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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

ALL OF THIS.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 12/10/2026

A reminder that Christian nationalists sound exactly like ISIS www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa3f...

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Christian Nationalists Sound Like ISIS

YouTube video by Qasim Rashid

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Even though I already had this album on cassette, it was the first album on CD that I bought. After all, it had an extra song on it. (I was also crazy about The Smiths at that time.) #genx

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Cheryl YoureNotMySupervisor @scurvydagger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

No, you cannot allow dems to spew anti-trans bullshit. It puts a target on trans ppl, particularly trans 🚺, who are then at risk of being murdered AND having the perp get away w/it. We have wayyy more than enough nazis/klansmen, we really, really don't need any more.

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think we all know he's doing it to launder a bunch of money to Putin.

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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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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Women know this in our bones—they’re everywhere. But for the more data-driven, this should drive the point home…

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Spider duck, spider duck. He looks weird but doesn't give a f___."

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Men do not need to put on a dress and go into a public restroom to abuse women and children. They usually just go home. Or don a clerical collar. Or wear a badge. Or run for office. Or play pro sports. Or join a fraternity Or they just do it in public, wearing pants.

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The culture war is designed to keep them focusing on judging others, rather than seeing them as human beings they should absolutely be joining in the fight for human rights.

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was around 8 or 9 when my father had a work friend over. The friend said, "She's going to be a knockout when she grows up." It made me uncomfortable.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

God I hate being right.

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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 28/09/2026

A graffiti'd wall with the words, "can't we just fuck and listen to joy division?" There is barbed wire above the wall.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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I have personal experience working with Gen Z. I'm not just getting my takes off TikTok. Thev are the LAZIEST mfs ever and don't listen. This isn't to say there aren't lazy ppl in everv generation but th...

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thread. Sex workers are human beings, too. Do not forget this.

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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They all knew ahead of time who he is...

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." George Orwell

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The needles put on the pen still need to be disposed of safely. Or the entire pen if it's single-use.

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Definitely! So the current drug users can live long enough to become former drug users. Some people like to pretend people in trouble are no longer human beings.

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The last library I worked in had a heroin-dealing bust in the public men's bathroom. Normalizing having needle drop boxes could prevent a lot of disease transmission, even if the person is just injecting their insulin.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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Bob @hopefulbob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thank you @joycewhitevance.bsky.social for quoting the words of Teddy Roosevelt: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? The Science Victory Fund: Data centers are bad! Cancer research is good! You should be able to see a doctor! Salad shouldn’t make you shit your pants! Voters: YES! Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 12/09/2026

The Joffrey Ballet being founded by the son of an Afghan immigrant chili pushcart vendor is what makes America great www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Not every tamale vender in the West was from Afghanistan, of course, and not every Afghan vender sold tamales. A smaller but still significant group, for instance, sold chili, as Zarif Khan later did in his restaurant.
(One such vender, Dollha Jaffa Khan, got his start with a pushcart in Seattle, in 1916, before opening a successful chili parlor there. Later, Jaffa Khan changed his name to Joseph Joffrey; his son Robert went on to found the Joffrey Ballet.) But it was the Afghan tamale venders who were so common as to become a stereotypeakin to Turkish coffee-shop owners, Syrian rug dealers, and Jewish pawnbrokers.

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When I saw "Houthis seize Mokha port" in trending, my feral brain nearly made me run into the kitchen to make sure my moka pot was still there. Non-feral brain prevailed.

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

surveillance by our government. Libraries were not allowed to say if fed. agts had come in asking for records. A smart librarian put up signs in her library saying something like, "The government has not come in here asking for records." Which could quietly be taken down if needed. #genx #patriotact

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When I (Xer) entered my grad school years (04-05), I put a "Librarians Against Bush" sticker on my car. A majority of librarians were against the government being able to seize someone's library records and make assumptions about the person without context. The Patriot Act started a lot of mass 1/2

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Aurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For younger people who were not there... Know that this country did not come together after 9/11. They went after every brown skinned person they could. Americans didn't know the difference between a Arab and a Sikh. We perpetrated and tolerated violence and misinformation on these people.

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swhikt.bsky.social @swhikt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is especially true for Missouri voters

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I hope they can forgive us one day. It's shameful the way Trump is treating them. #canada

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Morticia, your Gen X auntie 🩷💜💙🌹 @middleagedmorticia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wow, I never ran into someone with "resting bitch voice" before. She had the face to go with it. If I wanted to cut the line, I wouldn't have asked if you and your friends if you were in line already. #Manhattan

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Good morning ☕✌️

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize; it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command." Eugene V. Debs

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