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BREAKING: President Trump cancelled the Pentagon's planned livestream of a firing squad execution after nationwide backlash. Everyone who spoke out and pressured the administration to reverse course made a difference. But enough is enough — it's time to end the death penalty entirely.

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

D+15 Midterm indicator

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is simply not generating either the volume or tone of scandal coverage that effectively ended Joe Biden's presidency when he was unable to produce a surgically-clean implementation of Donald Trump's totally unplanned & poorly timed withdrawal from Afghanistan: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026

Trump: "I will be the last Republican president"

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RadMommaDoc @alissaevenson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

From the party that's "concerned about protecting women" - a man repeatedly punching a woman in the face while the crowd cheers.

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Roxanne Darling 🍁 @roxannedarling.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and released ALL of the Epstein files, I’m betting they’d suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"We're a Christian nation, and we remember what Christ said -- never, ever turn the other cheek"

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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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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 09/10/2026

We do not have a serious economy in this country, we have an ongoing series of expensive brazen insults to all the hard-working people who *actually make things* despite the incompetent whims of mediocre upfailing assclowns like this guy. No greater lie than the meritocracy.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

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Evan @ereller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I dunno, this feels more antisemitic than anything Piker has said

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.

This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting at a desk and wearing a suit. He holds a paper in his right hand and appears to be speaking into a microphone that sits on the desk.

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Grant.flac @regulargrant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow. Big surprise. Who could have seen this coming.

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NYT reporters will hear clear and precise English and go, "he speaks in riddles"

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Players can’t be in bed with gambling outfits” should be perfectly and completely obvious to anyone with a shred of sense and integrity, but so should “leagues can’t be in bed with gambling outfits.”

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s why nobody can sign any agreement with Trump. It’s worth nothing.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pal sent me the video, so....

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 02/10/2026

“We can do as many crimes as we want so long as we say it was software and pay for a few PACs” is an absolutely insane way to run a society.

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

another assortment of letter boxes

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

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Grant.flac @regulargrant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

doing the nuclear sounds like a '50s dance. In fact, I don't know teenagers who do the nuclear without drug.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I keep thinking about her saying "this will not be my hell anymore" and she was right they invented a new one.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Jonathan Harris @jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remains an underreported story somehow that the president is out of his goddamn mind.

Do you trust Sam Altman?

I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trust? I like Sam Altman. Smart. Dario's smart. They're all smart. We're dealing with a very high level of IQ. Very very high level. That's a good thing. I like that. I like it. Did you see the story about my uncle?

The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers.

What I've done is I've created, for instance, these massive plants have no—We have no electricity in our grid. These massive plants now are allowed to make their own electric—

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1. DOGE dividend. 2. Tariff dividend. 3. Midterms dividend. 4. Data center dividend.

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gambling is like a fucking conveyor belt to suicide city. Makes me fucking sick.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the funniest parts of DOGE was all these dipshits simultaneously complaining about all the supposed waste in government while also whining that all the equipment was antiquated. What, you think slashing funding will magically modernize all the equipment?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People were like no, using genAI doesn't deskill you. And then *all* the CEO's started announcing that not only is deskilling the explicit goal, but then they brag that they don't know how to toast a poptart

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

a computer programmed to say ow: ow gullible as fuck scientist: holy SHIT

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Grant.flac @regulargrant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No, you don’t get it. It started a podcast for him. Do you know how hard it is to start a podcast? Only 7 out of 10 white dudes are able to start a podcast on their own.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 22/09/2026

A recent KCUR analysis reveals that data gathered by Kansas City-area Flock cameras has been searched hundreds of thousands of times by out-of-state police departments. Across the city, residents are concerned by how that data is being used.

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Who is looking at Kansas City Flock camera data?

A recent KCUR analysis reveals that data gathered by Kansas City-area Flock cameras has been searched hundreds of thousa

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out

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Jeremy, the patronizing Saint of DevOps 🇺🇦 @jerdog.dev · 21/09/2026

FFS... There's no fucking way he had control until he pulled it into his body. Ball movement has been not having possession for years...

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NFL Daily News @insidenflnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Emmett Johnson making defenders tackle each other

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