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Lara

@kle138.bsky.social
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Mom, Seattleite, engaged citizen. Pro-housing, pro-growth. Hopeful. New around here.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 5h
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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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5h
The EU's Kaja Kallas: “Suspending sanctions on Russian diesel provides Moscow with more revenues to wage war. “This is not the time to ease pressure on Russia, and Europe won’t.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 5h
This is dead on. The other thing I’d say is you don’t weaken MAGA by using honey to lure adherents. You weaken it by stigmatizing it and making it toxic to be a part of it. It thrives on the perception that it’s strong.
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Alex G. Howard @selfindulgentclaptrap.com · 5h
It's also worth noting that both those groups believe that Trump's voters need to be coddled and pandered to. That's not necessarily true: they're responding to the aesthetics of strength (as sold in fascism). I would bet Ossoff's strident authority is probably more effective at drawing them in
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 5h
It's not hard. Both Yglesias moderates and Khanna leftists give MAGA politicians legitimacy because they want MAGA's base. Ossoff simply does not give a shit about the MAGA base, which allows him to speak with fierce clarity about MAGA politicians. He is willing to bet on an anti-MAGA majority.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h
It think the answer is dominance politics, bitch slap politics. The messages resonate. But he’s effectively performing displays of dominance. He made Collins look not shamed or criticized but hapless and stupid.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes totally, global < national < state < local in residential sorting effects. The CA referendum was designed as one-time and backward looking on residence for this reason, so mobility will be either taste-based/ideological or about signals future wealth taxation
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.
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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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h
raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)
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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 6h
I don’t know any parent who’s gonna react to an attempted carjacking with their kid in the car in any other way.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
NEW: Early on Aug. 25, the Tohono O’odham Nation received a one-minute notice from Border Patrol. A convoy of contractors — guarded by masked agents — was en route to conduct testing for a coming border wall. The tribe was warned: Do not interfere.
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As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones
For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their...
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 9h
It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 9h
It works like this: 1. Home Office, without warning or explanation, begins refusing more visas from a particular country 2. This raises visa refusal rate for unis recruiting from that country 3. If overall refusal rate goes over 10%, uni loses visa licence = bankruptcy. Therefore…2/?
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 5h
The millions of Americans who believe that Washington DC is a pit of bipartisan corruption under the dominance of tech oligarchs are right.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 5h
Ladies and gentlemen: The biggest investor in data centers in the Senate.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11h
Death by a thousand cuts as universities revoke international offers "en masse" of prospective students from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan to avoid losing ability to recruit international students. More job losses and course closures predicted in consequence. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban
Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 14h
At some point, we bristle at the idea that the costs of this folly should be socialized... right?
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15h
In a new Truth Social post, Trump explains why he should have received the Nobel Peace Prize—writing entirely in the voice of a man being forcibly removed from a Cheesecake Factory. Really unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize laureate.
Screenshot of a long Truth Social post from Donald Trump dated 9 October 2026. The full thing is here https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117414533410378018. It's too long for alt text, but begins:

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This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:
 
Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
 
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Ve…
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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 19h
Great story about how the state has given up on doing anything about cranks selling their bacteria filled dairy products (ha ha that photo obviously did a number on me woooooooo) www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 19h
Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.
She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 21h
What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...
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Off-duty ICE agent shot after assaulting 72-year-old man and his daughter at Fresno home, police say
Authorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.
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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 17h
Why do we live in this timeline
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Trump on Venezuela: "We're taking out for ourselves -- we deserve it. To the victor belong the spoils, right? -- we're taking out billions and billions of dollars a day."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h
The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?
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onion person @junlper.beer · 21h
elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 18h
It’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 18h
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 18h
It's not that this country has never had state sanctioned murder for mass comsumption, it's just that at some point it became taboo to say that you wanted to actually see a lynching, but our current government is trying to get rid of that taboo and take America back to its roots.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h
republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21h
Pew Research poll: Trump approval 30% approve 68% disapprove That's the lowest approval of his second term.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 21h
it is going to be so funny watching San Francisco's spectacularly shitty AI billboards transform over the next few weeks into spectacularly shitty SI billboards because the people paying for them are somehow even lamer than we thought
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21h
Trump started a stupid & illegal war in Iran that has driven up diesel prices. Now he wants to bankroll Putin's illegal war against Ukraine by buying diesel from him.   One strategic disaster after the next. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel, suggests US may buy amid surging fuel prices
The move comes weeks ahead of the midterm elections.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Apparently someone used AI to steal Adobe’s entire platform of software programs and offer them, a complete 1:1 mirror, completely free. And then someone else decided to do this with the ENTIRE PS5 library. And turning AI against the companies that exploit us with it is…a good use of AI?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reviewed Ken Paxton's travel records dating back to 2015. Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million. The outlets could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to actual state business.
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 09/10/2026
Ultimate Fucking Chuds
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm voting for Bob Brooks (his opponent is Ryan Mackenzie). But honestly, this would make me vote for him harder. Also "funny" that it says, "check the facts" at the bottom.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
People understand that the future of democracy is an economic issue. Look what happened when the President made a hasty decision without democratic input to start a war: he tanked the economy.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is remarkable how many Dems in competitive races are not doing the squishy bipartisanship tapioca routine and are instead just letting rip with these guys are a bunch of evil goddamned nazis who want to take all your rights and are also corrupt as fuck. It’s reading the room, I suppose.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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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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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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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.
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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There was a 5-year-old in the car and it isn't in the headline or subhed.
ICE Agent Shoots and Wounds Man in New
York City
Federal officials said that they were attempting to take into custody an undocumented Dominican immigrant. They did not indicate what prompted the shooting.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Christa Pike’s attorneys have just released an update on her condition. Full release here:
UPDATE ON CHRISTA PIKE’S CONDITION 

Statement from Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN Office of the Post Conviction Defender, and Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, attorneys for Christa Pike 

The turnaround in Christa Pike’s health in the last three days has been profound and a credit to the medical team caring for her. She woke up from unconsciousness Tuesday morning (Oct. 6) and began taking limited steps Wednesday afternoon (Oct. 7). Today, she is walking with some assistance, and her arms—which sustained significant injuries during the execution attempt—are healing and regaining movement and strength. Her lungs are clear, and she has started to eat a regular diet. Physicians are encouraged by her physical recovery.  

While her physical recovery has been remarkable, significant questions remain about the long-term effects of what she endured. Christa is dealing with the profound psychological trauma of having survived a failed execution, including the terror, pain and uncertainty of believing she was about to die. We cannot yet know the full emotional and psychological toll of that experience or how long it will take her to begin to heal. Even as she struggles to process what has happened, she continues to express concern for others, particularly the family of her victim Colleen Slemmer.  

Christa also continues to experience cognitive challenges with concentration and memory. Her physicians have cautioned that it may take months to fully understand whether she sustained lasting cognitive injuries.  

Christa committed her crime at just 18 years old after a childhood marked by rape, sexual violence, physical abuse and neglect. Later into her incarceration, Christa was finally properly diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder and PTSD caused by her upbringing. 

Christa has endured more than enough. We continue to call on Gov. Lee to commute her death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. She should never be subjected to another execution attempt.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It does not need to be a Day One decision: it can be a November 9 decision.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The regime knows they’re on track to get demolished in the midterms, so they’re about to reach as far into the dictator’s toolkit as they can reach. They know they’re cooked, but they’re going to try to break everything on their way down.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Your typical nativist is *just* smart enough to realize that the government is never going to let them fulfill their dream of being a slaveowner and the Gulf State model is their favorite among the alternatives they think they can actually get.
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