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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

@cmgreer.bsky.social You said on @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social that you hesitate to call ICE "officers." That's because they are not law enforcement officers. They are immigration enforcement agents. They have no general police powers; they only have powers granted under federal law re immigration.

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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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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social It would be great if you interviewed Minnesota CD8 candidate Trina Swanson. She worked in U.S. Immigration Service and has many ideas for improving it. She is very impressive! trinaforcongress.com/meet-trina/

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Meet Trina – Trina Swanson For Congress

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🚨-Reminder! Do not use this votesafe website backed by Elon. It is indeed NOT safe. 2 of the best websites to use for voting information are: -The bipartisan nonprofit website: www.vote.org -The DNC website: iwillvote.com

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@nicollewallace.bsky.social Re: Paxton's ex-wife "team" commercial, I think @esglaude.bsky.social has a point. I was recently talking to a Trump voter about a decision an elected official made. She said "I can't be for him; he's on the wrong team." Many MAGAs see the world through this polarization.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@jonathancapehart.bsky.social I'm in MN and share concerns. DFL has not responded to accusations of fraud and that narrative is taking hold. Need a strong response explaining reality!

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@jaketapper.bsky.social gives Scott Jennings a platform to promote his application to be White House press secretary.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@jonathankarl.bsky.social If you give a schill like Scalise a bunch of airtime, you need to challenge his direct lies. You allowed him to say the Trump administration is "the most transparent" in history. While Trump may have more contact with reporters, he never actually answers a question.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact it is headline "Breaking News" that the ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES will comply with an order of the U.S. SUPREME COURT is beyond astounding! There should never be any question that the DOJ and U.S. Attorney General will obey court orders!

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The US has a dark history of unaccountability.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Latest Republican tactic is to put opponents on defense by asking "what's wrong with" whatever they are doing. CA AG Ron Bonta has it right when you asked for his response to the postal service issue. He didn't go on defense and stayed on offense: it's unconstitutional.

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Canada has entered the trade war. 🇨🇦😂📢🎵 Deploy the beavers. Mobilize the moose. Protect the maple syrup. Trump picked the WRONG neighbour…our response will be un-bearably polite, eh? 🦫🫎🇨🇦🍁 #CanadaStrong #USDemocracy #RisingBlue

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Rosie O’Donnell: “Donny Boy": "Oh Donny Boy, it's Rosie, Rosie calling From Hollywood, the Jimmy Kimmel Show Drop that Big Mac that we all know you're holding Because, my dear, I worry for you so Poor Donny Boy, your polls, your polls are falling Your reflecting pool is green as Mountain Dew

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

@stephruhle.bsky.social Companies that received tariff refunds would be well advised to do something showing they are passing them on to customers. A "Tariff Sale" 20% off certain items, for example. I am seeing a lot of anger that the average person paid for the tariffs but is not getting refunds.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Media pundits are ridiculously focused on the narrative that there is a civil war in the Democratic party between DSA and moderates. What is really happening is that Dems are picking the most dynamic candidate for their area. Not an ideological fight; a desire to win.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The only Consequence, his Company paid a Fine…..

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Response to these attacks: I didn't say anything about whether this 80-year-old man is capable of having an affair with a young woman, I just wonder about his priorities when he takes the person who brings him Diet Coke on the safe plane and leaves his Secretary of State's on the decoy plane.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I hope Ossoff starts referring to her as #TrumpsDiaperNurse instead.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I am a paid subscriber to Democracy Docket and I highly recommend it!

