Helen Lee
@helenwzlee.bsky.social
Making good trouble 💙 | EP & Co-Host 🎙️🎧 @thenextstoppod.bsky.social
"We may think of ourselves first and foremost as citizens of nations and participants in national democracies. But when it comes to the breakdown of planetary ecosystems, we are all first and foremost inhabitants of this shared Earth." -Sally Rooney via @irishtimes.com
Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system
www.irishtimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"We may think of ourselves first and foremost as citizens of nations and participants in national democracies. But when it comes to the breakdown of planetary ecosystems, we are all first and foremost inhabitants of this shared Earth." -Sally Rooney via @irishtimes.com
Reposted by Helen Lee
There’s a small bookshop “adult scholastic book fair” at a local brewery
They vastly misunderstood the demand
They vastly misunderstood the demand
January 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
There’s a small bookshop “adult scholastic book fair” at a local brewery
They vastly misunderstood the demand
They vastly misunderstood the demand
Knew about @hcrichardson.bsky.social for a while as a historian writing one of the top Substack newsletters. Recently added her "Letters from an American" to my stack as an act of Canadian support and solidarity. 🦫🦅
Here's her excellent account of Jimmy Carter's funeral at the National Cathedral.
Here's her excellent account of Jimmy Carter's funeral at the National Cathedral.
January 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Knew about @hcrichardson.bsky.social for a while as a historian writing one of the top Substack newsletters. Recently added her "Letters from an American" to my stack as an act of Canadian support and solidarity. 🦫🦅
Here's her excellent account of Jimmy Carter's funeral at the National Cathedral.
Here's her excellent account of Jimmy Carter's funeral at the National Cathedral.
Reposted by Helen Lee
this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer
January 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer
I love my Toronto Public Library! 📖💙🙌
Fun Facts (as of 2023):
🥇 #1 neighbourhood-based library system in the world!
📍 100 branches across the City of Toronto!
💥 10.5 million items available to borrow! Including books, CDs, DVDs, audiobooks...and instruments! 📚💿📀🎧🎸
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca
Fun Facts (as of 2023):
🥇 #1 neighbourhood-based library system in the world!
📍 100 branches across the City of Toronto!
💥 10.5 million items available to borrow! Including books, CDs, DVDs, audiobooks...and instruments! 📚💿📀🎧🎸
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca
January 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I love my Toronto Public Library! 📖💙🙌
Fun Facts (as of 2023):
🥇 #1 neighbourhood-based library system in the world!
📍 100 branches across the City of Toronto!
💥 10.5 million items available to borrow! Including books, CDs, DVDs, audiobooks...and instruments! 📚💿📀🎧🎸
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca
Fun Facts (as of 2023):
🥇 #1 neighbourhood-based library system in the world!
📍 100 branches across the City of Toronto!
💥 10.5 million items available to borrow! Including books, CDs, DVDs, audiobooks...and instruments! 📚💿📀🎧🎸
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca
To all of our honourable members of parliament:
Please stop fighting with each other. There’s real work to do.
Call out the ignorant Flaming Cheeto who doesn’t know basic geography. 🗺️
Step up and defend the peace, order, and good government of our true north strong and free. Thanks! 🇨🇦🍁🦫 #cdnpoli
Please stop fighting with each other. There’s real work to do.
Call out the ignorant Flaming Cheeto who doesn’t know basic geography. 🗺️
Step up and defend the peace, order, and good government of our true north strong and free. Thanks! 🇨🇦🍁🦫 #cdnpoli
My editorial piece in @nationalobserver.com
We are not in ordinary times. We are in Trump times. The clock is ticking down on the arrival of the chaos machine in Washington. Canada is staring down a political tsunami but we're too busy to notice."
www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/27/o...
We are not in ordinary times. We are in Trump times. The clock is ticking down on the arrival of the chaos machine in Washington. Canada is staring down a political tsunami but we're too busy to notice."
www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/27/o...
Stand up to the bully
Canadians want reassurance people in Ottawa are ready to defend our values against Donald Trump's tirades. It is deeply disconcerting this is not happening.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
To all of our honourable members of parliament:
Please stop fighting with each other. There’s real work to do.
