Had a wonderful time moderating the conversation between bestselling & award-winning writers Nicholas Shakespeare & Olivier Norek tonight. Their novels FRAME 37 & THE WINTER WARRIORS are gripping & propulsive. #Toronto #writinglife

WTAF? COVID taught me that a lot of people are really stupid and selfish. AI confirms that.

man,

Martha found this sunken treasure & then had to show it off to every human we met on our walk. #dogs

Trans youth deserve the freedom to show up as their full selves: on the court, the field, the pitch, the rink, the track, and beyond.

I'm deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Marjane Satrapi. She was a formidable comic artist and Iranian feminist. Her work Persepolis influenced my early career as a comics studies scholar. Wishing her peace in the hereafter. 💙💙💙

Why is that orange shitgibbon still lurching about & flapping his trap, a free man?

Good morning from #Toronto & bounding Puck.

Good morning from #Toronto & bounding Puck.

Replacing "60 Minutes" with "The Ivermectin Hour With Joe Rogan" could bring more young viewers to CBS. by Brian Stelter

Nor is this the end.

If fascists, neo-Nazis and Proud Boys are threatening to show up to your local Pride celebration here are some resources you might find useful. itsgoingdown.org/materials-an...

We’re both proud Jewish New Yorkers. But there are sharp & clear differences between us on Israel/Palestine. For example, Dan Goldman marched alongside war criminal Bezalel Smotrich yesterday, who called it “just & moral” to starve Gaza. I did not.

Watched this happen in real time at my school, CSULB. Just a disaster. I even filled out a survey on AI saying everyone uses it to cheat and it's destroying our school, but apparently nobody cared

The dogs insisted we get up before the sun. #Muskoka

Zohran Mamdani really said “if Politicians really wanted to they would, allow me to demonstrate” and it’s driving the press absolutely insane.

New York City is the media capital of the country. Delaney Hall is nine miles from Manhattan. There is zero reason to not have wall to wall coverage of the hunger strike, the horrific conditions and ICE violence. The indie journalists need strength in numbers, and not just during business hours.

I spoke with DAVID SEDARIS about his new collection. He was delightfully, entirely himself: www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

No squat pen for Kavanagh.

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

Lilac season, finally.

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

I just found out yesterday that the Pope is Black. His maternal grandparents were of African, Haitian, and Dominican descent. Louisiana Creole. So a lot of things now make sense.

An East Tennessee school district has reversed its ban on “Roots” by Alex Haley, after weeks of community backlash, board member pressure, and statewide criticism

Erin Brockovich has been fighting evil corporations that pollute the environment for so long that there was a Hollywood movie about her starring Julia Roberts back in 2000. It's a bad sign for the AI industry that she is now on the anti-data center bandwagon.

Well well well

It’s good to be #PuckAndMartha

Read this thread. Andy Kim is a f*cking hero. For saying this and for putting his body on the line. ”Lead, follow, or get out of the way,” right? Andy Kim is a leader

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

Mamdani takes office and not even six months later the Knicks are going to the finals. Hardly a coincidence.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Again, Sonny Rollins was a democratic titan, and for me, a true role model in how to think about creative process. He took breaks, he failed, he changed his art, again and again. He thought jazz was so important that he wanted to get it right.

I spoke with the sublime PATRICIA CORNWELL about her #memoir TRUE CRIME. An extraordinary life: www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Let’s be clear about something: COVID-19 vaccines saved millions of lives. It is deeply cynical, corrupt, and frankly immoral to fearmonger about them. The biggest scandal of my lifetime is the right-wing war on public health because pandemic control efforts cut into corporate quarterly profits.

I spoke with the sublime PATRICIA CORNWELL about her #memoir TRUE CRIME. An extraordinary life: www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

For the Toronto Star I spoke with the remarkable PATRICIA CORNWELL about her truth bomb of a #memoir. @grandcentralpub.bsky.social

-1 in Toronto. And I drove through hail earlier tonight. May 22.

I renounce all confidence.

For the Toronto Star I spoke with the remarkable PATRICIA CORNWELL about her truth bomb of a #memoir. @grandcentralpub.bsky.social

Not a single person in this Administration should remain out of prison once Republicans are ejected from office.

If you think Martha is judging you, she IS. #dogs

I think Colbert has been using music in one of the most personal ways to engage with art, which is to allow it to reflect back your own feelings in a way that clarifies them. Your circumstances are new, but—in this case—your defiant frustration mixed with exuberance is legible to other people.

This Artist Put 2,500 of Her Favorite Books in a Massive Rotating Library on Miami Beach www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

Leo's gonna excommunicate him, I just know it.

Every day of Trump 2.0 I think “it can’t get more outrageous than this,” and I am wrong. This slush fund thing is so fucking rancid and unacceptable and I hate the feeling and reality that no politician is going to stop it, or call in Batman or something. This is not a country.

Great Expectations Middlemarch Rebecca

Foggy Owl 📍Biidaasige Park #toronto #fogTO #x100vi