@loryhall.bsky.social
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Israel's ongoing blockade of aid to Gaza has left roughly a million Palestinian children 'living without the basic necessities they need to survive,' according to UNICEF.
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/wekk9k
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/wekk9k
March 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Israel's ongoing blockade of aid to Gaza has left roughly a million Palestinian children 'living without the basic necessities they need to survive,' according to UNICEF.
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/wekk9k
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/wekk9k
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Israel’s “deliberate” curtailing of Gaza’s access to water amounts to “acts of genocide”, according to Niku Lafarnia, a researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW).
🔴 Read analysis: aje.io/zz6chr
🔴 Read analysis: aje.io/zz6chr
March 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Israel’s “deliberate” curtailing of Gaza’s access to water amounts to “acts of genocide”, according to Niku Lafarnia, a researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW).
🔴 Read analysis: aje.io/zz6chr
🔴 Read analysis: aje.io/zz6chr
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Ford’s government commissioned a study from a third party construction firm and found that removal would lead to increases in collisions and sidewalk riding. It also found that alternate routes were not feasible. It was submitted as a part of the legal challenge from @cycletoronto.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Ford’s government commissioned a study from a third party construction firm and found that removal would lead to increases in collisions and sidewalk riding. It also found that alternate routes were not feasible. It was submitted as a part of the legal challenge from @cycletoronto.bsky.social
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Documents unearthed as part of a legal challenge show the Doug Ford government received expert evidence that planned bike lane removals could worsen traffic congestion in Toronto and lead to injuries.
#BikeTO #ToPoli #OnPoli
#BikeTO #ToPoli #OnPoli
Removing bike lanes will likely worsen gridlock, lead to more collisions: government documents
Engineering report prepared for province estimates Queen's Park's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes could increase collisions by 54 per cent
www.torontotoday.ca
March 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Avant / pendant / après. Travaux terminés Rue des Jardiniers dans le 12eme arrondissement de Paris
March 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Avant / pendant / après. Travaux terminés Rue des Jardiniers dans le 12eme arrondissement de Paris
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On this day in 1985, The Littlest Hobo aired its final episode.
What started in the 1960s continued with a new series in the 1980s that became a Canadian classic.
Let's learn more about the show, and the theme song, that are beloved to this day.
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What started in the 1960s continued with a new series in the 1980s that became a Canadian classic.
Let's learn more about the show, and the theme song, that are beloved to this day.
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March 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
On this day in 1985, The Littlest Hobo aired its final episode.
What started in the 1960s continued with a new series in the 1980s that became a Canadian classic.
Let's learn more about the show, and the theme song, that are beloved to this day.
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What started in the 1960s continued with a new series in the 1980s that became a Canadian classic.
Let's learn more about the show, and the theme song, that are beloved to this day.
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On this day in 1903, Maud Lewis was born in Nova Scotia.
Born with a condition that developed into rheumatoid arthritis, she became one of Canada's most celebrated folk painters.
Let's learn more about this amazing artist!
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Born with a condition that developed into rheumatoid arthritis, she became one of Canada's most celebrated folk painters.
Let's learn more about this amazing artist!
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March 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
On this day in 1903, Maud Lewis was born in Nova Scotia.
Born with a condition that developed into rheumatoid arthritis, she became one of Canada's most celebrated folk painters.
Let's learn more about this amazing artist!
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Born with a condition that developed into rheumatoid arthritis, she became one of Canada's most celebrated folk painters.
Let's learn more about this amazing artist!
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During a time when Canadians are buying Canadian, and right after winning election campaigning on the promise to be Ontario’s voice against Donald Trump - explain to me why it was a smart decision to vacation in Florida? What message does that send to Ontarians?
March 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
During a time when Canadians are buying Canadian, and right after winning election campaigning on the promise to be Ontario’s voice against Donald Trump - explain to me why it was a smart decision to vacation in Florida? What message does that send to Ontarians?
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The Canadian Public Health Association was recently granted intervenor status in @cycletoronto.bsky.social's legal challenge against Doug Ford's anti bike lane Bill 212. The initial injunction hearing is expected in less than two weeks. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero www.cpha.ca/bill-212
CPHA Granted Intervenor Status in Legal Challenge to Ontario’s Bill 212 | Canadian Public Health Association
www.cpha.ca
February 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The Canadian Public Health Association was recently granted intervenor status in @cycletoronto.bsky.social's legal challenge against Doug Ford's anti bike lane Bill 212. The initial injunction hearing is expected in less than two weeks. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero www.cpha.ca/bill-212
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“My vote doesn’t matter.”
In 2022, 56.5% of Ontarians didn’t vote. Doug Ford won a majority because 18% of Ontarians voted PC.
“I don’t know what the issues are.”
Talk to people you trust to find out.
“It doesn’t matter who wins.”
It matters very much to someone you care about.
#OnPoli
In 2022, 56.5% of Ontarians didn’t vote. Doug Ford won a majority because 18% of Ontarians voted PC.
“I don’t know what the issues are.”
Talk to people you trust to find out.
“It doesn’t matter who wins.”
It matters very much to someone you care about.
#OnPoli
February 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
“My vote doesn’t matter.”
In 2022, 56.5% of Ontarians didn’t vote. Doug Ford won a majority because 18% of Ontarians voted PC.
“I don’t know what the issues are.”
Talk to people you trust to find out.
“It doesn’t matter who wins.”
It matters very much to someone you care about.
#OnPoli
In 2022, 56.5% of Ontarians didn’t vote. Doug Ford won a majority because 18% of Ontarians voted PC.
“I don’t know what the issues are.”
Talk to people you trust to find out.
“It doesn’t matter who wins.”
It matters very much to someone you care about.
