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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:

“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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let me be the first to say we should not do a nazi jurassic park
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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is transvestigation bad? yes
is it funny that it’s now happening to one of the loudest and most violent anti-trans voices outside of legacy media? also yes
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Wtf. US is just blasting random boats and murdering family men in the carribean and the media is writing about it like its normal.
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Privatisation has turned employment services into a tick-a-box profit-driven industry that rewards providers for keeping people in a cycle of unemployment, and these numbers are proof of that,” she added.
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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There's an extraordinary number of male US journalists who seem strangely invested in pushing the narrative that raping children is not as bad as the wowser moralists would have you believe.
Makes you wonder what that is all about...
I love writing one single article over and over again every month
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Screen Australia is doing a massive research project on the current state of the screen and games industries in Australia. Local devs, please consider taking the time to complete their survey survey.alchemer.com/s3/8573365/S...
Screen Currency 2025 — Screen and Games Industry Survey
survey.alchemer.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Victoria isn’t broke, its net assets are actually increasing

The reason it’s spending more than it’s collecting at present is it’s in the middle of massive infrastructure upgrades

The BCA is calling for more infrastructure and complaining about its cost..ffs

thepoint.com.au/news/251113-...
Don’t hobble Victoria with complaints about taxes, debt and deficit
Big business never tires of saying taxes are bad, yet those same companies thrive on the very services taxes pay for.
thepoint.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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"Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change"
#ThePoint

thepoint.com.au/news/251114-...
Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change
Fewer than a quarter of young Australians trust the nation's political leaders on climate
thepoint.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Kyra's goal was amazing, obviously, but if anyone but Ovalle wins this then something is wrong with the people
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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"Sexism and misogyny do not persist by accident, but by design."

After @womeninfootball.co.uk found that four in five women report workplace sexism in football, I wrote about why women sports journalists still don't belong in the sports media.

evieashton.substack.com/p/sexism-aga...
Sexism against sports journalists isn’t an accident
On why women still don’t belong in sports journalism
evieashton.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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a woman helped Buffalo Bill load his van, setting off a chain of events that ended in him getting shot by agent Clarice Starling
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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it is US billionaires who decided to swap out a liveable planet for slop machines.
Chinese and EU emissions were more or less flat in 2025 (Chinese emissions may have actually declined slightly, but its too early to know for sure: www.carbonbrief.org/...).

US emissions increases drove much of the increase in global emissions in 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
first cadbury stopped doing the caramilk kangaroos, now they're not even doing the caramilk baubles in packs by themselves anymore. this feels like a targeted attack because i haven't been buying 1-2 blocks a week anymore
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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energy
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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"Why not Wes Streeting?" idk, maybe ask why the LGBTQIA+ community despise the little cunt.

Caitlyn Jenner levels of, uh yeah, can you maybe not think of her when you think of us.
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:

saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3

and a worker tier whose emails are like:

Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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My fellow Europeans, I'm once again asking you to write or call your EU representatives and tell them this is unacceptable. They're essentially selling our sensitive data to companies, effectively destroying our privacy and risking our digital well-being.

Check the site!

fightchatcontrol.eu
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Imagine being the worst person Epstein's ever met.
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Marta continuing to get nominated for an award named after her is such a flex I can't even wrap my brain around it.
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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That Ovalle goal was the best goal in football in 2025, no caveat.
NEWS: The nominees for the Marta award (best goal of the year in women's football) have been released.

....and Marta is nominated once again!

🇲🇽 Would be surprised if Jacquie Ovalle doesn't win for her 'Camaroncín' flick volley winner that stunned for Tigres v Chicas in #ligaMXfem.
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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This is the goal that deserves the Marta award btw. Everyone else can pack it up

@skyfyefutbol.bsky.social here’s the tape!
Tigres just posted a new angle of Jacquie Ovalle’s goal, and it’s as magical as you’d expect.
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM