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Terry Needham

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Former truck driver married to Madeline Bishop

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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 3h
Washington’s Patty Murray and Oregon’s Ron Wyden visit doctors to learn about the harms Trump’s “WISeR” scheme is causing At a Vancouver roundtable, the senior United States Senators for the Evergreen State and the Beaver State joined healthcare leaders to warn that a Trump scheme that uses…
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Washington’s Patty Murray and Oregon’s Ron Wyden visit doctors to learn about the harms Trump’s “WISeR” scheme is causing
At a Vancouver roundtable, the senior United States Senators for the Evergreen State and the Beaver State joined healthcare leaders to warn that a Trump scheme that uses artificial intelligence to make decisions about prior authorization for health services is delaying essential care and rewarding private companies for denying Medicare patients the treatment they need.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 16h
EXACTLY 👇 THIS.......
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 4h
Military-base housing is “reserved for military who have earned those quarters from fighting in wars and defending our country... They should not be used for people in the White House. It’s an abuse.” www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...
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MAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military Base
From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 10h
That would be great 👇
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🌊 DudeTheyreOnToMe 24:7🌊 @dancinginthestreet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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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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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 8h
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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 17m
The demons in charge all over the world desperately want a world war
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TonyHQ @tonyhq1985.bsky.social · 6h
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 27m
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 55m
Can we all stipulate that anyone who thought Kimberly Guilfoyle would be a good spouse lacks the judgment to credibly run for president in 2028?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h
Glad that @charliesavage.bsky.social has demonstrated what a hack John Solomon is. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u... I did my own version of that story here: emptywheel.net/2026/10/06/j...
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John Solomon Confirms Todd Blanche is FAR More Abusive Than Jack Smith - emptywheel
The latest John Solomon attempt to deceive his rubes, a bunch of pen register reports targeting Susie Wiles, reveal a great deal of corruption. The corruption is all that of Trump and his aides.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 9h
🧵 #Ukraine
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 9h
2/ #Ukraine
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 9h
#ProLifeMyAss
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 7h
The notion that we fight fascism by pretending it's not occurring has brought us here to a place where Nazi cheerleaders have taken over our government, occupying our cities, abducting our neighbors & trafficking immigrant children.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h
For those pushing Dems to start making a stink about Elon's fundraising @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social is now doing that.
Josh Turek vs. Elon Musk.
Working-Class Underdog vs. World’s Richest Man. 🥊💥🥊

Who’s your money on?

For context: Elon Musk is unleashing a firehose of cash to boost vulnerable Republicans in the battle for the Senate majority, including my MAGA opponent here in Iowa.

Why’s he so focused on this race in particular, you ask?

Well, I’m what MAGA billionaires like Musk fear most:

A candidate who’s not a millionaire and isn’t trying to become one.
A leader with a well-calibrated moral compass and strength of character.
A senator who can’t be bought.
Basically, an honest and up-sitting public servant.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 7h
As a big believer in norms, I consider this the new norm for how Cabinet members in Democratic administrations should respond to every request from Republican members of Congress. Do not attempt to comply, write solely to entertain the most constantly-online members of the Dem base.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 18h
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 13h
Odd how a bunch of machines in one country can direct public discourse in another.
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Sasha Tweel @sashalyn.bsky.social · 14h
Such a brilliant move in this day & age- and I’ll bet there weren’t a bunch of kids there, either.
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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 15h
Zelenskyy saw that Putin and trump had made a deal to help each other so he blew up the main thing Putin planned to use to help trump… his troll farms!
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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 7h
Absolutely fascinating
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h
"You're a NIMBY about AI data centers!" Actually I'm a NOMP (Not On My Planet) about privately-owned fixed-location infrastructure externalizing the cost of burning hydrocarbons for energy. If they had to pay what this really costs society in health and climate harms, they wouldn't do it.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h
Thomas is still there, harassing the rule of law.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🧵 It's also why Trump tries to shut it down.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump: Pretend I'm on the ballot. Abortion sure is. People don't realize it yet.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You cannot "reform" something built to abduct, assault, terrorize, traffic & kill. You can only abolish it. And that goes both for ICE & the MAGA Murder Regime that has unleashed its full occupation & assault on us.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Whenever I travel abroad to meet with foreign leaders, I write a behind the scenes account of the trip on my way home. Here are notes from my recent trip to the Middle East. It's not a comprehensive recitation of all the topics raised. Just a snapshot.
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Behind the Scenes: My Visit to the Middle East
I refuse to accept this moment as normal.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We'll never exit revolving door of every cycle being a "throw bastards out" anti-party in power backlash & gain lasting majority to pass policy till we address how rightly infuriated people are at status quo. It's the billionaires, stupid - who purchase themselves politicians red & blue.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are absolutely exceptional Dems running, and they merit praise, but we do the truth and ourselves a disservice to say "Blue Wave" as it implies voters' actions are motivated by embracing Democrats. It's a "Red Wipeout" or "Republican Repudiation." (H/t Michael Podhorzer.)
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The ship of diesel Putin sent Trump left on September 22. September 23 is when Trump's invite to G-20 was announced. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘We hope he’ll accept’: US invites Putin to G20 summit at Trump golf club
Invitation announced by Marco Rubio is likely to raise concerns from Ukraine and EU countries
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“$1 BILLION A DAY” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social’s new ad uses Trump’s pointless costly war in Iran to push a "Michigan First" message
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/10/2026
Next Saturday will be the largest early vote activation in American history. No Kings Day is how we build historic turnout for the midterms and get our communities ready to organize against Trump’s election sabotage.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/10/2026
Call me crazy, but at some point we might find out what else we “sold” to Russia.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Will anyone ask Trump or @MarshaBlackburn or @BrentTaylorTN about this today? Seems like a clarksville type Q 🤷🏼
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/10/2026
I bet if DJT wasn’t president, Iran war would’ve never happened.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Under-radar stakes: Supreme Court elections. Justices who’ve upheld restrictions on abortion are up next month in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Texas. Justices who have sided with abortion access are up in Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Wyoming.
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Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts
Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump is helping Russia who is helping Iran attack and kill Americans. So that means Trump is knowingly taking steps to weaken the US and bolster Russia and its close ally, Iran. Does that make him a traitor? Let's have the debate.... www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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Iran able to replenish its missiles and drones, getting arms from Russia, officials tell Bloomberg
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 11/10/2026
To put this in perspective, the single 300K ton shipment of diesel mentioned in the article is less than the amount the U.S. exports every two days. There is no shortage of diesel in the U.S. If the spike in diesel prices is due to market forces, these Russian shipments should have zero impact.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
the SI is short for “simp”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h
Every single Republican except Massie, Fitzpatrick, Tillis, Collins, and Paul paid for these illegal ads.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That's a mighty stupid way of saying that Trump created a fuel crisis and has so isolated himself that he's failing miserably at trying to fix it "unilaterally"
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I wish everyone Dan mentioned would read this post.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/10/2026
This is a regime that glorifies violence and brutality, because their vision of society is one of dominance rather than belonging. And that's the vision of cowards.
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The U.S. last held a public execution in the 1930s. The Pentagon wants to change that
The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. That would be the first public execution in the U.S. since the 1930s.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Also, buy @benwikler.bsky.social's book, where he discusses this.
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Steve Garrity @sgteasy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are plenty of boomers, like me, on fixed incomes. There are others who were in the right place at the right time. But blaming us for this economy and hardships on the younger citizens is a red herring, actively promoted by Republicans.
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