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@traumapossum.bsky.social
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Oddball, stress baker, sometime writer and artist, fond of trees, books, and compassion.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 21h
"In order to believe the polling is accurate you'd have to think the GOP was in such a bad position as to be staring down the barrel of a complete political realignment like after other major historical events" buddy that is *the most rational explanation* right now, I'd start polishing that resume
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
lol -- Zacharia suggests her briefing was a disaster bc it was in the morning & day before was a holiday "Typically briefs are in afternoon where the press sec has ample time to be briefed. This was a very different intake. And the briefing materials got to me evening before bc it was a holiday..."
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A digital illustration done in a comics-like ink and color style. Portraits of two women flipped 180º from each other somewhat in the manner or a playing card. In the top left quadrant of the frame is a white woman with brunette hair done up in fluffy pigtails. She has pink lipstick and purplish eye shadow. In the lower right quadrant is a white woman with short ginger hair wearing a flower crown. She has redder lipstick and yellowish eyeshadow. Both women have heavy, thick black lines painted around their eyes. Both of their expressions are extremely neutral. The ginger woman is wearing a lime green dress that makes up the color of the background  of the top half of the image behind the brunette, and the rest of the background is an intense blue. In the top right and lower left quadrants is loopy hand drawn lettering reading 'Maybe it will / Hap-pen today.' with the second half of the phrase inverted to match the orientation of the ginger woman. There are daisies set within the lettering. This was all because I wanted to draw the two main characters of the 1966 Czech film, 'Daisies'. It's really something and you should watch it.
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 21h
OUTLOOK (2025) Acrylic on Canvas - 12” x 9” 

All of my Lumen paintings feature a figure struggling to reach the light, against seemingly overwhelming travails. In OUTLOOK we see the moment of breakthrough and discovery, a daunting obstacle overcome. #art
A boy rests on a ledge to peer out an open panel in a huge concrete facade that is divided into recessed rectangles. At the intersection of the concrete support beams, the cross braces rust over. Each rectangle on the wall contains a different shape (circle, hexagon, 8-pointed star) sealed and closing off the view outside. Below the boy, a panel tumbles down as he props his hand on the rusted metal frame. Beyond is blue-gray sky.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21h
This is about Ilhan Omar. But it's also about control, intimidation, & authoritarianism. The message is: we can do this to a member of Congress; no foreign-born American is safe. The administration is using fear as a tactic to discourage people from voicing opposition.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20h
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/b...
nytimes.com
Midterms Could Shift Focus of Epstein Abuse to Banks’ Role
With an eye on retaking control of Congress, Democrats are introducing a bill that would hold banks accountable for their handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s finances.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20h
It’s time to hold the bankers who financed Jeffrey Epstein accountable.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A digital illustration in a colored pencil style. A drawing of a Polaroid SX-70, a foldable instant camera that some would say is one of the best cameras ever in history. It is silver and black with patches of brown fake leather on some of the body panels. It is unfolded into its characteristic mass of unlikely angles. The camera is set against a background rectangle filled with the colors filled with the colors of the Polaroid packaging rainbow. A photo is protruding from the camera and has developed to reveal only white letters on black reading ‘Maybe it’ll happen today’.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 14/10/2026
Hegseth’s plan to make an execution public isn’t about justice or accountability. It’s about public humiliation as spectacle and the normalization of violence. @interfaithalliance.org @raushenbush.bsky.social
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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The Good Place: Jason Mendoza's Bad Place Realization
Alt: The Good Place: Jason Mendoza's Bad Place Realization
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/10/2026
This weekend, millions of us will send a clear message: Hands Off Our #$%&ing Votes. Find your closest protest at bit.ly/nokingsjustvotes.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2026
And while we're on the subject: there's no ethical use of a product brought to market through unethical means. It doesn't matter whether the product is "AI" or chocolate or diamonds. Most generative "AI" was knowingly developed through massive theft from creatives; we have the emails admitting this.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14/10/2026
Musk unilaterally shut off a defensive capability just as Russia attacked power plants with winter approaching I don't know why anyone trusted him before, but certainly nobody can afford an Elon Musk dependency after this
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Attorney Kathleen Martinez @attorneymartinez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
BREAKING: " Videos collected by local investigators make it “pretty obvious” that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday."
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Texas DA says ICE intentionally hit immigrant with a car and may have withheld evidence
Harris County DA Sean Teare told NBC News his office has collected multiple videos for its own investigation but isn’t getting cooperation from the federal government. ICE denied their agent intentio...
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Berensreverie 🤒 @berensreverie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Just leave me here #berensart2026
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ask yourself if you’ve heard remotely the same volume of Suffering From Inflation™️ & “stagflation” & “least responsible economic policy in 40 years” coverage that you did when Joe Biden was president
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🍬 Abigail Kemske 🍬 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
There is nothing ethical about AI use when it was built on stolen work. There is nothing ethical about machines that are depleting our clean water. There is nothing ethical about technology that takes away jobs and means of living for human beings. There is nothing ethical...
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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Good news
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
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C.A. Petrov @capetrov.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Everybody loves Halloween candy! www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/10/14/b...
alaskasnewssource.com
Bear wanders Alaska hospital at 2 am, raids Halloween candy
A visitor with no badge found herself alone in a locked hallway, about 30 feet from a “pretty big black bear.”
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A two-headed masked luchador wearing two different masks: one a blue-green and gold classic design and the other green with a spread-wing eagle design. He's wearing a blue singlet and standing in a slightly awkward but still hopefully sufficiently menacing manner. He's framed in a. gold-colored frame with a blue gradient background with wobbly white lines radiating out around the heads. Lettering above and below the frame reads 'Quizás Suceda Hoy' which I believe is Spanish for 'Maybe it will happen today'.
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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I think she needs to go to the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
this is so so wonderful. this is 100% the absolute loveliest vision of gardening, bringing people together & building community through beauty & growing things. I just LOVE this & hope to emulate these folks more & more as I grow older.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Oh my God, this looks even better than I'd hoped. Hell yes.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 12/10/2026
For years, the Trump admin has launched slanderous attacks against Rep. Omar. This morning, the administration sent federal officials to raid her home. We cannot and will not accept this unprecedented abuse of power. I stand with @repilhan.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/ilha...
apnews.com
Agents search Rep. Omar's Washington home in criminal probe as she vows she won't 'be silenced'
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says she will “not be silenced” and calls a search of her Washington home the “latest escalation” in President Donald Trump’s “intimidation” campaign.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“Political intimidation” We are very far off the cliff 🇺🇸
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Who funds the Neo Nazi AfD? Overwhelmingly, it's the Kremlin and Russian interfaces.
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Join Convenant?
A digital illustration created in Procreate. A ghostly woman sits on a shrine beneath a huge old oak tree. A knight kneels at her feet.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Haha 😂 MAGA is so delusional!
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Also be sure to read @atrupar.com on Trump's escalating attempts to stoke violent division: "Minnesotans aren’t going to take the bait... Trump already tried to get white Minnesotans to turn on the immigrant communities in the state, and he failed miserably." www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-minn... 4/x
publicnotice.co
Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.
We love our Somali neighbors.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A digital illustration depicting Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo in his signature rumpled raincoat, shown in profile looking to the right, nearly nose to nose with his basset hound, Dog, who is leaning out of the open window of a car looking back at the detective. A word balloon next to Columbo's head contains lettering reading 'Maybe it will happen today'
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Talarico: I've heard credible reports that Ken Paxton has a serious medical condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice. People are concerned. He has asked for proof of life from me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Good news and a thank you to Ukraine! Bot traffic from Russian tech company Yandex’s network has plunged following Ukrainian strikes on its data centers.
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Would be curious to see similar data about discussion of the Alberta separatist movement.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We love Susan! 💚💚💚 Not all hero’s wear capes some wear Primus shirts!
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 11/10/2026
Nice aim, Ukraine
THL

