“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

Anyway, Kristi remains the biggest cosplayer in the Noem partnership

“wake up darth” …they said “it will be fun” …they said

I understand the un-clipped version of this remark will resonate with some Americans. But saying your angry because you kicked a hornets’ nest without much plan beyond “I think I can stamp them” and then none of your buddies showed up to get stung with you is a bit, you know, not how it works. /1

Seems like this whole freedom of speech thing mainly works in the direction of people who already possess systemic power and not the ones fighting for some power of their own

When #Canada spends $1.2 Billion to attract your brain power as you create a toxic environment of corruption and authoritarianism, it bets on the future of its nation and recognizes the opportunity to gain an advantage that #UnitedStates may never regain. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

If I ever moved back to Canada, it would be as a physician. Would you be OK with me moving, but not others?

I lived in Alberta for ten years and both my children were born there. We had a good life there. Most Albertans are great ppl that will give you the shirts off their backs and my comment wasn’t against Albertans at all. It was about your last sentence

In Minnesota, we stand tall with our neighbors in the face of hatred.

Can anyone name a newspaper story in the past decade that has had greater impact than the Herald's Epstein series? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

I am cool with this. But if you find out you’re Canadian and you wanna come to Canada, realize we are not the same and we have different values. Please know we are a “rising tide lifts all boats” system, not one where it’s all about the individual. But I’m glad for folks who get the good news.

Dear Canadians: I am very confident that very very few of the American citizens rushing to apply for Canadian citizenship right now are frothing MAGAs. Far as I can tell, many to most are some combo of queer, non-white, and aggressively anti-Trump.

No one who wants to be president has so far shown that they have the comprehensive vision to even correctly diagnose our main problems, much less solve them. Bringing 2004 to a 2028 fight

"Hypocritical quackery" Kennedy fuels the peptide craze open.substack.com/pub/garyschw... by @garyschw.bsky.social Yep. So vile. So nonsensical. So science-free. So hypocritical. So on-brand.

When Republican Rep. Mary Miller started a sentence in 2021 with “Hitler was right …” it was a sign that racism was a key characteristic of Republicans in Congress. My free Stop the Presses newsletter cites more than a dozen examples of bigotry by GOP lawmakers. Major media need to highlight this.

Expel Hungary! (Better yet, vote Orban out) theins.org/en/inv/290911

Here’s last night’s story about Viktor Orbán, what the upcoming elections in Hungary mean for global conservatism, and why Tucker Carlson seems to want to fuck a fence. Actually, we don’t really know “why.” We just know he does. youtu.be/SkRw83GV-wA

Donald Trump’s entire governing style is a loop of self‑inflicted chaos. He creates a crisis. Then he blames Democrats for the fallout, unleashes Truth Social tirades, turns the turmoil into personal profit, and crowns himself the savior of the very mess he made. And then he does it again.

"... in the name of Jesus Christ, and Amen," Hegseth says at the end of his news conference statement. The Founding Fathers knew that religious fanaticism was toxic to freedom. That's why they established separation of church and state. Hegseth and Trump are anti-American.

What kind of brain thinks “this is so easy, all the hard part is done, it’s for your benefit, we desperately need your help, and are very upset you aren’t fixing the problem that’s already fixed” is persuasive to anyone?

If anyone's confused about whether to read my interview with Trump, or with Bryan Stevenson, please choose the latter. Remarkable man. Here's another free link. as.ft.com/r/af3cb056-1...

I want to move, but my healthcare team would be too difficult to replace. I know because I tried it ten years ago

Oralè Crew Tear jerker! “US Soldiers hug their families before being sent to Iran” #USDemocracy #NK3 #TrumpIranWar

It's so satisfying that after he bitched about "unflattering pictures" the MSM is now using "unflattering pictures

A good night’s sleep is priceless

It’s the Monday-ist of Mondays

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But you see, I am a woman, so the vigorous salad dressing distribution will be seen as a threat, not a virtue.

It’s impossible to be all things to all people, so might as well be who you are

when you as a party are just going through the motions to drag a candidate across the finish line -- kerry, romney -- people who dont care about politics pick up on that and you cant cajole them to vote. when theres actual excitement - both good (obama) and bad (trump) it is a much stronger thing

Her whole thing has always been this sort of /listen up dummies, your superior is speaking/ type of thing that's really off-putting. From her 2024 DNC speech:

i think the best candidate to support is the one you actually like. picking a candidate you like gets through to people more than picking a candidate who fills out some mythical "this will get swing voters" check list. eg the black guy who's name is hussein > some candidate with "a great resume"

If you can't put it into an oven, it ain't a ramekin. Also, only a writer with no eye/ear for prose whatsoever would put the word RAMekin anywhere near the word RAHM.

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum? There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

FWIW, despite calls to "rein in artificial intelligence" and "break corporate monopolies," the @ndp.ca announced their new leader exclusively on Meta platforms, as well as the world's richest man's AI porn bot website (Until this weekend, they hadn't posted on X since January)

Have you seen this yet? This is wrong. Parliament is supposed to be a civic space — the one room in this country where every faith, and no faith, stands on equal ground.

I seriously want to know how Trump can be taken seriously about anything after his Sharpie pen story. He has control of nukes and started a war with zero forethought about consequences domestically and globally. He has dementia and it’s progressing rapidly. #NoTyrants youtu.be/mpXN7wJrryg

Big Picture politics, from a Premier who's constituents in a province don't tival the population of over a dozen of US cities.

oh so Jerry spoke this into being

So Trump’s illegal war may create the exact outcome that he used as the transparent excuse for attacking in the first place (the real reasons were distraction from Epstein and pressure from Israel’s Government)? Who could have seen that coming except anyone paying attention?

This is how you address opposing party leaders with respect and an acknowledgment that differences make us stronger

Slavery. This is just literally reconstituting slavery.

A different way to put this is that the differences *within* each state are much greater than the differences between states.

The stuff about needing to listen to the middle of the country and not coastal elites or w/e is just really condescending. It shows disdain for people on the left, it fetishizes "real Americans" from the heartland while making it seem like you think they're too backward to support certain polices.

Mad king watch. The staircase to nowhere is really incredible. What a monstrosity. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The NY Times should report to its heart’s content on the No Kings numbers. Was it 7 million instead of 8 million? Hard to say. Some people leave rallies early. Some arrive late. Getting an accurate count is difficult or impossible. But it’s clear that *millions* attended, which is significant. 2/🧵

I did a quick inventory of how news websites were playing No Kings. ABC and CNN are leading with it. It’s 5th from the top on NBC, 6th on WaPo, 8th on NYT, 10th on Guardian and 14th on CBS. 1/