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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"It’s also a weapon that the government will likely use against not only undocumented immigrants, but everyone else, too. That includes political enemies, intelligence experts said."

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ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program - The American Prospect

Under ERO ONE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 142 intelligence contractors with top secret clearances and deploy them in cities across the country.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/10/2026

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP

The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

dah, dah, everything has a price

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Did it again, forgot the 🌱 🦋

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The hummingbirds have departed but there are still plenty of other pollinators around like this Painted Lady.

A Painted Lady butterfly with its wings held upright feeds on a magenta colored Zinnia flower.

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Worst letter to Penthouse ever.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And that's what happens when monopolies and historic wealth accumulation reach a certain point. A nation state, no matter how powerful, gets bought out. America has been bought out, from Trump to the parties to the economy, top to bottom. You either change that or you don't.

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hate, in general, is all they have.

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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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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Context: 300k tonnes of diesel = 93 million gallons. US uses 160 to 170 million gallons per day - so 300k tonnes would last 13-14 hours. Total order of 1.8 million tonnes = ~82 hours of US use = ~3 days 10 hours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises 'gift to Putin'

Ukraine's president said allowing Russia to sell petroleum products would prolong a war that must be ended.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026

Curtis Yarvin praising Hitler, Peter Thiel ranting nonstop about the Antichrist…and no one asks JD Vance about his deranged gurus? I’m old enough to remember when we had to talk about Obama’s pastor for a year or so. www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-cur...

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JD Vance catches heat after his favorite pseudointellectual praises Hitler again

A right-wing influencer praised by Vice President JD Vance got called out for praising Adolf Hitler – and it's not the first time.The vice president has openly acknowledged neo-reactionary political t...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.

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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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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sam Antonacci is asked what his reaction was to Munetaka Murakami’s go ahead 2 run home run. He confesses that he was hiding in the batting cage, eating an ice cream at the time. His teammate Miguel Vargas hears about this and called him a child that needs to be looked after. #WhiteSox

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social

The unplucked goose
US, revenue from corporate-income taxes, $bn
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Outside Mother of the Americas church in Little Village, crosses commemorating immigrants have died in immigration custody or during enforcement actions in the United States

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If a White Sox player hits a single, double, triple and homer in the same playoff game, it's now called an encyclical.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Endless corruption.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kinda surprising when we agree. 100% of economists surveyed by the University of Chicago said that a low-cost diversified index fund is the best investment you can make. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You really can’t make this shit up.

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BK? @whitesox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

See ya never Houston

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Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 30/09/2026

I find photographing flowers very uplifting. When I was younger, doing creative work helped me cope. These days it feels much lighter. (I guess it worked?) Passiflora 'Susan Brigham' under UV light.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...

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🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger

Learn more.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

According to the explanation, in the NFL there’s something less than zero

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I turned away from the church precisely because I could not square the idea that the people who were my friends, who grew up differently than me, were condemned to eternal suffering--- just because they were different. And to gleefully condemn others to hell seemed more demonic than Christ-like.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if i were a foreign government looking for an edge, id probably try to convince america that climate change is woke bull shit and combustion engines are for real men with penises, all while also convincing them to invest every dollar in bull shit tech while we take the lead on green energy

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monday Night Football - Bears tonight vs the Eagles at Chicago's Soldier Field.

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Harvest Moon rising behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Saturday evening in Chicago.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026

if Trump truly isn't planning to illegally stay in office past 2029, what explains the US government paying for these Trump campaign ads to run on TV? they're just wasting taxpayer dollars to soothe his ego?

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If Yelp says I should drive thru all the yards I guess I’m gonna drive thru all the yards. #Yelp #WTF

A map from Yelp driving directions showing the final turns to the desired destination. However, the suggested route suddenly deviates from surface streets and angles through what are clearly buildings and yards.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

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The Whammy @bigsamthompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wish we as a society would get back to identifying problems & then creating technology to solve them, rather than creating technology nobody wants & throwing it everywhere to see where it sticks. Or worse, creating tech that intentionally creates problems which can then be monetized.

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James A Stewart @jamesastewart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And I thought nothing could top the wood slab sale.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So many people who voted for Trump suddenly claim to be shocked at ICE actions. “We didn’t know” You didn’t want to know, shitbird.

elizabeth_jacobs • 7/18/24
Mass deportation means that more than 10 million of your neighbors will be hunted down, dragged from their homes at gunpoint, and violently separated from children, parents, siblings, friends. Just so we are clear about the unequivocal warning we received last night. It CAN happen here. It WILL happen here if we let it.

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These actions will be performed by people who have been conditioned to view certain groups of humans as subhuman. They won't care if people get "a little roughed up" or if they die. We will very likely see concentration camps. This is what is meant by mass deportation. Seeing Americans wave their signs espousing this is vile and repellant.
They know what they are saying and they
LOVE IT.

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