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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6m

I took my son for a walk this morning. Beautiful, peaceful, safe. In Ukraine, parents have to worry about Russian drones targeting their children The only difference between us is where we were born. We should be helping Ukraine defeat Putin. Instead, Trump is giving Russia another lifeline.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1h

FYI, here's the plan for the "surprise" papal visit next weekend--assuming the White Sox win tonight. He throws out the first pitch in Chicago Friday at ALDS game four. He insists on visiting a No Kings rally Saturday. He preaches Sunday at St. Raphael's in Springfield, OH.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14h

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

theguardian.com

Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Presidents use blind trusts so nobody has to wonder if the guy setting economic policy is trading on it Trump skipped that part —- Thousands of stock trades, nearly $2B in his pocket later Nothing like it in American history More on @cnn.com 👇 -TN

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h

As he evolves in is second childhood, Trump spews vulgarities and racist and misogynistic insults with abandon. And US corporate media cleans up after him. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations—they were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

variety.com

David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h

White House Downplays Hyena Biting Down On Trump’s Ass theonion.com/white-house-downplays-…

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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 23h

Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.

The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 21h

Trump’s love for Putin is the only pure thing in his life.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21h

“It’s really fundamentally about whether or not people with disabilities can live, work, go to school, make all the decisions about how you spend your day and you spend your life with..." 19thnews.org/2026/10/disa...

19thnews.org

The federal government is backing away from a decades-old disability rights promise

Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson won a victory that gave people with disabilities the freedom to choose where they live. That legacy is now under threat.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

Yes this is stupid but it’s also a corrupt transfer of taxpayer money to a political ally www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/fbi...

washingtonsun.com

FBI Is Angling to Hand the UFC a No-Bid Contract to Train Agents

The contract would expand an existing partnership between the Trump administration and the UFC.

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Dan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social · 22h

Vikings offense without Christian Darrisaw. Brian O'Neil, Justin Jefferson, and Jordan Addison questionable. Brian Flores:

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22h

Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights

nyc.gov

Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA

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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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"fart" @jonhendren.com · 27/02/2025

mike ditka used to have a branded resort in kissimmee florida and there were lots of staged photos of mike ditka hanging out in it. i will post a bunch of them now. sorry for hte low resolution these are from like 2008

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

With deep sorrow and regret I must report that President Donald J. Trump did not win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. I know how devastated all of you must be. But inevitably, someday, in the not-too-distant-future, he will give the world something much greater to celebrate.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Gregg Rosenthal @greggrosenthal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The only Hall of Fame player to win a Super Bowl as a head coach Also the only one to try to fight his defensive coordinator in the locker room during that title season. Legend

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massholio.bsky.social @massholio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Absolutely brutal takedowns all night. I wish all of our candidates could speak with this much moral clarity

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this.

Trump admin wants to televise an execution

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Kevin Fishbain @kfishbain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"In the 1980s, when the Bears were riding high and Ditka’s hair was auburn from the sun, he came to resemble the team’s logo. Or maybe the team’s logo came to resemble him. It was Ditka who best embodied the spirit of being a Bear." @danpompei.bsky.social on Da Coach

nytimes.com

Mike Ditka, Hall of Fame tight end and legendary Chicago Bears coach, dies at 86 (Gift Article)

Ditka, who was an NFL champion as a player and coach, became the most visible coach in America.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"It was the classics as learned through memes by a groyped-up staffer;" open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

open.substack.com

The Greeks Without Tragedy

On Marco Rubio’s Athens Speech

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

that post making the rounds reminds me I already wrote USE THE WONDER OF AI TO NEVER SPEAK TO YOUR KIDS AGAIN www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

theatlantic.com

Now, Thanks to Sam Altman, You Never Have to Speak With Your Kids Again

AI can handle these kinds of pointless interactions.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Love that my opponent is trying to paint me as someone who wants political violence and meanwhile her party is going to execute someone on live tv (after already murdering multiple citizens in the streets and fishermen in boats)

