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Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

“A coalition of the willing to tackle tax havens and increase the transparency of company ownership would continue to keep the pressure up” - @joepowell.bsky.social for @neweconomics.bsky.social on why the UK should do more to clamp down on dirty money when G20 chair neweconomics.org/2026/07/clam...

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.

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Elon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to Scale

The first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead.

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A beautiful fusion of the chinese red packet 🧧 tradition wrapped in western potato chip culture.

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The 'Russian, Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs' (REPO) Taskforce was one of the more promising G7 initiatives for going after money and assets being stashed offshore by Putin's allies - but it hasn't been mentioned in G7 comms now for over a year. Why?

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 08/05/2025

Relatable: pope signed up for Google+ but had no idea what to do with it web.archive.org/web/20190309...

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Robert Prevost - Google+

A Google+ profile for Robert Prevost

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Vatican's own summary of Vatican FC "From the games that the Vatican national football team has played, their performance has not been very good. The team normally plays with other local teams in Rome as friendly matches but winning has always been a problem for it" vatican.com/Vaticans-nat...

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Vatican's national football team

The Vatican national football team is the football team that plays for the Vatican and represents it in international matches. As you may know, Vatican City is the smallest independent state in the wo...

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 28/04/2025

hello!! I know everyone is busy/the news remains bad, but if I may distract for a moment? There's a man named Ander Louis from the Yarra Valley whose sincere passion project is translating War & Peace into Bogan Australian. He's done Books 1 & 2. This is not a spoof. www.amazon.com/dp/108730656...

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Transparency International @anticorruption.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🔵 GREAT NEWS! In a landmark judgement, the EU Court of Justice just ruled that Malta cannot continue operating its “golden passports” programme, which has allowed foreigners to acquire Maltese (and therefore EU) citizenship. ➡️ Our statement here: anticorru.pt/3b9

Image of EU flags and passports in the back. The text says "Great news! The EU court of justice puts an end to harmful golden passport schemes". Transparency international.

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I attended a few of these shows - the 3 year project is well worth the 6 minute watch

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 19/03/2025

Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

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Transparency International @anticorruption.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

President Trump has announced plans to sell US$5m “gold card” resident permits to foreigners. Bad idea. "Selling US citizenship to the highest bidder will attract corrupt actors seeking safe haven for themselves & their dirty money." - @mairamartini.bsky.social, CEO of @anticorruption.bsky.social.

Image quote: "President Trump's proposed 'Gold Card' is a recipe for transnational corruption, echoing the disastrous golden visa and passport schemes in other countries that have been exploited by criminals. Selling US citizenship to the highest bidder will attract corrupt actors seeking safe haven for themselves and their dirty money." - Maira Martini, CEO of Transparency International.

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. A baboon annointing you with gourd juice over an Elton John coronation hymn does.

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Tears falling as I blow out candles on a loaf of bread, butter and sprinkles, while wishing, hoping, to one day taste American cake

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The FCPA was one of the great achievements of Jimmy Carter's presidency - which enabled, among other things, punishing Goldman Sachs for its role in the 1MDB scandal

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 11/02/2025

The latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index shows Australia has reversed its decade-long slide, ranking back in the top 10 least corrupt countries.

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Australia improves on global corruption rankings, but there is still work to be done

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"Whoever wins (race for artificial general intelligence) has a significant probability of causing human extinction in the process - Cute coda to DeepSeek story in FT on.ft.com/4jD3qWD

Screenshot of FT Deepseek story's conclusion, that AI will be the death of us all.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/12/2024

! www.ft.com/content/2262...

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Geoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Massive away win for the little fella.

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Australia closing down its Consulate in Shenyang will not substantively change anything about its relationship with China. Source, me: I worked in that consulate. www-theaustralian-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.thea...

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Osmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Amongst everything passed by the Senate last night was world leading corporate tax transparency laws All big multinationals operating in Australia now must publish country-by-country data on the scale of activities, inc profits & tax, in high risk countries taxjustice.net/press/tax-ju... #auspol

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Tax Justice Network hails world-leading Australian legislation on corporate tax transparency | Tax Justice Network

PUBLIC COUNTRY BY COUNTRY REPORTING REQUIREMENT WILL REVEAL PROFIT SHIFTING PATTERNS AND CURB TAX ABUSE In the final session before elections, the Australian Senate has voted to pass world-leading le...

