Ethan Sabourin

America is blessed with a world class megacity that has a perfect year-round climate and is mostly in a flat basin. And this is the best we can do for bicycles.

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution. Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene. “That day, he thought he was going to die,” said the source.

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.

He thought he was going to die.

Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.

And a mob of agents killed him.

Rabbi Ellen Lippman speaking at a protest in support of freeing Mahmoud Khalil earlier this year

Katie Unger wearing a JFREJ shirt!

Rabbi Ellen Lippman's name highlighted on Mayor - Elect Zohran Mamdani's Committee on Social Services Transition Team

Katie Ungers name highlighted on Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani's Committee on Community Organizing Transition Team

❣️Mabrook + Mazal Tov to JFREJ Board Members, @kungernyc.bsky.social & Rabbi Ellen Lippman, for their respective appointments to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ‘s transition team & the more than a dozen other JFREJ members also named in this powerful list of NYers ready to roll up their sleeves & work!

yes. all of them.

‘Shutters are the future’: Maccreanor Lavington’s White City housing Maccreanor Lavington associate director Prisca Thielmann tells Fran Williams about the practice’s recently completed affordable housing at the Television Centre development in White City – the UK’s la...

'Shutters are one of most easily deployed devices when designing in adaptation. ‘Ultimately they’re for climate change-resistance,’ says Thielmann. ‘For the UK, it’s the future.’'

this. decades behind - we need active solar protection in a warming world

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/specificatio...

How a bold church merger shaped Canada 100 years ago | Broadview Magazine As the United Church marks its centenary, its founding story offers a lesson on unity

The United Church of Canada would never have existed unless each of the founding denominations believed that diverse approaches to faith strengthen the whole body of Christ Compromise.

broadview.org/bold-church-...

After the NDP crumbles, what's next for Canada's left? | Broadview Magazine Progressive movement faces a reckoning as Singh steps down and Conservatives surge

The NDP's recent defeat carries sharper implications — not just for the party, but for progressive politics in Canada.

broadview.org/ndp-election...

For fans of (dearly departed) So Good on Somerset, I can confirm that the restaurant with the same name on Springfield in New Edinburgh inherited the original menu and they make the pepper salt tofu and peanut chicken just like the old place.

house of jacobs

wow so @alexbozikovic.bsky.social took me on an urbanist pilgrimage of sorts.

This essay on "AI and Internet Hygiene" by @katewagner.bsky.social really how AI is ruining the experience of using the internet (and knowing how to use it), while also crippling the social infrastructure of trust that makes the internet work. web.archive.org/web/20250121...

Globe editorial: How cities can protect crowds against the threat of vehicle-ramming attacks The murder of 14 people on Bourbon Street is a reminder that a vibrant street-life makes for an easy target, and that people need better protection

Junius, a few months ago..

“It would be unacceptable if the cost of vibrant urban life is that a group of people have to be sacrificed every so often to a maniac behind the wheel … Soft targets need a hard shell around them”
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

The massacre took place on the night of 23-24 of March 2025.
Ten days later, 4th April, the commander of the same army unit (Golani Recon) was filmed instructing his soldiers:
"Everyone we meet in Gaza is an enemy. We identify a person, we shoot, we kill, and carry on. Don't get confused."

Pope Francis waves to a large crowd of people, some of whom are waving Cuban flags or holding up their phones to take photos. Photo credit: Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times

Pope Francis died on Monday at 88. His papacy promoted inclusivity, embracing survivors of sexual abuse by clergy members; LGBTQ Catholics; Muslim and Orthodox clerics; and leaders of developing nations, where he believed the church’s future was rooted.

See Francis' life in photos: nyti.ms/4lEHXNZ

The Vatican Is Way Ahead of the Democratic Party on Climate Change Pope Francis’s recent draft text demands climate reparations and an immediate end to fossil fuel exploration. Why can’t the Biden administration do the same?

In the clearest departure from the U.S. political class, Pope Francis wrote that “it is absurd to permit the continued exploration and expansion of fossil fuel infrastructures."

Published June 2, 2023:

Chicago Teachers Union ratifies groundbreaking contract cementing LGBTQ+ protections Discrimination in education isn't welcome in the Windy City.

"The agreement includes meaningful raises, smaller class sizes, and more classroom resources, but it also codifies some of the most comprehensive LGBTQ+ protections ever included in a public school labor deal."

Check out "bargaining for the common good"

www.advocate.com/news/chicago...

Republicans Asked For an Offshore Wind Exposé. They Got a Letdown Instead. “NOAA Fisheries does not anticipate any death or serious injury to whales from offshore wind related actions.”

“NOAA Fisheries does not anticipate any death or serious injury to whales from offshore wind related actions”.

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DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.

NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

Why the Best Bike Lanes Always Get Blamed A standoff over cycling infrastructure and traffic congestion in Toronto shows why building protected bike lanes on essential corridors draws controversy along with riders.

In Bloomberg CityLab, I explained why cities must build cycling *networks* – not just lanes.

It’s a lesson that many elected leaders have yet to learn (esp Ontario’s Doug Ford, who is taking a sledgehammer to Toronto's cycling network).

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European Spa Company Therme Misrepresented Itself in an Effort to Expand Into Canada A Times investigation shows Therme, a European firm, exaggerated its track record in securing a deal with Ontario, and government auditors found that the process had been unfair and opaque.

BREAKING: @nytimes.com investigation reveals that the Ford Government was sold a bill of goods by shell company Therme, who misrepresented themselves, adopting their name & brand from a CEO who died in a plane crash. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w... #topoli #onpoli

I think this captures the intersection of those topics best

whether someone reads books, informs themselves about the world, pays attention to current events, is a crucial indicator of political alignment

and that is just a really fuckin weird new thing for Democrats to sort out

I’m so overjoyed that No Other Land won. Film can move people in ways that you just can’t achieve with words. Thousands will feel called to watch, and be transformed.

The fact that it won without a distributor will shed light on how Palestinian stories are consciously sidelined, all the time.

She played a house concert a few years ago for my mom’s 60th, my parents have been fans for ages. Never fails to make me tear up (never mind my mom who was bawling).

‘Did they learn nothing?’: Auschwitz survivor to return German honour over AfD vote role Albrecht Weinberg ‘horrified’ that MPs relied on far-right party to pass anti-immigration motion

A profile of Albrecht Weinberg, a 99-year-old survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen who received the German order of merit for his work on Holocaust remembrance - before returning it this past week to protest an anti-migrant bill passed with far-right votes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

oh what could the salute has possibly been

FOR INSTANCE: EU sunscreen! EU drugs! EU $3 bottles of very good Tempranillo!