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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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 10h

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

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 · 14h

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 · 16h

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 · 16h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

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 · 16h

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 · 17h

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 · 16h

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 · 16h

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 · 17h

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 · 21h

“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 · 17h

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

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 17h

“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 · 18h

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 · 19h

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 · 18h

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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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 22h

To our U.S. Colleagues,

Condolences on the loss of the CDC’s MMWR.

3 resources that may help
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 19h

There’s a gag in a Tom Hanks movie where he’s a medical student trying to bluff his way through an exam and when asked about a piece of anatomy guesses “uh … the poop chute?”

We’re now doing it for real.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 1d

come on australia let's go let's go let's go

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Marcello Graziano 🇺🇦 @marcellograz.bsky.social · 1d

The issue in France and Italy in one graph.

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 1d

It's bike infrastructure.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

Even though nobody wears bike helmets in the Netherlands, the fatality rate there is significantly smaller than that of the United States. What have they figured out that we haven't?

How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman

In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.

www.newyorker.com

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 1d

Facebook is so grim. Just an ocean of AI slop.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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