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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 7h
As someone who talks to people seeking asylum, I have learned that the quality of survival depends on identifying the right moment to depart. Electeds raided by a state enforcement apparatus questioning their right to exist in the nation ran a chill down my spine apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That’s according to people familiar with the matter.
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This was Copenhagen yesterday. The European establishment's abysmal failure on Israel/Gasa is not shared by the European public. The gap between the two is untenable. The public will eventually prevail, but Europe's moral collapse will take years to repair.
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This guy sucks
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The Electronic Intifada @intifada.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Did we really have a good life before October 2023?
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This did not start in October 2023
Many think of pre-genocide Gaza as the “good old days.” But were they?
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Blue Cross Blue Shield is being sued as a monopoly after the state found it's been in a conspiracy to restrict access to healthcare. Corporations should not have this much power. We need money out of politics, money in our pockets, and Medicare for All.
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Michigan attorney general sues Blue Cross, alleging illegal monopoly
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sued Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in "arguably the most consequential antitrust case" of its kind.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Everywhere there is money to be made from wholesale imperial murder, this bastard is to be found. Along with the conman at the top, the perfect personification of a malignant empire. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/w...
nytimes.com
Inside Erik Prince’s Mercenary Deal in Congo
The injury of a former Green Beret and death of an elite soldier from New Zealand have highlighted the Blackwater founder’s growing role in one of Africa’s most intractable conflicts.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As long as tanker costs (and their insurance premiums) are this high, it doesn't matter how many actual barrels come out of the Strait of Hormuz (using US air cover or US Navy sailors aboard). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Hiring US-to-China Oil Tanker Costs More Than Launching a Space Rocket
For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space.
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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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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Read our recent pieces on capitalism, migrant politics, and border regimes, including this week's interview with @hebagowayed.bsky.social @cperezbustillo.bsky.social , @abbieboggs.bsky.social , @grundrza.bsky.social Links to all of these in the thread 👇🏽
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mike Rogers' yacht has a yacht.
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
fresh audio product: • Sam Stein, author of A Right to Housing?, investigates that proposition skeptically • Natasha Lennard, author of Un/Certainty, talks about how doubt can be a mask for certainty www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mamdani needs to fire Tisch NOW. NYPD is flinging protestors and electeds left and right to clear the way for ICE vehicles. Abolish police but in the meantime this leadership cannot stay.
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The Valley Labor Report @tvlrfm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
AutoZone Spent Over $200K to Stop Just 11 Workers from Joining @UAW — AND STILL LOST! AutoZone workers made history! We talk with the rank-and-file workers who took on 17 corporate union busters, armed guards, and dirty tactics to win their union. Watch now! 🧵
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I spoke with @yara-asi.bsky.social about Israel's attacks on Palestinian health. The level of devastation is greater than we realize open.spotify.com/episode/3Biu...
open.spotify.com
Attacking Palestinian Health
It Could Happen Here · Episode
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026
Black text on white background 
"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My podcast episode with @yara-asi.bsky.social on how Israel attacks Palestinian health comes out tomorrow. It's such an important conversation, but a difficult listen.
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lonestarred.bsky.social @lonestarred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Also U.S. eugenicist Harry Laughlin helped them design their sterilization program, IBM helped them design the Hollerith human tracking system and run cattle cars for the death camps, Fred Koch and Henry Ford had business ties with them, etc.
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lonestarred.bsky.social @lonestarred.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gabe Winant wrote a strongly foreboding essay making this point shortly after 10/7 as I recall.
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here is a rough list for 20 books people should read to understand the modern intellectual right across its own internal spectrum
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lonestarred.bsky.social @lonestarred.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire never gets old as an explanation of US politics. @andrewhartman.bsky.social
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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lonestarred.bsky.social @lonestarred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My thoughts turn to Glenn Greenwald's property values.
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lonestarred.bsky.social @lonestarred.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This report is worth reading: www.corpwatch.org/article/new-...
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New CorpWatch Report: MAGA Inc. | corpwatch
MAGA Inc. - CorpWatch's latest report - is a deep dive into the companies that have bankrolled and benefited the most from the 'Make America Great Again' movement launched by President Donald Trump. (...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What could go wrong? Everything. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Musk-led war commission triggers alarms in Pentagon
Two of the Defense Department’s biggest contractors will help lead a project that could directly benefit them.
