Fuck, man. This is water in a desert. Thank you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. I’m rooting for you.

Are you listening, Canada? @mark-carney.bsky.social?

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

This weekend, I went to a talk on what true nonviolence can accomplish— about how using your voice while refusing to stoop to their level come what may has changed the trajectory of nations. It’s for exactly this ⬇️ reason. It makes totally plain who the enemy is no matter the propaganda.

(1/2) It's quite a phenomenon that a 79-year-old man struggling with speech and gait, can tell an audience that prices are down when they're up, that tariffs make other countries pay which they don't, that he has solved wars he hasn't, over and over again, and it gets reported as sane utterances.

📍 Portland, Oregon 🐸✊🏼✊🏾

Reminds me of a story by @stuartathompson.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social from back in 2022 about how they were able to purchase cell phone tracking data and follow a number of people who were inside the Capitol on January 6 and track them back to their homes. www.404media.co/email/0ba0f6...

So, here's our vision for the 'New Vancouver Special': Existing owners redevelop their lot, building 6 "family size" flats, and keeping 2 for themselves 4 additional families buy in as co-developers City provides "outright" zoning so the permit can be had in the same timeline as a house

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

The great thing about renewable is how cheap and easy they are to deploy and scale up. You can power cities or individial houses with something like solar. How difficult is it to replace or fix a wind turbine, compared to a fuel burning power plant.

IPCC reports #renewables now 10 times more efficient than new #nuclear at #climate mitigation. 92.5% new power generation capacity added worldwide in 2024 was from renewables - with new nuclear nowhere. New nuclear vastly over-cost and over-time.

Talk to a couple of Posties (they’re not hard to find) they’ll tell you that package delivery has mostly been shifted over to Purolator, a seemingly deliberate attempt to starve Canada Post of revenues. And look at the nascent forays into postal banking that Koho is doing with Canada Post.

The view from nowhere reporting style is so stupid.

Really smart way for larger companies to utilize excess office space, particularly if building long-term relationships with startups and scale-ups is beneficial.

Between this & zero traffic deaths in Helsinki last year.... The simple truth that's somehow utterly unintelligible to capitalism & those in its thrall is that doing the right thing by the vulnerable (be they houseless, pedestrians, or anything else) makes the world BETTER FOR EVERYONE.

I know there’s a lot of darkness in the world right now, but it’s nice that Celebrity Family Feud is really having a moment. 🤐 #Sinclair

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Political violence and threats are not the answer. This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion. We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.

Schmidtknecht went to a Walgreens pharmacy to fill a prescription from his physician when he was told that the medication was no longer covered by his insurance. Instead, he was told the medication would now cost $539.19 out of pocket. After 5 days of relying on an old “emergency” inhaler, he died.

My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!

Edmonton www.cbc.ca/news/science...

This gives me a pit in my stomach. Fight back, Dems. 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.

this is super true... on X there was no such thing as bad publicity. in that way it conforms with our broader media ecosystem Bluesky upends this equation. if people genuinely don't like you, you're sunk on here!

Can’t stop thinking about this from @billmckibben.bsky.social “think about the degree to which the dependence on a resource that’s only available in a couple of places. I think about what that does to the power of the people who control those places. Look abroad. Vladimir Putin’s the biggest… 1/2

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

What people don't yet understand — what I am just coming to understand — is that Trump is not acting irrationally on climate & energy to "own the libs." Trump (and the GOP) are protecting the trillions of assets held by their fossil-fuel cronies, which would be utterly devalued if we decarbonized.

An excellent, concise explanation of policy cause & effect.

Soldiers in MRAPs rolling around Union Station—blocks from the Capitol—seems silly, performative, and useless. But it raises a much darker question: What would Trump have done on Jan. 6, 2021 if he had possessed then the kind of control over local law enforcement that he seeks to acquire today?

Been listening to Bad Company by @greenwell.bsky.social and it is amazing! You cannot understand America today without understanding the nature of private equity and her book on how it too often goes wrong is excellent. Gift link to review: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

Ice agent struck by sandwich seeks counseling, says he can't even walk through deli without fearing for his life and has been diagnosed with BLTSD

@samuel.bsky.team @pfrazee.com @hailey.at What’s going on here? These are the top 4 results for Hurricane Erin:

This is the exact question journalists and politicians should be hammering over and over. The best tool to reduce crime & homeless is fair wages, free healthcare, affordable housing, some UBI to fill in the gaps. But it means the 0.01% won’t get to be the 0.001%, and money controls politics, so no.

Brilliant thread.

"Paris started with periodic, strategic closures of key streets, then day-long closures of the entire city center, always in the context of the conversation about air quality, livability & noise…It's a very smart way of doing it." — @brenttoderian.bsky.social in BlogTO www.blogto.com/city/2024/12...

Saw 2 different ads on YouTube today of a @mark-carney.bsky.social deepfake pitching an investment scam. Outrageous that Google allows this crap on their platform. I assume they will 100% reimburse anyone who falls for this crap?

Is there a smart way to set yourself on fire? In the attention economy of political protest, we ask our panel if self-immolation is the ultimate power move.

Just got back from Europe, where gorgeous third spaces and generous public services abound. Americans are so terrified that The Undeserving might get something that they'd rather have nothing for anyone. Why THAT is the case is another question. But probably racism.

Unreal. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...

Very true in Toronto as well.

“To use a technical term, it blew my mind,” said Vancouver’s former chief planner Brent Toderian…”They weren’t lazy about it—they didn’t just throw up barriers and ban cars. It might be the best bargain I’ve ever heard,” Toderian said. #Montreal It’s not just what you take away. It’s what you add.

“Journalists endure many deprivations and hardships in warzones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them." reutersagency.com/media-centre...

The nature of corporate capitalism became clear to me when I first heard the adage "if the customer is too happy, you are leaving money on the table." This bit of sage management advice is equivalent to saying that customer abuse is the foundation of success. 3/

This is the right time for Toronto to kiss oil and gas advertising goodbye. @adriennetanner.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/22/o...

I don't understand rich people who spend their money on yachts and partying. If I had the time and the money I'd spend it on classes to learn to sing, draw, paint, weave, make pottery, carve wood, all the random skills I do not currently have. Become a true renaissance man. That's the real flex.