Kira M
@kmc39.bsky.social
economist, geographer, & data scientist working on urban+regional policy. Member at @cplusc.bsky.social. Other identities include queer, cyclist.
ALSO rebuilding after climate disasters!
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
October 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
ALSO rebuilding after climate disasters!
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1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning
Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.
www.forbes.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
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"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social
My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech
My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech
Original draft of syllabus is here - www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi... - still in need of a summary piece on the role of capital in shaping the AI economy
The Political Economy of AI: A Syllabus
As I’ve noted occasionally before, one of the most potentially useful things that academics do is preparing syllabi, and hence organizing information about the world.
www.programmablemutter.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social
My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech
My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech
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Holy-Shit-grade new whitepaper just dropped from @cplusc.bsky.social.
Download this. Use this. It is so good.
I do not work there, I just think it is neat!
Download this. Use this. It is so good.
I do not work there, I just think it is neat!
climateandcommunity.org
July 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Holy-Shit-grade new whitepaper just dropped from @cplusc.bsky.social.
Download this. Use this. It is so good.
I do not work there, I just think it is neat!
Download this. Use this. It is so good.
I do not work there, I just think it is neat!
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we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him
I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.
June 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him
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Patrick Healy is the guy who drove the great @pkrugman.bsky.social away from the NYT by killing his newsletter and trying to rewrite crucial passages: www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
May 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Patrick Healy is the guy who drove the great @pkrugman.bsky.social away from the NYT by killing his newsletter and trying to rewrite crucial passages: www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
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taking this moment, between the terrible supreme court opinions, the concentration camps, and the bill in the senate, to go on tour of cable news to trash the dem nominee for mayor of nyc, and to do it while lying about him and peddling in obvious islamophobic rhetoric…it’s truly black pilling
June 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
taking this moment, between the terrible supreme court opinions, the concentration camps, and the bill in the senate, to go on tour of cable news to trash the dem nominee for mayor of nyc, and to do it while lying about him and peddling in obvious islamophobic rhetoric…it’s truly black pilling
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This times a thousand, and it's messed up how a political assassination just kind of fell out of the news right away.
A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
June 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This times a thousand, and it's messed up how a political assassination just kind of fell out of the news right away.
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the data backs this sentiment up!
June 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
the data backs this sentiment up!
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not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...
Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding to California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.
www.cnn.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.
March 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.
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the feminine urge to
Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.
mashable.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
the feminine urge to
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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
March 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
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Apropos of nothing much, profound kudos to everyone still writing (& reading) books—a radical act of attention & focus in a world increasingly warped by brain-fracking rightwing tech dipshits whose sole purpose in life is to profit off our infinite scrolling. It's practically civil disobedience! 🫡📚
February 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Apropos of nothing much, profound kudos to everyone still writing (& reading) books—a radical act of attention & focus in a world increasingly warped by brain-fracking rightwing tech dipshits whose sole purpose in life is to profit off our infinite scrolling. It's practically civil disobedience! 🫡📚
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This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬
February 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬
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Targeting trans people, Black people, immigrants etc is not a “distraction” from fascism, it IS fascism.
It lives in complementary relationship to destroying democracy, because democracy is inherently about participation of minorities.
It lives in complementary relationship to destroying democracy, because democracy is inherently about participation of minorities.
February 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Targeting trans people, Black people, immigrants etc is not a “distraction” from fascism, it IS fascism.
It lives in complementary relationship to destroying democracy, because democracy is inherently about participation of minorities.
It lives in complementary relationship to destroying democracy, because democracy is inherently about participation of minorities.
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A flier for the Tesla of your liberal/progressive neighbors who are increasingly shaky about owning or selling @niedermeyer.online
February 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A flier for the Tesla of your liberal/progressive neighbors who are increasingly shaky about owning or selling @niedermeyer.online
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“New Yorkers didn’t elect Donald Trump to be mayor. But under the current arrangement, he is the mayor. The governor has a responsibility to restore democratic governance to the city by removing the mayor from office.” Via @joshtpm.bsky.social
Monday Changed Everything: Gov Hochul Needs to Remove Eric Adams from Office
Events in the Trump DOJ-Eric Adams story have moved very quickly this...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“New Yorkers didn’t elect Donald Trump to be mayor. But under the current arrangement, he is the mayor. The governor has a responsibility to restore democratic governance to the city by removing the mayor from office.” Via @joshtpm.bsky.social
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I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day
Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.
February 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day
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TRUMP CANNOT STOP CRASHING PLANE
February 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
TRUMP CANNOT STOP CRASHING PLANE
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This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
February 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
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Top headlines:
Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’,
NYT: Trump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration With Mexico
Washington Post: Trump’s fierce attacks on DEI reflect a longtime GOP focus
US media is not giving a sense of the scale of the threats
Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’,
NYT: Trump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration With Mexico
Washington Post: Trump’s fierce attacks on DEI reflect a longtime GOP focus
US media is not giving a sense of the scale of the threats
February 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Top headlines:
Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’,
NYT: Trump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration With Mexico
Washington Post: Trump’s fierce attacks on DEI reflect a longtime GOP focus
US media is not giving a sense of the scale of the threats
Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’,
NYT: Trump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration With Mexico
Washington Post: Trump’s fierce attacks on DEI reflect a longtime GOP focus
US media is not giving a sense of the scale of the threats
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No regret rate will be small enough, no assessment procedure cautious enough, no amount of studies will ever be sufficient because what they objected to was never the health care but the lives it helps trans people lead. We are the contagion this administration wishes to eradicate.
January 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
No regret rate will be small enough, no assessment procedure cautious enough, no amount of studies will ever be sufficient because what they objected to was never the health care but the lives it helps trans people lead. We are the contagion this administration wishes to eradicate.