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Kira M

@kmc39.bsky.social
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economist, geographer, & data scientist working on urban+regional policy. Member at @cplusc.bsky.social.

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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some of my maps went up today for the Week Without Driving campaign coming up (October 1-8)! weekwithoutdriving.org/nondriver-da... Proud of them, happy to support @americawalks.bsky.social and partners w @cplusc.bsky.social
weekwithoutdriving.org
Nondriver Data | Week Without Driving: October 1-8, 2026
This data was compiled by and shared with Week Without Driving courtesy of the Climate and Communities Institute. Percent in Zero-Car Households Average Rat ...
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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
thread for better counterfactual futures than AGI I'll start: solar powered water desalination plants to support aquifer regeneration and mass-scale reforestation
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early
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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Imo EU should expand its new associate member program to MX and other countries vulnerable to escalating US imperialism. (But the reasons it may not are sadly obvious)
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I feel the rest of the world (Americans included) have no idea of how aggressively the US is pushing to make Latin America into a giant colony. Every day we get news about political interference, increase in military presence, absurd trade demands, online propaganda, Venezuela being pillaged, etc
Headline from one of Brazil's biggest newspapers that reads: 
Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) warns the government and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) about the 'critical' level of escalating US pressure against Brazil in the elections.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/monicabergamo/
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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tbh this is because the US stock and economic growth numbers are totally pegged to AI, and they're scared of a crash. I don't think it's just shallow corruption or idiocy. But the correct approach is to set up the economy to succeed outside of AI, so we're not to beholden to FFs+the tech oligarchs
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“It’s been a year of murders,” said a defense official who was horrified by the first strike and has remained so as the U.S. has targeted scores of so-called “drug boats” in the year since. “The Trump administration has normalized murder.” The official added: “It’s absolutely criminal.”
theintercept.com
The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
from the Comments section of @nymag.com (link below)
screenshot of text reading:

"Some objected to the magazine’s use of the term genocide to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza. Close readers will recognize that this was not a decision specific to this series. This past fall, after an extensive review of genocide scholarship and interviews with multiple experts in the field of genocide studies, the magazine’s editors decided the term was an accurate description of the atrocities in Gaza, that accusations of antisemitic intent were in fact obfuscating an overwhelming ­scholarly consensus, and that its use would be allowed in our pages."
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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
was thinking this morning about how the US kinda gave up on solving problems, so we get a string of obvious cons that pretend to solve problems instead. carbon capture, hyperloop, moon factories, AGI, crypto, plastic recycling, widened highways
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/07/2026
The age of earth based astronomy is over. With multiple countries and companies each launching thousands of LEO satellites like this in constellations, it'll be impossible to see the stars without them interfering. It also tremendously raises the risk of Kessler syndrome.
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good grief, this hits home.
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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
1) assassinate peace negotiators and IRGC leadership during a set of surprise attacks 2) Death of previous leadership and negotiators creates space for hardliners to sabotage peace negotiations 3) Assassinations and regime change is back on the table... 4) see #2
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Uncle in Iran says the country’s south is being destroyed. Trump is following through on his “bridge and power plant day” threats but it’s simply not registering here the way that it should.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Projections of carbon capture capacity versus projections of solar power production
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Gillen Tener Martin @gillenmartin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Disgraced president of Honduras seems to have been pardoned by Trump so he can propagandize against the democratically elected presidents of Mexico and Colombia and undermine his own country's leftwing. @billscher.bsky.social on a story that nearly no U.S. media are writing. They should be.
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Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed
BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.
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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Literally love the rule of law so much
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/04/2026
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism

in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X."Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Might be time to bust out one of my favourite climate stories of all time: how BECCS was mostly a kind of model hallucination
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Put yourself in shoes of someone in a oil & gas importing country Its triage: which hospitals get fuel, which industries shut, which crops get fertilizers? Those who don't have deep pockets in a bidding war pay in increased hunger, lost wages and shrinking economies. tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🚨🚨 Today, we’re launching “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition. (1/10)
stopgreedbuildgreen.org
Stop Greed, Build Green | Climate and Community Institute
A new framework to put the working class in charge of climate and economic transformation.
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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Some sources say it can be crypto or yuan. Others just say crypto. Is this just US sources trying to hype crypto while putting their fingers in their ears about the extent of a China/BRICS win?
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/04/2026
In Lebanon, nearly 1 in 5 people has been displaced by Israeli attacks, leaving the government to manage a modern crisis without modern digital infrastructure. www.wired.com/story/we-wer...
wired.com
‘We Were Not Ready for This’: Lebanon's Emergency System Is Hanging by a Thread
In Lebanon, nearly 1 in 5 people has been displaced by Israeli attacks, leaving the government to manage a modern crisis without modern digital infrastructure.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Last night, there was a collective breath of relief as a two-week ceasefire was announced -- one that would include Lebanon as confirmed by Pakistan's Prime Minister. Today, Israel is refusing to adhere to that and it is putting the entire world at risk. Here's @timep.bsky.social's quick response ⬇️
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
As everyone focuses on Trump and the U.S., Israel just continues committing war crimes with impunity.
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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Humiliating for us in the US if we don't form crowds of similar size to condemn the atrocities of our leaders
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
As I said on MSNOW on Sunday, we need Democrats to be talking about and demanding the REMOVAL of Trump now! It doesn't matter there are not the votes in Senate to remove him--let Republicans go on record defending Trump's war crimes! More importantly Democrats should be taking fight to Trump now!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump's genocidal insanity will leave office with him. But, unless that happens now, his lasting legacy will be the stain that sticks to the United States for a century; the country so flawed, cowardly and toothless, that it was unable and unwilling to stop an obviously mad tyrant.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 07/04/2026
um so who’s bringing sanctions against the u.s.? why isn’t the unsc calling an emergency meeting? why aren’t democrats doing a full court press for impeachment? this shit makes putin look moderate by comparison.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
God help us.
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The only appropriate response tbh
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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Got to work on this cool project with @cplusc.bsky.social to revitalize manufacturing to address climate & energy needs. Check out the report out today!
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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This is quite something. I learned this history from visiting this museum several years ago.
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Disgraceful! The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering. It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov And Trump just bombed it...
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 03/04/2026
it will never cease to fill me with anger and sadness how israel instrumentalizes the holocaust to justify its policies and deflect criticism of itself while conducting itself in ways that mirror the atrocities committed against us and calling this observation "holocaust inversion"
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
we gotta send so many guys to the Hague
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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Been thinking a lot lately about how foreign disinfo has been overthrowing democracies for a long time, but traditionally it's been propagated only by the US and targeting the global south. Now Putin and Musk and others have just turned some of these tactics to the US and Europe as well
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/03/2026
Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
How bad is it? In last 24 hours US+Israeli attacks on nuclear power and Iran's civilian steel industry. "What Israel is doing is unconscionable and possibly the most dangerous military adventurism we have seen in our lifetimes" - x.com/nikhil_palsi...
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Kira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
An Argentine phrase i learned recently that I was we knew apply there: Ni olvido ni perdono. There will be no way forward for this country without reckoning w and persecuting these atrocities. Doing reconstruction right this time
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.
no01.substack.com
March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
One war can hide another bsky.app/profile/70sb...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
electrified public transit, heat pumps, home weatherization all make life easy for people and hard for fossil capital. here's some recs from @cplusc.bsky.social climateandcommunity.org/research/blo...
climateandcommunity.org
Transportation: A blindspot in US climate policy - Climate and Community Institute
Major climate policies are finally being passed in the United States, and emissions are beginning to decline in some economic sectors. But progress in some areas …
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
18/ The war is a HORROR. One side measures its cost at the gas pump. Or stock markets & electoral chances at midterms. Iranian people are measuring their loss in indiscriminate violence that kills schoolchildren, poisons air & water and destroys cultural treasures warontherocks.com/2026/03/the-...
warontherocks.com
A Blank Check for Israel and the War with Iran
The United States did not enter the war with Iran because it was attacked or was about to be attacked. It seems to have entered after concluding that once
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Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
terrible, terrible stuff we are doing over there www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/w...
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A genuine concern.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Imagine this was your city.
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