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In the middle of obsessively watching anime to deal with The Horrors™️.

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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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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You know… …no one ever talks about the people falsely accused (and convicted) of murder, talking about how their lives are ruined. But somehow, every time rape comes up, we have to have an equal amount of chatter about how false convictions ruin men’s lives.
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The base assumption Men™️ have about rape is that the system works. I saw some guy talk about how going after these men independent of the court system isn’t due process, like victims of sexual assault get that. The rage is because there is no justice if the crime isn’t acknowledged.
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe Nice Guys can start recognizing how fucking terrible they are at being nice or good and we can stop hearing about Not All Men when you’re not even willing to do the bare minimum to *check and make sure everything is cool* when you get a text message like that.
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“How were those men to knoooooow what ‘free pussy’ meant?” IDK maybe we should fucking prosecute every man in that chat to find out? Maybe it should just be a red fucking flag to remove a woman from an equation and reduce her to a body part for you to fuck, dehumanizing her very existence?
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This Cornell case is getting to me. Mostly because I keep seeing comments from men being like, “she did those things consensually”. Ah, yes. I know I frequently went to report drugs I did and group sex I had willingly to my campus police. That’s a thing people do.
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Am I in love with the new T. Swift output? Well, yes, actually. But! Even if I were not, the Patient Zero music video would have sent me. It’s like Swift has decided she’s going to go after toxic & abusive relationship dynamics hardcore and I am here for it.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
James Talarico: Tarrant County, the largest swing county in the state of Texas, is closing 92 polling locations. They’ve suspended a million voter registrations in our state. To anyone in Texas watching this — I’m urging you to check your voter registration online and make a plan to vote early.
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90,000 Bees In A Human Suit @angrybooklady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And if we were largely seeing it among minorities, it would be treated like child abuse. Parents who refused to get the MMR would have their kids taken. But since it's mostly white people, suddenly it's an idea we have to respect.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026
ok but renewable energy is cheaper than oil energy. in part *because* of the wars in Ukraine and Iran
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“I bought this house for $100,000 and it’s now worth $800,000! That’s an arbitrary increase!” Kind of, yeah. But $800,000 is what the market has decided your house is worth, so… …welcome to the free market?
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
People who love capitalism in theory hate it in practice. This thought brought to you by people complaining their property taxes increased because their homes’ value increased.
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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026
Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.
Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
What an amazing call and response from a man who doesn’t see all the chances he missed and all the signs he didn’t pick up on and the woman who left frustratedly leading him through her reality he’d been ignoring. This is why T. Swift is Important to me. She carries and clarifies these moments.
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Bon Iver coming in first and morose and just so confused 🥺 "It took you 5 whole minutes To pack us up and leave me with it" And then Taylor comes in with lines like "Second, third & hundredth chances Balancing on breaking branches"
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Taylor Swift’s Exile is basically the theme song for “the divorce came out of nowhere”. music.apple.com/us/album/exi...
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exile (feat. Bon Iver) by Taylor Swift on Apple Music
Song · 2020 · Duration 4:45
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 11/08/2026
I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

