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Leanne in CA

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In the mountains of western Canada.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
latimes.com
Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1. Earlier today, AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who spent the past three years working at OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly resigned from Anthropic, warning that both companies are racing toward superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.”
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 09/09/2026
More than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' - Anthropic researcher
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More than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' - Anthropic researcher
There is a more than 10% chance that "AI could kill all humans" in the next decade, a top safety researcher at Anthropic has said. 
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is really important. “What the far right feels about cities isn’t physical fear. It’s discomfort. Canadian urban planner @brenttoderian.bsky.social decodes this feeling as: “I’m not the majority any more, it isn’t my city anymore.” Via @simonkuper.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com
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Myth of the big, bad megacity
What the right feels about metropoles isn’t physical fear. It’s discomfort
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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Pollution levels in Paris after they introduced bike lanes and car restrictions Red = EU limits for Nitrogen Dioxide pollution Original graphics by Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme www.apur.org
A series of six heatmap-style graphics showing changes in pollution levels across Paris over time, with each square map labeled by year: 2007, 2010, 2015, 2017, 2020, and 2024. The earlier maps in 2007 and 2010 are dominated by dense red and orange colors concentrated in the city center, with landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame labeled, indicating heavy pollution. Over the years the intensity of red areas fades, especially in 2015 and 2017 where the pollution begins to spread less densely, and by 2020 the colors shift more toward yellow and green, showing significant reductions in pollution. The 2024 map is the cleanest, with the majority of the area in yellow and green tones and only major road arteries showing thin red lines, demonstrating far less air pollution. Each map includes a “2 miles” scale marker, and the visual progression highlights how bike lanes and car restrictions introduced in Paris contributed to decreasing air pollution levels throughout the city.
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Leanne in CA @leannas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Happening in varying degrees across the world . Seems to me. It’s just the U.S. is so loud and obvious.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
theguardian.com
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Jeff Timmer: Fun Fact: The President of the goddam United States paid nearly $6 million in damages today to a woman he raped. Once upon a time, this would have been the only news you heard.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I can’t remember why now, but I once looked at a book about what countries do when rulers become too unwell to govern. Typically, where there’s a cult of personality aides hide illness; where there’s an emphasis on rational government, a substitute is found.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Reflect on this!
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Good morning. This is your daily reminder that the President has lost total control of the Iran War and thus has lost interest. He now only obsesses over his ballroom and schemes to profit off the presidency while gas and grocery prices soar.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.
nytimes.com
CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I mean look at Bezos. Yes ordering books online was an innovative idea. God bless. And how did Jeff get those books to people to make his billions? The post office that taxpayers built and subsidized for over 250 years.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 21/05/2026
Among the Jan 6ers eager to get in line for $1.8 billion in government money: a sex offender who bear-sprayed cops www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... @merylkornfield.bsky.social
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 07/05/2026
New: Ashley St. Clair was a foot soldier in Trump's online army. Now she's torching it, sharing receipts and exposing secrets of MAGA influence: "There is no free thinking here. They are waiting to get marching orders and a direct deposit" wapo.st/4tpgoL8
wapo.st
Inside a MAGA influencer’s turn against the right-wing machine
Once a prominent pro-Trump provocateur, Ashley St. Clair now claims to expose how top MAGA creators coordinate messaging and turn political outrage into profit.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Sarah Longwell: Of course Donald Trump endorsed the super corrupt guy. Those are the kind of people he likes because he knows they’ll be corrupt on his behalf.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/06/2025
This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Good David Wallace-Wells piece thinking through the climatic and political implications of the coming El Niño. Did you know that American climate concern is higher now than it was during the Biden administration? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The World Is About to Get a Preview of Life in 2035
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The Weather Network @weathernetwork.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Wetlands play a significant role in protecting B.C.'s environment from extreme weather events, such as floods and droughts, but climate change is putting them at risk. #BCwx ow.ly/q3sC50YVRjF
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BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
“Russia and U.S. amplifying Alberta separatist narratives to stoke division, distrust: report” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC Calgary #ABLeg #Alberta #CDNPoli #FactCheck #MediaLiteracy #Misinformation
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Russia and U.S. amplifying Alberta separatist narratives to stoke division, distrust: report | CBC News
Moscow has long tried to meddle in foreign elections. What's newer is Canada's neighbour overtly trying to influence and fan flames of referendum bid, warns a new report on foreign interference.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Things are rough, I know this, deeply. But I say to you with all my heart: PERSIST Do not allow the constant BS to wear down the beauty that is you in your life, with your friends, in your art...do what you must to survive. To find joy. To wrench back human living from the evil men of the world.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
{gift link} www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
hey do you guys think I need a lawyer
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..." Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump?? Zeteo put together this Trump montage:
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
washingtonpost.com
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Sarah Longwell: Saying that Trump is a bad President who routinely deploys violent rhetoric and is a unique threat to liberal Democracy are appropriate and true statements. We should be full-throated in our condemnation of political violence and violent rhetoric. But we should continue to tell the truth about Trump.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.
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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 23/04/2026
#Finland opens world's longest car-free bridge, intended for bicycle riders, pedestrians and mobility device users, and transit riders. #Helsinki's Kruunuvuori Bridge is 1,191 metres long, and will soon be served by trams. newatlas.com/architecture...
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Don't Hegseth & Trump understand how absurd they are? 1. They prompt Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz without consulting any allies. 2. They don't know how to open the Strait again, so they blame their innocent allies. 3. Take note: Nobody will listen to idiots.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This isn't business; it's a power grab. One family owning two of our biggest media outlets benefits no one but them. This is Trump's America, and he's selling out our democracy piece by piece.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
By 8:15am today solar was generating 70% more than our baseload usage. On a cloudy day, in England, in April!
PV providing 589 watts, 345 baseload usage, battery charging at 244 watts.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history. Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes. But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year. Trickle down hoax.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Daniel Goldman: The commander-in-chief was excluded from commanding a military operation because he was acting so crazy. 

