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Sue

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Enjoying the blue sky, away from all the muskiness.

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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Russia is also supporting Iran against us. This guy is the biggest asshat on the planet.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Alexandra Billings @alexandrabillings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
By their own values, the ones they firmly demanded they be measured on, the current govt shouldn’t even be contenders this election -
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 11/10/2026
Finally, the proof we all knew was there.
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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Never forget these two delivered Brexit. They screwed the country, they crippled the economy, they made people poorer, they gave people funds to their mates and they are still free. They should be in prison.
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Indeed it does. Nothing’s changed, either. *Everything* I wrote about this study last December still applies to it. sciencebasedmedicine.org/every-accusa...
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Every accusation is a confession (or a statement of intent): MAHA’s new Tuskegee experiment
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s CDC just funneled a $1.6 million dollar grant to researchers to carry out an unethical and scientifically unjustified randomized clinical trial of the birth dose o
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angloczech.bsky.social @angloczech.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's no suprise that New Zealand's productivity is declining. Businesses don't recognise their greed centric management is shit. #NZPol
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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 22h
No let up from the death spiral. #nzpol
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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 22h
The absolute worst possible version of this service is incredibly popular. Imagine a decent electric set that ran all the way tthrough the CRL 🤯
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WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 @waterblusky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Cloudfare: Russian troll activity on X drops to 49%, after Ukraine strikes Yandex Russian data center. 🤖 🫤 Could this disrupt the midterms for the GOP?
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 19h
Via Twitter. The Cloudflare bot traffic monitor is here: radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 The drop in traffic is quite spectacular.
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 18h
Why should anyone care that a bot farm is spewing crap into platforms? Because people read/watch it and even if they don't believe it, it sinks in. It becomes part of the dialogue. Journalists treat it as real and it infects mainstream media as well. And then: Brexit, Reform, vaccine denial etc.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
its feels like a mass psychosis where tech leaders continue to insist you can be cruel, mean, and hurt the feelings of lines of code
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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
youtube.com/shorts/6JZ-w... October 16 Musk Here's the movie trailer Watch it before Musk gets it banned
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This new movie is making Elon Musk terrified. @muskdoc
YouTube video by Aaron Parnas
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY IS NO KINGS #4 (Details at: nokings.org) We must turn up in MASSIVE numbers to show the world we don't support this Administration or a criminal president who has enriched himself to an obscene level at the expense of everyday hardworking Americans! #GettingReadyToDump-tRUMP 🟠💩 👎
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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John Harwood @johnjharwood.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
has been true from day one, but always worth reminding: Russia bought an American president. and got the Republican Party and "conservative" movement as part of the deal.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
MAGA, I ask again: Do you ever get tired of defending this petulant, whiny beta male?
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/10/2026
NEW: The GOP is suing election officials in a key Michigan city, claiming they’re appointing more Democrats than Republicans as election inspectors. It's a sign that Republicans could seek to interfere with Michigan’s voting or counting process, as they did in 2020. demdock.com/3UkaTlp
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Republicans sue for more poll watchers in key Michigan city
The effort could be a sign that the GOP plans to try to inject chaos into Michigan’s voting or counting process, as it did in 2020.
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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We asked disrupted businesses if the City Rail Link has been worth the wait
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We asked disrupted businesses if the City Rail Link has been worth the wait
‘We’re rammed,’ they told us. ‘Busiest lunches ever … it’s better than I thought it would be.’
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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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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A S E X P E C T E D: thespinoff.co.nz/business/11-...
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We asked disrupted businesses if the City Rail Link has been worth the wait | The Spinoff
‘We’re rammed,’ they told us. ‘Busiest lunches ever … it’s better than I thought it would be.’
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026
nobody respects trump supporters, least of all trump
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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Countries That Have Public and/or Live Streamed Executions Context: www.reuters.com/world/us-li...
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2026
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and Jon Stewart discuss the tech industry's nihilistic attitudes about AI's impact on society, and how AI CEOs are using their immense wealth to amass political power
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump has turned its Civil Rights Division’s mission on its head, a federal judge said in a decision blocking the administration from demanding states’ unredacted voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge rebukes Trump administration for perverting mission of DOJ’s ‘crown jewel’
Read more here.
