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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 20h

Public executions - used by dictators to instil fear and subservience to the regime. “ON 10 NOVEMBER 1944, thirteen German young people, including members of the Edelweiss Pirates from Ehrenfeld, as well as other fighters against war and Nazi terror, were publicly hanged by the Gestapo and SS.”

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 9h

Kellogg turns against Trump. Former US special envoy for Ukraine, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, says Ukraine should continue striking Russian oil refineries. “This is war. They are attacking correctly,” he said, backing Kyiv’s continued campaign against Russian refining infrastructure. #Ukraine

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 10h

⚡️ President Zelenskyy held urgent talks with the leaders of the UK, France, Finland, and Norway to coordinate a European response regarding the White House granting a sanctions waiver allowing Russian diesel exports.

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Portentious @portentious.bsky.social · 7h

We have crushing climate crisis coming down the tracks on the form on El Niño … so the best time to start reducing your fossil fuel usage is 30 years ago and the second best time is NOW.

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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 7h

We are 24 years away from when the world needs to be at net zero carbon emissions. Fossil fuel infrastructure and even some appliances have about a 25-year design life. That means that every gas power plant, gas pipeline, or gas boiler you install today is a middle finger pointed at your grandkids.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10h

The US threatens to cut off intelligence sharing with Ukraine if it continues attacking Russian oil refineries. militarnyi.com/en/news/usa-...

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Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social · 7h

“Putin taunts NATO’s Rutte: You know the US doesn’t see Russia as an enemy. Can you even read?” Russian president fumes, as he directs military alliance chief toward Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy.” (2025)

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Putin taunts NATO’s Rutte: You know the US doesn’t see Russia as an enemy

“Can you even read?” Russian president fumes, as he directs military alliance chief toward Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18/08/2025

Trumps strategy here is divide and conquer. Separate EU leaders from Zelenskyy. So let’s see how this goes. He’ll bribe EU with tariff pauses, Rutte will play a role pressuring Zelenskyy.. Let’s see. Volodymyr, do not f*ing bend. Don’t.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 8h

Trump is an enemy of the West and everything it stands for

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8h

“They think we are dogs, cockroaches and vermin. But we are the citizens of this country who have the right to ask questions of our government system.”

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 8h

Israel has demanded that Palestinians in Gaza evacuate from the last surviving Medical Centres. So they can blow them to bits. It's a Genocide, there is no Ceasefire.

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Portentious @portentious.bsky.social · 7h

“Please regulate the industry!” “No, not like that.”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

In case you were wondering why Donald’s biggest fans suddenly went silent . . .

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 9h

Record crowds in Brazil for Lula. Fascism is going to get smashed.

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exercice-de-style.bsky.social @exercice-de-style.bsky.social · 9h

"Slovakia was the sole EU member state to refuse endorsement of the Toronto Pledge, an international declaration committing signatories to secure the return of Ukrainian children deported to Russia." Putin's cheerleaders are fighting fiercely today... www.kyivpost.com/post/86680

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Slovakia Breaks EU Unity by Refusing Pledge on Ukrainian Children

SaS has condemned Robert Fico’s government for ‘Kremlin collaboration’ after Bratislava stood alone in snubbing the Toronto Pledge.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12h

Modi has lost it. "The govt has responded by massively increasing the security presence in the capital. Around thirty thousand police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed, internet services have been disrupted, trains to Delhi have been cancelled, metro stations and roads have been closed."

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Aad Brinkman 🍉 🟥 @aadbrinkman.eurosky.social · 9h

Deze moet ik even delen.

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Portentious @portentious.bsky.social · 9h

This is the kickback we have all been waiting for with vendor lock-ins and high proprietary software costs. When it happens (BIG time) to AI models themselves, there is going to be an almighty POP of the financial bubble bursting.

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 11h

Weekend reading: Come for the roundup of energy transition developments you might have missed, stay for photos of my recent visits to Bend and Crater Lake, Oregon: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/what-im-read... via @quittingcarbon.bsky.social 🔌💡

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What I’m reading: Surging electric truck sales, France's clean tech social leasing success, and global energy transition tracker

Quitting Carbon's biweekly roundup of energy transition developments you might have missed.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 14h

❗️Germany will not follow the US in easing sanctions on Russian fuel and will continue enforcing its existing restrictions, Reuters reports. Germany’s Economy Ministry said the country is fully independent of Russian fuel and is working on additional restrictions against Moscow. #Russia

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12h

anyone out there looking for part time remote work? need some support with scheduling and email, being chicago based would be a plus :)

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 18h

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 18h

🔥🔥Rostov, after Trump's phone call with russian terrorist putin.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 19h

Good to see Donald buy Russian diesel instead of Canadian. I know its right on USA border but they sell imperialist, woke diesel that makes your truck gay.

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Portentious @portentious.bsky.social · 18h

OMG please follow this account! <<chef’s kiss>>

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.

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RV 🇸🇩 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 @rave74.bsky.social · 21h

Poor thing must have been suffering for so long.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 09/10/2026

Wow. Donald Trump is giving money to Putin’s war machine so he can keep killing innocent Ukrainians and attacking democracies across Europe. The UK must lead a coalition of the willing that stands up and says no.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026

NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.

A vertical graphic on a white background displays an October 9, 2026, joint statement from the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The full statement, presented in black serif text, reaffirms unwavering support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), strongly opposes U.S. sanctions against the Court, warns of their impact on its work, staff, and families, and pledges continued support for international justice, accountability, and the rules-based international system.

Marco Rubio, mouth agape, as he announces sweeping sanctions on the ICC to try to punish them for acknowledging Bibi Netanyahu’s war crimes

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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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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 21h

A massive fire has broken out at the Novoshakhtinsk oil loading terminal in Rostov-on-Don,Russia The terminal is an important part of southern Russia’s oil infrastructure.It’s used to receive,store,load petroleum products onto river-sea tankers,with an annual handling capacity of up to 3.5mln tonnes

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 23h

fuck AI generated images for the fraud but equally for making us now distrust real art

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Portentious @portentious.bsky.social · 22h

And men raise your sons to be better.

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Jesse Klaver @jesseklaver.progressiefnederland.nl · 22h

PRO is bereid een totaaldeal te sluiten en Nederland weer vooruit te helpen. Met Volt en PRO heeft het kabinet niet alleen een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer, maar ook in de Eerste Kamer. Daarover en meer sprak ik deze week met @trouw.nl, vandaag te lezen. www.trouw.nl/politiek/jes...

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Jesse Klaver wil nog altijd onderhandelen met het kabinet. ‘Hoeveel handreikingen moet ik nog doen?’

Pro-leider Jesse Klaver wil nog altijd onderhandelen met het kabinet over een begrotingsakkoord. ‘Moet ik bloemen meenemen of zo?’

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Sad Eyed Lady @phdler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Can't stress this enough. If you are as angry as I am about how the current regime is collaborating with Putin against Ukraine, let the Ukrainians know Americans do care. Join me in making a donation to help Ukraine. You can choose amount and what it is used for. u24.gov.ua

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UNITED24 — The initiative of the President of Ukraine

The official fundraising platform for collecting donations to support Ukraine

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Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hoe kun je nog bevriend blijven met NAVO-bondgenoot Amerika als zij jouw oorlogsvijand direct financieren?

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Norwich Cathedral @norwichcathedral.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Join us at 11am today, 10 October, for a service of remembrance to mark the anniversary of the death of Edith Cavell. Nurse Cavell saved the lives of hundreds of Allied soldiers during the First World War. She was shot by German soldiers on 12 October 1915. cathedral.org.uk/events/edith...

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