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“‘Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things,’ Guilfoyle responded. ‘It’s really dangerous and not helpful to you or me while you could simply just call me on signal.’ …A U.S. ambassador lecturing her briber on bribing best practices.” www.thebulwark.com/p/our-big-fa...

thebulwark.com

Our Big Fat Greek Bribery Scandal

Kimberly Guilfoyle’s corruption is shocking, damning, and—by now—chump change.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

Hegseth: "In every combat position, we've returned the standard to the highest male standard only"

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massholio.bsky.social @massholio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why is his neck getting wider than his head?

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is as clearly as I've seen this spelled out. If the PCSA smelled off to you but you didn't know quite why, this interview offers very lucid proof that you were correct. defector.com/an-antitrust...

What you're saying is, the antitrust exemptions in the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc. are allowed as a result of the collective bargaining process, whereas the PCSA seeks a similar exemption by circumventing the collective bargaining process. Is that correct?

Generally, yes. When we talk specifically about labor markets, all of the restraints that we see in labor markets of our professional sports leagues—the salary cap, the draft, the limits on player movement, every single one of them—to the extent that they're exempt from antitrust law, are the products of good-faith collective bargaining between the management group and the players group, and exist in a collective bargaining agreement that was reached through good-faith bargaining.

What is being proposed with the Protect College Sports Act is to establish the exact same types of labor restraints, specifically a salary cap, specifically a number of years of eligibility to compete in college sports, and specifically limits on transfers, but not to do so in collective bargaining where there are representatives in the room, on behalf of employer and employee, but rather through a legislative bill, which seems to be negotiated by a number of different constituent groups, none of which is a representative of the players in any meaningful sense, and absolutely none of which have been chosen and selected by the players as a union representative.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh yeah, those are definitely the Big Two when it comes to understanding socialism. Check out the big brain on J.D. here! He's definitely not an idiot.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026

NEW: As gas prices soar amid Trump’s war in Iran, Republican Senate candidates are asking their own supporters to donate money to cover campaign fuel costs.

meidasnews.com

GOP Senate Candidates Have Been Fundraising For Gas Money

Dan Sullivan, Susan Collins, and Mike Collins voted for a war which spiked gas prices and are now asking their constituents to pay for gas for them to campaign

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

incredible this will get little to no coverage

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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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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Surging demand from data centers and air conditioners put the US power system through a tough test this summer. But instead of triggering a jump in fossil-fuel use, record renewables output carried much of the extra load and helped keep the lights on." The lies of the oil industry are falling fast

reuters.com

COMMENTARY: Renewables help US power system survive summer stress test

Surging demand from data centers and air conditioners put the US power system through a tough test this summer. But instead of triggering a jump in fossil-fuel use, record renewables output carried mu...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This article (and Slade's book) are fan fiction. Trumpism isn't a break from Reaganism, it's the intended result, a gov't by, for, and of corruption, lawlessness, racism, and misogyny. That's why Reaganites with power—Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, McConnell—worked hard to empower and entrench Trumpism.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/10/2026

"As we've said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions of Americans at the hands of a foreign power shouldn't warrant such a severe response." buff.ly/utv8fhC

buff.ly

Relax, We Can’t Invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Every Time a President Offers to Let an Enemy Bomb an American City

“As we’ve said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions o...

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Montenegrin President Jakov Milatović tried to claim Novak Djokovic for Montenegro while presenting Pope Leo XIV with a racket bearing his country’s symbols at the Vatican. Leo corrected him on the spot: “He identifies as a Serbian.”

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society

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massholio.bsky.social @massholio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

100% agree. I don’t get the obsession with this. My kids start school in the dark

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The GOP has put $2 million to this campaign, and the billionaires have put $23 million in. Their contribution is 92% of the money Tiffany raised.

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massholio.bsky.social @massholio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

USA in 2026 = late stage capitalism

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