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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

DHS really trying to put the "secret" in "secret police"

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

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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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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We would all have better conversations about Zionism if we viewed it as a nationalism like all others, akin to diaspora Serbian nationalism from Canadian Serbs. Not a civil rights or social justice cause, but also not a way Jewish people are abnormal or ontologically evil.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This has been on my feed all day so I'm going to give it as fair as treatment as I can. Prof. Wolfers is well meaning & I get the intuition, but he's speaking outside his area of expertise and he's just wrong. Having lunch with someone you disagree with isn't going to "cure ideological bias." 🧵

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Russ Vought should be prosecuted for violating the law with impoundment after this is all over.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t want to laugh at Elon Musk. I want to see him spend the rest of his life in jail for the unprecedented crime against the Constitution & the rule of law that was DOGE.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elites that surrended to Trump in 2025 miscalculated, letting his imagined cultural dominance spook them into inflating the price of getting on his bad side. But now the logic of collective resistance has been confirmed as sound. Should have realized this earlier! newrepublic.com/article/2158...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Has there been even one snap where the Tennessee QB isn't running for his life immediately

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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Remind me of how Reform, AfD, One Nation and FN are polling again in 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪 , 🇦🇺, and 🇫🇷 ? And who the PMs of Italy and Japan are? This is not to exonerate the many Americans who embrace the far right, just to point out that fascism obviously appeals to a substantial body of voters everywhere.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"But she didn't go to the police!" yell the chuds defending their favorite candidates/celebrities/CEOs against rape allegations.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
X.com
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

elon musk buying a chunk of major movie studios for shits and giggles while every artist and writer I know is out here saying please subscribe, please buy my book, please leave a review, please support me with a few paltry dollars

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

5) They had no real plan for what to do about this, and chose to plow ahead despite understanding that they were going to destroy the basic mechanics of information production 6) They know their models cannot survive without this theft and made a conscious decision to keep stealing

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2) They understood they had to disregard the wishes and evade the defenses of the information sources to engage in that theft 3) They grasped this as an effort to effectively replace those sources and, in all likelihood, kill them off 4) They knew that this would kill their own information sources

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The whole debate about whether the AI execs even grasp what they're doing has been at least partially settled by the released documents in the NYT v. OpenAI suit, which pretty conclusively establishes that 1) Everyone from executives to individual engineers understood they were engaged in mass theft

motherjones.com

AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

this is a genuinely crazy story

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wait, who exactly engaged in this "talk of a political realignment," NYT?

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(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tapping the sign

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Scott Wolford @thescottwolford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Somebody didn't think this through...

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 19/09/2026

I did not have “psychosexual obsessions of a mediocre news personality destroy the U.S. military” on my “Exit from Hegemony” bingo card.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gender Studies remains relevant, exhibit #2365

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

nytimes.com

Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Evidence for body temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex based on isotopes in their teeth @science.org #ScienceAdvances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Macklemore just announced he’s donating the $1 million he made from Sheeran’s tour to 6 organizations to support Palestinians and he’s asking Robert Kraft to match it. This is just the first part announcing it.

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It remains striking, and insitructive about the nature of the Republican Party, that the two Republican justices Trump didn't nominate are the two most in the tank for Trump www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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