J. Connors
@jerconnors.bsky.social
Western Canadian well versed in city building & social movements. Mostly keeping tabs on the goings-on on a better platform.
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May 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.
And all your neighbours want to punch you and your friends in the face for doing it and disrupting the neighbourhood AGAIN.
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
And all your neighbours want to punch you and your friends in the face for doing it and disrupting the neighbourhood AGAIN.
Countries like Cuba, under sanction from the US, had to develop systems of maintaining and self-modifying old equipment to get by. Congrats America, guess you thought that approach worked so well you're now doing it to yourselves 👏.
how is everyone going to survive high school and college when there is no entry level laptop?
April 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Countries like Cuba, under sanction from the US, had to develop systems of maintaining and self-modifying old equipment to get by. Congrats America, guess you thought that approach worked so well you're now doing it to yourselves 👏.
Unintentionally stimulating Canadian and Mexican border cities by using them as pass-throughs to avoid and minimize these outrages tarriff fees will be the funniest outcome of this whole ridiculous situation.
The White House confirms that 104% tariffs on China have gone into effect and will start being collected tomorrow.
Think about how many things you buy which are manufactured in and shipped from China.
And think about how many things you buy which have Chinese made components/ingredients.
Think about how many things you buy which are manufactured in and shipped from China.
And think about how many things you buy which have Chinese made components/ingredients.
April 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Unintentionally stimulating Canadian and Mexican border cities by using them as pass-throughs to avoid and minimize these outrages tarriff fees will be the funniest outcome of this whole ridiculous situation.
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james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
Animaniacs SING-ALONG 🎤 | Yakko’s World | WB Kids
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April 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Moreover, the one resource we desperately need to defy an authoritarian regime is TIME. And even if we can’t always stop them, we can stall for time. We can force them to drag it out. We can make them burn their precious resources on having to slow down and reset repeatedly. Time is a win.
Authoritarians depend on you obeying in advance and not resisting. Every act of disruption weakens them and slows down their plan. It's a crack. The cracks add up. This is why what Cory Booker is doing is important compared to the weak complicity of Schumer and others.
April 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Moreover, the one resource we desperately need to defy an authoritarian regime is TIME. And even if we can’t always stop them, we can stall for time. We can force them to drag it out. We can make them burn their precious resources on having to slow down and reset repeatedly. Time is a win.
America's self immolating delusion that blanketly killing off, deporting, and firing swaths of people will somehow lead to increased purchasing power and record corporate gains is equal parts fascinating in its idiocy and unbearably morbid to an outside observer.
NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
America's self immolating delusion that blanketly killing off, deporting, and firing swaths of people will somehow lead to increased purchasing power and record corporate gains is equal parts fascinating in its idiocy and unbearably morbid to an outside observer.
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SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Anyone make a 4-year cut of the Papers, Please! theme yet?
March 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Anyone make a 4-year cut of the Papers, Please! theme yet?
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FWIW for transportation reform advocates who think this stuff isn't connected to your issues (which it absolutely is), this woman was a doctoral student in urban planning.
How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
FWIW for transportation reform advocates who think this stuff isn't connected to your issues (which it absolutely is), this woman was a doctoral student in urban planning.
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“But it won’t be affordable,” neighbours in $2M homes complain about a proposed apartment building
If it TRULY was used ever to prevent gentrification, we would have laws preventing mansions, not apartments. We would have city fees that charged more for mansion-building, not less. We would have bylaws making social and supporting housing BY RIGHT.
That is not what they do. They do the opposite.
That is not what they do. They do the opposite.
March 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“But it won’t be affordable,” neighbours in $2M homes complain about a proposed apartment building
Hey Maine, Vermont, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, Oregon.... the line is artificial, come on up.
We have healthcare, gun control, rank higher on nearly every metric, and our judicial system is built to provide actual checks and balances.
We have healthcare, gun control, rank higher on nearly every metric, and our judicial system is built to provide actual checks and balances.
Trump: "To be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. We don't need anything they have. As a state it would be one of the great states. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it."
March 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Hey Maine, Vermont, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, Oregon.... the line is artificial, come on up.
We have healthcare, gun control, rank higher on nearly every metric, and our judicial system is built to provide actual checks and balances.
We have healthcare, gun control, rank higher on nearly every metric, and our judicial system is built to provide actual checks and balances.
