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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10h
Morally fucked up how the rich get rewarded for making themselves richer and the world worse. You took out student loans and are still paying them off? You're financially irresponsible. Nearly run a multibillion dollar company into the ground? Here's your hundreds of millions in severance.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
friday is for kafkaposting
tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);
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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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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know I know, look who the president is but still: this means there’s basically no bar set when it comes to intolerable levels of scandal, corruption, or public and private amorality
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t think a 21X increase in the cost to get a tanker out of the Persian Gulf with lower total exports than before the war is an achievement. And I think it’s odd that so much of the press has been covering it as if we should see this as positive, with “Better Than You Think”-style “explainers.”
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Econ 101
Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never has a FIFA president affected the field of play as much as Infantino. In just one World Cup his organization has appeared to bend the rules for Cristiano Ronaldo, Folarin Balogun and as we found the DR Congo (where his close friend was appointed FA president) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...
nytimes.com
FIFA Found Congo Player Ineligible, Let Him Play in World Cup (Gift Article)
Officials determined that a goalkeeper from the Democratic Republic of Congo did not have the correct paperwork, documents show. But no action was taken, renewing questions about FIFA’s governance.
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Reverend Dave @reverenddave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If the letter is true-ish and these checks are going specifically to people with unsubsidized plans, it probably represents a straightforward upward redistribution of wealth
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The obvous conclusion from that New York Times story about Karoline Leavitt is that the Times doesn't mind being lied to by taxpayer-funded "public servants." The Times doesn't even think it's newsworthy that the public is being lied to.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026
ugh, can't believe the woke bluesky mob is scared of bold political thinking, just because it comes from a money launderer who keeps moving headquarters to stay ahead of basic financial regulations
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Reverend Dave @reverenddave.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The international nfl gamepass has aired at least two Ken Paxton ads and that dumbass black and white Trump ad that our tax dollars paid for. Why?
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's about trying the entire Trump administration agenda in the court of public opinion. The corruption. The cruelty. The incompetence. The flagrant disregard for the law. Vought is the perfect avatar for all of that. Done well, it could be an opportunity to put Unitary Executive Theory on trial.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, this may be it: 1989 Teamsters were put under federal oversight bc they’d been mobbed up forever. Ever since they’ve looked to Repubs to help them end the consent decree. Nothing was more important to them I looked, & sure enough, DOJ just ended federal oversight teamster.org/2026/09/u-s-...
teamster.org
U.S. District Court Grants End to 37-Year Federal Monitorship of Teamsters Union
(WASHINGTON) – After nearly four decades, the U.S. government has officially ended federal monitorship of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, followin
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028
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Eugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It decimated the federal workforce - not overhauled it. The elimination of expertise. The destruction of capacity. It also did NOT slash government spending. Spending is UP. It has been reallocated to the secret police and military. Stop publishing falsehoods.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Reverend Dave @reverenddave.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I struggle to comprehend the level of open nazism that Tucker has achieved to make nod aggressively in support of Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
sitting in the vatican, full outfit, bottle of malort, yelling about the natives about their trash pizza
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Republicans eagerly accept money from their largest donor, who generates and distributes nude fakes. He's welcome at the White House and he's welcome to run ads supporting their campaigns
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/10/2026
It sure is interesting what things the NFL will not tolerate and which ones it will
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Second chances are for people who accept responsibility, apologise, pay their debt to society and show that they have changed. Watson hasn't done a single thing to deserve anything other that a lifetime of opprobrium and, hopefuly, a third torn achilles tendon.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Doesn’t sound like America First. bsky.app/profile/meid...
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we're investing millions to make it easier to have your passports stolen before delivery follow me for more process improvement life hacks
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Newsletter is out! I've noticed some panic over what the government should be doing to regulate AI. I have a pretty simple solution, make the people who put out harmful products afraid of prison link.heartlandsignal.com/v/443/b6619d...
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The next Democratic attorney general should dedicate a deputy full-time to investigating everything Kushner has done over the past decade with the explicit aim of clawing back billions from him and throwing him in prison. It's the most blatant corruption in American history. bsky.app/profile/cnni...
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 30/09/2026
I love when they say things like this. They provide great callback opportunities for the third act. For example, when Markwayne complains about the squalid conditions in his cell at Guantanamo Bay, the guard will say “We’re not providing Holiday Inns” in a satisfying manner as he locks the latch.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s, um…interesting that the documentation req’d by disadvantaged folks to access social safety net programs - in the interest of “accountability” to ensure no improper use - is not req’d by the very politicians who rail about the need to be responsible with taxpayer dollars.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/09/2026
"How is this not an Onion headline" is the wrong question. That's the old question, from the old world, from the time of the Old Republic. The question now is, "How is reality now contained entirely within the paradigm of the Onion?"
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This question should be central to the debate over AI and data centers: why is it that the largest private infrastructure project in world history is undercutting workers rather than creating jobs?
paulkrugman.substack.com
One More Reason Americans Hate AI: It Does Nothing for Them
Trillions of dollars in spending, higher interest rates, hardly any jobs
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 29/09/2026
a lot of things could be fixed in this country with a few defamation suits (Schmitt being so stupid he repeated it while no longer protected by the speech & debate clause)
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Reverend Dave @reverenddave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can we get Cruz in front of a committee to explain how he thinks Dennys works?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Expanding the court can mitigate this, but until the elite culture that coddles these people and their obviously bad-faith arguments every step along the way, this won't actually end. www.vox.com/politics/504...
vox.com
The next generation of Republican justices will be even more partisan
Trump’s lower court judges won’t even listen to the Supreme Court when it tells them “no.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US
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