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Laura Henne
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"Is there a single human being on this planet more idiotic or egotistical than Donald Trump. My answer, no. There is not."

- Barack Obama
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claytontuckertx.com
No mother should have to plan her delivery around a hospital's funding problems.

While billionaires get tax breaks, rural Texas hospitals are struggling to keep their doors open, leaving families with fewer options for lifesaving care.
October 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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kenjennings.bsky.social
(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5d
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,…
October 11, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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mikenellis.bsky.social
Just a reminder that multiple members of Donald Trump's family and administration helped bring the Tate brothers back to the United States after it was already clear they were human traffickers and sexual abusers.

They should all be investigated by Congress immediately, including Barron Trump.
October 7, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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murray.senate.gov
Trump is waging an idiotic trade war with Canada and making constant attacks on its sovereignty like there are no consequences.

I have a bill to END Trump’s tariffs. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
October 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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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.
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.
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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I'm not running to bow to a corporation.

I'm not running to raise your utility rates or help them do it.

I'm not running so that your premium goes up and everybody looks the other way.

I'm running to fight for you.
October 4, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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lolgop.bsky.social
Not fair to call it treason but absolutely accurate to call it treachery.
October 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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rockymountviews.bsky.social
I believe it.
thelibbojack.bsky.social The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 12d
BREAKING: Chinese officials say Donald Trump’s voluntary dismantling of the American-led world order has advanced China 25 years ahead in it’s century-long strategic plan to replace the US as the world superpower.
October 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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hunterw.bsky.social
Worth noting that Ravi Ruia, the Indian billionaire behind the Iowa steel plant Trump touted yesterday as bringing back American industry, has massive funding from Russian state companies.

Here he is on the Kremlin website talking with Putin about it. en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/59216
Ravi Ruia: Your Excellency, friends here. My name is Ravi Ruia, I am the co-founder of the Essar Group in India, along with my brother Shashi Ruia. Your Excellency, we are involved with Essar Group in different businesses. We are in the oil refining and exploration business, in spill manufacturing, power generation, port infrastructure, metals and mining. Our total revenues are around $15 billion a year. Your Excellency, in the last two years, with active cooperation and assistance of VTB Bank, we have been instrumental in bringing in a large investment from the state-owned oil company Rosneft into India, which has given access to Russia to a very large market in India of over 1.25 billion people. It is a total investment of almost $13 billion, which is the largest investment ever made by a Russian private company into the Indian private sector. And it has given a big, major outlet for potentially Russian crude into India and access to over 4,000 to 5,000 filling gas stations in India where our product will be directly given to Indian consumers. Your Excellency, we are also looking at how else we can bring in more Russian investment into India, which would add to the growth of both Indian market and access to Indian population as well as add to Russian export. For instance, in the power generation sector, India genuinely believes that there is large potential for Russian power equipment to come into India as the Indian power generation is growing. This is the background of our group. We are now looking at, Your Excellency. My question to you, Your Excellency, is the economic growth in India is at 1.5 percent. And now that the oil price has recovered, what measures do you envisage to take it to a sustainable high level of 3 percent? Thank you. Andrei Kostin: Do you mean in Russia? Ravi Ruia: Yes, in Russia. Vladimir Putin: First of all, I would like to say that we have really good constructive relations with India, thanks also to our friendly personal ties with Prime Minister Modi, who is a serious politician and a really reliable partner. It is largely thanks to his efforts that we are moving our relations forward in many fields. Yet we are not satisfied with the current state of our relations. It is beyond the capabilities of both India and Russia. We can increase the volume of our trade and economic ties and mutual investments manifold, yes, many times over. One of the investment projects you have mentioned is, indeed, the largest foreign investment in the history of the Indian economy - the acquisition by Rosneft, if l am not mistaken, of a stake worth $12 billion in one of India's largest oil refineries. I hope it is not the last investment of this kind.
September 29, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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cwebbonline.com
IOWA FIRST… FROM KANSAS?

Zach Lahn is running for governor of Iowa while maintaining a home in Wichita.

He voted in Kansas in 2018, 2020 and 2022, then registered in Iowa in 2024.

Flight records reviewed by the Des Moines Register showed his plane making frequent trips back to Wichita.
September 29, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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molliekatzen.bsky.social
There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports.
September 29, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
It's not pensions you can't afford.
It's not immigrants.
It's not Disabled People.
Or University educations.
Or Healthcare.
Or Housing.

It's billionaires you can't afford, they are stealing all of this and much more.
September 29, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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pinkojoe.bsky.social
Check your registration!
September 29, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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reuters.com
Dash for small gas turbines set to impact data center costs reut.rs/4dcfmwP
Dash for small gas turbines set to impact data center costs
Sales of small gas turbines are surging as data center builders prioritize speed, raising long-term power costs and emissions.
reut.rs
September 29, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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popcrave.com
Former ‘South Park’ writer Toby Morton has created a website to expose information about Cornell University’s administration in response to the group sexual assault case:

“Accountability should not disappear when the headlines do. And we all know this headline will disappear.”
September 28, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Texas peeps

You may have recently registered and think it’s a done deal.

Read the below. Urgently double check that you’re actually registered to vote.
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patti3333.bsky.social Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 16d
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September 28, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
www.democracydocket.com
September 26, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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georgehahn.com
Republicans have the Presidency, the Senate, the House, and the Supreme Court, and they’ve still fucked it up royally. Vote accordingly.
September 21, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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joshuabhoe.bsky.social
Again, he thinks it makes it harder for the courts to block it b/c "national security" and "executive power"
therealjackhopkins.bsky.social Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24d
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against?
Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile.
It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall.
Those are places where Americans march.
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
September 20, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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caolanrob.bsky.social
Russia is at war with Christianity
September 20, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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September 19, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
The national average for diesel is currently $6.40 a gallon, and analysts expect it to get worse.

This is not sustainable.
September 17, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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September 16, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.
September 15, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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laura-babcock.bsky.social
Mr Ambassador when doing media about 911 don’t chastise Canadians when 24 🇨🇦 died on that day, we took in 7,000 stranded Americans in Gander, 40,000 of our military served in your war in Afghanistan where 158 died as well as a diplomat, journalist and 2 aid workers. Shame on you.
September 11, 2026 at 3:31 PM