Think about that. 

Trump is not well. We need the 25th amendment before something really bad happens on US soil.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"I don't think people are sufficiently prepared notwithstanding what happened in 2021, for the possibility that he will try to fuck with this election. And he will. He's already basically telling us that's what he's going to do, just the same way he told us he would do that in 2020."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/04/2026
Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."
theguardian.com
$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds
Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
How Was Epstein Allowed to Rape Girls in New Mexico For Years Without Accountability? The journalist who is connecting all the dots and exposing the correction is Alisa-Valdez Rodriguez. She's telling the story right now. Thelefthook.substack.com Join us LIVE.
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The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali | Substack
A political, cultural, and intellectual playground for the rest of us with writer Wajahat Ali. Click to read The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscr...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart After Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé’s husband died, an inheritance battle exploded. Her stepson then used his influence to have her arrested by ICE, an Alabama probate judge said.
nytimes.com
ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Mike Levin: It should be a much bigger story that JD Vance flew to Hungary, stood on a campaign stage, and told voters to return a head of government widely documented for human rights abuses and democratic backsliding.

Then, after his candidate lost, Vance said what had happened during the Hungarian campaign was “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference that I’ve ever seen or ever even read about.”

Was he describing himself?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"
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WIRED @wired.com · 13/04/2026
The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist. www.wired.com/story/staunc...
wired.com
Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking If He's the Antichrist
The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.
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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
House Oversight says Pam Bondi refuses to testify about Epstein files. The Clintons testified under oath. There’s no reason to let her get away with not testifying. abcnews.com/video/131881...
abcnews.com
Video House Oversight says Pam Bondi refuses to testify about Epstein files
The Justice Department informed the Oversight Committee that its subpoena is essentially moot. ABC News' Alex Mallin has the details.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2026
MTG: "He called me a traitor to him because I wouldn't obey his wishes of taking my name off of a discharge petition because he said his friends would get hurt. We've seen President Trump fight to cover up the Epstein files & fight to prevent them from being released. I think that speaks for itself"
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In a matter of days - days - he threatened to wipe out a civilization, withdraw from NATO, claimed he won a war he lost, threatened the Pope, announced a cease-fire with false terms, and announced auto-registration for a military draft. Death, deceit, distraction, and dumbness. Ruled by disorders.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Leo shelved plans to visit America. Some officials saw their reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.
thelettersfromleo.com
The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy
The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.
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