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Kimberley Isbell

@kisbell.bsky.social
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Mainly IP and politics, with animal pics thrown in when I remember to take them. It’s all me — my boss is way too nice to say this stuff. She/her LA 🏳️‍🌈

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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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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4h
More than a dozen kittens from the Bitty Kitty Brigade, a no-kill rescue, took part in their sixth annual field trip to SEA LIFE at Mall of America.
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Sunflower state of mind @blueintheheartland.bsky.social · 4h
lol. Then he tries to act magnanimous by saying they paid double but they paid less than the interest he charges women in rural Kansas for medical procedures. It’s be over $2000 in interest if figured on what he charges and that’s without 6 years in penalties. 🤡
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 7h
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So let me know if you want to come to a virtual talk next wk on “Reimagining Leadership.“ Time tbd. The focus is on cultivating critical, creative, and caring capacities in medicine, but I think it applies beyond that. I’m pretty sure we can do this without any leaders.
Ruha’s title slide for “Reimagining Leadership” with a quote by Saidiya Hartman: “Care is the antidote to violence.”
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/10/2026
"Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given...individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do." @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 21h
You know those ‘spot the difference’ puzzles? I’m thinking of launching a ‘spot every racism in this political cartoon’ alternative….
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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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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 20h
We need a 2028 primary about who is best able to make this exact argument. No Kings = checking all massive wealth, or it means nothing. And I know one candidate who'd never say this unless he's chasing a middle that's pulled very far in that direction.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 20h
Trying to track where Elon is spending most, and the answer is pretty obviously Texas, but I still think Ohio is where it can make the biggest difference. stopthetrillionaires.com
Where the money/hate is landing
Disclosed independent spending (darker = more)
America PAC 2026 target state
Nothing disclosed

AK
$608K

ME
$1.8M

VT

NH
$1.3M

WA
$346K

ID

MT

ND

MN

IL

WI
$320K

MI
$6.7M

NY
$364K

RI

MA

OR

NV

WY

SD

IA
$2.7M

IN

OH
$7.4M

PA
$1.2M

NJ
$389K

CT

CA
$330K

UT

CO
$228K

NE

MO

KY

WV

VA
$352K

MD

DE

AZ
$855K

NM

KS

AR

TN

NC

SC

DC

OK

LA

MS

AL

GA

HI

TX
$14.6M

FL
$588K
Michigan: $6,650,814 across 190 disclosed expendituresShow all states
DISCLOSED SPENDING ONLY. Dark money and undisclosed committees are not on this map.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/10/2026
Wall Street and corporations have schemed for decades to stack the bench with judges who rule against consumers and workers. Result? Federal courts have distorted the law to further rig the economy—and you're paying the price. Democrats must be clear-eyed about this challenge.
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Microsoft gave $1 million to the inauguration fund and Satya Nadella sat two seats away from Vance at the WH AI luncheon nine days ago. This is what bending the knee gets you.
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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 08/10/2026
While we await a federal ruling on a potential telehealth abortion ban, anti-abortion activists are preparing plans for laws that would require women to go to a doctor's office, have an ultrasound, or wait before receiving the abortion pills. From @stateline.org.
rewirenewsgroup.com
Abortion Foes Plan to Push Pill Restrictions in the States
Even if the FDA preserves telehealth abortion, they want mandatory ultrasounds, waiting periods and in-person visits. As they await a federal decision on a potential nationwide ban on telehealth abort...
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 08/10/2026
“We want people to come in the right way,” they said — and then barred every entry except a hatch labeled “white South Africans only.”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Private mercenary company now monitoring and enforcing U.S. elections. Very good sign for democracy.
newrepublic.com
USPS Hires Security Service With History of Human Rights Abuse
Almost 1,000 armed security officers have been sent to at least 55 post office facilities.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you know talented law students who would be interested in spending a summer working on the most important and interesting First Amendment cases, please send them our way! knightcolumbia.org/page/summer-...
knightcolumbia.org
| Knight First Amendment Institute
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sure, Jan.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 06/10/2026
Might I point you at kickbezosintheballs.org
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 06/10/2026
Water prices rose 1.6 times faster than overall inflation between 2015 and 2025. Consumer prices increased 39% during that period, compared with a 62% jump in water bills, according to the study. Water costs also rose more than twice as fast as groceries, which increased 30%.
theguardian.com
US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds
For-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are ‘supercharging water rate hikes’, study co-author says
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/10/2026
Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
ms.now
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 06/10/2026
"Planned as part of the pleasure grounds surrounding the Executive Mansion … the park was separated from the White House grounds [in 1804], when third President Thomas Jefferson had Pennsylvania Avenue cut through east–west."
en.wikipedia.org
President's Park - Wikipedia
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Park and the Ellipse exist as public parks because the nation's early leaders deemed it unnecessary and unseemly to fence off palatial grounds in the people's capital. "Trump's plan" is an insult to the nation's people and ideals.
nytimes.com
Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/10/2026
over at the newsletter I wrote about the useful bogeyman that is "polarization":
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The Problem Is Right Wing Extremism, Not 'Polarization'
Ambiguous media whining about "polarization" or "partisan tribalism" redirects attention away from the real cause of modern U.S. division: violent right wing extremism.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 05/10/2026
My Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic is hiring a new teaching fellow! If you find joy in iPIP work; share our enthusiasm for collaborating; and demonstrate creativity through your work—maybe it could be you? Apply by the end of the month: apply.interfolio.com/194762 Share broadly!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is what women on the right say about another woman who was gang raped. These are the same people our current Dem leadership thinks should be allowed to participate in normal society after we wrest control from the psychos.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
cnn.com
Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?”
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/10/2026
True, though Ezra Klein made a good point the other day when he said that Amodei and Altman etc talk about the frontier models they see in their labs, but the larger public thinks of AI as their free ChatGPT and thus of course we talk past each other.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why not run ONE ad exposing the Gang Who Couldn't Epstein Straight? Their crotch-sniffing isn't just about them being sick perverts. They think you're a sucker. They think you don't see Elon & his Reich soaking up trillions, building dirty data centers up your ass while your mom can't afford gas.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 04/10/2026
Scientists are getting closer to controlling HIV without drugs after training the immune system to keep the virus in check. But US funding cuts are clouding the outlook for future research. Read more: bloom.bg/4e9tFT8 📷: Janet Fries/Getty Images/Archive Photos
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/10/2026
When the Trump administration started dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system earlier this year, scientists, fishermen and Congress fought back. On Saturday, a 238-foot ship set sail to reinstall the first batch of monitors in the waters of the Pacific.
nytimes.com
After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea
Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 03/10/2026
It’s offensive that Trump is doing such blatant corruption right in the open. Congress has the Constitutional responsibility of oversight and it’s a disgrace Republicans gave that up the last 2 years so that Trump feels above the law
washingtonsun.com
Want Dinner With the President? Buy His Meme Coin.
The $Trump meme coin is offering buyers a new "exclusive" opportunity to meet the president.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For anyone seeing this movie: of course any war involves the risk of civilian casualties. The issue is how many lives you’re prepared to risk to get a given enemy combatant, and the problem with Israel’s actions is that those numbers are REALLY high. See here. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/asse...
lawfaremedia.org
Assessing Israel’s Approach to Proportionality in the Conduct of Hostilities in Gaza
The Jabalia strike indicates that the IDF’s tolerance for civilian casualties is multiples greater than that of the U.S. in the ISIS war.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Microsoft branding nightmare re AI risks to humanity
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hitler would have murdered every Jewish person in Germany, every queer person, every person on the left. Tucker doesn't care because he wants to murder all those people as well.
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026
"Twice this week, Trump has held White House events announcing a major economic project that happens to benefit a state holding a key, competitive Senate race — first in Iowa, then in Alaska," writes CNN's Aaron Blake. "And both times, his promises have proven to be overzealous, at best." | Analysis
cnn.com
Trump touted big economic projects in two key Senate states this week. Both announcements soon crumbled | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear that he’s happy to use official government resources in ethically dubious ways to try to win the 2026 midterm elections.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 03/10/2026
I’ve seen untrained cloggers in an earthquake show more coordination than L.A. County government’s have managed on matters as basic as helping the unhoused.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
A Princeton researcher found that publicly available election records could be combined with AI to link voters to their ballots
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Georgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters’ secret ballots
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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Diane Ademu-John @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well. Here we are. In IDIOCRACY TWO: ELECTRIC BUGALOO.
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 30/09/2026
that's like $15k a MC. Seems fine to me tbqh
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dear America.gov, Go fuck yourself. Dan
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 30/09/2026
"If you hear in the next 34 days that there is a new security threat you’ve never heard of, one that somehow requires federal law enforcement or the military and not local police, an alarm bell should go off in your brain. Do not let him get away with that."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
poor Mark was just making ends meet and had to do this
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Rachel Vail @rachelvail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A good rule is: Don't have sex with someone who isn't *enthusiastic* about having sex with you. The sex will be better and so will your lives.
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