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"All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others." ~ Desmond Tutu

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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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Captain Jack #8647 @heavydriver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a great point. Really.
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is a certain irony that I find myself in a Catholic school for my doctorate after my awful middle school experiences in one. And yet, I find the prayers that begin each module quite beautiful. Even though I am no longer Catholic, I can appreciate and meditate on them easily. It's nice.
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ensuring your voter registration takes 2 minutes and is worth so much more. Deadline to register to vote in AZ, AR, FL, GA, IN, KY, LA, MS, OH, TN, TX is OCT. 5. Please register. Already registered? Check your registration NOW. #LetsGetVoteReady social.demcast.com/s/m2aWf4tU
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Check Your Voter Registration
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Other Mommy was an incredible and terrifying book to read, and the trailer for the movie looks amazing. I want to watch it, and I don't at the same time. I am definitely going to watch it 🫣 youtu.be/bEpTgowZ1dI?...
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Other Mommy | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
theatlantic.com
What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder that Elon's DOGE recommended firing government workers at the... -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. See what DOGE was really all about?
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Have the people asking these questions just never had to have health insurance that they paid for themselves?? www.fedweek.com/issue-briefs...
fedweek.com
OPM Seeks Input on Increasing, Decreasing Options in FEHB/PSHB Plans
Following is a “request for information” that OPM published in the September 15 Federal Register seeking input on changing available options in FEHB/PSHB
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Why has Trump been attacking unions and workers’ rights? He wants working people to feel helpless and divided. Trump and his billionaire backers realize that the collective power of a unified labor movement outweighs their own power. Know this: Workers outnumber the oligarchs.
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BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What fun!!
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 28/08/2026
NJ, SC, GA, & CA all cleared $4,000 per household in tariff costs, & Michigan blew past all at $5,619, the highest in the nation. JD Vance campaigns there 8/31 with Mike Rogers like that bill never hit anyone’s kitchen table. The mission be4 you is simple. VOTE BLUE EVERY TIME
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#AZ voters: Oct 5 is the deadline to register. Early voting starts Oct 7. Election Day is Nov 3. Check your status at my.arizona.vote and share with friends. Get the word out on all your social media accounts - and text everyone you know to remind them about early voting. #Voting #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
JIM HENSON wrote a letter to his Children to be opened after his death. It’s entirely beautiful.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My heart hurts every day for the mess the US public health system has become. We once had such an amazing system. And now. . . 🤷‍♀️💔 What are we doing???
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Morning Bluesky This is correct, by Paul Krugman: “1.2 million Americans died from Covid — a number that would have been much lower if MAGA misinformation hadn’t caused so many people to refuse vaccination” See: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 1/2 paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reality-is...
paulkrugman.substack.com
Reality is a Communist Plot
Of MAGA and the totalitarian mindset
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Every time I see a progressive, truly grassroots Democrat candidate win over a DCCC backed candidate, I smile. We are tired of corporations owning and running our country. They will never care about what's happening to people or our needs: Healthcare. Education. Housing. Green energy. Human rights.
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I love me some Robert's Rules of Order ❤️
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
BREAKING NYT: Government documents raise new doubts about Trump's unsubstantiated claim that "vandals" sabotaged the Reflecting Pool. There's no indication the peeling blue coating and algae blooms were caused intentionally — and the Trump admin knew that.
nytimes.com
Trump Says Vandals Sabotaged the Reflecting Pool. Internal Documents Raise Doubts.
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House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Democrats @democrats-veterans.house.gov · 19/06/2026
AFGE is completely right, “While the bill package suggests it would improve veterans’ health care and benefits, it would in fact do the opposite.” This new legislation is clearly an attempt to derail the Major Richard Star Act.
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Guess we are relearning about viruses and why vaccines matter in real time. Also, that the flu vaccine does, in fact, work. Quite well.
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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Routine reminder that the most devastating cuts to social services in 2025's "Big Beautiful Bill" are timed to happen in 2027—safely past the midterms. SO many reasons to vote every Trump-enabling Republican out of office THIS year. Pick one, and make a plan to take others to the polls with you.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
AND everyone can submit comments on the rule until 13 July. Read this on how to submit. Federal grants affect us all. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
elizabethginexi.substack.com
What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Wild. Trying to eliminate AHRQ is just . . . Wild. And harmful to public health and safety.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on ­ post-
­ traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a ­ moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
They want to end peer review of scientific studies - among other things - prior to recommendations. Absolutely unacceptable. 🤬
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Call your reps -- blue, red, purple, it doesn't matter -- about the proposed OMB science funding rule. The house can stop this. Let them know it matters for your district.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It's been a week since Russell Vought unleashed his latest blueprint of destruction, and we are beginning to see how institutions are approaching the matter. I am calling on orgs, societies, and the left to fully, uncompromisingly, viciously oppose 100% of this rule proposal. Every single line.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is the moment to pull every lever of power. We have seen VERY CLEARLY that this Administration doesn't simply stop when they get an inch. They always fight for the mile. We MUST reject 100% of the 412 page proposal from OMB. We must fight like lives, our entire sector depends on it.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is so upsetting. prospect.org/2026/06/04/t...
prospect.org
Trump Kicks His Dismantling of Veterans’ Health Care Into High Gear - The American Prospect
His proposed new budget shrinks the VA’s ability to meet veterans’ needs.
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This entire thread is just gold. Seriously. A timeline cleanser, if you will, of entertainment. Take a break and enjoy some book annotation amusement.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
⚠️ Pope Leo releases his first encyclical: MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Link: www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Pope Leo XIV
@Pontifex
X.com
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness.
#MagnificaHumanitas
Encyclical Letter of His
Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica H...
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Holy crap. This is massive and so so bad. The US should be here with our talent and best minds in public health leading the way - except we've dismissed them and decided that science, improving public health, ensuring public trust, and monitoring global health situations no longer matter. 💔
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Ohio’s state sales tax exemption for data centers cost $1.6 BILLION in 2025 — 11x more than its original estimate. That’s $1.6 billion that could have gone to public schools and healthcare instead of Big Tech CEOs’ pockets. Is it any wonder communities are organizing against data centers?
signalohio.org
Ohio data center tax break cost $1 billion more than expected in 2025 - Signal Ohio
Ohio’s biggest tax break for data centers is more expensive than once thought. A lot more expensive.
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"Flames. . . flames on the side of my face." 🤬 I am legitimately so angry that I do not even have words. The level of disrespect by everyone involved here is just. . . I cannot even.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A…stunning campaign launch. "My dad got cancer & my mom's employer collapsed. The executives got paid & the workers got screwed. She didn't have the heart to tell us, even when the bank took the house…when she took her own life, the eviction notice was in her pocket." @ahlmanfornebraska.bsky.social
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Many thanks to @academyhealth.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to highlight how I approached the writing of my book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States. And now, I’m working to use this evidence to improve policy. open.substack.com/pub/ahsituat...
open.substack.com
How Prior Authorization Drives Inequality in Health Care
AcademyHealth member and research champion Miranda Yaver highlights the impact of prior authorization on care delivery, as well as possible reforms.
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is so bad. 💔
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
WTF?? Stop this madness, please!!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/05/2026
Can someone stop Trump from destroying historic DC? The Eisenhower Executive Office Building is famous for its gray granite facade, and he wants to paint it white, costing taxpayers at least $7.5 million. NEWSFLASH: this isn’t going to lower gas or grocery prices or open the Strait of Hormuz.
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Kristi @kristilyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This is bad. Very bad.
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
SCOTUS Voting Rights Act opinion based on faulty data. Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice: “In zero out of the last three presidential elections, did Black turnout come anywhere close to parity.Alito’s claim is simply not factual.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Supreme court’s Voting Rights Act ruling cited misleading data from DoJ
Exclusive: Data in justice department filing quoted by Samuel Alito in his opinion relied on unusual methodology, a Guardian analysis has found
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Total shocker. Alito’s argument for why black people don’t need voting rights protections is based on fraudulent statistics.
theguardian.com
Supreme court’s Voting Rights Act ruling cited misleading data from DoJ
Exclusive: Data in justice department filing quoted by Samuel Alito in his opinion relied on unusual methodology, a Guardian analysis has found
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/05/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but what’s going on in the south right now with voting rights and erasure, is a “kitchen table issue” — for Black families. And it should be for everyone.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.
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