The Hormuz Letter
BREAKING: Ukraine has just struck the NZNP
Rostovsky oil products export terminal in Rostov-
on-Don and set it ablaze, hours after the US-
Russia diesel deal and Trump lifting sanctions on
Russian fuel exports.

This is a products export terminal, exactly where
the diesel would leave Russia under the deal.

Ukrainian military sources said earlier today that
the Trump administration's attempt to use Russian
diesel to lower US prices before the midterms "will
bear no fruit."

@HormuzLetter . 3m
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Traverse City is fired UP for money our politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All! Our time is now.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 11/10/2026
This National Coming Out Day, we remind all of our LGBTQ+ neighbors, friends and loved ones that we support who they are — exactly how they are.
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ULTRAGHOLA @ultragotha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...?
An ivory chessman found on the isle of Lewis showing a warrior with a sword biting his shield. From the National Museum of Scotland.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10/10/2026
Pope Leo XIV declared capital punishment ''inadmissible” as he marked the World Day Against the Death Penalty and his native United States announced plans to livestream an execution by firing squad.
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Pope Leo declares death penalty 'inadmissible' as his native US plans to livestream execution
Pope Leo XIV has declared capital punishment "inadmissible.” He has penned a social media post for the World Day Against the Death Penalty, as his native United States announced plans to livestream an execution by firing squad.
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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
His mom, who I met at his memorial service in DC, is super Catholic, I am sure she raised him to hate the death penalty from jump. Even as he moved away from Catholicism as an adult, he was a deeply moral, compassionate guy and orders of magnitude braver than Pete Hegseth will ever be.
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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I believe the kids call this “libbing out.”
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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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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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this the US is one of a VERY FEW advanced/more-or-less democratic countries (I see you, Japan) to execute convicts, which already damages our soft power/reputation this of course will be even worse
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A digital illustration done in black and white graphite style. Toshiro Mifune as his unnamed ronin character in Yojimbo. With both swords prominently on view in his belt, he has his arms pulled inside of his black kimono with one hand coming up through the collar to stroke his chin as he gives some sharp side eye to the right, scheming. In a text box in the upper right corner is what I sincerely hope is an accurate Japanese translation of ‘maybe it will happen today’.
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Commie Machinist @commiemachinist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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