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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.
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Delaney King In Yellow @delaneyking.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A reminder that CGI is not inherantly bad looking, but that it is produced by artists under perpetual crunch as fast as possible and for shit pay to maximise shareholder profits. When allowed to properly work their magic, artists can make CGI invisible and believable.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“Permanent DST in 1973 was highly regarded at first, with a nearly 80% approval. Two months later, that dropped to 42%.” Only permanent Standard Time can last! #DitchDST www.wtnh.com/news/nationa...
wtnh.com
Permanent daylight saving time could leave students commuting in the dark, data shows
While permanent daylight saving time would cause the sun to set later in winter, the sun would, in turn, rise later in the morning.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is a significant worsening of our current state of constitutional collapse. I know it feels like there are so many, and there are, but in terms of crossing the Rubicon moments this one's up there.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders
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jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
too many startle starfleet ships with earth-centric names. Gimme a name that's clearly Vulcan, or Andorian.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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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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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10/10/2026
Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Imagine if a daycare center only installed electrical outlet covers one at a time after a toddler shocked himself, rather than just identifying all the outlets and covering them at once. That's basically the modern US city government approach to fixing streets.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 09/10/2026
Need the inspiring story of how grizzled, tough-but-kind coach Talarico helped the misfits and underdogs on the Austin Wokes overcome their personal trauma and save their beloved drag brunch spot by beating the Proud Boys at the big summer softball game (costarring Lil Nas X).
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Newsletter time. Alito is on the ballot in the midterms, in case creeping fascism wasn’t enough of a reason to vote. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
This November, Vote Like Alito Is on the Ballot
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent gives Democrats another reason to vote in November. Plus: How Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Medicaid unmasked the racists.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Do we really expect our children to act like adults just so adults can act like children?”
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Cycle Of Rage: One Crash Shows How Reckless Car Drivers Ruin Kids' Childhoods - Streetsblog New York City
We want our kids off their phones and reading books in the library. Too bad drivers don't give a shit. A rant from Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2024
Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!
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Benjamin راغب @benzado.com · 09/10/2026
25 years ago they predicted George W. Bush’s entire eight years
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Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'
WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that "our lo...
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This sort of stuff makes me want to scream. The cost bloat is in *capital projects* not in operations! Capital projects are bloated because of a complex web of balkanized permitting processes, the byzantine and inconsistent nature of federal grant funding, and outsourcing talent to consultants.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's worth noting that the decision to kill him by firing squad - chosen for its symbolism, according to Hegseth - gets the symbolism entirely backwards. For example: we hung the Nazis convicted at Nuremburg, instead of giving them the death by firing squad they would have preferred.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026
Cities are awesome, cities are what makes freedom possible, and we should never let conservatives dominate the way they get framed in public discussions youtu.be/2hYorE3nvKA
youtu.be
The Rural Voter Is Facism's Greatest Friend
YouTube video by Liberal Currents
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 07/10/2026
One of the most salient divisions in American urban politics is between people who choose to live in cities because they actually like urban life and temporarily embarrassed suburbanites.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Right now society at large is paying most of the bill for people who drive giant pick-up trucks and SUVs, my humble proposal is that we should stop doing that and ask them to pay it themselves.
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Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org · 06/10/2026
👏👏👏 We couldn’t agree more!
When you take a transit vehicle with strangers, there is an inherent trust you're giving to one another. That trust in each other is so essential to the health of our larger society and our democracy.

When we start to drive people away and send messages that that shared space is not a place to be, you're going to see our institutions and our societal structures start to dismantle. I believe in CTA not just for Chicago, but really for our country.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They've also spent the last hundred years making sure public domain is as small and restrictive as it can possibly be, with no new works added for decades. Reform copyright.
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jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From your lips to Blucifer's ears.
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jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What do you do with a rainbow that breaks the law? Put it in prism. It's a light sentence. But it gives it time to reflect.
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jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Don't worry, Denver leaders hear you and will make sure i nothing like this ever happens again. They will protect the character of our neighborhoods and make our streets safe for free parking.
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jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like this is a medieval penance. "Declare your impropriety on social media and you shall be forgiven."
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jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It still baffles me that networks can veto dialogue. Like, did you hire writers or not?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Guys, I'm quitting my job as a Death Camp guard. The organization's culture is broken and there are also ethical concerns I can now vaguely sense. I loved working there for three years, standing guard, and guarding, and getting paid, but recently... Anyways, I'm writing a book about my time there.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My newsletter is up. Eric Schmitt should be mocked and John Roberts should be hounded and I will not be persuaded otherwise. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Eric Schmitt Deserves to Be Mocked Forever
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent relives the senator’s glorious face plant. Plus: whyt John Roberts’s also deserves our mockery.
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Sweet Shop @sweetshop.app · 02/10/2026
Engage... in savings!: Star Trek: Defiant, Star Trek (2022-), Archives, Year Five, Lower Decks. $495.50 bought separately, yours for $25. sweetshop.app/bundles/engage
Engage... in savings! bundle on Sweet Shop, $25 for 50 books.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I will, at great personal cost, refrain from discussing the banality of evil, and asking if they manage to sleep at night because they dissociate, or just have convinced themselves of something like "i'm only one small part of the system" or "it's out of my hands." This kindness will go unnoticed.
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Denver Bicycle Lobby @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
DBL joined coalition partners @bikewalkbus.bsky.social @greatdentransit.bsky.social @yimbydenver.bsky.social and Pedestrian Dignity to send a letter to Denver City Council today about the 2027 Budget. Call your Council Members and ask them to make these amendments.
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jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If this man becomes the nominee we'll lose and deserve it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not
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jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Calling a fourplex density is sad. City Council is full of NIMBYs and cowards who think the only legitimate way to live was invented in Levittown.
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jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't even pick up the phone any longer and the powers to be are rapidly making text unusable as well. Bout to switch to an app and completely mute phone and messages.
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jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Looks like a chonky corgi
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
But if trans girls are "cheating" by playing women's sports, what else are the sneaky trans people cheating about. They're also coming for Title IX. They don't care about women in sports. They want women out of sports. Please, I am begging you, stop falling for this shit.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Save Women's Sports, an anti-trans organization whose entire existence is built around ferreting out trans athletes who want to run rougshod over your cisgender girl could only find 5 athletes competing K-12. Five.
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Denver Bicycle Lobby @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DBL social meetup Tue. Hope to see you tomorrow night. We’ll plan to meet on the patio but will meet indoors if the weather is bad.
Denver bicycle lobby social meet-up tomorrow, Tuesday night, 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Join us for a social meetup on the patio at the Schoolyard beer Garden
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Greg Shill @gregshill.com · 28/09/2026
Notably, travel times also did not increase outside the congestion zone. This mirrors what we have seen in other aggregate congestion pricing impacts. For example, it was predicted that drivers would change their routes to avoid the zone, creating new congestion; this, too, did not happen.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
The Trump administration has deported tens of thousands of immigrants to so-called "third countries" that they have no connections to. "This is extraordinary rendition all over again, in broad daylight," says Tutu Alicante, a human rights lawyer from Equatorial Guinea.
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“Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned
Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditi...
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