The man who tackled one of the Bondi Beach shooters is a Muslim fruit store owner named Ahmed Al Ahmed. He risked his life to end the attack on Jews celebrating Hanukkah on the beach. May the Most High protect and heal him and bless him abundantly for his righteousness.

Is that why he got rid of speeding cameras that demonstrably worked in school zones? To stop people from being killed?

I used to live near here and loved how much people biked. Now I live in Scarborough and needed a second car because the bus can’t reliably get me to daycare pickup in time, so I drive and park at the subway. But it’s 3.5km from the subway to my kids daycare, which would be an easy bike ride.

Think of your favorite celebrity, whether they’re an actor, musician, athlete, whatever. They’re probably pretty well-off, financially. But they are still closer to auctioning off their possessions to cover medical bills than they are to being a billionaire.

A man (a crossing guard!) is dead at the hands of a dump truck driver, and the Mayor is here to tell us that people walking and cycling have "a role to play in keeping our community safe." No, Andrea. The dump truck driver has to not kill people, and you have to not let him kill people. That's it!

Can someone make this shirt but say “November Baseball” instead?

Canadians take pride in the whole “we burned down the White House” thing that happened during the revolutionary war before Canada was even a country. I never thought the next time the White House was badly damaged would be by the act of their own president.

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car. Our car culture summed up in one video.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

So just to be clear, all taxpayers will pay for traffic calming instead of fining the people that speed and leaving everyone else alone. We like this for a policy change? Are we so afraid of going after the actual rule breakers that we would rather put it on the back of everybody?

You can never convince me that getting a fine for doing something illegal is a cash grab. There’s a speed camera in front of my house so I go by it a lot. You know what else is in front of my house? An elementary school with a daycare inside, four bus stops for two bus lines, and a crosswalk.

In the UK he would have lost his license within a month or two. In Canada he apparently gets infinite leeway to drive dangerously as long as he's rich enough to pay the fine, and apparently entitled enough to feel bullied.

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

This is an important point about keeping the focus on fascism instead of on Kimmel himself. There's a decent chance this ends with Kimmel getting his show back by making a statement about how we should all try to get along and how he supports ABC blah, blah. You don't want to tie yourself to that.

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.

Never forget, 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

I’m about to take a toddler and a 7 year old on VIA to Montreal. Definitely thought about driving instead.

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

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oh my fucking god

ozzy osbourne dies everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)" hulk hogan dies everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"

“keep politics out of kids movies” disney in 1973:

this is one of my ultimate “could never get away with this today” movies genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious

Never forget, 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

As always, "people used to be fine without" (and its close cousin, "people elsewhere are fine without") only works when you decode "fine" as "the suffering is invisible to me, which must mean it did not/does not exist."

I haven’t been paying much attention to the discourse on this, so I looked up Nicholas Hoult on Wikipedia and he’s literally from Wokingham. Of course he’s woke! lol but seriously, I’m excited to see the new Superman movie

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

Even a former coworker, who is working class from Etobicoke, says she’s sick of Ford and thinks the parking lot at Ontario Place is ridiculous

This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

This is kind of odd framing. While big crowds are a problem, this is less a story about overtourism and more a story about an institution that would rather overwork the staff it has than pay for a properly staffed workforce. Which is not just a problem in the tourism industry.

This feels a lot like 2020 when MAGA people were like "Every American city is on fire" and everyone in those cities was like "???"

The spin has already started as if our entire city is in chaos. I went from Burbank all the way over to Koreatown on surface streets tonight and jackshit was happening. The CNN coverage makes it look like world war 3 and that’s what Trump wants so he and his fucking goons can come shoot Angelenos.

Today! Drop by Harbor Collegiate before 3PM.

A man driving into a crowd, killing 9, during a cultural festival isn't terrorism because we expect that sometimes, drivers make oopsieses and murder people with their cars.

I feel like I’m losing my mind with the lack of wall to wall coverage on disappearing *children with cancer* i keep saying this, but it’s not 5% of the uproar that came from Biden’s debate. “kids peeing in litter boxes”, a thing that never happened, got orders of magnitude more coverage.

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— Oh.

"The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what's happening" ~ George Orwell, 1984

Everyone’s like “this can’t be fascism it’s too dumb” but they don’t understand that fascism is in fact almost always very dumb! Fascist dictators are cruel and stupid men. And it’s popular because many people are cruel and stupid!

Fellow Canadians : Let us please do everything in our power not to elect this absolute dipshit. The man is a career politician that has never done a day of manual labour in his fucking life and yet he hides behind idiotic slogans like this. Boo this man at every turn. May he never know peace.

If you take a quick glance at the history books, I think you'll generally find that the "you should thank us for this economic pain" chapter comes right before the "ruthlessly suppressing protest" chapter.

How's 2025 going? "Oh, you know, it's going"

It is kinda funny that people are going wow Canada seems pretty united and pissed off and yeah I guess threatening to take over someone’s homeland and trying to economically ruin them might make folks a little upset that’s wild

But yet also, “parents don’t want to parent anymore”