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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2h
Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 10h
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 8h
what i want out of the next two years of an at least partially democrat-controlled congress is robust dossiers on every criminal in this administration ready for relevant agency heads and state governments at 12pm on january 20, 2028. impeachments are one avenue to help build them
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 15h
We’re already helping to fund the Russian war effort and we’ve basically ended all other aid to Ukraine. Why the fuck should the Ukrainians care about our threats anymore.
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 10h
Anyway, if youre ukraine, light them the fuck up with everything you have
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million/yr on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” Investing in bike infrastructure saves money.
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 23h
one difference with newsom is he doesn't actually hit Rs that hard in person. his social media team does, but they're not him. and in fact when pressed in person he has repudiated them.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They do this even though it is obvious beyond a shadow of a doubt that Musk rigs the algorithm however he pleases.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 09/10/2026
what i believe is that the a.i. industry is run by an anti-human cult and that they are the actual threat to humanity, not their technology
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE kidnaped father from his family, chased him inside the house. Absolute monsters. San Diego
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034
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Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026
nationalize everything Elon Musk owns.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Banning electric cars, abortion, gay marriage, fluoridation, chemtrails and vaccines, promoting the gold standard, corrupt giveaways, water pollution, tax cuts for the rich, quack medicine and child labor - this is the GOP vision for the country based on the legislation they've actually proposed
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The fever will never break. These people must be conquered
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I love that it's totally cool and legal to use social media to rile up an angry hateful mob and incite them to attack doctors and send in bomb threats to children's hospitals but texting Shrek dong to a politician gets you hauled into court
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people.
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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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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
The funniest thing on here this afternoon is the people who are responding to news of a televised lynching with “omg, I feel like I live in some foreign country”
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season of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
strongly believe leo should excommunicate vance + court members for even countenancing the firing squad stuff.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is so dangerous! President Trump is deliberately inciting race hatred against an ethnic minority, calling on the people of Minnesota to "fight back" against "Somali immigrants." This must be a terrifying moment for the Somali community (who are overwhelmingly US citizens).
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A life in service to Craft is one of endless humility.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 06/10/2026
🚨NEW: The Trump admin has demanded local & state collusion on immigration enforcement, promising to pull back on community arrests in return. But new data reveal that it never delivered on that promise, and ICE's assault on communities only worsened 🧵
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Cooperation with ICE doesn’t stop community arrests: New data on the results of state strategies
The Trump administration has demanded local and state collusion on immigration enforcement, and promised to pull back on community arrests in return. But our analysis ...
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
okay i've taken this too seriously on its own terms. when a billionaire says "dictatorship is efficient" what he means is that it's easy to bribe.
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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ICE is a terrorist organization no different from its predecessors in the KKK. There will be no amnesty for their crimes against humanity. They will face trial, and I and millions of others will take great pleasure in their punishment.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.
From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
They really can’t make a case for why people would want these in their community except to invoke some scary foreign other and an undefined need to “win” in a way they can’t connect to the quality of life to the average person but only shareholder value.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
look, i think these people should just be honest and say that their kids are too dumb and lazy for their socioeconomic status to self replicate so they want to shrink the talent pool, (which wont work because it will also shrink the demand for talent)
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What is the point of this stupid country if not that? Pack it up we’ve lost our reason to be
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fact Check: True www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/p...
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Supreme Court is about to have 3 Bush v. Gore alumni sitting on the bench | CNN Politics
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, once confirmed, will be one of three current Supreme Court justices who assisted the legal team of then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the Florida ballot-recount battle that cam...
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 28/08/2026
The correct question and narrative frame was never “why are we polarized?” It was “why are we so solicitous of evil, lawless people?” — and it was that all along.
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Gina Dalfonzo @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Then the film’s Renée Good stand-in enters, slamming her Subaru into the ICE van. Described with the subtlety of a brick as 'MELANIE (40), a fat blue-hair,' the woman, blasting NPR, revs up again and fatally hits ICE agent 'Juan' with her car." 1/
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over 1,200 sexual assault cases in a six year period at Cornell. The current case involves 7 men gang raping and drugging a student and being assigned essays as punishment. In 6 years, only 7 students have been expelled or dismissed. That’s less than 0.006%. Cornell sides with rapists.
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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If we’re all going to have to make choices like this eventually, and we all will, each of us should hope to one day find out we have this kind of moral clarity.
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