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Policy: mostly urbanism, housing, mobility, but also economic, social, science, health, and technolog. Reluctant geopolitics observer, mostly internal western with a focus on Ukraine.
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nʌki\'wah Graham Greene💙 He is a son of the Great Lakes basin. This one goes out in your honor RIP 🌊🌊
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
Germany's military chief reports GPS interference during flights, just hours after EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen's plane was targeted by suspected Russian GPS jamming. p.dw.com/p/4zood
Wealth taxes NOW. It’s patriotic to do your part and fund society for the workers you exploit in order to get this rich. #taxtherich
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
Happy that the paper by @tomdavidoff.bsky.social @lausterna.bsky.social Tsur Somerville and I on the outcomes of the multiplex upzonings in Kelowna and Coquitlam is out. While the two zoning reforms look similar on paper, we detail how their real world outcomes differ. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
Let that sink in.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Edmonton Alberta to start banning books in schools. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The sitting President of the United States raped children and he’s in no danger of being held accountable for it.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
What a useless commentator he is.
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Putin played them like a fiddle, when will these guys learn Trump’s pivot away from a ceasefire to a peace deal was triggered by Witkoff claiming Putin would make major territorial concessions. Witkoff reversed his position the next day. -Reuters
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
I believe this is what the kids call performative
🇩🇪 Merz: Russia once again showed its true colors last night. We condemn the attacks against the civilian population in the strongest possible terms. The fact that the EU representation has now also come under fire is a testament to the growing ruthlessness of the Russian regime.
These people would never survive being gay or a person of colour or or or
Russia bombed a US-owned factory in Ukraine, stepped up spy flights near Alaska, intercepted a US P-8 in international waters, and now we’re hunting a sub that threatens a carrier. These are not peaceful times.
A pile of research studies shows that small biz owners have no idea how their customers travel and that they consistently exaggerate the share that drives. Journalists who don’t acknowledge that reality are failing their readers.
"By contrast, in 2025 thus far, Bluesky has driven "a hundred times as many page views" to Southern Fried Science as Twitter." arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Imagine a progressive politician saying this obvious thing in so many words.
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
Who did this?
The IISS has produced the most comprehensive open-source database currently available on Russian sabotage operations across Europe & its periphery. It captures the full spectrum of activity with physical effects: from sabotage on undersea cables to GPS blocking across multiple domains & geographies.
An Alberta cabinet minister took controversial anti-LGBTQ MAGA singer Sean Feucht on a private, late-night tour of the provincial legislature.
Imagine picking a “businessman” to be your leader, but instead of a great businessman, or even a good one, you pick the absolute worst one…I mean, the laughing stock of his sector (land dev’t), known for many bankruptcies, cheating people, crooked deals, etc. Now imagine letting him be a dictator.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
I’m old enough to remember when a slightly weird yell was enough to sink an entire presidential campaign
We'll do anything but build cities that make grocery shopping simple, nearby, and without the need for a car.
Montague just being a normal cop: obstructing justice. At least city councillors are accountable and can be voted out.
JD Vance: "I think the Russians have made significant concessions." (They have in fact made no concessions.)
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“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
Kharkiv right now ❤️🩹 I’m almost crying. We’re banned from organizing celebrations. Warned against crowds and gatherings due to constant russian bombings. But we’re alive, and we’ll keep living. That’s our collective "fuck you" to russia.
Thousands of ICE agents are doing a lot more damage to our social fabric than millions of undocumented immigrants.
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
“The judge in the case determined that Moshfeghi Zadeh was inattentive & that his manner of driving was dangerous, but that his ‘momentary lapse’ of attention did not constitute a ‘marked departure’ from the standard of care required…” That anyone would think that makes sense is a kind of insanity.
Wow. So many still call Kharkiv home. What amazing resilience.
So if they're masked we should just assume they're criminals and resist their effort to kidnap us? OK, if you say so.
“Many Swedish cities, including #Stockholm, prioritize snow clearance very differently. They now clear walkways & bike paths first, especially those near bus stops & primary schools. Next, they clear local roads, & then, finally, highways.” usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/24/w...
Vance pretends to be ignorant about basic history ("all wars end in negotiation") and lies about things we all witnessed a week ago ("Ru made serious concessions") to promote Ukr surrender. One can hold his political position for wtv utilitarian reasons but pushing it w such lies is moral turpitude.
