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Joe Rojas-Burke

@rojasburke.bsky.social
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I'm a #ScienceWriter based in Arizona (most of the time) and in Brooklyn. Sharing stuff about science, journalism, politics, beloved plants and animals, #RockClimbing, #Bicycling, #Gardening...

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 9h
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
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Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️
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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 17h
"Trejo’s rep confirmed his statements but had no further comment" because he f**ked up royally and knows it
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22h
Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel, and Henry Thomas starring in a Ben Shapiro’s pro ICE propaganda film… Were retirement, poverty or seppuku not options? variety.com/2026/film/ne...
variety.com
Danny Trejo Speaks Out About His Role in Daily Wire ‘Pawn Shop’ Movie: ‘I Am Not Pro-ICE. I Am Pro-Immigrant.’
Danny Trejo is speaking out after facing backlash for the Daily Wire movie "Pawn Shop" from Ben Shapiro's production company.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy: “Don’t attack us. Don’t kill our children. We will stop attacking your diesel. I think it’s a fair deal.”
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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yandex is uploading everything to the cloud. Very advanced Russian technology. No cables, no servers.
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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 23h
If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23h
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Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
The French firm is reinventing the classic model as carmakers come under pressure from Chinese rivals.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In Germany, the curb can charge your car. Developed by Rheinmetall, these electric vehicle charging points are integrated directly into sidewalk curbs, removing the need for conventional charging posts. The compact system delivers up to 22 kW while taking up virtually no additional sidewalk space.
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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 17h
every interview with Anne Carson makes me like her more
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/10/2026
Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 17h
"Along with the liberating relief that belongs to the veteran who tells his story, I felt in writing a complex, intense new pleasure, similar to that of the student who penetrates the solemn order of differential calculus." -- Primo Levi *That "solemn order," is it still there, or is it profaned
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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 12/10/2026
Now open: Two new grant programs to support faculty and centers of excellence at HBCUs. Applications are due in 1 month: bit.ly/46VGZ9V #math #science #funding
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Apply Now: New Grants to Support HBCU Faculty and Research Excellence
Apply Now: New Grants to Support HBCU Faculty and Research Excellence on Simons Foundation
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.
Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.
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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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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
very on brand for this guy
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Russia said "thank you" for the lifted diesel sanctions by dropping five guided bombs on homes in Zaporizhzhia, Zelensky says, with the toll standing at 12 dead, including three children, and 14 wounded, two critically.
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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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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
variety.com
David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley
A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity
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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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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Target Corporation say what??? "must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk"
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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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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"OpenAI’s annualised revenue is about $20bn less than the company had signalled, according to financial documents shared with investors, a massive gap likely to damp optimism about the growth of AI demand." www.ft.com/content/b66a...
ft.com
OpenAI annualised revenues $20bn less than previously signalled
AI group recently told investors the critical figure was nearing $50bn in September, far less than the $70bn widely reported
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Machu Pikacchu @judet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So I guess everything old is new again, huh?
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Taxpayer funded child abuse by masked monsters. When the time comes, accountability and radical change will have to be what we lead with and achieve. This is not my government.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump: "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"
Trump: "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"
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Who wrote this on p.58 of his autobiography? (Hint: he’s a beardo weirdo.) “You can walk through a [rural] town where 30 percent of the young men work fewer than twenty hours a week and find not a single person aware of his own laziness.”
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Dexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"
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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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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What's the most beautiful horror movie you've ever seen? I would say Kwaidan, though I realize that's a pretty basic answer. But given Kwaidan as a benchmark, can you recommend a horror (or horror-adjacent) movie in that league, or even more gorgeous?
A hooded figure makes its way through a snowy nighttime landscape—and the sky is lit up by eyes. From Masaki Kobayashi's KWAIDAN (1965)
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEWS: A federal judge has ordered DHS to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, 5 months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, where he has no ties. The decision that could have implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s 3rd-country removal scheme.
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I know, right?!
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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Suboptimal that this guy is the Vice President’s favorite “intellectual”
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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Carnival of Souls, 1962. dir. Herk Harvey
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Update on US-Ecuadorian maritime ops: "An Ecuadorian judge declared 32 crew members of two vessels that were intercepted and bombed by the United States in Pacific waters innocent on Wednesday." efe.com/mundo/declar...
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Spare me Sen. Thom Tillis’s self-interested redemption book tour. When he had the opportunity to do what was right, he failed nearly every time. For example, he drew a line on Jan. 6 apologia, and then confirmed multiple people who crossed it, including Kash Patel and Jeanine Pirro.
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Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Princess and the pea over here
a dog sleeping on a tall stack of cushions
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*Could there even BE a bigger bunch of marks than TrumpPhone users?
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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived in Blue Sky
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"I used to be able to use my religion as armor when I trumpeted my deeply-held bigotries, but it doesn't work anymore! 😭"
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Russian "Lancet" loitering munition became entangled in the mesh of a Ukrainian anti-drone tunnel located above a road. It likely targeted a vehicle that was traveling on the covered section. And this time, the tunnel functioned exactly as it was designed to.
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
12/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2
Screenshot of database titled "Explore All Incidents Where Citizens Were Detained." Text below explains that this is every incident ProPublica could find in which one or more citizens were reportedly detained between January 2025 and September 2026. There are 506 citizens' cases in the database, and users can sort by what the incidents involve, where the incident is located, and the recency of the case.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.
36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.
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