Reposted by PratticusFinchJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1hNew 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 201093491
Reposted by PratticusFinchSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 5hI think it’s bad that the two most prominent left-leaning politicians in the country don’t feel like they can criticize the cops in their own city when they help the secret police flee the scene of a shooting 234072
Reposted by PratticusFinchLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 16h“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 357290178737
Reposted by PratticusFinch🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026this is so fucking sad 870115501400
Reposted by PratticusFinchSuss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“No Way To Prevent This,” Says Only Ballpark Where This Regularly Happens 573319672
Reposted by PratticusFinchPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects 532868586
Reposted by PratticusFinchNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Can't wait to be told once again that the issue is the avocado toast 0324
Reposted by PratticusFinchthe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 07/10/2026this is how it feels to complete a task 17710
Reposted by PratticusFinchGautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Democrats need to turn down the temperature 0122
Reposted by PratticusFinchjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973724438
Reposted by PratticusFinchdtsjr @dtsjr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just what the world needs right nowcnn.comResearcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection | CNNRussian authorities are responding to an incident in which a dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died. 011
Reposted by PratticusFinchThe Needling @theneedling.com · 03/10/2026Crowds of pedestrian shoppers watched in awe this week as cars—after more than a year away—somehow found their way back to Pike Place to spawn. 610214
Reposted by PratticusFinchBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026No notes 98290081045
Reposted by PratticusFinchrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026occasionally a student asks how some canonical book can possibly apply to their own life and moving forward i’ll refer them to the moment in Ulysses where bloom wants to leave a restaurant without eating there so he pretends to look around and realize he’s in the wrong place instead of just leaving 753136
Reposted by PratticusFinchmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand" 4866149
Reposted by PratticusFinchHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you think about how sports, IDs, kids medical care, and bathrooms ***already work*** basically none of this is a real issue. 1314
Reposted by PratticusFinchI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026See what happens when you get into the weeds about who is deserving vs. arguing that everyone should eat and have a roof over their head. 817031
Reposted by PratticusFinchLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Skipped the Nazis, huh. 2675584914
Reposted by PratticusFinchMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Thinking of that time after Biden got elected, when a VERY fancy lawyer and Dem strategist called me on the phone like, “Moira, everyone at my firm is mad that the Title IX rules are going to be stricter, because it will be bad for our university clients to have to punish rape.” 1450599
Reposted by PratticusFinchAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they should invent a cup of coffee that you can stick your whole face in and that you can summon from your seat when you most need it 8545
Reposted by PratticusFinchNicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Trump administration is a strange mix of people most willing and eager to use EVERY lever of power at their disposal in the system but also deeply bad at actually doing work. The machinery grinds on despite ineptitude because the power of the machine is that big and also rarely used. 1255
Reposted by PratticusFinchCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is the thing about AI that I love so much. Think of all the morons you know (many on this site!) using and swearing by this tech that can change the output depending on who is controlling the AI. And those dumbasses still believe it should be used for anything regarding data! 14585136
Reposted by PratticusFinchMicah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026he's bored and angry and all he wants to do is stand in front of a crowd of people cheering for him that's why he did the midterm convention, that's why he's doing this, and he's well beyond giving a shit how it affects any other republican candidate I love that for all of them 2770051
Reposted by PratticusFinchGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160... 131160199
Reposted by PratticusFinchKate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 663025992
Reposted by PratticusFinchGreg Shill @gregshill.com · 28/09/2026Notably, travel times also did not increase outside the congestion zone. This mirrors what we have seen in other aggregate congestion pricing impacts. For example, it was predicted that drivers would change their routes to avoid the zone, creating new congestion; this, too, did not happen. 020455
Reposted by PratticusFinchOh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One weird trick to solve traffic congestion (price it). 419844
Reposted by PratticusFinchelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 28/09/2026everyone is so sure the story about the senate candidate being mean to her staff is bad for her but there's a senator who ran for president and went viral for being very mean to her staff and she's about to become governor with saddam numbers 9826
Reposted by PratticusFinchRebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 27/09/2026From experience, it's because an 9th grade algebra teacher required someone to buy it 219117
Reposted by PratticusFinchScott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"This'll teach that life insurance company! Taking my premium for years and never paying up! I'll show them!" 051
Reposted by PratticusFinchmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i don't care what the official unemployment rate is, no one has viral discussions about "what totally innocuous thing at a job interview will cause the hirer to irrationally reject your candidacy" in a strong labor market 16828120
Reposted by PratticusFinchAnat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Democrats suck so vote for me. I am a Democrat and I approve this message." 79514
Reposted by PratticusFinchSara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Jokes on the right-wingers, Adam Smith is one of our guys 1424130
Reposted by PratticusFinchSecond Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 22/09/2026The astroturf neighborhood advocacy group that torpedoed part of Vanderbilt Open Streets is currently defending the Nazi comparison to me in Instagram comments, if you'd like to know how this is going. bsky.app/profile/2ave... 2166
Reposted by PratticusFinchScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982253350
Reposted by PratticusFinchMicah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026fundamentally trump just thinks mamdani is neat and wants to hang out with him, which is maybe the only thing he has in common with the people of bluesky 2067942
Reposted by PratticusFinchHeadquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Here is the check that Susan Collins' PAC got from a defense contractor's shell company in exchange for millions of dollars in government contracts 22287176
Reposted by PratticusFinchDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yes, have respect for people and cultures that came before you and that are still here. Don't be an asshole. Contribute to your community. Be a good neighbor. But "I've lived here for X years and therefore I am more authentically of this place" is not a competition anyone can win. 2612
Reposted by PratticusFinchDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026As Groucho Marx said, "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." That's sort of how I feel about the transplant discourse. 1503
Reposted by PratticusFinchThe Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-… 305117713
Reposted by PratticusFinchPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“transplant” discourse is great because you get to see how easily people can swaddle their insular, reactionary beliefs with left-coded language 352111179
Reposted by PratticusFinchCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/06/2024Cable companies in 2025 to cord cutters 61187
Reposted by PratticusFinchWilliam Skudlarek @willskud.bsky.social · 20/09/2026TIL For 25 yrs, HUD used urban renewal grant funding to effectively force 4k+ localities to adopt model building codes and drop expensive local req'ts in the process. It ended in 1974 after Congress revoked HUD's authority b/c Chicago refused to comply. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ui... 58415
Reposted by PratticusFinchArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Crucible (rotated), by Louis Silverstein, 1987, 📸 by Tim Warner 21251145
Reposted by PratticusFinchSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/09/2026I would guess the most concrete result of biological Republicanism among Democratic candidates is that their transphobia turns off the spigot of out-of-state progressive donors. But hey, maybe that's a worthwhile trade in exchange for absolutely nothing. 09513
Reposted by PratticusFinchOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026sometimes I like to remember studying political science and reading about about international relations and state behavior analyzed with the Rational Actor Model 3760183
Reposted by PratticusFinchIan Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 18/09/2026This rocks. Just harass these people. Make their lives suck. They deserve it all, and more. 0326