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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3h

Zelenskyy: It's a pity that we are losing a strong partner (..) but not because of us. We can’t be weak. Otherwise, we can’t survive… This is why it’s painful when Trump chooses to be on Russia’s side. This is not the right side of history.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3h

Same Fedorov who partners with Palantir?

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Starlink connectivity at speeds of up to 160 km/h
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Removing Starshield's speed limit entirely is now critical for Ukraine's defense.
Thank you, @elonmusk. We hope for your continued support.
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kierceldwen @kierceldwen.bsky.social · 7m

I guess he forgot about when Obama did it.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 50m

It would be quite naive to hope to be informed about current happenings, when our lack of information goes back to the Alaska red carpet meeting, CIA Director Moscow trip, all the way back to that ear situation.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1h

Semafor reports Trump is “furious” and wants to cut off Ukraine intelligence. All would be funny, if he didn’t do that already. What hurts me the most is the fuckery around it all. People are getting slaughtered. Media is hunting “leaks from unknown sources”, intelligence pauses, Starlink hiccups

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h

Kristan Hawkins and Students for Life are being sued under one of Texas's bounty hunter laws for buying abortion pills. Mother Jones caught their dumb public stunt on camera. It's the very definition of being hoisted by one's own petard. Classic. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The “Charlie Kirk of Abortion” is being sued over a pill stunt caught by our cameras

Kristan Hawkins is accused of violating a harsh Texas law she helped pass.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4h

Since 2020, electricity bills have risen 34% for customers of investor-owned utilities, but only 19% for customers of publicly owned utilities. Nuking the IOU model & making all distribution utilities publicly owned: people are saying.

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One Home’s Power Bill Is $500. A Half-Mile Away, It’s 70% Lower

The stark difference reflects a growing national divide between investor-owned utilities and public power providers

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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3h

New: Rep. Max Miller & his lawyer Larry Zukerman use bizarre legal & reputational threats to get their way—including, for example, accusing a doctor of "animal cruelty" for giving their own dog a steroid. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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How Rep. Max Miller and his lawyer try to silence foes

Court filings and cease-and-desist letters reveal their aggressive legal tactics.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3h

Most data centers are being built in red, rural areas. A new survey suggests they’re pushing voters to the left.

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Voters near data centers are ditching the GOP in droves

Most data centers are being built in red, rural areas. They're pushing voters to the left.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 49m

Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.

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Attorney Kathleen Martinez @attorneymartinez.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: " Videos collected by local investigators make it “pretty obvious” that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday."

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Texas DA says ICE intentionally hit immigrant with a car and may have withheld evidence

Harris County DA Sean Teare told NBC News his office has collected multiple videos for its own investigation but isn’t getting cooperation from the federal government. ICE denied their agent intentio...

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 46m

The film unearths new dimensions of this story, and underscores an important point: the phenomenon of oligarchs acquiring supra-governmental power, without elected roles and often with little accountability, is bigger than Elon Musk, and we’re all living with the consequences.

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Derrick Wyatt's Law and Policy Blog @blogwyatt.bsky.social · 1h

Trump and Musk are pressuring Zelensky to hand over territory to Putin so Trump/Musk can resume business as usual in Russia Hard for the UK and rest of NATO to talk about Trump's US as an ally. Zelensky is telling it how it is because he's not much more to lose. This is a dark hour.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 21h

Trump makes nice with Russia and whips up hatred of Canada and Europe. That's just what Putin wants.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19h

The Journey ICE flight has arrived in Senegal from Harlingen, TX. After fueling and changing crew, it will begin making removal stops. Migrant passengers onboard have been shackled at the ankles and wrists attached to a waist chain for at least 10 hours.

An FR24 map showing N62FF landing in Dakar.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21h

Just wild that this is the explicit message.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

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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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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 8h

"The bulk of the increase stemmed directly from energy prices, which have shot higher this year because of the war with Iran". www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

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CPI Report Live Updates: Inflation Rose 3.7% in September as Fuel Prices Increased

The Consumer Price Index rose 3.7 percent in September from a year earlier, faster than a month earlier, as gas prices surged 34 percent.

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egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 8h

I think people assume it’s hyperbole when I say it is critical for national security that we nationalize spacex but it very much is not hyperbole, it is an imperative

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 7h

Night mayors are pretty common in Europe and catching on in States. But nowhere is there a better case for the need of one than SF. Which in some ways still runs like a village(s) www.voanews.com/a/why-us-cit...

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Why US Cities Are Hiring Night Mayors to Govern After Dark

More American urban centers view nightlife as an economic asset rather than a nuisance

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 7h

And the reason he was so particularly unpleasant is that he didn’t want to answer questions about the war in Iran, which he vociferously supports, and the rising costs to farmers and other constituents newrepublic.com/post/216602/...

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Republican Tries to Get Journalist Arrested After Disastrous Debate

Representative Andy Harris was furious after the crowd laughed at him in the debate.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: A complaint has been filed with the California Bar against White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia, citing Popular Information’s reporting, for “the Unauthorized Practice of Law and for Holding Herself Out as Entitled to Practice Law.”

