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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3h

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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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 2h

So a book with two gay penguins will traumatize kids but a public execution wouldn't???

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 1h

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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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 54m

Seriously, do Dems actually think republican voters will vote for them if they are transphobic? Why would they do that? They already get the transphobia from their candidate plus all the other awful stuff republicans do.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 21h

a few days ago i was making small talk with a somali man about how welcoming everyone was when i stayed in a majority somali neighborhood and he immediately started tearing up and saying thank you. it didn’t feel good things have gotten so bad something that small could provoke that reaction

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

AOC: “ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency. It does not belong in NYC and should not exist in 🇺🇸. Abolish ICE.”

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NAP (WVGCW Ren'Py Guy) @nap1400.bsky.social · 7h

1. These codes only unlock availability for the items in the shop, you still need tickets to buy them for use (time to start grinding Ruby GP forever lol) 2. For the gold machine parts, the codes require you to perform the inputs on FOUR CONTROLLERS SIMULTANEOUSLY. So, uh, good luck with that.

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NAP (WVGCW Ren'Py Guy) @nap1400.bsky.social · 7h

Big news for F-Zero GX (credit to bstest4he on twitter): we have found cheat codes to unlock everything in the game, including the elusive gold parts that were previously JP-arcade event locked! Though there are a couple of caveats.

The cheat codes, entered at Customize -> F-Zero Shop, all directions must be performed using the Dpad:

All AX Courses Unlocked: X Y < > Z Z > < Y X Z Z Y Y > > >
Dark Schneider Unlocked: Z Z Z X X X X Y Y < < > > > Y Y
All AX Machines Unlocked: X X < > Y Z Z Y < > X < > Z X > < Y Y

Gold Parts (must be performed with 4 controllers simultaneously):
Thunderstorm parts: X Z Y Z X Z Y X
El Dorado parts: X > X Z Y < < Z
Chrono Symphony parts: < > Z > < X > Z
Bahamut parts: Y Y Z > < Z X Y
Gladiator parts: > Z X < < > Z X

The gold machine parts, previously unavailable outside of participating in JP-exclusive AX events or by hacking

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 5h

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

Third or fourth time he's said this and he knows he can get away with it because the press who covers him have completely abandoned their job and now they just copy and paste what he says and then go get drunk at the Tune Inn and call it a day

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Alter Buster 📜🪄 @alterbuster.bsky.social · 15h

For no specific reason, I want to inform anyone who hasn't been made aware. "Blood is thicker than water" is the shortened, incorrect version. The correct version is "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb." That is all.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4h

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 24/08/2026

"I already boycott The New York Times/don't have a subscription, what can I do?" A lot! You can: * Share our call for boycott. Tell others about the NYT's role in trans genocide * Stop sharing NYT links, even to dunk on them * Pressure the pension/retirement funds invested in the NYT to divest

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21h

honestly I think if the army gets to livestream an execution by firing squad, Bluesky mods should be a little less uptight about people saying they wish billionaires would be a little less alive

US military to livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter
Washington (United States) (AFP) - The execution by firing squad of convicted military base shooter Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed, a Pentagon official said Thursday, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said it would be carried out in "public."
Issued on: 09/10/2026 - 00:16

Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan is pictured in a 2010 photo released by the Bell County Sheriff's Department © Handout / BELL COUNTY
SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT/AFP/File

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 13h

Leftist infighting? I haven't seen any anarchists, Marxists, Maoists, etc fighting about Mamdani. Everyone on the left agrees he needs to do better and that politicians must not ever be worshipped. the only fighting I have actually seen is from liberal capitalists punching at the entire left.

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 15h

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15h

We need to punish them all. Every last one. And we need to turn the page on @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social leadership because he doesn't have the stones or the sense to do what needs to be done.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 15h

There is an Adams-appointed Zionist, pro-billionaire NYPD commissioner in charge of the most wretched police force on the east coast. The least he could do is fire her. What he really *should* (but won't) do is a left-wing version of the DOGE purges against the NYPD.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 15h

Wow it's almost like there was a reason why pro-Palestinian protestors were demanding Mamdani fire the fucking NYPD police commissioner. There is some real "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" energy from camp "Mamdani never does anything wrong" these days.

Timmy Facciola
@TimmyFacciola_
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Protestors confront Zohran Mamdani as he comes out for his press conference.

He said that ICE sped out of the hospital. He did not note that the NYPD cleared the way for them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16h

it’s never a bad time to remember how hilariously unpopular this guy is. didn’t it take him like twelve rounds of ballots for his OWN PARTY to grudgingly hold their noses and pull together enough votes?? he hates his life so much and honestly some days that’s such a balm to my soul

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16h

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

🔥 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social : “THIS CITY WANTS ICE OUT. We do not need them to keep us safe. All they do is terrorize our city.”

