You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

Out here at Alki Bike and Board in Admiral neighborhood of West Seattle for another ride in solidarity with Minneapolis and in honor of Alex Pretti. Looks like about 150 here. Let’s go, West Seattle! #fuckice #alexpretti #reneegood

Critical Mass Seattle last night in honor of Alex Pretty was wild. Not many photos and no video because it was hard enough wrangling 800+ people and cars and a megaphone but it was an honor to help organize and to caboose/sweep it and everyone got through safely. #fuckice #alexpretti #reneegood

At the start of the Unity Ride in Minneapolis in memory of Alex Pretti. There are hundreds if not thousands of bikers here ✊🏼

The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny! I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti

Attention #UrbanismBookClub lovers! My friend @jaypitter.bsky.social’s really important new book “Black Public Joy” is out there for purchasing! Congratulations Jay! I encourage everyone seeing this to check the book out and help spread the word. It frankly couldn’t be more timely. #BlackPublicJoy

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

ICE has now purchased at least 1,639,595 sq feet of warehouses in Texas they plan to use as camps. One just 20 minutes from my house. And that’s just two articles I’ve seen this week. They are not changing course.

For Liam.

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

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De la cruauté pure et simple. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...

En plein conseil de ville de Montréal. Des mots misogynes et complètement déshumanisants envers ma collègue Véronique Fournier qui avait fait calmement un pertinent exposé. C'est insupportable. Et le silence de son parti est encore plus préoccupant. Sommes-nous à un saut de puce de "quiet piggy"?

also applies to Canada

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Ils pourront toujours revenir avec le programme Impact+ :). D’un coté on leur dit de partir, de l’autre on investit pour amener du talent.

Last night, I joined New Yorkers across all walks of life to mourn the state sanctioned murder of Alex Pretti. I'm especially proud of our union members, including nurses who have been striking for the past 19 days, who gathered to honor Alex's compassion for his patients and neighbors.

Meanwhile, in Canada: One of the Heated Rivalry boys gave one of the show’s fabricated Team Canada Olympics fleeces to the prime minister and this happened

Snow removal does wonders for pedestrians and cyclists. These shots were taken just six hours apart. The sidewalk and bike lane are much clearer. It’s kind of amazing. (Snow removal is different from plowing. It involves collecting snow from city streets and trucking it to snow dumps.)

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

If any 🇨🇦 citizens go to work for #ICE, they should be questioned upon return as to whether they saw human rights violations / participated in them. This should be standard practice for anyone entering the country involved in foreign law enforcement/armed forces. www.readthemaple.com/canadians-in...

Solidarity with PSAC-AFPC members fighting back against Carney’s callous cuts. We're in a moment of economic emergency: austerity is the worst possible response. We shouldn't be attacking good jobs and public services, we should be expanding them to protect Canadians from the shocks still to come.

Democrats are hoping we'll all be calmer about this in 2 weeks They are hoping we will memory hole every awful thing that's happened this month while the GOP tries to get their people to be more genteel with the kidnappings Calling my senators to tell them to vote "no" actually

baffling that the media isn’t making more of an issue out of how carney is gutting key federal agencies/depts and what that’s going to mean for gov capacity when we’re supposed to be more independent and capable. food inspection, health canada, statscan, global affairs — all being cut, and more

Fellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing

US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.

Canada cannot fund, arm, or legitimize ICE. I’ve written to PM Carney calling for sanctions, export bans, cancelled subsidies, and the closure of ICE offices in Canada. Fascist violence and human rights abuses demand action, not silence.

"À l’UQAM, 25 professeurs étrangers sont touchés par l’abolition du PEQ, sans mesures transitoires. Ces professeurs étaient venus au Québec avec l’intention de demander la résidence permanente par le PEQ. L’abolition de ce programme, le 19 novembre 2025, a changé les règles en cours de route"

Our city is (finally) building a tramway and we are at the "moment of maximum hysteria" (at least I hope it will go down soon...).

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

I have a scientific meeting in Hamilton, ON in May (STLHE!). I have the choice of 9 hours by car, 11 hours by train (2 trains and a suburb train) or 3:45 hours by plane + suburb train or bus. Sigh.

"Le feu est pris." C'est un secret de polichinelle: le lancement de ChatGPT, il y a trois ans, a eu l'effet d'une bombe dans le système d'éducation. Notre sondage nous donne une première bonne idée des dégâts. 75% des étudiants utilisent l'IA en classe, 31% le font contre les règlesé

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If Bilbo had Chat GPT

The same logic is applied by the municipal opposition in Québec city: they want to rip-out the second most used protected bike lane in the city to bring back 4 lanes of car traffic "to reduce congestion" while we build a tramway. Cyclist forced to switching to cars, yes this will work...

C’est parti pour une fermeture de 3 ans pour la rue Berri.

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

Would love to see the Canadian government and institutions pull away from American tech. It honestly seems like an issue of national security.

“It seems to be this accepted collateral damage that disabled people need to be homebound during the winter.” - person who uses a wheelchair on CBC radio just now. 📣📣📣

Gutted to learn of the passing of Dr Kirsty Duncan. She was a tireless fighter for the people she served, not only her local community in Toronto but others, especially the science & research & athletics communities too. She championed equity, diversity, inclusion and made change happen. 🤍🙏🏻

I was on the CSEE council a loooong time ago and I really felt like we were doing something useful and worth our time. Try it!

This five year old is still in jail

The reason why cyclists and pedestrians push back against these types of campaigns is not because we think visibility is bad (I wear hig-viz!), but because it's victim blaming that diverts attention from the real issues: dangerous drivers and poor infrastructure

Dear @pq.org, our @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social funded research shows that marine invertebrates don’t differentiate between healthy oil & petroleum oils. Introducing pipelines will inject toxins into the marine food web, including our #fisheries. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

Cette annonce est très inquiétante. Nous appelons tous les partis politiques du Québec à s’engager contre tout projet d’oléoduc ou d’exploitation des hydrocarbures. L’avenir réside dans les énergies renouvelables. Laissons l’énergie fossile dans le passé. #polqc

I don't think there's any other possible reaction here than extreme concern to the news that 18 000 Canadian federal public servants in health care, stats, environment, justice, immigration, archives, FNMI affairs, and more, will very likely lose their jobs: www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...