Your morning reading

Open Veins of Latin America would be a terrific book to read with others if you have the bandwidth to organizing a book discussion.

It's been hard watching the news. It's very triggering for my family. The US has destroyed El Salvador, destroyed families. Destroyed history and the future. I know what comes next.

Can you even imagine any elected leader empowered to make transportation decisions in Winnipeg talking like this?

Go watch this

I know it's in everything, I know it's impossible, trust me, but it's important to try to remove as much of it from your life as possible

Most car trips are less than 3 mi. If you can, replace them with biking or transit.

Now is probably a good time to remind y'all that pretending to be queer to infiltrate progressive spaces is a long standing tactic of government disruption. Sometimes, close to home, even. theintercept.com/2023/03/21/f...

beyond its incoherence and lies, this is the most open expression of unbridled imperialism that any american president has made in probably more than 100 years

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Drugs are the primary boogeyman used to justify imperial intervention in Latin America. When academics and activists like myself talk about legalizing drugs, it's not only to keep drug users safe from the toxic supply (which is reason enough), it's about geopolitical stability. It affects YOU

After this, the EU should absolutely proceed on the assumption that Trump meant what he said about Greenland. Nothing is off the table anymore.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

but this is why stuff like him rattling sabers about greenland is not a joke

My mother was a refugee of the Salvadoran civil war. The Americans backed the fascists that took over the country. Now Salvador is run by a pro yankee crypto dictator who has built the largest concentration camp in the western hemisphere. That, is American intervention.

They quickly added head starts to the crosswalks where Jakob was struck and Rosalie was killed, one wonders if anyone feels bad that they delayed for a study to implement a policy that has already worked everywhere else it has been tried. Who will the next study delay be too late for?

Giving pedestrians a head start improves safety, has no effect on traffic, city finds. As always, our city does a study to determine what is already widely known. We know they love that there is "virtually no cost" but could we not for once just follow what is already best practice. t.ly/Dl9VN

I hope they're serving hot dogs there

Late last year, two leading pedestrian intervals were installed after drivers seriously injured a child and killed another pedestrian at two locations along Osborne. Glad to see it won’t take more blood on the pavement to get safety extended to other locations.

Here’s what I needed today, maybe it’s what you need, too:

First!

demanding that drivers, truckers convenience/freedom to park has to be considered before we can talk about plans for more housing, transit efficiency, pedestrian/cyclist safety is such a fool’s errand.

Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.

“In simple terms: a heavier car offers diminishing safety benefits to the person inside it, while imposing rapidly increasing risk on everyone else.” (Graph from The Economist)

Sure large language models and image generators put a bunch of writers and artists out of work, but think of all the lawyers and morticians who have even more business

Is this bus 10 minutes early, or 20 minutes late? Hard to say. Would the next one be along 30 minutes later, if I hadn’t run across Colony at Portage carrying two small humans in the last ten seconds of the flashing amber pedestrian signal? Impossible to know—no surviving that wait at dinner time.

It makes sense that there would only be a bus every half hour on Corydon, because cars are only allowed to drive down it every 30 minutes.

We need more Wellington Crescent bike lanes. Many valid points in this op-ed but we also need is a mayor & council that truly understand the benefits. Just getting this "single" project to a point where it might get built does not provide much confidence in getting "more bike lanes." t.ly/-z-Nz

This means that the kidical mass on January 10th is a go. Meet up at the Forks at 10:30am, at the port down by the river. Bring your bike!

Skaters, rejoice: the Nestaweya River Trail at The Forks could be open as early as New Year’s Day, marking one of its earlier openings in recent years.

The city has received more than three dozen complaints of trees being damaged by snowplows as street-cleaning efforts have ramped up in recent weeks.

It's pretty amazing how many people have responded to this with some version of, "I got an e-bike and it was the best thing ever." So many stories of e-bikes allowing people to ride again, or enabling them to ride for the first time, especially for transportation. E-bikes are gamechangers!

There are new trees on my block embedded in the salty ice pile plowed up from the street, because the contractor graders pushed things back way past the limit. Just incredibly wasteful.

A city councillor said she will be seeking answers after a snowplow damaged trees on an Elmwood street.

Me every time I turn back to my dumbfounded dinner guests after inexplicably addressing an entity or concept not physically present at our gathering:

We could all afford a massive tax increase (like $500 more per month) to fund the best transit system in the world if it was able to eliminate one vehicle per household.

happy erev christmas

Spiced cider recipe jump scare

“Like prime, but with human beings”

This thing would go so hard playing Virtute at Rest

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

If you want to be a true hater like me, remember to file your complaints with the proper form forms.winnipeg.ca/site/portal/...

It normally takes me under 15 minutes to roll to work in the summer. Today it took me 30. Just to give you an idea of how easy it is to get around with a mobility device in the downtown core, where the City is supposed to plow the sidewalks to a paved surface according to their own policy.

Some of y’all aren’t complaining enough in the way the city actually measures. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The snow operations map currently lists as complete some sidewalks in my area that are presently obstructed by 2m tall piles of ice dumped after blading the adjacent road down to the pavement.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.