AXIOS

Al has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.
• Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books - a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane - makes it easy to lose the thread. Al can help you pick it back up without starting over.
Ш I really got into using Al while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:
• "T'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
• The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
One of the most profound issues between women and men as I see it is that men are laboring under the delusion women don’t understand them or their burdens, while not recognizing women’s burdens. This thought brought to you by men thinking asking pregnant women for DNA tests is cool.
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Forests are living temples, built by time, rain, soil, and sunlight.
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Everything that’s wrong now started pretty much with Reagan’s 1980 election so… …it’s like the longest “chickens coming home to roost” situation imaginable.
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Just Lynn 💙🦋✌️🇺🇦 @shoredweller7.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
THIS 👇 HERE, AS WELL.......
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“Why not call someone by their preferred name?” “This is my preferred name and I’m called it all the time so there’s no problem.” Even more hilarious given that it’s not something he’s called all the time.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sending my biggest love to all my trans friends today. I’ll be here for you and will keep fighting for as long as it takes. You are my siblings and my community, and my world is a better place with you all in it. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️
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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen (You know the rule) youtu.be/Brq-exSvB7Q
youtu.be
Tom Holland's "Umbrella" | Lip Sync Battle
YouTube video by Comedy Central Asia
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Robert Brendel @robertbrendel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson at a press conference today, “Should we bother asking you any questions about Max Miller, Trump’s latest Iran deal, or his Capital One scandal, or have you not heard about any of them yet?"
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Important new study out at Nature Climate Action showing that individual climate actions do not stop people from participating in collective climate action. Instead, they were associated with greater collective engagement and somewhat stronger policy support. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
nature.com
Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence
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petpluto @petpluto.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is me.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists.” - Navalny
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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
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Anna Stesia @onlychyld.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026
The NYC Gay Men's Chorus in 1993. The men in white were the only original chorus members to make it out of the AIDS crisis. We lost SO many young people.
Photo of a chorus with seven people in white out of maybe 100.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
futurism.com
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 31/07/2026
LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday are expected to charge an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/07/2026
It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.
ALLISTER HEATH
Britain can't stop
climate change. Scrap
net zero and embrace
Mediterranean
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 30/07/2026
Reader, I snorted.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
One agent “was first arrested for sexual assault of a child at the age of 13 and served time in the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections.” He was still hired by Border Patrol, working “there for nearly 20 years before being caught again for child molestation and sexual exploitation of minors.”
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It is 2005. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations. It is 2012. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations. It is 2018. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations.. It is 2025. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations. It is 2026. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allega--
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Nearly all concentration camp regimes involve the government making what were previously simple tasks of daily life unlawful or impossible for the group they’ve targeted for detention, bit by bit eradicating any possibility of public existence.
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ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
what the world needs now is a six foot five walt whitman
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Rosemary @sophygurl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We're scrounging for rent, which is due in a couple of days. Also me and Dave's shared bday is tomorrow. If you can donate, check our wishlists, or even boost this post, we'd be so thankful! #MutualAid 💕💸 gofund.me/53f25ae0e
gofund.me
Donate to Help this chosen family make ends meet!, organized by Rosemary Amico
The short story: Three humans (and our two cats) have had a string of bad l… Rosemary Amico needs your support for Help this chosen family make ends meet!
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John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The victim letters for QNS Defenders founder Lori Zeno's sentencing are rough. "It is difficult — and goes against the very fiber of our professional identities — to submit this statement to the Court and ask for the incarceration of another. However..." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#99, Att. #1 in United States v. Zeno (E.D.N.Y, 1:25-cr-00182) – CourtListener.com
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Aja Romano @bookshop.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
people who champion gen AI don't seem to understand that for millions of us the 'boring, time-wasting tasks' are non-negotiable. Reading, writing, research, creating–we *want* to do this! It's fun! We learn stuff! Why would we cede them to any machine, let alone one that spits out a false reality?
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 28/07/2026
Ask any woman, and she knows a survivor. Ask any group of guys, and they know a "bro who just gets a bad rap." Funny how math works.
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Staci D. Kramer @sdkstl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
>>Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz and Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz were killed just weeks after González de la Cruz self-deported to be with her husband, who was deported by [ICE] last year. Their 14-month-old daughter, Giovanni, was found crying beside her mother’s body in southern Guatemala.<<
stlpr.org
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
You don’t have to agree with a woman’s opinion but you do have root your disagreement in something that isn’t misogyny
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A Polish-born woman in Des Plaines who “had done everything right” has been in ICE custody for the past year. Green Card for 20 years, sought citizenship. “And it didn’t matter.” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/27/i...
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Illinois woman with green card has been detained by ICE for 12 months. Her daughters plead for her release.
ICE arrested Beata Siemionkowicz, a Poland native and green card holder of more than two decades, last year while she was gardening in her daughter’s backyard in Des Plaines.
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is just to say I have turned into pigs the men that were on my island and which you were probably saving to row you to Ithaca Forgive me they were disgusting so male and so disrespectful.
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