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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 11h

Today I discussed how a live-streamed execution is meant to intimidate us into compliance Like soldiers at polling places is meant to frighten us from voting Authoritarianism requires FEAR. Don't surrender to it We have the numbers & the law & morality on our side www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wUY...

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Violence As Politics

YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 11h

I get that, but I’m fairly certain that much of the general public doesn’t differentiate as carefully when it comes to the guys with guns loitering in front of the ballot box, so the fact that you’re not intimidated because you’re who you are is less salient.

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 11h

And in this current climate, particularly in cities where protests have taken place and ICE or others have taken pains tell protestors/watchers that they know who they are and where they live, I’d suggest that potential intimidation extends to them as well. 3/3

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 11h

There are good reasons why we don’t condone putting armed enforcement in front of polling places and intimidation of non-white voters is one of them.

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 12h

I think it’s fair to say that particularly in the cities in which the administration has deployed the National Guard and engaged in ICE operations and violence against bystanders and witnesses, Americans who do not present as white are having a very different experience. 1/

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 12h

Thing is, there’s a significant portion of our voting population in America who historically and recently have very good reasons indeed to avoid getting anywhere near armed enforcement who “just happen” to be loitering right in front of a ballot box. Even if *you* have never had to consider that.

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 13h

This is clearly not acceptable

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 14h

Added potential context… bsky.app/profile/chri...

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 14h

Seems as though they’ve already been released and expelled? bsky.app/profile/chri...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 15h

What convenient timing! You can listen here: youtu.be/BzZfEbA1_Po

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 15h

This is very, very good news and much appreciated

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16h

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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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 17h

What’s your stance on authors who write fiction? Do you think that’s not okay too?

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 17h

What’s your age, Maria who has opinions? And, how many years post menopause are you? Let’s start with those two questions. Mmkay, thanks.

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 19h

Help us report on prior authorization! 👇

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst

A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20h

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drink

The console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders.

In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink

A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same

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NPR @npr.org · 19h

If you're using the U.S. Postal Service to return a ballot close to Election Day, officials recommend getting it postmarked at a post office to avoid getting caught up in mail processing changes. n.pr/4AXBftW

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Why mailing a ballot close to Election Day may get it rejected for a late postmark

If you're using the U.S. Postal Service to return a ballot close to Election Day, officials recommend getting it postmarked at a post office to avoid getting caught up in mail processing changes.

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The Cook Political Report @cookpolitical.com · 21h

Today, The Cook Political Report is moving 18 House races, all in Democrats' direction. With these new moves, we’re also adjusting our range: the most likely outcome is now that Democrats will pick up nine to 19 seats. Read more from @erincovey.bsky.social:

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Eighteen More House Race Ratings Move in Democrats’ Favor

In the final weeks of the election, Republicans have hoped that a massive ad campaign effort could dent Democratic candidates' images and shore up Republicans struggling to free themselves of the anch...

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

WELCOME HOME, SAILORS!! The crew aboard USS Abraham Lincoln has returned home following an 11 month deployment. 🎥: Alison Bath

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve been studying violence and politics for a loooong time. My last book — “The Field of Blood” —was about the use of physical violence in Congress. So you can bet I’ll have a lot to say…

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That's the problem, Mike. It's not just that you've hired half the Third Reich to staff your Congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online, it's that you're robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"

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Dimlan @dimlan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It doesn't seem hard. Just say "this isn't America. We don't watch someone die on live TV, even if we think they don't deserve to live. And more and more, Trump doesn't represent America."

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reupping this with the request that it you liked the cute dog photo, you take one minute of your day to send the link to any DC-area friends/family/acquaintances who do not currently have a dog but might be interested in adopting one, or even just taking one out for a day in the park.

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Take thirty seconds and reset your mood entirely for the better by watching a really happy cat.

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean. This reads like a cut-rate demon’s resume. Deters fit right in with the rest of the grifters. bsky.app/profile/your...

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

From the jump, Deters knew exactly how craven and corrupt they all were and are. He was more than happy to support and bankroll them, right up until he started feeling like he wasn’t getting his money’s worth.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

BREAKING: Willie Nelson endorses James Talarico: “I've gotten to know James Talarico. He's a good man, who will be a good senator for the state of Texas. Please vote and vote for James Talarico.“

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I found it! Really captures the essence of the text

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift featuring a couple in a very brown and sparce forest. He is kneeling to propose. His clothes are inexplicably shiny and her hair is inexplicably big. She is wearing a massive red dress.

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Am I the only person who sees SI and automatically thinks Sports Illustrated?

