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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h
Trump's suit appears to be part of Jos. A. Bank's Traveler line. The suit is listed as having been made abroad using a wool-polyester-spandex blend. The company describes it as having the "ultimate stretch" and was designed to minimize body odor.
Trump wearing a blue suit on stage. He is flashing his jacket open, such that you can see the interior labels. One label says Jos. A. Bank. A product shot from Jos. A. Bank's website. This is from the Traveler line. It appears to match the label in Trump's suit. A photo from the product page touts that the suit is made from a new "fabric technology" that has "ultimate stretch performance" and "anti-microbial/ reduce moisture and odor" qualities. There is a photo of a man wearing the suit. From the product page: "Product Details & Care
Stay comfortable and confident with this Traveler® Collection suit separates jacket, powered by innovative 37.5 © technology. Designed to maintain your body's ideal microclimate, the fabric removes moisture at the vapor stage to keep you dry before sweat even forms. Plus, 37.5 helps absorb and trap odor molecules, keeping you fresh and ready for every occasion. Offering maximum mobility with built-in stretch, this jacket moves effortlessly with you throughout your day. As part of the suit separates collection, it allows you to customize your fit by selecting jacket, vest, and pant sizes individually, ensuring a tailored look that's perfect for you.
Traditional Fit
Two button
Natural stretch fabric
Water- and stain-resistant
Performance stretch lining
66% wool, 30% 37.5 polyester, 4% spandex
Dry clean only
Imported

Shipping and returns
Get free standard shipping on orders over $50, or enjoy it on every purchase, no minimum by joining our Bank Account Rewards® program—join for free and never pay for standard shipping again! See our Shipping Policy for more details.
Shop worry-free knowing returns are free on every purchase. Return within 90 days from original date of purchase at any Jos. A. Bank store or by mail at no cost. See our Return Policy for more details."
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20h
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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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When the bad man finally drops dead we can all move on. We'll still be sharing a country with countless people who gleefully aided and abetted his crimes but they probably won't do it again
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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 06/10/2026
Just politely ask how many sets they have left and that usually gives them the hint that others are waiting.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
this one's low even for bari
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 04/10/2026
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 03/10/2026
Kept Thomas Guides for LA and San Diego in my car.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 02/10/2026
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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 01/10/2026
Steve Bannon, polo shirt collar inception
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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 01/10/2026
You’ve come a long way baby
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 26/09/2026
Birria tacos 🌮
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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 25/09/2026
Trying not to kink shame
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Btw, even among pro AI friends, this concern is ALL OVER THE PLACE. Devs wondering how we get senior devs if the ecosystem for junior devs goes away. Doctors talking about not needing interns. Lawyers not needing paralegals. There's an ecological aspect to this and we need a plan.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...
ms.now
A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"In the morning, I walked out barefoot Among thousands of flowers Heavy with dew like the eyes of tears, And each had a name--" Today's lunch read: "The Names," a poem by Billy Collins dedicated to the victims of September 11 & their survivors allpoetry.com/poem/1432718... #poetry #booksky 🗃️📜📚
Typescript pages annotated by Billy Collins of his poem “The Names,” which commemorates victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Collins read the poem before a special joint session of Congress on September 6, 2002.

Harry Ransom Center
University of Texas at Austin


(the title of the poem is)
The Names 
(and it is dedicated to the victims of September 11th and their survivors)

Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night.
A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze,
And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows,
I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened,
Then Baxter and Calabro,
Davis and Eberling, names falling into place
As droplets fell through the dark.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2:05 pm 2:21 pm @atrupar.com
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We made a comic about a jaguar.
1 Person at zoo, looking at jaguar: I read that jaguars get high on psychedelic mushrooms out in nature.
2 Jaguar: You looking for shrooms?
3 Jaguar: I also got coke, xannies, and the dankest weed money can buy.
4 Jaguar: Guards coming, be cool.
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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 02/09/2026
In most the country a car is required to even get to a store or a job. I bet those households also have a refrigerator.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Natalie Harp
Janet from The Good Place going "I'm luggage."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We sort of knew this was happening for a while. But what we are seeing now is data and court filings that reveal how systematically and blatantly the Trump administration has withheld resources from blue states as political retribution. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"It always works out. It's like a chess game" -- something no chess player has ever said
forever-wars.com
Trump 'Low-Key' Admits Defeat in Iran
Now begins the true forever-war stage of this conflict. PLUS: An important alliance emerges—one tied to all the great powers
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A Way with Words @waywordradio.org · 05/08/2026
How does the brain build a sentence? Nature looks at neurons that fire in the split second before speech, as grammar, vocabulary, and meaning come together. Read more:
nature.com
How the brain builds sentences, neuron by neuron
Neural maps reveal the specialized cells that produce speech.
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...
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It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Similarly, if a random citizen at your daughter's soccer game wanted to check the genitals of the kids playing, you would call the fucking cops, and rightly so. Stop debating these people and call them out for what they are -- creepy perverts, freaky busybodies and utter hypocrites.
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Congressman Greg Landsman @repgreglandsman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
President Trump is about to deport tens of thousands of Haitians. My full statement.👇🏼
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Justice Department said “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation
The Justice Department said “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 23/07/2026
NASDAQ basically force-loaded about $25 billion of SpaceX stock into passive investor portfolios (aka, people's pension and retirement funds) by jamming SpaceX into its index right at IPO time rather than waiting the standard 30-60 days. Billions of dollars of unrealized losses already.
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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 20/07/2026
:-)
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:-)
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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 20/07/2026
That’s a hefty chonker.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Only InfoWars can teach you how: theonion.info
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The guy burning his hand on the barrel is a fun grace note.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Scott A @scottomkt.com · 11/07/2026
Are we there yet?
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 28/06/2026
In the concept art this arch was supposed to be a perfect miniature of Trump's planned 250 ft (76m) tall arch. The rushed and limited planning time led to this Home Depot scrap plywood wrapped in vinyl debacle.
Contrasting photos of the Freedom 250 concept art the Trump's state fair, with a fully detailed miniature triumphal arch, and and actual photo of the event with a crude plywood wrapped in vinyl sheeting arch.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"we do six Watergates before lunch every day"
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