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segeier.bsky.social @segeier.bsky.social · 1h
A poison pill for 40, should it pass
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 2h
“'The recent decisions to shutter nearly complete offshore wind projects and to pay Total Energies hundreds of millions of dollars to renounce wind leases are an assault on logic and the American taxpayer,' he wrote...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 7h
As @johnrogers.bsky.social rightly cites, a billionaire is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuclear weapon in terms of the damage they can do and should be treated with the same seriousness by society.
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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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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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segeier.bsky.social @segeier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It would be far more effective to strictly curtail Airbnb and corporate purchasing of housing stock, but instead they will push to create housing that hasn’t been vetted for infrastructure capacity.
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segeier.bsky.social @segeier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Begging the question
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is there one person in this administration—say, the person who changes the urinal cakes in the Agriculture Department men’s room—who is not shamelessly using their position to grift every dollar they can? Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/10/2026
oh look paid protesters
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump suggesting he would let Iran take out San Diego or Los Angeles is absolutely absurd. There’s just never a bottom with this administration.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Resistors report arrests and injuries, including being pushed into barbed wire. CBP confirmed that all four cottonwoods marked for removal there are now gone. Centuries of life destroyed for two parallel walls cutting through the borderlands. We’re heartbroken and we’re angry!
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Christine Kinser @ckinser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🆘THEY’RE GOING 2 KILL QUINN Deadline noon tomorrow 2 find placement; contact @cathypolicky101.bsky.social ASAP “I marvel at how trusting& open he remains after 110 days…When I call out 2 him he runs 2 me like I’m a long-lost friend then hops into my lap, happily accepting pets” 🙏repost; c video 👇
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PacifistCell @peacefulbrevard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is SO COOL! And it's free. Popular Information is releasing PaidForBy.info, a web app that gives you unprecedented insight into who is really sending you mail — and who is paying for it. All you have to do is take a photo of the front and the back of the political mailer and upload it.
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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segeier.bsky.social @segeier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“There is no indication that Mr. Kusher or Mr. Witkoff themselves stand to profit.” U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
nytimes.com
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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segeier.bsky.social @segeier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It would be nice if this were coupled with some sincerity.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 05/10/2026
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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Empire of Grift” by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
Slowly, the Brazilians were learning the same lesson as other American allies around the world: The United States of America is no longer the entity they knew. And American power is no longer deployed solely by trained diplomats and reliable officials, working through state channels. Informal envoys, private companies, online grifters, and hardened ideologues both inside and outside the government matter more. Unlike their predecessors, these people do not talk about spreading democracy, and don’t want to build long-term relationships. They don’t care about America’s reputation. They are deploying the tools of American diplomacy and government for their own purposes, to promote their own business interests or their own ideological goals, because, suddenly, they can.
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 03/10/2026
Where are the DOGE checks? Where are lower mortgage rates? What happened to gas under $2? Where are the $2,000 tariff checks? When are electric bills being cut in half? What happened to bringing grocery prices down? What happened to the “1,500%” prescription discounts?
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 02/10/2026
"All #BorderWall and road construction across the entire Big Bend region is halted! What a massive, historic victory for everyone across #BigBend — the toughest, most beautiful souls I know. I’m a puddle of tears. More to come soon." - @laikenjordahl.bsky.social, National #PublicLands Advocate
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 02/10/2026
Right now, Nvidia is undertaking a round of stock buybacks. That means they had free cash just sitting around. All this time they could have been like "Yeah we'll use our AI profits to subsidize our retail goods and keep the public happy so they embrace the tech." They didn't. Remember that.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/10/2026
It really seems to be a cultural fact that widespread illiteracy is an indispensable prerequisite to the technological future.
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segeier.bsky.social @segeier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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segeier.bsky.social @segeier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes!!!
