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@m-gibbs.bsky.social
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Politics, economics, history. Army vet, OEF Kandahar '12 (2nd BCT-4th ID; 2nd SBCT-2nd ID), former IC member. Alumnus of DLIFLC and Northeastern.

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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 9h
What's changed? It's become more common.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 10h
their whole bullying schtick only works when the response is spluttering and harrumphing and well i never-ing. "why did you think anyone here cares what your doughy buckeye ass thinks" just makes him look like the soft handed hedge fund pallid loser he is
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 9h
I wish I could vote for this guy.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 9h
Just a multiyear campaign across multiple presidential terms to strip the citizenship of a political adversary. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.
The earlier review of Omar’s immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 10h
"Seven years ago, a political appointee in the first Trump administration approached U.S. immigration authorities with a request that alarmed career staffers: Scrub the immigration records of Rep. Ilhan Omar." Officials "ultimately determined there was insufficient evidence of wrongdoing."
wapo.st
Trump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.
The earlier review of Omar’s immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 10h
Translation: "I know I'm an unpopular loser and that I don't stand a chance unless I weaponize the government against my political opponents."
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Five hundred people on hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE concentration camp in Georgia.
thecurrentga.org
Approximately 500 participate in hunger strike at Folkston immigration detention center - The Current
Approximately 500 detainees at a private ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and alleged asylum protocol violations while awaiting judicial he...
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Elissa Taub @ejtaub.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is really beyond the pale and the kind of political persecution that could get someone the protections of asylum elsewhere. Sadly, Omar came to the US with her family to seek that same kind of protection. Now our bigoted government is putting her thru this again.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The argument for taxing the rich harder is about paying for social support systems, yes, but its utility in democracy is limiting the amount of power that any one individual can wield over the rest of us
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
When Jack Smith subpoenaed phone logs, lawmakers cried constitutional crisis. When federal agents raided Ilhan Omar’s home weeks before an election, the outrage evaporated. @lizdye.bsky.social writes on the double standards. Essential piece from @atrupar.com ‘s Public Notice. Read and subscribe.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Chief Justice John Roberts
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"AIs are conscious” is a strong, affirmative claim. It implies a lot of specific things about consciousness. It requires strong evidence. Asking people to be careful in their claims and thinking is completely reasonable.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Gen Y is a less common term for millenials. It goes: Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, Gen Alpha.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"Because it's never been millennials that have been called the generation unable to read, that's being thrown at Gen X and Gen Alpha." lol. lmao even
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Correct, so what example are you referring to here? bsky.app/profile/noad...
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/m-gi...
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Millenials were born between 1981 and 1996. The oldest millenials are 45 now.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This clown has no idea how anything works. What an embarrassment.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
historically high spend and this is how much of his net worth it is
google search showing that $276 million is 0.0276% of $1 trillion and proving why we so desperately need a wealth tax
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I just came back to America for a week after a few months abroad and I had diner breakfast three separate times. Glorious
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is simply not generating either the volume or tone of scandal coverage that effectively ended Joe Biden's presidency when he was unable to produce a surgically-clean implementation of Donald Trump's totally unplanned & poorly timed withdrawal from Afghanistan: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Calling my shot: we will see less than half as many pundit-consultant pieces about this Latino realignment as we saw in the other direction 2021-2025, because a Latino blue shift doesn’t fit the Dems-Too-Woke narrative
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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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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Chris Cameron did. You can read, can't you?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
TIL North Korea is a majority Muslim country
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I genuinely hope he loses his business.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"I can do whatever I want, if I want." Spoken like a rapist and a tyrant.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t think a 21X increase in the cost to get a tanker out of the Persian Gulf with lower total exports than before the war is an achievement. And I think it’s odd that so much of the press has been covering it as if we should see this as positive, with “Better Than You Think”-style “explainers.”
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm not the one who thinks a person is a pariah for not playing a fantasy sports game. lmao
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seek other employment immediately =/= just up and leave and expect similarly compensated employment in the same field instantly The former is looking for a new job immediately. The latter is leaving immediately and landing a new one immediately. Not at all the same. Don't be dense.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That's not what they said though, is it?
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I and the other ten people in the imax theater enjoyed it!
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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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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah, but they get paid. This is voluntary and because people are supposed to like doing it. Isn't that the whole point? To have fun and enjoy doing the activity?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026
It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That was said in the third sentence. That's not exactly burying the lede.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Eno...!
en.wikipedia.org
Old Enough - Wikipedia
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ah but the trick is that nobody cares about Gen X.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It happened, is the point. Frame it how you like. thedailyrecord.com/2026/09/09/m...
thedailyrecord.com
Mother charged after 5-year-old walks to pond alone, stirring parenting debate
A court case against a mother of five in Virginia has sparked debate over when and where kids can do things on their own, and at what age.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.businessinsider.com/mom-cps-chil...
businessinsider.com
I let my 5-year-old walk half a mile alone. Four days later, there was a warrant for my arrest.
Karyann Parkinson was eight months pregnant when her son's solo walk led to a police and CPS investigation and, later, a criminal charge.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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When Mothers Get Arrested for Mothering
Raising independent kids shouldn’t be this hard.
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Okay then. www.aei.org/commentary/i...
aei.org
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Children aren't allowed to walk outside anymore. www.cbsnews.com/news/virgini...
cbsnews.com
Mom found guilty of abuse for letting 5-year-old walk outside alone speaks out
"We just expected that as soon as this gets in front of a prosecutor actually looking at it and a judge, this is all gonna go away," Karyann Parkinson said.
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Bellmora ❌👑 @bellmora.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“This unprecedented, budget-crippling surge in diesel is tanking — so to speak — not only Trump’s approval ratings but the chances that many petrified Republicans will survive an already bad midterm cycle.”
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil
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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
None of Trump's sycophantic goons are willing to tell him that this is not what 25% approval means.
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