Kevin Doyle Jones
@kevindoylejones.bsky.social
Serial entrepreneur, convener with Rosa Lee Harden of Neighborhoodeconomics.org living in Swannanoa, the epicenter of Helene.
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Sunday coming on Monday vibes.
July 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Sunday coming on Monday vibes.
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I don't think most Americans realize how hard tariffs are about to hit them. The combination of 1) escalating tariffs, 2) companies slowly passing the cost to consumers, and 3) the repeal of the de minimis exemption in the Big Beautiful Bill, a lot stuff will be more expensive in 2027.
July 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I don't think most Americans realize how hard tariffs are about to hit them. The combination of 1) escalating tariffs, 2) companies slowly passing the cost to consumers, and 3) the repeal of the de minimis exemption in the Big Beautiful Bill, a lot stuff will be more expensive in 2027.
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I just rewatched this 3 times. Have never heard someone break this down so succinctly and eloquently
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July 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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this Village People tribute band stinks
July 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
this Village People tribute band stinks
Who’s pulling the strings?
Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.
![Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫 [AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette] 2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreigsccsb3rboe3qjtuuicshmrhyho65cwntbj4syjn5y2gkil5m45a@jpeg)
July 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Who’s pulling the strings?
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This is bizarre framing since Essex Street Market is not a city run or city owned grocery store. It’s a bunch of private vendors operating on city controlled property gothamist.com/news/zohran-...
Zohran Mamdani is calling for city-owned grocery stores. NYC already has them.
The idea has broad support from progressives, while some critics warn against “radical socialism.” But New York already has city-owned grocery stores.
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July 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This is bizarre framing since Essex Street Market is not a city run or city owned grocery store. It’s a bunch of private vendors operating on city controlled property gothamist.com/news/zohran-...
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this is THE thing to read on the fall of the SRO, and how it changed our cities
a year after i finished this article about the history of single-room occupancy (SRO) units, it's exciting to see Pew finally publish it. If you're curious about SROs or "micro-units," have a read! www.pew.org/en/research-...
How States and Cities Decimated Americans’ Lowest-Cost Housing Option
Low-cost micro-units, often called single-room occupancies, or SROs, were once a reliable form of housing for the United States’ poorest residents of, and newcomers to, New York, Chicago, San Francisc...
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July 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
this is THE thing to read on the fall of the SRO, and how it changed our cities
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A sterling example of how "it's complicated," about basic issues of justice that are not in fact complicated at all, keeps enabling worsening fascism.
like look at this shit. newsom is lamenting how its all Just So Complicated, and the complicated thing is “the people i govern say this saved their childs life” vs “another country released a report that has been dunked on by its neighbors, academia, and every major american medical organization”
![Newsom added that “gender-affirming care for children” is a “tough” topic—that while some constituents have told him that it “saved [their] child’s life,” he’s also read reports like the one “the UK just came out with,” a likely reference to the widely-rebuked and highly-propagandized “Cass Review.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vhsigxn7vobijmxq4i2zezwd/bafkreihbtiy4g5sihovlpzsmntz4pp737yqzcxigalzcqeocccd6xdayxy@jpeg)
July 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A sterling example of how "it's complicated," about basic issues of justice that are not in fact complicated at all, keeps enabling worsening fascism.
The first climate escape lottery is here. The winner gets to move from Tuvalu to Australia, so they won’t drown as rising sea levels put her fellow citizens at risk. You buy a chance on survival. medium.com/southern-win...
The First Climate Escape Lottery Is Here
Welcome to the new world order — and may the odds be ever in your favor!
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July 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The first climate escape lottery is here. The winner gets to move from Tuvalu to Australia, so they won’t drown as rising sea levels put her fellow citizens at risk. You buy a chance on survival. medium.com/southern-win...
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Well, that's something I know now.
July 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Well, that's something I know now.
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So... what's Paramount's plan for when Trump gets mad at 60 Minutes next weekend and files another ridiculous lawsuit? Fork over another $16 million? More? Or is there some double super-secret annex in the settlement where he pinky promises not to do that?
July 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
So... what's Paramount's plan for when Trump gets mad at 60 Minutes next weekend and files another ridiculous lawsuit? Fork over another $16 million? More? Or is there some double super-secret annex in the settlement where he pinky promises not to do that?
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Let's gooooooo. They are not unbeatable. They're only unchallenged.
Primary every Democrat who is not meeting this moment. Get rid of them all.
June 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Let's gooooooo. They are not unbeatable. They're only unchallenged.
