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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16h
Trump is the leader, but the party is behind him 100%. Any politician still identifying as a Republican after this is a Russia-first treason weasel.
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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 10h
US lawmakers are preparing bipartisan legislation to ban Russian oil imports and block Donald Trump’s diesel deal. The bill, backed by Brian Fitzpatrick and Don Bacon, aims to cut funds to the Kremlin after Bacon condemned the administration's policy. www.kyivpost.com/post/86709
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13h
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15h
After leaving tanker, oil from Exxon Valdez devastates Alaskan coastline on its own, killing over 250,000 seabirds.
Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department.
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Indivisible Upstate SC @iusc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today, Joanne Freeman, Yale historian, said something important for all of us to share with others online and in person. Joanne B. Freeman | Yale historian, author, Hamilton expert. Podcaster making history matter. 🎙️
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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 10/10/2026
US Senator Roger Wicker said in Kyiv he cannot envision any end to the war involving Ukraine ceding territory seized by Russia. The Armed Services Committee chair warned that Putin aims to weaponize winter by targeting electricity, heat, and water. www.kyivpost.com/post/86659
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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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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New primer about the news from the last few hours that the US is getting back to business with Russia. This is not Trump being erratic, it is not about diesel, it is not a small move. It is about the US moving to a more active position of helping Putin. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/this-is-ab...
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This Is About Much More Than Just Diesel
What Really Matters From The Last Few Hours
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A judge cleared the BBC to serve subpoenas on Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner after Secret Service protection thwarted in-person delivery. www.rawstory.com/trump-family...
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Judge crushes Trump bid to protect Don Jr. and Ivanka Trump from his own lawsuit
A judge cleared the BBC to serve subpoenas on Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner after Secret Service protection thwarted in-person delivery.On Friday, Politico senior legal affairs repo...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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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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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If that had happened to me, I would have assumed I was being carjacked.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 09/10/2026
Apart from everything else, broadcasting the shooting of a terrorist live across the world will absolutely, undoubtedly, inspire future terrorist acts. If you don't believe so, just try to think for a second about what a terrorist is actually trying to achieve.
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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t want executions to be live-streamed. I want discussions between members of Congress and lobbyists to be live-streamed.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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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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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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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The deployment of National Guard troops into cities has been so normalized that it barely merits a mention in the press or among the public anymore. D.C. remains occupied, Memphis is occupied, so is New Orleans... It's incredible to me.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here is what you can do to help me: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 08/10/2026
Yet another reminder that the world's richest man and GOP's largest funder still controls federal computer systems
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Flock = "indiscriminate mass surveillance" says a federal court reason.com/2026/10/07/j...
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Judge says warrantless Flock search violated driver's Fourth Amendment rights
This is the second federal court decision in a little over a week to suggest that driver surveillance systems can go too far.
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was a mistake to turn everyone in the world into content creators.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 08/10/2026
We can mourn innocent Palestinians. We can argue fiercely about Israel, Gaza, and this war. Today, I remember the victims of October 7.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They are planning to steal the election. The Plot to Enslave America.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Clergy leaders of different faiths in California have begun an eight-day, 96-mile pilgrimage demanding the shutdown of ICE jails.
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Interfaith Clergy Begins 8-Day, 96-Mile Pilgrimage Demanding Shutdown of ICE Jails
Clergy leaders of different faiths in California have begun an eight-day, 96-mile pilgrimage demanding the shutdown of ICE jails. The march started Tuesday from the troubled Adelanto ICE jail in the M...
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JMay🍁⚖️🏝️🏖️🪖🇨🇦 @bubbles9333.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Robert Morris, 64, who started Texas’s Gateway church and also once served as White House spiritual adviser during Donald Trump’s first presidency, pleaded guilty in early October in Osage county district court on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with child. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US megachurch pastor released from jail after pleading guilty to child sex abuse
Robert Morris, who started Gateway church, pleaded guilty in October to sexually abusing girl in the 1980s
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If only there had been an agreement in place already that was carefully negotiated over the course of two years….
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Kathryn Anne Edwards @kedseconomist.com · 30/09/2026
The problem is obvious: our profit-driven private health insurance system is not fit for purpose. It's time to get on board with the solution, universal public health insurance. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Universal Public Health Insurance Is the Answer
Employer-sponsored health insurance is rapidly deteriorating. In 2027, premiums are expected to see their largest single-year increase in two decades, jumping 11% and closing in on a nearly four-fold ...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The latest “rigged election” strategy from the Trump administration involves producing a series of strategically timed arrests of non-citizens for alleged voter fraud & promoting those events to feed the false narrative that non-citizen voter fraud is widespread. uwcip.substack.com/p/federal-fr...
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Federal Fraud Charges Resonate With Debunked Non-Citizen Voting Narratives
A flurry of recent charges and press conferences amplifying alleged non-citizen voting make a small phenomena seem bigger
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“A rational billionaire would see the merits of buying social peace. An enlightened one would acknowledge his debts to federal science, public education and chance.Alas, there are few such super-rich to be found.” Me on the demagoguery against Prop 40. as.ft.com/r/4f1869f4-5...
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California’s oligarch tax would change America
The goal of its framers is political rather than budgetary
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 06/10/2026
Trump: the bad guys can bomb san diego. that would be funny to me. NYT: it remains absolutely impossible to determine what the president meant by these remarks. but someone close to mamdani once said intifada, which strongly suggests mamdani shares all of arafat’s views.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Poland’s embassy in Washington blasts Tucker Carlson for justifying Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland. Bogdan Klich, the embassy’s chargé d’affaires, called his comments “false” and “deeply troubling” and demanded that Carlson retract them and apologize.
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the hill we climb. If only we dare. It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit, it’s the past we step into and how we repair it. – Amanda Gorman
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The president of the United States is encouraging a country we’re at war with to kill 5.2 million Americans and says losing Los Angeles and San Diego is a “small price to pay.” San Diego is also home to one of our largest naval bases and Canp Pendleton. Vote accordingly.
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Tom Bonier @tbonier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In Hennepin County, which endured some of the most brutal ICE raids and the murder of Renee Good, Hispanic turnout is literally 5x what it was at this point in 2022, and >50% above 2024 at the same point.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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