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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h
wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.
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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 16h
Shoutout to the sales rep in Oregon who sold the slot, didn’t say a word, and kept it moving.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 13h
oh man 😂
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelenskyy might be saving our democracy. The mad genius is bombing Russian data centers linked to FAKE NEWS bot farms. Without them, Putin’s midterm influence will accidentally fall from a 30th floor window. I 💙 Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 11/10/2026
Early afternoon Saturday, 10 October 2026, in Jezero Crater, Mars.
A bleak vista: rocks, pebbles, and sand stretching to the horizon, under a butterscotch sky.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/10/2026
This is kind of wonderful, Alison Brown wrangled a handful of pretty decent old bluegrass guys to play “Old Town Road”. Nas X’s impact… immeasurable youtu.be/a_GCX5IoCds
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Alison Brown & Steve Martin - Old Town Road (feat. Del McCoury & Dan Tyminski)
YouTube video by Alison Brown
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Eagle Wing Tours @eaglewingtours.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The T060 brothers—Onca (T060D, left, and Lynx (T060E)—have been cruising in and out of the southern Salish Sea over the last several weeks.#Wild4Whales
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This Will Hold @thiswillhold.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🚨President Z is taking out “data centers” that run Putin’s bot farms just three weeks before the U.S. midterms. After the third strike on Yandex's data center, Russian bot activity dropped to zero. This is why Trump and Musk are calling for President Z’s removal. It has nothing to do with diesel.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Some #Caturday Science!🧪 This is Miko the Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) from GarLyn Zoo Wildlife Park (non-AZA accredited, in Michigan's UP). Miko is showing his winter weight, but you're also seeing a PRIMORDIAL POUCH swinging under his tummy. Let's talk about these pendulous paunches.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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Divider Decider 👩🏻‍⚖️🌊⚖️(Renee GOOD, ICE BAD) @dividerdecider.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Divider Dominican Immigrant Oscar Belgal is entitled to Due Process …the same due process deserved by ICE Officers for recklessly firing into a car with a 5 year old child in backseat and kids on a nearby corner. #GTS #RegimeChange #DV1 #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory 🎥 @muneeba_blogs
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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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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's about the sanctions. Putin knows a few million tonnes of fuel won't transform the American energy market. But getting Trump to lift sanctions on Russia? That could be worth billions to Moscow and help finance Putin's war against Ukraine. The diesel is the bait. Sanctions relief is the prize.
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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 09/10/2026
Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.
The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.
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Pacific Whale Watch Association @pacificwhalewatchassociation.com · 09/10/2026
TGIF! It's been a long week, and we could all use something beautiful on our feeds. This excellent shot of BCX0158 "Kappa" breaching near Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver, BC was taken by Julia Adelsheim of Wild Whales Vancouver. 🐋
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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is freaking cool! John Ford has been cataloging and recording Orcas for over 45 years. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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He spent years cataloguing orca families' unique dialects. Now you can hear them | CBC News
A new online database catalogues the unique calls made by various groups of orcas on the West Coast, making the audio available to anyone.
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Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Excuse me, I have just been made aware (by Reddit) that some people butter both slices of bread in a sandwich. I need to know that this is a minority of perverts, and not the done thing.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We used to have a federal agency devoted to investigating and prosecuting abuses by law enforcement, but Americans voted for the "let cops do crimes" candidate instead bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I want this lying, sundowning grifter to continue speaking off-the-cuff, emptying his hollow soul into microphones in every swing state he can reach in the next month. I want him out there every day, revealing some fresh thread of malignant, fatuous idiocy. I think he's now a political plague.
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Our Wild Puget Sound @ourwildpugetsound.com · 06/10/2026
"Puget Sound has emerged as a haven during hard times for gray whales. The eastern North Pacific (ENP) population of the species is broadly considered a conservation success story, increasing from perhaps a few hundred individuals in the wake of industrial whaling to about 20,000 in 1994..."
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Gray whale safe haven in Puget Sound takes on new significance amid population decline | Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
Almost 200 gray whales have washed up dead along the West Coast in 2026. A small group of gray whales who feed in Puget Sound is surprisingly central to understanding the crisis.
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Nature By Michelle @nature-by-michelle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Early signs and symptoms of Fall 🍁 (2/6) #photography #autumn #spiderwebs #dewyspiderwebs It's a full house 🕸🖤
A dried prairie plant covered in dewy spiderwebs 🕸
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Sorry about your dead kid. Hey, you want to see my fancy party room? Look at that gold! Lotta gold. I got a new helicopter, too! Do you feel better now about sacrificing your child on my altar? Worth it, right? Look at that gold."
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 06/10/2026
There's a brand new image from JWST and it's beautiful. Stars are being born here.
