Bruce "86 47" Dawson

NEW: For over a year, staff at Oklahoma’s regulatory agency built a case against the oil company with the state’s highest number of oil field pollution incidents and violations. Instead of punishing the company, officials let it restart operations. with @readfrontier.bsky.social

This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

In November we're hosting 2 (free) events in recognition of World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims: a rally at City Hall on Nov 15, and a panel of crash survivors at VGH on Nov 20. Please see details and join us: visionzerovancouver.ca/2026/10/23/w...

hot tip, via @usa.streetsblog.org

The Guardian spent 9 or 10 months on our justice of the peace investigation. A total of 15 people worked on it at one point or another. 11,000 pages of court records, responsible AI tools, and a custom-made browser extension: read all about how we got it done

“…the Villages Plan, as clunky as it was, should give folks a little bit of a signal where we probably need to go, which I think is four- to six-storey, wood-framed construction, single egress staircase apartments. We need to build a lot more of that because we can build that faster and cheaper.”

Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.

Every day that we're not doing the same should be a new embarrassment for our elected leaders.

Voters are facing 2.5-hour lines and 45-minute walks to get to the polls. Why? Because Republicans slashed early voting sites. Make a voting plan, bring snacks and water and vote as early as you can. Follow Democracy Docket for the latest news ahead of the midterms.

Democratic-aligned group Progress Action Fund has released a PRO-trans ad, attacking Republicans for being creepy in bathrooms. It will run in Texas and Ohio, and is expected to reach millions. You have to see the ad itself. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The condo is worth millions LESS but pays over $17K MORE in annual taxes. That is a 12x higher effective tax rate for the middle-class condo family

Small lot single stair apartment buildings could fit well among the large detached homes, or sharing the same lot. Uptake would probably be slow but it would be a big symbolic shift if we stopped providing government-enforced zoning protections for estate mansion districts, and allowed subdivision

This is a white-hot, 278-alarm digital sovereignty dumpster-fire. M365 - as well as cloud software from Oracle, Google, Apple, Amazon and other US tech giants.

Some people say biking isn't practical, because you can't carry cargo - but with the right bike, a friend and a chunky 40 pound battery are no issue at all. We even had room for more!

Election day is tomorrow (Saturday, October 17th) and I wanted to share a quick update about a motion I gave notice of back in July.

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)

this is disqualifying for any leader of the democratic party, no matter how you look at it.

Authorities Investigate Collision Between Trains From Chicago Traveling 80 MPH, D.C. Traveling 75 MPH

If you’re in Seattle this Saturday, you could do worse than to come check out the mini-doc I made about @ekanaut.bsky.social

Actually, there's a pretty good book out in five days with a chapter about what happens to cities when they don't build adequate non-car transportation options that scale alongside population growth that I hear has pretty good illustrations

A friend's sibling's child is non-binary, and the friend wished English had a good word for them. OH, says I. But we DO! That's your NIBLING. It's a mash-up of niece/nephew + sibling, and it's gender-neutral, linguistically efficient, and CUTE. Sharing this for anybody who doesn't know the word.

When you need police protection to remove infrastructure used by people with disabilities, you know you are on the wrong side of history. #Bill212

One day to go, one last ride. 🚲 Before election day, we’re going back to where OneCity started: active transport. It’s why Safe Mobility anchors our platform — and why Vision Zero Vancouver gave us an A+ on road safety. So we’re closing this election the only way that makes sense: with a Bike Bus.

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No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Inflation is up again. Not because of a pandemic. Not because of a natural disaster. Because of Trump’s war, tariffs, and corporate tax breaks. It really is this simple: Republicans took over, and then drove up the cost of living in America.

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

They’re both carrying the same number of people - and probably the same amount of cargo.

This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

In 3 years, 6 pedestrians have been killed on the same short stretch of Lougheed in Maple Ridge. Why does it keep happening, and what can we do about it? We went to investigate. youtu.be/KSpQ5SNmc48?...

This is a HUGE red flag for transportation in Vancouver. Ken Sim is vowing to repeal Gregor Robertson's 2017 delegation of authority to the chief engineer on road allocation. This would mean that every single bike lane and traffic calming scheme has to go to council for a public hearing and vote.

That really is the cherry on top of the shit sandwich of under-priced insurance. As a pedestrian, I need to carry extra-insurance, if I can get it, to cover the risk of being disabled or killed by a driver.

These were identical trips, loaded via identical referrer URLs. The difference was that in the browser where Air Canada knew that I was an extremely loyal and prolific customer, they had whacked me with a *44.8% premium* to punish me for my loyalty!

You’ve got to be joking me. Here is the pro-police party that created an entire narrative about our unsafe streets using her phone while driving. Fantastic.

Holy shit.

I do love watching UK conservatives demolish American ones. Idk the exact forces that lead to this dynamic, but its a delight to observe.