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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 31m

The really obvious, and important, follow-up would have been, “did you vote for the person who appointed Hegseth?”

Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent job by Mark Jacob. Kudos to NYT for giving him the platform, but demerits to Patrick Healy for still failing to see the big picture. I don't know why Healy thinks investigative reporting and identifying an assault on democracy are contradictory. It's not an either/or, as Mark points out.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 22h

That’s what happens when you replace Insurrectionist Barbie with Lobotomized Barbie.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They’re breaking every Norm and hurling us off a Cliff. It feels like a really weird episode of Cheers.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Apparently nobody attending your fucking rally has jobs, then, Jake Paul. Are you REALLY that stupid?

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Only thing I can add to that is, put him in prison.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Kayleigh, Karoline and Katie. What’s that spell?

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Was just saying that same thing elsewhere today.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

His problem with the game extremists turned out to be that they weren’t extreme enough

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“As the father of six Borg drones…”

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026

LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Wait, wasn't that last week's Kentucky score? Oh wait, it WAS! Amazing.

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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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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'd buy him a one-way ticket to a shithole country. Oh wait, he's already in one.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence. snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrong...

snyder.substack.com

Four Wrongs of a Public Execution

Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical (Video and Text)

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hegseth thinks their testosterone levels should make them immune to injury.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mike Lee sold his soul to the devil.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Jeff Bezos is the 2nd richest person in the world yet he's still a sad suck-up to Trump in order to protect his ability to exploit his workforce and make even more money. Greed and humiliation before pride and decency. That's the Bezos way.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Didn't realize they could count that high

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JimCaligiuri @jimcaligiuri.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey Iran?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We've got to face the fact that a third of the country doesn't care if Trump is out of his mind as long as he's as racist and sexist as they are. But we also must recognize that the rest of the country deserves to live in a free country, not a dictatorship. Vote against all Republicans.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We've seen this from Trump before, with his "Russia, if you're listening" invitation to Putin in 2016. Now he's raised the stakes by inviting Iran: "Let em take out Los Angeles. Let em take out San Diego." It's domestic terrorism, plain and simple. It needs to be recognized and reported as that.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We interrupt this week’s San Diego sunsets for a San Diego sundowner. With Trump, we always knew it would come to this.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We need to officially change the name of measles to Robert F Kennedy Junior.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fortunately there are better cereals. Like this one.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think I'll write a love ballad called "The One Conjoined Mini Wheat."

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Somebody will stop YOU, Prick Scott.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump is holding the G7 at his own golf resort so he can shovel more money from the US treasury into his private pocket, and collect from other governments, too. This time no one says a word about it, even though everyone thinks it's record-breaking corruption and sleaze.

nytimes.com

How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits

The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, we're plenty outraged. Every single platform showing those ads should be REFUSING to do so. I don't see a lot we can do to stop it, in the short run. If you do, more power to you. In the long run: flip all of Congress, then go after the fucker with everything we've got.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wolverine students, get out yer sharpies!

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That sign seems ripe for a little creative editing by some resourceful Wolverine students.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Baja California jazz band Colectivo Fronterizo’s first-ever USA show is a collaboration with rapper Femina Fatal at the third annual San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

aaaaand we’re off! The San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival begins at the Quartyard in downtown San Diego with the Binational Youth Ensemble, featuring jazz students from both sides of the border.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

John Yoo is the legal architect of George Bush's Iraq War torture program. That UT Austin contracted this bloodthirsty freak to be part of the new right-wing Civitas Center is an inidication of the very dark path this university has started down.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.

44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can we just train ai to bankrupt all the oligarchs? because THAT i could get behind.

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow! FRESH ANOINTING OIL?! He’s gonna be a SuperPresident!

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Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have the volume down. Is she employing frequent use of the word “smite”?

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