CHICAGO β Outside an elementary school during dismissalβ¦ horrifying. What have we become?
09.10.2025 14:34 β π 17212 π 10213 π¬ 2847 π 1853@brenttoderian.bsky.social
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CHICAGO β Outside an elementary school during dismissalβ¦ horrifying. What have we become?
09.10.2025 14:34 β π 17212 π 10213 π¬ 2847 π 1853I bet all bike friendly cities are also great cities!
10.10.2025 19:14 β π 16 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0What if you had to take your drivers test at least every 10 years?
A lot changes over time. Including knowledge/memory of the road rules, driver skills and ability, and the size and deadliness of vehicles.
Itβs not just UPS. I recently ordered something for an event from Canada. Iβve used this company in the past with zero problems, but this time the package (via FedEx) was held up in customs for days and missed the event because of it. This is a problem fully manufactured by the Trump admin.
10.10.2025 19:47 β π 28 π 10 π¬ 3 π 0βThe transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietlyβ& quicklyβbecome one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency βcoronapistesβ or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.β
10.10.2025 14:58 β π 533 π 132 π¬ 11 π 11NEXT WEEKEND! Iβll be among a lot of great speakers in TORINO/TURIN Italy for the #UTOPIANHOURS European festival for city-making and urban innovation! Check out this line-up for a truly unique event!
10.10.2025 18:06 β π 15 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0NEXT WEEKEND! Iβll be among a lot of great speakers in TORINO/TURIN Italy for the #UTOPIANHOURS European festival for city-making and urban innovation! Check out this line-up for a truly unique event!
10.10.2025 18:06 β π 15 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0What if you had to take your drivers test at least every 10 years?
A lot changes over time. Including knowledge/memory of the road rules, driver skills and ability, and the size and deadliness of vehicles.
Once. At least here, drivers have to take a test once. They might have to have a fitness to drive examination starting when they're 80 but nothing to test that they recall the rules of the road or understand any new rules. And vehicles are becoming tanks.
10.10.2025 15:55 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Speak truth to power.
Speak truth ABOUT power.
Paris thrives
Doug Ford takes Ontario backwards
The correct response to Republicans widely depicting the coming protests as terrorism is to go out and protest. Each person should get 10 more people to do so. If Republicans are going to hint at violent state responses to legitimate protest, the only answer is bigger numbers.
10.10.2025 15:12 β π 490 π 203 π¬ 20 π 13By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.
More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
Remember, a βmassive increase of tariffs on Chinese products coming into the USAβ means A MASSIVE INCREASE IN PRICES FOR US CITIZENS. Or the goods wonβt be available to you at all. Sound βgreatβ to you? Itβs ok though because the revenue collected from you is funding Trumpβs tax breaks for the rich.
10.10.2025 15:12 β π 30 π 10 π¬ 2 π 0Are we great yet?
Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.
Wow, thatβs really good.
10.10.2025 15:05 β π 17 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Consider my jaw officially dropped.
10.10.2025 15:01 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Marvelβs multiverse is getting out of handβ¦
10.10.2025 15:00 β π 33 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0βThe transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietlyβ& quicklyβbecome one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency βcoronapistesβ or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.β
10.10.2025 14:58 β π 533 π 132 π¬ 11 π 11TIER ONE: Americans who Donald Trump pedophiled with: They get shielded from prosecution for the crimes they did commit.
TIER TWO: Americans who brought Donald to justice for the crimes he did commit, they get prosecuted as revenge even if they committed no crimes whatsoever.
He wants it so badly for no other reason than Obama has one. These slobbering sycophants can't conceive of the fact that the Nobel committee isn't as enamored with someone who sends troops against his own people as they are.
10.10.2025 14:49 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0WHAT?!?
10.10.2025 14:49 β π 36 π 9 π¬ 3 π 0Pretending every huge peaceful protest is worse than January 6th while also pretending January 6th never happened.
10.10.2025 14:31 β π 1462 π 309 π¬ 42 π 2Truly pathetic.
10.10.2025 14:46 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1See what he did there?
10.10.2025 14:45 β π 22 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0Two years ago, the RCMP launched a criminal investigation into Doug Fordβs Greenbelt Grab.
Two years later, itβs dΓ©jΓ vu β Labour Minister David Piccini admits he personally picked which of his friends got millions from the Skills Development Fund.
News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hoursβand ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."
One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."
Trump can't deliver the lower costs he promised. All he has is cruelty and revenge.
Cuomo is unable to confront him because they share the same billionaire donors. Just look at his statement last night.
I will stand up for this city and with our Attorney General.
Good bike infrastructure will make the Charlottesville area a better and safer place to live. We are tired of waiting for it to become a reality. Itβs not that hard. We need the city to deliver on its promises asap.
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