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Re your comment today about your hair, as a fellow curly-haired person, I will pass on to you a comment someone made to me: "Your bad hair day is most other people's fabulous hair day." I bet 95% of men (and probably 75% of women) would love to have your hair. It's great.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's incredible how the admin is dealing with this by being like "well you know the troops are all fucking liars"

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@fareedzakaria.bsky.social How much of the theory that seniors are hoarding wealth is explained by the fact that there are many more elderly now that the Baby Boomers are aging and are a very high population cohort? As a large population cohort, they represent a large proportion of wealth/spending.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We all need to be outraged about conditions on #USSLincoln. Food is being rationed, no hygiene products, etc. When POTUS is incompetent and installs an incompetent Secretary of Defense, they mismanage everything in war, including failing to assure our service men and women are properly supported.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

@adamschiff.com As an attorney, I don't understand how POTUS' law suit over the release of tax returns results in a settlement giving immunity from tax audit liability. The lawsuit was not related in any way to an audit or allegations of impropriety, only the release of private information.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Boy, @wsj.com reporter Hannah Critchfield was a really terrible interview. The story was important but she was almost completely unable to articulate it.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social @rephaleystevens.bsky.social I hope whichever of you wins will graciously accept your win and not trash your opponent. I hope whichever of you loses is also gracious, congratulate the winner, heartily endorse them & urge your supporters to do same. We need to pull together!

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@nicollewallace.bsky.social You need to bring in a domestic violence expert to talk about Max Miller. Having a reporter who says "we weren't there and so don't know" is not useful. Anyone who knows anything about domestic violence can see the strong pattern here.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social why didn't @msnownews.bsky.social reporter Jake Trailer ask Trump to show the alleged settlement agreement he had with the IRS "after a 10-year case" that was withdrawn "when he announced his run for President"? Trump claimed for years who couldn't show his tax returns

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

@nytimes.com Your reporter Michelle Cottle shrugging at questions about the President directing real time surveillance in a criminal investigation is the clearest demonstration yet as to how you have aided and abetted the rise of this authoritarian regime. This is not a game. Our country is at risk.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@nicollewallace.bsky.social Regarding Trump's pay to play - there is something called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Every large corp requires their staff be trained on this every year. The law covers Foreign governments because no one dreamed we would need it in the U.S. But here we are.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit. Instead… Last 18 Months: –$1.80 trillion deficit in Goods. 18 Months Prior: –$1.74 trillion deficit in Goods. The deficit didn’t shrink. It increased 4%.” - Bilello

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@lawofruby.bsky.social Watching you discuss the Comey case on @aliciamenendez.bsky.social show. How amazing is it that immense FBI and Secret Service resources are being used in this way? Our enemies and wrong-doers across the country are thrilled we don't have time to go after them because of this.

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ElieMar @eliemar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How dare Trump, call President Biden "Sleepy Joe" Biden built 16 MILLION jobs Created an "envy of the World economy" Protected Unions/Veterans/ Middle Class Created largest Climate Change deal in history Biden didn't self-enrich Biden isn't corrupt Bideb is NOT in the Epstein files Vote 💙 #usa

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

So @kenmartin.bsky.social is a disaster at the DNC. Who would have predicted this? Many on-the-ground DFLers in Minnesota would have. The DNC should have hired @benwikler.bsky.social instead. DNC can still change course and fire Martin and hire Wikler.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This meme is actually based on a real scientific finding. Researchers studying howler monkeys found that males with larger vocal organs producing deeper, more powerful calls tended to have smaller testes, while species with larger testes tended to have less-developed vocal organs. So, there ya go.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

@apnews.com @nbcnews.com @abcnews.bsky.social @cbsnews.com @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com Hey everyone - will you be journalists or not? If Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, or Hakeem Jeffries did what Mitch McConnell is doing, you would be making it your main story every day for the last month.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Re Iowa farms having mainly 2 crops: big cause is the federal subsidies and ethanol policy. Corn & soybeans are much more profitable. 50 years ago, when I was young, we had alfalfa & many other crops. Politicians subsidize corn to win Iowa votes in Presidential caucuses.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Todd Blanche can't even give a straight answer to the Mentalist. Just like he did in his testimony before the Senate.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The WHCA playing "God Bless The USA" at Trump's introduction was tacky.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@jenpsaki.bsky.social Perhaps Trump is shaking hands with the journalists who received awards because he is sleeping through the speeches saying why they are receiving awards. He has no idea the reporting was about his scandals.

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Lawssenhop @lawssenhop.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@chrislhayes.bsky.social @jenpsaki.bsky.social Thank you for pointing out that Trump's eyes are closed at the WHCA dinner. 👀 🤣🤣🤣

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