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Stories in Analog and F&SF. I will not knowingly post AI content. No unsolicited DMs. Writer, reader, flaneur. He/him. If you like it, put a Follow on it, I guess.

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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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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 1h
If you were wondering why Gavin Newsom is unacceptable for future Democratic office, start here.
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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 8h
Total chaos in Russian cities after Ukraine's strikes on just two Yandex data centers wipes out GPS, payment systems, taxi apps and the largest websites, across the country. Russia's centralized North Korean style internet is the country's weakness, they are fucked.
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 8h
October 8, Ukrainian drones hit Yandex’s major data center facility in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, causing a massive fire and shutting down the facility. Follow-up Attack: A second drone attack hit another Yandex facility in the Kaluga region the following day. Is this the end of a Trump Bot Farm?
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Investigate this Horror now☠️
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 8h
"anti-zionism isn't antisemitism!"
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 8h
The author is SF writer Robert Heinlein, a noted aphorist, but he would probably have disagreed with the way the phrase is used today. theswordthatnagged.blogspot.com/2017/04/hein...
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That Guy on Guns
"The Wrong Sword" and other fiction by Ted Rabinowitz, with medieval drinking songs, armed nerds, paleotech, and speculative fiction.
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 9h
I'm connected to a dude who is at least techbro-adjacent on LinkedIn. He was posting an update about new laptops with "resident AI." His language was entirely about tech specs. No emotion or doubt beyond new-product hype-excitement. This is how/why they're trying to push it - just another product.
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Linus Sniffs New Tech Smell
ALT: Linus Sniffs New Tech Smell
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 9h
My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...
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Positive Deviance NYC: Building Clean Air Culture
Back our next three clean-air NYC music events in 2027 and join a growing community building a more accessible cultural life.
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 11h
Trump hates Zelenskyy because Zelenskyy has courage and Trump doesn't, just like Trump called the Allied dead "suckers and losers." Trump would badmouth Zelenskyy because it rained last Tuesday.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 12h
O Captain, my Captain! 🥹🔥♥️ I knew my whimsical goth king wouldn’t let me down!!!!
Nicholas Cage saying he’s not an AI friendly actor Nicolas Cage saying he refused to sign an AI waiver for Spider-Noir
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 12h
While on a stroll on an absolutely glorious NYC autumn day, passing by 210 West 14th Street, where Marcel Duchamp had his studio from 1943 until his death in 1968, and where he produced his final work, Étant Donnés. Above front doorway, relief of an artist at work with brush in hand
Semicircular relief sculpture over a door lintel, showing a figure seated, at work
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Ofherb 🟦🌈🕎🌻🎶🐈🇮🇱 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 11h
Based on their professional experience and assessment of Israeli military operations, the signatories conclude that Israel has neither intended to destroy Palestinians as a group nor conducted its campaign in a manner consistent with such an intent. jinsa.org/press-releas...
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PRESS RELEASE: 75+ U.S. Military Leaders Reject Gaza Genocide Claims - JINSA
Not since the Second World War has the United States had an ally that has fought alongside it as willingly and ably as Israel. It truly is America’s most important ally in the 21st century,” said JINS...
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 12h
MRM is a private-equity group that purchased the last three great science-fiction print mags (Analog, Asimov's, and Fantasy & Science Fiction). It has been trying ever since to turn them into content farms, grabbing as many IP rights as they can from authors and artists. I no longer submit there.
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Michael Strode @michaelstrode.bsky.social · 13h
Relevant:
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h
Darline Graham makes the "China threat" the centerpiece of her campaign. Now WaPo discovers that her husband's business is entirely predicated on China trade, and that's what she lives off. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Darline Graham opposes Chinese manufacturing. Her husband’s job relies on it.
The senator and sister of the late Lindsey Graham has said the U.S. must “stop depending on Communist China for things America can make ourselves.”
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 13h
Thanks for letting a politician crash your party, ACL!
