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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have an idea: Why doesn’t Trump get Putin to stop?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...
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Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody
Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.
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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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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a call for impunity, and blackmail of Democrats and Republicans who have repeatedly refused to hold their own accountable. Trump is the end result of decades of impunity. He is relying on the precedent set by others escaping accountability to argue that he should escape it too.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 08/10/2026
He's a "mainstream" Republican.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 08/10/2026
I know everyone’s jaded and exhausted by the continual parade of madness, but this is the president of US openly inciting racist violence against an entire community of immigrants. (w/ alt text)
The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing.
They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help — and leave the rest to us! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Nothing Matters™️ @newsprintmafia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No doctor has ever seen mental illness this severe
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🚨 Suicide. RIGHT. Simon Andriesz proved Lutnick lied about the close relationship AFTER the pedo sex trafficker's conviction. 🧾 www.thebanker.com/content/0228... 👉 How US commerce secretary's #Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower 🧾 BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The man literally posted a warning before this happened. At what point do we stop calling this a coincidence?
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I Completely Agree, Coach!
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Ripley's Believe it or Else 🎃 @ripleylacross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you
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Black.Metronome 🇧🇧 🇧🇲 @blackmetronome.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Collegiate women's sports are now officially on the chopping block, and this is why ass hole propagandist TERFs like Sophie Cunningham are a danger to -all- women and shouldn't be entertained or tolerated. #wnba
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
this audre lorde quote is never far from my mind:
Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them. In other words, it is the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes. I am responsible for educating teachers who dismiss my children’s culture in school. Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

- Audre Lorde, from Sister Outsider
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Exactly. Duh. Fucking assholes.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...
ctmirror.org
They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
can god create a person so trans that it kills god?
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need to listen to this fellow. His research into the sexuality of minors has been precise and comprehensive. His naked concern on such matters has been long evident.
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DJ Maryalee Scarlet @djmaryaleescarlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social warned us all.
“Once an autocrat gets into office, it is very hard to get them out. They will disregard term limits, they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it. They will take your money, they will steal your freedom, and if they are clever, they will eliminate any structural protections you had before the majority realizes the extent of the damage.”
― Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
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Suzanne Winland @suzannewinland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Another MUST READ from @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social noelcasler.substack.com/p/in-a-senti...
When he ran for president in 2016, they chose to focus on Hillary Clinton’s email history over delving deeply into a stimulant-addicted, lifelong sexual predator who was barely literate and lied about every facet of his business and personal life.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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steviebaby🫡 @steviebaby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
you treat trans people's existence like a trolley problem to be solved you should instead consider that trans people are people
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Gote @sloshgoat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The entire industry has changed user prompts from 'Yes/No' to 'Yes/Maybe Later' and it's just a poignant micro example of the direction the industry has taken towards pushing everything upon users whether they want it or not, whether it's useful or not, whether it's functional, safe, or even harmful
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Mike (beep boop era) @latimeriidae.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I mistook a post about the weird AI sex cult to be about a Weird Al sex cult and needed a few hours away from the internet.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Massie and Khanna announced they had secured commitments for 218 signatures for the second petition: Epstein Files Transparency Act II, 2026. Mike Johnson sent the House into a pre-election recess, shortening the calendar, with the House’s return expected after the midterms, around early November.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At the end of the day, beyond the hatefulness, he's really just a spectacularly dumb guy. Like I'm not sure he's achieved object permanence yet. He has to be reminded which hole the food goes in. His internal monologue is the sound of one hand clapping. He calls electrical sockets "finger zappers."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/09/2026
NEWS: The Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion sale of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs and 20,000 penetrator warheads to Israel, with the weapons to be purchased using U.S. taxpayer dollars through the Foreign Military Financing program
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Promoting a Fox and Friends weekend host to lead the Pentagon was not a good idea.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If tech bros really feared that AI would end the world, rather than it all just being marketing bullshit, THIS is the shit they'd be focused on, rather than their Skynet fantasies. The wealthy truly are happy to burn down the world just to add a few more zeros to their bank accounts.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every last one of these hogs thinks pointing out child murder is thousands of times worse than murdering Palestinian children. A just society would send men like this naked into the wilderness.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/09/2026
if you're a reporter "barred from recording video" by the government, you goddamn better record video
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/09/2026
What if housing wasn't a profit model for rent-seeking landlords?
thebaffler.com
Going Home | Samuel Stein
If housing is a human right, whose responsibility is it to provide and protect it, and therefore who, exactly, is letting us down?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham: I think Americans have absolutely had it. And I think their question, certainly mine, is, why the people around him don’t take his crayons and markers away like you do for toddlers right before bedtime or naps.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Idk who needs to hear this but the biggest coordinated activism in Georgia in decades happened in 2023 when they gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures for a referendum opposing a police training facility in Atlanta—twice—and the Democratic controlled city council simply ignored it
Idk who needs to hear this, but politicians are not activists and stop expecting them to be when that is our job as the people to be the activists
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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨JUST IN: The protesters have gathered in Dublin to protest Donald Trump’s visit to Ireland, with demonstrators using imagery featuring Trump, Epstein and Netanyahu to voice their criticism. I love this! 👏🏽 Shoutout to the people of Ireland! 🇮🇪
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
i forget who on here was recently like 'anytime the food at the place starts quietly sucking you can google it and trace the quality drop to whenever it was bought by private equity' but hooooowee you sure can
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness despite there being explicit statutory authority for Biden to do it and allowed the Iran War despite an explicit Constitutional prohibition on anyone besides Congress declaring a war.
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Shivikai @shivikai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It takes a specific kinda person, but I can also recommend playing "fuck, marry, kill" in each gallery room to spice up the art experience. Really good with abstract art.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You cannot say this and remain in office. He has to go. And Democrats have to make an enormous deal out of threats to exterminate an entire group of people.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/09/2026
Time to call Glusenkamp Perez and Jared Golden. They voted with republicans on a rule in the House to advance 4 bills including the SAVE act. Turncoats need to be called out.
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Ting Barrow @tingb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
8647. Please.
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