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Blake Snodgrass @thebsnod.bsky.social · 4h

Even as a majority, 6 out of 10 is entirely too low.

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You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11h

In 1987 Trump visited Moscow. Since then, "He has changed his mind about abortion and crypto, he has supported different political parties, but his dislike of America’s democratic allies and his preference for Russia have remained remarkably consistent." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

theatlantic.com

Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear

The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.

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Blake Snodgrass @thebsnod.bsky.social · 7h

Despite using Nazi rhetoric like this, and embracing Nazi iconography, and multiple regime members openly doing the Nazi salute, MAGA isn't a Nazi movement. Don't you dare call them a Nazi movement.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16h

🚨 WOW: WSJ reports Ken Paxton partied in a luxury Dubai high-rise with 2 FUGITIVES, Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail, facing fed charges over an alleged $15 MILLION hospital embezzlement scheme — alongside his gf (not his wife). Ahmed donated $190K to Paxton, including $25K AFTER his indictment.

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Blake Snodgrass @thebsnod.bsky.social · 18h

It's how he's settled 9 wars now!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

When you log on Twitter to find out what incendiary defamations your favorite pro-Trump account has created today, only to find that it has gone up in smoke at a burning bot-hosting Russian data center.

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Blake Snodgrass @thebsnod.bsky.social · 18h

Back in 2016, we as a nation decided to punch ourselves in the collective dick. And nearly two years ago, just as the pain was subsiding, we doubled down and punched ourselves in the dick even harder. We're going to be deservedly writhing on the ground for the foreseeable future.

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Blake Snodgrass @thebsnod.bsky.social · 18h

If only the American people had been warned, amirite?

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

Oh Wow.

Tweet one:
James Talarico posts a picture with Kacey Musgraves.

Tweet two:
Kristi Noem responds "I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.

And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico."

Tweet three:
Kacey Musgraves responds "I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.

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Blake Snodgrass @thebsnod.bsky.social · 20h

This is why I mostly just keep my mouth shut. I don't hide that I no longer have much faith we're going to come out of this with an intact democracy, but one way to absolutely ensure that is to further demoralize Dem voters. We HAVE to go vote these Nazis out to have a chance. Let's fuckin' do it.

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Blake Snodgrass @thebsnod.bsky.social · 21h

They're all so fucking stupid lmfoa

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/10/2026

this is indeed a criminal investigation, in the sense that everyone involved in pursuing it is a criminal

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

With all due respect, this is precisely what is wrong with the federal courts today. They should not be doing "everything humanly possible to give the government the benefit of the doubt."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Everything about the raid on Rep. Omar’s residence is shameful. Everyone involved should lose their jobs. For a start.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Elon Musk was violating his visa when he started his first business here and very likely obtained his U.S. citizenship through fraud. Where is that investigation?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The DOJ has never been perfect. There has always been plenty to criticize. But the DOJ today, after not even two years of Trump, is a rotten shell of what it once was; untrusted by sizeable portions of the federal judiciary, hollowed out at the core, and run without principle.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is a significant worsening of our current state of constitutional collapse. I know it feels like there are so many, and there are, but in terms of crossing the Rubicon moments this one's up there.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Really unpopular things: -data centers -overt bigotry -CSAM -billionaires trying to buy elections -Hitler salutes -stealing people’s personal data -South African Apartheid -causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of children Fighting against Elon Musk is a political winner

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Elon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.

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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)

The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026

There is, writes @davidfrum.bsky.social, an "implicit quid pro quo in these lucrative deals offered to Trump’s family and friends: If you compel Ukraine to surrender, we will enrich you beyond reckoning" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin

The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.

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Blake Snodgrass @thebsnod.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Just double checked that I'm still registered to vote. You should, too! Also, happy birthday, Charlotte!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Right, it turns out that instead of letting the Republicans set the terms of the debate, you can simply tell them and their enablers in the media to cram it. El-Sayed has been doing the same thing. It's long overdue.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not only should brooks and others shut up. But Ossoff is the best example in the country of a Democrat playing dominance politics and using it to control the whole terms of his race.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

theatlantic.com

Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin

The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If Democrats retake the Senate, Warren will surely become chair of the Senate Banking Committee and, as such, in a position to investigate, humiliate and ultimately destroy Scott Bessent.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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Blake Snodgrass @thebsnod.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

They use Nazi rhetoric, Nazi iconography, hell, half of them are doing the fucking Sieg Heil in front of cameras. Maybe David Brooks needs to take his own advice and shut the fuck up.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers

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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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