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GinaInTheBurg ❌👑🇺🇦🌊 @ginaintheburg.bsky.social · 13h
I'm January 2025, WaPo reported a Mike Johnson aide discouraged Hutchinson's subpoena over concerns re lawmakers’ ‘sexual texts’ The move intended in part to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts some lawmakers sent Cassidy Hutchinson. Guess they got rid of 'em. Gift: wapo.st/47L89AE
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Johnson aide discouraged Hutchinson subpoena over concerns about lawmakers’ ‘sexual texts’
The move was intended in part to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent Cassidy Hutchinson.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 22h
A very stylish #Roman woman's shoe with a decorative pattern punched into the leather. Found in 1907 in a well in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort, dating first half of the 2nd century AD. Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg
The picture shows a single leather shoe with a decorative pattern of holes of different sizes and shapes (e.g circles, triangles).
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 15h
Which is worse, if she believes what she’s saying or if she doesn’t?
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Zone9b veggie garden @mrmannswife.bsky.social · 16h
Unless you are Jewish or a female or male who can be assaulted. It's comical to me how people take memes at face value without digging into stats. No cookies for the bare minimum
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 16h
None of this was an issue for the previous publishers. It’s not an issue for yours either; this is just bad-faith horseshit. I’ve sold to Analog and F&SF. What a pity that comes to an end.
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Nobel Committee could do a lot of good by bestowing an Anti-Peace Prize every year on the worst world leader. It could serve as an incentive.
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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do you want good tortoise news? I thought so. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island
Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I remember Flicker - Nicely summoned!
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Crystal Voted 4 Harris @crystal4mvpharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Medhi's letter to the Daily Fail offering his services. The charlatan.
Dear Mr Dacre.
is Mehdi Hasan and I'm the New Statesman's senior political editor. My good friend Peter 1 drop you a line as I'm very keen to write for the Daily Mail
My name
Oborne
suggested
Although I am on the left of the political spectrum, and disagree with the Mail's editorial line on a range of issues, have always admired the paper's passion, rigour, boldness and, of course, news values. I believe the Mail has a vitally important role to play in the national debate, and I admire your relentless focus on the need for integrity and morality in public life, and your outspoken defence of faith, and Christian culture, in the face of attacks from militant atheists and secularists. I also believe - as does Peter - that I could be a fresh and passionate, not to mention polemical and contrarian, voice on the comment and feature pages of your award-winning newspaper.
For the record. I am not a Labour tribalist and am often ultra-critical of the left - especially on social and mora issues, where my fellow leftists and liberals have lost touch with their own traditions and with the great British public. In my column in this week's issue of the New Statesman, for example, I offered a critique of the five Labour leadership candidates, and their various inadequacies, accusing them all of lacking what George Bush Snr once called "the vision thing".
I could therefore write pieces for the Mail critical of Labour and the left, from "inside" Labour and the left (as the senior political editor at the New Statesman)
I am also attracted by the Mail's social conservatism on issues like marriage, the family, abortion and teenage pregnancies. I'd like to write a piece for the Mailmaking the left-wing case against abortion. or a piece on why marriage should be a Labour value, and not ust a Conservative one. My own unabashed social conservatism on such issues derives from my Islamic faith. But as a British Muslim, I have also upset some of my more hardline co- religionists in the past b…
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 10/10/2026
Harris County’s Precinct 4 just shut down 61 Flock surveillance cameras! Texans are raising the alarm about AI-powered mass surveillance, and local officials are finally listening. It's time to de-flock the rest of Texas and protect our right to privacy.
FOX 26 Houston news graphic featuring the headline, “Flock cameras in Harris County’s Precinct 4 turned off due to rising privacy concerns.” The graphic reports on the shutdown of Flock surveillance cameras in Harris County Precinct 4, Texas.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.” religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...
