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Bruce Dorsey

@profbrucedorsey.bsky.social
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Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Mamdani: "We are talking a federal agency that is ripping families apart, that's willing to endanger the lives of a 5 year old child as well as any New Yorker in the surrounding area, % then after the fact, seeks to blame the person and the city at large as opposed to reflect upon their own actions"
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11h
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h
THIS EVERY DAY ✊
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Timothy Stewart-Winter @timothysw.bsky.social · 16h
A surprisingly hopeful panel last night on 50th anniversary of Jonathan Ned Katz’s book Gay American History. John D'Emilio noted 50 years ago there were no gay history books to ban. At @nyhistory.bsky.social w/ Am LGBTQ+ Museum #gaybooks #gayhistory #queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #lgbtqhistorymonth
Five panelists sit onstage at a New-York Historical event presented with the American LGBTQ+ Museum. One speaks into a microphone while the others listen. Behind them, a large screen displays the cover of Gay American History.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h
I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Although policy wonks might prefer the term "lustration", I'm glad that the author (and TNR headline writers) added the useful synonyms and definitions such as "fumigation" and "cleanse the federal bureaucracy of its Trumpist stench" to depict the important aftermath work for this disaster.
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
From @adamzyglis.bsky.social 🎯 #Cornell #JaneDoe
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NY Times reports that Trump wears cheap imported suits (“a very particular kind of watered-down American men’s wear”, “a cardboard-cutout approach to getting dressed”) They're sure to be banned from the White House and Air Force One now. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/s...
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Trump’s Jos. A. Bank Suit Surprised People. Should It Have?
In the past, the president has claimed to favor luxe Italian suits. This week, he flashed a label for a budget tailoring chain.
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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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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." --John Lennon, born #OTD 1940
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here's a little of the backstory of this local bakery that had to close this week. [The author grew up in Swarthmore.] #Swarthmore
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wanna know how the Trump-broken economy is damaging my little town?—we lost our one and only wonderful bakery due to tariffs and labor supply and overall affordability troubles. share.inquirer.com/dLbmFQ
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Swarthmore bakery Pastry Pants has closed amid rising costs and waning business
Owner Robert Smythe said a constellation of factors pushed him to shut down the bakery, formerly located at 10 Park Ave. in downtown Swarthmore.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pete Hegseth remains undefeated in taking the action at any moment that the man least secure in his manhood in any room would take.
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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 08/10/2026
ICE out of the Bronx. ICE out of New York. ICE out - now.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We’re sick of ICE terrorizing our neighbors. Sick of it. Like the brave people of Minneapolis, we have zero tolerance for federal agents lawlessly unleashing violence on our streets.
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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
amazing that Bill Cronon was concerned about the crisis of reading (and university press business models!) back in 2012. feels like this talk could've been given yesterday. www.historians.org/presidential...
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William Cronon – AHA
Storytelling
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes! 👇
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think in reality what socialism actually means in the American context is that trillionaire Elon Musk got $38 billion from the U.S. government and you got rejected trying to buy a $1 soda on SNAP benefits.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
my main comment is, do they remember who won the battle of the alamo bsky.app/profile/dber...
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Perfect!
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That's the cesspool that is X. Come join us on Bluesky, Coco (after you've taken a healthy break from social media). #cocogauff #tennis www.espn.com/tennis/story...
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Coco Gauff says abuse 'draining' after first loss to Mertens
Coco Gauff lost to Elise Mertens, whom she had beaten in all five of their previous matchups, before saying she felt drained over the abusive comments she received during the China Open.
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This thread! 👇
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh my, 102. What a great film actor! Rest in peace, Eva Marie Saint.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes!!
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes!! 👇 “We are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of”
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alito is a second-rate mind doing first-rate misogyny.
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Timothy Stewart-Winter @timothysw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NYC! I’m launching my new book OUTED at the Bureau bookstore (inside the LGBT Center at 208 W 13th St) on Friday, Oct. 16 at 7pm, in conversation with Hugh Ryan, author of When Brooklyn Was Queer and The Women’s House of Detention. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
Flyer for a book launch for OUTED by Timothy Stewart-Winter, Friday Oct 16 at 7pm at The Bureau, 208 W 13th St, Room 210, New York City. In conversation with Hugh Ryan. RSVP at bgsqd.com/events. Shows the book cover and two photos of the speakers.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Your daily reminder that testosterone supplements are, by any reasonable definition, gender-affirming care.
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 01/10/2026
To lose visitors in the year you HOST THE WORLD CUP and celebrate a big anniversary is truly incredible.
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nothing epitomizes the new extremism in Germany more than efforts to erase the memory of its history. God forbid that one would “stumble” upon a memory of lives destroyed by Nazis. “Stand for the things you know are right It's the truth that the truth makes them so uptight” bbc.com/news/article...
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German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims
Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh God, I've got to go to this "absurd and unexpectedly heartwarming museum." See you there! The 300-square-foot temporary museum in Fishtown is an absurd and heartwarming love letter to the people who make Philadelphia, Philly. share.inquirer.com/hA0vlC?utm_s...
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The micro Museum of the Philadelphian celebrates Philly’s macro personality
The 300-square-foot temporary museum in Fishtown is an absurd and heartwarming love letter to the people who make Philadelphia, Philly.
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh my, makes this tennis player & fan’s heart happy! (Not only that … this must be really screwing with the Fox News “Mandami is a communist” folks. First the Opera, now Tennis .. in the same week.). Love this Mayor!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Mamdani in response to Kimmel asking him to send Trump a selfie of the two of them: "I love you, but I love housing more"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
New @jamestalarico.bsky.social ad just dropped.
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh my, makes this tennis player & fan’s heart happy! (Not only that … this must be really screwing with the Fox News “Mandami is a communist” folks. First the Opera, now Tennis .. in the same week.). Love this Mayor!
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure
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Ironic Star Wars Moment
Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the best argument for the humanities I've seen in a long time.
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Whereas [Trump’s] first administration took children from their parents at the border to deter illegal crossings, the second is separating families living in the United States as part of a purge.”
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh God, I've got to go to this "absurd and unexpectedly heartwarming museum." See you there! The 300-square-foot temporary museum in Fishtown is an absurd and heartwarming love letter to the people who make Philadelphia, Philly. share.inquirer.com/hA0vlC?utm_s...
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The micro Museum of the Philadelphian celebrates Philly’s macro personality
The 300-square-foot temporary museum in Fishtown is an absurd and heartwarming love letter to the people who make Philadelphia, Philly.
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An epic surf day in New York City—a peak at what it means to be brave, New Yorkers … enjoy the ride! #surf www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj8H...
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MONSTER WAVES HIT NEW YORK CITY!! A Historic Day of Surfing!
YouTube video by Questmarley
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nothing epitomizes the new extremism in Germany more than efforts to erase the memory of its history. God forbid that one would “stumble” upon a memory of lives destroyed by Nazis. “Stand for the things you know are right It's the truth that the truth makes them so uptight” bbc.com/news/article...
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German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims
Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The language, about aiming to bringing Harvard “to heel”, is especially interesting as a contrast to his administration’s actions freeing up universities that were previously under federal supervision to enforce desegregation
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Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases (Gift Article)
Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated.
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great thread here on the administration's attack on higher education. 👇👇
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