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Hedorah Connolly (he/him) @byharryconnolly.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, please.

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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 16/10/2026

Wenn sich Leute vorstellen, wie ihr Leben in der Antike gewesen wäre, imaginieren sie sich als Oberschicht, nicht als Sklaven, obwohl es davon viel mehr gab. Dasselbe bei Zukunftsvisionen: Nein, du wirst nicht im Flugtaxi reisen, sondern viel eher der sein, der nachts wegen Flugtaxilärm verzweifelt.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is an edit of comments Pres. Trump made about Somali-Americans and Haitian immigrants during his latest speech in Youngstown, Ohio. Trump demonized both groups. He also implied that his comment during a presidential debate about Haitians eating dogs and cats was accurate.

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Can anyone recommend something general about the Ottonians? I’ve read Karl Leyser’s Medieval Germany but is there anything more recent? In English or German for preference although (in the words of more than one Otto) I’ll take a stab at Italian if need be.

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Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So sieht gesellschaftliche Verwahrlosung aus:

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Silberbauer 🇪🇺🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈 @silberbauer.dk · 13/10/2026

USA har nu endeligt tonet rent flag og er gået 100% ind på russisk side. Et forædderi, der aldrig må glemmes. Og nej: Det er ikke bare Trump. Han er demokratisk valgt. Det er USA, der har svigtet. Ukraine har mere brug for EU nu, end nogensinde. EU har brug for EU.

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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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Norway’s former Chief of Defence, General Sverre Diesen: “Under the current Trump administration, we cannot consider the United States our ally. Trump’s America is a hostile actor that, in the event of a conflict in Europe, would side with Russia rather than with us and other European countries.”

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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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Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Wiedervorlage.

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

That's what the CDU said about the AfD, too.

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Don't they feel ashamed saying such stupid things in public? Do they actually think that someone will believe that rubbish?

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AEMET @aemet.es · 07/10/2026

📈 Valores extremos de septiembre de 2026. ➡️ Destacan los 45,7 °C de El Granado (Huelva), que iguala la temperatura más alta medida en septiembre en España desde que hay registros. ➡️ Significativo también el dato de 123 l/m² en Guijo de Granadilla (Cáceres) en 24 horas.

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

It is such a shame - I grew up with the belief in "nie wieder" and now I have to face the fact that I grew up with an illusion.

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Der letzte Simianer @wilbury.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Heute scheint in Magdeburg die Sonne, die Vögel singen, die Leute gehen zur Arbeit. Alles ist normal.

„Wenn der Faschismus kommt,
scheint noch immer die Sonne.
Die Vögel singen. Sie gehen zur Arbeit.
Alles ist normal.
Nur TransMenschen verlieren ihre Rechte.
Und Asylsuchende. Und Immigranten.
Und Behinderte. Und Muslime. Und Juden.
Und linke Journalisten.
Und dann andere Journalisten.
Und ich. Und Sie!"
Marina Weisband

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Jetzt sollte Schulze zurücktreten

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

‘We do not want a society where people are concerned about hidden audio recordings, photography and filming in places and situations where they are used to being without being monitored.’ www.ft.com/content/a352...

ft.com

Norway is first to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in public places

Law would prohibit use of the technology in parks, beaches, schools and kindergartens

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Mel Aura @melaura.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Genau das! Deshalb AfD-Verbot, jetzt!

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

I think the people in the CDU/CSU who struggle with the Döpfner loyalists are those who agree with the AfD that everything went bad when Merkel was chancellor, pushed the CDU further to the centre and opened the borders.

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

und ein Buch ist ja schon auch furchtbar lang - verglichen mit Instagram-Posts.

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Es ist besser, wenn er schweigt und nichts tut. Dann richtet er weniger Schaden an.

