I cannot decide which is worse, the moral imbecility or the mindless lack of imagination. ~Martha #Gellhorn Timeless words.

MTG isn't a hero, she's a malignant narcissist trying to sweep her bullying and hate under the rug. The people who she hurt will never forget her hateful rhetoric.

EXCLUSIVE: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will be sworn in as mayor on midnight on January 1 inside the old abandoned City Hall subway station, saying that he sees the venue as a symbol for the aims of his upcoming administration.

Still masking and testing regularly. Lost a sibling to COVID, know too many who are suffering with long COVID, and all too aware of how precarious my own life is — and how much my family relies on me. No one who mocks public health can be trusted to assess public policy.

You know who was great? Claudia Cardinale. Terrific actress, fine human being, never became a fascist. Also extraordinarily beautiful. She was a feminist and a UNESCO goodwill ambassador. She died earlier this year. Just remembering her today for no particular reason.

There is so much going on in Janet's post, all of it delightful, that this is my post of the day fwiw. Also, you have to read her Gellhorn book.

Marlon Brando had to have been the most ran-through man in Hollywood at that time. I'm trying to come up with HIS peer.

A coffee forward venue named BEAN ME UP, BISCOTTI

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good & the very gentle & the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. Hemingway

This is a question for @shawnmicallef.bsky.social, who will have loads of recos.

I love when he changes "spot of mustard" to "blot of mustard."

I've been secretly hoarding sweet nothings all year and tonight I will whip them at you one by one, dodgeball style.

Even the vegetables don't like him, Kate.

I've never understood people who hate cutting. Never. Suddenly you lose this bit & the correct shape is before your eyes. No better feeling in the world. I save everything & sometimes I steal from myself years later. Who cares?

I haven’t gotten a single OOO email reply. Everyone is still working! We are in a RECESSION, y’all.

Today is a big win for Illinois and American democracy. I am glad the Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump did not have the authority to deploy the federalized guard in Illinois.

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

Jesus. HUGE payout for MacIsaac needed here, and HUGE public apology from Google, whose ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis radioactive waste machine needs to be ejected into the sun.

Puck & Martha love competing for the ball, especially in fresh snowfall. #dogs #Toronto

O, what damned minutes

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

Reminder: it is not correct to refer to Conway as a "Never Trumper." He was, in fact, a Trumper before he became a not-Trumper. He was literally a top pick to run Trump's DOJ in the first term. He was absolutely a Trumper.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Just incredible to think about this exact moment.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Happy last day of Hanukkah. Passed by here this morning. Some good Toronto history to dip into. ontariojewisharchives.org/Explore/Them...

That’s it for CBS. We should no longer watch anything produced by this media platform.

My favourite 4 #HistoricalFiction titles for @thestar.com include: Austen's 33 PLACE BRUGMANN @emmadonoghue.bsky.social's THE PARIS EXPRESS Seethaler's THE CAFÉ WITH NO NAME Wang's THE RIVETER Ask for them at your #library or treat yourself. #WWII #Paris #Brussells #19thC #Vienna

60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Curious about what in the self-loathing is going on with Usha Vance to be married to a man who so openly seems to resent that she isn’t white. She’s where she wants to be but I sure want to know what pathology allows that.

Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it. Now it is their turn to show courage.

My favourite 4 #HistoricalFiction titles for @thestar.com include: Austen's 33 PLACE BRUGMANN @emmadonoghue.bsky.social's THE PARIS EXPRESS Seethaler's THE CAFÉ WITH NO NAME Wang's THE RIVETER Ask for them at your #library or treat yourself. #WWII #Paris #Brussells #19thC #Vienna

They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. Go you down that way towards the Capitol

Puck has no idea what Martha is going on about. #dogs

In short, using AI in your writing is among the dumbest things you can do as a writer as it exposes you to potential legal action while affording you zero legal protections. AI is a nightmare box for idiots. Don't fall into the trap of shortcutting your writing career.

🎉🎉🎉 3rd printing for A LONG GAME: bookshop.org/p/books/a-lo...

This is giving unmistakable "argument in the car on the way home" vibes and Sam is going to lose so, so badly.

Watching Linklater's BLUE MOON. It's surely *the* performance of Ethan Hawke's career to date. #LorenzHart #RodgersAndHart #RodgersAndHammerstein #Oklahoma

Happy birthday to Cawarra's Robin Goodfellow, my PUCK, who is 1 year old today. (First photo he was 6 weeks old, his optimum cuteness). #dogs @lilymarswrites.bsky.social @bksandauthors.bsky.social @normwilner.bsky.social @kateatherley.bsky.social

These photographs are works of art that reveal what evil is there in those vile, corrupt, cruel, fascist bootlickers.

Authorities are investigating possible ties between the shooting at Brown University and a professor who was killed at MIT, WPRI reports www.wpri.com/target-12/po...

however much you hate these motherfuckers you do no hate them enough. (not josh, he's alright.)

Your library card is the most priceless card you will ever own.

I miss the days when FBI Directors caught mass shooters and didn’t fly to wresting events on a government jet to watch their girlfriend sing.

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

I mean NYC is about the embark on a project of trying to implement some major policies intended to support regular people. Folks could focus on that to see what might be possible to achieve in similar positioned cities. Can NYC deliver universal childcare?

Every trans person--including every trans child--deserves the chance to be fully themselves. I'm so sick of seeing trans folks harmed repeatedly and unrelentingly, against all reason and scientific precedent. To my trans friends--I'm so sorry the world keeps trying to dim your light.

The Eaton's Window, Montreal Adrien Hébert 1937

He is irredeemably broken, morally and mentally. And so is everyone who continues to support him, because of ignorance, hatred, greed, or some combination. Every day he is not impeached and removed is another grave stain on this country, and to Hell with those in any party who won't even try.

"It’s time for any Trump staffer with a shred of decency to resign." Honey, Diogenes equipped with a klieg light couldn't locate a Trump staffer with a shred of decency. Get real.