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Jeff Spakowski

@jeffspakowski.bsky.social
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Born at 319.65 ppm, so angry it's already going past 419.44 ppm today Nov 13, 2024. Also on IG: instagram.com/jfspakowski Would rather be reading. An actual book. Always from an independent bookstore or my library.

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 46m
🚨Sen. Gustavo Rivera caught two plain-clothed ICE agents who claimed to be investigating a shooting carried out by their colleagues in the Bronx. However, they appeared to conduct the investigation in highly illicit manners.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h
Yikes — $1 a day?? Mason, Tennessee sold out to Core Civic cheap😳: mlk50.com/2026/10/08/t... Here’s video from that meeting and the “hot mess” mayor: x.com/thetnholler/... Now reports of detainees getting their arms broken, hunger strikes… 👇🏽😕
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 4h
Representative Becca Balint's distubing decision to make a video about a liverstream of a firing squad execution is another Democratic Party weak sauce response to authoritarianism. File a lawsuit, do *something*.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7h
JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7h
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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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 6h
BAAJA prevents a future President by law from stopping the permitting of methane gas? Uhm, that is very, very bad.
Jane Flegal @JaneAFlegal
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Another claim is that a president can't set a clean energy or climate goal. NOT TRUE. The bill says statements or policies favoring or opposing a technology that aren't about PERMITTING don't count as evidence.
A clean energy goal is fine. A "stop permitting gas" order prob isn't
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 6h
@mayor.nyc.gov has a lot of power over the NYPD, why are they still cooperating with kidnapping?
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 6h
💯agree. "I think we should absolutely censor companies. I don’t think that companies lying to the public is in anyone’s interest whatsoever."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
🔥 MEMPHIS: “If you’re not angry, now is the time to get angry.” A minor says she has been banned from meetings by the city council 🤔for speaking out after 7 delayed a data center moratorium vote — without letting the people speak. (H/T @901youthactionnetwork )
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
😂 @hasandpiker laughs at @abdulelsayed.bsky.social getting asked one of the dumbest questions you’ll ever hear
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h
ICE is a militia of serial abusers.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: When Christa Pike became the first person to survive multiple lethal injections, witnesses at the prison that day suddenly became a part of history. I spoke with @iamstevenhale.bsky.social of Nashville Banner about the things he saw in the execution chamber—and the things he could only hear:
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What it's like to witness a botched execution
Q+A with Steven Hale of The Nashville Banner, who watched as Christa Pike survived two lethal injections.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 22h
Mamdani needs to fire Tisch NOW. NYPD is flinging protestors and electeds left and right to clear the way for ICE vehicles. Abolish police but in the meantime this leadership cannot stay.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h
🔥 @angieforfl.bsky.social : “Let’s talk about the Black Panther Party…”
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 14h
no matter which state the latest death, family separation, cruel deportation to another country, the solution stsrts with #AbolishIce, electing strong Progressive who will hold the people designing and implementing this. Here in Michigan that means electing @abdulelsayed.bsky.social.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 15h
fascists get the fuck out of our city
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23h
There’s already video of some NYPD helping ICE leave after the shooting and the role of the police in aiding these incidents has to be addressed.
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 23h
3 yes votes for #Proposal2 from our home (and 3 no votes on prop 1).
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 23h
Shocked this country famous for lynchings, strangling Black men on the street, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders & arming genocides everywhere is doing a public execution by gunfire. This is NOT the American way.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h
“There was a child in the car” Abolish ICE. theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Pentagon plans to publicly execute Nidal Hasan and live stream it into the homes of every American. Hasan is a disabled paraplegic. What he did was horrendous, but killing him & streaming it as entertainment is sick and morally bankrupt. Abolish the death penalty.
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#AbolishIce is the bare minimum.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The awareness that male sexual violence is systemic comes from 1970s feminists. It has been at least 50 years of trying to educate the public that women do not cause their own rape or make false accusations, that it's everyday men, who face few consequences. The same myths are peddled out.
