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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The U.S. is routinely deporting human beings to Haiti, where it’s not safe to play a soccer match

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today in my Civil War class, we talked about the Dakota War of 1862 & how the U.S. government hanged 38 members of the Dakota tribe. It was the largest mass execution in U.S. history. It was a weird coincidence that we covered this today and students of course drew some parallels to the news.

An image of the execution of 38 members of the Dakota Tribe

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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
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Marius A. K. Ring
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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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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

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Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank. You! Someone is following the through-line here.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What a day to be writing about 18th and 19th century views on public executions. Needless to say, 250 years ago, the same European thinkers that conservatives want us to read more of thought it was an archaic, barbaric, tyrannical practice that brutalized its spectators as much as its victims.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How attractive. No less than one would think expect from this regime. These people are repugnant.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk.

Notes app reads: Neoliberalism weaponizes bias to justify austerity. Austerity creates corporate universities. Corporate universities are unhealthy organizations. Unhealthy organizations cannot inculcate or defend academic freedom. Without academic freedom to check administrative power, corporate universities will translate austerity into financialized predation. Predation undermines public trust in higher education. Death spiral accelerates.

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Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 07/10/2026

Welche Tagesereignisse es in die öffentliche Diskussion schaffen und welche weitgehend untergehen und als unwichtig/nebensächlich ignoriert werden, sagt ja generell viel aus über den aktuellen Zustand unserer Gesellschaft.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In their 80 years of existence, the French government has used the CRS to put down strikes, anti-colonial protests, and student movements. Violence has been endemic throughout, so the current violence is nothing new

Taken in 2024, a half-dozen helmeted and goggled riot policemen in all-black stand on a city street. From the lamppost behind them hangs the blue, red, green, and yellow flag of Kanaky, the independentist flag of New Caledonia

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The riot police in question, the dystopianly name Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (CRS), have always been paramilitary. Technically under civilian control, they are a national force, living under barracks conditions and equipped to “defend the Republic” against its own citiizens

Photo of a young man and young woman walking in front of a billboard advertisement for a French insurance company, which has been plastered with smaller posters that read “CRS/SS”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We can’t just move past what SCOTUS has permitted this Administration to do to people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for years and even decades.

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"There’s so much hypocrisy in this society. And if we want America to be a free society we have to stop telling lies. Because we’re not free & you know we’re not free." ~Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964. Civil rights activist/organizer Hamer was born in Mississippi OTD in 1917. Image: Library of Congress.

This black and white photo shows a Black women in a dress, Fannie Lou Hamer, seated at a table. She has a microphone clipped to the front of her dress.

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The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another historic moment for women’s football 👏 Saturday’s derby between São Paulo and Corinthians for the 2026 Brasileirão Feminino title drew 49,405 fans at the Estádio do Morumbi—a new record for a women's club soccer match in South America 🏟️ 📸: São Paulo Feminino

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He's trying to do George C. Scott from Patton but is mostly doing George C. Scott from Strangelove.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

A Democratic governor celebrating a hedge fund billionaire's donation to a private university feels very on brand for the party's higher ed agenda.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Imagine if Tufts stopped admitting white men bc a white male former student allegedly did a crime. Oh wait. That exact scenario happened (Steve Tisch, Epstein files) & Tufts did nothing of the sort bc that'd be ridiculous. But the same logic is fine for formerly incarcerated folks of color? Cool

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‘TUPIT matters’: Students maintain community as future of TUPIT remains unclear - The Tufts Daily

MyTERN, the Education and Reentry Network program run by the Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College, brings formerly incarcerated students to the Tufts campus to learn alongside full-time...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Powerful plea today from my colleagues on the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board, urging Pennsylvania to join most of our neighboring states in blocking local cops from working with ICE under 287(g), in which police terrorize our immigrant communities www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

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Pennsylvania’s shameful contribution to President Trump’s immigration crackdown | Editorial

Gov. Shapiro should seize the opportunity to counter a cruel attack on the state’s communities.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How are we just low finding this out 1.5 months later? Where was the NCAA and Kentucky State outcry? Where was the motherfucking press release? Where was her coach? Her AD? Academic advisors? Teachers? Dean? Provost? Teammates?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.

Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.

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Shireen Ahmed @shireenahmed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I had some thoughts about Sydney Sweeney and her recent commercial. This entire debacle has made me see and hear the powerful voices of women in sport. But make me question why we take Sweeney seriously at all. My latest for CBC Sports www.cbc.ca/sports/opini...

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OPINION | Sydney Sweeney has nothing to do with sports. So what is it about her ad that is making us so mad? | CBC Sports

If we start to consider Sydney Sweeney a notable personality in sports then we have really lost the plot.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Last week, I told you how local cops have partnered with ICE to bring tons of arrests and spread fear in small towns and rural areas like Schuylkill County, Pa. Now, I am asking Gov. Shapiro and others why PA can't ban 287(g) like NY, NJ, and MD have My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Next-door states banned ICE-cop deals. Why not Pa.? | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, the threat to human civilization that isn’t AI.

