Jim Elser

@drlimnology.bsky.social

@angrystaffer.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 6:38 PMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

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

@chadbourn.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:01 PMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge

@chadbourn.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:28 PMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

Former VP Mike Pence: “President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.”

@cdelawalla.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:39 PMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

It sounds like a wild conspiracy theory, but here is a notable example of how fighting for democracy anywhere is fighting for democracy everywhere: Ukraine hits Russian data centers...and election related misinformation, Trump trolls, and bots drop off social media in the US.

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:17 PMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

The grim irony is that if Trump hadn't started his damn fool war with Iran, we could have shifted much of those interceptor stocks over to Ukraine to protect Ukrainian civilians and then we would actually have the leverage to ask Zelensky and Ukraine not to kinetically sanction Russian oil.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.comOct 11, 2026, 1:49 PM

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

@nationalacademies.org Oct 11, 2026, 3:00 PMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

Rural communities face challenges in health care, infrastructure, and economic opportunity that call for locally driven solutions.

A new National Academies initiative will engage rural leaders to elevate these solutions and inform national efforts.

https://ow.ly/NmG450ZWvkU

@drlimnology.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:01 PM

Terrific opportunity here !

@kaitlinkallee.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:21 AMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

@ufw.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:47 AMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating.

full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

United Farm Workers union condemns brutal
ICE surge impacting farm workers in Central Valley; highlights Rep. Valadao's comments as 'insulting' to his constituents

@carlbergstrom.com Oct 11, 2026, 6:05 AMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

As best as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine.

Use of Placebo

The benefits, risks, burdens, and effectiveness of a new intervention must be tested against those of the best proven intervention(s), except in the following circumstances:

If no proven intervention exists, the use of placebo, or no intervention, is acceptable; or
If for compelling and scientifically sound methodological reasons the use of any intervention other than the best proven one(s), the use of placebo, or no intervention is necessary to determine the efficacy or safety of an intervention; and the participants who receive any intervention other than the best proven one(s), placebo, or no intervention will not be subject to additional risks of serious or irreversible harm as a result of not receiving the best proven intervention.

Extreme care must be taken to avoid abuse of this option.

@atrupar.com Oct 11, 2026, 12:38 AMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

@kaskosz.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 2:09 AMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

“While the deal will not benefit American consumers, it has immense consequences for others. For Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the deal is a potential lifesaver. For war-ravaged Ukraine, it is the most outrageous and heartless Trump betrayal to date.”—David Frum

🎁 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

@zacklabe.com Oct 11, 2026, 1:38 PMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

The average global temperature so far this year (for the January-September period) is the 2nd warmest on record since the start of this dataset...

This data is using NOAAGlobalTempv6.1.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

Line graph time series of global land mean surface temperature anomalies for each January-September period from 1850 through 2026. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly averaged for January-September 2026 was 1.17°C for global land areas. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1901-2000 climate baseline. Data from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.1.0.

@grudgie.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:43 AMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

Nothing has ever been more real than the Trump Putin collaboration

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.comOct 11, 2026, 12:38 AM

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

@jessehawken.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:55 PMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

Not hearing much from the Sound of Freedom crowd about this child trafficking operation, are we

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 6:56 PM

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:54 PMReposted by @drlimnology.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,…

@criticallyspeaking.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:56 PMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

Sickening. Poor Ukraine.

apnews.com/article/trum...

@criticallyspeaking.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:58 PMReposted by @drlimnology.bsky.social

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@drlimnology.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:54 PM

More views.

@drlimnology.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:53 PM

My friend is out rowing.

A rower in a calm lake with mountains in the distance. Everything is blue.

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