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But only for now....Gibson Dunn will find another way to run at ICWA.
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Best thing all year on the Bugle? Nato.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMWf...
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Nato Green on Hope
YouTube video by The Bugle
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yessenia funes @yessfun.com · 08/10/2026
this week's newsletter is a reflection on my trip to the west bank last year. the olive harvest is beginning across palestine. the land grieves. so do we. www.possibilities.news/palestine-ge...
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3 Years of Genocide and Ecocide
The climate crisis and militarism are two faces of the same coin.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My gosh. Mike Huckabee's top aide: —Covered up an embassy report on Israeli killings of 9 Americans —Fabricated Orwellian reports on Israeli settler violence & the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" to make it sound good for Israel —Questioned staff on whether they were “pro-Israel” or “pro-Hamas”
In late March, at the height of the Iran war, Israel quietly approved more settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank than it ever had at one time.
Staff members at the United States Embassy in Jerusalem saw the move as potentially flouting one of President Trump's explicit red lines for Israel - no annexation of the West Bank - and drafted an urgent report intended for policy makers in Washington.
That memo never reached Washington. It was quashed by David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, according to three U.S. officials briefed on the process.
This was no isolated incident.
Since taking up his post in April 2025, Mr. Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to a dozen people who work with or interact with Mr. Milstein in both Jerusalem and Washington:
• As settler violence in the West Bank surged in the spring, for instance, he stymied embassy reporting suggesting that the Israeli government was failing to take action, according to the three officials. Instead the embassy sent a cable to Washington, viewed by The New York Times, praising Israel for "cracking down" on the attacks.
• When members of Congress pushed for accountability over the killings of nine Palestinian Americans by Israeli settlers and security forces, he suppressed a detailed report that the embassy staff had written, effectively stonewalling lawmakers' efforts to gain information, according to multiple officials briefed on the matter.Mr. Milstein rewrote the cable to declare GHF's operation a success while overlooking the mass casualties, according to people who saw the cable and were briefed on the editing process.
Troubled by glaring discrepancies between news coverage and the embassy's official reports, White House and State Department officials seeking a clearer picture of events bypassed standard channels at least twice to communicate directly with embassy staff, according to two officials briefed on the outreach and an internal communication from late this summer seen by The Times.
Veteran American diplomats said that withholding or twisting the information sent to Washington should raise serious concerns.
"The embassy ought to tell Washington everything — the good, the bad and the ugly," said Dan Kurtzer, who was the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush. "If they're not doing so, they are damaging the policy-making process and possibly undermining the president's policies."
Mr. Milstein also questioned several colleagues on whether they were "pro-Israel" or "pro-Hamas," according to four officials, who found the question inappropriate and said it made some people fearful of speaking freely.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For @prospectmagazine.co.uk, I write about how we should distinguish between the Israeli state and the Israeli settlers. That distinction is key to understanding the broader policy of ethnic cleansing at work: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
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Settler ‘rioters’ are Israeli state policy—through deniable means
The UK’s ‘reset’ on Israel penalises the settlements while leaving the government that protects and expands them largely untouched
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Here, Margaret is shown standing beside listings of the software developed by her and the team she was in charge of, the LM [lunar module] and CM [command module] on-board flight software team.” A 2016 MIT News story with background on the iconic photo. (2/n) news.mit.edu/2016/scene-a...
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Scene at MIT: Margaret Hamilton’s Apollo code
A brief history of the famous 1969 Margaret Hamilton photo featuring the Apollo software she and her team developed for NASA, sending humans to the moon. Article includes rarely-seen outtakes of Hamil...
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
stating that Israel is engaged in an ongoing genocide against Palestinian people is a basic fact. It's uncontroversial. It's true.
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
J.F.C.
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For. F**k. Sake.
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the video above.... This fight coming to a town near you. Your city council may have already sold you out for a damn dollar in their pocket.
