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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 17m

My son just gave me a little gift.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 4h

It's not that I particularly want a Tom Cotton biopic, god knows, but I hear Jeremy Strong is looking for work.

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fletcheredington.bsky.social @fletcheredington.bsky.social · 11h

Give Lina Khan a Gundam remains the moderate position

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21h

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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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 21h

Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.

The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.

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Ross A. Isaacs @rossisaacs.bsky.social · 19h

Why would you invest millions of dollars in something that's already lost $3.81 billion? Answer: to stuff money in Trump's pocket in return for favors. That's the only logical answer.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20h

Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights

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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That hat's a good look for him. He should start wearing that all the time.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not a big fan of this trend of conflating 'soulless tech bro freaks' and 'men'

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You will also never have better hair.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are you from the West, maybe? I've spent all 14 years in central Dublin, so I haven't really had a broad exposure to Irish dialect. Or maybe you're just gifted that way. If Kerry ever joins the UN, you could work as a simultaneous translator.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

By the end of the clip I was pretty sure they were speaking English. Not 100% sure, but pretty sure. I've lived in Ireland for 14 years.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well, no. Never suggested he was.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Eh, maybe. This is also the Dwayne Johnson stance, and Johnson seems to be a lukewarm Dem who just doesn't want to lose any MAGA ticket sales. I mean, fuck him either way, of course.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'rejected nearly as many applicants as they have hired' is an insane phrase. Like, they're bragging about this?

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Crane kick to the chin. Dude is seriously underwalloped.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've lost all the profound respect I used to have for Eminem

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I support religious liberty! People trying to repress Muslims or have the state impose their version of Christianity don't. I support free speech! It's the state censors who don't. I support intellectual diversity! It's people shutting down academic fields they don't like who don't. Crazy-making.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, but for what it's worth, I'm also 100% in favor of confiscating their money.

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Ellen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this seems about right and something most ppl would agree with

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the democrats who put themselves in a panic over hasan piker are the same democrats who push the party to be anti trans, and a generation ago were the ones saying we cant oppose the war in iraq these people are never right they doom the party they hurt america stop listening to them

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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John Breslin @cloud.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Arya Satheesh, an 18-year-old student from Letterkenny in County Donegal, Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...

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This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades

Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Against absolutely ferocious competition, Hegseth may finally have established himself as the Dumbest Motherfucker In The Cabinet.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If it's good enough for Gerard Butler, it's good enough for me

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are people out there who not only think we should solve music, but think that they have solved music, and we have put these people in charge of our entire world.

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ireland rolled out red carpet for Intel. Barred by EU sanctions from exporting hi-tech chips to Russia, Ireland's been sending heaps to Israel. They've both civilian and military uses. Israeli defence co. Elbit Systems uses them in "advanced tactical computer" for infantry, Special Forces etc

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Tax breaks, grants and energy costs: How Ireland rolled out the red carpet for Intel - The Currency

In the two weeks following the last general election on November 29, 2024, the dust settled and it became clear that the outgoing Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael-led coalition would remain in government once it...

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, thank heavens we cleared that up

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...

paydayreport.com

X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula

Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026

We could reduce US fossil-fuel pollution (climate & local air/water) ~25% by cleaning up the grid, ~25% by electrifying ground transport, and ~25% by electrifying heat (for space/water/food/many industrial processes). The last ~25% - everything else - is important but no reason not to do the 75%.

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Micheál @nameless-weevil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just to say what complete scumbags the FAI and Micheál Martin are for putting Irish players in this position.

Tweet from Daniel Lambert, September 26th: Hearing from several sources around Ireland hotel that agents are telling players you must play our you'll never play for a US owned team in the UK.

How grim and predictable from faceless agents who profit in the background.

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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Almost 65,000 children in Gaza have been killed or injured by Israel since October 2023. Children also face forced famine, displacement, and denial of humanitarian aid. You don't get to annihilate a generation and then play a game of football, as if it never happened, as if it isn't still happening.

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