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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 7h

It's Banned Books Week & our report is out! They say everything is bigger in Texas & that includes book bans. TX leads the country in removing & restricting books in libraries. Read more about our report, how we gathered the data, & the full report on our website. www.txftrp.org/one_year_of_...

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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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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

if they increased the library's budget six-fold, they could afford to hire more staff and pay them better!

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this is where i grew up. idk about a "rich history of tolerance" when we moved there we were VIOLENTLY mocked for having a German car.

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lex 💖🌈 @loudestwoman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

nothing better than a hot shower and getting into bed after walking 3 miles through a severe thunderstorm after Shaky Knees

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Niall Horan Pouring Water from Boot in Rain

ALT: Niall Horan Pouring Water from Boot in Rain

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

two things about that ed sheeran competition which are absolutely mad. 1) they're allowing people to upload videos for public consumption with zero moderation 2) the closing date is october 7th this may go down as one of the biggest PR disasters of all time

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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

bro they are jumping his ass

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

someone tried all of this recently in Woburn, it...didn't work out for her...

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If Larry is the nickname for Lawrence, is Gary the nickname for Gawrence?

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 06/09/2026

I was, uh, previously unaware of the Saudi cholo community

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Life of Agony at the Middle East, Keith basically OD'd on stage. While we are at the Middle East, how about the night that a local gang were terrorizing the Supersuckers so badly that the police came, they cut the set short and swore they would never return to Boston

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oasis @ Local 186 in Boston, Tuesday night, maybe 40 people there. They were big mad, kept bitching that they sold out wembley. My future husband was the bouncer that night Scott Weiland demanding that the crowd surrender some dumb shit that threw a shoe @ him & then beating the guy unconscious STP

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sonic Youth at Roseland and Kim and Thirsting get in a huge marital spat onstage and both leave. only kim comes back and play the rest of the set, never once looking up at us. $5 Nirvana show at Hampshire College, kept their backs to the audience basically the whole set. Still slapped.

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@cnn.com map of #southcarolina right now: Lindsey Graham is leading!

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Seth Moulton has voted for resolutions blaming Black Lives Matter for the death of cops, expressing gratitude toward ICE, and commending Border Patrol agents as they held immigrants in deadly conditions.” #Massachusetts #mapoli

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poe ope @poeope.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The press will say this is due to Moulton's remarkable missteps this summer: phone slapping, trans athletes, and defense-tech sweetheart deals. But Moulton became a politically marked man when he facilitated genocide, and worked to crush the voices trying to stop it. #mapoli #Massachusetts #Gaza

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Seth Moulton: Broken Oath, Sweetheart Deals, & Shameless Careerism

Sworn to defend the Constitution. Instead, he facilitated genocide in Gaza, attacked free speech, and got rich off defense deals. See the documented record.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

RFK Jr. could film vertical video in Times Square wearing a fucking swastika armband and we’d still be debating “work with MAHA” versus “reject quackery for science.” These people are building camps and foaming at the mouth about communist physiognomy. I just feel fucking insane

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Liz Kennedy @lizkennedywrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I posted this on threads too, but I often find myself with my sister Charlotte. I am voting for Ed because I would rather have an old man representing me than a bad one.

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 26/08/2026

Really feeling the Yamamoto quote about "awakening a sleeping giant" lately. We are through the shock and fear phase and are now deep into the "every grandma and gentle parenting dad is vibrating with bloodthirst for revenge at levels I did not realize were possible"

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ugh it's so cliche but for Dolly i'll be true: The entire Chronicles of Narnia

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My neck, my back <arthritis>

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Never let them forget: They hunted the vice president to kill him. They built a gallows on the Capitol lawn. They assaulted police officers with flagpoles and bear spray, and they tried to seize the presidency for Donald Trump.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Describe your music taste in 3 artists, no genres. lol no that's not possible

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

i believe it's Black Hole SUN.

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

fun little one from my vintage book collection. glue stick for scale.

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

i had a complaint today about a young family attending an event with their child at our library and the complaint could basically be distilled down to: i'm mad the poors were there. it was incredible. and disgusting.

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

yes this is how levitate is done and it's immaculate

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/08/2026

"To carry something was to bring it along just in case we ended up wanting it, and that way we’d have it, as when host Zachary Sullivan brought along three different editions of Settlers of Catan just in case we ended up wanting them and that way we’d have them." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

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The Things They Carried to the Jersey Shore

“The things they carried included a Spikeball set, a volleyball, 96 Twisted Teas, Jeep keys on a lanyard, 29 Deer Park 16.9-ounce water bottles, iced coffee,...

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Daniel Bessner embarrassing himself trying to be the next Mark Fisher, Mike Davis, or Jefferson Cowie, but coming off more like a Doug Lain. If you want a good commentary on the decline of the first wave aerospace economy with punk music try Penelope Spheeris' "Suburbia."

Bessner tweets about his new Imperialist Realism substack with his "Empire of Grunge" article subtitled "How William Boeing Made Kurt Cobain."

From his substack article: And finally, if the logging industry in Grays Harbor had never deteriorated, Kurt would probably have had a happier childhood. Given how his story ended, perhaps that would have been better. But the fact was that the area's economic downturn produced the domestic unhappiness that defined Kurt's early life, giving him the subject matter for some of his greatest songs and the motivation to leave Aberdeen behind.
Simply put, no Boeing, no Nirvana.

The top portion of his substack article with the blog name, article title, and Bessner's handle and credit.

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

the crazy thing about the fauci/diary/covid is a myth/ rfk jr thing is.....RELEASE THE EPSTEINFILES IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT VOTW OUT THE ENTIRETY OF CONGRESS

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Healthcare for all doesn’t mean communism. What it means in reality is better outcomes, zero medical bankruptcies, earlier detection and treatment. Oh and fewer medical company millionaires and billionaires. What’s not to love.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 26/07/2026

The KIDS Act is not just some benign form of digital “carding.” If passed, the bouncer at the door is an online entity capturing and storing personal data from users who simply want to access legal, First Amendment-protected content on the internet, EFF’s @irmck.bsky.social wrote for @coindesk.com.

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The KIDS Act is way worse than digital carding — it is a mass surveillance system

The fact that lawmakers are even contemplating a bill that would create a surveillance and censorship regime should be a wake-up call for everyone who values privacy and free expression, argues Electr...

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

the president of the united states should not have a "revenge mode"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Public libraries in this country need BUDGET JUSTICE and library supporters need to be consistently engaged in local budget fights to bring this into being. You need to know how much funding your local systems get compared to other public goods.

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Sara Sly @mamasly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

DO SOMETHING YOU ABSOLUTE TOAD

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