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President Trump made it a point to tell Ohio rally-goers that he "examined" Sen. Jon Husted's body, which included looking "at his ass". But is this what Ohio voters are interested in?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

From Trump, the third homoerotic exclamation so far this week. Don't worry, US corporate media will clean it up. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 14h

WSJ reports Texas' top law enforcement official and now Senate candidate Ken Paxton spent a New Year's Eve in Dubai partying with two fugitives who had been indicted on charges of massive health care fraud schemes. One of them was a major Paxton donor.

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Veldonna @julienut.bsky.social · 12h

Why is his mental collapse not part of every discussion???

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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 17h

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 11/10/2026

This post kind of blew up yesterday. I think Americans really want to know about little things they can do it help people while our government is doing violence to our values, interests, and allies. So I will try to help provide guidance that might be useful for people who want such direction.

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Veldonna @julienut.bsky.social · 12h

I am completely enthralled by that dress. And it’s not just because I am Cherokee. Thank you for sharing this. STUNNING!

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 14h

“Confinement Cannot Be Punishment Military law draws a hard line in cases such as this. Article 13 of the UCMJ prohibits punishing a service member who is awaiting trial and says confinement may not be "any more rigorous than the circumstances require."

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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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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

Remember when he screamed "No puppet! YOU'RE the Puppet!" in that really panicked way that had a bunch of us like "…uhh… kinda seems a weird way to deny that"? Anyway, we all know Russia doesn't have that much diesel to sell, making this sanctions-avoiding money laundering on a global scale, right?

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 11/10/2026

this story happens all the time btw. like constantly. everywhere

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Badiucao巴丢草 @badiucao.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Trump：The ART of The DEAL Strikes Iran. Oil price goes up. Buy Oil from Russia. Russia funds Iran.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And an OMB official says the $20m for the ads came from funds originally appropriated under the Working Families Tax Cut Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A senior CBP official says the agency has spent roughly $19 million on the recently aired pro-Trump ads but that they will be ending Sunday. The official says the ads are for “recruitment” and knows of “no plans” for future buys. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

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🎃 Baby Saja Funko Pop 🎃 @babysajaboy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ukraine keep going ur doing amazing sweetie

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In my new video, I share what the U.S. can learn from Hungary's fight against corruption and abuse of power. Plus, speaking out against vouchers, calling out DHS actions out of the authoritarian playbook, and ways we're standing up for our healthcare members. Watch ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyBx...

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The Better Future We Are All Fighting For

YouTube video by AFT

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I couldn't agree more 👇

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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The deal doesn’t just align the United States against Ukraine, it positions us in opposition to every democratic government on the planet, to every institution of international law, and our own commitments and signed agreements. It is abominable.

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Trump announces diesel deal with Russia in bid to lower prices

The amount is small compared with U.S. demand, but the deal aligns the U.S. with Russia and against Ukraine’s efforts to bomb Russian refineries.

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 10/10/2026

"I really struggle with calling them 'officers' because they have less training than my nail tech" @cmgreer.bsky.social reacts to the ICE shooting of a man with his child in his car in New York City.

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11th Hour with Ali Velshi @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"I really struggle with calling them 'officers' because they have less training than my nail tech" @cmgreer.bsky.social reacts to the ICE shooting of a man with his child in his car in New York City.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.

Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 09/10/2026

hello, I am doing some research and would like to tap into the collective brains of BSKY: 1. can you share some genre or literary fiction magazines that have closed and the archive is NO LONGER ONLINE 2. the same but the archives remain online FOR NOW i would also appreciate RTs for awareness 💀

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 10/10/2026

“They have less training than my nail tech.” Christina Greer blasts the ICE officers whom Donald Trump has empowered to carry out his violent immigration crackdown. “New Yorkers have been very clear that this is not something that they will tolerate.”

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

I’m sure the guy who started the dumbest war whining about not getting a peace prize will really resonate with voters who can’t afford gas and heating oil.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/10/2026

Trump to pool: "We're watching it very closely, the hurricane," he said, adding that it was "under control."

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this isn't who we used to pretend to be

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/10/2026

4% increase in imports from Canada would easily replace the entire physical volume of diesel “negotiated” in the new US-Russia pact.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/10/2026

Rhodesia is a now-defunct white supremacist state in southern Africa. It's where James Earl Ray attempted to flee after assassinating MLK. It's the flag a white supremacist mass shooter wore in a photo on his manifesto website. Now Donald Trump Jr. is peddling Rhodesian lifestyle apparel.

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How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the right

From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can’t stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 05/10/2026

We're proud to launch our latest ad for the #LoveNotICE campaign with our partner, @interfaithalliance.org featuring Bishop Mariann Budde urging faithful Americans to vote early no matter who's on the ballot. 🔄 Share Bishop Budde's powerful address and learn more at LoveNotICE.org

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And don’t forget it

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As he evolves in is second childhood, Trump spews vulgarities and racist and misogynistic insults with abandon. And US corporate media cleans up after him. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Veldonna @julienut.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He’s always been a creep.

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 09/10/2026

An explosive new report alleges Walmart is compiling shopper data to "price people, not products" using surveillance and dynamic pricing.

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