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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest

@majq.bsky.social
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Midwesterner at heart Year round spooky enthusiast Too many interests and never enough time Here to enjoy life

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 17h
My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...
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Positive Deviance NYC: Building Clean Air Culture
Back our next three clean-air NYC music events in 2027 and join a growing community building a more accessible cultural life.
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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hey NY, Chicago here. I made you some graphics cause we're all on the same team. Fuck ICE.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Now he’s been fucking illegally disappeared because he panicked when armed unidentified men started smashing his car windows when he had a child in the vehicle. What the fuck are we DOING HERE
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Well obviously
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The official vehicle of Bluesky, a kei truck with bisexual lighting
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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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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When I talk about “them” I mean it in the paranoiac sense that becomes real when you live under occupation. When I talk about “us” I mean it in the sense of community and family and loving one another. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-most-bea...
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The most beautiful place on Earth
Whatever they build we’ll take back when they get bored and leave
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am seriously stunned at how horrible it is. People are so trapped by the car mindset, I cannot get over it. Trapped in prisons of their own making.
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is the opposite of freedom I have so many more freedoms in Illinois than Texas
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having been in Texas for 24 hours, I don't understand how any of these people live this way. Chicago traffic is NOTHING compared to the nonsense y'all deal with
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Twin peaks Red Lodge: a room with black and white zig zag flooring and heavy red velvet curtains for walls. Two black velvet armchairs are arranged facing a third, two standing lamps frame the two while a Greek statue of Venus looms behind the chairs. There is a side table with a side lamp next to the solo chair.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026
the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Chooooourio
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't know about anyone else, but the amount of rage I'm carrying around these days is making daily life hard.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
good men I am begging you to stop being Sad about this and be as mad as the women speaking truths about sexual violence that then result in their own violent, misogynist threats online
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I always disliked him, just affirmed
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And probably solve the financial mismanagement crisis
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What gives? This classics prof suggests its affirmative action for men in order to boost STEM majors, deprive the humanities of $, and create a class of future donors to rescue UChicago from financial mismanagement chicagomaroon.com/53804/viewpo...
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Creating a Manosphere at the University of Chicago
Why does the University of Chicago reject so many women?
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fit the whole group chat
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Worse punishment than any of the Cornell rapists got
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm so sorry, it's so awful having to say goodbye ❤️
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm so sorry, saying goodbye is the absolute worst ❤️
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it’s not the key point but it’s worth saying that if you make a point of shedding the cultural associations there is actually nothing less cool than a frat boy. jumped up little pipsqueak wearing his fruity lil easter colors leaking piss beer out of every orifice. an embarrassment of a human being
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Definitely don't want to look too casual!
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Generally speaking I do need AI boosters to understand that I’ve lost my career and future plans entirely to AI-based cost cutting. so any time you’re talking about tech you have to understand people whose livelihoods were destroyed by a thing they didn’t choose to adopt they’re gonna be prickly lol
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's too useful for what that pile of sludge is
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Grotesque May this woman never know a day of peace or forget what she did "Okay to care less"- less than worm behavior
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It hurts that all the baby punks at riot fest are dressed like how I used to in 8th & 9th grade
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
how about you stupid assholes stop talking about trans people as if they're any kind of problem anywhere at all. how about you address some actual fucking issues. who gives a shit
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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
how come “Lynchian” never means “a nice old man rides around on a lawnmower and solves familial disputes”
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh HELL yeah Gonna be a hot hog water weekend 💦
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I started using this at @cait.bsky.social 's suggestion on here many moons ago (sorry to tag you in, but want to give credit where it's due, Cait!) It's truly a miracle product and I've been telling everyone with sensitive skin issues about it! My skin has never looked better!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
it's really the same dynamic we're facing internally, where people are screaming for the democrats to play the kind of hardball the republicans have been we need our team to play to win, globally and domestically
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MeganTheeWickedWitchoftheMidwest @majq.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's not a video essay, but this paper/study actually looks into this in a pretty compelling way: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Brief History of Pandemics (Pandemics Throughout History)
Intermittent outbreaks of infectious diseases have had profound and lasting effects on societies throughout history. Those events have powerfully shaped the economic, political, and social aspects of ...
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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm just making plans to vote in-person at this point and I'm gonna recommend that to others in my life too
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