#OnPoli
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Philly is the latest city to use bus-mounted cameras to automatically ticket cars blocking transit lanes and bus stops.
This is one the best transportation technology innovations of the last decade. Every city should be using it.
This is one the best transportation technology innovations of the last decade. Every city should be using it.
SEPTA, PPA will start using AI cameras in May to ticket illegally parked vehicles in bus lanes and stops
The authority will use the technology on 150 buses and more than 20 trolleys to detect the violations. Citations will be $101.
www.phillyvoice.com
February 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Philly is the latest city to use bus-mounted cameras to automatically ticket cars blocking transit lanes and bus stops.
This is one the best transportation technology innovations of the last decade. Every city should be using it.
This is one the best transportation technology innovations of the last decade. Every city should be using it.
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Doug Ford wants you to forget the Canadian military was called to help LTC seniors who were in crisis during the pandemic. He wants us to forget what the military found. Over 4,500 SENIORS & 13 STAFF DIED, UNDER DOUG’S WATCH.
Doug Ford's incompetence killed thousands of Ontarians. #cdnpoli #onpoli
Doug Ford's incompetence killed thousands of Ontarians. #cdnpoli #onpoli
February 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
February 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
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Some wise words from Kiefer Sutherland. If you missed the advance voting period, you can still go to your local Elections Ontario returning office until Wednesday at 6 PM to cast your vote early. Go to elections.on.ca to find out where. We have four days left to #VoteFordOut! #ONpoli #ONDP #OLP #GPO
Thank you Kiefer Sutherland. Don't vote for Ford.
February 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Some wise words from Kiefer Sutherland. If you missed the advance voting period, you can still go to your local Elections Ontario returning office until Wednesday at 6 PM to cast your vote early. Go to elections.on.ca to find out where. We have four days left to #VoteFordOut! #ONpoli #ONDP #OLP #GPO
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Vote him out.
A thriving public education system is the heartbeat of a compassionate society
#HigherEd
thewalrus.ca/inside-doug-...
A thriving public education system is the heartbeat of a compassionate society
#HigherEd
thewalrus.ca/inside-doug-...
Inside Doug Ford’s Plan to Starve Ontario’s Universities | The Walrus
What happens when a government stops believing in education?
thewalrus.ca
February 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Vote him out.
A thriving public education system is the heartbeat of a compassionate society
#HigherEd
thewalrus.ca/inside-doug-...
A thriving public education system is the heartbeat of a compassionate society
#HigherEd
thewalrus.ca/inside-doug-...
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It’s about having red hair and freckles FFS and how to be cool with that when other kids make fun of it. By that twisted logic, you’d have to ban pretty much every children’s book, old and new www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/e...
Julianne Moore says her book about embracing differences was removed from Pentagon-run schools | CNN
Oscar winner Julianne Moore claims her children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” was banned by the Department of Defense’s Education Activity, a global network of 160 schools serving military families.
www.cnn.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It’s about having red hair and freckles FFS and how to be cool with that when other kids make fun of it. By that twisted logic, you’d have to ban pretty much every children’s book, old and new www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/e...
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The reality behind the whole 51st state thing.
February 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The reality behind the whole 51st state thing.
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Hannah Arendt says the most evil thing about fascism weren't the atrocities but the willingness of people to go along.
Trump has cut funds to the most desperately poor.
He threatens Canada.
But he can't tell you where to spend your money.
His economy needs our tourism $$.
You know what to do.
Trump has cut funds to the most desperately poor.
He threatens Canada.
But he can't tell you where to spend your money.
His economy needs our tourism $$.
You know what to do.
February 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Hannah Arendt says the most evil thing about fascism weren't the atrocities but the willingness of people to go along.
Trump has cut funds to the most desperately poor.
He threatens Canada.
But he can't tell you where to spend your money.
His economy needs our tourism $$.
You know what to do.
Trump has cut funds to the most desperately poor.
He threatens Canada.
But he can't tell you where to spend your money.
His economy needs our tourism $$.
You know what to do.
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Officials are discussing an executive order that “would shut down all functions of the agency that aren’t written explicitly into statute or move certain functions to other departments.” Because the agency was created by Congress, it therefore can reportedly only be fully eliminated by Congress.
The Department of Education Is Reportedly the Next Target of Musk’s Team
Moreover, Trump’s administration is reportedly prepping an executive order aimed at dismantling the agency entirely.
buff.ly
February 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Officials are discussing an executive order that “would shut down all functions of the agency that aren’t written explicitly into statute or move certain functions to other departments.” Because the agency was created by Congress, it therefore can reportedly only be fully eliminated by Congress.
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A Finnish 🇫🇮 study highlights that commuting by bicycle significantly reduces sickness absence among municipal employees.
Active cyclists, covering over 30 km weekly, had an 8–18% lower risk of sickness absences and averaged 4.5 fewer sick days annually than passive commuters.
Active cyclists, covering over 30 km weekly, had an 8–18% lower risk of sickness absences and averaged 4.5 fewer sick days annually than passive commuters.
Study confirms the benefits of commuting by bicycle in particular in reducing sickness absences | Työterveyslaitos
An active commute that involves exercise can reduce the number of sick days and lower the risk of long sickness absences. Commuting by bicycle in particular is associated with a lower risk of sickness...
www.sttinfo.fi
February 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A Finnish 🇫🇮 study highlights that commuting by bicycle significantly reduces sickness absence among municipal employees.
Active cyclists, covering over 30 km weekly, had an 8–18% lower risk of sickness absences and averaged 4.5 fewer sick days annually than passive commuters.
Active cyclists, covering over 30 km weekly, had an 8–18% lower risk of sickness absences and averaged 4.5 fewer sick days annually than passive commuters.