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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18m
I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.
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, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 58m
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 4h
"The phrase 'history is written by the victors" is largely true, but in Requiem for Gaza, Hedges and Sacco defiantly offer us a history of this genocide from the Palestinian perspective, to honor the survivors and dignify the countless lives that have already been lost." -- The Arts STL
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 8h
Republicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 18h
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation 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.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 10h
Dear @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, where you at? You say you're the opposition without doing the actual work of opposing. Abolish ICE.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anyone remember 25 years ago when the people who sent out videos of themselves executing people were the bad guys? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...
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Daniel Pearl - Wikipedia
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Eric Deters: "Kimberly Guilfoyle is a grifter. Kimberly Guilfoyle I have no doubt has done this to more than me. She's doing it right now in Greece. I know Corey Lewandowski did this stuff. I know Kristi Noem did this stuff."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The people who doxxed her will say they are in now way responsible for this entirely predictable turn of events. www.tmz.com/2026/10/08/c...
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Cornell Jane Doe Swatted By Someone Who Called 911 to Report Fake Shooting
8:54 AM -- We obtained the dispatch call tied to the swatting incident, and you hear the dispatcher say cops determined there was "nothing going on."
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/07/2019
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief. Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides #everynightapoem
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A thing I should have mentioned: They’re waiving adoption fees for the next week. You can just have this sweet sweet pup for zero dollars down. Or take her on a day trip, also zero dollars. She will love you unconditionally and slay your foes, probably. Go meet her.
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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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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The media's dilemma: should we cover that a guy contemplating how to dispose of Jews is cited by the VP as an intellectual influence or write another piece about vague connections between Democrats and Hassan Piker? 🤔
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Yankees Baseball Game Action
ALT: Yankees Baseball Game Action
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
nytimes.com
Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Film Forum @filmforumnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eva Marie Saint (1924-2026) 🕊️ R.I.P. to the luminous star of the silver screen.
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Dan Rafael @danrafael1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
THE free #boxing schedule is updated as it is daily. Check it out & also take a few seconds & sign up for my newsletter & a new sked will hit your inbox each Tuesday: danrafael.substack.com/p/the-update... #IglesiasZaren #SchofieldBahdi #FundoraHadribeaj #NavarreteFoster #SmithPuello #FuryJoshua
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The updated daily fight schedule
I obsess so you don't have to
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12/12/2025
FINALLY GOT IT! I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000. Over 20,000 the past month alone. Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away" In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare: Fish success story. 🪶
a pelican with their mouth open, and two fish are above to fall into their pouch, but one is above another and may take a path outthe pelicans mouth is closed, and there's a fish outthe pelican looks at the camera, miffed, the fish is far away from its head at this pointthe pelican opens its beak and tries to go for it, but i can report back it failed, the fish was long gone
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In a profound and elegiac work of investigative journalism, the writer The Chris Hedges Report and the cartoonist Joe Sacco collaborate to present the testimony of displaced Palestinians who lived through the genocide: Requiem for Gaza is out today ❤️ ow.ly/t6fU50ZUFLO
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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 75 years later. Africa: 33% ↘ 6% Asia: 25% ↘ 2.5% Oceania: 9.3% ↘ 2% Latin America: 21% ↘ 1.5% Northern America: 3.8% ↘ 0.6% Europe: 10.5% ↘ 0.4% Globally: 23% ↘ 3.5%
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 05/10/2026
The horror stat remains true: The average American household is closer in net worth to Jeff Bezos than Jeff Bezos is to Elon Musk.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sometimes a local reporter thinks there is something more to the "suicide" of a pregnant young woman. Laura Crimaldi. kept asking questions. Tomorrow, more than five years later, a onetime police detective goes on trial for her killing. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/05/n...
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The reporter who knew there was more to Sandra Birchmore’s story — and helped uncover it - The Boston Globe
This week’s trial comes more than five years after the crime and follows Laura Crimaldi’s persistent investigation.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026
That all of these universities producing reports on what the future of higher ed should be are collaborating with the American Enterprise Institute is a tell that they see this moment of higher ed "reform" as an opportunity to entrench reactionary policies and undermine the humanities further.
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The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 05/10/2026
Fast fashion is a real problem. The City Council might fix it with curbside textiles recycling: nygroove.nyc/nyc-curbside...
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 05/10/2026
If you live in… Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kentucky Mississippi Ohio Tennessee Texas Today is the last day you can register to vote! Text your friends and family. Check on your co-workers. Make sure the people in your life are registered to vote: BetterInAUnion.org/check
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Check Your Voter Registration Status
Have you moved, changed your name, or you're just not sure of the status of your voter registration? Fill out the form below to check your status.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We will never again be a democracy if we don't get the big money out of American politics. There should not be any higher priority. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/one-priori...
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One Priority Above All Others
We Must Drain the Poison Out of Our Body Politic If There Is to Be a Better World After Trump
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
the inevitable consequence of blocking people from ending their pregnancies is that pregnancy ends people’s lives ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable
Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026
Put differently: how can a conservative movement that has worked diligently for decades to defund public higher ed, commercialize research, undermine the labor movement, and attack the study of culture as "woke" possibly have anything useful to say about the future of the American university?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a Gaza expert told Isaac Chotiner about his own family’s experience. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
I know that your wife and two of your kids were killed early on in the war.

Yeah. And later on, in July, 2025, my mother and my sister and her children were also killed. And when they were seeking refuge at my uncle’s house, he was killed, too, with his wife.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If your vote didn’t matter they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you (H/T Gen Z for @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social ) www.instagram.com/reel/DeC2_Zb...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
I split the G (train) with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michéal Martin. Sláinte!
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wow… at Robert Kraft’s stadium…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Damn
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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Encyclopedia Britannica post this on another site: The first syllables of Sweden and Denmark spell Sweden. The second syllables of Sweden and Denmark spell Denmark.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
gosh there is so much great music out right now. here's a little bandcamp friday survey of mostly new stuff, out from behind the paywall because we want you to get money to artists! www.dontrocktheinbox.com/put-a-record...
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Put A Record On: Bandcamp Friday Edition
Taking down the paywall this week to just share a bunch of new, great music that you can buy — it's Bandcamp Friday, which means that every cent you spend goes directly to the artists (instead of Band...
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