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Pleased to also uninstall Threads - anodyne, and Mastodon - bewildering. I welcome the coming Bluesky bubble.

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Is World Press Photo of the year team on Bsky yet because I have this pic of Biden waving from the Beast at Rio G20 summit.

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Transparency International @anticorruption.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Across the G20 countries, financial secrecy, complicit enablers & insufficient cooperation on cross-border cases facilitate the flow of dirty money. Yet, their leaders have been treating corruption as a low-priority problem. Now is the time: #G20TakeAction! ➡ See our campaign: anticorru.pt/36X

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Xi Jinping's motorcade about to hit Rio G20 summit - 'fans' waiting along the route with chinese and Brazilian flags, i asked when he was coming and most played dumb (one even pretended he wasn't waiting for Xi while holding a huge 🇨🇳), another: 'i dont know but we were told to wait until 6.30pm'

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Transparency International @anticorruption.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

#G20TakeAction: Yesterday, 48h before the G20 Leaders’ Summit, we filled Rio de Janeiro’s skies with giant dollar bills. Will this finally get leaders to pay attention? There’s more to come. We will release our campaign video on Monday, 18 Nov. Learn more ➡️ transparency.org/g20

Image of the paragliders with giant dollar bills printed in the canopies, landing in a public beach in Rio de Janeiro. This action was done to call attention to the G20’s failure to address corruption.

Image of the paragliders with giant dollar bills printed in the canopies, landing in a public beach in Rio de Janeiro. They landed in a huge banner that says "How obvious should corruption be before it's a G20 priority?". This action was done to call attention to the G20’s failure to address corruption.

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

48h before the G20 Leaders’ Summit, @anticorruption.bsky.social filled Rio de Janeiro’s skies with giant dollar bills. Will G20 leaders finally get real on preventing dirty money from landing on their shores? 💸 transparency.org/g20

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G20: Take action on corruption - Campaigns

It’s time to elevate anti-corruption to the core of the G20 agenda.

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Slim hope: There's a kind of insane brain melting charisma to Trump that thrives off symbiosis with edgelords. I'm still worried, but not as worried as I'd be if Dutton actually had the charisma to woo a Joe Rogan listener.

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

We're on the board skeeters.

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

My vision is for every neo-fascist political front to be destroyed then permanently memorialized with delicious street-food from the nations they vilified in their nationalist fervors.

The "British Union of Fascists" storefront in 1934 Durham is no a kebab shop.

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Tugendhat's answer 💀

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Fwiw I didn't leave Twitter because of conservative Tweets: I left because its owned by a racist creep and half the posts were ads for crypto and whatever shit joe rogan sells on.ft.com/3B6Qwy7 @FT

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With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue

The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Having worked in 东北 (old Manchuria) I occasionally asked locals about land ceded to Russia - responses generally boiled down to 'that's a problem for later', amid stanning of Putin the 牛人 (badass)

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Roh Yakobi @rohyakobi.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Zakia Khudadadi, a Hazara girl, fled the Taliban and today made history by winning the first-ever Paralympic medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team with a bronze in Taekwondo. #Paralympic2024 #Paris2024 #Refugees

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Tom Burgess @nottomburgess.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

The trouble was his brain.

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

A decision on whether Germany will send warships through the Taiwan Strait is imminent. The commander of the ships tells Reuters that he is awaiting orders from Berlin, but describes transit through the Strait as a “normal passage” like the English Channel/North Sea www.reuters.com/world/german...

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German warships await orders on crossing Taiwan Strait

Two German warships await orders from Berlin, their commander said, to determine whether next month they will be the first German naval vessels in decades to pass through the Taiwan Strait, drawing a rebuke from Beijing.

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Why didn't the French tell us about the horse subs? What betting australian would pick ssn-aukus over this?

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Buy them pre-wrapped from a sale bin on the way home from work?

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Hugh J @hughjorgensen.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

And to think it only costs me $1 a month for this kind of insight. Worth every cent.

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