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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

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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
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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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Civic Engagement Beyond Voting @azcebvus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"And when push comes to shove, seems the people down below have power over those they place above, but only if they vote!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWi...

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2026: Time for the Midterms

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Let me see if I understand this . . . 1. The U.S. is at war with Iran. 2. Russia is helping Iran in that war. 3. The U.S. is now giving Russia money that it can use to help Iran destroy U.S. bases and kill U.S. troops. Donald is smart & patriotic like that.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“We only tried to kill an adult, we didn’t mean to traumatize a child” is a helluva defense.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The top three stories in tonight’s newsletter really say it all jessica.substack.com/p/congressio...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump ended enhanced assistance toward Medicare Part D plans and his CMS introduced new burdensome prior authorization to traditional Medicare through WISeR. Arsonists don’t deserve credit for putting out part of the fire they started.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's a new wave of Democratic ads across the country that are somehow brutally partisan and incredibly effective and it's going to take some time for me to get used to this?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"

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SABUCH @sabuch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When you think your vote doesn’t count remember this story. #VoteForTurek he drags his wheelchair up stairs to talk to his constituents. He won his previous vote by… 6 votes. So get your asses out there and #VOTE! youtube.com/watch?v=pk9z...

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Blue Wave On the Prairie? w/ Josh Turek | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today before Senate.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Imagine saying, “Wait, this person has been carrying auto insurance all year but hasn’t filed claims? Obvious fraud!”

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ken Paxton lied to his own staff. That's why they reported him to the FBI. He lied to his friends. It's why he was indicted for investment fraud. He lied to his own party. It's why they impeached him for bribery. Watch: youtu.be/vzr1VgpzYpI?...

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James Talarico RIPS INTO Ken Paxton’s corruption on LIVE TV

YouTube video by James Talarico

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As a disability advocate I’m heartbroken by this. Please for the love of everything you hold dear, vote blue in November. Republican policies, their shenanigans and their hand picked court jesters are harming the most vulnerable amongst us. Check your registration! Register! Get out the VOTE!

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BREAKING WaPo: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just slammed the Supreme Court's use of its "emergency docket" — suggesting the court has misused the process in allowing the Trump admin to move forward with a host of controversial policies while challenges play out in lower court.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizes Supreme Court’s use of emergency docket

In a public appearance, Jackson said the high court’s use of the emergency docket was “problematic” and called for more restraint from her colleagues when using it.

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Mark DeSaulnier @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lifesaving scientific research should not be dictated by the party occupying the White House. Congress has already blocked Trump’s proposal to cut biomedical research spending once and we must stand united against this new illegal attack on NIH research funding. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...

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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 12/09/2026

There is a clear cycle of corruption between the Trump administration and the companies that run his for-profit detention centers. Delaney Hall must be shut down for good.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Counterpoint to all of this bullshit: Abolish ICE.

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Jillian Elliott @jillianelliott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

He may or may not be suffering, but he's making the rest of us suffer.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In my latest @msnowreports.bsky.social article, I discuss the ways that the not-so-beautiful bill will reshape the broader financialization of health in ways that have not generated sufficient attention — whether private equity, consolidation, or ending key health services www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

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Opinion | The bill for Trump’s Medicaid cuts is coming due — for everyone

Though much attention has centered on the closure of rural hospitals, quieter transformations could reshape healthcare for publicly and privately insured patients alike.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

NEW EPISODE: Less than two months before Election Day, I lay out Donald Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms. Watch and share. youtu.be/fpRs4GoF378?...

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Trump's Blueprint to Rig the Midterms is Already in Motion

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Jillian Elliott @jillianelliott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If we come out of this mess even reasonably intact, you're a critical reason. We owe you so much. Thank you!

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Darth Empath @jhatman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A human can only survive 2-7 days without clean water, whereas we can survive in perpetuity without datacenters. Choose wisely.

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Jillian Elliott @jillianelliott.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If I'm not mistaken, that color is Putin's Colon.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Help the Internet Archive, which is saving a lot of the data being purged/censored by the Trump Administration (and so much more).....

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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living." .. (Franklin. D. Roosevelt) ..(cartoon Nick Anderson)

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Prioritizing erectile dysfunction research over addressing infant mortality, cancer screenings, and suicide prevention tells you basically everything you need to know about this administration's health priorities.

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Trump Pentagon is trying to steal NIH funds for "research to develop treatments or cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens." They want to steal the $ to pay for Trump's idiotic war on Iran.

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Jillian Elliott @jillianelliott.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.” ~Gloria Steinem

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A big problem we face is that most Republicans view anyone with a differing political view as a threat to America, an enemy, whereas most Democrats are under the delusion that such Republicans are just political opponents...and not the threat to America they really are.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not only will this result in the discarding of legitimate ballots, but it will exacerbate the health divide in participation and, in turn, representation. Not only do healthy people already vote at a higher rate, but people with illnesses and disabilities are more likely to rely on vote-by-mail.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's worth noting that this isn't a random number but a goal that would simply restore the court to an earlier norm in which there's one justice for each of the judicial circuits. We used to have nine, we now have thirteen. The people defending the current setup have the tougher case to make here.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Trump, empowered by SCOTUS, entered office convinced he could do insider trading, sell pardons and favors, take bribes, steal and openly flout the law. Now, with the prospect of investigations looming, he is growing ever more fearful that he miscalculated.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Two thirds of California’s 22nd are on Medicaid, which Davis Valadeo voted to decimate. This is a district to watch in November.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026

Ossoff: "I have zero interest in running for president in 2028, and frankly zero interest in the 2028 fantasy football right now ... these midterms are the whole ballgame ... I don't know that we have a free and fair election in 2028 unless we restore checks and balances in these 2026 midterms."

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