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Q: Did you personally authorize or approve the livestreamed execution? TRUMP: Did I approve? Absolutely I did

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 12h

Here are the faces of people whom russia murdered in their beds in Pryluky. Three babies, two older children. 17 adults. Is that what American taxpayers want to fund by procuring diesel from russia? Maybe Europe also stops remaining fuel purchases from the terrorist state? The world of hypocrisy.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 12h

In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche, a NEW order calls him out for failing to produce the redacted versions of the handwritten FBI interview notes of the South Carolina victim who alleges she was sexually and physically abused by Trump when she was just 13-15 years old: youtu.be/63K57knWExU?...

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🚨Judge REBUKES AG Blanche Over NONCOMPLIANCE In MY Epstein Lawsuit!!!

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 12h

Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel

Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17h

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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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h

4% increase in imports from Canada would easily replace the entire physical volume of diesel “negotiated” in the new US-Russia pact.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

I was at this event with hasan piker tonight and it’s hysterical to see this manhattan institute doofus sounding his lil alarm as if this is particularly controversial

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 6h

In a new Truth Social post, Trump explains why he should have received the Nobel Peace Prize—writing entirely in the voice of a man being forcibly removed from a Cheesecake Factory. Really unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize laureate.

Screenshot of a long Truth Social post from Donald Trump dated 9 October 2026. The full thing is here https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117414533410378018. It's too long for alt text, but begins:

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This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:

Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas

Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Ve…

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 5h

Trump was also very unfairly denied the Ronald McDonald Prize despite having eaten more Big Macs than the Hamburglar.

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Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social · 8h

Every once in awhile I get an email or Facebook message that tells me how my book didn't work for them. Well gosh, I'll rip it up and fix it right now.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h

Donald Trump is a traitor, he’s a Russian asset, and he’s a pathological liar. So…don’t really know what to make of this.👇

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 13h

What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...

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Off-duty ICE agent shot after assaulting 72-year-old man and his daughter at Fresno home, police say

Authorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 8h

A couple of pointed gestures.

Fist raised before a sign reading "ICE OUT"

Hand holding up a neon-style sign of a hand flipping the bird. Labels/stickers on the sign read "Chinga La Migra" and "Fuck Nazis"

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 8h

lol wait are any of you watching this willy wonka golden ticket big brother show? the set design is the most insane shit.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15h

The official lifting of sanctionson Russian diesel through April 2027. ofac.treasury.gov/media/937216...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15h

The United States is now importing fuel from Russia, per President Trump.

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 14h

After Russia invaded Ukraine, trade between Moscow and the West stopped, not just to punish Putin, but also to deny him the resources needed to help fuel the deadliest conflict in Europe since WWII. Trump now claims he’s struck a deal to buy Russian fuel, which needs to be seen as a real scandal.

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Trump claims he’s reached a deal with Putin to buy Russian diesel

The president has created a scandalous dynamic in which the administration will provide resources to both sides of an ongoing and devastating war.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 14h

Theatre of the absurd! Trump announces US will buy diesel from russia even though he signed a law mandating sanctions for any country buying russian energy. Meanwhile russia actually has a diesel export ban because they can’t meet domestic demand.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, and one more thing, it'll never happen. And frankly, doing this unilaterally without Ukraine involved is essentially a compelling reason for Ukraine to up its attacks on Russian refineries...because they are even more of a source of $$ for Russia war machine.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 14h

Not for free right? So, let's do the math. 500,000 metric tons of diesel is about $500 million. A million worth $1 billion dollars. This looks an aid program for Russia and an effective disabling of US sanctions. This strengthens the Kremlin and is a threat to US, allied interests.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14h

Trump is a traitor.

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 14h

A civilian narrowly survived a Russian drone strike on a kindergarten campus in the Kyiv region yesterday, with the entire incident captured on CCTV. 10/8/26

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 13h

writing this one down for future use in other contexts:

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 14h

Three months ago:

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

Zelenskyy: @Precisely at this moment, when we are talking about peace, America is giving Russia the opportunity to export diesel. This is... I don't know. “I believe our team is simply being used as a cover. And this is definitely unfair. “This is definitely un-partner-like.”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: When Christa Pike became the first person to survive multiple lethal injections, witnesses at the prison that day suddenly became a part of history. I spoke with @iamstevenhale.bsky.social of Nashville Banner about the things he saw in the execution chamber—and the things he could only hear:

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What it's like to witness a botched execution

Q+A with Steven Hale of The Nashville Banner, who watched as Christa Pike survived two lethal injections.

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 13h

hello, I am doing some research and would like to tap into the collective brains of BSKY: 1. can you share some genre or literary fiction magazines that have closed and the archive is NO LONGER ONLINE 2. the same but the archives remain online FOR NOW i would also appreciate RTs for awareness 💀

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21h

Not happening, Donald! Just days after claiming it would be a “great discredit” if he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, the prize went to South African anti-apartheid lawyer and human rights judge Navi Pillay.

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Trump Denied Nobel Peace Prize Yet Again; Winner is South African Anti-Apartheid Judge Navanethem “Navi” Pillay

Pillay was honored for her courage in defending international law and justice as a pioneering South African judge

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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 15h

Vertical slit windows so characteristic of many of these post WW II era industrial buildings. Not much, but probably allows in a little natural lighting into the maintenance areas. The lettering isn’t neon, but each letter has a small light at the base. Perfect spacing. This pic was around dawn

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16h

ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 14h

Asked about Cuni’s history, the Department of Homeland Security said it would “never confirm or deny attempts to dox our law enforcement officers” because “publicizing their identities puts their lives and the lives of their families at serious risk.”

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 14h

The ICE agent at the center of the shooting in Marble Hill on Thursday is a familiar face to those closely following the Trump administration’s ICE crackdown in NYC. The City Reporter wrote about Brenden Cuni in May. 🧵

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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 08/10/2026

one of the advantages of having tried to understand marxist theories about capital is that it’s always immediately bleedin obvious that capital will never ever allow economies of automation to result in increased leisure

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21h

The crimes continue! These prosecutors simply love lying to and withholding evidence from this judge, who told them they will face contempt charges if they keep doing this. I actually don’t believe she’s going to stand for this anymore. They’re clearly hiding something truly insidious.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 18h

Jesus famously interrupted a public stoning.

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 18h

The American fascist regime doing fascism. VOTE

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WIRED @wired.com · 18h

SCOOP: Federal prosecutors have been weighing a perjury and obstruction of justice case against Cassidy Hutchinson, who implicated President Donald Trump in the January 6 Capitol riot in testimony four years ago, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

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The DOJ Is Weighing Perjury Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson

The Justice Department is considering a perjury and obstruction of justice case against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who testified against Donald Trump to the January 6 committee.

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404 Media @404media.co · 21h

Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer too.

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‘Jonathan’ Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth. He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death

Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer too.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22h

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drink

The console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders.

In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink

A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20h

Casey Newton says he simply HAS to return to using a right wing propaganda website owned by an overt white supremacist, because that's where the AI bros are there was simply no way to effectively cover the industry without submerging himself in sewage, we are told

"And so, in the coming days, I plan to resume posting on X. I am doing so not because I think it’s any better — it isn’t — but because I have exhausted all of the alternatives. I continue to believe that anyone who can avoid posting on X should. But my calculus about the t.radeoffs involved for my own work has shifted: as the stakes of the AI conversation have risen, boycotting X over my disagreements with management has grown both more costly and less effective.

Should the AI crowd ever move elsewhere, I will happily follow them. But I’ve become convinced that it’s important I engage with them, even if doing so makes me feel like I’m coworking inside a Port-a-Potty."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Q: Many feel you have not addressed the fact your son in law is a white supremacist influencer. What have you said to your family? COLLINS: That's my family OSSOFF: Imagine running for Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He doesn't even deny his son-in-law is a white supremacist. He simply claims it's out of bounds to ask about his support of white supremacy because he's family.

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