It was a common lesson when I went to McGill that Île de Montréal at one point, before the Quiet Revolution, was zoned for more housing than Manhattan. Which kept rents low because there was a low barrier to adding multi-family housing anytime a rise in rents in an area made the numbers work.

Punisher logo on SUV obey traffic laws challenge. Difficulty level: impossible

average new yorker, hurling bags of garbage into the street: I can't believe how many rats are attracted to outdoor restaurant seating

Even compared to the last 9 months, the last 24 hours feels like a high water mark in Constitution shredding.

Recent reporting alleges that civilian men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and sexually assault immigrant women, with cases in North Carolina and New York. Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️

If this became reality in the US it would kill many pedestrians, but would not be addressed until the lawsuits came rolling in from the owners of cars in the mall parking lot that got flat tires from this.

Cool new way for cars to kill people

Expect any non-citizen (for now) in any position of power to be harassed and abused on pretext by the secret police.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

I was reliably told this was a left wing problem. (it's clearly not) “Is this a call for violence?” the third paragraph says. “Yes. Explicitly it is.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

The Johnson Administration had fought off ward-based restrictions on ADUs because of a 2023 federal ruling that aldermanic prerogative leads to segregation. Trump’s HUD freed the mayor to wheel & deal with alders. @danielkayhertz.bsky.social on this: illinoisanswers.org/2025/09/25/c...

This story should be getting the same degree of outrage and coverage that Michelle Go's murder did.

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Trump is making sure that Vance can't have his own Melania.

Step 1: complete, but it should be just the start Now find the next improvement that can be made to the site & get it started.

This traffic circle has some rough edges

The government waste is not the safety net, it is the admin for work requirements that do not improve outcomes.

Now with alt text

The animating purpose of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. The rest is wainscoting.

The president has said his “blitz” here is meant to make the city safer for its residents. But the rush of federal immigration agents into the area has stoked fears and upended routines. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

This is such a crazy way to describe safety advocacy groups like hey bro you're being REALLY aggressive right now about not getting hit by cars

GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s experiment as a model for the federal Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in 2027. A new report by a government spending watchdog found that the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

I was today years old when I found out Illinois is the pumpkin capital of the US

I knew it

We need to fight for people like Guevara just as hard as we fought for Jimmy Kimmel.

Their feelings are very delicate

Just posting to point out the first warning in the PepperBall manual is “DANGER: Never aim or shoot at the head, face, eyes, ears, throat, groin or spine. Impact in these areas could result in unintended severe or permanent injury or death.” Friday, ICE agents shot Rev Black in the head…

You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.

What “fascism” means Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DO6EvDz...

Everyone with half a brain predicted this was going to happen.

There are so many important points in this article! Even if you prefer driving, properly funding transit reduces traffic congestion. Plus our taxes already cover many of the high expenses of car usage.

I have only owned* 2 cars in my life, an early 2000s mercury grand marquis (which was nicknamed Marquis Marq), & a Yuba Kombi cargo bike which has not acquired a nickname yet. * I’ve had driving privileges on many others, & rented even more cars, but did not own them.

10,000 Lakes A Loon is a Duck We’ve got a big lake & that’s enough

Hurtling towards idiocracy only more violent

They would save more lives by turning around & telling the thin skinned bully in orange face paint to “stop the demonization” of Democrats that he has engaged in & literally let to multiple assassinations earlier this year of actual elected officials who hadn’t been spewing hate speech.

If we had the same roadway fatality rate as Switzerland or Norway, which is a completely achievable goal, more than three-quarters of these people would still be with us.

The name Bibi should go down in history as stained as the name Mussolini.

They can’t stomach the truth.

The most corrupt administration in the history of our country & every GOP representative who has not advanced impeachment is aiding & abetting these criminals.

Sorry fighting Irish mutuals but this is an eternal truth (attempts to brainwash me in Catholic grade school backfired)

“It is unfair [building illegal settlements in WB] because the [occupied] West Bank has nothing to do with Hamas…This becomes a political project and his [Netanyahu's] aim is not to dismantle Hamas but to deny Palestinians the right to live in peace.” - Macron in an interview with Israeli Ch. 12.

Looking at this proposal more in depth & there are so many things that I don't like about it. Build taller if you want but please stop making horrible urban design decisions like that 90s ass podium. The only building on the block that they're not tearing down is the least historic facade. 1/

I’ve been working on this for a while. (I tried to find Bobbie more than a decade ago and failed.) Please do give it a read.

the republican party, and american conservatism in general, is such an incoherent political project for decades americans have been taunting the world about how the 1st amendment is so broad and powerful and great and unmovable and so so american and now?

Nothing more perfectly sums up these people than the fact that she wrote “Loser” on her own cup and then pretended to be a victim so that she could harass service workers with threats of violence