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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 5h

What in the “centrist” fuckery is this shit?!?

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 5h

Internet and complete transit shutdown in the nation’s capital. Modi is terrified of Indians.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 6h

The Modi government has devolved into full insanity.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19h

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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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12h

Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams (Katharine Schwab/Forbes) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 18h

A good time to remind people that Chris Van Hollen is the only Member of Congress to have ever called for European states to sanction the President and Secretary of State, in this case specifically in response to their attempts to destroy the ICC in order to protect Israel.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21h

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 17h

As we end this week, where we marked three excruciating years of the Israeli military’s genocide in Gaza, we enter Shabbat enraged, broken hearted, and with fierce resolve to stop this horror. hammerandhope.org/article/how-...

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 20h

The man shot by ICE in NYC yesterday has disappeared after he was admitted to the hospital, and his lawyer reportedly doesn’t know where he is. www.courthousenews.com/ice-shot-a-m...

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ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him

The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.

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Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

In addition to identifying such wealthy enclaves, we also find a mirror phenomenon: a distinctive form of place-based disadvantage that distinguishes entirely *poor cities* (e.g., Paterson NJ) from *poor neighborhoods* in prosperous cities (e.g., East Brooklyn). We call this "fiscal impoverishment":

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Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

We also uncovered a striking phenomenon of "corporate enclaves": localities w virtually no residents but millions (even billions) of dollars’ worth of commercial property. Examples include the Disney-owned jurisdictions near Orlando and the industrial city of Vernon in LA (profiled by Mike Davis):

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Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time

"Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses." One star out of five.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19h

Is Bluesky trying to shoot missiles at children and I missed it? Is Anthropic now just a smol bean corporate citizen or is it *checks notes* one of a few corporate owners of a technological superstructure that enables state capacities for violence and apportions social resources of citizenship?

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Intercept Brasil @intercept.com.br · 21h

As conversas privadas, os documentos e um áudio do próprio Flávio Bolsonaro dirigido a Daniel Vorcaro comprovam a relação direta entre os dois e revelam os laços financeiros que conectam o clã Bolsonaro ao banqueiro que se tornou um dos nomes mais radioativos de Brasília.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 20h

If you've emailed me, you should know that my inbox is a mess, full of a mix of legitimate media requests and a truly unbelievable amount of AI scams targeting book authors. I'm working through them the best I can.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 21h

Blinks in Indian. Until you have met a Malayali Proudhon don’t talk to me.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23h

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drink

The console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders.

In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink

A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 21h

This extraordinary case also has an appearance by Galileo.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 21h

This essay by the incomparable Adriano Prosperi explains exactly the emotional regime that such early modern practices of public executions were meant to instill. It is a politics of terror enforced through the public demonstration of arbitrary power. www.jstor.org/stable/24720...

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Client Challenge

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

JPMORGAN: “.. the drop in the personal saving rate since 2023 does not reflect a slowing in the pace of asset accumulation but rather a rise in the pace of liability accumulation .. .. the pace of increase in liabilities has jumped nearly 2%-points over the past 2.5 years.” 👀

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21h

Chris Murphy says Pentagon blocked him from military base in Qatar and Iran strike on US embassy in Riyadh far worse than public led to believe

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Democratic senator says Hegseth trying to hide costs of Iran war from US public

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 22h

Remarkable how consistently the Trump administration has adopted the aesthetics of mass shooters, from their schizophrenic social media aesthetic to livestreamed executions to masked men with long guns roaming our streets with impunity. Nihilist violent extremism as statecraft

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 08/10/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct Advocate Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson tells Dems caving on trans rights: "You’re doing too much and getting too little. You don’t have to sacrifice any member of our community to win.” www.advocate.com/politics/ele...

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Human Rights Campaign president to Dems caving on trans rights: ‘You’re doing too much and getting too little’

“You don’t have to sacrifice any member of our community to win,” Kelley Robinson told reporters as she outlined HRC’s $15 million midterm investment.

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 21h

I wonder how many Caltrain commuters know that the election this fall could dramatically impact their ability to go to work, or how many parents know that it could impact their kids' ability to go to school. Same with BART / Muni. I wonder how more campaigning could be done to rally these people.

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Chad P. Bown @chadpbown.com · 21h

Beijing’s commerce ministry said in a statement that China and the EU have reached an “understanding” on controlling a flood of Chinese hybrid vehicle exports into Europe. By Joe Leahy, Edward White and Andy Bounds www.ft.com/content/2823...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No, but really, outsourcing our own moral discernment to the talking word toaster is not reasonable or ultimately positive for humans so it’s okay. It is a machine. There’s no mortality to it being used as a machine. You don’t remote lock a guy for cussing out his tractor. What are we doing here?

