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A batch of previously undisclosed documents also reveals Exxon promoted climate-solution claims, such as its work on biofuels and carbon capture and storage, that its own scientists said were unlikely to reach commercial scale: arstechnica.visitlink.me/tPZG9V

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Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign

Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

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Chris Turner @chrislturner.bsky.social · 6h

finger still on the pulse of the voter less than 30 days out

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 17h

The ICE agent seen brandishing an AR-15 at the scene of yesterday’s shooting in NYC’s Marble Hill has a record of lying, excessive force & getting caught by judges. He also goes by “Shooter Cuni” on social media, & posts the same gun he had on him today W/@dmehro.bsky.social @regret.bsky.social

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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 4h

Ken Paxton took nearly 1,000 trips with state-funded security detail costing millions of dollars www.texastribune.org/2026/10/09/k... #USDemocracy #ProudBlue Another day another Paxton scandal exposed Corrupt Ken took 1000 trips to 19 countries Paxton is a fucking MAGA grifter and always will be

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Ken Paxton took nearly 1,000 trips with state-funded security - The Texas Tribune

The Texas attorney general’s use of a taxpayer-funded travel security detail stands out when compared with his predecessor and other state officials, our analysis found.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1h

My man looks like Mr. Hated Worldwide

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8h

Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 5h

This is apparently happening in multiple areas in the capital. The DC board of elections has been made aware of it and have been in touch with the National Guard to address it. It’s no accident.

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3h

Russia is helping Iran kill Americans in a war that's inflating the price of diesel so high that America is going to buy diesel from Russia, which in turn will help Iran kill more Americans. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump says US to get diesel from Russia, relaxing pressure on Moscow to ease prices before midterms

Trump says U.S. will obtain diesel from Russia, relaxing years of US pressure on Moscow to combat prices ahead of midterms

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h

Wasn't it less than a month ago that Congress passed a sanctions law to punish countries that buy oil and gas from Russia

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 4h

Problems on the farm (not Ai )

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5h

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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h

We can't have a functional democracy when the president lies constantly and invents wacko conspiracies that never happened. He has turned our country into a madhouse. Vote against all Republicans to bring some level of sanity back.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20h

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)

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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve been out of the loop a little, and was wondering why my New England 83 year old normielib mom had gone hard for Ossoff. Now I get it. The moms want blood.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h

Brenden Cuni, ICE agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday, has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during arrests in New York and Minneapolis, a WIRED investigation finds. theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...

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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says

A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.

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Death Metal but Good @californiasober.bsky.social · 20h

It’s wild like the candidates running on “wow this shit sucks, fuck those criminals” are doing well. Dem leadership should like, consider this. Maybe?

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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 13h

15 people face arrest outside Elbit’s UAV-Tactical Systems factory in Leicester for peacefully holding signs. The Israeli Elbit owned factory on the doorstep of Leicester residents makes and exports parts for Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing. #elbit #protest #palestine

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

There are at least FOUR Trump huge oil corruption stories from just the [double checks calendar] last two days. There's the NYT story about Trump selling out Ukraine to get a $2M donor a big contract. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...

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In Trump’s Russian Oil Deal, Middle East Funds Are the Biggest Owners

A majority of ownership in a proposed multibillion-dollar deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to U.S. negotiators.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 22h

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

Proposal Favor or oppose
Favor Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices 89 10
Limited terms for justices 79 21
Increase number of justices 53 47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He makes a good point.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

🔥 @jumaane.bsky.social : “They’re going to try to make the gentleman they shot the worst human you’ve ever heard of… a father picking up his child was shot by a rogue agency controlled by Trump. That’s what occurred. He represents evil. He is doing the Devil’s work.” #AbolishICE

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18h

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

Trump fights for his life to pronounce the word "philanthropist"

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.

Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anne Carson, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature today, was denied tenure by Princeton University in 1987.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

WKRN: “A Utah school admin filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was pepper-sprayed, sedated, beaten, sexually assaulted by correctional officers inside Nashville Detention Center after an arrest last year… officers remain employed by sheriff, no criminal charges filed…” www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Used to be embarrassed for the people who I thought were smart that fell for the 3 card monte AI shit coming from the world's most evil people. I am no longer embarrassed for them, just realized that they were never all that smart to begin with.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As Council Considers Reinstating Police Hiring Bonuses, an Unreleased Draft Report Finding They Don't Work Is Timely Again A city report showed one-time bonuses have no effect on police hiring. The Harrell Administration rewrote it to say the opposite.

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As Council Considers Reinstating Police Hiring Bonuses, an Unreleased Draft Report Finding They Don't Work Is Timely Again - PubliCola

A city report showed one-time bonuses have no effect on police hiring. The Harrell Administration rewrote it to say the…

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

GEO Group opens the front gate, then ICE slams and throws protesters in every direction. POL(ICE) + GEO Group are obsessed with violence and incarceration...

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My oldest daughter, who is also an attorney, has said these things to me as well. When your life is built around the law, all of these blatant criminal acts must be even more frustrating.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I constantly feel like I'm going crazy

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

VOTE NO on Pro 75 (the 'TAX DRACULA' bill.) If we try to tax Dracula, he will simply move away to Texas.

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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Freddie King 🎸'66. 🎶'Funny Bone' #blues #bluesmusic

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Meta's new AI assistant, Muse, reads your email, messages and Instagram, supposedly so it can handle chores like grocery orders and canceling subscriptions. TIME went through Muse's internal instructions and found it updates a profile on you every hour. It profiles the people you talk to as

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Meta’s Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You

Internal instructions reviewed by TIME show the AI assistant mapping users and their contacts—including people who don’t use Muse—and sharing anonymized insights across its system.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 06/10/2026

The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Los Angeles Police Department's officer union said Tuesday it will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the city firefighters' union - setting up a bitter and expensive clash between two of the city's most powerful unions.
The Police Protective League said it plans to spend several million dollars on broadcast and digital advertising as well as mailers to oppose Measure FD, which if approved by voters would direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Fire Department to build new stations, hire firefighters and upgrade

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.

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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)

The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A 911 call from Salem, Oregon, describes a disturbing encounter in which a woman was screaming that she was a U.S. citizen as ICE goons broke her vehicle window and forcibly pulled her out. According to reporting on the call, the woman suffered a concussion, torn rotator cuff and bruised ribs.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Arturo just got pepper-sprayed for filming ICE goons.

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