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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Why is news of this heartbreaking MASS SHOOTING that left 9 dead in Erie, PA, being buried as if it's just another day at the office? The first tragedy is the senseless loss of life. The second tragedy is that Trump and Republicans don't give AF about it.

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Love this framing: Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.”

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

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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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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

WTF. Even I am just seeing this now.

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Steve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love the glee with which Ossoff is pinning Collins to all of Collins's far right pals.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Avoided a trap Wordle 1,936 3/6* 🟩🟨⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Message from Los Angeles: 🖕

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stabs this whole interview with a copy of The Caliban and The Witch.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Allison Gill has obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Epstein documents containing Donald Trump’s name for supervisory review. The DOJ is still refusing to release the actual videos. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit, Donald Trump, tries to take our voice and power away, what do we tell him? Keep your fucking hands off our vote.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026

This was obvious. Otherwise Schmitt wouldn’t have had Crabbe and Goyle take down the poster so fast.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If Americans insist on keeping the death penalty, they should be willing to use the guillotine. It's quick, highly effective, reliable, and doesn't require expertise to operate. That using it makes some pro death penalty folks squeamish is telling.

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Who knew I knew the things that I know? Quintalist #770 1/5 Animals 1️⃣⬜⬜⬜⬜ 2️⃣⬜⬜⬜⬜ 3️⃣⬜⬜⬜⬜ 4️⃣⬜⬜⬜⬜ 5️⃣⬜⬜⬜⬜ Streak: 1 quintalist.com #quintalist

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Quintalist - Daily Ranking Challenge

Correctly answer the Daily Question in 5 tries or fewer. Select 5 choices and click Submit. Play each day!

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.

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Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas

The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Some of you may know that my grandfather was fired from his job as a school teacher in Philadelphia because he was a communist and wouldn't name names. So he sued the school district, it went to the Supreme Court, he lost ultimately. I just found some of his typewritten briefs. What a find!

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bugs screaming “Get me outta here!” into the walkie while hanging from the crescent moon is a classic

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Richard Loew @richardloew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A tough one (for me) in three Wordle 1,915 3/6* 🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Ossoff: "Then there's the ex-staffer posting swastikas and Klan regalia. And the neo-Nazi with a million followers who produces neo-Nazi propaganda at Collins's house ... a man who won't take responsibility for what happens under his own roof can't be trusted with our national affairs."

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