“Stringer noted that real police officers do not wear ski masks.” I think I see a problem…
that the phrases “intentionally destroying the economy” and “worst economic president of our lifetimes” arent being said everywhere right now by dem politicians makes my head want to explode
Unbelievable This barbarianism is allowed to continue And it is 💯 being allowed AND enabled by this pathetic world with pathetic leaders we are all living in this knowing it is WRONG
This Bluesky shutdown brought to you by the people who claimed to regard “shadow banning” on Twitter as the free speech issue of our time
Canada's RFK Jr, folks
"Every truce with Putin is temporary. Every handshake comes with fingers crossed behind the back. Every concession is pocketed and used to prepare the next aggression." He has shown us who he is many, many times.
Ope, gonna need more bike lanes.
🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.
Anyways, Vancouver lags behind. Again.
They called it Project 2025 for a reason. The plan is to have their knee on our throats before year’s end... and they seem determined to meet that deadline.
Except that the World Cup loves dictators and is thoroughly corrupt
the CBC was founded as a bulwark against US cultural imperialism, to ensure we had canadian news and canadian culture. there should be a renewed emphasis on that mandate, particularly to stop reporting so much on what happens in the US for eyeballs and ad dollars.
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
Rangappa: Do you believe that Ghislaine Maxwell is guilty? Ferguson: Yes Rangappa: She denied her guilt the interview. Ferguson: Most criminals lie, newsflash. That's, like, not shocking. Rangappa: Then why on Earth would you believe anything she said?
Any American patriot has to condemn the FBI targeting Bolton. Or accept fascism.
Americans once mocked Russians for not protesting creeping authoritarianism. Now it’s happening here, and few are asking why Americans stay quiet.
How long must we be forced to endure this national humiliation
No one would be confused about what's happening if you saw it in another country. No one.
"One stranger attack is too many. Obviously, we want to ensure public safety is paramount for everyone who visits, lives and works in Vancouver, but we don’t need unnecessary fear-mongering to drive political agendas, and ultimately scare people away from our city." www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
Congrats, MAGA! You're complicit in covering up one of the most vile child sex-trafficking rings in history. Jeffrey Epstein thanks you for your service! Catch up on all of today's news here: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
“building high rise buildings next to single family zoned isn’t safe for many reasons” meanwhile in Toronto
PREACH.
It took a while for Russian and right wing bot/troll farms to realign their social media/Facebook emoji/comment attacks from Trudeau to PM Carney but they’ve now fully switched over. It’s so embarrassingly pathetic and obvious. Keep flooding the socials but keep losing elections.
Not just the family of an American. The son of a *former senior CIA official.* Beyond bizarre.
Really excellent overview of many of the most prominent cases of Putin lying and proving to be a bad actor over the last two decades. And he has blood, so much blood, dripping from his hands—but Trump is happy to shake his hand and trust his word. www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-alwa...
Elizabeth Warren: "The one thing I want to remind everyone is when Democrats get in power again -- and we will -- we've got to change the rules. We've got to change the rules on the impact of money in politics and we've got to pass the voting rights act again and make sure there is true protection."
Wow. Time Magazine: “Canada’s Pierre Poilievre Should Step Aside”
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Chef’s kiss
Tremendous crossover move right here:
Art of the deal.
Sounds great if you're in Moscow, Beijing, or Tehran! "restructuring eliminates the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which monitors foreign efforts to influence the US public. Gabbard was also getting rid of units that track weapons of mass destruction and cyber threats" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nearly 2,000 soldiers are on the streets of the nation’s capital. ICE’s budget is bigger than most countries’ militaries. Not to sound paranoid, but these look like the first steps of martial law.
President Zelensky rejected Russia’s proposal for China as a security guarantor after a peace deal, stating Ukraine needs guarantees only from countries willing to help, not those that failed to support it when needed most. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The GOP governors of South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee have all sent their states' National Guard troops to assist Trump's occupation of DC. All four of those states have cities with crime rates higher than DC. This was never about "fighting crime."
Can you build a great neighbourhood from scratch? If anyone can, it's Allies and Morrison. Their arrival in Toronto delivers a jolt to Canadian urbanism www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...
We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸
The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
Tucker’s show just entertained the idea that we should have sided with Hitler during WW2. This is where we are.
Trump’s tweets now just seem like boring less funny versions of Newsom’s imitations The cover band is better than the original band
Just now…
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."