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 7h

Real wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row. The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 8h

Did everyone notice yesterday that the president admitted the entire "Russian diesel deal" thing is complete bullshit, none of the fuel is actually coming to the U.S. and obviously never was, and with a minimum of 40% of Russian refining capacity offline it probably does not exist at all.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

FANNIE MAE sees higher mortgage rates through the end of this year and into 2027. Sees 30-year fixed at 7.4% for Q4 and 7.5% for all of next year. (via @dianaolick.bsky.social) @cnbc.com

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sorry, I know this off election message but JFC Dems. Wake the fuck up. ROVING GANGS OF ARMED TRUMP THUGS ARE HARASSING WORKERS. THIS IS VERY UNPOPULAR!! TRUMP IS UNPOPULAR!!! STOP TELLING VOTERS YOU WANT DO A BIPARTISAN OR THAT YOU STOOD UP TO BIDEN!! (BIDEN Forgodssakes#$*(&$!!!)

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18h

Trump is testing the courts; cutting down trees on a DC golf course after a judge told him not to. A pretend apology when Trump’s ads ran at taxpayer expense after a judge ordered him to stop. Get up to speed, including on a new order issued tonight: joycevance.substack.com/p/its-more-t...

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It’s More Than Just a Little Routine Maintenance

The administration flouted a judge’s order and cut down more than 400 trees on the East Potomac Golf Course over the weekend.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h

It’s no mystery. Trump is now openly backing Putin because he’s preparing for what comes after his second term in office ends.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21h

😍😍😍

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21h

still trying to keep my november hopes in check but some of these republican candidates seem a little surprised they have to run an actual campaign and answer questions

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This fraud was then perpetuated by Elon Musk himself, who was running DOGE at the time, and who retweeted a post about the incident while declaring it a "criminal act." The government now "concedes ... that Mr. Musk and officials at FEMA and DHS knew this information was false."

vi. February 11, 2025, Statement by Elon Musk On February 11, 2025, Elon Musk, a Special Government Employee and head of DOGE, retweeted on X a photo of Ms. Comans along with the statement, “FEMA CFO Mary Comans was just fired for funneling $58M to illegal migrant hotels in Manhattan” and he called it a “criminal action.” The Government concedes and the Court finds that other than the fact that Ms. Comans had been fired, the post by Mr. Musk was entirely false. The Government further concedes and the Court further finds that Mr. Musk and officials at FEMA and DHS knew this information was false at the time it was posted. Based on the unchallenged facts and the fact that Mr. Musk was the head of DOGE, he knew or should have known that any payments made to state or local governments through a FEMA grant in February 2025 were approved by his subordinates. Finally, the fact that Mr. Musk posted a picture of Ms. Comans to his millions of followers while falsely characterizing her government service as a “criminal action” was clearly intended to make her afraid. Posting Ms. Comans’ picture served no legitimate governmental interest and was little more than state sanctioned intimidation.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21h

noooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 20h

Ossoff talking directly to @atrupar.com.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 10h

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

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kierceldwen @kierceldwen.bsky.social · 4h

Puts previous time(s) in context.

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Drspayne @naturalwanderer.bsky.social · 9h

Trump and Musk are to blame equally. Traitors to humanity and history will record these actions as such

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8h

Plus - Starlink operating in a country is literally affecting its national security. Is the governance of such shared? We are 4 years into a full scale war. Why isn’t this being discussed? It’s not someone opening MacDonalds across Europe, it’s someone controlling connectivity and data.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8h

Shares make him the gazillionaire.. thought of sanctions make shares go south. Just a thought.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8h

Musk’s huge vulnerability is his Tesla business. If that were to be considered to be sanctioned across Europe “for the national security purposes”.. I’m sure Starlink would be working just fine.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9h

I told you that’s next.

@igornovikov
X.com
I confirm that tonight SpaceX introduced a speed restriction on Starlink terminals while in motion.
At present, the restriction applies to the Star Shield
"military package" and is set at 100 miles per hour.
Our Defense Forces received no prior warning about this limitation, which resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.
Obviously, this cannot be a coincidence and is connected to the current political situation.
(Quoting Zelensky's miltech advisor)

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h

*the point is elimination of sanctions, they aren’t able to deliver and what they agreed to deliver makes no difference to US diesel market. The actual “deals” won’t be talked about.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 5h

11 of 17 Starlink antennas were set on fire at a guarded facility near Sofia, Bulgaria. Two masked individuals reportedly carried out the attack. Infrastructure supporting Ukraine is being targeted across Europe with growing frequency. At what point does “concern” become a response?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

The US knows Ukrainian air defense relies on US early detection of Russian launches. Without telling Ukraine, the Trump White House (and Elon Musk's SpaceX) withheld that info and hindered countermeasures. The US just facilitated a Russian attack on Ukraine, making it more effective and deadlier.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5h

It does seem like Putin is rushing fo get the most possible out of his client Trump before the electoral bloodbath of 3 November.

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