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Mark Funkhouser

@mayorfunk.bsky.social
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Local government policy, governance, strategic planning, and finance. President at Funkhouser & Associates, KCMO Mayor, 5/07 to 5/11. GOVERNING Publisher, 3/14 to 8/19.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Pigs and thugs.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yes. For years I defended the electoral college because it was to provide a bulwark against the risk that an unfit person might somehow win the popular vote. Obviously it didn't work and we should scrap it.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Good work, but you're missing Kansas.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I find it encouraging that young people are the left are learning how to actually win elections. www.governing.com/politics/spi...
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Spiking Rents Power a Socialist Win in Providence Mayor Race
David Morales, a state representative in Rhode Island and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won the Democratic primary for mayor of Providence, edging out the incumbent. A laser-like foc...
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I always feared some country would have a madman in charge with his finger on the nuclear button. I just never thought it would be our country.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The billionaires control who makes the movies. And they kinda like the SS.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"When something truly bad happens, the White House, and not just the tech companies, will own it." garymarcus.substack.com/p/we-must-re...
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We must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market, now
Every minute we wait risks disaster
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@gloriasquitiro.bsky.social has lots of funny and not so funny stories about our time in the mayor's office in Kansas City. This is one of them. gloriasquitiro.substack.com/p/two-hundre...
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Two hundred and fifteen pounds!
Late April 2007
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shocking news! "A fuller, more detailed study of public revenue from the World Cup is needed, and should be pursued. Let’s be clear, though: the World Cup meant extra money at City Hall, but it did not “pay for itself,” or anything close to it." kansascitystack.substack.com/p/world-cup-...
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World Cup boosts Kansas City revenue, a little
The city’s coffers got a bump from international soccer, but likely not enough to earn back its investment in the tournament.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good points. But most of us do think of software - such as AI - as robots.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I assume your question is rhetorical. Obviously the principal owners are themselves members of the Epstein Class.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"fierce and nimble" You gotta admire the creativity of the headline writers at the Times. Most of us could come up with a couple of thousand words they might use to describe her and still would not have guessed they'd land on those.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Because the people who make the robots don't work in the mines or handle toxic chemicals, they don't consider that kind of work. They write emails.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This stuff is just insane.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Surely this is a bot. A human couldn't be this stupid.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No Obama on the list.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I hadn't thought of that but YES! I hope she buys a paper.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can think of only one good one in the current crop of billionaires. Mackenzie Scott.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A chip off the old block! That boy is management material for sure.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"As wealth has concentrated at the top, so has political power to alter the laws and rules by which the market functions — taxes, labor laws, anti-monopoly laws, and even foreign policies in the forms of tariffs and wars." robertreich.substack.com/p/there-is-n...
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There is no such thing as a “free market”
All markets are defined by laws and rules. The question is who are the laws and rules for?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Xi figured out Trump a long time ago.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
America's oligarchs may soon find that their money will not protect them from the whims of a capricious tyrant. Some will wind up in prison and others may fall out of windows.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stopped at a little cafe in rural PA and saw this. At a time when Trump is trying to destroy our history, it gave me a little jolt of hope.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He has never been hinged.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“we are witnessing an extraordinary transfer of power away from governments to a handful of private corporations and individuals,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, yesterday at the United Nations General Assembly heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 22, 2026
In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Page 236. Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. Jefferson Cowie
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Me too.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Went to Belmont Park with my son. He studies the races more than me so I just bet with him and we came out on top!
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"...in America, we simply do not enforce the law against the powerful." open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...
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AI Is an Elite Crime Spree
Documents show a Microsoft exec called AI the "largest theft of labor in human history.” New AI regulations are besides the point, the problem is we don’t apply existing laws to the powerful.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is the man killing people in boats. This is the man killing people in Venezuela. This is the man killing people in Iran. This is the man killing people in Minneapolis. And the list goes on.
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Julie the Crazy Cat Lady @juliecumberland.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There needs to be a rule when Supreme Court candidates lie like this action can be taken about their appointment after the fact. Unless they can give clear, concise reasons why they have changed their viewpoints. And “my religion says” is not a clear concise viewpoint.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nikki Tinsley, the EPA IG at the time showed great courage in sticking to her guns with that report.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A truck driver working 40-hour weeks to make $50,000 a year pays about $3,800 in federal income tax. An 8% rate. An investor earning the same $50,000 in long-term capital gains pays $0. Work gets punished. Wealth gets rewarded. This tax code is a scam.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The ramifications of the nation's rapidly increasing economic inequality are far reaching and as yet little understood. This is one of them. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-f...
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The Real Fix For Social Security
We may be on the brink of a bipartisan solution that’s fair
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Despite terrific opposition from the White House at the time, Nikki Tinsley, EPA inspector general, back then, issued a timely report detailing the administration’s cover up of Ground Zero air quality problems. We still need independent auditors.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
See this chart? Workers’ share of the nation’s income is at the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947. Corporate profits’ share, on the other hand, is the highest it’s been since 1950. This is why we must build back worker power.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Relax, it only gets worse.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The version without makeup looks better tbh.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.” Grover Cleveland in 1884 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 4, 2026
On September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It is time for a political movement that rebuilds economic dignity...and exposes the war on immigrants for what it is: a war on labor here and across the world.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/opinion/politics/trump-immigration-iran.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-lA.jBDp.X1pIyRdMb5wT&smid=bs-share
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Opinion | Trump’s Foreign Wars Are Breaking His Anti-Immigrant Coalition (Gift Article)
President Trump’s foreign adventurism will drive immigrants to the United States. And his anti-immigrant base knows it.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Looks perfectly natural.
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 02/09/2026
Remember this going into the midterms.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
God bless them, each and every one.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I hope people are on notice and prepared for whatever Musk has in mind for November.
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle warned that the Navy, which has borne the brunt of operations against Iran, cannot sustain its current level of support for the war." The danger to America right now from foreign adversaries is huge. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-31-...
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August 31, 2026
Alex Horton and Tara Copp of the Washington Post reported on Sunday, August 30, that military leaders are warning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that a plan to continue large-scale operations in Iran ...
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Mark Funkhouser @mayorfunk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
No, but she thinks she can sell the idea to her voters. And she may be right.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Target paid its CEO $21.8M last year — 794x the median Target worker's pay of $27,506. Target has also spent $13.9B on stock buybacks since 2019, while remaining among the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in America. This is what I mean by a rigged economy.
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