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Jacob Souva

@jacobsouva.bsky.social

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Hello 👋… my name is Jacob Souva and I’m an illustrator and author of books for kids. I’m rep’d by Jen Rofé of Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

✨ www.twofishillustration.com/links
✏️ https://open.substack.com/pub/jacobsouva

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@daphnarenan.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 2:39 PMReposted by @jacobsouva.bsky.social

This is an important legislative agenda: -term limits -regularizing appointments -ethics reform -shadow docket reform & -a supermajority rule before the Court can invalidate acts of Congress. These are all basic measures to rebuild a more democratic constitutionalism and a more legitimate Court.

@jacobsouva.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 8:19 PM

😂

@jacobsouva.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 8:18 PM

Good luck, Charlene!!

@jacobsouva.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 11:39 AM

Same

@liliuhms.comOct 13, 2026, 1:19 AMReposted by @jacobsouva.bsky.social

when did they stop printing funny jokes on popsicle sticks

@boxbrown.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:10 PMReposted by @jacobsouva.bsky.social

Author AI scammers are like “ I’m gonna get super rich stealing from people that have no money”

@angrystaffer.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:38 PMReposted by @jacobsouva.bsky.social

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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@atrupar.comOct 11, 2026, 2:56 PMReposted by @jacobsouva.bsky.social

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

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@carlydraws.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:14 PMReposted by @jacobsouva.bsky.social

Always here for good Tortoise news!

a giant tortoise with a mountain landscape on it
@tomgauld.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 10:47 AMReposted by @jacobsouva.bsky.social

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
…
More silence

"Professor?"
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@jakemgrumbach.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 4:54 PMReposted by @jacobsouva.bsky.social

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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@jacobsouva.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 4:39 PM

Lots of news is like “here’s the awful stuff they did this week” or “here’s all the truly awful stuff they are doing after the midterms”

@chrislturner.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:37 PMReposted by @jacobsouva.bsky.social

finger still on the pulse of the voter less than 30 days out

AAaron Rupar@atrupar.comOct 9, 2026, 3:36 PM

Trump: "We needed a heliport. Two things they wanted at the White House. They wanted a great heliport. Very important, because we land a lot of big helicopters. The biggest. And they always wanted a ballroom."

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@jacobsouva.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:23 PM

Moral high ground, for reals

@jacobsouva.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:22 PM

5 #kidlit #kidlitart things from the studio this week:

1️⃣ A nervous musk ox
2️⃣ Creative fulfillment, a chase!
3️⃣ Navigating plagiarism w Austin Kleon
4️⃣ Another example of creative constraints in kidlit
5️⃣ Community is ace and a new friend has a new book

jacobsouva.substack.com/p/a-cold-ner...

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:33 AMReposted by @jacobsouva.bsky.social

"The new law prevents large grocery retailers and delivery services from using personal information — including race, gender, Google searches and social media history, among other things — to manipulate prices customers pay." Hooray. But also, how awful that this was ever a thing.

@tomjoscelyn.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:41 AMReposted by @jacobsouva.bsky.social

There is nothing comparable to this level of corruption in American history.

@nicholaskole.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:58 PMReposted by @jacobsouva.bsky.social

I am learning to be more and more concise in my responses

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@jacobsouva.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:13 PM

👀

@jacobsouva.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 5:31 PM

So many mistakes! Stumbling on what works!

This was my journey as a #kidlitart #kidlit hopeful to having a workable, every-changing portfolio I believe in:

jacobsouva.substack.com/p/crafting-a...

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