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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 19h

my mentions are full of people *furious* at the DCCC for trying to win more races instead of hoarding cash in a bank account and never spending it. like they *want* the DCCC to be scrooge mcduck swimming in gold coins instead of trying to win races. I am going to start drinking.

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 1h

(also I don't know how my phone changed "Ellie's" to "Elliesy", wtf)

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 10h

As a local friend of Elliesy I agree with this plan

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 11h

That plus Elon himself is obsessively transphobic because of his daughter so that's what he wants to spend money on.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 19h

“Give us the money we need to make Stephen Miller cry on national television”

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 18h

And a lot of the rest are kids from liberal households who need to believe that there's a deep fundamental difference between them and liberals because they don't want to be in the same political coalition as their mom

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 20h

"goyslop" is the conspiracy theory that processed foods are deliberately made unhealthy in order to weaken gentiles who eat them. Buying kosher would just be one way of avoiding the slop, it's not that they think kosher bread is specially made for easy digestion compared to normal non-slop bread.

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 20h

It's like the MAHA stuff about processed foods and seed oils or whatever making people less healthy, except they think it's a Jewish conspiracy to poison gentiles rather than just corporations saving a few bucks on ingredients

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 22h

Not nearly as much as the doomers on here think.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All forms of conspiracism go through a process of convergent evolution akin to carcinization, except instead of turning into crabs they end up as, well, you know

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.

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, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wait does having a goth pokemon pfp make me look Japanese?

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Repeating my sotto voce refrain that I think we are very soon going to have to deal with the plain (but seldom spoken) fact that police are simply not under the control of the political leadership who command them on paper.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I really hate this sort of take. someone saying "we're better than this" is speaking aspirationally! you are not clever for insisting we aren't, you are giving people an excuse not to try to be.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 09/10/2026

Please tell uninformed “allies” to trans people who repeat Erin Reed or Alejandra Caraballo narratives to shut the fuck up. There is nothing more helpful you can do for trans people than this. Destroy the doomer narrative and help save our community

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm trans and I'll begrudge them. Our rights, and other people's, are on the line here. We don't have time to be voting based on feelings. (This is for the Senate, mind. Marcy Kaptur can get fucked; we don't need one more House seat the way we need senators.)

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 09/10/2026

I miss when the trans community said things like "I love being trans, it's great and I'm successful and people should look up to me" & had hashtags like "RealLiveTransAdult" instead of screaming "everyone hates us and is going to kill us and if you have hope I'll enjoy spitting on you in the camps"

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

First of all, don't put stupid words in my mouth. This has nothing to do with "trust". Second, do you seriously think Dems going transphobic is less likely to happen if the GOP wins general elections while running on a platform of aggressive transphobia? Seriously?

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We're not gonna end up dead because of one or two senators in a Democratic majority being kind of transphobic (but way less transphobic than Republicans). Come tf on.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/10/2026

this is on the one hand a totally insane thing to say, but it's interesting to see it as kind of a legacy kludge from fusionists past, where the "communists want to remake the social world" was part of what kept the cons in coalition with the hawks and the libertarians

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I dunno about *very* normal, but relatively normal compared to juniper, sure

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Neal Stephenson: In my book I invented the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer as a cautionary tale. Alvin: At long last, we have created the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't think she was involved in the orgy herself, she just said she was at a warehouse party where someone tried to set the place on fire because the orgy upstairs wasn't masked

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

! That building is where my ex lives. @dmholmer.wayfinddesigns.com was the person you saw kind of short, white, wearing glasses?

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

does kinda depend on having the right kind of patron though

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

mine is basically "sugar baby but for spells"

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's a jungle primary with each voter selecting only one candidate, then the top four candidates from that go to the RCV general

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm very pro-polyamory, but a) "opening" an existing marriage that was previously monogamous is a fraught idea even under the best circumstances, and b) suggesting it bc you're frustrated about not getting laid while your wife is taking care of your baby is just incredible levels of asshole

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whoops, excuse me. oh man, my bad. @whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

surely this time it will work

i just need to raise minimum toxicity levels to discourage 'bad opinions'
i just need to raise minimum toxicity levels to discourage 'bad opinions'
i just need to raise minimum toxicity levels to discourage 'bad opinions'
i just need to raise minimum toxicity levels to discourage 'bad opinions'
i just need to raise minimum toxicity levels to discourage 'bad opinions'

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

“how much shit can you deny yourself? cheese, gender, the fuck’s next?” truly humanity is a rich text

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 07/10/2026

it's the same joke as this one except people under 40 seem especially bad at realizing it

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Isn't BSW just former Die Linke members who split off because they agree with the far right on those issues? I don't think Matthew is saying that all leftists go red-brown. Just that being far-left isn't in itself a guarantee that someone won't find their way to allying with fascists.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026

literally the first thing i wrote for liberal currents was about this, it turns out, and short version "william b. fuckley is right." the answer is that blue politicians need to start gaming out how to break cop strikes. it's not hard... but you need to actually be prepared for it.

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Power and the Liberal Tradition

I have long considered myself a liberal, in the following sense: I believe in liberal democracy. The ideal of a republic of free and equal citizens is my north star, guiding my own politics here in th...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 06/10/2026

I think your odds of successfully pulling off heterosexual polyamory are maybe not great but substantially higher than pulling off “having a productive relationship with the kind of person who writes think pieces about their marriage”

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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

He's originally from Baltimore and had most recently been living in Hawaii and California, he only went to NYC to kill

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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters

The poster for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but it’s been edited to include And Knuckles at the end of the title, and Knuckles has been edited into the photo of the cast

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

Not saying it would have changed everything but surely everyone being able to easily afford a nice apartment on their own would have some effect on the social dynamics there

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

Now you've got me wondering how the whole rationalist/EA cult scene might have developed differently if SF and the bay area had plentiful apartments and low rents the whole time

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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's why super broad upzoning eliminates corruption. Developers LOVE Nimbys because they keep all the competitors out of the market. When home building is liberalized, shit starts getting scary.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m glad 11 years old me decided that Rage Against the Machine sucked for that “Bush and Gore are the same” music video, because now 38 year old me doesn’t have to struggle with mixed feelings about them after finding out Tom Morello didn’t learn shit from 2000.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah. Also... We can't know. But if another 2.3M Dems in CA, NY, IL, etc. had voted for Harris? No change in the EC but there's a decent chance that a lot of the compliant behavior from the media, universities, law firms, etc. doesn't happen...and *maybe* Hegseth et al. don't get confirmed.

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mostly stopped using the word because it's hard to find two people who mean the same thing when they use it.

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ivysorta @ivysorta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People thought Brazil did the thing we crucially failed to do when they locked up Bolsonaro, and now this is making them think that even if the next Dem president does everything right we're still gonna end up with President Don Jr in 2032 or something.

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