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Jules J

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Editor. Seahawks. Sounders. Kraken. Tennis. Urban planning. Climate resilience and some politics.

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 26m
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 2h
This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9h
I left X almost exactly two years ago because of the violent, celebrated rape culture that was dominating the platform. Two years later, I’m undeniably better off, and the culture around sexual violence at large is arguably worse. I believe X has played a serious role in that.
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Box of Frogs @boxoffrogs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is the right discussion.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Important Context has a new story published in partnership with @theguardian.com. Anti-vaxxers, including Robert Kennedy Jr.’s former group, Children’s Health Defense, have been going after doctors professionally to cast doubt on measles deaths. www.importantcontext.news/anti-vaxxers...
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Anti-Vaxxers Target Doctors to Deny Measles Deaths in Widening Outbreak
Children’s Health Defense boasts that it sparked malpractice inquiries into two doctors who treated deceased unvaccinated measles patients.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 14h
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 9h
Yep. People need to understand that UBI is a redistribution of power and part of the way it functions to do that is an unburdening of cognitive capacity.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 12/10/2026
RJ Mitte, the 'Breaking Bad' star who had a career-making performance as Walter White, Jr. in the hit show and became an impassioned advocate for people with disabilities, has died at age 34. Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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Murderers As Leaders @morbidhegel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
He has killed nearly a million people already by shutting down USAID. So disgusting that this isn't front page news every day. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
irishtimes.com
Up to 700,000 people estimated to have died due to USAid cuts, Minister to say
Neale Richmond to tell EU ministers that cuts to international development cost lives
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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Parents are poisoning their children because they know what's best for them. People are selling poison to children because it comes from an animal, how can it be dangerous, it's natural? The state is abdicating its prerogative to regulate food because the cranks cannot stop poisoning children.
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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As a veterinarian, this reckless disregard for food safety makes my blood boil. It's one thing for parents to be deluded into thinking these products are safe, it's quite another when the state has abandoned its commitment to public health. Shame!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
PSA, Colorado voters: Elon Musk’s America PAC has been sending misleading texts saying, “Your ballot request is in,” and asking voters to confirm where and when to return it. The messages have prompted confused residents to contact county election offices.
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"The losses show little sign of stopping anytime soon."
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
lol Lmao even Has there ever been a more obvious fraud than the promise to Make America Healthy Again?
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10/10/2026
One day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals came out against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution, Pope Leo has published a tweet reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty.
Pope Leo XIV • @Pontifex• •4h
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The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1. I think the president of the United States really believes "there's never been anybody" who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than he does. He really believes he "settled eight wars." He really believes he stopped "the total obliteration of the world" by going to war with Iran.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
6% pathetic
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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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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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Trevor Reed @transportreform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Washington and Inslee are rightfully called out - the Connecting Washington package was a disaster fiscally that made it harder to realize our broader policy goals
WSDOT 2025 budget from https://www.theurbanist.org/in-face-of-budget-crisis-washingtons-leaders-downplay-focus-on-highway-expansion/
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/10/2026
Navi Pillay receives the news while at the Courtroom 600, Nuremberg Palace of Justice The speech is worth listening to. Video by Sec Gen, Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ilse Bing, Paris, Eiffel Tower with Branches, 1933 German Avant-garde photographer #Womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a view looking up the Eiffel Tower with tree branches to the left
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David Washburn @irvingszoo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If I had his money, I wouldn't. I would be giving it away in as many ways as I could imagine, then I'd hire people to imagine more ways. End hunger. End homelessness. Fund medical research like never before. Establish universal basic income. Buy another guitar. And another guitar. And another guitar
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Caitlin Flanagan viciously attacked a friend of mine for being sexually assaulted. She’s the scum of the earth.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/10/2026
They devour your land. They suck up your water. They leave you with the bill. trib.al/r6s57zp
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Trump? Diesel? ICE? Corruption? All of Those. But Mostly—Data Centers.
It’s not just about our water bills. The lords of AI have failed to persuade America in a spectacular way.
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Washington State Department of Health @doh.wa.gov · 07/10/2026
Did you hear the one about the overly bright headlights on vehicles finally being addressed? There's no punch line. It's about time.
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Just My Opinion👵🏻 @justmyopinionok.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No one is ever truly safe in an authoritarian state where masked goons walk the streets with total impunity
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Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 07/10/2026
ProPublica documented 506 U.S. citizens detained during Trump’s immigration crackdown, including at least 70 children and teens. DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake. The report lays out the cases, videos and court records. buff.ly/vT9Y7Kx
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump…
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The president should never joke about American cities getting bombed. Don’t normalize his constant pathetic, insane, and completely unhinged behavior.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE took two more people from my local courthouse today. The wife of one of the guys who was taken showed up shortly after. She just had surgery. She was worried about paying rent and feeding her kids. This is happening *every day* in Massachusetts. Lives are being destroyed every single day.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
"[W]hen a majority of the justices on our highest court show themselves to be consistently indifferent to the growing chasm between law and justice, it is not 'public rhetoric' that causes Americans to distrust the Court. It is the Court that surrenders its own legitimacy in the eyes of the public."
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There are eerie parallels between what’s happening in Irkutsk and what happened in Wuhan in early 2020. Doctors claiming the government was hiding the extent of the spread. Masks being mandated. Schools being closed. Pay attention. Listen to independent journalists & locals:
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Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection | CNN
Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
THIS is why an independent prosecutor is essential in the Cornell case. How could the Tompkins County DA's Office refuse to consider additional evidence before deciding not to pursue criminal charges?? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
*Democrat* Carl Heastie, Speaker of the New York State Assembly, held up the bill that would make it illegal to have sex with someone who is too intoxicated to consent. From 2025: www.nbcnewyork.com/investigatio...
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Bill to reform NY's rape law has support of 60% of the Assembly. One man is blocking it.
Advocates for sex crime survivors say they are losing patience with Carl Heastie, Speaker of the New York State Assembly. Heastie wields considerable power in Albany and with two days left in the legi...
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Terrible for the film industry to be owned by the Saudi government. What a joke the FCC is. apnews.com/article/para...
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FCC grants Paramount's indirect ownership request for Gulf funds in Warner Bros. Discovery buyout
As Paramount looks to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, it’s racked up billions of dollars in financial backing from three Gulf countries.
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David Howe @monolithfiji.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If this is legal, it needs to be made illegal. There is clearly something broken when clear monopolies are allowed to flourish. The fact that this is inherently a right-wing operation is beside the point, NO company should have this much power over media. This is going to be a bloodbath for workers
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