João Pedro Parga
@joaoparga.bsky.social
Doutorando / PhD candidate in Human Geography at the University of Toronto • Assistente de Pesquisa / Research Assistant at Mobilizing Justice
Belo Horizonte, Brasil 🇧🇷 in Toronto 🇨🇦
Belo Horizonte, Brasil 🇧🇷 in Toronto 🇨🇦
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Ridership on Paris region transit systems is now generally at or higher than pre-pandemic levels. Bike use is much higher than pre-pandemic.
At the same time, car traffic in Paris and on its ring highway is substantially lower than it was pre-pandemic. www.institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-...
At the same time, car traffic in Paris and on its ring highway is substantially lower than it was pre-pandemic. www.institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-...
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Ridership on Paris region transit systems is now generally at or higher than pre-pandemic levels. Bike use is much higher than pre-pandemic.
At the same time, car traffic in Paris and on its ring highway is substantially lower than it was pre-pandemic. www.institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-...
At the same time, car traffic in Paris and on its ring highway is substantially lower than it was pre-pandemic. www.institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-...
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Let's also not forget that Epstein pen pal Larry Summers is also on OpenAI's board of directors
Elizabeth Warren called on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after he featured prominently in the latest Jeffrey Epstein emails
Elizabeth Warren Calls For Harvard To Cut Ties With Larry Summers
The former Harvard president "cannot be trusted" with students, she warned.
www.huffpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Let's also not forget that Epstein pen pal Larry Summers is also on OpenAI's board of directors
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There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
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Wild. We always say on the podcast that owning a car is required for effective full enfranchisement in most places of the USA because we are such a car-dependent society, but this is...next level. They say it like it's disqualifying for office.
WaPo editorial board launches a disgusting car-brained attack on Seattle's new mayor Katie Wilson.
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Wild. We always say on the podcast that owning a car is required for effective full enfranchisement in most places of the USA because we are such a car-dependent society, but this is...next level. They say it like it's disqualifying for office.
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collective memory is something you have to work at constantly, and the persistent drumbeat of land acknowledgements is an extremely valuable way to produce widespread consciousness of basic material fact of dispossession and genocide
my wokest opinion is that land acknowledgements are fine. people knowing a little bit about the land you're on, even if one isn't invested in a land back project, is not particularly worse than the status quo, even if one comes by this info in a way that is somewhat cringe and forced
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
collective memory is something you have to work at constantly, and the persistent drumbeat of land acknowledgements is an extremely valuable way to produce widespread consciousness of basic material fact of dispossession and genocide
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One of the most subtly insane aspects of the unrelenting car dependency we’ve deliberately built across North America is the incredible reluctance we have to remove the driving privilege, even from those who clearly are a danger to themselves & others, because “people have to drive.” #CarDependency
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
One of the most subtly insane aspects of the unrelenting car dependency we’ve deliberately built across North America is the incredible reluctance we have to remove the driving privilege, even from those who clearly are a danger to themselves & others, because “people have to drive.” #CarDependency
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Note active voice in thread when victim "upends" Gaetz career but passive voice in image when discussing her exploitation.
"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Note active voice in thread when victim "upends" Gaetz career but passive voice in image when discussing her exploitation.
"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
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it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Note the class dynamics on display in both this and the Epstein story--these were wealthy men preying on girls made all the more vulnerable by their poverty
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Note the class dynamics on display in both this and the Epstein story--these were wealthy men preying on girls made all the more vulnerable by their poverty
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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
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Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.
![From: Steve Bannon I
Sent: 4/23/2019 4:06:36 PM
To: Michael Wolff _________________________________1
CC: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Announcing the 2019 Hillman Prize winners
Importance: High
Fix always in
On Apr 23, 2019, at 9:06 AM, Michael Wolff <
> wrote:
Look at the judges on this thing: the right-thinking establishment to a tee (to a Ta-Nihisi).
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 2:57 PM Steve Bannon < wrote:
Pile on](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreicowtp72c5t277drs3dolmxwnxoa5fks2u4znpvsyoq4kbtt22i4i@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
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Imprensa: projeto de lei que escraviza mulheres em 2 dias da semana derruba popularidade de Lula e o coloca empatado com Hitler Mussolinni que já é o favorito na corrida presidencial.
