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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h
OSSOFF: Mike, you just confused Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act despite reading from your notes ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Ossoff: "In my view, based upon the evidence I've seen thus far, the president's misconduct, abuse of power, and corruption, already exceed any prior standard for impeachment."
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11h
Shut up!
"GE warns its toaster may grow human arms and shoot you with a gun" Ok that sounds like their fault. They should do something about that
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract—Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to uncover them” www.theverge.com/tech/1009411...
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A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract and it refused
Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to undo it.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 9h
that might have been the most monday of a tuesday i have ever had
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serindipity.bsky.social @serindipity.bsky.social · 16h
Due to a Far Side comic, when we are hungry but unsure of what we want to eat, we say we want “People fud.”
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 17h
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & partners just sued ICE over a nasty catch-22 ICE detains people, takes their IDs & work papers, releases them, keeps the papers. Now they can't work & risk getting picked up again for having no ID We're going to court to get it ALL back -TN
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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
this is not a door guys like him want to open, he just doesn't know it yet
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026
hey ben. the guy in the picture here is an actual person, my friend’s dad, and a spiritual leader of Lakota people, Chief Arvol Looking Horse. not only does he support Indigenous People’s Day, he’s the founder of World Peace and Prayer Day. feels weird to use his image and not his name.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 13/10/2026
NASA's Perseverance rover breaks record for off-planet driving on Mars reut.rs/3Wo6VZB
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NASA's Perseverance rover breaks record for off-planet driving on Mars
NASA's robotic Perseverance rover has now driven farther than any other vehicle on the surface of any world ​other than Earth, racking up 28.1 miles (45.2 km) since arriving on Mars in 2021, the US space agency said on Tuesday.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.
inquirer.com
The SS United States is set to be sunk in mid-November
Okaloose County expects to sink the SS United States the second week in November, depending on weather.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 12/10/2026
A new California law restricts prisons’ ability to deny Californians the ability to visit their loved ones at the last minute. “I feel a lot better and more confident now that this has passed,” says a woman who travels a great distance to visit her son.
boltsmag.org
This New Law Will Make It Easier for Californians to Visit Family in Prison - Bolts
Families of incarcerated people have long faced arbitrary denial of visits and harassment by prison staff. They advocated for reforms that passed last week.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nobody who has ever tried to make me feel small has possessed a life or a heart I admired. Says Skeletor thinking about so very many people he doesn’t admire.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Dude outside the grocery store, with a clipboard: take this, vote against WA having an income tax Me: but I want an income tax Dude: Sorry, I think I misheard you, vote to PREVENT an income tax Me: yes, I WANT an income tax Dude: (nonplussed) what does the breadwinner in your household want?
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/10/2026
IT IS ALWAYS THEM. ALWAYS.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 11/10/2026
Votebeat reports on several election clerks in Michigan missing the deadline to send absentee ballots to voters:
votebeat.org
Some Michigan voters still without absentee ballots after clerks miss state deadline
Voters in multiple Michigan counties are still waiting for their ballots.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
It's good that the pressure was applied and the order issued, but the fact that these fuckers tried to deploy the Guard to voting sites At All is a direct escalation and attempt to test what level of authoritarian fuckery they can get away with. Very glad DC held firm and said "No."
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Under-radar stakes: Supreme Court elections. Justices who’ve upheld restrictions on abortion are up next month in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Texas. Justices who have sided with abortion access are up in Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Wyoming.
boltsmag.org
Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts
Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Also: the cruelty inflicted on the unhoused is a barometer of the state violence we're willing to tolerate.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's actually not complicated. You end homelessness with safe, dignified housing people can afford.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
The argument against trains is that our cities are insufficiently dense to support trains, and that is certainly true for many cities at this moment. However, we should not be designing and zoning for this moment. We should be thinking about our infrastructure in thirty years.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You mustn't let the dystopian nightmare bullshit dim your fucking sparkle. Says Skeletor knowing Dolly would never so we must never.
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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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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If Donald Trump, with his record of corruption and law-breaking, is not impeached, we might as well strike impeachment provisions from the Constitution. He is the reason they exist and must be implemented.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 08/10/2026
I know everyone’s jaded and exhausted by the continual parade of madness, but this is the president of US openly inciting racist violence against an entire community of immigrants. (w/ alt text)
The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing.
They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help — and leave the rest to us! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 08/10/2026
He's a "mainstream" Republican.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 08/10/2026
I'm so tired of the constant cruelty.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026
Pete Hegseth says Americans will be able to watch a Trump-approved firing-squad execution. If he follows through, the U.S. could join a disturbing club of countries known for public executions—including Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea.
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Hegseth Turns Trump’s Firing Squad Into a Public Spectacle
The Army has scheduled Nidal Hasan’s December 3 execution at Fort Hood — the first military execution since 1961 — while the Pentagon still will not explain how the firing squad will operate.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/10/2026
From The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 08/10/2026
As a political science professor, I can confidently say: If I asked a student to define "socialism" on an exam and they wrote that, they would get an F
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hahaha the Hatch Act is meaningless (if you’re a Republican just like every other rule, norm, and law). Good times. For some.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A gathering of neo-Nazis and white supremacists was found out and quickly disrupted in #Portland, thanks to the quick work of community members who uncovered it. Thread here.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Week of action against ICE in Vermont continues. "The resulting “Harvest Lane Community Garden” was designed to serve two purposes: block traffic to a key US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building and beautify the area." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/06/m...
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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe
About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026
📮 Your mail ballot could be postmarked too late to count, even if you mailed it on time. New USPS cost-cutting changes put tens of thousands of mail voters at risk of having their mail ballots rejected. Make a plan and check to see if your zip code is affected: demdock.com/4rMi8Ps
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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ken Paxton Joins War On Childhood Diseases, On The Side Of Childhood Diseases www.wonkette.com/p/ken-paxton... By Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Ken Paxton Joins War On Childhood Diseases, On The Side Of Childhood Diseases
Ken Paxton hates your children and wants them to die.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Page One in Philly:
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