Jonathan McLeod
@jonathanmcleod.bsky.social
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Basically the logic around bike lane ripping out too.
August 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Basically the logic around bike lane ripping out too.
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It's interesting (interesting) in Canada that Doug Ford has positioned himself as the anti-Trump crusader (soft CNN interviews) yet his behaviour at home his Trumpy. Railing against courts, interfering in local politics & democracy. At some point it has to (it has to) all come home to roost.
"Conservative state leaders appear to be nearly unanimous in their view that big cities should be prevented from governing themselves. In particular, they are committed to denying local governments the freedom to ask their own voters to raise their own taxes" -- humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...
The Fall of Philadelphia — Human Transit
The Pennsylvania State Senate has decided that the transit system of America’s fifth largest city should be substantially destroyed. Similar dramas are playing out in Illinois, Oregon, and Rhode Isla...
humantransit.org
August 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It's interesting (interesting) in Canada that Doug Ford has positioned himself as the anti-Trump crusader (soft CNN interviews) yet his behaviour at home his Trumpy. Railing against courts, interfering in local politics & democracy. At some point it has to (it has to) all come home to roost.
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Just watched a few highly intoxicated, young, white kids carry open White Claw containers past law enforcement and onto the DC metro.
(It’s never been about public order or the rule of law.)
(It’s never been about public order or the rule of law.)
August 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Just watched a few highly intoxicated, young, white kids carry open White Claw containers past law enforcement and onto the DC metro.
(It’s never been about public order or the rule of law.)
(It’s never been about public order or the rule of law.)
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I keep taking things from stores, just small things, reasonable, and they keep arresting me for shop lifting.
Cars make even smart people stupid.
Cars make even smart people stupid.
We fail to respect or enforce traffic laws to the point that people don’t actually perceive ignoring them to be breaking the rules. It’s just normal driving.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
August 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I keep taking things from stores, just small things, reasonable, and they keep arresting me for shop lifting.
Cars make even smart people stupid.
Cars make even smart people stupid.
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It's fitting that "kitchen table issues" is a reference to sitting down at your kitchen table to pay your snail-mail bills and balance your checkbook on physical paper, something which has been obsolete for decades.
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
August 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It's fitting that "kitchen table issues" is a reference to sitting down at your kitchen table to pay your snail-mail bills and balance your checkbook on physical paper, something which has been obsolete for decades.
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“The cyclist was wearing a helmet, according to paramedics.” But no comment about the driver ignoring a crossing for cyclists and pedestrians in a speed exit. @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“The cyclist was wearing a helmet, according to paramedics.” But no comment about the driver ignoring a crossing for cyclists and pedestrians in a speed exit. @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social
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Unfortunately on the way back, it looks like a pedestrian or cyclist was hit by a driver of a car at Beechwood and Crighton. Police closed the road southbound, the entrance to the bike path and sidewalk forcing more people into traffic.
Slip lanes strike again.
Slip lanes strike again.
August 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Unfortunately on the way back, it looks like a pedestrian or cyclist was hit by a driver of a car at Beechwood and Crighton. Police closed the road southbound, the entrance to the bike path and sidewalk forcing more people into traffic.
Slip lanes strike again.
Slip lanes strike again.
St. Andrew’s is at the #CapitalPride festival this weekend. Come on by!
We’re here all day at Bank and Lisgar.
I’ll be here from noon to 2:00 each day. #GodsLoveIsForEveryone
We’re here all day at Bank and Lisgar.
I’ll be here from noon to 2:00 each day. #GodsLoveIsForEveryone
August 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
St. Andrew’s is at the #CapitalPride festival this weekend. Come on by!
We’re here all day at Bank and Lisgar.
I’ll be here from noon to 2:00 each day. #GodsLoveIsForEveryone
We’re here all day at Bank and Lisgar.
I’ll be here from noon to 2:00 each day. #GodsLoveIsForEveryone
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We called this a socialist bailout when Obama stake in the auto companies in exchange for rescue money amidst an actual economic crisis.
But there is no crisis.
There are no bailout funds.
This is just a plain autocratic takeover because Trump felt like the govt should have Intel.
Smile!
But there is no crisis.
There are no bailout funds.
This is just a plain autocratic takeover because Trump felt like the govt should have Intel.
Smile!
August 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We called this a socialist bailout when Obama stake in the auto companies in exchange for rescue money amidst an actual economic crisis.
But there is no crisis.
There are no bailout funds.
This is just a plain autocratic takeover because Trump felt like the govt should have Intel.
Smile!
But there is no crisis.
There are no bailout funds.
This is just a plain autocratic takeover because Trump felt like the govt should have Intel.
Smile!
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I’m obviously not a fan of Ottawa’s 2026 budget direction.
I just wish we had the honesty to tell people what this budget will really mean.
Transit will get worse, traffic will take longer, life will get more unaffordable for those who can least afford it.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I just wish we had the honesty to tell people what this budget will really mean.
Transit will get worse, traffic will take longer, life will get more unaffordable for those who can least afford it.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Mayor asks council to limit next year's tax increase to 3.75% | CBC News
Policing and transit remain critical factors that will determine the final balance as the months-long municipal budget process gets underway.
www.cbc.ca
August 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I’m obviously not a fan of Ottawa’s 2026 budget direction.
I just wish we had the honesty to tell people what this budget will really mean.
Transit will get worse, traffic will take longer, life will get more unaffordable for those who can least afford it.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I just wish we had the honesty to tell people what this budget will really mean.