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Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So I've had a speaker drop-out last minute from the session dedicated to Old Norse female networks and communities! I still need to figure out next steps but is there coincidentally anyone who'd like to present in this session? #MedievalSky #OldNorse

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Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Programme @oldnorse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tomorrow - Open hybrid lecture in Archaeology 🏛️ Prof. David Griffiths (University of Oxford & UHI) "The 'Southern Route' and hidden histories of the Viking Age in the North Atlantic." 📆 1 October 2026, 17-18 UTC 📍 Oddi 206 & Zoom More info, Zoom link and abstract below

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Then not only the Brandmauer has cessed to exist but the CDU as well

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Jetzt trauen sich alle wieder aus den Löchern, die in den letzten Jahren und Jahrzehnten notdürftig ihre rechtsextreme Gesinnung hinter einer konservativen Fassade versteckt hatten

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Ich finde es so traurig, dass die alle genau das tun, wie es die AfD geplant hat. Wie die Lemminge rennen sie alle in den Abgrund

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Die CDU springt über jedes AfD-Stöckchen und folgt genau dem Weg, den ihr die AfD vorgezeichnet hat. Warum schafft die CDU es nicht, aus dem Desaster der FDP und der Konservativen der Nachbarländer zu lernen?

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Die Mitglieder der CDU überbieten sich jetzt darin, Positionen der AfD zu übernehmen

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Hoywoj @aushoywoj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

CDU-Stadträte haben in Heidenau ein Stolpersteinverbot beschlossen. Federführend für diesen Antrag war der Neonazi vorn im Bild. Früher Mitglied der Skinheads Sächsische Schweiz, heute AFD-Fraktionsvorsitzender. www.endstation-rechts.de/news/afd-kom...

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

In Sachsen wird die CDU von der AfD aufgesogen

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

Und damit tut die CDU genau das, was die AfD will

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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sehr guter Artikel und wichtig für #ichbinHanna: eine rechte Regierung kann zwar weniger direkt in die Wissenschaft eingreifen, aber dank Befristungen muss man nur etwas den Geldhahn verknappen und man ist unliebsame Köpfe - und damit ganze Disziplinen - nach ein paar Jahren ganz automatisch los.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

The problem is that the CDU doesn't have to communicate anything right now. The are like a group of nervous chickens waiting for the fox to eat them. They are not ready to admit that imitating AfD positions won't help them

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks to the huge cuts at the universities there are hardly any positions left for young scholars. So applications for scholarships and grants is the only option. That leads to a lot evaluations of good applications that still won’t get funding. What a waste of time and energy.

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

He doesn't own Canada or the EU and he simply should shut up

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Michael Lühmann @herrluehmann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Im Übrigen ist #Göttingen weder reich, noch läuft in der Verwaltung alles rund, die Grünen machen hier knallgrüne linke Politik, die Stadt ist eine einzige Brandmauer gegen Faschismus. Und trotzdem ist die #AfD quasi inexistent. Lasse ich mal für die plumpe Debatte, was angeblich die AfD stärkt, da.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sweden's centre-left parties managed to turn out many more voters in areas with large migrant populations than in 2022

Scatter plot of 5,024 Swedish electoral districts showing a strong positive relationship between the share of eligible voters born abroad and the change in the left bloc’s vote share from 2024 to 2026. In districts with few foreign-born voters, the left bloc’s vote share was roughly unchanged or slightly lower; in districts where around 70–90% of eligible voters were born abroad, it typically rose by around 10–20 percentage points. A fitted trend line rises from about −3 percentage points in the districts with fewest migrants to nearly +20 points in those with the most.

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Anne Roth @anneroth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Falls Ihr gern die günstigen Vegan-Produkte mit dem großen "B" im Logo kauft: Die gehören seit kurzem leider zu #Müller-Milch, deren Besitzer großer afd-Fan ist.

muellergroup.com

Unternehmensverkauf der Berief Food GmbH an die Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller erfolgreich abgeschlossen

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Noch ist es ja nur das letzte Mal im Jahr.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)

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Anya @heyanyahere.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It always Ukraine who needs to do something, to withdraw somewhere, to give something up, to accept the situation and so on and so on. Russians don't need to do anything. Those damn Ukrainian warmongers, who don't want to die quietly!

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Does he even know what this is all about?

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Just because he has forgotten about Gaza does not mean the rest of the world has, too.

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Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

This must be a special male heaven.

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