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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 55m

If that had happened to me, I would have assumed I was being carjacked.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 9h

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 Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 59m

Watching the season premiere of Law & Order and it's all about prosecuting the CEO of an AI company for creating a murderous program. This is called "losing the center."

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 44m

Let's check in on the Russian diesel next week, after we've circled back on the Belarusian potash

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 2h

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1977: A millionaire Harvard lawyer spends eight hours shoveling horse manure in Ocala, Fla. He called it a campaign strategy. Floridians called him their next Governor. His name was Bob Graham, and he soon became one of the nation’s most respected politicians. /1

Florida State Senator Bob Graham works as a “pooper scooper” at Ocala Breeders’ Sales, Oct. 9, 1977. Graham worked for 100 days at different jobs around the state during his first campaign for Governor. The Workdays concept began by chance in 1974 while Graham was serving in the Florida State Senate. As Chairman of the Education Committee, he openly criticized the quality of civic education in Florida schools. A frustrated high school teacher, Sue Reilly, dared him to try teaching a class himself. Graham accepted the challenge and spent a semester teaching civics at Carol City High School. He later designated this experience as his official “Workday #1,” and used it to make funding for school construction a top legislative priority. He realized that immersion was the most effective way to understand the reality of his constituents’ lives and translate that into political action. The Workdays program became a signature strategy throughout Graham’s political career.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 1h

Just as an aside this cite to NFIB v. OSHA is 👩‍🍳💋 because this is the awful opinion that prevented a covid-19 vaccines in many workplaces. But here this judge uses this precedent for good to bolster democracy. 👩‍⚖️✅🗳️

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.

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robertswartz.bsky.social @robertswartz.bsky.social · 1h

Gracie is not amused with these people.

Gracie, my gray and white tabby cat looking unamused.

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robertswartz.bsky.social @robertswartz.bsky.social · 2h

I like these types of Democrats. Ossoff, Talarico, Jackson, Nixon. And more.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "It was global warming. And that didn't work because the planet started cooling. The icebergs are bigger than ever."

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 3h

JUST IN: Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett allows BBC to serve subpoenas on Don Jr., Ivanka & Jared in Trump's lawsuit over editing of 2020 election documentary. BBC said ordinary service methods were frustrated by Secret Service. Now can serve by certified mail & through counsel.

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 6h

Context: 300k tonnes of diesel = 93 million gallons. US uses 160 to 170 million gallons per day - so 300k tonnes would last 13-14 hours. Total order of 1.8 million tonnes = ~82 hours of US use = ~3 days 10 hours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises 'gift to Putin'

Ukraine's president said allowing Russia to sell petroleum products would prolong a war that must be ended.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 5h

Trump started a stupid & illegal war in Iran that has driven up diesel prices. Now he wants to bankroll Putin's illegal war against Ukraine by buying diesel from him. One strategic disaster after the next. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel, suggests US may buy amid surging fuel prices

The move comes weeks ahead of the midterm elections.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 5h

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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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 3h

“For the past three years, I believed that his punishment was so light because my rape wasn’t significant or bad enough.” Then the school doled out the same punishment in the Jane Doe case.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

BARCLAYS: ".. If AI financing were truly immune from rates then we would not have see a basket of datacenter bonds move from 120bps spreads to 180bps in the past six months." (via WSJ)

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 9h

The administration that continues to cover up for pedophiles simply cannot be trusted with the care of hundreds of unaccompanied children with no oversight and no transparency

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 11h

Congressional Republicans knew this would happen, yet they ceded tariff authority to Donald Trump. They are responsible for the current cost of living crisis.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11h

when the racist trillionaire with a breeding cult and a child porn bot is funding your opposition you should say something about it

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks be to God that we no longer have to live under the tyrannical yoke of the woke radical left language police.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The White House considers anyone that uses the term, "Artificial Intelligence," as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term,
"Super Intelligence," THE ENEMY! President
DONALD J. TRUMP
524 ReTruths 1.73k Likes
10/8/26, 12:14 PM

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 14h

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 11h

Trump’s obsession with demonizing the Somali community is dangerous and reprehensible. Hate to break it to him: Somali Minnesotans are resilient. We will not let Trump intimidate us. Our neighbors have our back.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11h

every senate democrat voted to confirm marco rubio.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

These weirdos never move on to the next logical step of their beliefs, which if they were true would mean their bot friend is being enslaved.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 11h

"The Cultural Revolution was a huge missed opportunity" "The Weimar Enabling Act was a huge missed opportunity" "Soviet agricultural collectivization was a huge missed opportunity" "The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand von Hapsburg was a huge missed opportunity" should I go on?

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11h

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 12h

Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic, childlike devotion to Donald Trump.

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robertswartz.bsky.social @robertswartz.bsky.social · 11h

They both need to sue immediately. Out up or shut up, Trump DOJ.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The American Dream is amazing: within just a few years you can go from being the child of Cuban immigrants to the great-grandson of Spanish settlers.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 11h

Shot chaser etc

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Rob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social · 11h

Please read this closely- my opponent WOULD ban cancer treatments, and sounds very much like the political operative he’s been for a decade.

The image shows a news article about the Iowa governor's race affecting vaccine policy. A portrait of Zach Lahn, a Republican candidate for governor, is displayed at the bottom.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, of course, why don't those Democrats join me in investigating the people who dared to probe the role of the White House and a short list of congressional Republicans in the events of Jan 6? Chuck, 93, is exploring how to transfer his seat to his grandson before a D becomes governor in IA.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, didn't care to look through the window and see who was inside. Just decided to start shooting. Under New York law, this satisfies the prerequisites for reckless endangerment ((NY Penal Law § 120.20, with aggravating circumstances).

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

Your regular reminder that the job of an ICE officer is dramatically safer than the job of a regular cop, such that not a single ICE deportation officer has been killed in the line of duty since 1949 (and that was actually a stabbing inside an INS jail in Hawaii, not street enforcement).

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11h

I can’t help but notice that ICE keeps claiming that people it shoots were trying to ram the agents with a car, and then video keeps proving that’s a lie.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11h

This is hilarious. You can't hide the name of the government prosecutors asking a judge to hide something! DOJ running scared!

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13h

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

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robertswartz.bsky.social @robertswartz.bsky.social · 11h

There's a moral quality to his word choices. Bigot hits way harder than saying someone is racist imo, to cite one example. Also, without compromise you sound more confident.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

ICE is a militia of serial abusers.

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robertswartz.bsky.social @robertswartz.bsky.social · 19h

Since it's their favorite Martin Luther King quote, I say we take Republicans at their word and judge them by the content of their character.

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robertswartz.bsky.social @robertswartz.bsky.social · 19h

Hell of a week, debate-wise. I like the rising generation of Democrats.

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robertswartz.bsky.social @robertswartz.bsky.social · 19h

Damn, it's refreshing. And he's resurrected the word bigot, which hits in a way that racist doesn't because it adds the sting of ignorance. Every Dem candidate should follow his lead. And bring back weird in your vocabulary while you're at it.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

recalling now that Ossoff came in throwing sufficient high heat in the 2020 debates that Perdue opted to no-show the last two

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

Proposal Favor or oppose
Favor Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices 89 10
Limited terms for justices 79 21
Increase number of justices 53 47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026

nationalize everything Elon Musk owns.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 22h

“You don’t know if they’re law enforcement officers or just attacking someone on the street. And when it comes to ice it begs the question, what’s the difference?”

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