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Philip Gourevitch

@pgourevitch.bsky.social
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Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2h
Yes I get it as I often fear how god’s ire will fall on the many who have failed to give me stocks. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Paxton Said in Deposition That Donor Gave Him Stocks to Please God
The leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s investments and his tactics for defending himself.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h
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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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 2h
Russia just bought large quantities of diesel from South Korea because it has run out of the fuel. Could Putin be defrauding a gullible Donald J Trump? Perish the thought!
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 3h
As Trump antagonizes Canada and Mexico, he risks “destroying a precious geopolitical asset: a strong continental base from which Washington projects power,” writes Robert Zoellick.
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Trump Is Gutting America’s Core Geopolitical Advantage
Robert Zoellick, an expert on the global economy who served as U.S. trade representative and World Bank president, makes the authoritative case that President Donald Trump’s antagonism toward Canada a...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3h
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3h
He has a more plausible chance of getting a Nobel for fiction.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3h
Racism got him here and he’s clinging to it like his life ring — it’s all he’s ever had, the gateway corruption from which all others flow — and look how far it’s got him and how horribly it’s cost us.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 3h
Pretty damning pile of evidence here that GOP Sen. Roger Marshall’s office seems to have been systematically — and illegally, and quite smugly — using taxpayer money to subsidize his campaign www.ms.now/news/roger-m...
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Roger Marshall’s complicated history of blurring the line between taxpayer dollars and campaign cash
In a joint investigation, Kansas Reflector and MS NOW obtained records from Marshall's first Senate run that raise concerns about his use of office resources.
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 8h
"Allowing Russia to sell petroleum products is an investment in a war that must be ended, not prolonged," says Zelensky, commenting on Trump's diesel deal with Putin. x.com/ZelenskyyUa/...
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 9h
This is clearly not acceptable
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h
And removed sanctions from Russia on the same day.
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Joanne Boyer @wisdomvoices.bsky.social · 10h
MN in a mess...From @startribune.com More than 320,000 Minnesotans must shop for new health insurance this fall as roughly a dozen Medicare Advantage plans will be eliminated...When will people learn Advantage plans are private insurance with the Medicare name slapped on...not Medicare.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 10h
speaking of public executions: "as open enrollment begins this month, roughly five million people will be forced to switch plans because their current policy has been canceled or is no longer offered in the county where they live" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...
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Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance
As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 10h
never under-estimate advantages of name recognition www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Man named Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in Peru
The left-wing candidate won a narrow victory in a remote district in the Peruvian Andes, exit polls show.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 23h
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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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 14h
Glad to see the @nytimes for reporting on the Trump administration's latest attempts to mess with the NSF. But not sure why did the paper characterized them as "creative ways to work around Congress." They seem pretty blatantly illegal.
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Agency Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 17h
Woah! "Through the end of June 2026, Trump meme coin investors have lost $3.81 billion." Poor folks fell for the grifter's scams. Via @snipy.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's PN:
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Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low
Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 16h
“The opportunity for Democrats, Hinojosa believes, lies not with moderate, affluent Republicans put off by Trump’s norm-smashing vulgarity, but with disappointed MAGA populists.“ Encouraging @michellegoldberg.bsky.social report from Texas www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...
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Opinion | No One Was Paying Attention to Gina Hinojosa a Month Ago. Now Republicans Are Worried.
The Texas Democrat who says the culture wars are over.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 23h
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17h
“The attorney general’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan.”
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can Ossoff be senate Majority leader in January please?
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Like I was saying: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/w...
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Hiker, 16, Is Rescued From ‘Widowmaker’ Ledge After Using Chatbot to Plan Route
Bryce Vincent Gowryluk used Claude, Anthropic’s A.I. chatbot, to help him chart a course for the top of Crown Mountain, north of Vancouver, British Columbia. Things did not go as planned.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is giving a master class in how it’s done
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
lol - being an utter fool is great until your friends see you doing it
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the scheme of very sick humans
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
oh www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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21 Birds Are Found at Miami Airport Stuffed in Underwear and Hidden in a Belt
Two men, who arrived separately from Cuba days apart, each carried clutches of live birds concealed in their clothes, the authorities said.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Still appallingly high.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And 175 years later, remains one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A simple idea for regulating data center mania: "No large data center...should receive the permits or grid connection it needs unless its developer brings enough new carbon-free generation, energy storage and transmission online to meet its additional electricity demand—and pays the full cost."
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Opinion | Let Physics Regulate the AI Industry
No new data centers without enough clean power to run them.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I was given an abacus - but just the frame and then i had to make my own beads for it by candle light, not like these here whipper snappers.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The perfection of this.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex Bill
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One of the answers -- also visible in the collapse of the state's Paramount lawsuit -- is that Newsom and other state leaders won't stand up to extortionate demands from billionaires who threaten to leave the state.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Colorado GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx says he's not a domestic abuser. Marx says his recorded comments about slamming his wife into a door causing her to cry and throwing his toddler across a room have been taken out of context.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How does Trump direct the spending of his SuperPAC?
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Says guy evacuating air force from rural England.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is nothing he knows now that he can have any excuse for not having known then.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
that sublime happiness that comes from having just rolled around on a dead skunk
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
so many kinds of lunacy and unreality at once in this story www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Court Tosses ​​Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim ‘Forgiving’ His Killer Is Played
An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played in court.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“The threats that we’re getting now are mostly from our own government,” said Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a Republican. “The way elections are being handled by the federal government right now is dangerous, disruptive and in bad faith.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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With threats to midterms, states say Trump administration isn’t helping
U.S. spy agencies see Russia and others plotting to sow distrust and misinformation in the upcoming elections.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
so: Iran forces US retreat from UK? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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