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KFF @kff.org · 08/10/2026

As Americans struggle with health care costs heading into the midterms, support for Medicare-for-All has hit a new high in KFF polling. Here’s what nearly a decade of KFF data shows about public opinion on a national health plan: on.kff.org/4dumQLT

A KFF line graph titled "Two-Thirds of U.S. Adults Now Favor Medicare-for-all, the Largest Share Since KFF Began Polling on the Plan." It shows data from 2017 to 2026. The graph has two lines: a blue line representing the favorability of the plan, reaching 53% in 2020, and a green line representing opposition, showing 42% in 2020. A dotted line projects data from 2020 to 2026.

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This.👇🏼 And, if you need to drop a ballot off at a post office for mailing, make sure to request that they postmark it right then and there. If you don’t have them postmark it on the spot, you may later discover it was stamped days late. Good luck from Metro Atlanta where mail runs weeks late. Vote!

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧵 And it’s an important one.

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean, the Mexican soldiers decisively won that battle and reclaimed the Alamo Mission, but I guess the RNC is hoping Texas Republicans are too stupid to know that or will be too busy admiring the dead animal Trump is using as his latest wig?

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They are burying restrictions or demands on what can or can’t be funded at the Smithsonian in footnotes to apportionments. And some of those footnotes are VERY precise…

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Lewis Walpole Library @lewiswalpolelib.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Applications for the 2027-28 #Fellowship year are now being accepted through November 2. Apply today apply.interfolio.com/186941 Questions? Email walpole@yale.edu info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/... #Long18thCentury #BritishStudies #CommunityofScholars #LewisWalpoleLibrary @YaleLibrary

Detail from an 18th-century satirical print with 3 people (Louis 16 on Marie Antoinette's shoulders, and she on Edmund Burke's) and the words The Lewis Walpole Library Fellowships & Travel Grants in Eighteenth-Century Studies.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The American Chemical Society member Oluwaseun Ajayi has been named the 2026 Woman of the Year by Women in Chemicals, a nonprofit whose mission is to create and identify opportunities to empower women in the chemical industry. #chemsky 🧪

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UGA chemistry PhD candidate named Women in Chemicals Woman of the Year

The University of Georgia PhD candidate and ACS member is being recognized for passion, innovation, and impact in the chemical industry

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Okay. “The Gulf, historically & globally known as the Gulf of Mexico, except currently in the US, where the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist employed as president has demanded that states supporting stupidity, bigotry, and racism call it the Gulf of America for his personal pleasure.”

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Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I was in the deep backwoods today far from civilization when I suddenly stumbled upon a huge expanse of bright yellow roses. It was such a surprise, I lurched the truck to a stop & made my coworker pay the biologist tax as I tried to figure out the deal: naturalized homestead remnant (+ lilacs). 🌱🌿

A dozen or so buttery yellow roses in various states of maturity.

Thousands of yellow rose followers over green foliage.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"We often think of #alchemy as something distinct from science, but as historians of science, we’re really interested in the continuities..." Today's #histSTM (& #histsci, #histchem, etc.) lunchtime read: @whyy.org's preview of @sciencehistory.org new art & alchemy exhibit ("Fire & Gold"). 🗃️📜🎨

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New Philadelphia exhibit explores connection between alchemy and modern science

A new permanent exhibit at Philadelphia’s Science History Institute looks at the contributions of alchemists from the 15th to 19th centuries.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 07/10/2026

Senate Banking just launched the Trumpflation Tracker. The affordability crisis is not a “hoax” like Donald Trump says. See for yourself how much more you’re paying because of Trump’s failed economic agenda

Trumpflation Tracker. Cumulative inflation since Dec. 2024: 5.2%, approximately $3,388 more for the average household. Real wage growth since start of Iran War: -0.7%. Wages aren’t keeping up with Trump’s inflation. 30-year mortgage rate up from 5.99% before the war to 7.6%, or $4,330 more per year for a typical household. Household debt, Q1 ’25 to Q2 ’26: +$56B. Families going into more debt just to get by. Total cost to American borrowers of Trump’s broken promise to cap credit card interest rates: $94.9B. Share of each extra dollar of income going to household debt: 52¢. Take-home income up $109/month since 2022; debt payments up $57. Cost of Living Basket Since Dec. 2024: Electricity +12.7%, approximately $222 more for the average household. Rent +5.1%, approximately $256 more. Gasoline +43.7%, approximately $758 more. Groceries +3.7%, approximately $211 more. Child Care +7.6%, approximately $852 more. Health Care +14.6%, approximately $929 more for average family coverage.

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