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Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info · 14/09/2026

What an *amazing coincidence* that the moves to undermine public higher education by shifting its costs from the government to students and families begins in earnest in the 1970s.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!

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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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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Very clearly articulated thread!

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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've found similar dilemmas in doing history/cinema combinations. The challenge has been to find ways to navigate the restrictive boxes of scheduling metrics. Ideally, I'd have two 50-minute classes with a 2-hour film "lab" on a day between. But that's been a tough sell (for students and admins).

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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A fascinating glimpse into what seems to be an engaging course. I'd be curious to hear how you navigate the interplay between film watching and reading/discussion. Are there public screenings or are students on their own? How does the balance of class time address the various components? Thanks!

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is a good article. Thanks to @mikevachow.bsky.social for sharing it.

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The Lepage Center @lepagevu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sept 23 | Virtual Panel: History Wars Join us for a virtual panel conversation on the history of historians under political scrutiny in the modern era. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4yf39zl

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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Two things can be true at the same time. That the university is under attack and that the university is complicit with the very terms of engagement that place it under attack should not be seen as a contradiction.”

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/09/2026

AI is not everything. You can still go to a library and pick up a book. We could have made the centerpiece of discussions of ed systemic underfunding & inequality. But instead the centerpiece is AI. There are other things we could be talking about, like the working conditions of teachers & staff.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is very good advice, even if the true problem is at the cultural and systemic level rather than at the individual level. We write too much because academic culture and system value quantity over quality. And this quantity clogs the system, further weakening the quality.

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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In the midst of everything a (small) bit of good news.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

PSA: If you can't state this proudly, why are you running as a Democrat? More importantly, why are you asking me for $?

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Organizing a blue-ribbon committee to investigate…” “We’ve established five working groups on affordability…” Indistinguishable from parody. And this from @kentremendous.bsky.social is eight years old.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's worth noting that this isn't a random number but a goal that would simply restore the court to an earlier norm in which there's one justice for each of the judicial circuits. We used to have nine, we now have thirteen. The people defending the current setup have the tougher case to make here.

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Christiane Reinecke @chreinecke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In seinem gerade frisch erschienen Beitrag zum "Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe" diskutiert Lennart Schmidt die Genese und den Gebrauch von "Überfremdung" als "politisch wirksamer Problemformel". Unbedingt lesenswert!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A very positive sign that, nearly a year after Kirk's death, many if not most of the people punished for speaking truthfully about him have won legal cases against their former employees and compensation. Again, panicked compliance with Trumpism has only *cost* institutions.

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 24/08/2026

Here are some of the declines in international student applications and enrollment revealed in a lawsuit challenging new duration of status regulations that would limit the ability to offer some programs of study and create administrative bloat on campus. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Institution Grinnell College
Enrollment data 15.8 percentage point decline in international student yield from fall 2023 to fall 2026
Institution University of Illinois Chicago
Enrollment data 50 percent decline in admitted international students over historic levels
Institution University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Enrollment data 25.1 percent decline in international graduate applicants from 2025 to 2026 cycle
Institution University of Maryland, Baltimore
Enrollment data 37.9 percent decline in new international student enrollment from fall 2024 to fall 2025. Thirty-two students admitted for fall 2026 have withdrawn applications, and 14 have requested to defer their admission.
Institution University of Maryland, College Park
Enrollment data anticipated 30 percent decline in new international graduate students year over year
Institution University of Wisconsin–Madison
Enrollment data 10.9 percent year-over-year decline in undergraduate applications, and 27 percent year-over-year decline in graduate applications. Five undergraduate students who put down deposits have since withdrawn.
Institution University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Enrollment data 42 percent decrease in applications, 29 percent decrease in admissions and 38.7 percent decrease in enrollments year over year

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"The real trouble with us professors was that we were absorbed in our day-to-day tasks. Most of us can say with some justice that we were good workmen. Is it equally true to say that we were good citizens?" Marc Bloch, 1940.

The movements of the Stock Exchange vary according as the fluctuation of current prices are or are not known to the aggregate of shareholders. But of what is the general mind composed if not of a multitude of individual minds which continually act and react upon one another? For a man to form a clear idea of the needs of society and to make an effort to spread his views widely is to introduce a grain of leaven into the general mentality.
By so doing he gives himself a chance to modify it to some small extent, and, consequently, to bring some influence to bear upon the course of events which, in the last analysis, are dictated by human psychology. The real trouble with us professors was that. we were absorbed in our day-to-day tasks. Most of us can say with some justice that we were good workmen. Is it equally true to say that we were good citizens?

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is great and helps us appreciate what's being systematically destroyed

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There is no moral, empirical, or politically strategic argument for the left to support existing expenditures on the bureaucracies of repression. Anyone telling you candidates have to pretend to support extant budget allocations between repression and care is not being serious.

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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This database is an incredible resource.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 17/08/2026

Extractivism. Occupy the thing to be extracted, control it, then sell it back to the people you've dispossessed.

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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Fascinating" is a rather generous assessment, TBH. The connection you make seems pretty spot on.

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