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rad. the city of edmonton's alternative solution path for point access blocks is now live.
check out the design guide (scroll down the page a little)
family sized homes. units w/ decent light and ventilation
incredible effort initiated by @michaeljanz.bsky.social
www.edmonton.ca/business_eco...
check out the design guide (scroll down the page a little)
family sized homes. units w/ decent light and ventilation
incredible effort initiated by @michaeljanz.bsky.social
www.edmonton.ca/business_eco...
March 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
rad. the city of edmonton's alternative solution path for point access blocks is now live.
check out the design guide (scroll down the page a little)
family sized homes. units w/ decent light and ventilation
incredible effort initiated by @michaeljanz.bsky.social
www.edmonton.ca/business_eco...
check out the design guide (scroll down the page a little)
family sized homes. units w/ decent light and ventilation
incredible effort initiated by @michaeljanz.bsky.social
www.edmonton.ca/business_eco...
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Canada needs to take an economic wartime footing: find more trading partners, do what it takes to build infrastructure that allows us to be independent of the yanks, everything
March 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Canada needs to take an economic wartime footing: find more trading partners, do what it takes to build infrastructure that allows us to be independent of the yanks, everything
....which Russia stole wholesale from America, using secret [ie totally made up] WMD labs to justify military action during the war in Iraq.
We know where this goes, and we cannot take it lightly.
We know where this goes, and we cannot take it lightly.
America apparently now doing the Russia-style "secret [ie totally made up] chemical labs in your country justifies the cross-border menacing we were already doing" move.
Kevin Hassett suggests Canadian authorities are covering up major fentanyl operations: "I can tell you that in the situation room I've seen photographs of fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone. Canada's got a big drug problem."
March 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
....which Russia stole wholesale from America, using secret [ie totally made up] WMD labs to justify military action during the war in Iraq.
We know where this goes, and we cannot take it lightly.
We know where this goes, and we cannot take it lightly.
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An erratic and unstable person moves in next door and starts making threats against you and others on the block.
Can you say for sure they’ll do something? No.
Do you take it seriously? Hell yes.
Can you say for sure they’ll do something? No.
Do you take it seriously? Hell yes.
I don’t know if Trump would be able to successfully order an invasion of Canada today, but it’s clear that his regime is seriously considering it. The world needs to see the situation as deadly serious for Canada and Canadians
March 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
An erratic and unstable person moves in next door and starts making threats against you and others on the block.
Can you say for sure they’ll do something? No.
Do you take it seriously? Hell yes.
Can you say for sure they’ll do something? No.
Do you take it seriously? Hell yes.
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I wonder if America realizes that trust in America won't be rebuilt just by voting for a president with a different approach, if the threat of the current kind of president being elected is always looming.
March 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I wonder if America realizes that trust in America won't be rebuilt just by voting for a president with a different approach, if the threat of the current kind of president being elected is always looming.
Great op-ed, and also an opportunity to remind - from their mil. $ house, partner to Better Infill's main spokesperson fought for a 1/3 reduction of units in compassion house for cancer patients & family to 'protect' homeowner across the street. Better for whom? edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n....
February 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Great op-ed, and also an opportunity to remind - from their mil. $ house, partner to Better Infill's main spokesperson fought for a 1/3 reduction of units in compassion house for cancer patients & family to 'protect' homeowner across the street. Better for whom? edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n....
Need to expand the market for lumber? Build the houses Canada's been kneecapping itself over.
Need to expand the market for Canadian steel and metals? Build the high-speed rail system.
Multiple solutions are at our fingertips if we just muster the basic courage to do them.
Need to expand the market for Canadian steel and metals? Build the high-speed rail system.
Multiple solutions are at our fingertips if we just muster the basic courage to do them.
A sign in the crowd last night said, “It’s time to build.”
I couldn’t agree more.
I couldn’t agree more.
February 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Need to expand the market for lumber? Build the houses Canada's been kneecapping itself over.
Need to expand the market for Canadian steel and metals? Build the high-speed rail system.
Multiple solutions are at our fingertips if we just muster the basic courage to do them.
Need to expand the market for Canadian steel and metals? Build the high-speed rail system.
Multiple solutions are at our fingertips if we just muster the basic courage to do them.
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Insisting other entities call it “Gulf of America” isn’t based on any real principled desire for it to be called that; rather, it’s a convenient shibboleth for an authoritarian government to quickly identify who will and who will not obey, even for relatively trivial matters.
"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...
February 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Insisting other entities call it “Gulf of America” isn’t based on any real principled desire for it to be called that; rather, it’s a convenient shibboleth for an authoritarian government to quickly identify who will and who will not obey, even for relatively trivial matters.