Walter Kim, president of the National
Association of Evangelicals, told RNS that while he affirms the "need for justice" regarding Hasan's crime, "at the same time, a live-streamed execution by firing squad risks turning one of the state's most solemn responsibilities into a public spectacle, promoting a culture of death, rather than a culture that upholds the dignity of every human being."
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 10/10/2026
Heading home after a lovely day visiting @sheilawilliams.bsky.social. Good to see her in the new place the gofundme has helped pay for. So much better for her. www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 09/10/2026
New #WriterBeware blog post: Two artists' decisions to go public this week reveal new concerns at Must Read Magazines, which was the subject of controversy last year over its unfriendly contract terms writerbeware.blog/2026/10/09/m...
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More Rights Grabs from Must Read Magazines - Writer Beware
In early 2025, a group called Must Read Magazines acquired a suite of six well-known genre fiction magazines: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Scien...
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 09/10/2026
Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers
techcrunch.com
Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers
Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Because of that contract language, I suspect MRM purchased Analog and the others to be "content farms" generating IP they could try to sell to other media.
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There was always an easy fix: Just use the standard contracts that the three magazines had already been using *for decades*. I was suspicious as soon as I heard that MRM had bought all THREE of the last SFF print mags.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I watched "Musk," the new four-hour documentary from Alex Gibney that comes out today in NY and LA. I wrote this: www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
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In new Elon Musk documentary, his lieutenants are the most damning voices
“Musk,” the new film from Alex Gibney, features interviews with more than the usual critics of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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NPR @npr.org · 09/10/2026
Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona. n.pr/4e4P0gD
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Drugs in jars, bags of cash: Tennessee ignored warnings from Arizona's botched executions
Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It was appalling to see the way protesters taunted those mourning the October 7th victims. That is not activism.
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Democracy is always "mob rule" to someone who hates human beings. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts
Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns
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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#FindsFriday Alert and sparky, a 4th C BC red-figured rhyton in the form of a horse's head. From tomb in ancient pre-Roman Peucetian city of Thuriae, one of the largest in Puglia. Excavated 1957, in Monte Sannace displays in Gioia del Colle museum.
A drinking vessel in the shape of a horse's head with a cup-shaped  behind it at one end to the left. 
It has a handle shown on the bottom of the the cup-shaped section of the vessel, with the head pointed downwards to the right at an angle. Mostly glazed in black, the cup has red-figured warriors with white spears and headbands, and red decoration running round the top and the intersection with the head. The horse has a thin bridle in a yellow-gold colour, a wide open red eye and ears standing up slightly forward.
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Y'all know an antichrist will claim that good men are the antichrist, right? www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
wired.com
Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Terrific! That will pay for one ambulance trip to the ER under the "One Big Beautiful Bill." All the doctors' bills, meds, surgery, post-op...that's still on you.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/10/2026
President Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million in debt issued by SpaceX just days before the White House announced a new space-travel policy, the president’s latest financial disclosure form shows.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff isn't "hating" Collins (although Collins deserves it). What he's doing is much more devastating: Just stating the plain truth without pussyfooting around it like some consultant-led pols do. We're so used to mealy-mouthing from the Dems that plain speaking sounds aggressive. It shouldn't.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I talked with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about how our communities can defend the voting process this November. Some folks reached out and asked me if I could make an episode about this subject because they were tired of simply being told to vote harder and wanted to know what more we could do. ❤️
truthout.org
Activists Are Preparing to Defend Elections This November
“It’s about relational organizing,” says organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Should also be shown to all Tesla owners and prospective buyers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"
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Theo @theodoric.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pete Hegseth is making a literal snuff film. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 08/10/2026
Person shot during encounter with federal agents in NYC's Marble Hill, NYPD says gothamist.com/news/person-...
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Person shot during encounter with federal agents in NYC's Marble Hill, NYPD says
Police say the person is conscious and receiving treatment at a hospital. The NYPD says its officers were not involved.
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