Kevin Thurman
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
You don’t need to target AI. This feels like a pretty easy intervention in markets that would separate residential, occupied and commercial uses through caps or marginal taxes regardless of data center use. The problem lies that it really needs to mostly be a federal intervention.
democrats/liberals/progressives with any common sense need to get ahead of this electricity cost issue - we need restraint and regulation of ai and data centers, which are driving up costs www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...
AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill — here's why
Energy-hungry data centers that underpin artificial intelligence are contributing to higher residential electricity bills, say experts.
www.cnbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
You don’t need to target AI. This feels like a pretty easy intervention in markets that would separate residential, occupied and commercial uses through caps or marginal taxes regardless of data center use. The problem lies that it really needs to mostly be a federal intervention.
I really have no understanding why @nymag.com still has these up. No evidence of bias …
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I really have no understanding why @nymag.com still has these up. No evidence of bias …
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precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
In fairness this is precisely the centrist pundit serving message that the Mayor-elect was pushing. It’s good politics for him, but it’s not like they weren’t surfing the aesthetic to score the memes.
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
In fairness this is precisely the centrist pundit serving message that the Mayor-elect was pushing. It’s good politics for him, but it’s not like they weren’t surfing the aesthetic to score the memes.
I love movies, enjoyed film a lot as a major and even making a few as a young guy … precisely because i disagree with Jamelle here but completely understand why he thinks this and believe he’s right — the kid in me was just happy to see it.
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I love movies, enjoyed film a lot as a major and even making a few as a young guy … precisely because i disagree with Jamelle here but completely understand why he thinks this and believe he’s right — the kid in me was just happy to see it.
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At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
I don’t think he “did it” in the way everyone seems to. Zohran is good politician but he also said “we have our own views” and played into Trump’s “it’s okay it’s all a game” persona.
And i think it’s more clear how far we’ve slid that he feels he has to do this.
And i think it’s more clear how far we’ve slid that he feels he has to do this.
Zohran is a generational talent, but I really worry the democrats are gonna take away all the wrong lessons from this, because none of the rest of them can do this.
November 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I don’t think he “did it” in the way everyone seems to. Zohran is good politician but he also said “we have our own views” and played into Trump’s “it’s okay it’s all a game” persona.
And i think it’s more clear how far we’ve slid that he feels he has to do this.
And i think it’s more clear how far we’ve slid that he feels he has to do this.
I will never understand why Picketty doesn’t come up more in US housing debates. I have been a YIMBY for a decade i believe there should be more dense cities allowed in the US, but it’s also clear to be R > G is a core of not the core driver in why housing prices are separating from median incomes.
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I will never understand why Picketty doesn’t come up more in US housing debates. I have been a YIMBY for a decade i believe there should be more dense cities allowed in the US, but it’s also clear to be R > G is a core of not the core driver in why housing prices are separating from median incomes.
American housing debates tend to be way too neighborhood focused imho. The issue is the oversupply of one type of housing cause it’s cheap & legal and undersupply of another because it’s expensive & mostly illegal. These are self reinforcing patterns that also reinforce how people want to spend $
I understand that if:
1) you love city living, as I do, or
2) you are young and single
this claim makes a lot of intuitive sense. It just also doesn’t seem to have much actual evidence in practice, and if you specifically talk to families about it, many will just tell you they want the house
1) you love city living, as I do, or
2) you are young and single
this claim makes a lot of intuitive sense. It just also doesn’t seem to have much actual evidence in practice, and if you specifically talk to families about it, many will just tell you they want the house
like, my hunch is that many families given the choice between suburbs or mid-rise dense cities with family size room counts and access to transit, the preference would be for the latter, but our system does not make that a viable choice for many
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
American housing debates tend to be way too neighborhood focused imho. The issue is the oversupply of one type of housing cause it’s cheap & legal and undersupply of another because it’s expensive & mostly illegal. These are self reinforcing patterns that also reinforce how people want to spend $
I always find the puffery of bios like these fascinating. Like if it were true (FO, $50 mil raised, etc) then you'd not have a single line in one FEC report & one tweet from a consultant to the PCCC. You'd have a CV with all your work & not deleted your old twitter.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I always find the puffery of bios like these fascinating. Like if it were true (FO, $50 mil raised, etc) then you'd not have a single line in one FEC report & one tweet from a consultant to the PCCC. You'd have a CV with all your work & not deleted your old twitter.
www.bgagency.it/images/pdf/e...
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Authoritarianism arrives with emails like this. The masked brute squad may or may not accost you later, be sure to carry your papers.
