Ben Salance
@salance.bsky.social
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pascal siakam: total annihilation mode activated
June 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
pascal siakam: total annihilation mode activated
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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”
April 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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”
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BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands.
It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.
It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.
April 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands.
It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.
It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.
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Nikola Jokic is the smartest basketball player I’ve ever seen, so I spent most of this season working on a story that tries to explain every reason why:
www.theringer.com/2025/04/24/n...
www.theringer.com/2025/04/24/n...
The Genius of Jokic
To appreciate the Denver Nuggets’ generational star, you have to appreciate what truly separates him: his brain. “He’s probably the smartest player that’s ever played,” says Christian Braun.
www.theringer.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Nikola Jokic is the smartest basketball player I’ve ever seen, so I spent most of this season working on a story that tries to explain every reason why:
www.theringer.com/2025/04/24/n...
www.theringer.com/2025/04/24/n...
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Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
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Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
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Ontarians. I’m BEGGING YOU. Please, for the love of all that is good. PLEASE, VOTE.
February 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Ontarians. I’m BEGGING YOU. Please, for the love of all that is good. PLEASE, VOTE.
Just appalling data.
“Between 2019 and 2023, we found a 33% increase in maternal mortality rates in Texas, compared with a decrease of 7.5% nationally during the same time.”
“Between 2019 and 2023, we found a 33% increase in maternal mortality rates in Texas, compared with a decrease of 7.5% nationally during the same time.”
How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
February 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Just appalling data.
“Between 2019 and 2023, we found a 33% increase in maternal mortality rates in Texas, compared with a decrease of 7.5% nationally during the same time.”
“Between 2019 and 2023, we found a 33% increase in maternal mortality rates in Texas, compared with a decrease of 7.5% nationally during the same time.”
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#HousingNow + #BikeTO It just makes sense
"If bike lanes disappear, so do the economic advantages that come with them, and so do the advantages that have made high-density development projects more viable."
via Naama Blonder
storeys.com/toronto-bike...
"If bike lanes disappear, so do the economic advantages that come with them, and so do the advantages that have made high-density development projects more viable."
via Naama Blonder
storeys.com/toronto-bike...
Developers Benefited from Bike Lanes, Now They Should Fight To Keep Them
If bike lanes disappear, so do the economic advantages that come with them, and so do the advantages that have made high-density development projects more viable.
storeys.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
#HousingNow + #BikeTO It just makes sense
"If bike lanes disappear, so do the economic advantages that come with them, and so do the advantages that have made high-density development projects more viable."
via Naama Blonder
storeys.com/toronto-bike...
"If bike lanes disappear, so do the economic advantages that come with them, and so do the advantages that have made high-density development projects more viable."
via Naama Blonder
storeys.com/toronto-bike...
Let’s gooo
Canada has (finally) announced plans for a high-speed rail project between Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto. As I wrote this Fall, it's a critically-important project: And it's not too late to do it right. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
This mega-project could be Canada’s next great nation-building exercise
High-speed rail has been talked about for decades. Is it finally going to come Ontario and Quebec?
www.thestar.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Let’s gooo
Lol these were actually the only options with the assets we have
Calvin Booth on the deadline:
"I think the best way to describe it is we either had to go big or do nothing."
"I think the best way to describe it is we either had to go big or do nothing."
February 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Lol these were actually the only options with the assets we have
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today was fun because the nuggets didn't have enough assets to make a move and we get to remember all the transactions that caused them to have no assets.
February 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
today was fun because the nuggets didn't have enough assets to make a move and we get to remember all the transactions that caused them to have no assets.
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FROM SHAMS:
BREAKING: The Miami Heat are finalizing a deal to send Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors for Andrew Wiggins, Dennis Schroder, Kyle Anderson and a protected first-round pick, sources tell ESPN.
BREAKING: The Miami Heat are finalizing a deal to send Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors for Andrew Wiggins, Dennis Schroder, Kyle Anderson and a protected first-round pick, sources tell ESPN.
