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That's outweighed by the fact that MAGA rump would want to literally gun down a third or more or the GOP and the excellent precedent of removing an insane and tyrannical president would set

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 7h

Putin texted this exact statement to Trump, word for word, and told Trump to say it out loud in front of the cameras. And of course Trump did, because Trump works for Putin.👇

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026

NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.” religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...

Walter Kim, president of the National
Association of Evangelicals, told RNS that while he affirms the "need for justice" regarding Hasan's crime, "at the same time, a live-streamed execution by firing squad risks turning one of the state's most solemn responsibilities into a public spectacle, promoting a culture of death, rather than a culture that upholds the dignity of every human being."

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com If A.I. programs “cannot be trusted to work within the law, the companies should not release them,” the editorial board writes. “If the programs break the law, the companies should face the consequences.”

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Opinion | A.I. Companies Say They Aren’t Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products. Don’t Believe Them.

A.I. giants must operate under our laws.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 22h

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 10h

This is a Grant Morrison Doom Patrol plotline

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11h

I would be EXTREMELY annoyed to discover my PR is "AI"-generated, and as someone bombarded with dozens of "AI"-generated emails daily, I assure you the stink of "AI" is immediately noticable and immediately dismissible. Publishers are not doing their new books any favors in using it.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 12h

In it's way it's perverse venture capitalism all the way down what patents does Elon Musk hold from things *he* actually made or invented He's a 'founder' because he bought the title

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 22h

He quite literally has no idea what health insurance is. Truly none.

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 22h

Russia just bought large quantities of diesel from South Korea because it has run out of the fuel. Could Putin be defrauding a gullible Donald J Trump? Perish the thought!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/10/2026

hollywood releasing a bunch of movies about how an insane, radicalized cabal of billionaires are trying to gobble up the world economy approximately 3 weeks after said insane cabal gobbles up the entertainment industry is what historians call a "whoopsy doodle" moment

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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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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 09/10/2026

This goes against the intuitions of a lot of older people who were socialized into the party alignment of the 1970s-1980s-1990s. But you could make a case that the Trump second term is the most directlyand outwardly anti-Christian presidency in American history.

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A Glowing Indelible Stain @nemo616.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Had the exact same thought. Killing anyone on camera for propaganda is extremely toxic to civil life.

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Norman @pygmalion55.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That probably includes quite a few MAGA who want the court expanded right now so SCOTUS stops ruling against Dear Leader altogether.

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Norman @pygmalion55.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You really need to break that down with who they want appointing the new justices.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/10/2026

The idea of executions being live-streamed is absolutely sick and disgusting. You don’t hate Pete Hegseth enough

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Roger Marshall is a deadbeat.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.” See this article from 2017: www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...

& thewrap.com
But mass-slander-by-anecdote has a long tradition. As The Atlantic explains:
In The Nazi Conscience, Duke historian Claudia Koonz notes that the Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer ran a feature called "Letter Box," which published readers' accounts of Jewish crimes. When the Nazis took power, the German state began doing something similar.
Frustrated by the failure of most Germans to participate in a boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, Adolf Hitler's government began publicizing Jewish crime statistics as a way of stoking anti-Semitism.
Trump introduced a new government entity Tuesday that will similarly flag and highlight crimes by illegal immigrants - without, of course, providing any context about how many crimes they commit compared to U.S. citizens, or how illegal immigrants as a group might contribute positively to American society.
"The office is called VOICE - Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement," Trump explained. "We are providing a voice to those who have been ignored by our media, and silenced by special interests."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it.

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Norman @pygmalion55.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm all for using the old name, but Elon Musk did buy the monstrosity and actually has the right to rename it

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Difficult to believe, but every economist was right, and President Business was wrong.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They're so fucking weird

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Norman @pygmalion55.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Socialism is everything I don't like and need not have literally anything to do with socialism.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026

Vote early and in person, folks. If you're in a "vote by mail" state and can deliver your mail-in vote directly rather than relying on USPS this year, do it. Otherwise get it into the mail at the earliest possible date. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?

Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Ken Paxton: "Pray that we will be delivered from socialism and capitalis-- ahm, from communism"

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the Vice President of the United States was in groupchats with teenagers when he was a sitting US Senator and the political media has completely ignored this

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.

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Norman @pygmalion55.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That's just because they're all stupid or drunk or both and sent the wrong Mike Black to clean toilets in the far reaches of Alaska.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Better open up the Swiss bank accounts, boys. Accountability is coming.

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Norman @pygmalion55.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

With our luck nearly 87 year old Sam Alito will die in 2037 shortly after President Nick Fuentes is sworn in and orders the internment of Jews and the banning of sex with women

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Norman @pygmalion55.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah RBG wasn't unique at all. Rehnquist declined to retire when he was half-dead in 2005 and popped off half way through the confirmation of SDO's successor (John Roberts lol) We just had abysmal luck with the timing of RBG's death whereas the Republic justices had good luck

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Norman @pygmalion55.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah but at this point we're lucky Gideon hasn't been overturned

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a community note for the ages.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Norman @pygmalion55.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Even putting aside the error, it's "heads I win, tails you lose" because Brazil is all electronic voting which is also automatically fraud.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I spelled out "superpower suicide" in this essay from May 2026. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...