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Becky Heiskell

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Progressive Texan and dog rescuer, former math teacher

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 8h
UNEARTHED: Ken Paxton caught on video partying with fugitives in Dubai. The fugitives were charged with healthcare fraud and helped bankroll Paxton’s campaign.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
James Talarico: I've heard credible reports that Ken Paxton has a serious medical condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice. That's why I haven't heard from him after 85 days when I first challenged him to a debate publicly. We're awaiting his answer.
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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
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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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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thank you for having me last night, Kacey Musgraves !
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump to crowd: “It’s amazing. I can say the stupidest things, and you clap.” Crowd: claps In the history of dumb fucking cults, MAGA is by far, the fucking dumbest.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ezra Klein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?” James Talarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices."
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Memorable Presidential Quotes In History From FDR: "The only thing we have to fear... is fear itself." From JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." From our Vulgarian-In-Chief:
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Too many Americans have absorbed & tolerate Trump’s insane, destructive behavior as a fact of life…the corporate media has facilitated that mentality…we are facing a constitutional emergency with an exec branch working to centralize its power at all costs.” www.americaamerica.news/p/we-are-und...
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We Are Under Attack From an Enemy Within
By listening to our founders and refusing to go along with this, we can name and defeat the ongoing danger to our constitutional republic
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Two international flights have departed the city of Irkutsk in Siberia this morning, travelling from the epicentre of an apparent outbreak of pneumonic plague. This morning’s flights have travelled to Beijing in China and Uzbekistan. Madness. We have learned nothing.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People with eyes: "They're fascists." Useful idiots: "Well now, let's be careful. That's a strong word." Them:
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not for nothing but she ain’t Somali www.cbsnews.com/news/aimee-b...
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Aimee Bock, "mastermind" of Minnesota's biggest fraud scheme, says "I wish I could go back and do things differently"
In an exclusive interview from her jail cell, Aimee Bock defended her conduct in Minnesota's Feeding Our Future fraud case, but admitted regrets.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cockknob and Huckleberry, the Chucklefuck brothers.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Because of the Texas state government's error, Texas "counties are now dealing with nearly a year of backlogged voter registration tasks to process. They could include new registrations or simply updates to voters’ existing records, like a change in address..." www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
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Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state error
Democrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We don't have to live like this. Look at all the billionaires and technofascists dining with Trump and Xi tonight. They pay off both sides of the aisle. The only way out is to crush them, and we need fighters to do that. nypost.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Texas delivery driver Don Johnson, 81, works 14-hour days to help pay wife’s medical bills — strangers raise almost $250K
“The reality is that he isn’t working by choice; he is working for survival.”
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There’s a reason his fellow Republicans call him “Commie Ken.”
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thanks to the community speaking up, Wilber has left the detention center to get medical care. This is important news & a positive first step. Now, we have to make sure he fully recovers, is reunited with family, & gets to tell law enforcement the full story of how he was shot in the back by ICE.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OH SHIT. Former Pres. George W. Bush and Sen. John Cornyn are hosting a huge fundraiser in Dallas for GOP Senate candidates in six states. One candidate isn't invited: Ken Paxton, the GOP's Senate nominee in Texas. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
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George W. Bush and Cornyn Leave Out Paxton as They Raise Cash for Senate Candidates (Gift Article)
The former president and Texas senator are headlining a fund-raiser in Dallas for top Republican Senate candidates. Not included: Ken Paxton, the nominee in their own state.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Jack @jtenroon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is frying me
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"After speaking with the Saudi crown prince, Trump reversed himself and told the Pentagon to prepare for airstrikes against the Houthis. But by midday Sunday, the president appeared to have reversed himself again..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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Trump Gets Caught in a Dilemma Over a Saudi Plea for Military Help
The president vacillated but decided on Sunday not to join Saudi Arabia, for now, in joint strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. But he also needs the kingdom’s cooperation in his war against Iran.
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Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández @fernandez.house.gov · 21/09/2026
ICE shot Wilbur in his car in Austin yesterday. Now, his family doesn’t even know where he is. His family deserves answers. The American people deserve the truth. Release the body camera footage. Tell us where Wilbur is.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Sub-30% presidential approval alert 🚨🚨🚨
American Research Group's poll of 1,100 adults shows Trump at 29% approval, and one away from the cool sex number in disapproval.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 18/09/2026
⌚ Time for an ever-topical reminder that the Dallas Express is right-wing astroturfed slop:
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The 'Dallas Express': Your Go-To Source for Right-Wing, Astroturf News
The formerly Black-owned, progressive newspaper has re-emerged as a "pink slime" media site that launders conservative propaganda.
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Becky Heiskell @texasbec.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bat shit crazy
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Becky Heiskell @texasbec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gilead. Blessed be the fruit.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
Jeff Bezos and I are very different people. For one thing, he is a sociopathic billionaire who built his fortune by monopolizing bookselling while I am a penniless author of books. He was born in 1964 and is 62; I was born in 1971 and am 55.
A mason jar of piss with Jeff Bezos's laughing head submerged in it.


