I once asked a TPS why he parked in the bike lane instead of the empty layby 1 meter ahead. Because he was causing the exact situation pictured. “I don’t believe in bike lanes” Oh ok.

Presumably he'll leave NYC now too. Only Mar-a-lago as refuge for such scoundrels

I mean the fix was in. There was no penny to drop.

A gift from an American friend: a War of 1812 scented candle. Yes that is the White House. Via @ektaroc.bsky.social

Tucker Carlson to Nick Fuentes: “You’re clearly ascendant.” I wrote about MAGA’s mask-off moment, and what the decision to welcome white nationalists into the tent tells us about modern conservatism

I heard a similar line from @profgalloway.com, who seems a bit offended that Mamdani wouldn’t come on his show for an interview when Galloway persistently misrepresents Mamdani’s grocery policy and consistently mispronounces his last name (6 times on todays’ Pivot alone).

A beautiful November day for river cruise. Large building in background is Detroit's US post office where a young me mailed a money order to Woodstock Ventures for tickets to Woodstock '94. My first & only USPO experience.

Finally found the ICE video that I fully could not watch and it was the man having the seizure while they pulled a child from his arms. Countries are fake, borders are fake, nothing can justify this inhumanity. It’s all just for the abstract comfort of withering country clubbers and their pawns.

Classic.

Shawn is referring to one of my favorite examples of unusual mayoral leadership. It's 1918-19. Germany surrenders after its sequential wars of aggression. Cologne is facing chaos from several directions. The German central govt isn't answering its phones, w/ chaos in Berlin. Meanwhile...

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

Incredible to watch this play out, cities/states mobilizing to defend against Federal gov't. I've seen @stateofthecity.bsky.social talk about his research into mayors/cities & this reminds me so much of other historical moments, like (as mayor) Konrad Adenauer keeping Cologne fed & stable in WWI.

Sorry to Liberal partisans who will have to defend this as is their rote function after a decade of talking up climate change mitigation.

I'm finding it harder and harder to keep an open mind about AI with stories like this. We're using up vast amounts of our precious fresh water resources for what, exactly? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I’m a broken record on this, but Peter Drahos predicted this outcome in his 2021 book Survival Governance: The US (Canada even moreso) are simply too embedded in a carbon economy to resist the all-encompassing political and economic pressures. And so we get short-sighted policies and politicians.

I've never been to a place with as much attn to detail and craftsmanship as Japan.

Harbord cyclists beware: in the new lanes some sewer grates have been put in the death position by contractors. This @ Manning just ate my tire but luckily was coming to a stop. Jarring still. At speed I’d be over the handlebars. There were others along way.

Among the things to take from this post is the excellent phrase, "bovine podcast discussion". 🤌

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The subscription model is ruining things.

Takes courage to do this in a sea of cowards

To quote @shawnmicallef.bsky.social, how much more shit will Ontario continue to eat?

File alongside putting in clauses that prevent people from suing the Ford govt when its policies will kill & injure people.

Stroll is on the Coach House Books press for another printing (the cutter is pictured). Thx to all who got a copy. You may now get a 2nd.

In neocon Barbara Amiel's strange/bitter/gossipy memoir she mentions she supported her xhusband George Jonas (who hit her, she sorta apologized for him) w $60k a year & that when he was ill he came back from living abroad to Canada where healthcare was gratefully free. They always become socialists!

Absolutely! Been saying that for a while as well!

lol

Doug Ford cancelled green energy projects as one of his first actions. Now he’s subsidizing hydro rebates to the tune of $8 BILLION. Our money.

These are beautiful sweat-free bike commuting days but the watering eyes & nose make up for it. “Like a buried creek, the water still must flow”.

When your "I'm not antisemitic, it's just that ..." defense is "if we push back too hard on antisemitism I might have to eat dinner with some Jews and that would contradict my faith" ... You're not beating the rap guys

How much shit will Ontario continue to eat?

Work has ruined the work place.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

There is a light that often goes out

This kind of thing explains, somewhat, why people from eastern Europe were more vax-hesitant. The state was never to be trusted.

What the hell is wrong with the sun? Why is it disappearing like this?

Fuck that guy

Some great mayors across the US who have been mounting an anti-Trump defence/offence in various ways

Even to my lapsed Catholic ears it's so strange to hear the pope talk in a midwestern accent. I have seen a lot of conservative catholics are reacting to this fellow the way some rich/right new yorks are now to their new mayor.

Flew out of Toronto two sundays ago & got some spectacular fall pics. 1> Downsview & Roger’s Stadium on the old runway 2> Yonge & Eglinton illustrating Toronto’s ridiculous hyper-density/no density planning regime 3> the escarpment along the Niagara peninsula is such a stark landform

Eh?

Endless trauma across America. How much can the country take? No Kings marches needed constantly.

Told this story before but when being planned Ro$edale residents at top were in full freakout battle mode. When I defended it at a ravine discussion at the brickworks a red faced spitting mad resident came up to me after & screamed in my face. Thought he was going to punch me. NIMBYs are bananas.

I don’t object to cuts to Canada’s international spending per se I object to the capricious, callous and dismissive way it’s being done I get this is feminized, wooly stuff. Not like hard, tangible economics, or hanging out with private equity talking billion dollar deals

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

I’m up watching American election returns almost as late as watching …. Baseball.

Zohran is cool and awesome and I’m thrilled for him and all of us but at my core this is who I am: the Jewish guy who shows up to be a world class hater in support of his friend

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”