Lurker Envoy
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I like Avi. I usually vote NDP. But OMG, please stop with the one-sided housing takes. We need huge amounts of public housing, but we also need market housing too, and lots of it.
Canadians don’t need more platitudes or private market incentives, they need real solutions.
We can't rely on the market to fix what it broke. We need a massive, wartime-level investment in affordable public housing.
Housing is a human right. Let's start acting like it.
We can't rely on the market to fix what it broke. We need a massive, wartime-level investment in affordable public housing.
Housing is a human right. Let's start acting like it.
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I like Avi. I usually vote NDP. But OMG, please stop with the one-sided housing takes. We need huge amounts of public housing, but we also need market housing too, and lots of it.
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"[AOC] would not make a symbolic run, according to a person who has spoken to her, and she does not believe she needs to be the progressive standard-bearer in the race provided another person steps up to fill that role. 'If she runs, she wants to win'" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
AOC built her own political machine. Now she’s deciding her next move.
Seven years after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leapt onto the national stage as an outsider, she’s learned an inside game and is considering a run for Senate or president.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"[AOC] would not make a symbolic run, according to a person who has spoken to her, and she does not believe she needs to be the progressive standard-bearer in the race provided another person steps up to fill that role. 'If she runs, she wants to win'" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Major constitutional reform tbh
I want to hear your uncomfortably big ideas for Canada!
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Major constitutional reform tbh
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The middle class has been persuaded that they pay taxes *to* immigrants when, in a full employment economy, it's immigration that can save them from having to pay taxes, or having to endure the disruption of sectors they work in shrinking in order to force them to retrain as nurses. /fin
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The middle class has been persuaded that they pay taxes *to* immigrants when, in a full employment economy, it's immigration that can save them from having to pay taxes, or having to endure the disruption of sectors they work in shrinking in order to force them to retrain as nurses. /fin
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According to the city's model, D8 generates something like a $45m surplus annually.
On a 30 year annualization, the long-waited Needham Centre would be ~$1.6M per year.
Or: North End Halifax is completely capable of just buying itself nice things without anyone else being involved.
On a 30 year annualization, the long-waited Needham Centre would be ~$1.6M per year.
Or: North End Halifax is completely capable of just buying itself nice things without anyone else being involved.
"The project was included in the 2024/25 Capital Budget and is proposed for design work in 2026/27 and completion in 2029/30 at an estimated cost of $46.8M."
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November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
According to the city's model, D8 generates something like a $45m surplus annually.
On a 30 year annualization, the long-waited Needham Centre would be ~$1.6M per year.
Or: North End Halifax is completely capable of just buying itself nice things without anyone else being involved.
On a 30 year annualization, the long-waited Needham Centre would be ~$1.6M per year.
Or: North End Halifax is completely capable of just buying itself nice things without anyone else being involved.
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Morris Katz rapidly developing the problem where anybody outside of politics knows who the fuck he is.
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Morris Katz rapidly developing the problem where anybody outside of politics knows who the fuck he is.
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the clearest divide between “environmentalism as a thesis” and “environmentalism as aesthetics” is “would you let utilities develop wild land to build a high capacity transmission line to a solar farm?”
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
the clearest divide between “environmentalism as a thesis” and “environmentalism as aesthetics” is “would you let utilities develop wild land to build a high capacity transmission line to a solar farm?”
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A very unwelcome effect of Mamdani's visit to the White House is the sudden reversion of Trump back into an 'entertainment' figure, shoving Epstein, extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean, and threats to execute members of Congress off the media table in favor of 'goofy uncle' photo ops
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A very unwelcome effect of Mamdani's visit to the White House is the sudden reversion of Trump back into an 'entertainment' figure, shoving Epstein, extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean, and threats to execute members of Congress off the media table in favor of 'goofy uncle' photo ops
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this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
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"Minister [of Armed Forces and Veterans in France] backs army chief over warning France must accept 'loss of our children'" (euronews)
www.euronews.com/2025/11/21/a...
www.euronews.com/2025/11/21/a...
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"Minister [of Armed Forces and Veterans in France] backs army chief over warning France must accept 'loss of our children'" (euronews)
www.euronews.com/2025/11/21/a...
www.euronews.com/2025/11/21/a...
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““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor
Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it's a "great idea."
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
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Toronto deliberately killed apartment construction in the early 1970s, after a generation-long building boom.
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Charting number of rental units in apartment buildings in Toronto by year of construction
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Toronto deliberately killed apartment construction in the early 1970s, after a generation-long building boom.
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
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Just spamming this to council during budget season is probably a productive activity, since its something they genuinely don't understand.
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Just spamming this to council during budget season is probably a productive activity, since its something they genuinely don't understand.
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You will be surprised to learn that pretending this municipal financing model is sustainable to make voters happy has led us to a Bad Place.
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
You will be surprised to learn that pretending this municipal financing model is sustainable to make voters happy has led us to a Bad Place.
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yeah but if you think Marjorie Taylor Greene is representative of anything but fascism you're a fucking tool who should donate your organs to someone worthy of them
I can’t quite put it into words, but Trump praising Mamdani on the same day that MTG resigns in opposition to “big Tech, big Pharma, the war complex and big donors” feels like a harbinger of realignment.
There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
yeah but if you think Marjorie Taylor Greene is representative of anything but fascism you're a fucking tool who should donate your organs to someone worthy of them
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Tweedledee, Tweedledum, and Tweedle "this implicitly means we should not have fought the Nazis"
November 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Tweedledee, Tweedledum, and Tweedle "this implicitly means we should not have fought the Nazis"
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Liberals' budget implementation bill paves the way for expropriation of properties for high-speed rail line
The bill would declare the line for the general advantage of Canada, ensuring federal jurisdiction over the project and limiting provincial oversight.
www.ipolitics.ca
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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the funniest part about the worst post-left ppl you know jizzing their pants about a Trump-Mamdani "populist affordability coalition" is that Zohran is pretty popular and sincere in his goals, while Trump is despised by a majority of the country (and much of that is people mad about high prices)
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
the funniest part about the worst post-left ppl you know jizzing their pants about a Trump-Mamdani "populist affordability coalition" is that Zohran is pretty popular and sincere in his goals, while Trump is despised by a majority of the country (and much of that is people mad about high prices)
wtf is wrong with these freaks
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
wtf is wrong with these freaks
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just bleak, man
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
just bleak, man
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said everyone wants peace in Ukraine, especially Ukrainians, but pressuring Kyiv to appease Putin is not peace and only fuels Russian aggression. He called it repulsive that an American president is the one pushing this.
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said everyone wants peace in Ukraine, especially Ukrainians, but pressuring Kyiv to appease Putin is not peace and only fuels Russian aggression. He called it repulsive that an American president is the one pushing this.
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why is it that people whose entire identity is defined by their ideology are so resolutely opposed to the idea that ideas matter
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
why is it that people whose entire identity is defined by their ideology are so resolutely opposed to the idea that ideas matter
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For a certain segment of the far right this is going to be like Mussolini’s peace pact with the socialists
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
For a certain segment of the far right this is going to be like Mussolini’s peace pact with the socialists
Yes give me the crashouts lol
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Yes give me the crashouts lol