Call out the ignorant Flaming Cheeto who doesn’t know basic geography. 🗺️
Step up and defend the peace, order, and good government of our true north strong and free. Thanks! 🇨🇦🍁🦫 #cdnpoli
Please stop fighting with each other. There’s real work to do.
Call out the ignorant Flaming Cheeto who doesn’t know basic geography. 🗺️
Step up and defend the peace, order, and good government of our true north strong and free. Thanks! 🇨🇦🍁🦫 #cdnpoli
Reposted by Helen Lee
Jimmy Carter spent his childhood on a peanut farm and returned there after serving in the Navy. His political career took him to Atlanta, the White House and beyond. We pulled together a list of objects that show a snapshot of his life and legacy. nyti.ms/3ZQCWYw
December 31, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Jimmy Carter spent his childhood on a peanut farm and returned there after serving in the Navy. His political career took him to Atlanta, the White House and beyond. We pulled together a list of objects that show a snapshot of his life and legacy. nyti.ms/3ZQCWYw
🎇 TONIGHT: Free transit for New Year's Eve!
🫡 TTC, Toronto Police & the City have a Union Station strategy!
⛔ Subway access only via Brookfield Place @ Front & Bay
🧍 Be prepared for orderly lineups
⬆️ Alt routes: Enter subway via King/Queen/St. Andrew/Osgoode www.ttc.ca/news/2024/De...
🫡 TTC, Toronto Police & the City have a Union Station strategy!
⛔ Subway access only via Brookfield Place @ Front & Bay
🧍 Be prepared for orderly lineups
⬆️ Alt routes: Enter subway via King/Queen/St. Andrew/Osgoode www.ttc.ca/news/2024/De...
Access to TTC's Union Station subway changing this New Year's Eve
www.ttc.ca
December 31, 2024 at 12:35 PM
🎇 TONIGHT: Free transit for New Year's Eve!
🫡 TTC, Toronto Police & the City have a Union Station strategy!
⛔ Subway access only via Brookfield Place @ Front & Bay
🧍 Be prepared for orderly lineups
⬆️ Alt routes: Enter subway via King/Queen/St. Andrew/Osgoode www.ttc.ca/news/2024/De...
🫡 TTC, Toronto Police & the City have a Union Station strategy!
⛔ Subway access only via Brookfield Place @ Front & Bay
🧍 Be prepared for orderly lineups
⬆️ Alt routes: Enter subway via King/Queen/St. Andrew/Osgoode www.ttc.ca/news/2024/De...
Not So Fun Fact: Food banks were originally meant to be temporary. 🤨
The fact that they’ve become permanent, and continue to grow, is a policy failure.
It’s not about expanding food banks. It’s about ensuring that everyone has the income to buy and has access to fresh food.
The fact that they’ve become permanent, and continue to grow, is a policy failure.
It’s not about expanding food banks. It’s about ensuring that everyone has the income to buy and has access to fresh food.
Toronto food banks grapple with soaring demand as affordability crisis takes bite out of donations.
Daily Bread Food Bank says it has had to scale back on the amount of food it can provide clients after demand soared and donations dipped in 2024.
Daily Bread Food Bank says it has had to scale back on the amount of food it can provide clients after demand soared and donations dipped in 2024.
Toronto food banks grapple with soaring demand as affordability crisis takes bite out of donations
Daily Bread Food Bank says it has had to scale back on the amount of food it can provide clients after demand soared and donations dipped in 2024.
www.thestar.com
December 30, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Not So Fun Fact: Food banks were originally meant to be temporary. 🤨
The fact that they’ve become permanent, and continue to grow, is a policy failure.
It’s not about expanding food banks. It’s about ensuring that everyone has the income to buy and has access to fresh food.
The fact that they’ve become permanent, and continue to grow, is a policy failure.
It’s not about expanding food banks. It’s about ensuring that everyone has the income to buy and has access to fresh food.
Reposted by Helen Lee
our VP of technology wrote about a thing you can do to make your home internet safer (using an alternate DNS)
The internet is a dangerous place. There are websites that will happily deliver you malware, or display violent or sexual imagery after your child unsuspectingly clicks on a link.
Now Is a Great Time to Make Your Internet Browsing a Little Safer
One change offers a few kinds of security protections.
slate.com
December 30, 2024 at 3:29 PM
our VP of technology wrote about a thing you can do to make your home internet safer (using an alternate DNS)
Reposted by Helen Lee
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
Reposted by Helen Lee
Jimmy Carter, on Death. In a culture where death as a subject is often taboo, fthe former President left behind a compilation of observations about the end. Here is a selection of those writings. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @nytimes.com
Jimmy Carter, on Death
In a culture where death as a subject is often taboo, Mr. Carter left behind a compilation of observations about the end. Here is a selection of those writings.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Jimmy Carter, on Death. In a culture where death as a subject is often taboo, fthe former President left behind a compilation of observations about the end. Here is a selection of those writings. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @nytimes.com
Reposted by Helen Lee
What Period Products Are Best for the Environment? You’ve got choices, from menstrual cups to washable pads. Here’s how they stack up, by @eabrown18.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/c... via @nytimes.com #menstruation
What Period Products Are Best for the Environment?
You’ve got choices, from menstrual cups to washable pads. Here’s how they stack up.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2024 at 3:43 PM
What Period Products Are Best for the Environment? You’ve got choices, from menstrual cups to washable pads. Here’s how they stack up, by @eabrown18.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/c... via @nytimes.com #menstruation
Reposted by Helen Lee
Some year-end roundups, a list of free transit rides on New Year's Eve and more headlines as we wrap up 2024. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/12/30/m...
Monday's Headlines Ring In the New Year — Streetsblog USA
Some year-end roundups, a list of free transit rides on New Year's Eve and more headlines as we wrap up 2024.
usa.streetsblog.org
December 30, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Some year-end roundups, a list of free transit rides on New Year's Eve and more headlines as we wrap up 2024. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/12/30/m...
Reposted by Helen Lee
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, left his mark on the federal judiciary.
In his four years as president, Carter appointed more women and people of color as federal judges than the 38 presidents before him combined. bit.ly/4iZCgJg
In his four years as president, Carter appointed more women and people of color as federal judges than the 38 presidents before him combined. bit.ly/4iZCgJg
December 30, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, left his mark on the federal judiciary.
In his four years as president, Carter appointed more women and people of color as federal judges than the 38 presidents before him combined. bit.ly/4iZCgJg
In his four years as president, Carter appointed more women and people of color as federal judges than the 38 presidents before him combined. bit.ly/4iZCgJg
Toronto Public Library FTW! 📚🖥️🖨️💿🎧📰📖⚖️🎨🎙️
We will be counting down our top charts for 2024. First up is from the @policyalternatives.bsky.social's Ontario office: Visits to the Toronto Public Library surpass by far the attendance of the city’s major sports teams. Read more: www.policyalternatives.ca/new...
December 27, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Toronto Public Library FTW! 📚🖥️🖨️💿🎧📰📖⚖️🎨🎙️
Because The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas Carol. 🎄💚
Have a restful and relaxing holiday season! ☃️🕎🍽️🍹🍊
Have a restful and relaxing holiday season! ☃️🕎🍽️🍹🍊
a sign that says ' it 's only one more sleep ' til christmas '
ALT: a sign that says ' it 's only one more sleep ' til christmas '
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Because The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas Carol. 🎄💚
Have a restful and relaxing holiday season! ☃️🕎🍽️🍹🍊
Have a restful and relaxing holiday season! ☃️🕎🍽️🍹🍊
If you don't feel like cooking on Christmas, support your local Chinese restaurant! They will definitely be open because Christmas is basically their Super Bowl, aka one of their busiest days of the year. 🥢🍚🍜
Shout out to all the local Pakistani and Chinese restaurants and their staff who will be working Christmas.
As the manager at Royal Kabob told me, "Brother, we're always open. Even on the Day of Judgement, we'll be open."
Respect.
As the manager at Royal Kabob told me, "Brother, we're always open. Even on the Day of Judgement, we'll be open."
Respect.
December 25, 2024 at 2:55 AM
If you don't feel like cooking on Christmas, support your local Chinese restaurant! They will definitely be open because Christmas is basically their Super Bowl, aka one of their busiest days of the year. 🥢🍚🍜
Reposted by Helen Lee
Shout out to all the local Pakistani and Chinese restaurants and their staff who will be working Christmas.
As the manager at Royal Kabob told me, "Brother, we're always open. Even on the Day of Judgement, we'll be open."
Respect.
