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Horus @guynermie62.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tell me you’re a stalking horse for the right by telling me you’re a stalking horse for the right #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

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Qiulae Wong says no tax reform next term 'worth considering' in potential deal with National

Christopher Luxon points to Wong's land tax when ruling out Opportunity.

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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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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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Luxon blathers on about future technology as a means to mitigate the climate crisis- aka magical thinking - any way “Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed” #nzpol

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Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action

‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

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PJ Manney @pjmanney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kiwis, follow the money. The present coalition is determined to copy the worst government behavior and corruption the US has to offer.

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Stace RN Resists 📎💙 OR @stacernresists.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today is World Hospice and Palliative Care Day! Grateful for the amazing Aides, therapists and nurses I work with who provide palliative care for our homebound patients! Grateful for the amazing hospice care staff who helped us with my mom in law! ALL of you, every day, are a blessing!

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

VIVIAN MAIER was a Nanny for 40yrs who unbeknownst to anyone spent her free time taking over 150,000 photos of whatever interested her. 2yrs before she died her photos were found in a lock up she’d failed to keep up payments on and her decades of incredible work suddenly exploded upon the world.

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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#nzpol Atlas Network and RW party donors are rotting the system for tax-free hundreds of millions for their own pockets 😡😡😡 #taxwealthnotwork www.nzherald.co.nz/business/bes...

nzherald.co.nz

Best Start charity has paid founders $287m tax-free

The charity-owned childcare giant pays another $36m to its rich-lister founders.

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A.J. Ponder @ponderbooks.com · 08/10/2026

#nzpol if you haven't seen Chloe Swarbrick's Parliamentary Adjournment Speech 2026, you can do nothing better than listen to Chloe spitting facts about "the rolling trash fire that is this government's one term" www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9IB...

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Chloe Swarbrick's Parliamentary Adjournment Speech 2026 | Green Party of Aotearoa NZ

YouTube video by NZ Green Party

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“New Zealand First are acting as part of a broader anti-transgender campaign, in collaboration with international anti-trans networks, and it’s critical that we recognise that for what it is and understand the context it is happening in” #nzpol #TransRightsAreHumanRights

1of200.nz

'Relitigating' the conversion practices ban is an anti-trans dogwhistle — 1/200

In 2022, an overwhelming majority of MPs in the New Zealand Government voted to prohibit conversion practices - that is, practices that aim to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation, gender i...

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Anneleise @anneleise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"10 former MPs from across the political spectrum, convened to hear evidence that Parliament never considered, finding that the changes amounted to a “flagrant and significant abuse of power”. " #NZPol

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's been three years of the #WarOnNature from the Luxon Govt. I've done a comprehensive updated week by week account of the hundreds of anti-enviro policies. It is grim reading but this is what they Govt is really about, once you put all the PR spin to one side. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

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Luxon ’s Three Years of War on Nature 2023-2026 - updated timeline - Greenpeace Aotearoa

When the Luxon-led coalition took office nearly three years ago, its war on nature started within days. In the next three years the government made a bewildering number of changes…

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“The picture Hager’s trilogy paints of the last 20 years is not of democracy corrupted by a few bad apples, but of the brutal conflict between the interests of ordinary people and those of the rich and powerful.” #nzpol

stuff.co.nz

How New Zealand’s right turned culture war into political strategy

Nicky Hager’s latest book argues the tactics of New Zealand’s organised right have changed, but the interests behind them have not.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

State of the Climate Report released today by NZ Govt. To accompany it, I published updated War on the Climate Report, documenting climate policies of NZ Govt over 3 years. One documents the harm, the other the cause. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... environment.govt.nz/assets/publi...

greenpeace.org

Luxon ’s Three Years of War on the Climate 2023-2026 - updated timeline - Greenpeace Aotearoa

When the Luxon-led coalition took office nearly three years ago, its war on climate policy started within days. In the next three years the government made a bewildering number of…

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ask yourself not what TOP can do for you, but that what the Greens can’t do better? #NZPol

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

The fact that the French establishment is targeting children with stun grenades 🤬

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sweden: Measles outbreak linked to music festival • Dozens of cases reported • Outbreak linked to Urkult Festival: 10,000 attendees • Just 10 measles cases in all of 2025 • Childhood MMR uptake: 97% in 2022 → ~93% now • Children make up a significant share of cases

vaccinestoday.eu

Measles outbreak in Sweden: most cases in unvaccinated children - VaccinesToday

European experts say combined MMR vaccine is the best way to stop epidemic

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Aliya D @alinasu33.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Let everyone know about this gem 👇

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PJ Manney @pjmanney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

JFC people! Never use degenAI for anything involving health, life and death!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...

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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.

The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.

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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kids housebound or bedbound with Long COVID created superheroes inspired by their experiences with chronic illness and disability. Their heroes find strength in resting, asking for help and compassion. The characters now feature in a 72-page full-colour comic, Long Covid Superheroes. #LongCOVIDkids

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Kids with Long COVID co-created their own superhero comic book - The Sick Times

Long Covid Superheroes showcases the bravery of asking for help, resting, and being compassionate with yourself and others.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/10/2026

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a statewide disaster emergency due to the measles outbreak. This was avoidable.

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PJ Manney @pjmanney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Who makes money from it and who gets that money back in campaign contributions/kickbacks? NZers need to learn to follow the money and nail the bsterds to the wall, because we're learning all the worst lessons from the US.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Early voting is already underway in some states. From now until Nov 3, I urge you all to... 1) Help get out the vote 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism We are the only ones who can end this nightmare.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons" A small Canadian study of 24 people with Long COVID found signs that dopamine-releasing neurons may be damaged. Those with bigger changes had worse memory, slower movement and less motivation.

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Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons

Scientists have discovered a distinct change in the brains of people with long COVID that might explain some of the illness's most debilitating symptoms.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Among the more notable documents is a redacted version of a report produced by Cornell’s disciplinary hearing panel. It sheds additional light on the university’s investigation and summarizes the panel’s findings. Here’s a link to the doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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John Doe v Cornell University Hearing Panel Decision and Report

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Policy wins and messaging gold in Zohran’s NYC. Video: buff.ly/viCew0B

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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PJ Manney @pjmanney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So ridiculous. They can’t see their own brain rot, so they think they’re productivity geniuses. But they lost the ability to edit for and empathize with their audience, to everyone’s detriment. I’ve crawled into my hole at the bottom of the world and I’m not coming out. Too depressing.

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Art is Human" Anti-AI mural seen in Denman Island, British Columbia

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine? Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way) Always follow the 🤑! www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck

RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They’ll find it in the same place this current government stole it from. 🤷‍♀️🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #TaxTheRich #ForAllOfUs

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yesterday Luxon was asked to explain the Lie hes been telling everyone about labour and an apparant "9 new taxes" He could only name 1. The CGT. Which 9/10 kiwis wont even pay. Then he got flustered and changed the subject. 🤦🏾

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