When grand juries have been impaneled to hear testimony and evidence on the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti, then we can begin to talk about the Trump admin doing something tangible. Until that, all this is just PR damage control that only the extremely naive will fall for.

American centrists & institutions move a bit quicker when white people are murdered in broad daylight & on camera. Not so much when it comes to Black people, immigrants, Latinos, Muslims, & Palestinians. If this is what it sadly takes to wake everyone up to the nightmare that's always existed...

“We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower.” “With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.” Via @wired.com and @vermontgmg.bsky.social

Fox News railing against participation trophies but make the footage Trump's fake Nobel Prize

Good! LET IT DIE www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

The Globe and Mail

British police have killed fewer people in the last 100 years than American police kill in an average month. Policing in America is an ongoing tragedy.

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc). Mobility in cities is about space. Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.

I know Canucks fans are freaking out (what else is new), and I’m disappointed too about Hughes leaving, but as for the return, we did get four first round picks for him, three of whom are already playing in the NHL, and all are under 24.

July 2024 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the summer weather." December 2025 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the winter weather." I don't know maybe our road design just isn't safe?

VANCOUVER: “Over 60!businesses have signed an open letter to council, asking the city not to make a controversial budget cut to the Department of Planning, Urban Design and Sustainability.” See my comments to Council today in the thread below. This budget won’t save money. It’ll cost FAR too much.

Fucking fascist cowards

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

Pierre Poilievre says he wants to “restore merit.” He needed to be handed arguably the safest, most impossible to lose conservative seat in all of Canada after losing his own seat. Seems like the opposite of merit. #Poilievre (oh, and he still refuses to complete a check for a security clearance)

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Let’s go Blue Jays! #bluejays #mlb youtube.com/shorts/Ymyf3...

"Start spreading the news, bitches!"

The centrist response to Trump is the same playbook we've already seen on climate- a flailing attempt to solve the problem in a way that requires as little personal discomfort as possible, bolstered by the nearly unshakeable belief that nothing bad could actually ever happen to THEM

Dear NPR. No. Just no. This is not how you help. One of the several thousand actual road safety experts here. We are easy to find. Maybe give one of us a call next time, ok?

Whether it’s Barack Obama wearing a tan suit in front of reporters or an ICE agent brutally attacking a mother in front of her children, both sides have subjected our most vulnerable citizens to disturbing images.

This was meant as an attack on me, but their assertion that people hear “racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens” and think, “well, that must be Charlie Kirk” is quite an own goal. Anyway, good luck with the grift!

Why bend a knee when you can raise an arm?

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

"E-moto" - it's good to get some clarity on what these things are called. Let's work to make "e-moto" universally understood as distinct from regular "e-bikes".

The Trump administration wants your kids to be run over by cars while walking to school

These people are batshit insane

“Bike-lanes take up too much space & make streets dangerous!” (They actually make streets safer for everyone. Data doesn’t lie. On streets with protected bike-lanes, crash rates typically drop—for drivers, cyclists, & pedestrians.) See @momentummag.bsky.social for more comebacks to common myths.

Last September Charlie Kirk claimed that Haitian immigrants in Huntsville were "raping your women and hunting you down at night." He said that rural Alabamians faced a future in which Haitian immigrants "will become your masters." www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

If you don’t want to be called N*azis, don’t compare yourselves to N*azis. I don’t make the rules.

The Republican-led US government is throwing its full weight, at the federal and state levels, behind punishing teachers, soldiers, or immigrants for their speech about the killing of a conservative pundit. It's as absurd and laughable as it is dangerous and dystiopian.

I was born in the USA, grew up there, lived and worked almost 30 years there. I'm so bloody sick of the US and its madness. It's an insane nation - violent, intolerant, dishonest, psychotic, racist, sexist, militaristic, convinced it's the greatest country in the world. It isn't even close.

Anyone claiming this “isn’t the time” to talk about gun violence and the need for rational gun reform in the United States is wrong. #CharlieKirk #SchoolShooting And since there have been more US mass shootings this year than there’ve been days this year, I could have said that EVERY day this year.

Forgive me if I care way more about the school shooting that also took place today than I do about Charlie Kirk.

So is Trump going to send the National Guard to Utah now following the murder of Charlie Kirk?

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

it’s possible to 1) note that the shooting of charlie kirk is the direct result of a culture and politics that he spent every single day of his adult life cultivating, without 2) celebrating the act of violence itself. but some people are going to do 2, and also anyone doing 1 will be accused of 2.

I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...

Based on a meta-analysis of 70 studies from 17 cities.

An entirely backwards & ignorant country wholly unable to save itself in any way, from anything

“Murky regulations”? Not even remotely murky. These are outright banned in Canada. If we gave a shit about increasing renewable energy generation we could legalize these tomorrow. But we clearly don’t really care in Canada www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

Let's model deferring to experts and not pretending to know everything. 👍