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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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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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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very cool. Next step: ditch Microsoft completely and use Libre Office. It opens all the same file formats and has all the features you need.
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sounds to me like he is guilty of violating US code 597, a federal offense.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anyone accepting a $5,000 “GOP Dividend” from Trump for voting is looking at a $10,000 fine and 5 years in jail. It's illegal to offer, give, or accept money for voting. 52 U.S.C. §10307(c) Trump has already violated this law. But voters they will never be liable because they will never get paid.
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wouldn't it be funny if people refused to accept the new $1 coins as legal tender?
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Before last year, there were no US measles deaths in a decade, and now we have had 5 deaths in two years. Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, but will lose that status this year. This is an abject failure of public health leadership.
Chart: Annual US measles cases
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Highly recommend Harrari's "Nexus". Truth is rarely the outcome of more information / communication unless specifically structured for error correction.
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
So what about the robot solar panels to clean the solar panel cleaning robot solar panels?
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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
BWM cars now showing owners and unskippable ad for the new Spider Man Film whenever they start the vehicle. This shit needs to become illegal, yesterday, else how long before you have to watch it *before* you can start the vehicle.
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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is how bad leadership (defunding FDA and CDC) hurts us, the people: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
washingtonpost.com
CDC expands largest known U.S. cyclospora outbreak to 9 states
The newly linked states — Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania — join Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The diarrhea lettuce was from Taco Bell? I was so much safer than I realized.
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ShouXin手訫 @shouxin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Sharing a few kittens playing in a relaxed and easygoing way. Light, slow, and full of a little sense of comfort, I hope they can bring you a bit of healing too. #shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #sketch
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Old Oakie @markingall.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
As Elon Musk becomes a trillionaire, remember he pays less tax than you do. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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SpaceX heads for record $1.78tn float amid fears it is overvalued
Analysts say IPO that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire has a ‘major disconnect’ on price
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
proelectrica.substack.com
Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Source?
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026
Absolutely fuck you, Amazon. When I bought this device there was no mention of my purchase being time limited at your discretion. It does not require software updates, so the only "support" necessary is that kindle books are available in a format that can be sent to it. This shouldn't be legal.
Dear Customer,

Thank you for being a
longtime Kindle customer.
We're glad our devices have
served you well for as long as
they have. Starting May 20,
2026 - 14 to 18 years after
their initial launches - we are
discontinuing support for
Kindle devices released in
2012 or earlier. Here's what
this means for you:
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 11/05/2026
WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."
nature.com
High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation - Nature Communications
Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 09/04/2026
Chinese carmaker BYD unveils a recharge as fast as filling up with petrol. And no need to wear gloves. Certainly not coming to a forecourt near you in America because the fossil fuel giants and their puppets in government like making lots and lots of cool money from easily-conned petrolheads.
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
If you thought you owned your kindle, you were wrong: www.wired.com/story/amazon...
wired.com
Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles
In an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store.
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
FACT OF THE DAY. 26 March 1953. In a huge medical breakthrough, US medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had created the first polio vaccine. Polio cases fell from 58,000 per year in 1952 to 6,000 by 1958. Salk’s vaccine was replaced by a new one developed by Albert Sabin in 1962.
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ChristianG @mryeswecan.eurosky.social · 25/03/2026
Spain made history by meeting 100% of national electricity demand with renewable energy for nine hours, driven by strong wind output, abundant solar generation, and flexible grid management.
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Sounds like the airports themselves need de-icing now.
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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I don't know how many of you remember the Steele dossier story but this is what The Guardian had to say about it. Personally, I think it has a lot of credence and believe it because of the magazine's reputation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
theguardian.com
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 16/03/2026
Q&A: How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power #CBarchive ✍️ @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @jjgoodman.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/0awDP6d
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Rebel with a Cause @rebelwithacause2.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
REGULATIONS = PROTECTIONS FOR AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH DEREGULATIONS = ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO HARM AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
BREAKING: Pam Bondi appears to have just committed a federal crime by lying under oath. Ted lieu just caught her in a lie and called for her resignation live on TV.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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L'algorisme @lalgorisme.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
By: @royaards@newsie.social
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
No one is buying any of the attempts to justify ICE's behavior. It is horrific, corrupt, and intolerable.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. In the spirit of Dr. King, we must respond to ICE's tyranny with peaceful, mass civil disobedience across America. I stand with the people of Minnesota and other cities across the country who are doing that today.
youtube.com
We Need Civil Disobedience Across America
We need civil disobedience in this country. Now.In the words of MLK Jr: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice every
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation
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Ciarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
By fighting against wind and solar, Trump is choosing to lose to China. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Britain ends new fossil fuel exploration. The government has introduced a legal moratorium on all new oil and gas exploration licences, ending five decades of North Sea expansion and aligning policy with 1.5°C targets. buff.ly/Il1RhPb #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration - Greenpeace UK
Commenting on the government’s North Sea Future Plan, in which it has confirmed that no more licences for new oil and gas will be issued, Greenpeace UK’s co-executive director, Areeba Hamid, said: …
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Let me get this straight. They're going to bomb the drug runners, the boots on the ground, but pardon the powerful politicians that are responsible for the drug running?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
When you're a sociopath and get angry that someone else's medical emergency, just four feet away, drew focus from your gloating and you forget which lie you were on.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Is your health insurance getting more expensive next year? It's because the current Republicans have cut your support so they can give tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. Vote like your health depends on it.
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Maybe let the horses have a try?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/10/2025
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/10/2025
WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
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jsleuth.bsky.social @jsleuth.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We have seen now the outsize power Musk has by disabling starlink connections in Ukraine. If a vendor provides you war robots for defense, that vendor also has a kill-switch to deactivate your bots and make you defenseless. Something to keep in mind.
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 21/10/2025
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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