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Those tariffs that were meant to bring jobs back to the U.S. also slowed job creation ...
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Trump bet tariffs would bring back American factory jobs. New report says it didn't work
A new report claims Trump's Liberation Day tariffs suppressed hiring by up to 1 million jobs and cost American families roughly $1,000 more in 2025.
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'The cruelty is the point. It stokes a popular prejudice that unemployment is a personal failing, and it lets the government off the hook for its failed economic management.' - Neale Jones #NzPol
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Sliding in the polls, have a crack at beneficiaries: National's drug test policy follows a well-worn pattern | The Spinoff
It's just the latest example in the party's sorry history of framing an economic failure as a personal one.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Records obtained and released Thursday show that, despite promises of private funding, American taxpayers largely supported Trump's Freedom 250 summer blowout, leaving many questions about where Trump actually spent the tens of millions in private donations. www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/t...
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle and the embassy she leads are under now formally under investigation by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General for allegedly asking a rich donor to pay her $100,000 Amex bill.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
300,000 tons isn’t even a day of diesel, lol.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like clockwork, the govt that has done more to destroy employment than any other in decades is trying to get re-elected by blaming people for being unemployed. No solutions, only punishment. Pure cynicism. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
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What about drug testing at Parliament? Luxon is ‘quite open’ to it
Follow the election campaign live.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A simple idea for regulating data center mania: "No large data center...should receive the permits or grid connection it needs unless its developer brings enough new carbon-free generation, energy storage and transmission online to meet its additional electricity demand—and pays the full cost."
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Opinion | Let Physics Regulate the AI Industry
No new data centers without enough clean power to run them.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump's new SNAP & Medicaid requirements will make it harder for millions of working people to get critical support. In America, the lifesaving programs always get slashed, while the war machine budget continues to grow. This is despicable.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In early 2026, Homeland Security spent about a billion dollars on 11 ICE detention facility warehouses to store migrant detainees, and despite a court order saying they were banned, the NJ facility might still be in use. www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Major tech companies, including OpenAI, NVIDIA, Anthropic, Amazon and Google, are contributing $2.4 billion worth of computing resources in exchange for Trump's new leniency plan of letting tech police themselves with AI. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Tech firms pledge $2.4B in computing power to Trump’s Genesis Mission
The donations include computing power, access to advanced AI models and cloud computing.
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 08/10/2026
Liquidators reveal Destiny Church-linked trust owes $4.2m newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/09/s...
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Liquidators reveal Destiny Church-linked trust owes $4.2m
As Brian Tamaki's controversial church shifts between rented venues, debts owed by a linked charitable trust mount. Alice Peacock reports
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He is explicitly calling for pogroms. (I ask again: at what point will our major news organizations finally acknowledge that he is either mentally ill or a vile racist or both?)
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I half-way joked about this the other day. I’m only surprised they aren’t charging for it.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Elon Musk pledged to spend $100 MILLION in the midterms. Tesla and SpaceX benefited from four canceled federal enforcement actions each. You see how this looks, right?
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/10/2026
🚨 An ICE detention took place this week in the same area California voters had to pass through to reach a ballot drop box. Voting rights groups are citing this instance and many others in court as they fight to keep armed federal agents away from the polls: demdock.com/4hPIZ8C
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voic e.
Me:| can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you workin Al.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why Jared?
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nothing to see here...just the President of the United States inviting the country he illegally declared war on to "take out" 2 major American cities. If that's not treason, what is? 🤬 Law enforcement won't hold him accountable, but we WILL! The beginning of the end is on November 3rd. #VOTE-BLUE 🌊
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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AI slop has come for late night—and this time it’s turning Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Fallon, and others into leering co-stars for fake influencers.
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The Latest AI Slop Trend? Perving Up Late-Night Hosts
AI slop has come for late night—and this time it’s turning Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Fallon, and others into leering co-stars for fake influencers.
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