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Kevin

@kevinrmatthews.bsky.social
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MA Env Policy Energy & Sustainability. Climate Hawk. YIMBY.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just checking the till here, and it seems you're short a few groups
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20h
Wage growth just keeps slowing. And yes, wages are rising slower than prices, and no, that's not how economic growth is meant to work.
Line chart titled "Nominal wage growth is slowing" showing year-over-year growth in average hourly earnings of private-sector workers. Wage growth has declined steadily from a peak of 5.9% in early 2022 to 3.0% in September 2026, the slowest rate in the series. This nearly 3 percentage point drop over four and a half years indicates significantly cooler labor market conditions, with the deceleration accelerating in recent months as growth fell from the 3.7-3.9% range in 2025 to the low 3% range currently.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026
i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker
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Kevin @kevinrmatthews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The goal of climate groups should be to support legislation that lowers emissions.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the permitting reform deal is extremely good and Dems should support it because 1. It will lower carbon emissions 2. It will not help Trump politically, and most of the benefits won’t be felt until 2029 3. we won’t get a better deal while Trump is President 4. We can always improve it in 2029
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is quite confusing that “inclusionary zoning” is not the opposite of “exclusionary zoning”, but actually functions as a tool of exclusionary zoning
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey
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The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 23/09/2026
Today in NYC, @parkingreform.org is arguing that charging for curb parking, converting parking spaces into bike lanes, removing minimum parking mandates, and building apartments on parking lots is a good way to reduce pollution. This will upset some environmentalists. Oh, well!
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These allegations are a bombshell: the FBI informant claims Collins was in a pay-to-play scheme where donors to her Super-PAC were rewarded with government contracts. Trump stopped the investigation when he came into his office second term. As Collins would say, "concerning"
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
❗New Article❗ The Great American Property Tax Freakout! Since 2024, many states have radically reshaped their property tax systems.The changes are an example of a national trend of carving out influential groups from taxation, in this case a majority group: homeowners papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Great American Property Tax Freak Out
There has been a lot of news over the last two years, so it is understandable that neither the mass media nor the legal academy has focused on what is happening
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.
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YIMBY Denver @yimbydenver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
September is membership month and a great way to earn a YIMBY membership this month is volunteering. Join us on September 26th as we join Conservation Colorado and the Colorado Sierra Club in supporting a great land use (and parking) reformer, Stephanie Vigil. 1/ www.mobilize.us/vigilforcolo...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
She doesn’t want democrats to win majorities because then democrats might do good things and people might realize they’re good and she’s a liar
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Like Reed, Caraballo has decided to actively lie to people about objectively and consistently pro-trans Dems in order or help Republicans In continue to find this extremely perplexing!
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I spent six months watching half this website explain away a Nazi tattoo a dude wore for 20 years as no big deal, and now (largely) that same group of people is saying one interview answer's worth of weasel words is absolutely and permanently disqualifying in a candidate.
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Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People
ALT: Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
ken paxton asked texas for a list of everyone who changed the sex on their driver's license. james talarico said sports should be "safe and fair." the best thing for trans rights this year is beating paxton
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13/09/2026
The idea that the way you influence politicians is by withholding your votes for them is just a completely incoherent view that reveals the truth, which is that nobody advocating it thinks electoral politics can possibly succeed *obviously* you lobby politicians *after electing them*
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/09/2026
“Landmarking just preserves pretty things. And it’s not like preserving the buildings keeps neighborhoods as they were. If that were the case the West Village would be full of artists and folk singers.” - @profschleich.bsky.social
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'll confess I'm shocked by this: seeing a respected progressive voice openly argue that it's better to defeat Democrats who have been flaky on trans rights than to secure Democratic control of the US Senate and US House. Unbelievably foolish, short-sighted, self-sabotaging nonsense.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Because his judicial appointments sealed the deal? Obviously? What are we doing here?
Also, why do people give Obama credit for marriage equality? If the Supreme Court hadn't ruled on it, then gay marriage would absolutely still be illegal in like half the country. No doubt in my mind.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026
i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 09/09/2026
A new analysis by @propublica.org’s @andreasuozzo.com & Angel Philip shows that deaths from ectopic pregnancy are on the rise — and it’s worse in states with abortion bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.
Screenshot of article with same text as post. Photo of Copenhagen bike-lane filled with people riding bikes.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026
"Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. ... In a large majority of states (40), undocumented immigrants pay higher state and local tax rates than the top 1 percent of households living within their borders."
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Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants
Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both be...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes aren’t fit for office.” — @taylornoakes.com in @cultmtl.com Also in an era of worsening urban traffic, urban pollution, urban noise, exploding public costs, competition among cities, and not nearly enough space in cities.
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In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes aren’t fit for office
Amid the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes — as in Montreal municipal election campaign — aren’t fit for office.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump should be lambasted for this by our media. But he won’t.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A crazy article, surprised it hasn’t gotten more attention. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turns out I am tired of winning. So very tired.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.
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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 06/09/2026
As I wrote in my own book, CEQA is used mostly as a weapon against environmentally friendly things like new transit, housing and bike lanes. Most CEQA litigation is meant to drive up the cost of construction, in the hope that legal delays will make things too expensive to build. It often works.
The centerpiece of the post– Freeway Revolt re-
forms was a state law called the California Envi-
ronmental Quality Act (CEQA, pronounced seek-
wha). Signed by future president Ronald Reagan in
1970, CEQA requires state and local governments
to study and mitigate potential environmental im-
pacts of government decisions. In theory, CEQA
is a look- before- you- leap law. In practice, it allows
anybody with enough free time to bring billion-
dollar public works projects and multimillion-
dollar apartment buildings to a halt, by claiming
that the government hasn’t studied a particular
issue enough. Anyone can bring a CEQA law-
suit and there are no consequences for bringing
frivolous CEQA suits. Unsurprisingly, abuse of
the process is rife. In 2020, nearly half of all new
housing in the state of California was the target of
CEQA litigation. As my old professor Troy McK-
enzie used to say, “procedure is the last refuge of
the scoundrel.”
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE officers are publicly stating that Renee Good was killed not because an officer was threatened but because they were mad at her for not instantly following every order issued. The new ICE threat. "Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch." newrepublic.com/post/205189/...
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“We Killed That Lesbian B*tch”: ICE Uses Renee Good’s Death as Threat
Protesters are recounting federal agents using Good’s death to warn them off.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nothing in this @cnn.com piece about Elon Musk's extremist views and the questions and complications they will surely bring for Ken Paxton who must, of course, now be asked to disavow the support of a racist who advocates the Great Replacement Theory and other white nationalist ideas. Not a word.
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Musk has started spending money to help Ken Paxton. Will it help change the course of the Texas Senate race? | CNN Politics
For months, Texas Republicans have anxiously awaited the arrival of national resources to help boost Ken Paxton, one of the GOP’s most vulnerable Senate candidates.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
China's net greenhouse gas emissions *fell* this past quarter. Why? Because rapidly expanding electric vehicle use is putting a serious dent in oil demand. We could do that too. But we're not. We have the slowest EV update in the developed world, thanks to Trump.
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 04/09/2026
The California Environmental Quality Act is bad for the environment because it gives litigious busybodies the power to delay and block environmentally friendly projects like bike lanes on the grounds that the government has not sufficiently analyzed the bike lanes’ “environmental impacts.”
sfchronicle.com
A Berkeley bike lane would eliminate 145 parking spaces. Residents are suing to stop it.
Plaintiffs argue that Berkeley City Council approved the Hopkins Street bike lane project without conducing necessary environmental reviews.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
it's insane they do this bend-over-backwards "critics say it raises questions" shit when the actual law just says "its illegal to put living people on currency"
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I continue to think the optimal compromise on policymaking around social media is that we should ban it for kids but also ban it for adults.
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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You can't get a clearer example of the geometric trade-off between cars and homes than this: BART is trading 240 parking spots for 760 homes. The 240 drivers who use those parking spots would argue that's a bad deal. What about the 760 *families* who get homes? Cars are undemocratic, full stop.
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Kevin @kevinrmatthews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I really don't think many young leftists understand how the New Deal was passed.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026
that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
i actually welcome this republican amendment because it is a very public reminder that the size of the court is not in the constitution (a common misconception)
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Climate Analytics @climateanalytics.org · 02/09/2026
“when those impacts are as tangible as they have been recently – many hundreds if not thousands dead from flooding in Nepal, tens of thousands from heatwaves across Europe, economic damages already estimated in hundreds of billions of dollars – the wake-up call is deafening.”
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Deafening wake-up call sounded over sea level rise
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YIMBY Denver @yimbydenver.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Denver Voters back Middle housing reform in every Denver City Council district!
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It’s the alfalfa, stupid How does the USA — a relatively water-rich country — have a huge western water crisis? In the most arid part of the country we’ve assigned the majority of the water to low-value agriculture rather than cities & suburbs. www.slowboring.com/p/the-wester...
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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
One of the most frequent questions we get at MMI is "Why don't developers build small single-detached homes anymore? Why do we only see McMansions?" The short answer is: The project economics simply don't work. For the long answer, see today's episode: www.youtube.com/watc...
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Getting to the bottom of the Cyclospora outbreak may be difficult. The infrastructure for tracking cases was gutted by the Trump regime in 2025. The massive outbreak tied to Taylor Farms' iceberg lettuce caused 10,930 reported cases in 17 states, resulting in 454 hospitalizations & 2 deaths👇
medpagetoday.com
Trump Cuts Mask True Extent of Cyclospora Outbreaks
Source of infection still unknown in several other cyclosporiasis clusters
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YIMBY Denver @yimbydenver.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Colfax BRT is going to be Ah-mazing.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
if you're looking for the cause of declining good union manufacturing jobs over the last 50 years, domestic competition from right-to-work sunbelt states is a much bigger deal than foreign competition from free trade.
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