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Do you know how hard it is to lose the war if you're the United States? It's about as unlikely as bankrupting a casino.

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Tennessee Democratic Party @tndems.bsky.social · 19h

Meanwhile, in Tennessee: •paid $3,900+ in additional costs in essential goods and services •94,595 have lost food assistance through SNAP. •paid $809 more for gas.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Life In Trumplandia.......

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You’d have to be a special kind of stupid to bomb a school full of children and still expect to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20h

How long until they cave and put money in his pocket? Or at least hold a black tie dinner in his honor?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h

Trump: “We're thinking about renaming the Strait of Hormuz to the Trump Strait.”

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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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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026

"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇

Collage of 12 Republican posts on X opposing Russian oil purchases, 2022–2026. Senate GOP, 7/28/26: "Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." Senate GOP, 7/14/26: backing Graham's bill to hold "major purchasers of Russian oil and gas accountable." House GOP, 3/8/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil. Biden is fueling Putin's war on Ukraine." Rep. Garret Graves, 3/8/22: calling on the administration "to ban Russian oil." House GOP, 3/7/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/4/22: "Stop buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/3/22: "sanction the oil and gas industry in Russia." House GOP, 3/2/22: "Instead of buying Russian oil..." Rep. Steve Scalise, 3/1/22: "stop financing Putin's war with Russian oil." Marco Rubio: "Stop importing Russian oil... That's the plan." Rubio, 3/9/22, on Russian oil imports. Peter Navarro, 6/24/23: India "buying up bargain-basement Russian oil."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The commercials are just the latest effort by the Trump administration to unlawfully use federal government resources to unfairly influence elections this year. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Trump’s taxpayer-funded propaganda ads draw third lawsuit

It’s the third lawsuit filed in response to the campaign-style ads, seemingly created to boost GOP candidates as the party registers historically low ratings.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeesh. 👀 (Bloomberg) - The most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom will be massive capital destruction in the US, with market share going to cheaper open-source Chinese models, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The people who screamed that children would be emotionally scarred by hearing a drag queen read “Jack and the Beanstalk” are OK with those same children watching Pete Hegseth’s livestream of a man getting his brains blown out by a bunch of guns.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 09/10/2026

Oh wow. Mike Lawler got so rattled when Cait Conley accurately called him out on his SALT deduction lie that he tried to get up and leave before being told by the forum moderator to sit down and calm down. Oh, and the crowd laughed at him, too. #NY17

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

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY IS NO KINGS #4 (Details at: nokings.org) We must turn up in MASSIVE numbers to show the world we don't support this Administration or a criminal president who has enriched himself to an obscene level at the expense of everyday hardworking Americans! #GettingReadyToDump-tRUMP 🟠💩 👎

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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

Donnie having a late night cry.

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

The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 09/10/2026

The FBI announced its intention to seek a sole-source contract with the UFC to train FBI agents in hand-to-hand combat. MS NOW's @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social has the latest

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Congressman Eugene Vindman @repvindman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As an Army JAG, I oversaw the post-trial legal proceedings following Nidal Hasan’s horrific attack at Fort Hood. I believed then, and I believe now, that he should face the fullest consequences of the law. But live-streaming his execution is what terrorists and authoritarian regimes do.

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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed

The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be "public.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026

Retirement: no. But senior status? Yes. Forced retirement would require a constitutional amendment, but senior status may only require legislation :)

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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think individual states should invite them anyway since states run the elections.

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026

On the three-year mark since the Hamas-led deadly attack, Israelis are grappling with reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly warned by regional allies ahead of time. n.pr/3TtIYiJ

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3 years on, Israelis grapple with reports Netanyahu was warned before Oct. 7 attacks

On the three-year mark since the Hamas-led deadly attack, Israelis are grappling with reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly warned by regional allies ahead of time.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 05/10/2026

‘If you want to know where inflation is heading, look at the price of diesel. Diesel moves the trucks, trains, tractors, and construction equipment that everything else depends on, so its cost works its way into final goods prices across the economy.’ sarmayakar.substack.com/p/rock-and-a...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Page One in Philly:

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(FT) - A sharp sell-off in US government bonds is starting to reverberate across corporate America, forcing companies to overhaul their borrowing plans and even raising the spectre of defaults among the most lowly rated businesses. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7c7c...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Suddenly they’re all too busy to get on a stage with Trump.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Donald, if you're reading this.... Come to Michigan.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Who you gonna believe, the lying liar or your own eyes? 👀

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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The County Recorder in Maricopa County is a Republican!

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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lutnick's banker is dead. Some other fixer in the EpsteinFiles is also recently dead. Strange that I don't see anything on the evening news 🤔

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The corrupt gangsters running this government violate the law daily and use government funds for partisan politics to bribe voters in violation of the law. Trump has been emboldened by a rogue Supreme Court which has given him immunity and taken a blowtorch to the Constitution.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026

NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit

Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/10/2026

Schumer is on board with blocking Trump SCOTUS nominees over the next 2 years - but we have to capture the Senate (plus one to overcome Fetterman)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.

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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams

Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/10/2026

Here's the part where Cornell requires a "reflection paper" from a perp who testified that after he got the "free pussy" text, he only went into the room because one of the guys in there had a vape he could borrow.

Within ninety (90) days after this Decision becomes final (otherwise subject to
reasonable extension approved by the Title IX Coordinator), Respondent will submit
to the Title IX OfEcc a reflection paper that engages with the specific circumstances for
which he was found responsible and contains a detailed proposal for future University
educational materials to train undergraduate students around the intersection of social
media use and sexual harassment, as well as bystander intervention. The reflection paper
must also include recommendations to the University's Office of Sorority & Fraternity
Life with respect to substance use prevention efforts in Greek Life organizations on
campus. Use of artificial intelligence tools of any kind in the creation of this reflection
paper is prohibited.
" The Hearing Panel expects that Respondent will take this educational opportunity
seriously and apply what he learns to help improve the University/Greek Life community.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Meta glasses: too perverted for Amsterdam

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