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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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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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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No AI for kids. Full stop.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today is the 30th anniversary of the launch of Fox News, one of the worst things that has ever happened to to human beings. I will have a piece on this later.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

we can continue to complain about “critics say” coverage or we can become those critics that are saying things and getting coverage

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

obviously the media is a joke but the reason theyre not covering this is because democrats arent making it an issue the media would do it. they would. they’re lazy and they just want to go “the other side is saying this thing, how do you respond?”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

if only Ds could take 20% of their fundraising and put it towards starting up and/or supporting local media. wait, see that is earmarked for consultants and my consultant is shaking their head no, that's not okay to give it away like that

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also: many of those same pundits think they are "data-driven" because they survey voters and conduct focus groups. That's so damn quaint. Trump's wealthiest allies purchased all the largest social media platforms+all the largest mainstream media outlets. Focus groups CANNOT measure those effects.

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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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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

AI Ashley stole $10 million from sick kids & voted to end the ACA subsidies. Why? Her campaign donors are healthcare companies & executives. We need to elect people in office who aren’t corrupt & who will actually work to address the issues working people face. #AngieForFlorida

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.

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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News (Gift Article)

A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's a case to be made against impeachment, but the alternative should be a scorched-earth effort to destroy and discredit the Trump administration and everything the Republican Party stands for. If you think "passing an ethics reform package" is the answer, my god what is wrong with you?

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My list has always been Hegseth, Miller and Vought. All three are have encouraged “high crimes and Misdemeanors” that go to the balance of separation of powers.

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SpiderDIEphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is one of my dearest hopes that John Roberts will be the last Chief Justice of a nine-person SCOTUS and that he'll be forced to watch his life's work be burned to the ground. And then he still never knows a moment's peace in public.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

John Roberts is sad that his vacation neighbors in Maine have noticed his far right agenda and contempt for constitutional order. There are, of course, lots of safe places for his odious politics in this country. But he hates the filthy plebes in those places.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”

Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.

Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Worth noting that Ravi Ruia, the Indian billionaire behind the Iowa steel plant Trump touted yesterday as bringing back American industry, has massive funding from Russian state companies. Here he is on the Kremlin website talking with Putin about it. en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/59216

Ravi Ruia: Your Excellency, friends here. My name is Ravi Ruia, I am the co-founder of the Essar Group in India, along with my brother Shashi Ruia. Your Excellency, we are involved with Essar Group in different businesses. We are in the oil refining and exploration business, in spill manufacturing, power generation, port infrastructure, metals and mining. Our total revenues are around $15 billion a year. Your Excellency, in the last two years, with active cooperation and assistance of VTB Bank, we have been instrumental in bringing in a large investment from the state-owned oil company Rosneft into India, which has given access to Russia to a very large market in India of over 1.25 billion people. It is a total investment of almost $13 billion, which is the largest investment ever made by a Russian private company into the Indian private sector.
And it has given a big, major outlet for potentially Russian crude into India and access to over 4,000 to 5,000 filling gas stations in India where our product will be directly given to Indian consumers. Your Excellency, we are also looking at how else we can bring in more Russian investment into India, which would add to the growth of both Indian market and access to Indian population as well as add to Russian export. For instance, in the power generation sector, India genuinely believes that there is large potential for Russian power equipment to come into India as the Indian power generation is growing. This is the background of our group.
We are now looking at, Your Excellency. My question to you, Your Excellency, is the economic growth in India is at 1.5 percent. And now that the oil price has recovered, what measures do you envisage to take it to a sustainable high level of 3 percent? Thank you.

Andrei Kostin: Do you mean in Russia?
Ravi Ruia: Yes, in Russia.
Vladimir Putin: First of all, I would like to say that we have really good constructive relations with India, thanks also to our friendly personal ties with Prime Minister Modi, who is a serious politician and a really reliable partner.
It is largely thanks to his efforts that we are moving our relations forward in many fields. Yet we are not satisfied with the current state of our relations. It is beyond the capabilities of both India and Russia. We can increase the volume of our trade and economic ties and mutual
investments manifold, yes, many times over.
One of the investment projects you have mentioned is, indeed, the largest foreign investment in the history of the Indian economy - the acquisition by Rosneft, if l am not mistaken, of a stake worth $12 billion in one of India's largest oil refineries. I hope it is not the last investment of this kind.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not enough is said about how Trump views United States dollars as HIS own money

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is so weird. I was JUST at the grocery store this morning and I thought, "You know what would fix these prices? A new steel mill in Iowa that might be running by 2030." Our prayers are answered! www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

wsj.com

Exclusive | Trump to Unveil Planned $15 Billion Iowa Steel Project

The announcement comes as the president is looking for wins ahead of a tough midterm election for Republicans.

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A reminder that Susan Collins took bribes and was busted but Sunday TV political talking heads ignored it because its not important that a US Senator* took bribes and used her power to push through sham contracts to a sham company *unless the Senator is a Dem or there’s a muslim Twitch streamer

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the average person has no idea what their government does on a daily basis. they just dont know. and for decades the right has used this as a launching point to propagandize the idea that the government simply cannot work. yes, being mayor is different from being president. but people need this.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'll support AOC whatever she decides to do, but Democrats *need* a serious, unapologetic progressive to run in the presidential primary to pull the field to the left. Without one, we'll have Newsom, Buttigieg and Cory Booker trying to out-centrist each other and it will be a disaster.

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Props to Ezra Klein for having a conversation with Abdul El-Sayed that helps create a permission structure for self-described moderates to vote for him. Similar interviews really helped Mamdani! Say what you will about Klein (I have serious critiques) but he’s nowhere near Matt Yglesias level-bad.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i dont understand how anyone can back scotus from the minute bush v gore came down

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

California electeds sold the nation down the river on the Paramount merger in pursuit of guaranteed film production jobs, which is the thing they think people care about the most. If you don't want a repeat of that, kick Bass out of City Hall and make sure Newsom doesn't exceed 3% in South Carolina.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He always needed the mainstream media. He needed them to flog Hillary’s emails and ignore his assaults. He needed them to whine about Biden’s age while ignoring his insurrection. The mainstream media built Trump.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The immediate fumbling following the media finally showing some solidarity after Trump banned the press totally validates those of us who have been saying that the msm has propped up Trump for nearly 12 years now.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

washingtonpost.com

He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.

In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.

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Piratedan7 @piratedan7.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If the Dems do seize control of at least one of the houses of Congress, I fully expect that when they begin to try and mitigate and legislate their way out of our national debacle, I have every faith that our national media will spare no effort to explain how they are doing it wrong.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today is pub day for my book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Please watch this video and pass it on. It's time to reclaim the Trump-Russia narrative and recognize Putin is continuing his years-long war on America and Trump is complicit. HowRussiaWon.com

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The two most revealing questions one can ask about American politics and foreign policy today are: 1. How would we describe this if it were happening in a country of the Global South? 2. How would we describe this if the person doing it were Russian?

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A mostly invisible force shaping politics in the Trump era—esp since 2025—is his ability to summon threats of violence & death against his opponents to such a degree it's become a material factor in political actors' decision making. I think a good term for this is "stochastic brownshirtism."

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Honor your oath of office or resign. @trialrun2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This guy is great. I don't understand why he gets so little attention.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A CNN investigation reveals Russia likely provided crucial satellite information about U.S. bases, giving Tehran a major advantage in the war. And not a word from Senile Satan.

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