Transit will get worse, traffic will take longer, life will get more unaffordable for those who can least afford it.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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One of the reasons I feel so hopeless is that everyone invents a GOP that doesn't do the unpopular stuff that it is doing and a Dem party that does do unpopular stuff that it isn't, and I just don't know a way out
I actually agree that Democrats should refrain from using most of these. And they already do! When was the last time a Senator said 'heteronormative'?
The bigger problem is that orgs like Third Way are reinforcing this false, right-wing narrative. Dems can't stop doing something they're not doing!
The bigger problem is that orgs like Third Way are reinforcing this false, right-wing narrative. Dems can't stop doing something they're not doing!
Scoop: Third Way is circulating a memo, shared first with @playbookdc, featuring a new blacklist of words Dems shouldn’t use.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
August 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
One of the reasons I feel so hopeless is that everyone invents a GOP that doesn't do the unpopular stuff that it is doing and a Dem party that does do unpopular stuff that it isn't, and I just don't know a way out
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it’s not that we don’t know how to solve a lot of these problems, it’s that we don’t want to
BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.
August 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
it’s not that we don’t know how to solve a lot of these problems, it’s that we don’t want to
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oh James Dobson is about to get a Big Surprise.
August 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
oh James Dobson is about to get a Big Surprise.
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James Dobson dedicated his life to evil and the world is worse because he made it so on purpose. defector.com/james-dobson...
James Dobson Is Dead, Was A Monster | Defector
James Dobson was a nasty dude. He liked to beat children and dogs with a belt and to rain misery and punishment on the vulnerable; we know all of this about him because he said as much in public, repe...
defector.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
James Dobson dedicated his life to evil and the world is worse because he made it so on purpose. defector.com/james-dobson...
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3 hours in downtown Toronto a bungeecored beach umbrella will remain intact (not a scientific study but I think it may surprise some conservatives who are terrified of the city).
August 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
3 hours in downtown Toronto a bungeecored beach umbrella will remain intact (not a scientific study but I think it may surprise some conservatives who are terrified of the city).
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Stoked to be a part of Queer Indie Authors at T's Pub in Ottawa.
Come on out!
Featuring fab host Eden Moore &
@ajdolman.bsky.social
@battleaxepress.bsky.social
@ceeeejohnson.bsky.social
Stevie Mikayne
@jamestheballadeer.bsky.social
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Come on out!
Featuring fab host Eden Moore &
@ajdolman.bsky.social
@battleaxepress.bsky.social
@ceeeejohnson.bsky.social
Stevie Mikayne
@jamestheballadeer.bsky.social
1/2
August 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Stoked to be a part of Queer Indie Authors at T's Pub in Ottawa.
Come on out!
Featuring fab host Eden Moore &
@ajdolman.bsky.social
@battleaxepress.bsky.social
@ceeeejohnson.bsky.social
Stevie Mikayne
@jamestheballadeer.bsky.social
1/2
Come on out!
Featuring fab host Eden Moore &
@ajdolman.bsky.social
@battleaxepress.bsky.social
@ceeeejohnson.bsky.social
Stevie Mikayne
@jamestheballadeer.bsky.social
1/2
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Spoke to the ABC for this story on Bendigo writers festival & code of conduct overreach. Festivals should not be policing authors’ speech. @asauthors.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Writers festivals on notice after attempt to 'restrict speech' prompts exodus
A Victorian writers festival's code of conduct has set a "dangerous precedent", one author says, after more than 50 writers and moderators withdrew from the event.
www.abc.net.au
August 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Spoke to the ABC for this story on Bendigo writers festival & code of conduct overreach. Festivals should not be policing authors’ speech. @asauthors.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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As I've been saying for well over a decade:
I am willing to debate whether or not LeBreton is the best location for a new arena BUT I firmly disagree that a new arena is the best option for LeBreton.
I am willing to debate whether or not LeBreton is the best location for a new arena BUT I firmly disagree that a new arena is the best option for LeBreton.
August 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
As I've been saying for well over a decade:
I am willing to debate whether or not LeBreton is the best location for a new arena BUT I firmly disagree that a new arena is the best option for LeBreton.
I am willing to debate whether or not LeBreton is the best location for a new arena BUT I firmly disagree that a new arena is the best option for LeBreton.
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The Humanities and Art Disciplines
August 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Humanities and Art Disciplines
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I have spent a lot of time asking friends with more expertise why the fuck Israel keeps so blatantly going “yup we’re doing war crimes look look at the war crimes here we have video footage of our war crimes!!!” (while also being super mad when accused of war crimes) The answers I have received:
Video released by Israeli occupation forces shows the moment Israeli strikes targeted the Al-Awda and Taybeh schools in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, where displaced Palestinians had been taking shelter.
August 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I have spent a lot of time asking friends with more expertise why the fuck Israel keeps so blatantly going “yup we’re doing war crimes look look at the war crimes here we have video footage of our war crimes!!!” (while also being super mad when accused of war crimes) The answers I have received:
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Stop. Wrapping. Transit!!
August 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Stop. Wrapping. Transit!!
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The problem isn't that transphobic parents are being ignored, it's that they're *lying about basic facts.* This is the dynamic on nearly every issue of public interest, from guns to climate change to economics.
"The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.
"The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.
August 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The problem isn't that transphobic parents are being ignored, it's that they're *lying about basic facts.* This is the dynamic on nearly every issue of public interest, from guns to climate change to economics.
"The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.
"The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.