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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is so sick. So a Russian blood diesel vessel is on its way to NC set to arrive tomorrow. It left St Petersburg on Sept 22nd. This Trump-Putin plan has been in the works for weeks can’t picture what allies America will have left after this

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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

FYI: Airlines are no longer required to provide lodging, meals, or other assistance when delays or cancellations. Starting October 19, under 14 CFR 234.4, the rule reduces the number of disruptions for which airlines must provide amenities or compensation. federalregister.gov/documents/2026…

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

New primer about the news from the last few hours that the US is getting back to business with Russia. This is not Trump being erratic, it is not about diesel, it is not a small move. It is about the US moving to a more active position of helping Putin. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/this-is-ab...

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This Is About Much More Than Just Diesel

What Really Matters From The Last Few Hours

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Whoever wins the governorships in the battleground states will certify the 2028 presidential election. There are election deniers running, in Wisconsin and elsewhere. We've got to beat them. My new NYT op-ed:

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Opinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. (Gift Article)

The 2028 election is on the ballot right now.

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David @montytornado.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is Rooney. That’s all.

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Every billionaire is a policy failure

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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Lithuania MFA | #StandWithUkraine @lithuaniamfa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Statement on sanctions against the #ICC:

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yall wanna see a puppy with hiccups getting mad

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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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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 09/10/2026

If more of them talked like that, more of them would.

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A.J. Carrillo @ajcarrillo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) ran this ad when he was running for US Senate in 2004 as a Democrat. The ad touted his support for free college tuition. Note how Kennedy's accent is much less animated.

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, Medicare for All will increase your taxes...but not as much as you pay in insurance Yes, Medicare for All will likely mean you jettison your private insurance...but your private insurance sucks...and you KNOW IT DOES 👇

Medicare for All will cost LESS than our current system.

A recent study by Yale epidemiologists found that Medicare for All would save around 68,000 lives a year while reducing U.S. health care spending by around 13%, or $450 billion a year.
Medicare for All spending would be approximately $37.8 trillion between 2017 and 2026, according to a study by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. That amounts to about $5 trillion in savings over that time. These savings would come from reducing administrative costs and allowing the government to negotiate prescription drug prices.
Other studies by think tanks and government agencies have analyzed single-payer proposals at the state and federal levels. Most found Medicare for All would reduce our total health care spending.
Even a study by the Koch-funded Mercatus Center found that Medicare for All would save around $2 trillion over a 10-year period.
With Medicare for All, most families would spend less on health care than they do now on premiums, copays and deductibles.

Some additional taxes would be needed to pay for Medicare for All, but most Americans would spend less on health care than they do right now.
Overall, working families that make around $60,000 a year would pay up to 14% lessen their annual health care costs.

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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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The president of the United States is inciting a fucking pogrom.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW: A source familiar with the Colorado Chamber of Commerce Gov forum says the candidates were provided with moderator Ed Sealover’s questions, word for word, in advance. GOP candidate Victor Marx is reading prepared answers, word for word, from a notebook on his lap.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah so that’s attempted murder.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good news: in this case the newly elected House can meet at a convenient location of their choosing and vote on whether to expel Johnson as one of its first orders of business

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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump called for Iran to bomb Los Angeles & San Diego. A congressional candidate was raped while fixing her campaign signs. The right constantly calls for violence against the left but the mainstream media will call it out. They cared more about Hillary’s emails and Hunter’s laptop.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also, for what it's worth, the Department of Homeland Security doesn't get a say about whether or not there is an amnesty. That's up to Congress, which, you know, Mullin should be aware of given that he used to be a U.S. Senator.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Unprecedented corruption

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A while back I asked Americans to talk about getting sick or hurt in other countries and how surprised they were at how little it cost to see a doctor almost everywhere else but here. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-american...

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The American healthcare system damages your *thinking* not just the public health

This whole country is a scam

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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ICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.

The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

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David @montytornado.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

tariffs are bad and cause inflation. the end.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists.

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David @montytornado.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Times were simpler when I was the problem, not the whole town.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026

First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)

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David @montytornado.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What an absolute dolt. Who considers him a serious thinker?

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Your tax money paid for it, and kidnappers generally don't bring an entire squad for one woman bsky.app/profile/tchu...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

"The litmus test of whether the US is an entrenched mafia state has always been Kushner." Full article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026

JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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David @montytornado.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am embarrassed for my state that this guy is an actual candidate on the ballot.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it continues to absolutely boggle my mind how few people realize that refineries in the US Rockies, Plains, Midwest/Great Lakes rely so heavily on millions of barrels of Canadian crude oil *every day* and have since the 1950s

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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David @montytornado.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The possibility of war is lodged in its politics, its economy, and its psyche; the memory of occupation haunts its present and its view of the future. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The Baltic States Prepare for War

Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are readying themselves to fend off a Russian attack—with the help of the United States, or without it.

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