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This is quite unusual for that neighborhood, by the way.

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At least two heavy SWAT vehicles and a few patrol cars. No gunfire since they arrived, No ambulances that we can tell. Every once in a while a cop drone will hover over and then leave.

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Around 9:30 there were audible gunshots. Then SWAT rolled in, no lights. Have been outside a house somewhere in the middle of the street ever since. Seem to be saying “come out with your hands up” over the loudspeaker. We’re fairly distant so can’t tell what’s going on.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Local media hasn’t said anything about the multiple LMPD SWAT tanks that have been on Meade in Audubon for the past two hours.

An aerial map of Meade Ave in Louisville, KY.

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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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When we moved in, the home inspector told us not to expect it to last much longer. That was four years ago! We're lucky to have good water in Louisville and long water heater lifespans are fairly common.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, our water heater made it 22 years. It was its time, I suppose.

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Judge Mascott received her commission on October 10, 2025, exactly 365 days ago. In that time, she has issued *ZERO* published majority opinions. Remarkable.

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I believe that number is from last year, and is assumed to be higher now.

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Kirkland Hides Profits as Big Law Clients Scrutinize Legal Costs

"One person familiar with the matter said Kirkland leaders were wary of client response to reporting on the firm’s equity partner profits, which were $11 million in the latest reporting." news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

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Kirkland & Ellis’ decision to stop disclosing its financial performance shows law firms are hesitant to reveal profits as clients experience spiraling legal costs.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy to see my WIP proposal got accepted for Emory's "Christian Legal Thought from the Margins" workshop in January. I am in the early stages of an article about the free exercise rights of children and am looking for helpful advice on how to develop it fully.

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The president of the U.S. Catholic bishops condemned the Trump administration on Friday over its plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley, a conservative prelate known for his pro-life work, called the decision “barbaric.”

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U.S. Bishops’ President Condemns Hegseth’s Plan to Livestream an Execution

The U.S. bishops’ president answered the Pentagon within h. His statement comes as Tennessee’s bishops plead for Christa Pike’s life and Pope Leo XIV presses his home country to end the death penalty.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026

That’s what always gets me. Columbus was considered a monster *in his own time.* No revisionism necessary.

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Note: Cook Political Report has now shifted 18 more House races in Democrats’ direction. Among them: IA-03 (now likely Dem) and IA-02 (now a toss-up), both of which feature clergy (an ELCA pastor and a PCUSA pastor, respectively) as the Democratic nominee. www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

American adults with a four-year college degree Hindus 70% Episcopalians 67% Jews 65% Agnostics 53% Atheists 48% Muslims 44% Buddhists 41% Catholics 35% National average 35% Evangelicals 29%

Table of educational attainment levels among various U.S. religious groups.

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Buffet Briefinity 🎃🎃🍬🍫 @briesmith.xyz · 09/10/2026

I get the desire to stop paying exorbitant licensing fees for something that can replicate Photoshop, InDesign or Premiere, but this just isn’t going to be it. The fact that they’re also trying to do this at the same time with Office tells me this is about headlines and AI hype

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Even the headshot was AI, OpenAI says. Its verification tool shows the author photo and content on an "Ervin Hoskins" op-ed in the Port St. Joe Star came from OpenAI tools, part of an Iran-based “influence campaign” that placed about 100 fake articles in at least 20 American outlets.

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Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT

ChatGPT users in Iran made more than 100 fake articles published across at least 20 news outlets, OpenAI said.

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Colorado Avalanche @avalanche.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What a rip from Cale!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.

Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]

It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]

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End of public executions in
Kentucky
As the Kentucky General Assembly had been meeting in its biennial sessions at the time, the media circus surrounding the Bethea execution embarrassed members of the Kentucky
legislature. In spite of the humiliation, they could not amend laws regarding executions until the next session in 1938. However, the trial judges in two separate Kentucky rape cases ordered that the hangings of John "Pete" Montjoy and Harold Van Venison be conducted privately. Montjoy, age 23, was privately hanged in Covington on December 17, 1937.

On January 17, 1938, William R. Attkisson of the Kentucky State Senate's 38th District (representing Louisville), introduced Senate Bill 69, repealing the requirement in Section 1137 that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims. The bill was promoted in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Representative Charles W. Anderson Jr., one of the attorneys who assisted Bethea in his post-conviction relief motions.
After both houses approved the bill, Governor Chandler signed it into law on March 12, 1938; it became effective on May 30 of that year.
Chandler later expressed regret at having approved the repeal, claiming, "Our streets are no longer safe." The last person ever legally hanged in Kentucky was Harold Van Venison, a
33-year-old African-American singer, who was privately executed in Covington on June 3, 1938.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The poet, writer and monk Thomas Merton wrote a deliciously subversive "confession of crimes against the state" in 1960-- in middle of the Cold War, as the McCarthy era was just beginning to ebb, and the Vietnam War had already been underway for five years. He knew from jingoism. This is a treat:

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Merton's Confession of Crimes Against the State

spiritual resistance looks like a lot of things

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In the span of a couple of days, the President has publicly stated that he does not care if Los Angeles and San Diego are destroyed by Iran and has tried to stoke a race war and/or federal takeover in Minnesota.

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The decline in importance of abortion rights among Democrats stands out to me. Did not expect that.

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I feel so incredibly grateful for so many things in my life and I hope you have things in your life that you feel grateful for, too.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/10/2026

Don't want to be left behind by the technological advances of companies that not only cannot make any money but also lie about how much money they're making because it's so bad.

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FT Exclusive: The AI group's annualised revenue is about $20bn less than the company has previously signalled, according to financial documents shared with investors, a massive gap likely to damp optimism about the growth of AI demand. ft.trib.al/IC1ECgv

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

Maybe I don't really need Aaron Rupar in my life showing me every stupid thing said on television every day.

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Abortion bans are arguably the most unpopular laws in America — even in red states — but we keep acting like the country is somehow split jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-b...

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The Most Unpopular Laws in America

Nobody wants abortion bans—not even deep red states

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I just want to add how absolutely exhausting and futile it is to try to create and preserve rigid authoritarian privilege and exclusion based solely on race and gender. Egalitarian pluralism's best argument is that it's really super easy to create and maintain, by comparison.

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