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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 55m
This whole opinion is terrific. Also, *a year and a half* after a series of government officials made false statements about a federal employee to justify cutting funding off to a blue state. They also hoped to put this employee in fear, using amplifiers like Benny Johnson and Laura Loomer.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h
“.. a previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice ..” @wsj.com #TXsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What was once a gradual slide into autocracy has become something like free-fall. We should all be in the streets. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, Fox News reports
US authorities conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home ​of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in ‌a probe of the Somali-born lawmaker's immigration paperwork, Fox News Digital re...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/10/2026
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an abrupt attempt to force Ukraine to surrender and to save the Russian economy, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:
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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be post-mortems after the elections about Dem performance. All of those discussions should include two structural factors: *Gerrymandering designed to make elections less representative *Massive spending by the wealthy, including unprecedented spending by the richest man in the world
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Elon Musk committing election fraud agan. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/10/p...
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Elon Musk’s PAC is spreading inaccurate voting information, election officials say | CNN Politics
Election officials in Colorado and Washington state have issued public warnings about inaccurate information from the group tied to Musk.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
These guys have drawn their lines. Pretending that this will all go away if we don't mention their names is the definition of surrender. archive.ph/8oXvJ
Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
if Elon is spending millions of dollars of his own money to push this message with paid media, what do you think he does to the black box algorithm on his platform that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are shown to others?
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Democrats must recon with the idea that, guided by ideology and in exchange for massive profits from government contracts, many of these tech companies were *fine* assisting with the erosion of democracy and civil/human rights violations en mass.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“ABC pulling the story only made it a bigger story. Certainly not what Don Jr. or the WH were going for. And ABC doesn’t look great, either. All of which underscores the need for news that is neither owned nor leveraged by this White House— a commodity vanishingly rare in today’s media environment.”
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ABC News Hands Massive Gift to Trump Family
ABC pulled a critical story on Don Jr. without explanation. I think it’s clear why.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The most dreaded words Kimberly Guilfoyle can hear: "you were in a Wall Street Journal article today." Key bit: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
This sort of undiplomatic language and lack of judgement is not a one-off. As she tried to get herself invited to a dinner at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Guilfolye reportedly told one businessman: “You know, I can deliver the world to you. Which you deserve…I’m going to make you a lot of fucking money.”
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1/ Russian sources expect that as well as purchasing Russian oil and diesel, Donald Trump will provide Russia with spare parts to repair the refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes. They anticipate that Trump's fuel deal will lead to a Russian victory. ⬇️
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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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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/10/2026
Exclusive: A pair of senior House Democrats are urging FBI Director Kash Patel to call off a reported planned trip to Russia, according to a letter @sfitz787.bsky.social obtained. “In the interest of national security, we ask you to reconsider,” they wrote.
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Why Is Kash Patel Planning to Visit Russia?
Democrats in Congress are asking the FBI director to cancel the reported trip.
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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Gifting this article which illustrates very very clearly why Blanche is obscenely corrupt and why the regime is grossly incompetent. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil (Gift Article)
The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New: A private equity executive took a top Pentagon role. Then a firm he has close ties to landed a $281 Million no-bid contract from the unit he runs. www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...
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Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Crisis PR, man. This summer I got a pitch from a firm asking if I wanted to interview a crisis PR person on how he’d handle Balogun red card fallout Sold it with “he managed crises for Penn State after Sandusky scandal.” Like no I don’t want to talk to the fucking guy who spun the Sandusky scandal
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There is nothing comparable to this level of corruption in American history.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
> @cnn.com $SPCX www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/i...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million. The newsrooms’ review of Paxton’s travel records, obtained through the state’s Public Information Act, could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is so dangerous! President Trump is deliberately inciting race hatred against an ethnic minority, calling on the people of Minnesota to "fight back" against "Somali immigrants." This must be a terrifying moment for the Somali community (who are overwhelmingly US citizens).
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is incitement. Racist incitement.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New, from me: Kimberly Guilfoyle was caught soliciting money for government favors. Normally we call that a bribe. If she is corrupt, it is only because she has adapted to Trump's corrupt environment, where everything is for sale. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...
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“Stop Papering Things”: Corruption in Trump's America
Kimberly Guilfoyle is one more symptom of endemic graft under Trump
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...
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The Speech That Gets You Banned From America
Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
I mean, it’s an incentive thing right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'll tell you one thing: The woke military under Obama and Biden never retreated from Iran's military
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This may be the first time U.S. forces have retreated in Europe during a major conflict. Not before the Nazis. Not before the Soviets. Not before Al Qaeda. Not until the Trump administration.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Weird coincidence
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What. What?! WHAT?!?! futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Trump Was Reportedly Pushed Into Invading Venezuela by Conversation With Grok
Trump reportedly consulted with Grok for hours on his next course of action in Venezuela before launching a military invasion.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. In the last hours of Kristi Noem’s tenure as the homeland security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man’s firm at a substantial markup ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Should Republicans distance themselves from their top donor, who is fighting a ban on AI-generated nude images in court
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“No NEW wars” was the trick, and I can’t believe people fell for it, but many did (including most media). If Americans have to hear about war in a new location, that is bad and the US president’s fault (Libya, Ukraine). Trump Term 1 worsened Syria, Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, but that doesn’t count.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Really innovative. Normally with a government grift, you do the ostensibly public service work and get a bribe payment off-stage. These guys are disrupting peace deals by making the grift part of it.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I like how other Rs explain that it’s not a bribe, he’s talking about a legitimate policy proposal he hopes to enact with R support, and then Trump comes out and says It’s a bribe, I’m bribing you to vote for Republicans.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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