Photo of a Black woman pointing to the words on her shirt which read "If y'all had just listened to Black women".
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I just landed on an article with byline:"By The Washington Times AI News Desk." Please note the threat of rogue AI Agents working to bypass human overseers (already happening) that also use their control of the media as a tool.
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For @thebugle.bsky.social fans Who's your hottie from history?
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Palestinians have been defending their lands going back to the Nakba but like so much else their work as land defenders is erased in legacy media. Vital listening.
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"ID.me is worse than redundant. It is an epic example of how private vendors are parasitic on the public sector. The more government comes to rely on such vendors, the more government loses core competence and becomes subject to vendor lock-in."
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Men, instead of gaslighting, deflecting every detail emerging about Jane Doe at Cornell and every other woman treated as an object for men's pleasure, talk with your friends, relatives, and sons. "Boys come whip it out" should never come out of your mouth. #cornell7 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEK0...
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Secretly taped phone call revealed between Jane Doe, Cornell frat brother accused in gang rape case
YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY
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Kerry + Nick @dosgoatsfilms.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our politicians utterly failed us with this merger.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Flaring" is a major contributor to global heating. Flames at oil sites worldwide burn enough methane each year to supply about half of Europe’s annual gas consumption. The flares also spew soot, nitrogen oxides & benzine. Since oil majors pledged to end flaring, it's risen 9%. 1/2
Flares keep burning
By Will Evans and Ben Elgin Norma Lopez Cadena tries to keep her granddaughters indoors - out of sight
from the 65-foot flare burning excess gas from more than a dozen oil wells. At night, she says, the flare rattles the house from about 500 feet away and wakes her family. When the wind shifts, it smells like burnt rubber. The flare tormenting Lopez Cadena towers over the quiet West Texas neighborhood of South Ranchito, in the heart of the oil-producing Permian Basin, where it dances in the breeze day after day like an oversized lighter. When the gas flow
increases, it swells into a thick yellow and sounds like a blowtorch.
"Nobody wants to live next to that," she says.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
12/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2
Screenshot of database titled "Explore All Incidents Where Citizens Were Detained." Text below explains that this is every incident ProPublica could find in which one or more citizens were reportedly detained between January 2025 and September 2026. There are 506 citizens' cases in the database, and users can sort by what the incidents involve, where the incident is located, and the recency of the case.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As I must point out multiple times a year: 10 Republican AGs coming together means this is a RAGA joint (in this case backing Trump in the sanctions appeal in Trump v. IRS). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... More on RAGA: drilled.media/news/raga/
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The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), a Primer - Drilled
If two or more Republican attorneys general sign onto something, RAGA is in the background coordinating; journalists need to be clear about that so the public can understand what it means.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our new paper is out! We’re trying to answer the question: what do complex computer models of the climate tell us about the real world? www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...
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Frontiers | Using climate models in climate assessments: a Bayesian perspective
Outputs from complex Earth system models (ESMs) participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) are a major source of information for polic...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Donald, if you're reading this.... Come to Michigan.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is gutting. Sternberg is one of the most important paleontology museums in the country. MUSEUMS SHOULD BE LAST ON THE LIST TO CLOSE, NOT FIRST. What kind of world do we want to live in? Because running the country -- and universities -- like businesses and not a public good is what got us here.
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Tomorrow Is the Last Day to Submit a Comment to Defend 45 Million Acres of Our Forests
They're calling it fire prevention. Their own report says otherwise. Here's the two-minute way to speak up before 9:59 p.m. Utah time on Tuesday, 10/6.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's not just that women are silenced, harrassed, assaulted, pushed out of work, assumed to be incompetent, have their work stolen or credit denied. It's that men get ahead standing on the backs of women being pushed down. When you point this out they get ANGRY. #patriarchy
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We have 3 Gen Z young men that that's definitely a thing here in metro Detroit. They and their friends are way out in front of the average Boomer we know.
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