From the source: "A young star cluster filled with many stars that display Webb’s unique eight-pronged diffraction pattern. At its center is a yellow star which sports the largest diffraction pattern. To the left of the star, there is a region filled with yellow dust and gas that extends from the star to the left border of the image. This yellow region extends from the bottom, covering about two-thirds of the image. The yellow region has several blue stars of different sizes embedded within. The top third, which lies outside of the yellow region, holds a few bright protostars, within dense gray gas. Those stars illuminate the gas, making it appear blue. A few red outflows from other protostars are visible above this grayish-blue region. To the right of the central star, there is a clumpy, flame-like plume of red dust and gas with protostars that emit a soft white light within. The plume is surrounded by more dense gray gas and dust. There are several background galaxies strewn throughout the image."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eggsy Augustus, Dominus of the West, Basileus of the East, King of the Tabbys and the Calicos, and Emperor of the Holy Orange Nation
Orange creamsicle chonky boi eggsy relaxing on his scratcher
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Things in Popeye, a Japanese menswear magazine: — Interview with a "freelance pie advisor" who claims to have tried every pie in London. He names the city's top three pies. — Recurring column from writer who updates everyone on his cats for some reason. — Feature on Parisian grandfather style.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
We're all 38 on Bluesky, it's just that some of us are a pretty old 38
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Jesus that I personally encountered -- and he was right where I expected, on the 3rd baseline, box seats, garbed in a Gunnar jersey, sipping a Natty -- looked like a Jewish rabbinical student, bookish, but with a keen grasp of how the infield-fly rule is necessary to bind together the universe.
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Puget Sound Whale Sightings @pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🩵🤍🩶 Mon, Oct 5 Sunday, Indy (T65A5) was in Carr Inlet then Dalco Passage traveling & eating; Southern Resident orcas were reported in Juan de Fuca Strait off Jourdan River, be sweet if there's enough returning 🐟 to entice them back inland Puget Sound. 📷 T036A1s under Tahoma. By Bart Rulon. #psws
Family of orcas, including Tierna & her new calf , rising together in glassy seas, backdropped by hills of amber under towering Tahoma (Mt Rainier), sky light blue w/stream of clouds.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lanying Cliff Road, or the “Lanying Sky Road,” is a dramatic cliffside road in Lanying Grand Canyon, Chongqing, China. Original post
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great piece @prospect.org — for Trump, “the numbers become the enemy, and the political problem becomes how to hide them.” prospect.org/2026/10/05/a...
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An Architecture of Ignorance - The American Prospect
How the Trump regime is taking away our ability to know what’s going on.
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Puget Sound Whale Sightings @pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🧡💚🖤 Sat, Oct 3 Our new little friend & mom Tierna and others continued their inland stay. Just got word baby has officially been given the ID designation of T036A1B by Bay Cetology. It has been so heartwarming to welcome & meet this new babe. 📷 T036A1B & family. By April Basham 10/01. #psws
New orca calf surfaces between mom and sibling in water painted in fall colors of orange, green, yellow.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯🤔...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The answer to the age-old question of what would it be like if Dudley Moore’s character Arthur played George C. Scott’s character Patton.
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are the immigrants destroying America.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/09/2026
This is a photograph of the edge of one of Saturn's rings, looking down from above. Those spiky dark shapes are shadows. Shadows of giant towers of ice and dust grains clumped together that rise up to three *kilometres* above the 10-m thick rings.
A series of bands cross the image from left to right, brighter at the bottom and darkening towards the top. A band of empty space is at the top of the image. About a quarter down from the top is a complex pattern of jagged, spiky shadows cast onto the rings. The icy towers casting the shadows are seen here at a highly oblique angle.
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🪬🌙🐈‍⬛Pythia Uidliua🐦‍⬛⭐️🧿GNOTHI SEAUTON ♐️⚕️🍷 @krymsynreine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pictish Carving of cat at Meigle Museum, central Scotland. Late 8th-late 10th century. ##druidsky /|\ #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #heathensky #archaeology #celtic #Scotland #Pictish
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ElrickErikose @elrickerikose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NYC September 16, 2026 📷 by @elrickerikose.bsky.social #photography #NYC #sky #manhattan #photographer #architecture
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Evolution of the Moonwalk 1930s Original post
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To properly interpret "go Hawks!," you need to know where you are. Atlanta: Basketball Chicago: Hockey Seattle: Football Iowa: College sports (any) This also applies to any of those teams on the road, so be careful out there.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bc the last 30 seconds of this are the best, reminder that @amyklobuchar.com's dad was a sports journalist, which may explain her utter contempt for Schmitt mistaking the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We all complain about the media’s failures but organizations like @propublica.org and @texastribune.org are doing the work and deserve our financial support
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mf’er is like Batman.
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Puget Sound Whale Sightings @pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧡🐣🧡 Tue, Sep 29 New calf at T36A1's side continues their 1st foray in their Puget Sound home waters. Official ID to come, but likely is Tierna's 2nd. Per Bart Rulon: "...still fetal folds visible on the dorsal fin so this calf is probably only days or weeks old". 📸 By Jami Cantrell 9/28. #psws
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