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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 21h

Elect people like this.

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Taryn T, Duchess of the Blue Sea @tarynt.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t want an execution made public. I want the Epstein files made public.

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 21h

What can we practically do about media capture? Perhaps related: What can we learn from Magyar’s movement in Hungary?

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think she’s anorexic and we are unwise and unkind to mock her for something caused by mental illness.

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

Unmarked lunatics with guns attack your car when your kid is with you— you drive off too. Anyone who say otherwise is a liar. They almost killed the kid. What the fuck are we doing? 😳🇺🇸

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A lot of our problems seem to stem from a durable right-wing constituency of those on the lower 1/3 of the bell curve….

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 10/10/2026

I think part of the explanation here is that while heat pump economics don't always beat natural gas furnaces in heating-only retrofits, heat pumps win (without tax credits) vs. propane, heating oil, electric resistance, or when replacing both a furnace and an air conditioner (e.g. in new builds).

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Heat pumps have so far withstood the death of federal tax credits

Demand for the climate-friendly HVAC tech has persisted even after Republicans killed incentives, with 2026 set to be another good year for the sector.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

An oil terminal in Rostov is transferring its diesel to the cloud. That's where Trump can get it if he wants to.

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Consequences imposed now, under state law, by state officials, are the remaining mechanism for demonstrating to this party that legal limits still apply to it before it decides whether election results apply to it.”

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Christopher Armitage @carmitage.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A reminder that Trump gave the largest Pentagon contract of all time to a company his son bought less than 3 months prior.

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Hegseth fired the top uniformed lawyers of three services on Feb. 21, 2025, and days later called such lawyers “roadblocks to orders that are given by a commander in chief.” Those lawyers advise commanders on whether an order is lawful.”

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“…candidates for top intelligence and law enforcement jobs were asked whether the 2020 election was “stolen” and whether Jan. 6 was an inside job. Two candidates who did not answer yes were not selected.” cmarmitage.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

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Trump and Hegseth Identified the Two Factors That Make Self-Coups Fail. They Have Two More Years to Ensure Neither Of The Two Stands in Their Way.

What the history books call the coup could happen in the next 27 months. This is what they’re preparing for.

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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

bsky.app/profile/wash...

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If we become as cruel as the fascists, what will draw others to the cause of liberty? We can disagree with her, but should not ridicule what - to me - looks like a mental health issue.

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Christopher Armitage @carmitage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Over the course of this essay I intend to show you what stops a self-coup and who is being removed, and then I’m going to ask you to call your governor and tell them what you expect them to do about this increasingly urgent threat."

cmarmitage.substack.com

Trump and Hegseth Identified the Two Factors That Make Self-Coups Fail. They Have Two More Years to Ensure Neither Of The Two Stands in Their Way.

What the history books call the coup could happen in the next 27 months. This is what they’re preparing for.

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think he’s counting on it. Planning on inciting a religious war.

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Rein Haakma @peaceforallmen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dorothee Sölle is the creator (coiner) of the term Christofascism (Christofaschismus). She introduced this neologism in 1970. The essay "Christofascism" is her most direct and well-known text on the subject, published in her collection The Window of Vulnerability: A Political Spirituality (1990).

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So, so sad to me that “Christo-fascism” is even a thing. Christ stood for the opposite.

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” Aristotle

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” Aristotle

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think it’s anorexia, guys. Rich people have mental health crises too.

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Winning a majority isn’t enough. State-based resistance is needed. “If we are betting on path zero, we are unwitting controlled opposition.… “What that gets us is not democratic recovery. It is steady-state fascism with a permanent opposition party that exists to lose most elections respectably….”

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One small-r republican lesson for us all: The only sure insurance against institutional capture is many diverse, truly independent organizations that can step in and provide a counterpoint when another institution is captured.

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

16/ That’s Hungary’s warning, and its lesson. Elections can remove the ppl directing propaganda. They can’t instantly undo years of fear, captured institutions, or damaged professional judgment. Defending democracy means protecting independent journalism now & rebuilding what political control broke

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

13/ And there was a harder moral question: why had they stayed? Some feared losing their paychecks. Others said they remained to preserve professional skills until freer days returned. One staffer admitted struggling to come to terms with having contributed to the system. There are no easy answers.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

12/ Even journalists who welcomed liberation struggled with responsibility. Under the old system, managers decided what could run. Now reporters had to make their own calls and stand behind them. Some still feared publishing perfectly legitimate stories. Political control had become a habit of mind.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

8/ The biggest surprise was what they’d saved. A group calling itself the Pro Domo Task Force had collected internal evidence of censorship and manipulation for more than a decade. After the election, they handed new public-media leaders a 482-page archive, much of it internal correspondence.

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reminds me of Paul’s note to Timothy: “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 08/10/2026

The conventional wisdom in home building was that constructing units that are both energy efficient and powered by renewable energy substantially increases the cost. But two new affordable housing developments in Northfield and Faribault show otherwise.

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A Minnesota nonprofit designed net-zero housing that is also affordable. Here’s how

A Minnesota nonprofit has built two new affordable housing developments that are also helping fight climate change, bucking the conventional wisdom that net-zero homes cost too much for lower and mode...

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GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@nycjayjay.bsky.social , @chrisgeidner.bsky.social , others in the legal space: Anybody reading Christopher Armitage’s work these days? Some valuable thoughts on what state AGs and even cities can do to gum up the works of the authoritarian project. Worth reading and promulgating.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

House GOP leaders sent members home early rather than risk a vote on the rest of the Epstein files Survivors are still waiting, & 88% of likely voters want candidates who will release them @milestaylor.bsky.social has a message for men ahead of Nov 3👇 -TN

defiance.news

A message to men: if you really believe in supporting women, prove it on Nov. 3.

One fact became clear at our press conference with Epstein Survivors: this election is about more than just Donald Trump.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

ICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.

The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

9/ If the strategy is waiting us out, care is strategy. Rest, rotation and backup people keep a movement durable, because burnout is often a design flaw in the group, not a personal failing. I explain here: bsky.app/profile/digi...

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

5/ So the question to ask after any rally changes: what decision are we trying to change? Who actually has the power to change it? And what steady pressure, week after week, will move them? Without answers, a march is just a very loud, very brief photo op.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

4/ They warn that today's autocrats rarely need a bloody crackdown. Legal harassment, surveillance and money pressure grind movements down slowly, because exhaustion ends a campaign just as well as defeat does, with far less outrage than a massacre would. bsky.app/profile/digi...

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

3/ Researchers Breza Race Maksimovic and Jamila Raqib say movements too often stop at protest and skip the organizing and refusal to cooperate that build real leverage. Going viral is not a strategy. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/doe...

journalofdemocracy.org

Does Nonviolent Action Still Work? | Journal of Democracy

Mass movements topple dictators but struggle to secure democracy afterward. The theory of nonviolent struggle is not broken; it is out of date. Regimes have adapted their repression—movements must now...

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Alex Barron @alexrbarron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are you on a campus thinking about decarbonization but wondering how to pay for it? My lab has developed a working paper for campus staff/students/faculty interested in learning about approaches and what questions to ask. A few highlights 🧵 scholarworks.smith.edu/env_facpubs/...

scholarworks.smith.edu

Funding and Financing Mechanisms for Decarbonization at Higher Education Institutions

A growing number of higher education institutions (HEIs) are decarbonizing their campuses, with thermal energy networks supported by ground-source-heat pumps (GSHPs) as the most common approach (Barro...

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