Todo projeto de lei hoje é assim
• Proposta do governo: mulheres devem receber igual a homens
• Versão da direita: mulheres devem ser escravizadas
• Hugo Motta: "precisamos chegar a um entendimento"
• Imprensa: "Em derrota do governo"
• Texto final: mulheres serão escravizadas só 2 dias por semana
• Proposta do governo: mulheres devem receber igual a homens
• Versão da direita: mulheres devem ser escravizadas
• Hugo Motta: "precisamos chegar a um entendimento"
• Imprensa: "Em derrota do governo"
• Texto final: mulheres serão escravizadas só 2 dias por semana
🚨 AGORA | Motta adia votação do PL Antifacção depois de Guilherme Derrite (PP-SP) ter desfigurado o texto do Governo Federal para encoleirar a PF e retirar da Justiça Federal o poder sobre portos e aeroportos
O PL está sem prazo para votação, mas pode voltar à pauta "amanhã ou quinta", afirma Motta
O PL está sem prazo para votação, mas pode voltar à pauta "amanhã ou quinta", afirma Motta
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Imprensa: projeto de lei que escraviza mulheres em 2 dias da semana derruba popularidade de Lula e o coloca empatado com Hitler Mussolinni que já é o favorito na corrida presidencial.
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"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter."
Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter."
Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
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🚨 Só nos últimos meses, a direita brasileira propôs:
👉🏽 Uma PEC pra proibir que políticos criminosos sejam presos.
👉🏽 Um PDL pra condenar meninas a terem filhos de estupradores.
👉🏽 Um PL pra proibir a Polícia Federal de investigar o crime organizado e governadores corruptos. +👇🏽
👉🏽 Uma PEC pra proibir que políticos criminosos sejam presos.
👉🏽 Um PDL pra condenar meninas a terem filhos de estupradores.
👉🏽 Um PL pra proibir a Polícia Federal de investigar o crime organizado e governadores corruptos. +👇🏽
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🚨 Só nos últimos meses, a direita brasileira propôs:
👉🏽 Uma PEC pra proibir que políticos criminosos sejam presos.
👉🏽 Um PDL pra condenar meninas a terem filhos de estupradores.
👉🏽 Um PL pra proibir a Polícia Federal de investigar o crime organizado e governadores corruptos. +👇🏽
👉🏽 Uma PEC pra proibir que políticos criminosos sejam presos.
👉🏽 Um PDL pra condenar meninas a terem filhos de estupradores.
👉🏽 Um PL pra proibir a Polícia Federal de investigar o crime organizado e governadores corruptos. +👇🏽
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O banco que não tem nenhuma agência física reclamando de home office… Pq não abre uma agência então? Não acredita no próprio conceito?
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
O banco que não tem nenhuma agência física reclamando de home office… Pq não abre uma agência então? Não acredita no próprio conceito?
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🚨 “PRESENTE DE NATAL ÀS FACÇÕES”
Engessar e esvaziar a PF, deixando-a submissa aos Governadores, e retirar portos e aeroportos da jurisdição da Justiça Federal
Essa é a ideia de Guilherme Derrite, ex-Secretário de Segurança de SP e deputado federal pelo Progressistas, para destruir o PL Antifacção
Engessar e esvaziar a PF, deixando-a submissa aos Governadores, e retirar portos e aeroportos da jurisdição da Justiça Federal
Essa é a ideia de Guilherme Derrite, ex-Secretário de Segurança de SP e deputado federal pelo Progressistas, para destruir o PL Antifacção
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
🚨 “PRESENTE DE NATAL ÀS FACÇÕES”
Engessar e esvaziar a PF, deixando-a submissa aos Governadores, e retirar portos e aeroportos da jurisdição da Justiça Federal
Essa é a ideia de Guilherme Derrite, ex-Secretário de Segurança de SP e deputado federal pelo Progressistas, para destruir o PL Antifacção
Engessar e esvaziar a PF, deixando-a submissa aos Governadores, e retirar portos e aeroportos da jurisdição da Justiça Federal
Essa é a ideia de Guilherme Derrite, ex-Secretário de Segurança de SP e deputado federal pelo Progressistas, para destruir o PL Antifacção
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
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i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
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E, pros grandes "analistas" que dizem que, pra esquerda vencer, ela precisa deixar de ser esquerda:
Mamdani não apenas venceu dizendo tudo isso, como venceu dizendo que tudo isso vai ser financiado taxando as grandes fortunas. +👇🏽
Mamdani não apenas venceu dizendo tudo isso, como venceu dizendo que tudo isso vai ser financiado taxando as grandes fortunas. +👇🏽
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
E, pros grandes "analistas" que dizem que, pra esquerda vencer, ela precisa deixar de ser esquerda:
Mamdani não apenas venceu dizendo tudo isso, como venceu dizendo que tudo isso vai ser financiado taxando as grandes fortunas. +👇🏽
Mamdani não apenas venceu dizendo tudo isso, como venceu dizendo que tudo isso vai ser financiado taxando as grandes fortunas. +👇🏽
1 million times this. Which, of course, will never happen.
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
1 million times this. Which, of course, will never happen.