The UN needs to find another host country for their main offices. They needed to do it a few years ago, but especially right now.

Escape now while you can. Get an e-bike, better yet, get a couple e-bikes and maybe even make one of them a cargo bike - for less than the price of a good used car. open.substack.com/pub/challeng...

Right-wing orgs are NOTORIOUS for using model legislation, rulemaking, and policies on the state level to advance extremist agendas. Great read on the Independence Law Center and its attacks on LGBTQIA+ students.

Disease groups showing fastest patient growth in Finland. 1) renal failures (N17-N19) 1/x

This!! I can get MANY places by ebike faster than by car in Calgary. At least the places connected by safe routes. Also it’s less stressful and more joyful. IF these places are on the safe connected routes. If not, very challenging.

I keep thinking I'm not being very productive in the studio right now but then I reminded myself I'm in the studio & the world is on fire so maybe just showing up is good enough right now.

ICE blocked a doctor who wanted to help the woman they shot. Because that's what they are. I never bought ACAB, because I've known some great police officers. But every ICE agent is scum. Every single fucking one.

Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.

I wonder if people are really ready to live life without vaccines? Small coffins, small graves… The need to have more children to take into account the death and disability rate… What a terrible and sad step backwards…

Standing room only at the NVIDIA keynote. Currently a VC analyst and founder burping up word salad. The abridge ceo just said “the majority of doctors use AI,” we’ve had multiple things said so far that are complete nonsense

It’s hard to imagine better free advertising than this. Hilton: 📈

The United States is really leaning into the pro death thing lately. And probably inspiring our wannabe American conservatives in Alberta.

Excellent article. Also I know I don’t need an Urban Arrow & also I do! “The next generation will see cargo bikes as the normal way of getting around. In 10 or 15 years, cargo bikes will explode,” he says. The low cost will draw people in, he predicts. “It is so much cheaper than an electric car.”

James Talarico: “The biggest divide in this country is not left vs right, it’s top vs bottom — this new war is just the latest example of how billionaires run this country, run this economy, run this goverment, & now run our foreign policy”

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

Ok...this is next level trolling. Bravo!

A complete renunciation of international law (among other "international niceties") by the White House. The only laws mentioned are the "iron laws" of strength, force and power - in other words back to the beginning of time when there were no laws and life was nasty, brutish and short. #cdnpoli

Ramsay to downtown in real good shape, with a moon over downtown as bonus. Happy New Year #yycbike

Make 2026 the year you stop talking about climate change and instead talk about ecological overshoot. Warning: This article might challenge some of your deeply held assumptions. www.artberman.com/blog/ecomode...

The "e-bikes are just motorcycles" crowd watching me roll up to the grocery store on a cargo bike.

I said this to a friend yesterday and will repeat it here. A lot of people are going to be hyper-focused on elections this year but if that's not your ministry, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HYPER-FOCUS there. There's so much other organizing work to do. You can focus your energies and attention there.

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The citizen's initiative petition campaign demanding that public funds not be diverted to private schools continues, with 37 days remaining. The organizers are maintaining this website which lists when and where you can sign—or even sign up to volunteer:

My niece, a teacher, brought this to Christmas dinner. Everyone who was eligible signed it. You should too.

WB Yeats, The 2d Coming - seems apt for Jan 3 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Two days after becoming mayor, Mamdani has vowed to implement a high-profile bike lane/pedestrianization project in Brooklyn that Eric Adams had quashed. An extremely encouraging move.

It's pretty clear DS governs for billionaires, not Albertans, who have emphatically stated they DO NOT WANT THIS. www.westernstandard.news/news/smith-s...

The Alberta petro-state is safe from forcible regime change at the moment since the current government is doing everything that it can to facilitate separation. But Venezuela oil flowing to the Gulf will surely back-out Alberta heavy oil & increase the price differential. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Bill 14 may have ended the statute-based action of the Chief Electoral Officer under the Citizen Initiative Act but it cannot prevent this action by a First Nation based on general constitutional obligations. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Join the cargo bike revolution www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Canada has a new cyclocross star and her name is Raf Carrier! 18 years old and already on the podium against the best in the world. Amazing!

Please read this: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...

Paging @natefor8.bsky.social 👇👀

Seems like a good time to re-up this.

What if everyone rode a bicycle once a day… How would it improve the air we breathe? The results are shocking! 😱 youtu.be/kL-GIVUZpr4?...

Entirely predictable that Ms Smith, ever the adversarial/divisive politician, wd pick on Nenshi's tenure in office in the 50 year life of the line as the one to blame As for the Q of supervision, maybe it does make sense for the Alberta Utilities Commission (not Smith) to have a larger role #abpoli

“It will be hard to kill the congestion fee now because it’s been a striking success. Traffic speeds are up. Pollution is down. The fee is generating high revenue for the city’s transit system. And predictions that it would be bad for business have proved completely wrong.” Via @pkrugman.bsky.social

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

Use the power you have NOW. Don’t save it for some imaginary version of yourself in the future. Use it NOW.

Wildfire smoke is a national crisis, and it’s worse than you think

Since the Idiot-in-Chief keeps posting photos of dead birds under wind turbines, here's a picture from a Globe and Mail article about birds dying in oil sands tailing ponds 30 times more than estimated.

Let’s look at REAL TIME DATA for our EDM Adult EDs RIGHT NOW: Our EDs have become HOSPITAL WARDS that see the odd Emergency patient! (Think about that: they can no longer care for undifferentiated new pts, forced to run in-pt ward care vast majority of their time) 1/8

Safe streets aren't smooth, they have friction. This design uses curbs, bollards, and pavement color differentiation to create visual friction. It forces the driver to slow down and engage with their surroundings. No sign can do the work of proper design.

“So much of the work of oppression is policing the imagination." -Dr. Saidiya Hartman

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The dissonance was wild. Like I’d take a break from my EJ work being stifled/censored by an authoritarian regime to float rivers and backpack with my kids and eat food from a community garden. And then would look up and see people being snatched off the streets and attend protests.

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Policy on health is clearly broken - politicized, out of touch, reactive and slow. My recent keynote at the Canadian Biosafety Symposium took a big-picture look at how and why that's happening, and how we can turn things around. Here's a general-audience version, recorded at the Deep River library.