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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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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 8h

Unless he demanded cash or a pardon up front, there’s no way that 🍊💩🛍️ is actually gonna pay.

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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 8h

We know which countries need new Presidents. Neither of them are Ukraine.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h

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

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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 8h

The 🍊🫏🎩 is clearly a senile, demented, insane dotard. He should be seeking [an] asylum, not destroying the world.

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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 8h

I guess “atheist nationalist” or just plain “fascist”doesn’t sound as cool?

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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 15h

It would be a darn shame if a Boston-tea-party-like event occurred in that port when the ship arrives. A darn shame. Highly inappropriate.

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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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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 19h

Putin has been giving Iran targeting info for American positions in the Middie East, Iran has been hitting those targets and killing American soldiers, and now Trump gives aid and comfort to Putin. That is a textbook example of giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. Pure treason.

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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Don Snoreleone and all his toadies are committing treason by providing aid and comfort to the enemy.

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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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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’m still worse. It’s treason, lending aid and comfort to the enemy.

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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That’s treason, right there. Aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war.

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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Via his treasonous support for Putin, the 🍊💩🛍️ can only say,

Image of Trump pointing up and saying, “I did that!”

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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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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Simultaneously, the Republican plan is to force Americans on straight Medicare to switch to Medicare Advantage from which they would eventually be dropped, just like the people in this story.

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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And that fascist conman is high on his own supply.

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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fuck that guy. I donated my share of his idiotic bribe to Angie Nixon’s campaign for Senate.

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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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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That huge bag holds his new giant shit basket, catheters, pee bags for his legs, tape to hold it all in place, super-absorbent deodorizing XXXL disposable diapers, and a case of binkies.

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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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Grit Pump @gritpump.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The dumbest and most corrupt fucking thing I’ve seen today. So far.

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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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