Ariel Teplitsky

SLOW THE FUCK DOWN, ELON MUSK AND DONALD TRUMP. AMERICA'S GOING TO RUN OUT OF POPCORN

A montage of Trump repeatedly bragging about banning TikTok is now surfacing online. Can’t make this up.

Oh for God's sake. The better part of three months with Parliament dark to protect the government from a confidence vote it knows it will lose, while a prime minister with no base of support in the country or even his own party pulls on levers that are no longer connected to anything, and his party busies itself with internecine slaughter — like Hamlet's family in the last act, oblivious to the approach of Fortintrump's army. The level of cynicism is just off the charts. This is no longer funny. It is putting the country's interests in peril.

just needs one more lane Doug

Still looking for the bike-lane induced congestion. 8:32am, Nov. 25. #toronto

🧵 You're about to hear the Ford government talk a lot about the "1.2% who commute by bike" when they reference Toronto bike lanes. It's very misleading.

If Ford and his gov’t were serious about solving congestion in the GTA, why do they keep voting down my 407 plan? Removing tolls on trucks to get them off the 401 will get people home faster. Not in decades, but now.

Doug Ford @fordnation wants to kill Toronto’s University Avenue bike lanes to attack congestion. The reality: The street was below capacity for cars before the pandemic. 2020: theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto…

Ripping up our roads will make people less safe, make traffic worse, and put lives at risk. Full stop. I challenge the Premier to talk to people who have lost loved ones on our roads and hear their stories. It might be hard for the province to do two things at once but, as leaders we have to —tackle congestion AND keep people safe at the same time! As I’ve said before – the congestion in this city is partially the result of the province’s failure to deliver transit projects on time and has led to long construction delays and years of road closures. Stay in your lane, open the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West LRTs and fix the chaos at Metrolinx.

On the eve of the one-year mark since the October 7 massacre, I urge all who claim to care about Palestinians in Gaza and beyond to remember what this dark day represents for the Israeli and Jewish people. Please understand that 10/7 was an exceptionally painful day in which over 1,000 were criminally murdered and maimed; children, women, and bystanders were randomly killed, kidnapped, abused, and taken hostage; remember the trauma that this unjustified terror act has brought upon the Jewish people, making it the worst single-day attack since the Holocaust. Do not celebrate Hamas, the despicable terror organization that has destroyed Gaza, held its people hostage, and delivered them on a silver platter to the most extremist government in Israel’s history. Do not taunt the Jewish people or boast about the supposed act of resistance, which October 7 was not. Do not harass people who are commemorating the tragedy and its victims. Please be mindful and respectful. Be as outraged and horrified as you want to be about Gaza and the unbelievable death and destruction there. But give Israelis and Jews the space to remember their lost loved ones. The two traumas do not have to cancel each other out; they are, in fact, intertwined, and only this recognition can help us move forward. Gaza is central to my being, identity, lived experience, and connection to the land. I care deeply about ending the war and being part of the Strip’s transformation. But that would never mean denying the horrors that Hamas and other terrorists committed on October 7. Not in my name. I stand with my Jewish brothers, sisters, and allies in remembering those who lost their lives on that fateful day, and pledged to always be a partner in pursuit of healing, reconciliation, justice, freedom, safety, security, and dignity for all.

Look when he’s right he’s right

Ahoy from the waterfront! The gorgeous, refurbished silos at Bathurst Quay, heritage buildings and the new park are ready. Launch event Friday night and #NuitBlanche activity on Saturday (incl projections…). The amazing lead @bryanmbowen gave us a tour. A photo dump thread 🧵

Branch manager.. 😅 twitter.com/buitengebieden…

a friend sent this to me

Saturday night in Tel Aviv, and week after week, the crowds keep coming. End this nightmare. End it now.

He sounds like a guy yelling at random people on 34th Street with a karaoke speaker

Tel Aviv (and the whole country) roaring tonight. Do the damn deal.

11 months (!) of writing in one tweet: Terror is always wrong. Revenge is not a strategy. A child is a child is a child. Release all hostages now. Let the aid flow. Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians are leaving. Without hope for a shared future, this does not end.

Right into the subtitle hall of fame

1. This will be a thread of actual quotes from Donald Trump's press conference yesterday.