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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2h
Remember: ICE lied so often about people posing threats to them, to justify their violence in Chicago, that a Chicago federal judge wrote it was "difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything" ICE said. Do you know what it takes to get a Fed district judge to WRITE THAT in a ruling?
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 4h
Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 3h
This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.
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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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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When Edward Teller was chair of the early AEC Reactor Safeguards Committee, he was considered extremely conservative in his safety demands. His reasoning was that even one catastrophic accident could destroy all public enthusiasm for a technology he believed was important.
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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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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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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them.
post from Trump on Truth Social declaring that anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence" is THE ENEMY!
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You gotta weigh "not being married to that woman any more" against "once decided to marry that woman".
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, but also- four games post-Stoutland.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Contemplate your betrayal, my sisters. Forever."
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Your heads are ready. Come tonight."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nope. To hell with AI slopaganda, for any cause. Using AI to fight fascism isn't fighting fascism. It's just rolling around in the fascism.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No, you defended you position by basically saying that we had go start thinking about reintegration at "square one", and then said that's not for everyone.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alright. I just tried to explain why your takes on this issue/ article were rubbing people the wrong way, since you were complaining about it. Some people can take constructive criticism; others not so much.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My point has been consistent throughout: focusing on the perpetrator's redemption now, like you did, is irresponsible & insensitive & will piss people off because it prematurely focuses on his rehabilitation instead of the harm he caused. You got defensive. I dug in. bsky.app/profile/step...
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like, I said your post centered the "perpetrator['s path forward]" because you tried to argue that the "path forward" was a broader question you were asking about "what we do", and I dont think it was.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You're getting dangerously close to disingenuousness here. You've been focusing on the perpetrator's reintegration/redemption, and I've been consistently pushing back on that as premature and irresponsible. My issue was never who the convo focused on; it was what.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You're "path forward" post definitely centered the perpetrator, but the question "what do we do?" is weird. What do you think we can, or should, do? He's been deplatformed; we wait and see what else happens or comes out, and we reeavuate.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And- once again - focusing on a "path forward" immediately focuses on the perpetrator's needs and wants, instead of the victim's. That's backwards, and bad, and reinforces the expected inevitability of a redemption.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think it's easier to perform redemption with a road map, especially when there's an expectation that redemption is inevitable. I think it can be weaponized. I think it has been weaponized, to varying effect, many times. Reintegragion can't be a foregone conclusion. It can be a possibility.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Immediately talking about a "path forward" for the perpetrator just gives them a road map. The victims don't know whether they'll ever be able to move on, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the perpetrators to feel the same.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think we can both agree there are many examples. I'd argue the only way to truly reintegrate is by accepting that it might never happen, and for good reason.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They can have hope that they'll find redemption, but too often I think it's considered a foregone conclusion that they'll get it. I think we've seen that lead to performative, by-the-numbers redemption arcs that are later proved insincere.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Honest question- why not?
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Restorative justice isn't just about reintegration though. In fact, I'd argue that it's the least important part of the process.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don't know whether his apparent allyship was sincere or a smokescreen, like Gaiman's. It's frankly irresponsible to assume any of it was sincere, at this point in time. Maybe that sucks for him, but them's the breaks, and he's not & has never been the victim.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think what you're running into is people being (rightly, imo) alarmed at anyone talking about a "path forward" for a redemption literal days after this came out. Just like you don't have to write an essay that equivocates - at all - immediately after discovering the barest details of past abuse.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I may not have stated it strongly enough, but I think *not* being cynical about it at this point in the timeline is akin to giving the abuser the benefit of doubt, and i think that's what people see Ty doing.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think a lot of people- myself included- tend to be cynical about the answer because a) he only addressed the issue because people recently found out about it, and b) he's done nothing but make a statement. "Reparative justice" shouldn't mean immediately giving the abuser the benefit of the doubt
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is interesting because "a decade later" seems to be a load-bearing phrase here, but didn't this just come to light? Like, if he had done it last month, would you be thinking about this differently? If so, why?
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Short of locking him up forever (which afaik no one is suggesting), you can't "prevent" it. Removing social cachet and influence would certainly remove possible opportunities and limit it, though.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026
Not to insomnia-weigh-in on the concept of restorative justice, but I thought long and hard ten years ago about what I would say if someone asked what Alex Kozinski could do by way of restorative justice. (Nobody ever asked.)
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026
Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also do the honest work of eliminating any trace of plagiarism in your beloved product. How? Not my fucking problem! If you can’t run your business / technology without stealing other people’s work, it deserves to die. Personally I’m happy to see it die, so don’t try to make it my responsibility.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What if using AI regularly limits the ability to comment usefully on it's capabilities and limits though? Because that seems like something that's not only happening but is infinitely more dangerous psychologically.
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026
Wemby is something else, man
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I mean yeah, a decade of no one holding Trump accountable for his much more obvious crimes, combined with both Nazi and Confederate rehabilitation projects on the right, was always going to lead to “actually we’ve never done ANYTHING wrong and you guys owe us apologies for every check on our power”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
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Stephen Malloy @stephenmalloy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Can you point out the generalization in the original post you responded to?
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Supreme Court’s majority gave no reason for its literal life-and-death decision to wipe out an appeals court order issued earlier today and which was, on its face, intended to be temporary in nature. Sotomayor wrote tonight’s dissent. Order and dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Court's decision to vacate that stay interferes with the Sixth Circuit's routine administrative handling of a capital case and unnecessarily prevents that court from giving due consideration to Pike's claim. Worse, the Court grants such extraordinary relief solely to allow the State to execute Pike before litigation over her conviction has properly run its course in the lower courts. I see no reason to short-circuit the ordinary process of appellate review, particularly in light of the grave consequences of an erroneous de-cision. Tennessee's desire to expedite Pike's execution by a few days or even weeks cannot outweigh her "fundamentalinterest in [her] own life." Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U. S. 1,
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In capital cases, "[a]ppreciation of our own fallibility, and respect for the judgment of an appellate tribunal," demand caution before "acting irretrievably." Bowersox v. Williams,
517 U. S. 345, 347 (1996) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting). Indeed, this Court often states that it is "'a court of review, not of first view?" McLane Co. v. EEOC, 581 U.S. 72, 85 (2017) (quoting Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709, 718, n. 7
(2005)). Today, the Court, as it has too often lately, chooses to overlook that principle precisely when it matters most.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LMAO
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