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Kevin Wilson

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Epidemiologist. Housing maximalist. Reviewer of local bike lanes at HFX By Bike: https://youtube.com/@hfxbybike?si=ky1lyWFWhO7W39jR

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · Dec 21

Hey. Hi. Hello.

If you've ever griped about the cost of gas, having to pay for parking, or being stuck in rush hour traffic? If you have, check out my channel all about getting around (Halifax) by bike.

I release videos biweekly about bikes for transport and urbanism.

www.youtube.com/@hfxbybike

HFX by Bike

This is HFX By Bike, a channel all about getting around Halifax by bike. I release bi-weekly videos showcasing how the city's bike network can help make your trips faster, safer and more convenient, a...

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 10h

Finally got around to playing with TransLink realtime GTFS data. Kind of fun. Transit in Vancouver is looking pretty good, especially considering this is an hour midday on a holiday weekend, with some lines not running (hello 44) and not all buses reporting real-time information.

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 21m

"Graham has always appeared to have full faith in the government handling power responsibly. Now Sen. Graham seems shocked—shocked—that the FBI might have intruded so easily into his own privacy."

Patriot Act supporting senators are mad when they are the targets

The outrage by Senators Blackburn, Graham and others connected to the 'Arctic Frost' spy revelations ring a little thin

responsiblestatecraft.org

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3h

Good Place:

Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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ofduskanddawn.bsky.social @ofduskanddawn.bsky.social · 4h

Cloudy and calm. Agawa Canyon Park, ON, Canada.

A a mountainside covered in green pine trees, yellow, orange, and light green deciduous trees meets a calm river. Puffy gray clouds overhead and the colors along the banks are reflected in the water’s surface.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3h

Americans are psychologically unprepared for China beating us back to the Moon, which is by far the most likely outcome here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 1h

I wonder why Canadians are suddenly so animated against buying American whiskey.

I wonder what triggered that?

Who can say???

Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · 4h

"This was all about some ugliness that we’re not part of. We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims."

Everyone is "in politics" in a democracy.

Tell these American whisky guys to vote harder or cope harder.

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

There's nothing more alien to authoritarians, nothing for which they are worse prepared, than spontaneous creativity & joy.

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 14h

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7h

Trump is not a product of social media, he is the last gasp of the TV era.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20h

For my piece today at @zeteo.com i wanted to truly underscore how punishingly stupid american fascism is now. Like, my original proposed headline for this was:

Our Democracy Is Imperiled Because One Old Man Won’t Stop ‘Yelling’ At His TV. zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

zeteo.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 18h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17h

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 21h

The Frog is the best thing to happen to American politics all year, but the fact that politics has devolved into Posting is ultimately a bad thing.

www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 21h

Banning AirBnB is a case where the “abundance” framing is useful.

I get the desire to prioritize residents over visitors in a housing emergency.

But shouldn’t the bigger long-term goal be more housing *and* more hotels? Rather than just managing scarcity?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

Red state government declaring open war on blue city governments in Florida.

This is the MAGA model: using every tool of the state to punish political opponents, without even a pretense that you are governing "for everyone."

Doge-ish comes to Florida: a DeSantis loyalist is going after ‘waste’ in Democratic cities

Blaise Ingoglia was handpicked by the Republican Florida governor to lead an assault on municipal spending

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23h

This is why they will never be satisfied by political power, no matter how absolute and unchecked it is. They will always be perpetually aggrieved against the mere existence of cultural trends and civil society they dislike, and thus even more determined to use the government to stamp them out.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 23h

Everything reminds me of her

Jack o'lantern with slit pupils like a cat or lizard, an upside down smile frowning mouth and pointed fang teeth. Pumpkin us tilted with a Jean, sock and shoe covered leg protruding from its mouth, blood spatter around it and positioned as if caught in the middle of dragging away limb while eating it

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 23h

My “don’t worry about China, it will all be fine” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT”

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 23h

open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...

Montreal: A City in Dramatic Transformation.

A City That Somehow Manages to Impress Me More With Every Visit.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23h

let's do it
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Chinese EV tariffs created '2-front trade war' hurting Prairie canola, pork producers: Kinew | CBC News

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is asking the prime minister to scrap Canada's 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in return for China lifting its tariffs on Canadian canola and pork.

www.cbc.ca

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 23h

Grimly funny that Halifax had a brand of Be Bold for awhile.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 1d

“The sort of [bike] lane that would easily be the nicest in any other city on the continent barely gets a second look in this town, and hilariously, even the REV lanes which were top notch a few years ago don’t feel like the best the city has to offer.”

Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 1d

Let's talk Montreal's transformation: A city that somehow manages to impress me more with every visit.

nextmetro.substack.com/p/montreal-a...

Montreal: A City in Dramatic Transformation.

A City That Somehow Manages to Impress Me More With Every Visit.

nextmetro.substack.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 1d

a close up of a person 's face with the words `` bit of both '' written on it .

ALT: a close up of a person 's face with the words `` bit of both '' written on it .

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1d

The time for the GOP to stop this was 4 years and nine months ago. They are now locked into this doom cycle. It will ruin them or it will ruin the country.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

The social aspect of Congressional GOP forfeiting Congress’ power is underestimated.

Standing for the Constitution against the cult won’t just lose them primaries. They’ll become objects of collective hate, shunned by many they know, get death threats, etc.

I have no sympathy. But it’s a factor.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

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