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lonestarred.bsky.social @lonestarred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Only psychopaths and narcissists like it, which is why normal people like you don't typically get famous.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why the Iran War Equation Is Changing, and Why a Third War May Be Closer Than It Seems
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Why the Iran War Equation Is Changing, and Why a Third War May Be Closer Than It Seems
if negotiations fail, Iran could also consider military action to break the blockade and reopen its export routes
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Physicians Keeping Gaza Alive
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The Physicians Keeping Gaza Alive
Gaza’s beloved doctor joined the many doctors across the Strip trying to save lives as Israel’s killing machine claimed them by the thousands
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lonestarred.bsky.social @lonestarred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It poses some base-superstructure problems in Marxist terms. Reagan's speeches (whoever wrote them) reconciled the needs of the military-industrial complex, US corporate elites in general, and the Christian Right. But in some sense he probably believed he was fighting an "evil empire."
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The US is a massive scam from top to bottom. They sell semiautomatics to do domestic mass murder, and then pay lawyers to fight the sites of mass murder, and then sell insurance so that those lawyers can be either paid or fended off. www.ft.com/content/5ad7...
ft.com
The booming business of insuring against US gun violence
Companies, political campaigns and even schools are taking out policies to shield themselves from litigation that can follow attacks
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My episode with Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social where we talk about what happened in Ceuta and why anti-immigrant narratives are so crucial to fascism. open.spotify.com/episode/3Hee...
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After Ceuta
It Could Happen Here · Episode
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lonestarred.bsky.social @lonestarred.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I agree. I worry that an AOC presidential run would create a big split in DSA. She is a lot better than Ossoff let alone Newsom (puke), but the "tirelessly working for a ceasfire"/iron dome/early Biden endorsement stuff is going to be a problem. Would be happy to see her take out Schumer though.
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Time to expropriate! "Nvidia is launching the biggest ever share buyback by a US company with a $150bn repurchase scheme."
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kate Wilson is the socialist mayor of Seattle, and she's up against a aggressive moneyed class, a moderate city council, and a vocal base unafraid to be critical. Still she is making some gains. Chance Phillips went to Seattle to check things out. prospect.org/2026/09/28/o...
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Socialist in Seattle - The American Prospect
A year after her election, Mayor Katie Wilson wants to upgrade housing and transit in the Emerald City. But moderate councilors and divisions within her own base are undermining her.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We're here today to say... war criminals are not welcome in this city &.. this is bigger than just Netanyahu. This is about the fact that our govt has been funding and enabling genocide & apartheid & it has to stop" Beth Miller from Jewish Voice for Peace in New York yesterday.
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
fresh audio product: Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Live Laugh Love, on the world of right-wing evangelical Christian women www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
This merger strikes a chilling blow against that freedom — and hands even more power to billionaires like David Ellison to decide what Americans see and hear, all while lifting scrutiny off the federal leaders who pushed it through.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some critics have posed the reasonable question: why write about radical anti-Zionist Jewish history now, in the light of a genocide of Palestinians? There are complex answers but I’ll answer w a v simple one: bc ppl such as Ungar-Sargon lie about this history repeatedly
Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Only 13% [of Democrats] stand with Israelis against the Palestinians..."
"The thing that makes this so appalling is that Jews built the left in this country. We built the labor movement. We wrote the New Deal. 70% of the lawyers who worked on civil rights cases were Jews!"
"We've been at the forefront of every liberal and leftist issue in this country!"
X @INFOLIBNEWS
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/09/2026
Here's astrophysicist and journalist @adambecker.bsky.social debunking billionaire fantasies like godlike AI, Mars colonization, and eternal life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NrD...
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Here’s Why Elon Musk’s Mars Fantasy Is BS | Scientist Destroys Billionaire AI, AGI and Space Hype
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In the face of Robert Kraft's claim of support for efforts creating opportunities for young Palestinians, @theintercept.com has uncovered his donations of $196,000 to the Friends of the IDF and $123,000 to other organizations that directly benefit Israeli military soldiers.
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lonestarred.bsky.social @lonestarred.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
SMH.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/09/2026
Mamdani is a superb administrator, it turns out, at least by the standards of NYC mayors www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
nyc.gov
More Affordable, Safer, Better Run: Mayor Mamdani’s First Management Report Shows ‘Pothole Politics’ is Working Across City Government
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The Valley Labor Report @tvlrfm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Watch full video: buff.ly/FH3CKRX
buff.ly
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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The Valley Labor Report @tvlrfm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bosses Spent $20,000 PER WORKER Just to Stop a Union! A new tool exposes secret union-busting spending! We dive into @LaborLabUS's new search engine and cost calculator tracking $500/hr consultants. Watch now! 🧵
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
American universities are welcoming back students to their fall semester — with conditions. Palestine continues to be the tip of the spear for a broader program of repression targeted to college campuses.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Internal documents disclosed in a British Columbia labor case give us an incredibly detailed look into how exactly Amazon carries out its union-busting operations.
jacobin.com
How Amazon Busts Unions, in Its Own Words
Internal documents disclosed in a British Columbia labor case give us an incredibly detailed look into how exactly Amazon carries out its union-busting operations.
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