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 17h

Republican candidate: I think for myself. I don't have to do what the president says, I can disagree with him-- Trump (tweeting): Everyone has to call Congress "Toilet" now! Republican candidate: --and that's why I'm running to be your next Toiletman

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19h

It’s about time the Democrats started calling Republicans what they are: Nazis.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19h

Tax billionaire wealth. I frankly don't care if a billionaire can make a second billion. I'd rather have the average person be able to make their first $100k.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/10/2026

lolol table L22 in artist alley come say hi

Greg Pak standing next to a banner that reads NO A.i. EVER / Generative "A.i." degrades cognition steals from creators is linked to murder and suicide enables fraud spreads disinformation invades our privacy gets things wrong enriches billionaires is pushed by fascists destroys the environment looks like trash makes its users look like chumps

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But I was told this would take all of our jobs.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Democrats aren't abandoning trans people! Maybe just one or two..." Here's every Democrat who's either voted to strip human rights away from trans people and/or has campaigned on anti-trans propaganda in the last year.

Amy Acton
Jamie Ager
Colin Allred
Angela Alsobrooks
Tammy Baldwin
Beau Bayh
Xavier Becerra
Richard Blumenthal
Lisa Blunt Rochester
Sherrod Brown
Chris Coons
Catherine Cortez Masto
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Cleo Fields
Shomari Figures
Aaron Ford
Ruben Gallego
Sarah Trone Garriott
Blake Gendebien
Lauren Gillen
Kirsten Gillibrand
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Maggie Hassan
Martin Heinrich
John Hickenlooper
Mazie Hirono
Jeffrey Hulum III
Ben Ray Lujan
Tim Kaine
Marcy Kaptur
Mark Kelly
Angus King
Amy Klobuchar
Susie Lee
John Mannion
Seth Moulton
Gavin Newsom
Jon Ossoff
Mary Peltolta
Gary Peters
Bobby Pulido
Jack Reed
Jacky Rosen
Rob Sand
Kim Schrier
Chuck Schumer
Terri Sewell
Jeanne Shaheen
Elissa Slotkin
Tom Suozzi
James Talarico
Josh Turek
Eugene Vindman
Mark Warner
Raphael Warnock
Sheldon Whitehouse

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Jakebe, the Hobbit Hare @jakebe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

YES on 40 NO on 41 NO on 42 for all CA friends out there

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you still have any questions about why women are telling you that 100% of them have experienced some form of sexual assault or abuse or aggression in their lives. It's all day every day. And no one cares.

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♦️ Mori Raine | Half-elf Vtuber @moriraine.live · 07/10/2026

It was the only thing I had criticism with Mamdani, but somehow I knew he would do it eventually. Better late than never.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the Mario Teaches Typing games, Mario never criticizes the player for underperforming and tries to be understanding and supportive. According to Charles Martinet, that was his initiative, as he felt being negative would go against the core principles of Mario's character.

In the Mario Teaches Typing games, even if the player does badly or underperforms compared to previous attempts, Mario will try to be understanding instead of critical:
Uh-oh, that wasn't quite as fast as the last time.
Hmm, are your fingers getting tired? Mine would be by now... if I had any. (laughs)
Charles Martinet, speaking at TooManyGames Convention 2021:
I got this marvelous opportunity to do Mario Teaches Typing. And when I got the script and I'm in the studio - I'm reading the script for the first time, there were things like "You failed!"
"That wasn't very good." "That was much worse... that was bad."
And I was reading that and I said, "Do you mind if I just, like, play with these words a little bit and just change them around?" because, you know, I never say "no" and I never say anything negative as Mario... and the producer graciously said "Sure, go for it!"
And so it became "Oh, that was good, but I know you can do even better!" "Oh, nice one but let's try again!" so it was always uplifting and always trying to be positive. And I think that that is the essence of the character to me - it's that love and that joy.
Source: transcript of speech found at youtube.com/watch?v=k9RywNQXCUM

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Radio silence from all the right wing pundits who mainstreamed this man's abhorrent brand because he said the word "masculinity" enough times to warrant attention

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 06/10/2026

btw this company is owned by the same guy who runs ModRetro; if you buy a M64 or Chromatic you’re directly supporting Trump’s corruption and war profiteering

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Gwendolyn Corvid @gwendolyn-corvid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Take note, cis women: Republicans are going to attack you if you don't look the way they want. Annie Andrews isn't trans. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

nbcnews.com

Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina

Annie Andrews is a physician running against Sen. Darline Graham.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We did that thing already and it didn't stop trump. Didn't even try. You really cannot blame people for thinking that the dems can't/won't stop Trump when they've been aggressively not stopping him for 10 years.

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Evangelical Christians are the most evil people on earth.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

I’m ready to be a CEO. I promise to take on debt, fire anyone who seems better than me at anything, and insist you’re going to love my product that kills you

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The best argument I've ever heard for universal basic income (UBI). "The reason we don't call that work is because it doesn't make rich people money." 🎤Craig Fay

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it may not be his origin story but “nobody liked my art” is such a common denominator among world-historic assholes

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Gwendolyn Corvid @gwendolyn-corvid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mamdani is representative of what all governance should look like.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site

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