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segeier.bsky.social @segeier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Schmitt for brains
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The trade deficit in August was almost 30% higher than it was two years ago www.census.gov/econ/indicat... Trump would be very angry if he found out how much more we're being ripped off under his watch www.census.gov/econ/indicat...
census.gov
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segeier.bsky.social @segeier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🧐
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Big Oil, Gas Emissions Causing Water Crisis in U. S. West: Scientists
dlvr.it
Big Oil, Gas Emissions Causing Water Crisis in U. S. West: Scientists
“roughly 70% of global industrial CO2 emissions since 1854 are traceable to 122 fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers (“Carbon Majors”)
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I remember when X sued advertisers over this kind of thing. I recall a Trump Admin settlement over allegations of anticompetitive conduct for refusing ads www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
ftc.gov
FTC Takes Action to Restore Competition in the Digital Advertising Ecosystem
The Federal Trade Commission, along with a coalition of states, took decisive action today to stop collusion between the nation’s largest advertising agencies that distorted America’s modern public
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 24/09/2026
The White House effort to ban reporters is obviously a First Amendment issue. But it’s also explicitly about Trump thinking that th building and the presidency are *his* and not things the public is temporarily allowing him to use. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba. Dicamba is drift prone and kills vegetation and crops for miles around fields where it is sprayed, and is linked to liver cancer and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
theguardian.com
US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show
Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule
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segeier.bsky.social @segeier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh but I have; with a live orchestra
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s really so insane. Words mean things, @washingtonpost. If we buy something for you we didn’t “sell” it to you. This isn’t rocket science.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just when you thought it couldn’t get even more FUBAR: DOGE Staffers Are Back—and Leading AI Takeover of Government Services! The DOGE goons who drove federal agencies into the ground last year are back, including that dude who goes by “Big Balls.” newrepublic.com/post/215538/...
newrepublic.com
DOGE Staffers Are Back—and Leading AI Takeover of Government Services
The DOGE goons who drove federal agencies into the ground last year are back, including that dude who goes by “Big Balls.”
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Israeli Authorities Threaten to Strip Citizenship from "NAZA" Filmmakers documenting Gaza Genocide www.juancole.com/2026/09/auth...
juancole.com
Israeli Authorities Threaten to Strip Citizenship from "NAZA" Filmmakers documenting Gaza Genocide
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - The Yuval Abraham-Rachel Szor documentary No Other Land
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam www.juancole.com/2026/09/pent...
juancole.com
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The Department of Defense report on the Israeli-US war...
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 17/09/2026
The Fed would raise interest rates for the first time since 2023. Here's what it means for your wallets: www.contrariannews.org/p/whats-goin… @justinwolfers.bsky.social
contrariannews.org
What’s Going On with the Federal Reserve?
Economist Justin Wolfers explains what the Fed interest rate hike means for Americans.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 17/09/2026
NEWS: Trump just issued a directive that makes it legal to kill endangered species — as long as it wasn't intentional. The Endangered Species Act is now meaningless.
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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 17/09/2026
LLMs obscure the very world science seeks to illuminate. They have no place in our knowledge work practices. Anyone who insists they are the "future" of scientific papers is either a charlatan, an ignoramus, or a saboteur, and should be treated with the same contempt they show to scholarship.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Endangered Species Act is now endangered:
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Gift Article)
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A win! The Supreme Court has denied the Trump administration’s emergency request to enforce new mail-ballot restrictions ahead of the midterm elections. The decision leaves the lower court’s injunction in place, meaning the new USPS restrictions will not take effect for this election.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 14/09/2026
ICYMI: Wyoming’s wolf hunting season begins tomorrow, putting Mollie’s Pack and other Yellowstone wolves at risk of being killed by trophy hunters the moment they cross the invisible boundary of the park.
A text block centered over a blurred background. The text is a quote from Kristine Akland, our Northern Rockies director. It reads "Yellowstone’s longest continuously existing wolf family could be dead within weeks if Wyoming doesn’t step up to protect them. Mollie’s Pack has been studied by scientists and enjoyed by visitors for decades. It would be a massive loss for Wyoming and the millions of Yellowstone visitors if Wyoming Game and Fish let them be killed this hunting season."
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segeier.bsky.social @segeier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So, the Blue Man Group?
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segeier.bsky.social @segeier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wait! Baby can’t have a mace??
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