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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/09/2026
Crowds took to the streets of Dublin to protest Trump’s visit to Ireland, with demonstrators invoking Trump’s ties to Epstein and his alliance with Netanyahu.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump has been redirecting tens of millions of National Park Service money to wasteful projects in Washington, D.C., while blocking more than 130 planned projects at national parks across the country, putting more than $25 million in already secured funding on hold.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This whole scene is even weirder when you consider that neither Ted Cruz nor John Cornyn nor Ken Paxton matriculated at UT... but James Talarico did
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/09/2026
Trump promising every voter $5,000 from the Republicans who already control Congress:
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today I'll be reporting live from the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, for @dmagazine.bsky.social, which applied for press access but never received a response. Consequently, I will have the general admission experience. First step: drive ~30 minutes outside of Dallas to Grand Prairie. 1/
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
receipts for anyone who’s never heard this clip before (the reporters giving him a tongue bath and so much unearned respect is how we got here, but i digress)
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On 9/11/2001, Donald Trump called WWOR/UPN 9 NY about the World Trade Center Collapses
YouTube video by Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/09/2026
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/bf6b095...
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Pentagon refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran conflict ‘because it isn’t a war’
JD Vance offers support after widow expresses frustration in viral online post
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026
Trump: "We have a guy named Ken Paxton. Some people don't like the way he dresses or interviews or talks ... "
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/08/2026
Q: What was the thinking behind inviting the Russians to the G20 meeting in Ashville? TRUMP: We like getting along with everybody
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Trump’s life … illustrates the typical trajectory of a malignant narcissist. Instrumental lying for personal benefit … ultimately gives way to massive self-deception. … ‘Pathological narcissists … can become dangerously psychotic.’ “And that’s where he is, and we are, today.”
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A note on the president’s psychosis
Trump lives in his own world—not a good place for someone with nuclear weapons to be
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 17,180 cases across 48 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,700 measles cases (including 2 recent deaths) — a 35 year high. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
OMG <gasping> O.M.G. I told you so.
Donald Trump post. He "ranked the presidents" and put himself on top. Pathetic.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
here's today's post: "worst person in the world makes Dolly Parton’s death all about himself" — shut the fuck up, Piggy. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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worst person in the world makes Dolly Parton’s death all about himself
shut the fuck up, Piggy
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 27/08/2026
Analysis by Institute for Policy Studies found that between 2019 and 2025, CEO compensation increased 41.4%
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CEOs earn 614 times more than workers at US’s 100 lowest-paying corporations
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Journalist reveals documents exposing Ken Paxton for being bankrolled by data center companies: “All of the highlighted names are from companies or company executives who are invested or involved in data centers or in artificial intelligence, which requires data centers to run.”
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves
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