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21h

"Yesterday evening in New York City, ICE officers surrounded and fired shots into a car. One of their shots hit the driver, Oscal Belgal, in the neck. ... His five-year-old son was in the backseat of the car that masked agents of the state surrounded and fired their guns into."

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ICE Shoots a Man in Front of His Child

Oscar Belgal, Pete Hegseth, and cruel and unusual punishments.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Last year Navi Pillay reported that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. She has just won the 2026 Nobel peace prize. "this is definitely a message to those who are attacking, undermining the international rules based system & [its] institutions"

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...

A flowchart that guides reflective thinking around generative AI in the context of research. It highlights key, interconnected values underpinning scientific integrity, alongside practical and wider socio-political considerations when deciding whether to use generative AI for research.

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ottowels.bsky.social @ottowels.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

youtube.com/shorts/56bFY... My governor celebrates Banned Book Month. With his initiative, Illinois became the first state to ban book bans. I love this for us!

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Illinois was the first state to ban book bans.

YouTube video by JB Pritzker

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

With the students in Delhi and France and the incredible courage of USian students on display during the Gaza assault, it is beginning to feel like a global ‘68 moment. Solidarity to all these brave young people.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My gosh. Mike Huckabee's top aide: —Covered up an embassy report on Israeli killings of 9 Americans —Fabricated Orwellian reports on Israeli settler violence & the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" to make it sound good for Israel —Questioned staff on whether they were “pro-Israel” or “pro-Hamas”

In late March, at the height of the Iran war, Israel quietly approved more settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank than it ever had at one time.
Staff members at the United States Embassy in Jerusalem saw the move as potentially flouting one of President Trump's explicit red lines for Israel - no annexation of the West Bank - and drafted an urgent report intended for policy makers in Washington.
That memo never reached Washington. It was quashed by David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, according to three U.S. officials briefed on the process.
This was no isolated incident.
Since taking up his post in April 2025, Mr. Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to a dozen people who work with or interact with Mr. Milstein in both Jerusalem and Washington:
• As settler violence in the West Bank surged in the spring, for instance, he stymied embassy reporting suggesting that the Israeli government was failing to take action, according to the three officials. Instead the embassy sent a cable to Washington, viewed by The New York Times, praising Israel for "cracking down" on the attacks.
• When members of Congress pushed for accountability over the killings of nine Palestinian Americans by Israeli settlers and security forces, he suppressed a detailed report that the embassy staff had written, effectively stonewalling lawmakers' efforts to gain information, according to multiple officials briefed on the matter.

Mr. Milstein rewrote the cable to declare GHF's operation a success while overlooking the mass casualties, according to people who saw the cable and were briefed on the editing process.
Troubled by glaring discrepancies between news coverage and the embassy's official reports, White House and State Department officials seeking a clearer picture of events bypassed standard channels at least twice to communicate directly with embassy staff, according to two officials briefed on the outreach and an internal communication from late this summer seen by The Times.
Veteran American diplomats said that withholding or twisting the information sent to Washington should raise serious concerns.
"The embassy ought to tell Washington everything — the good, the bad and the ugly," said Dan Kurtzer, who was the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush. "If they're not doing so, they are damaging the policy-making process and possibly undermining the president's policies."
Mr. Milstein also questioned several colleagues on whether they were "pro-Israel" or "pro-Hamas," according to four officials, who found the question inappropriate and said it made some people fearful of speaking freely.

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is what crowd out looks like.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In honor of Carson here is the most ravishing of her exquisite translations of Sappho, a testament to the power of women writing and reading across the ages.

He seems to me equal to gods that man
whoever he is who opposite you
sits and listens close
to your sweet speaking

and lovely laughing—oh it
puts the heart in my chest on wings
for when I look at you, even a moment, no speaking
is left in me

no: tongue breaks and thin
fire is racing under skin
and in eyes no sight and drumming
fills ears

and cold sweat holds me and shaking
grips me all, greener than grass
I am and dead—or almost
I seem to me.

But all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is solid grounds for divorce Jfc what is wrong with these people

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Incredible representation of what should be an incomprehensible amount of data and cross-references.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

there's a pretty strong case to be made for abolishing fraternities just on a comparative basis with other countries. in the UK, to the best of my knowledge, no examples of the kind of campus gang rape cases that happen with depressing regularity in the US.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states

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Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

SCOOP in @rollingstone.com 👇 CDC has set aside new $1.6M for controversial hepatitis B vax clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau, halted earlier amid uproar over medical ethics. CDC director's office resurrected it, taking $$ from global health security funds: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 08/10/2026

The Trump administration is launching investigations into foreign exchange visa holders at nine top colleges including Harvard University, Stanford University and MIT, in its latest broadside against international students and scholars.

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US Probes Harvard, Yale and Stanford Over Scholar Exchange Visas

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