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Workers across the country are dying horribly from heat stroke as #OSHA continues hearing over issuing a strong heat standard
These deaths could have been prevented with a strong OSHA heat standard. Will the Trump administration continue to let workers die?
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These deaths could have been prevented with a strong OSHA heat standard. Will the Trump administration continue to let workers die?
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Dallas postal worker collapses, dies while on the job
A Dallas letter carrier collapsed and died while on the job over the weekend. The tragedy has many local postal workers remembering the 2023 heat-related death of Eugene Gates.
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June 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Workers across the country are dying horribly from heat stroke as #OSHA continues hearing over issuing a strong heat standard
These deaths could have been prevented with a strong OSHA heat standard. Will the Trump administration continue to let workers die?
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These deaths could have been prevented with a strong OSHA heat standard. Will the Trump administration continue to let workers die?
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I missed this great piece by @julialurie.bsky.social last week! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Inside the scrappy network of volunteers protecting their neighbors from ICE
On the ground with the Fuerza rapid response team in Waltham, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I missed this great piece by @julialurie.bsky.social last week! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ChatGPT-ass presidency
Somehow missed this: A presentation to advisers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited study in animals suggested that use of the vaccine preservative thimerosal can have “long-term consequences in the brain.” But it looks like that study does not exist.
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Presentation for CDC advisers appears to cite nonexistent study to support claims about risk of vaccine preservative | CNN
A presentation slated to be shared at this week’s meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that a study in animals suggested that use of the vaccine pre...
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June 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
ChatGPT-ass presidency
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A small, secretive group of lizards that still exist today may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the vicinity of the Chicxulub asteroid collision that led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.
Enigmatic lizards somehow survived near Chicxulub asteroid impact
The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, which led to the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs
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June 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A small, secretive group of lizards that still exist today may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the vicinity of the Chicxulub asteroid collision that led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.
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It shares what we know from cutting-edge research about how to intervene at each stage of the criminal justice process to break the incarceration cycle and give people a real second chance.
June 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It shares what we know from cutting-edge research about how to intervene at each stage of the criminal justice process to break the incarceration cycle and give people a real second chance.
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Hi 👋 new BlueSky followers! Introducing our lab group @colorado.edu. We aim to understand and design solutions to the grand challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our research combines global change ecology, community ecology, ecosystem sci, economics & conservation science to: 1/n
December 11, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Hi 👋 new BlueSky followers! Introducing our lab group @colorado.edu. We aim to understand and design solutions to the grand challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our research combines global change ecology, community ecology, ecosystem sci, economics & conservation science to: 1/n
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I'm extremely grateful that "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (@princetonupress.bsky.social) had such a strong 1st week!
What is this book about? Why did I write it? Why should you care? A thread: 1/n
What is this book about? Why did I write it? Why should you care? A thread: 1/n
November 26, 2024 at 9:16 PM
I'm extremely grateful that "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (@princetonupress.bsky.social) had such a strong 1st week!
What is this book about? Why did I write it? Why should you care? A thread: 1/n
What is this book about? Why did I write it? Why should you care? A thread: 1/n
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There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.
May 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.
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I have a lot of concerns about AI, but millions of people seem to be using ChatGPT without spiralling into madness over the span of a couple months, which kinda makes this seem like a PEBKAC situation.
You read this shit and you just wonder how this tech can be legally and widely accessible to people.
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![Her husband, she said, had no prior history of mania, delusion, or psychosis. He'd turned to ChatGPT about 12 weeks ago for assistance with a permaculture and construction project; soon, after engaging the bot in probing philosophical chats, he became engulfed in messianic delusions, proclaiming that he had somehow brought forth a sentient AI, and that with it he had "broken" math and physics, embarking on a grandiose mission to save the world. His gentle personality faded as his obsession deepened, and his behavior became so erratic that he was let go from his job. He stopped sleeping and rapidly lost weight.
"He was like, 'just talk to [ChatGPT]. You'll see what I'm talking about,'" his wife recalled. "And every time I'm looking at what's going on the screen, it just sounds like a bunch of affirming, sycophantic bullsh*t."
Eventually, the husband slid into a full-tilt break with reality. Realizing how bad things had become, his wife and a friend went out to buy enough gas to make it to the hospital. When they returned, the husband had a length of rope wrapped around his neck.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ahcborosqrfchi3iiyhoixch/bafkreicjieuzhvhze6rlbwkqib3i22wlojzlkseophya3srlsc757pin24@jpeg)
June 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I have a lot of concerns about AI, but millions of people seem to be using ChatGPT without spiralling into madness over the span of a couple months, which kinda makes this seem like a PEBKAC situation.
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June 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM