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Maria Fox

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Fantasy and science fiction writer. mariafoxwriter.com Former academic. I have opinions and sometimes share them. She/her. Pro-democracy. 5calls.org. No DMs, thanks.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10h
BREAKING: A federal court blocked the Justice Department's efforts to seize access to sensitive voter data nationwide. Judges had already blocked the DOJ in 26 out of 26 states from forcibly collecting this information, and it's now prohibited from amassing voter data anywhere in the country.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump has turned its Civil Rights Division’s mission on its head, a federal judge said in a decision blocking the administration from demanding states’ unredacted voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge rebukes Trump administration for perverting mission of DOJ’s ‘crown jewel’
Read more here.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h
NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...
United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S.
Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 10h
A product no one asked for, that no one wants, that doesn't do what it claims, that burns money
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AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents
It turns out that AI demand is significantly lower than expected, as OpenAI shaves $20 billion off its revenue expectations for 2026.
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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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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h
You should never have to wonder whether soldiers are watching you vote. This footage shows uniformed troops standing beside an official ballot drop box in Washington, D.C. Who sent them there? What were their orders?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h
Trump’s deal to buy Russian diesel from Putin just weeks before the midterms funnels money directly into Russia’s war machine. Trump is now facing calls for Congress to block the deal and impeach him. Meanwhile, energy analysts say it’s unlikely to even make a dent in fuel prices.
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Trump Announces Russian Diesel Deal Ahead of Midterms
Trump campaigned against foreign oil.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h
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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Just Lynn 💙🦋✌️🇺🇦 @shoredweller7.bsky.social · 16h
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h
"The only way to truly end the threat of authoritarianism is to address the white Christian elephant in the room." Interesting stuff in @hollybfletcher.bsky.social's new piece, including a nod to James Talarico's message of Christian pluralism: www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-run...
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You Can't Run From Christian Nationalism
White evangelicals are the single most influential voting bloc in American politics. They cannot be ignored.
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Jamie Fox @whatlawfoxsays.bsky.social · 17h
This is good. It is also one reason DeSantis and others attack sociology in particular: sociologists are the ones putting their finger on christian nationalism’s power dynamic and influence.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 9h
What did the Russian whisper in your ear?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h
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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If protesting didn't work, would those in power be doing everything they can right now to vilify protestors and crack down on free speech? Activist and author Annie Leonard offers an important history lesson on why protest is so important — and why it's needed now more than ever.
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Roblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICE is not law enforcement it's a right wing militia deputized by trump to act as secret police force loyal to him
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Anarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is genocidal rhetoric
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#AGoodPlace
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They're called sexual predators for a reason. Men! Talk to your friends. Talk to your sons and brothers. Ask them if they understand consent. Hold accountable their sexism. Show some backbone. Stop being cowards. Stop protecting rapists and assailants and harassers among you. They're the bad guys.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They think we’re all idiots As Jon Stewart says — if the goal is guaranteed income and jobs, why wait? Why is it only “socialism” if we don’t hand them trillions of dollars first?
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And a federal officer just shot someone in NYC. EARLY VOTE AND GET EVERYONE ELSE TO EARLY VOTE. The midterms are going to be a shitshow and we must flood the polls with democracy.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pretty Awesome 👍
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 08/10/2026
COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🎯🎯
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hundreds of Jackson State University students came together in a powerful show of support for Nolan Wells
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh good. Real-life Thought Police. Exactly what I always wanted. #MakeOrwellFictionAgain
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Be so safe, Californian loves. My heart is with you.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
“One source told the outlet that officers were “told to go after anybody, they can pick up anybody.” newrepublic.com/post/216405/...
newrepublic.com
“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hours later, Trump posts that the US has just had “productive talks” with Iran and announced the US will not attack Iran before the midterms.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not just vile experiments and Mississippi appendectomies (forced sterilization) but there's tons of data on medical racism now -- COVID, birthing care, the lingering racisms about Black folks and pain, what isn't taught in med school, etc. and yeah, white folks-- NOT the same basis. I wonder+
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Right now, the best way to fight back is to VOTE EARLY. Join us to spread the word. www.nokings.org#map
nokings.org
No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For months Gabriela Soto has relentlessly advocated for her husband Martin, unlawfully detained by ICE while buying diapers for their baby. Martin played a key role in the Delaney Hall hunger strike this summer. Last night we was RELEASED from ICE custody. ALWAYS FIGHT BACK.
Beautiful young family outside a detention center.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Maximum Mary @maximummary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s so that eventually jury pools will be made up of people who’ve had consent education.
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EducateUS @educateusaction.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our Founder and Executive Director @jaclynf.bsky.social would like a word. EducateUS was founded on the certainty that sex education prevents rape. The billionaire rape cultists want to crush access to sex ed because they know it has the power to stop them. We won’t let them win.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please watch this. Sex ed doesn't stop rapists, but it helps *everyone else* understand that they need to intervene, and how. Sex ed is crucial for ending rape culture and keeping more people safe. I'm a proud member of the @educateusaction.bsky.social advisory board for a reason.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't think we'll ever be done with the "I fucking told you so's." The Food Research & Action Center reported that these changes would weaken safety nets and worsen food insecurity for low-income families: frac.org/blog/project...
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Michael Iantorno☔️✊ @michaeliantorno.com · 07/10/2026
"Currently, if an employee makes anything creative in their free time, with their own resources, Hasbro can claim ownership. What we do in our free time should not be dictated by the company, and what we make in our free time should belong to us.“
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The workers at Wizards of the Coast are teaming up
Workers at Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering demand ownership of personal work made off the clock.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
While renovating her 1870 Victorian home, this Yorkshire woman uncovers a beautifully preserved Victorian tessellated tile floor. IG: @mellyreidhome www.instagram.com/mellyreidhom...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wall Street profits and bonuses are poised to hit a record high. CEO pay is up. Corporate profits are skyrocketing. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. Meanwhile, inflation eats up the paychecks of working people as the social safety net is cut out from underneath them. Trumponomics.
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Wall Street Eyes Record Bonuses as Profit Heads Past $90 Billion
A blockbuster year for New York’s trading and investment-banking firms is poised to deliver record earnings for the industry, with profit on pace to exceed $90 billion, and bonuses expected to reach a...
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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