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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 5h
Pictured: The Obama family, with the former president wearing the suit that destroyed America.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h
The Art of the Deal, folks. Donald is such an idiot.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 4h
Here are the details: literally any time, any place, any network.
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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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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The GOP promised us Mamdani would usher in sharia law. Instead, we got line dancing in Bryant Park and free opera tickets. Pretty cool.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
SENATOR SLOTKIN: If you hear in the next 34 days that there is a new security threat that you’ve never heard of, that somehow requires federal law enforcement or the military and not local police, an alarm bell should go off in your brain. Do not let him get away with that
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ONE MONTH FROM TODAY:
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2026
The free speech™️ people are at it again. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 23/09/2026
Extremely disturbing news about the lawyer defending Donald Trump’s media ban. Watch this sitting down, and please help spread the word. youtube.com/shorts/veF5d...
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Trump’s media ban gets even more disturbing
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He kept yelling "I'm a U.S. citizen." They kept him pinned to the sidewalk anyway. He left in an ambulance with injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. DHS calls it "without further incident." www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 22/09/2026
Just in: Trump reported making another 1,158 stock trades in July 2026. It appears he violated the Stock Act, again, by failing to report all of his trades within 45 days. extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden...
Screenshot of the front page of his OGE 278
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
what if ed sheeran channels all his emotions about feeling sad and betrayed by making more songs. not so funny now is it
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-says-recession-u…
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A CNN investigation reveals Russia likely provided crucial satellite information about U.S. bases, giving Tehran a major advantage in the war. And not a word from Senile Satan.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 14/09/2026
Trump has only declared victory in the Iran war once this month. Concerning.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Monkey side eye meme
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
1/ This @propublica.org story is just gobsmacking. As table stakes: why does a family of billionaires need help paying for weddings? And why would they accept from Russian oligarch with ties to Putin and FSB? www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You’ll never guess which social media site this review is getting the least traction on
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“.. the commanders were blunt. They were most worried about their depleted stocks of Patriot interceptors .. .. Stocks of critical munitions such as these, they told the vice president, were the lowest they had ever seen.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
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Jeff Domingues @jeffdomingues.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you liked your DOGE refund and your tariff rebate, you’ll love your Trump dividend.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Peaked at the bad place and saw a genuinely good idea. Republicans will be stuck finding a good way to counter this.
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@TokyoTom2020
How about we cease calling it the 