As the manager at Royal Kabob told me, "Brother, we're always open. Even on the Day of Judgement, we'll be open."
Respect.
December 24, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Shout out to all the local Pakistani and Chinese restaurants and their staff who will be working Christmas.
As the manager at Royal Kabob told me, "Brother, we're always open. Even on the Day of Judgement, we'll be open."
Respect.
As the manager at Royal Kabob told me, "Brother, we're always open. Even on the Day of Judgement, we'll be open."
Respect.
Reposted by Helen Lee
I share it every year, and boy, this was a bad year for kindness, and journalism, so maybe it matters more, I don't know. Get the kid his peaches. www.dailynews.com/2011/12/25/a...
Al Martinez: A different kind of Christmas deadline
This is a Christmas story, one day late. The year was 1955. I was a young reporter working the night shift at the Oakland Tribune on Christmas Eve, writing a story about a kid dying of leukemia who…
www.dailynews.com
December 25, 2024 at 2:42 AM
I share it every year, and boy, this was a bad year for kindness, and journalism, so maybe it matters more, I don't know. Get the kid his peaches. www.dailynews.com/2011/12/25/a...
Reposted by Helen Lee
Hong Kong national security police have issued a fresh round of arrest warrants for six people living overseas, including self-exiled activists, a former pollster and an ex-actor. A reward of HK$1 million has been offered for information leading to their arrests.
In full: https://buff.ly/408b8jL
In full: https://buff.ly/408b8jL
December 24, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Hong Kong national security police have issued a fresh round of arrest warrants for six people living overseas, including self-exiled activists, a former pollster and an ex-actor. A reward of HK$1 million has been offered for information leading to their arrests.
In full: https://buff.ly/408b8jL
In full: https://buff.ly/408b8jL
Reposted by Helen Lee
Chinese propaganda seeks to divide Hong Kong-Canadians over the territory's pro-democracy moment.
Read the report from @marcuskolga.bsky.social, Sze-Fung Lee, and Sarah Teich: www.digitalpublicsquare.org/insights/com...
Read the report from @marcuskolga.bsky.social, Sze-Fung Lee, and Sarah Teich: www.digitalpublicsquare.org/insights/com...
Community Consultations on Foreign Interference in Canada
PRC Foreign Interference and Transnational Repression in Canada
www.digitalpublicsquare.org
December 23, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Chinese propaganda seeks to divide Hong Kong-Canadians over the territory's pro-democracy moment.
Read the report from @marcuskolga.bsky.social, Sze-Fung Lee, and Sarah Teich: www.digitalpublicsquare.org/insights/com...
Read the report from @marcuskolga.bsky.social, Sze-Fung Lee, and Sarah Teich: www.digitalpublicsquare.org/insights/com...
Reposted by Helen Lee
CHRD condemns Hong Kong govt's act of reprisal against defenders of democracy & human rights: the National Security Police in HK added 6 more people to their wanted list and issued a HK$1 million bounty on each of them. We stand in solidarity w these brave activists. www.thecfhk.org/post/second-...
Second CFHK Foundation Staffer Wanted by Hong Kong Authorities as HK$1 Million Bounty Placed for Chloe Cheung
December 24, 2024 – Today, on Christmas Eve, the National Security Police in Hong Kong added six more people to their wanted list, including Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation staffe...
www.thecfhk.org
December 25, 2024 at 1:08 AM
CHRD condemns Hong Kong govt's act of reprisal against defenders of democracy & human rights: the National Security Police in HK added 6 more people to their wanted list and issued a HK$1 million bounty on each of them. We stand in solidarity w these brave activists. www.thecfhk.org/post/second-...
Reposted by Helen Lee
Cast off by the Nazis, but heralded by curators, van Gogh’s 1890 painting of his doctor Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, made just before the artist's suicide, has not been seen in 34 years. Its whereabouts have become one of the art world’s greatest mysteries.
The Search for van Gogh’s Lost Masterpiece
Cast off by the Nazis, but heralded by curators, the artist’s painting of his doctor, made just before van Gogh’s suicide, has not been seen in 34 years.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Cast off by the Nazis, but heralded by curators, van Gogh’s 1890 painting of his doctor Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, made just before the artist's suicide, has not been seen in 34 years. Its whereabouts have become one of the art world’s greatest mysteries.
Reposted by Helen Lee
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
December 10, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org