster by Patrick Kyle]

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Delighted to be at this great event with Scott Anderson, David Grann, Patrick Radden Keefe, and Hampton Sides! (Candice Millard apparently couldn't be there.) Learned why the endnotes need to be in the ARC, why AI can't replace you, and how sometimes you really do find a trunk full of old letters.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

personally I think "overhauled" underplays what happened which is that at least 300,000 federal workers lost their jobs

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