Ariel Teplitsky

Editor, writer, content guy. Formerly Toronto Star. Currently @tangerinebank.

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

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

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

A montage of Trump repeatedly bragging about banning TikTok is now surfacing online.

Can’t make this up.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

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.

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

just needs one more lane Doug

[Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic]

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

[Jack Hauen @jackhauen]

🧵 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.

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

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.

[Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic]

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: https://t.co/AcRKTKHvjU

[Mayor Olivia Chow 🇨🇦 @MayorOliviaChow]

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.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

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.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Look when he’s right he’s right

[Julie Bogdanowicz @juliebwicz]

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 🧵

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Branch manager.. 😅 https://t.co/WJXCtzsIl9

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

a friend sent this to me

[Ami Dar @AmiDar]

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

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

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

[Ami Dar @AmiDar]

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

[Ami Dar @AmiDar]

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.

[B.W. Carlin @BaileyCarlin]

Right into the subtitle hall of fame

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

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