huh! imagine if Norway controlled SWIFT and the global reserve currency
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d agoNew 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
Peter Thiel is about to turn 59 and a half this year, so he’ll be able to withdraw his more than $5 billion in capital gains tax free because he legally gamed the Roth IRA system. Superrich just have different rules. Propublica’s 2021 report: www.propublica.org/article/lord...
Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank
Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.
propublica.org
Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes
Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
cal.news
We've lived for so long with this mythology that sure, the wealthy can be cruel. But at least the cruelty has a point. Profit! I'd like us to open our hearts to other possibilities. Power doesn't just corrupt! It can also breed truly reality-distorting levels of incompetence.
We’re probably one week away from “Israel forced Zelenskyy to provoke the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
even the fun stuff has that fatalist urgency open.spotify.com/track/7EQGXa...
Die Young
Kesha · Warrior (Expanded Edition) · Song · 2012
open.spotify.com
A snake crawled out of the grass. “If Toad looks funny in his bathing suit,” said the snake, “then I, for one, want to see him.”
Here's Google's CEO (or whatever he is) arranging a ride for Brooks through Jeffrey Epstein
"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
Haitian college student Pierre Damas Bel remembered for his hard work, kindness and love of soccer ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/05/h...
Haitian college student Pierre Damas Bel remembered for his hard work, kindness and love of soccer • Ohio Capital Journal
Family and friends remembered Pierre Damas Bel as a hard-working, loving, and dependable young man who had hopes of building a hospital in Haiti.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
Fascinating things are coming out of south eastern European ethnic strife AI video
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.
We don't talk enough about how wild it is that there's a 4th Matrix movie about how if you manage to make a piece of popular culture with an actually subversive message the worst chuds in the world will purposely misinterpret it and make it cringe so that people will turn away from it
The Matrix Resurrections - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
A zombie/apocalypse scenario is one where my friends and loved ones will die. I don't have the right kind of egotism to pretend that I'd be a cool warlord or whatever.
Noise Rock Dad@noiserockdad.bsky.social · 3h agoOne of my unproveable beliefs is that the apocalyptic tenor of so much 21st-century pop culture does more to erode mental health than we realize. I almost feel like I need a support group for "people who are genuinely worn down by mass death being treated as a cheap narrative device"
One of my unproveable beliefs is that the apocalyptic tenor of so much 21st-century pop culture does more to erode mental health than we realize. I almost feel like I need a support group for "people who are genuinely worn down by mass death being treated as a cheap narrative device"
Science is doing essential reporting on the decimation of NSF social science funding. We need public accounting. If you’ve benefited from an NSF grant from SBE, add to this 🧵. Tell the world what was funded that will not be funded from NSF anymore. I’ll start… www.science.org/content/arti...
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
The Swords of Ògún: West Africa’s God of Iron and “Vulcan of Black People” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-swords...
The Swords of Ògún: West Africa’s God of Iron and “Vulcan of Black People”
Iron and iron weapons have long been associated with power and divinity across many ancient societies.
africanhistoryextra.com
Iron and iron weapons have long been associated with power and divinity across many ancient societies. West Africa, which is home to some of the oldest ironworking sites in the world, is no exception. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-swords...
The Swords of Ògún: West Africa’s God of Iron and “Vulcan of Black People”
Iron and iron weapons have long been associated with power and divinity across many ancient societies.
africanhistoryextra.com
Ogun, the god of iron and war, is a major West African deity whose history spans several centuries and whose worship extends across multiple continents. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-swords...
The Swords of Ògún: West Africa’s God of Iron and “Vulcan of Black People”
Iron and iron weapons have long been associated with power and divinity across many ancient societies.
africanhistoryextra.com
Associated with both the creation of civilization and its destruction, Ogun originated in Yorubaland, in present-day S.W. Nigeria, before spreading to the kingdoms of Benin and Dahomey, where his swordsmen and devotees entered the historical record. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-swords...
The Swords of Ògún: West Africa’s God of Iron and “Vulcan of Black People”
Iron and iron weapons have long been associated with power and divinity across many ancient societies.
africanhistoryextra.com
As states expanded, armies clashed, and craftsmen migrated, Ogun became the ‘Vulcan of Black people,’ with shrines found in virtually every forge and numerous adherents in Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-swords...
The Swords of Ògún: West Africa’s God of Iron and “Vulcan of Black People”
Iron and iron weapons have long been associated with power and divinity across many ancient societies.
africanhistoryextra.com
Ogun is best known through the massive, jagged iron swords that serve as his emblem, as well as a famous life-size iron sculpture of the deity that was looted by French colonial forces from present-day Benin. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-swords...
The Swords of Ògún: West Africa’s God of Iron and “Vulcan of Black People”
Iron and iron weapons have long been associated with power and divinity across many ancient societies.
africanhistoryextra.com
