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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yeah, I know it’s childish, but I do feel the tiniest bit better.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🤪
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelensky is awesome 👇
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This 👇
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Johan @underdog59.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
@mistressmatisse.bsky.social For no reason at all I just felt like saying hello 👋 😎
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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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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Impeach his ass too 👇
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION, YET?! 👇 SURE HOPE SO. 😎🇺🇸✨
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope can’t resist his pizza.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Bush didn't hit 32 percent approval until he left office. Trump is already there, three months before the midterms. The last time we saw numbers like these, Democrats won both chambers of Congress. Let's make sure they do.
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2026 Is Increasingly Looking Like 2006 Redux
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Nick Anderson: nickanderson.substack.com
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
Here’s the key takeaway from our report: Epstein couldn’t have carried out his trafficking and criminal activity without the help of the highest ranking employees and executives at the most powerful banks in the world. Wall Street is complicit in Epstein’s crimes from top to bottom.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you're curious about how the right is going to try to frame the horrific fires in Spokane Washington, it looks like they plan to blame them on homeless people, local (DEM) city leadership, and state (DEM) mismanagement of forests. So, many of the same frames as the LA fires.
Screenshot of a Facebook post by "Jim Walsh" posted 9 hours ago. The caption reads: "Still more weekend reading. From a woman in eastern WA. The silver lining to these disastrous fires: They may wake some 'I'm not political' people up to the real effects of bad public policy choices." The shared post below claims Spokane is being destroyed by massive fires, that the writer's house and neighborhood are gone, and blames Democrats for cutting firefighting funding and releasing "drug addicts and criminals" who they accuse (w/o evidence) of setting the fires. It ends "I'm now homeless in Spokane. I am numb." A diagonal red "Framing Contests" watermark is overlaid across the screenshot. The post shows 3.5K reactions, 1.2K comments, and 1K shares.
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Ken Morales @kbmorales.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:
A line chart shows the number of Supreme Court decisions on the merits docket versus the shadow docket from the 2003-04 term to the 2024-25 term. The merits docket decisions trend downward over time, ending at 56 decisions, while the shadow docket decisions rise sharply in the 2018-19 term and surpass the merits docket in the last term at 63 decisions.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/07/2026
Trump is using the government’s power to take ownership in private companies. It’s what Putin did. Trump is the closest we’ve ever come to communism.
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
What can we learn from this America?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Bravo to Hunter Biden. Well done. I like this informed swagger.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The President of the United States is a criminal. He SHOULD have been convicted for the crimes he led on January 6th, 2021. He WAS convicted of 34 felonies for corruption and harassment. Yet somehow, instead of facing the consequences he deserves, he’s running the government like a mob operation.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...
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Why Is There a Voting Rights Act? A Timeline
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Johan @underdog59.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I have never been so deeply disappointed and ashamed of my country. Killing innocent people is evil. I’m sick about what we have become 🥲
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Measles is back. Children are dying not because medicine failed, but because ideology did. Under “Make America Healthy Again,” anti-vaccine politics recast preventable death as freedom—accepting mass mortality as a moral choice, not a failure. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/make-ameri...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Your federal government on Trumpism: "More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May 2025, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program... "Another 90,000 vets are heading toward foreclosure..." www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...
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Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it
Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
NYC No Kings march today photographed by Adam Gray: www.instagram.com/p/DWcf2Xmj-UL/
a fuckton of people filling 7th avenue as far as the eye can see with billboards in times square
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Elizabeth Banks
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Clearly, he spoke to a former president using a Ouija board.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
For the life of me I've never understood why the press and the political class find it so difficult to talk about Donald Trump's severe and manifest personality disorders. These disorders may be impossible for any professional to treat, but they are easily understandable to any ...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security. A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2074...
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Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall
Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Irene Montero: No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression — Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Afghanistan. It will not happen in Iran either When they want to sell their oil wars, their wars for profit, their imperial wars — they hide behind women’s rights to justify them
Spain’s MEP Irene Montero speaking to reporters
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
No one is surprised by this.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/03/2026
Tell your members of Congress: Vote YES on the Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution and end President Trump’s unconstitutional and unauthorized use of military force against Iran. Send your message now at aclu.org/war-on-iran-
White text: "Tell Congress: No unconstitutional war with Iran". ACLU logo. Photos of the Capitol and military troops. Dark red background.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
70% - Trump isn't honest or trustworthy 56% - Trump is not mentally sharp enough 56% - Trump is not committed to our rights 62% - Trump's using the presidency to enrich himself (ht: @mmpadellan.bsky.social)
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
aw this is a heartwarming story
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/02/2026
We're suing on behalf of two families whose loved ones were killed when our government bombed their civilian boats in the Caribbean. The Trump administration had no right to kill Chad Joseph, Rishi Samaroo, or anyone else caught up in these illegal extrajudicial killings.
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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Alicia Menendez tells Jen that a spokesperson for a Epstein survivor who will be at tonight's address says, "She is looking forward to ruining Trump's night by being there."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/02/2026
a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope" (John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
If this is an impression, it's the best I've ever heard.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...
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Opinion | What Exactly Is a ‘Concentration Camp’?
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is a very good article describing the Trump administration’s attacks on the midterm elections. We should be concerned about what’s happening, and ready to call out the BS, but not resigned to defeat (of democracy), b/c the attacks aren’t going to work. We (all) aren’t going to let that happen.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
More than One. Million. Times.
Screenshot of an X post by Micah (@micah_erfan) claiming that Trump’s name appeared 38,000 times in redacted Epstein files and over 1,000,000 times in unredacted files, calling it a violation of the Epstein Transparency Act and stating that people should go to prison. Below is a highlighted excerpt from an Axios interview with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) stating that when he searched President Trump’s name in the unredacted Epstein files, it came up “more than a million times.”
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
If an increasing unpopular leader, known for shaping reality w/ lies, wanted to subvert democracy, would they: A) complain that the polls are “fake news”, B) threaten polling organizations into silence, C) sow distrust in election results, or D) find ways to disenfranchise voters of the other party?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Trump has lost two heavily whipped votes in the House on his signature economic policy in the last 24 hours. This is a big f-ing deal.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Project Salt Box tonight: projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/using-data...
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Using Data for Good: A Crash Course
Our response to "What can I do?"
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Europe is now saying the quiet part out loud. A French senator mocked Washington as “the court of Nero.” Portugal, a founding member of NATO, saw its president claim Trump is “objectively… a Soviet or Russian asset.” theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/europes-fe...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
AOC on Epstein Files: We need to get to the bottom of it. It does not matter if you are a Republican, Democrat, or donor. We are talking about sexual crimes and trafficking.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 30/01/2026
From the Epstein email archives. Jeffrey Epstein: "trump is likely to be [asked] questions soon about me…supposedly a girl said that donal= had sex with her at my house when she was underage."
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