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chava
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Rootless cosmopolitan and anti-fascist. I report on the oligarch class and occasionally go off in 🇲🇽 🇮🇱 🇰🇷 🥯
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chava.bsky.social
I live in the best bubble in the world
Census-block level heat map showing that Bed-Stuy voted overwhelmingly for Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 NYC mayoral election.
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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New risk just dropped >>

quote from Larry Summers via theovershoot.co
screenshot of a quote from a Larry Summers speech: "And so I think all of you, as you reflect on central bank regulation and the structures of central banking and the political institutions surrounding central banking, need to think about kind of a new thing—tyrant risk—as an aspect of the analysis. And I suspect in some contexts, it will drive towards somewhat different conclusions."
September 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
chava.bsky.social
Harrowing
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
Screenshot of WaPo article listing the names of children killed in Gaza since 10/7/23. The list is in the center in green with the named rendered in both Arabic and English, as well as the age at which they died. In the center it says, "So far, you have read 11,000 names of children killed in the war"
July 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
chava.bsky.social
meanwhile in r/wallstreetbets
screenshot of a reddit comment that says "This concerns me because I'm kind of like a land baron now. We do not typically fare well in peasant uprisings."
July 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
chava.bsky.social
got him!

mamdanitimes.com
A headline in New York Times font that says "Shock Photos Reveal 'Muslim' Mamdani Without Beard As Child."
July 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
chava.bsky.social
U.S. measles cases hit highest level since declared eliminated in 2000

publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/2025/us...
line chart depicting cumulative measles cases in the US by year (2018-2025). The 2025 line is blue and is higher in June than any of the other years were by December.
July 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
chava.bsky.social
Wow, look at the "no kings" turnout at the Utah State Capitol!

Credit: Jim Urquhart/REUTERS
Thousands of protesters gathered in front of the Utah State Capitol for a "No Kings" protest on June 14, 2025.
June 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
chava.bsky.social
JK I got the code. Here's where that takes you:
June 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
chava.bsky.social
In case you're wondering, the Trump gold card site still doesn't work. It takes your info but doesn't send a code for you to continue.
June 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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And this is what you get if you go to trumpcard.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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This is what you get if you go to trumpcard.gov, so I guess Lutnick wasn't completely lying about having a website?
June 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
chava.bsky.social
The US "is explicitly moving away from climate leadership."

A helpful graphic for the finance bros/linkedin addicts in your life:
May 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
chava.bsky.social
screenshot of this quote from a Daily Beast article: “When they mark someone dead on the Social Security record, it stops their life,” he said. “It stops their car payments, it stops their credit, it stops their ability to do anything. Their identification gets flagged. And most times those things have to go to the payment center.”
April 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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No, it's when other people see us as a monolith. Cynically. And we have to remind them that's not the case.

jewishcurrents.org/against-zion...
April 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
chava.bsky.social
y'all are wild
Screenshot of a MarketWatch headline that reads "Dow books 2,900-point gain, Nasdaq soars 12% as stock market skyrockets on Trump’s tariff pause" followed by a chart showing the vertical jump in the DJIA, SPX and COMP indexes.
April 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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me irl

from: nymag.com/strategist/a...
drawn image of a person lying back with a craned neck and their feet up reading from a Kindle (in a position that must be awful for their neck)
April 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Jeep maker Stellantis lays off 900 workers, pauses production at multiple plants, temp layoffs in Detroit, Indiana and Kentucky
nypost.com/2025/04/03/b...
Tariff update from Stellantis announcig pause for plants in Toluca, Mexico and Windsor, Canada, as well as temp layoffs in five U.S. facilities.
April 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
chava.bsky.social
Florida's been gushing about the 1,000+ people moving to the state per day—without mentioning that almost 90% of that is from international migration, aka immigrants. (411K of 467K from July 23-24)

Florida gained 64K people through domestic migration, less than the 67K Miami-Dade lost.
Tableau chart showing population trends for Miami-Dade county between 2010 and 2024. Shows that for 2024, Miami-Dade had a net migration of 64.2K people, from 7.9K births less deaths, 123.8 international and -67.4 domestic.
March 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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ChatGPT has sources now?

It got 8 out of 9 correct on the second try. When I replied that Belinda Johnson was no longer on the board, it pointed me to the source with the out-of-date information.
March 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Just got this letter from Columbia and F this, seriously.

"Legitimate concerns?"

No mention at all of protecting the many other students on campus that are certainly feeling unsafe at the moment.
A screenshot of a letter from the Columbia University president with these words highlighted: Columbia is taking the government’s action very seriously. I want to assure the entire Columbia community that we are committed to working with the federal government to address their legitimate concerns.
March 8, 2025 at 3:50 AM
chava.bsky.social
monetizing the "loneliness epidemic" is one of the saddest and most American things I've ever seen
February 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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just unlocked a new level of my name
February 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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If I had to pick one piece from this art sale, I think it would be this one - Kiss (Tony) by Elizabeth Peyton.

www.artnet.com/auctions/pri...
Image of the painting Kiss (Tony), 2000 by Elizabeth Peyton.
February 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
chava.bsky.social
This is not the most life-endangering outcome, but it's the most anti-human.
Screenshot of this quote: When you try to define a person at the stage of a fertilized egg, and you think you’re doing them a favor by defining their personhood and sex early, what you’re actually doing is stripping them of all the potential and possibility of what their life might be.
January 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Texas judge defines ESG investing as "all the things I dislike about ESG" and "none of the things are actually ESG investing"

from: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
A screenshot with a legal argument cited by Bloomberg Opinion: It is important to be clear about what ESG investing actually is. The evidence and expert testimony revealed that an investment strategy assumes an ESG label when it is aimed at, in whole or in part, bringing about certain types of societal change. ... Investing that aims to reduce material risks or increase return for the exclusive purpose of obtaining a financial benefit is not ESG investing. Consideration of material risk-and-return factors is no different than the standard investing process when both are focused on financial ends. ... ESG investing is a strategy that considers or pursues a non-pecuniary interest as an end itself rather than as a means to some financial end.
January 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM