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Chris Cunningham

@econcunningham.bsky.social

Urban, Housing, Real Estate and Public Economics; former Fed Economist, Founder Citinomics.com; Syracuse grad, dad, hiker, living in Den Haag, NL.

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TBF, Cuba is lovely.

20.09.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What we know about the hanging deaths of two men in Mississippi Investigations into the hanging deaths of a black Delta State University student and a white man in Vicksburg are ongoing.

I'll add that a homeless man may have been lynched in Mississippi. www.kcrg.com/2025/09/17/w...

18.09.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Let’s be clear about what just happened: Jimmy Kimmel, a prominent late-night comedian, was just taken off the airwaves because the Trump administration didn’t like what he had to say β€” and threatened his employer until they shut him up. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/fryLLE

18.09.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 699    πŸ” 290    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 27

Maybe I'm still 12 at heart, but can't we acknowledge this is just a little bit awesome?

18.09.2025 08:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a really important paper. American infrastructure is expensive because we outsourced the capacity design (or perhaps even bid) effectively.

12.09.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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it was because the 1743 time stamp is likely the local time where the website was being
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archived from. But in any event, you can see here @charliekirk11, which is your Twitter
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handle, tweeted on January 4th, "This historic event will likely be one of the largest and
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most consequential in American history. The team @TrumpStudents and Turning Point
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Action are honored to help make this happen, sending 80-plus buses full of patriots to
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D.C. to fight for this President."
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Now, Mr. Kirk, how many buses did Turning Point pay to travel to D.C. for
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January 6th?
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I am invoking my Fifth Amendment right.

1 it was because the 1743 time stamp is likely the local time where the website was being 2 archived from. But in any event, you can see here @charliekirk11, which is your Twitter 3 handle, tweeted on January 4th, "This historic event will likely be one of the largest and 4 most consequential in American history. The team @TrumpStudents and Turning Point 5 Action are honored to help make this happen, sending 80-plus buses full of patriots to 6 D.C. to fight for this President." 7 Now, Mr. Kirk, how many buses did Turning Point pay to travel to D.C. for 8 January 6th? 9 A I am invoking my Fifth Amendment right.

Kirk paid to bus people to J6, man. He was not invested in a peaceful path
to winning democracy through debate, he was happy to have the appearance of playing within the rules of constitutional liberalism while actively working to overthrow it. www.govinfo.gov/app/details/...

11.09.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 765    πŸ” 208    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 13

β€œIf Spokane, Bremerton, Bothell and Shoreline can eliminate parking mandates citywide, Seattle should be no sweat. After all, Seattle leads the region in ditching cars and forming carfree households.”

11.09.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The oldest trick in the climate delay playbook:

1. Rule out all other measures as unnecessary and counterproductive because we will introduce CO2 pricing

2. Then rule out CO2 pricing because it would make things unaffordable

3. Checkmate

10.09.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 284    πŸ” 119    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

He died as he lived, discounting the costs of America's gun fetish.

11.09.2025 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These vehicles are absurd. Most tradesmen need either a full bed and/or an enclosed bed. This is just for men that are trying to compensate for some perceived inadequacies. We moved to Europe in part to escape these things gunning up our streets and they're far, far, deadlier than a conventional car

28.08.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps I'm still scarred by a grad school summer in a light shaft-only apartment in Philly, but I wonder if some of this is just an arms race. My A/C (especially window or wall mounted mini-splits) dump hot air onto my neighbors, forcing them to get an A/C unit to off set it.

12.08.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Soon to be re-branded as the "Grand Wizards."

12.08.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also Russian agents.

11.08.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please, please, please let the FBI agents that were leaking Clinton email investigation materials to Giuliani in 2016 end up on the beat.

11.08.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Netherlands is curtailing english instruction to deter foreign students. One challenge, many texts books that the faculty use aren't available in dutch.

11.08.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sabotage.

10.08.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 333    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 5
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Ex-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US A former NSW police officer has described the terrifying ordeal she faced after she was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the United States – despite travelling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband.

I guess tourism is something to be discouraged.

www.news.com.au/travel/trave...

24.05.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 9

Another fine whine?

08.08.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If we're going to live in a plotocracy, then lets at least make sure they understand how they're screwing themselves.

08.08.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

N: Oslo,
E: Tokyo,
S: Capetown,
W: Oahu.

08.08.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels

Do you remember when violating US and international law was something we'd try to keep on the DL?
youtu.be/sWwN-yDCjOM?...

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

08.08.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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1/3 of BLS leadership positions are currently vacant.
Field offices around the country are closing due to staff shortages.
They fired the advisory council that was assessing how to increase survey response rates.
These are not actions you take if you actually want to improve the data.

07.08.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 384    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
Major New A-Road Is Wildest Dream for Mammals

Major New A-Road Is Wildest Dream for Mammals

Badgers can't talk, so thank goodness they have the National Highways PR department to help communicate their appreciation.

08.08.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
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Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."

When you train an AI on people's personal emails, it learns how people actually respond to serious set backs:

www.businessinsider.com/gemini-self-...

08.08.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Invstr: What's Bitcoin's innate value proposition?
BitBro: It offers a trustless means of payment.
Invstr: Cool. I'll buy some of your shares on the exchange. I trust you to buy and hold Bitcoin for me.

08.08.2025 07:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm boning up on EU rural development programs and I'm happy to report that Commission acronym production has increased by 16%!!

06.08.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I assume that he means attending meetings/caucuses, paying regular dues (instead of the churn and burn messaging), canvasing, recruiting to the party instead of GOTV for a particular candidate. The primary is just the first round vote on a slate picked by others.

05.08.2025 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Because god forbid people who can't afford million-dollar houses be allowed to live in relatively wealthy North End neighborhoods (almost all actually wealthy areas are already excluded from new density, protecting them from Seattle's renter majority in perpetuity)

04.08.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

TBF it does say "DRIVE THRU."

04.08.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The explanation melts on closure examination.

04.08.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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