2026 midterms 

and we start referring to it as the 

Trump midpoint national referendum

That’ll blow the minds of every GOP congressman running for reelection in most districts and put it in its proper perspective, tapping into the anger and fatigue of the American people
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When I say "bullshitting is inherent to LLMs," I don't mean it colloquially, I mean it empirically. Here's the bleeding edge of the frontier (Opus, Sol, Fable, Astra), and the lowest bullshit rate (answering wrongly instead of admitting ignorance) is 45%. artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/...
AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate vs. AA-Omniscience Index
AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate (lower is better) measures how often the model answers incorrectly when it should have refused or admitted to not knowing the answer. It is defined as the proportion of incorrect answers out of all non-correct responses, i.e. incorrect / (incorrect + partial answers + not attempted) · AA-Omniscience IndexAA-Omniscience
Description: AA-Omniscience is a knowledge and hallucination benchmark that measures factual reliability, rewards precise knowledge, and penalizes incorrect guesses or hallucinations. It provides a detailed assessment of a model’s ability to distinguish known from unknowns across diverse knowledge domains.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13029
Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ArtificialAnalysis/AA-Omniscience-Public
Implementation:
The benchmark consists of 6,000 questions covering 42 topics, including Business, Humanities and Social Sciences, Health, Law, Software Engineering, and Science, Engineering and Mathematics.
Models are scored using the AA-Omniscience Index, which assigns points for correct answers, subtracts points for hallucinated responses, and keeps abstentions neutral, rewarding abstentions over incorrect guesses
Each answer is graded as either CORRECT, INCORRECT, PARTIAL_ANSWER, or NOT_ATTEMPTED based on the model's response and the ground truth answer. GPT-5.6 Luna (medium) is used as the grading model
Intelligence Index Integration: AA-Omniscience contributes two components to the Intelligence Index: (1) Accuracy - the proportion of correct answers, weighted at 10% of the overall Index, and (2) Non-Hallucination Rate - calculated as 1 minus the hallucination rate, weighted at 5% of the overall Index (AA-Omniscience's 15% share).
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We already knew Egyptian intelligence warned Israel ahead of Oct. 7 and the Netanyahu govt dismissed it. Now we learn UAE leader MBZ warned Bibi directly that Hamas was about to try something big. He dismissed that too. One of the worst security failures in history. And followed by so much awful.
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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Huge WSJ report on Noem's DHS corruption. She made Corey Lewandowski a “special government employee,” where he had sign-off power over big contracts. While in that position, he pitched Qatar & UAE on hiring him on the side for help with DHS matters, including visas. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Chasing Side Deals, Flexing Influence: Lewandowski’s Power Moves at DHS
Kristi Noem’s close adviser effectively controlled billions in spending at Homeland Security; Lewandowski denies seeking business or playing any role in agency’s contracts.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:
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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Remember when Kristen Welker would always ask every Republican guest to repudiate the statements of Nick Fuentes, Jack Posobiec, Benny Johnson, or other MAGA racists? Neither do I.
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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mike Johnson sent the House of Representatives home early to avoid a vote on releasing the Epstein files via discharge petition. I'm not Christian so I may not have standing here. But I cannot think of any way this action honors the teachings of the religion he wears on his sleeve. Blasphemous.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 03/09/2026
James Talarico on America’s backwards priorities: “I wish our government would go after pedophiles the way they go after brown men headed to work at 7 a.m.” Me too. #SheShed
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Love, love, love this. ht: @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I've been pondering this for some time...
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Since people are joking about a charisma-free Cruz v. Vance presidential race, a reminder: both men owe their political careers to Peter Thiel. Is it a bizarre coincidence that the two GOP frontrunners are 2 of Thiel's 4 main political proteges? It is not. Peter plans ahead. Either way he wins. 1/
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/09/2026
Sec. Lutnick on the war in Iran: “There haven’t been American deaths, it’s really just an economic choke-out.” 18 U.S. service members have been killed in Trump's Iran war.
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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is bleak as hell.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hasan Piker isn't part of the Abdul El-Sayed campaign. Lorenzo Sewell is a member of the Mike Rogers campaign. And he's a proper extremist and bigot who the media isn't covering. I brought receipts in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 01/09/2026
Maitre Rey (374 GB) Over 800,000 emails and file attachments from Maitre Rey, a notary service based in Monaco, providing insight into money laundering and the inner workings of the property market. ddosecrets.org/article/mait... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets
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Maitre Rey - Distributed Denial of Secrets
Over 800,000 emails and file attachments from Maitre Rey, a notary service based in Monaco. The records provide insight into the inner workings of the property market and Monaco's concerns about…
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do. - James Baldwin
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Star Wars Culture @swculturelive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My boss be like:
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God @thegodshow.com · 01/09/2026
Billionaires don’t want to pay 2% more in taxes, so they have the media companies they own working overtime to keep us fighting with each other over nonsense.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
NEW/SCOOP: After a yearlong #FOIA battle, I finally obtained Ghislaine Maxwell's prison transfer form from BOP. But the agency redacted its rationale for moving the convicted sex offender to a minimum-security prison Read it in this special edition of FOIA Files 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Ghislaine Maxwell’s Prison Transfer Application Released
FOIA Files obtained a copy of the document from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The agency redacted its justification for moving the convicted sex offender to a less-restrictive minimum-security prison...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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ᴋʟᴀᵾs @tinyklaus.com · 30/08/2026
Here’s Jesse Michels glazing his childhood friend, crypto-scammer Sam Bankman-Fried on an episode of American Alchemy that is now obviously deleted.
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Lisa S Marie @frequentbuyer1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So we’re just gonna keep Mitch on the payroll without any signs of life? Let DARLINE be Senator with no knowledge of foreign policy? Allow Max Miller to run for re-election despite having credible allegations of domestic abuse? If the republicans won’t clean house, the American voters will have to.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
President Trump issues executive order renaming his wife from Melania Trump to Natalie Harp.
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