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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Well, there goes lifelong learning. Absolute bastardry.
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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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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 03/10/2026
JUG JUG JUG MINNESOTA BEATS MICHIGAN AT HOME FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1977
THE JUG
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Big Sky Conference @bigskyconf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
MIRACLE IN MOSCOW
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 19/09/2026
WHEN THE INTENTIONAL SAFETY GOES WRONG NC STATE FUMBLES AND VANDY RECOVERS AND WINS AS TIME EXPIRES
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And you guys thought EDDINGTON was too heavy-handed lmao
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Clue Heywood @clueheywood.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Been way too many months since I laid on my couch and whispered “need a stop here” to myself while watching two college football teams whose home states I don’t know
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026
It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 04/09/2026
Colorado-GT
Poorly drawn horse ends ON FIRE
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I'm sorry, I am just too internet poisoned for this art.
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The US has quietly deployed 82nd Airborne paratroopers to Israel, per deployment order leaked to me. The deployment is tied to new US-Israel joint contingency plans for seizing Kharg Island and carving out coastal territory inside Iran. www.kenklippenstein.com/publish/post...
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U.S. Secretly Deployed Paratroopers to Israel
Quick Reaction Force specializes in 'forced entry'
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The valuation of SpaceX is based on this page in their filing*. Estimated future market: 28.5 trillion Of that Grok/AI is: 26.5 trillion 93% of the SpaceX valuation is Grok NINTY THREE PERCENT OF THE SPACEX VALUATION IS GROK!!!! * www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
Close up of a barchart showing thisThe whole page with the barchart
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
WOW. The New Jersey AG has charged an Essex County Prosecutor’s Office sergeant for allegedly stealing a photojournalist’s camera equipment while the journo was at a hospital being treated for injuries she suffered outside Delaney Hall. The bag had an air tag and was tracked to the cop's house.
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Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Sergeant Allegedly Steals Injured Journalist’s Camera Bag and Equipment During Delaney Hall Protest, Charged with Theft - New Jersey Office of Attorney General
Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced the filing of a criminal charge against an Essex County Prosecutor's Office sergeant, stemming from his alleged theft of a photojournalist’s camera equipment while the journalist was at a hospital being treated for injuries from a May 30, 2026 protest at Newark’s Delaney Hall.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 11/05/2026
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers news.gallup.com/opinion/meth...
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Gallup Begins Research on Synthetic Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/05/2026
While kneading lotion into his erect, throbbing penis, the masturbator reportedly also kept close watch on the performance of Suns small forward Dillon Brooks, at one point muttering, “You gotta make that,” when Brooks missed an uncontested pull-up jumper
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Masturbating Man Keeping Eye On Game
SCOTTSDALE, AZ—Though he focused the majority of his attention on stroking and squeezing his genitalia, sources confirmed that local masturbating man Kenneth Carter still managed to keep an eye on Thu...
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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 11/05/2026
I just pissed myself... this is the movie he is mad that people are calling slop... I demand you watch with the sound on... it is so much worse than you think it is going to be...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS issues “GVRs” in the Alabama cases—vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. In practice, this means Alabama can now redraw its congressional districts in time for the midterms:
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My apology to Senator Susan Collins: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-is-sus...
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Why Is Susan Collins Shaking?
It’s not because of the major media coverage
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 09/05/2026
“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”
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A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure — POLITICO
Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 07/05/2026
the 25% of republican men who think the actively decaying 80 year old president would beat them in a fight are, and i do not say this word lightly, the most cucked men in human history
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LGD @lgd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
makes *perfect* sense for SA given much reduced value of US military ‘protection’/economic alignment, ongoing danger from Israel, and direct economic benefits from the UAE being fucked over while SA can still export from Yanbu + keep Bab al-Mandeb open. Complete strategic disaster for the US obv
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/04/2026
‘7 Days,’ Hisses Little Girl On Phone Call Welcoming Draft Pick To Jets
‘7 Days,’ Hisses Little Girl On Phone Call Welcoming Draft Pick To Jets
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/04/2026
Bahahahah they must be absolutely out of assets to sell. Any bank that backs this deserves to lose every single penny
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
the US Navy is "urgently hiring" morticians
Urgently hiring
New
Military Service - U.S. Navy,
Mortician
U.S. Navy
United States
Part-time +1
Health insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Retirement plan
Paid time off
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
CHINA WILL STOP SULFURIC ACID EXPORTS STARTING IN MAY.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." The real world outside DC's elite bubble know the deal: Elon's fascist funhouse is basically an ugly, diminished, toxic shell of Twitter's former self. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
EFF Screenshot:

"EFF is Leaving X
By Kenyatta ThomasApril 9, 2026
art rendering with a blue backdrop with a white bird that resembles the Twitter logo with an X where"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“.. Americans' income didn't keep up with inflation in February. Real income, excluding transfer payments, fell 0.4% in February, and the three-month average was also negative. Real income excluding transfers is one of the metrics that NBER uses in determining recessions.” @bencasselman.bsky.social
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for the EU to end its Association Agreement with Israel.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NEW from Speaker of Iran’s parliament: “Now, the very ‘workable basis on which to negotiate’ has been openly and clearly violated, even before the negotiations began.” There is no ceasefire.
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The President, White House, and FCC's Brendan Carr are calling for action -- and implying a criminal investigation -- against CNN for... accurately reporting what Iran's state media shared as a statement from Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
Trump "Truth": The alleged Statement put out by CNN World News is a FRAUD, as CNN well knows. The false Statement was linked to a Fake News site (from Nigeria) and, of course, immediately picked up by CNN, and blared out as a “legitimate” headline. The Official Statement by Iran was just released, and posted on TRUTH, below. Authorities are looking to determine whether or not a crime was committed on the issuance of the Fake CNN World Statement, or was it a sick rogue player? CNN is being ordered to immediately withdraw this Statement with full apologies for their, as usual, terrible “reporting.” Results of the investigation will be announced in the near future. President DONALD J. TRUMPWhite House Rapid Response account: "ATTENTION 
@cnni
: As 
@POTUS
 just said, Iran’s official statement is linked in his TRUTH below AND posted by the Iranian foreign minister. This alleged statement by “Iran” is a FRAUD! Correct immediately!" [Photo of CNN story citing "a statement from Iran's Supreme National Security Council report by Iranian state media."Brendan Carr tweet: More outrageous conduct from CNN.

Fake news is bad enough for the country, but pushing out a hoax headline in such a sensitive national security moment as this requires accountability.

Iran put out an official statement that simply cannot be squared with the one CNN's false headline attributes to them.

Time for change at CNN.Iran's PressTV Twitter account:

Supreme national security council:

Iran achieved historic victory by forcing criminal US to accept its 10-point plan.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Zionists denounce Mamdani for attending a seder www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/n...
Some of the rabbis who are wary of Mr. Mamdani were critical of his appearance at the progressive Seder event.

“The mayor needs to determine at some point that if he wants a relationship with the Jewish community, he needs to have a relationship with the majority of New York Jews,” said Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. “This organization is legitimate and relevant, but it doesn’t represent the majority of American Jews and New York Jews.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/03/2026
ICE doesn’t belong at our airports. Our Office of Immigrant Affairs has updated guidance and you can call their legal hotline at 800-354-0365.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/03/2026
Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
OpenAI is planning to discontinue the app for its Sora video platform, a product it released to great fanfare last year that has since fallen from public view, according to the company.

The move is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year.

CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday, writing that the company would wind down products that use its video models. In addition to the consumer app, OpenAI is also discontinuing a version of Sora for developers and won’t support video functionality inside ChatGPT, either.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has relinquished direct oversight of the company’s safety and security teams so he can focus on raising capital, supply chains and “building datacenters at unprecedented scale,” he told staff on Tuesday.

At the same time, he said the company had completed the initial development of its next major AI model, codenamed Spud, and would wind down the Sora AI video mobile app, which employees had complained was a drag on the company’s computing resources during a time of heightened competition with foes such as Anthropic and Google.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's NSA director: Baldwin Coons Cortez Masto Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kelly King Peters Reed Rosen Schiff Shaheen Slotkin Warner Whitehouse
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Gmail Hero @robertlong4man.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This part is WILD
The Post also reported that on the morning of Epstein’s death on Aug. 10, Noel searched the term “latest on Epstein in jail” twice – once at 5:42 a.m. and again at 5:52 a.m., about 40 minutes before the other guard, Michael Thomas, found Epstein. Her bank records, which are in the files, showed that Noel received thousands of dollars in cash and Zelle payments in the months before Epstein died. She has not been charged with any crime. The Miami Herald was unsuccessful in reaching her attorney on Saturday.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article314966334.html#storylink=cpy
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"The cops knew they were helping the Trump administration illegally access and steal the Institute of Peace building" is a bit surprising to me but is a good illustration of what side the cops are on
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 07/03/2026
oh ok
ESPN push alert

ESPN
President Donald Trump plans executive order that would "solve all of the problems" facing college
sports
now
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
H Con Res 38 fails 212-219. 4 Dems voted against it. On to motion to recommit HR 7744, the carbon copy of HR 7147.
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Vote is now 162-10-2. 78 Dems voting yea. Just...I know it's just a resolution, but to vote this much in support of something that will be used to justify an illegal war is such a pathetic display of weakness.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Probably not going to get the traction it deserves but it’s insane 1. Stephen Miller is giving dod press conferences and 2. explicitly saying the us policy towards the irgc will be war crimes
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/03/2026
time to cut em loose prospect.org/2026/03/05/i...
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Time to End the American-Israeli Alliance
Alliances are built on shared interests. Those do not exist here.
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