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Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social · 5h

Catholic Archbishop for the Military Services with pastoral responsibility for US soldiers issues statement saying Catholic military personnel are morally obligated to refuse to participate in a potential livestreamed execution of Nidal Hasan. www.milarch.org/archbishop-b...

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Archbishop Broglio Issues Statement on Proposed Execution Livestream - Archdiocese for the Military, USA

Archbishop Broglio has issued a statement on the proposal to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad.

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Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social · 8h

About This Weekend - IN Series’ unfunny script misses easy target with Trump lampoon in updated “Mikado.” Photo: Bayou Elom washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/10/12/i...

An actor costumed like President Donald Trump sits on a golden toilet, holding a strip of toilet paper, with another actor in the same red hat standing behind him

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9h

hakeem jeffries should be in front of a microphone blasting the regime for unleashing its security forces on a member of congress under his leadership.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10h

In honor of C**umbus Day, Artemis has decided to pose an acute risk to local, fragile ecosystems.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12h

The only thing this headline lacks is the phrase, “in a chainsaw-involved incident.”

After 500 trees fall at D.C. golf course Trump wants remade, foes ask judge for halt
Preservationists said they were told the East Potomac Golf Links operation went "faster than anticipated" and "hundreds of additional trees" are now slated for removal.

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 11h

Bonjour, c'est lundi

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Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social · 10h

More embarrassment for the management of the Kennedy Center

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 11h

But yes, removing Plato from philosophy courses is just *chef's kiss.* These are a the same people wailing about how they need to protect The Western Canon from Christopher Nolan casting Black people in The Odyssey. But also, you can't read Plato. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas

The state now controls what professors can teach.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 13h

For this Indigenous Peoples Day, your astonishing artifact is the earliest known Indigenous depiction of a European — a wood carving from Nunavut dated to 1350. 🧪🏺

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Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before Columbus

This Inuit carving was made a century before Columbus set foot in the Americas and likely depicts a Norseman.

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 13h

"This is the kind of spiritual life that the Church asks of us: not to win by war but to win with peace!" #PopeFrancis #PrayForPeace

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Caps fans waiting for the red line

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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fascinated & moved by viral footage of Parisian lycéens singing Charles Aznavour's "Emmenez-moi." Classic chanson of their grandparents' era—a hit in '68, no less—about working-class drudgery/dreams of escape, whose implicit politics these kids are making them explicit, in real time, in the street

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've been thinking a lot about the gin craze, and how poor people wanting to get blasted all the time is attributed often just to the cheapness of the substance, rather than how fucking awful to was to be poor in an age of enclosures.

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Gin Craze - Wikipedia

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Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is only going to get worse

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This David Brooks?

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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Keep bombing Russian data centres to save Western democracy

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

How will MAGA know what to think? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Latest from Andrew Lindemann Malone on WCR - Fairfax Symphony opens season with a bracing double shot of premieres. Photo: W. Scott Olsen washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/10/11/f...

A man plays the alto saxophone with his eyes closed, in purple-tinged light

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/10/2026

Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty “an attack” on human dignity a day after senior Church officials pointedly condemned the decision by the U.S. Defense Department to live-stream the execution of the convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

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Pope criticizes death penalty after Hegseth announces public execution

Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty “an attack” on human dignity a day after senior Church officials condemned the Pentagon’s plans to live-stream an execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.

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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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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As ever, Gary Kasparov understands exactly what's going down.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i think this gets at the crux of it. It doesn't matter if they are actively preventing people from dropping ballots off, or if they're there by accident, or what--their presence could still be viewed as intimidating, and the solution is for them not to be *anywhere*

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But god forbid Kimmel should make a joke about the President on tv

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Soldiers positioned at voting locations is not legal behavior. These are Mississippi National Guard troops at a DC ballot dropbox yesterday. We demand the governors of Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia get your soldiers OUT NOW.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Leif Erickson day? OK, Erik was his father so this is as close as I can get on short notice. #LeifEriksonDay #HingaDingaDurgen

Group of Vikings. One bespectacled Viking is raising his hand
Speech bubble: Oh! Oh! Dibs on pillaging their library!
Caption: THE LITTLE-KNOWN COUSIN OF ERIK THE RED... BJORN THE WELL-READ.

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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This one goes out to Dr Bryan Huffman of Holland MI who has met his goal of swimming across all 5 of us. 🌊🌊

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Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, it's no FIFA Peace Prize, amirite?

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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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Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

WCR Overnight - Noseda rounds out first NSO season stand with uplifting Russian music washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/10/08/n...

An Italian man dressed in black (Gianandrea Noseda), conducts with a baton in his right hand

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. nyti.ms/4yCUebH

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Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

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