Obscene amount of power that no one person should be allowed to amass

the fact that Sandwich Guy is facing this 'wich trial at all is evidence of subpar justice. he is a hero being put through the judicial grinder. i hope the jury wraps up a not guilty verdict without delay or loafing around

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Shout out to everyone who is wearing a poppy even after an unpleasant encounter with the pin

4 out of 5 stars is a good rating and I’m tired of platforms making people believe otherwise

“We should go to the voters on this” for something that’s exactly the kind of thing you were elected to decide is a chickenshit way of opposing it

s-bahn posters will write good alt text for train maps, engage/riff about transit in the replies, and boost good content about trains

Progressive property taxes… is this anything?

It’s definitely more effective than dirt bag assholery

Ice cream… slices?

Tell everyone about this story. Make it the face of the ICE invasion

My home was attacked by the russian Shahed drone in one of the latest air raids. If you appreciate my work, please help protecting my sky right now by donating for anti-Shahed fundraisers like Shahedoriz, Dronefall and FreedomSky, — or supporting the defenders in Pokrovsk.

1) 50 public community polyclinics 2) congestion charging and bus lanes for every provincial expressway 3) up to 50 neighbourhoods competitively chosen for upzoning to mid-rise mixed use, with collaboration on plans, incentives and choice for tenants to stay, and gradual property assessment changes

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

These guys love to go dangerously fast, whether it’s in school zones or in passing legislation to keep streets dangerous

You've got 18ish days to comment on Bill 60, Ford's latest anti bike lane laws! Read our blog on taking action, the importance of identifying intersections w other communities affected & what your local cycling advocacy groups are doing to fight back! www.thebikinglawyer.ca/post/bill-60...

Vancouver recently adopted a plan to create simplified apartment zones in parts of the city (broadway and cambie mostly). We've started looking at what might be possible with single-stair buildings. Here's an R3 zoned site comprised of two 33x100 lots. The zoning allows ~2.2FSR and six storeys.

Baltimore just legalized single-stair buildings up to 6 stories and duplexes and even quads in single-family zoned neighborhoods. Abundance, hon www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

"Everyone else resisting Trump should take this as a lesson. In various ways in which the Trump regime is doing bad things, they are easily distracted, they do not have stamina, and they can be outlasted. Take advantage of this." The episode also features a Whitehouseology segment:

Last night the city council of Gresham, OR (pop 115k, Oregon's fourth-largest) voted unanimously to repeal costly parking mandates citywide, effective Dec 4. 23 Oregon cities now have zero parking mandates. Join the @parkingreform.org to bring this to your community! (1/2)

@uclalewiscenter.bsky.social is killing it with their Incentives series. This latest episode is really worth a listen: www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/05/1...

Guy that takes the long way home so he can see where the city has changed in interesting ways en route

Sidewalks shouldn’t stop for side streets, pass it on

Switching posting gears to another government... I feel like the lens to view what Ford is doing or trying to do with taking over school boards, diminishing regional governments, micro-managing city streets, and now dismantling / amalgamating conservation authorities is as a consolidation of power.

*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions

Doug Ford making services worse

Some advice to Republicans on pain from yesterday: Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

this is what results look like now what do results look like if trump starts an unpopular war in Latin America and fucks up the economy, you may ask this is left as an exercise to the reader

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

It looks like New Yorkers just passed all three pro-housing charter amendments on the ballot. The mandate is clear: it's time to build more housing.

brb cross-posting this one to X

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Now, the question I have for the Republicans is, where do you go from here. Because, the voters are already incandescently mad at you, 10mo in. How do you think the voters are going to feel after another 12 months of this, or 3 years of this, when you have midterms or the presidential election?

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

I think I have discovered why young republican men cannot get a date

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

Thanks to @guelph.ca council for supporting my amendment to immediately begin development of renoviction and rental replacement bylaws. With the vacancy tax bylaw & affordable housing plan, this was a great night with hopeful changes on the horizon.

Switching posting gears to another government... I feel like the lens to view what Ford is doing or trying to do with taking over school boards, diminishing regional governments, micro-managing city streets, and now dismantling / amalgamating conservation authorities is as a consolidation of power.

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Hell yeah

Robert Munsch has donated his personal archives of stories and materials to the Guelph Public Library. This is wonderful for such a valuable archive to be given to a public municipal library. www.guelphpl.ca/Modules/News...

Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

It's wild that about half of this article is about the naysayers, who were firmly in the minority in presentations, on council, in public surveys, and in public opinion polling

I think a whole lot of things will be forgiven if this government actually 1) gets a ton of stuff built pronto, and 2) weathers the Trump economic storm

Ok, lots to sort through with the budget. But I'm going to go ahead and endorse Canada joining Eurovision