February 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
FROM SHAMS:
BREAKING: The Miami Heat are finalizing a deal to send Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors for Andrew Wiggins, Dennis Schroder, Kyle Anderson and a protected first-round pick, sources tell ESPN.
BREAKING: The Miami Heat are finalizing a deal to send Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors for Andrew Wiggins, Dennis Schroder, Kyle Anderson and a protected first-round pick, sources tell ESPN.
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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
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OG makes one basket and it already triggered some ptsd from the last time we played them
January 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
OG makes one basket and it already triggered some ptsd from the last time we played them
OG makes one basket and it already triggered some ptsd from the last time we played them
January 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
OG makes one basket and it already triggered some ptsd from the last time we played them
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Hello, friends of #NBASky (and all the recent new arrivals). Quick 🧵.
It’s been really cool/gratifying to see so many NBA fans/media gather here. I feel like we’ve reached critical mass, to the point where I barely check the other site anymore, and hardly miss it. (cont.)
It’s been really cool/gratifying to see so many NBA fans/media gather here. I feel like we’ve reached critical mass, to the point where I barely check the other site anymore, and hardly miss it. (cont.)
January 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hello, friends of #NBASky (and all the recent new arrivals). Quick 🧵.
It’s been really cool/gratifying to see so many NBA fans/media gather here. I feel like we’ve reached critical mass, to the point where I barely check the other site anymore, and hardly miss it. (cont.)
It’s been really cool/gratifying to see so many NBA fans/media gather here. I feel like we’ve reached critical mass, to the point where I barely check the other site anymore, and hardly miss it. (cont.)
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Acres of unpicked oranges now roast in the CA sun (at the height of the season in Bakersfield) after ICE in unmarked Chevy Suburbans rounded up & detained immigrants in the area on Tuesday.
Workers stopped showing up to pick, fearful of what's to come.
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
Workers stopped showing up to pick, fearful of what's to come.
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
Trump’s Immigration Plans Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry
Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.
newrepublic.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Acres of unpicked oranges now roast in the CA sun (at the height of the season in Bakersfield) after ICE in unmarked Chevy Suburbans rounded up & detained immigrants in the area on Tuesday.
Workers stopped showing up to pick, fearful of what's to come.
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
Workers stopped showing up to pick, fearful of what's to come.
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
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Promote more NBA content here so more people stay active here. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
January 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Promote more NBA content here so more people stay active here. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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Montreal is leading North America as a model for how to effectively and successfully transform streets into vibrant pedestrian spaces. This 80-page design guide from The City of Montreal is a reminder that it takes more than just opening a street to ensure it's truly a sustainable success for all.
December 16, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Montreal is leading North America as a model for how to effectively and successfully transform streets into vibrant pedestrian spaces. This 80-page design guide from The City of Montreal is a reminder that it takes more than just opening a street to ensure it's truly a sustainable success for all.
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NEW REPORT: Number of people who commute by bicycle in #Toronto is *triple* what Doug Ford's Conservatives claim.
They use outdated data to justify ripping out bike lanes.
Good way to distract from Greenbelt scandal, failure to build transit, highway expansions.
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
They use outdated data to justify ripping out bike lanes.
Good way to distract from Greenbelt scandal, failure to build transit, highway expansions.
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
The number of cyclists commuting in Toronto is triple what Doug Ford claims, latest transportation study reveals
An unreleased $6.2-million study obtained by the Star reveals more Torontonians cycle than Doug Ford has claimed in his crusade to restrict bike lanes.
www.thestar.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:01 PM
NEW REPORT: Number of people who commute by bicycle in #Toronto is *triple* what Doug Ford's Conservatives claim.
They use outdated data to justify ripping out bike lanes.
Good way to distract from Greenbelt scandal, failure to build transit, highway expansions.
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
They use outdated data to justify ripping out bike lanes.
Good way to distract from Greenbelt scandal, failure to build transit, highway expansions.
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...