Email just went out on my campus that the Immigration Goons ("federal immigration agents") will be in town (Raleigh).
Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times."
The fuck kind of country are we living in?
Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times."
The fuck kind of country are we living in?
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Authoritarianism arrives with emails like this. The masked brute squad may or may not accost you later, be sure to carry your papers.
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1/8
Good FT piece on the increasing difficulty economists have in understanding, correlating and reconciling Chinese economic statistics. This leads to concerns among many analysts that GDP may be overstated, and fairly substantially.
www.ft.com/content/5b9e...
Good FT piece on the increasing difficulty economists have in understanding, correlating and reconciling Chinese economic statistics. This leads to concerns among many analysts that GDP may be overstated, and fairly substantially.
www.ft.com/content/5b9e...
The growing problem with China’s unreliable numbers
Beijing’s GDP figures have drawn scrutiny for years but the questions have become more acute
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 AM
1/8
Good FT piece on the increasing difficulty economists have in understanding, correlating and reconciling Chinese economic statistics. This leads to concerns among many analysts that GDP may be overstated, and fairly substantially.
www.ft.com/content/5b9e...
Good FT piece on the increasing difficulty economists have in understanding, correlating and reconciling Chinese economic statistics. This leads to concerns among many analysts that GDP may be overstated, and fairly substantially.
www.ft.com/content/5b9e...
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if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats
NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This is horrible and prosecuting him would lead to his removal from the bench.
OMFG-ex DOJ official (& now federal judge) Emil Bove was involved in the administration's plots to murder individuals via lethal strikes
"At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."
"At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is horrible and prosecuting him would lead to his removal from the bench.
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161 is a lot of recommendations, so over the next few weeks, we're going to highlight a few!
Tell us which resonates with you and your work? 1/
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Tell us which resonates with you and your work? 1/
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NEW 📰: Building a more effective government that moves beyond the status quo requires honest reflection.
Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance.
https://bit.ly/4312Zid
Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance.
https://bit.ly/4312Zid
October 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
161 is a lot of recommendations, so over the next few weeks, we're going to highlight a few!
Tell us which resonates with you and your work? 1/
🧵🧵🧵🧵
Tell us which resonates with you and your work? 1/
🧵🧵🧵🧵
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NEW 📰: Building a more effective government that moves beyond the status quo requires honest reflection.
Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance.
https://bit.ly/4312Zid
Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance.
https://bit.ly/4312Zid
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
NEW 📰: Building a more effective government that moves beyond the status quo requires honest reflection.
Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance.
https://bit.ly/4312Zid
Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance.
https://bit.ly/4312Zid
When did we decide we can only believe in goal if we know exactly how to get there. I am with @peark.us and consider the original post this responded to be unhelpful.
I believe we can come up with a better system one crime at a time.
I believe we can come up with a better system one crime at a time.
I consider myself a prison abolitionist despite the very real and material challenges of that position. It's not a practical one day-to-day policy slate, but an anchor on a longer-term project not possible in the current context, contingent on social changes that are wildly unlikely in my lifetime.
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
When did we decide we can only believe in goal if we know exactly how to get there. I am with @peark.us and consider the original post this responded to be unhelpful.
I believe we can come up with a better system one crime at a time.
I believe we can come up with a better system one crime at a time.
He is.
Also … all the people saying it won’t happen miss the damned point (and should read his thoughts on those types of comments)
So since it’s 2025 — vote for and donate to people in primaries that will do this.
Also … all the people saying it won’t happen miss the damned point (and should read his thoughts on those types of comments)
So since it’s 2025 — vote for and donate to people in primaries that will do this.
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
He is.
Also … all the people saying it won’t happen miss the damned point (and should read his thoughts on those types of comments)
So since it’s 2025 — vote for and donate to people in primaries that will do this.
Also … all the people saying it won’t happen miss the damned point (and should read his thoughts on those types of comments)
So since it’s 2025 — vote for and donate to people in primaries that will do this.
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Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Everyone is saying Black Mirror etc but Upload does a good job making fun of the enshitified platform aspects of something like this even if it was “immortality”
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Everyone is saying Black Mirror etc but Upload does a good job making fun of the enshitified platform aspects of something like this even if it was “immortality”
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"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
It's like Panama Papers but sells more tabloids ...
A weird aspect to the Epstein scandal is that it's going to impact a ton of countries all at once. This is going to become course material. Pedophile oil crisis type stuff
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
It's like Panama Papers but sells more tabloids ...
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This is why Dems should run on creating mechanisms of accountability especially on corruption.
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is why Dems should run on creating mechanisms of accountability especially on corruption.