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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

Decades ago they joked that there was no more dangerous place to stand in Washington DC than right between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera. But for some reason this schmuck can’t work up a press release for a Democratic member of Congress being persecuted by the president.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Trump regime loyalist and FBI director Kash Patel tweeted "From Russia, with Love" as Russia rains missiles down on civilians in Ukraine and attacks allies.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My name is not the reason we're paying $5/gallon for gas. My name is not the reason you can't afford your groceries. My name is not the reason you can't afford your mortgage or rent. My name is not the reason you can't see a doctor. Their policies are the reason.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A new thing that I hate: I’m reading a book right now that uses endnote citations, and directs the reader to SCAN A QR CODE to access the endnotes.

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Dan Levy's Iconic 'Absolutely Not' Moment

Alt: Dan Levy's Iconic 'Absolutely Not' Moment

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The 287(g) program teaming local cops with ICE has created an American secret police Check out what happens in Carroll Twp., Pa. when Sgt. Terry Williams spots a resident filming an immigration arrest It's legal to film traffic stops. This is unconstitutional (full column in 2nd post)

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Woman with animals (Madame Raymond Duchamp-Villon) by Albert Gleizes, 1914 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

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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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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026

Gosh. What a surprise that Brendan Carr is a fucking coward. Comedians making jokes on late night TV requires an investigation into the "public interest" standard, but a literal execution is "not my job, go talk to Hegseth who is doing a great job."

A livestream falls outside of the FCC’s regulatory power, but the Pentagon feed is something that, absent restrictions, broadcasters could pick up. The FCC’s obscenity, indecency and profanity guidelines do not directly address executions, but under his tenure, Carr has launched investigations of networks on the grounds that they may not be meeting their public interest obligations. FCC guidance earlier this year emphasized, among other things, that stations must air programming that is “responsive to the needs of their local communities.”

“My understanding is it’s not on broadcast TV, so I don’t think there’s a role for the FCC one way or the other there,” Carr said on CNBC. “But I trust Secretary Hegseth. I mean, he’s implementing the laws and regulations that are relevant to the Department of War, and I think he’s doing a great job, and I trust that he’s making the right call on these issues.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He makes a good point.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Amistad (1997)

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People are criticizing Tillis here. (Among many things he deserves criticism for.) Real problem is framing of question, by CNN's Kasie Hunt: That it would be up to Mike Johnson to decide if a new Congress should be seated. Time 1:00 of this clip. 'Speaker' role doesn't automatically convey.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/10/2026

“While OpenAI admits to agents behaving ‘unpredictably’, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks,” Wikimedia said. “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.” arstechnica.com/security/202...

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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.

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merrylee.bsky.social @merrylee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Coming from a guy who has never had to shop for groceries.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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merrylee.bsky.social @merrylee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I never saw such an enormous shmuck do so much damage.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Do you support silencing the black vote? What would you say to MLK?” Sen John Kennedy (R-Louisiana): *Threatens to have @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social arrested*🤔 Racism is a helluva drug

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Don’t worry your heads ladies, the menfolk are handling U.S.-Russia relations

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merrylee.bsky.social @merrylee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain”-Schiller

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just stumbled on this gen z content on instagram. It’s just amazing how influential and powerful @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s book is!

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merrylee.bsky.social @merrylee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A whole lot of ugly coming from a never ending parade of stupid

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2 by Vasily Kandinsky, 1913 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit seeking to compel Vermont to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. Another victory for Elias Law Group and our clients. DOJ is now 0-24. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/vermon...

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🚨 United States of America v. Hanzas

Learn more here.

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CNN @cnn.com · 15/09/2026

FBI Director Kash Patel's decision to remove bestiality as an automatic disqualifier for FBI job applicants drew bipartisan disbelief Tuesday after he said the change was intended to protect victims of sex trafficking. cnn.it/4xZFuUb

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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 15/09/2026

When my colleagues and I started digging around in CDC data on pregnancy-related deaths, we noticed something surprising: the rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths had more than doubled in recent years. Nearly 200 women died between 2020 and 2025. So we set out to learn why 🧵

A chart showing an increase in the rate of deaths after an ectopic pregnancy, normalized by the number of live births. In the three-year period starting in 2014, the rate is a little above 4 deaths per million live births. The rate rises sharply for the 2020-2022 period and continues to increase, to 9.8 deaths per million births, in 2023-2025.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As a new Senate session begins, staff for Mitch McConnell tearfully announce that the Senator just died ten weeks ago.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026

mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For many years, starting when she was barely a teenager, my daughter has been mailed monthly packets from our local mortician, offering very intriguing discounts on cemetery plots. Through rain, heat, snow and gloom of night, the USPS delivers these promptly, without fail bsky.app/profile/quee...

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It turns out that Ted Cruz is hated by other Texans as much as he is hated by other Senators.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12/09/2026

Results from our latest State Supreme Court Diversity report: - No Black justices in 24 states - No Latino/a justices in 39 states & DC - No Asian American justices in 40 states - No Native American justices in 47 states & DC Read more: bit.ly/4r0D7xH

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State Supreme Court Diversity - September 2026 Update

Across the United States, states have shown little progress with respect to racial, ethnic, gender, and professional diversity among state supreme court justices.

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