“By focusing on mostly arterial streets and closing key network connection gaps” when building new bike lanes, Boston was able to increase both “the number of people biking, and the percentage of all traffic they make up.” The number of bikes counted on the network went up by 55%.

I do have sympathy for people living next to loud and disruptive construction projects, but…. sometimes these stories read to me like “urban resident surprised to learn they do in fact live in a city.”

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors. www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...

Scott Galloway on Trump's Idiotic Back Stabbing of Canada. Well said Scott.👏👏👏 Thank you for clearly explaining some of the reasons why Canadians feel such a level of betrayal. There is no enemy like a friend betrayed. We will not forget.

New Musk policy on X exposes MAGA influencers as foreign trolls

It's a small graphic design detail, but the loitering guy on TTC signage is actually in front of the red slash, casually leaning against it, making him look *unbelievably* cool.

what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland

It's weird to me that we all accept the idea that the news media has an obligation to be fair and balanced and honest and rigorous and stuff, but we don't expect the same standard from politicians, major corporations, podcasters, YouTubers, TikTok creators etc.

An election so secure it has been cancelled when one of the decryption keys is lost Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key. - Ars Technica share.google/bA9RduDE1ijV...

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

“I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers.” Heartbreaking piece by Tatiana Schlossberg, President Kennedy’s granddaughter and RFK Jr.’s cousin. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Thousands of Tunisians gathered on Saturday in the capital to protest against the jailing of government critics, the curtailing of liberties and economic conditions in the North African country. u.afp.com/Shw5

Grand opening, grand closing. X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.

Donald Trump has hurled a wrench into one of the most sensitive negotiations currently under way in Europe, potentially derailing efforts to help fund Ukraine to stay in the fight against Russia.  👇  

A one-time leading figure in Britain’s right-wing populist Reform UK party has been jailed for accepting cash bribes in exchange for making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.

Former Brexit Party MEP Nathan Gill sentenced to 10.5 years for bribery. He accepted cash to promote Russian interests in the EU Parliament. Read more here 👇

Leading the Future said it will spend millions to keep Alex Bores out of Congress. It might be helping him instead. www.wired.com/story/alex-b...

Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Despite all the evidence that it was a disaster, the #UK is poised to elect #Brexit cheerleader/charlatan #Farage as Prime Minister. Brilliant.

A horrifying graphic from Pew showing the fruits of the right wing war on public health. Only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines prevent serious illness, while 80% of Democrats do. This is not a difference of opinion in science. This is the result of a ruthless disinformation campaign.

Ellison tells Trump he can pick which CNN anchors will be axed after Ellison acquires CNN. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

That the richest man in the world is determined to jam fascist misinformation into mainstream discourse is an emergency. I don't know how else we can talk about it. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Food affordability and choosing local products are top concerns for Canadians: report

Goodnight Blue Sky

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

I almost don't care what it costs us to not be bullied into buying from them.

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

Voters don’t think in left-right terms like political junkies—many Americans basically think politicians are corrupt and ineffective, leading them to keep ejecting whichever party briefly has control in Washington. Continually trying to be more moderate is a dead end for Democrats. trib.al/SbwYw5g

Columbia Journalism Review recently interviewed Betsy Reed, editor of the Guardian's U.S. edition. www.cjr.org/the-intervie... She says: "If we regard it, for good reason, as being extreme and out of line with basic humane values, we won’t treat it as part of the normal discourse in America."

The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown reut.rs/4icyBaS

Fox News tried coming after Denmark's social safety net. This Danish politician's legendary fact check is great! #cdnpoli

NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public www.404media.co/contractor-p...

Public policy has aggressively favoured suburbanization for 100 years. Still, today, central cities are expensive. What does that say?

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Child psychologists advised the staff to create Elmo as children needed to know that some people are just “annoying little shits you gotta tolerate”

President Donald Trump dismissed criticism of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying, “things happen.” https://to.pbs.org/447Yvqk

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

yes, plug all your finance and tax information into chatgpt. sounds like a genius idea.

The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking

Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison under the bill. It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.

Neighborhood corner stores are good and should be legal.

“Conflict experts tell The Independent that the “just following orders” defense may not stick under other administrations or federal judges who could find the strikes illegal, exposing Pentagon officials & others to criminal liability.” Nuremberg, Madame Defarge, and Pepperidge Farms all remember.

Julius Streicher wasn’t convicted for personally swinging a rifle or orchestrating a massacre.He never ran a camp,never pulled a trigger.His crime was simpler and far more chilling:he used a newspaper column and a microphone to justify violence,dehumanize entire groups of people,and normalize hatred

If you're 42 years old, we're as far away from your birth as your birth is from the invention of antibiotics! History is weird. What we consider modernity is way closer than we think... 1941 LOC lccn.loc.gov/sn82016181 #c20th #histmed 🗃️

BBC Bias is often in the eye of the beholder So let’s stick to measurable facts During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority 47 were from UKIP/BP 23 times Farage

Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.