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@tkovach

Climate dad to E, J, and C. Working on decarbonization and environmental justice in Cleveland. Founded the Cleveland Refugee Bike Project. Supports Juventus & Eintracht. Opinions my own and probably wrong.

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All Tudors Are Bastards

10.03.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why is Spurs

10.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health, and Economic Outcomes Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence on how it affects children's long-run outcomes. Using detailed, geocoded longitudinal data, we compare siblings who were gestating before ve....

Hey, my new JPAM article is online! It's called, "Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health, and Economic Outcomes" and you can read it here:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

10.03.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Spurs is the Land of Misfit Former Juventini

10.03.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Record high minimum temp by *9Β°F*

10.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Can you add protein to this skeet

10.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Add butter to stop it from boiling over I know that

10.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They're called skoots

10.03.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a person 's mouth with a light shining through it Alt: Writing with a quill and the ink catches on fire
10.03.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes Grok is poisoning the minds of people around the world, but at least it's also polluting Black communities in Memphis

10.03.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's true, because 2015 Juventus put up a much better fight than 2025 Inter

10.03.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We can already "end nighttime" with BESS, we don't need dumb gimmicks

10.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters in 2025 | Climate Central Research by Climate Central shows that during 2025, there were 23 individual weather and climate disasters with at least $1 billion in damages.

There were 23 billion dollar disasters with total damages of $115 billion in 2025, placing the year 3rd behind 2023 and 2024.

09.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mr. Mayor, I hate to correct you, but it's #CrocusWatch2026

09.03.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Damm dude do you sleep

09.03.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A yard full of purple crocuses

A yard full of purple crocuses

#CrocusWatch2026

09.03.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Game's gone, that's like 3 yellows at best come on

09.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We should go further and put some corpses on trial like the Cadaver Synod of 897

09.03.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lasting Impacts of a Gas Price Shock during Teenage Driving Years

Fun fact: Americans who were teenagers around the time of the Islamic Revolution were more likely to take transit and less likely to drive than peers slightly older and younger.

Because of oil supply shocks.

09.03.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Opinion | Trump Is Making the U.S. More Vulnerable to Oil Shocks

"America’s economy is more than 40 percent more oil-intensive than China’s, even though China is a net oil importer and sources much of its oil from.. Even Russia, a petrostate, is about 20 percent less reliant on oil per unit of economic output than the United States is."

09.03.2026 12:47 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
Paul Dano from The Batman Does He Know meme

Paul Dano from The Batman Does He Know meme

09.03.2026 12:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Market Value of Reproductive Rights: Evidence from U.S. Housing Markets Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

"Abortion bans reduced rents by an average of 2.2% from July 2022 through June 2025, with the effect reaching 4.0% in the most recent year. Over the same horizon, bans increased rental vacancy rates by an average of 1.1 percentage points, with the effect reaching 1.8 percentage points."

09.03.2026 10:30 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Pass the parcel is deceptively challenging. Every layer is slightly larger than the last, so you can't measure or cut multiple pieces of wrapping paper

08.03.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
08.03.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The new Ayatollah is...Gene Parmesan???

08.03.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry it's actually Gene Parmesan

08.03.2026 21:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that β€œit’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that β€œit’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

08.03.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 14305 πŸ” 4294 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 42

It's cool because torching oil wells is what Saddam Hussein and ISIS did.

08.03.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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To be fair, if you set aside affordability, health, safety, energy, equity, livability, and sustainability, and pave over everything, car dependency sometimes almost works.

08.03.2026 15:43 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to rain oil, guys

08.03.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0