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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 15h

Engage the base. Persuade the middle. Alienate the opposition, better yet, expose precisely how sick and evil they are.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

another indicator that hegseth freelanced this without discussing it with trump

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 11h

I refuse to believe Arkansas is happening but a Republican pollster showing Cotton at 50% is a hilariously bad read-through to other races.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 12h

Vance figured out this is bad politics? Vance??? Damn

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h

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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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11h

its really annoying that our first bisexual president is also evil

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15h

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 16h

Republicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 14h

Breaking: Pope Leo XIV to be investigated for mortgage fraud.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S.
Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

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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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

finally, the median voter final boss

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 16h

real existing people in the developing world were and are being killed by the destruction of usaid, which these people all supported, but people would rather discuss whether spicy clippy deserves his own state

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15h

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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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 16h

So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h

it's kind of funny that the opposite happens to me in which my avatar is obviously a cartoon so people assume i *am* white

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

Breakfast time

The tails of my kitties eggsy, benne and jimmi pickles as they eat breakfast next to each other

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h

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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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 14h

It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15h

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17h

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...

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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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16h

Also, fwiw, I find ancient Greek individuality easy to overstate: only for adult citizen males, of course, but also even citizens really didn't have any rights the community was bound to respect. It's an individualistic society by pre-modern standards, but I wouldn't say fiercely so.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 13h

how many politically toxic things can you theoretically say at one fundraiser?

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14h

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h

Deeply American sentence (from Davy Crockett’s wikipedia page)

Despite Crockett’s opposition to the institution of slavery in the United States, he did enslave people.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 16h

Your boss was trying to incite a racist pogrom yesterday, Markwayne

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 14h

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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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 15h

I am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 15h

Some of these quotes are too delicious: “I think the scary part is we don’t know where the bottom is” “The environment has a lot people scared to death” “People that are in R+10 districts are showing [polling that] they’re tied and they’re saying, ‘I need help’”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15h

One thing that Ossoff does - thank god - is COMPLETELY abandon the weird liberal wisdom that you should never say your opponent’s name. He says “Mike Collins” about 30 times in this clip, not “my opponent” or some such, and the directness make his attacks exponentially more brutal.

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