Stunning version of this song on the anniversary of his passing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkzc...

Cover-Up review – Laura Poitras’s Seymour Hersh documentary is a thrilling ode to journalism

A must read for all Canada 🇨🇦 lovers!

The new September 2025 issue of @crimhighlights.bsky.social is now available! In it we summarize criminological research touching on: court-ordered therapy, police perceptions of racialized neighbourhoods, criminal records and employment, and much more. 1/

Colleen Jones asked me to interview her a couple of months ago during a chemotherapy appointment. She told me to write one heck of a story. I hope I did her proud. About always believing something wonderful is about to happen. My tribute to Colleen: www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

26 November 1937 | French Jewish boy, Samek Erlich, was born in Paris. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 16 August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Must listen interview with Dr. Jason Stanley podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/r...

Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, for her work promoting democracy.

Breaking: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship on.wsj.com/3J3HEOc

ANTIFA:

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

Please repost this…. Thank you.

If you voted for him, you've done this.

Three girls, Manchester, 1965, photo by Shirley Baker.

Nova Scotia’s film industry is taking centre stage, with two productions filmed in the province hitting number one on streaming platforms. #NovaScotia film industry celebrating busy season www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

#Thrillers #Mystery 📚 #Booksky Book recommendation (Day 25)

The flags outside the campus center hung at half staff on first-year move-in day. It was Friday of Labor Day weekend, a still morning on the hilltop campus above the Minnesota River Valley. I couldn’t decide if the lifeless flags looked tired or ashamed. jjakin.substack.com/p/tears-and-...

A must read!! open.substack.com/pub/jjakin/p...

Five traps per trawl and 56 trawls means that 280 lobster traps need to be checked, cleaned, baited, and reset. This takes place six days a week from May 1 - June 30 on our little corner of the Atlantic. Read about my first excursions on the lobster boat... jjakin.substack.com/p/markets-an...

Following the Auschwitz Memorial reminds me every day that the people they murdered were not nameless or faceless. They were individuals and a lot of them were babies.

21 August 1921 | A Pole, Wojciech Jarzębowski, was born in Warsaw. In #Auschwitz from 25 July 1941. No. 18796 He perished in the camp on 15 July 1942.

The story that inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction—and caused some readers to cancel their subscriptions.

this guy is savage

My son-in-law’s transition from Minnesota to Nova Scoti continues. open.substack.com/pub/jjakin/p...

Interesting new study by Burris & Shetty cites our early “Creepy” paper: can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

For those wondering if it matters, the first story on the front page of BBC News:

GOLD (#3) FOR 🇨🇦 SUMMER MCINTOSH CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD Summer McIntosh breaks the 200m butterfly world championship record to win her third gold medal. She nearly broke the WR She posts a time of 2:01.99. Another extraordinary swim by the 18-year-old Canadian phenom.

"The inland miles of the route looked like the cutting-room floor after a postcard photoshoot, pretty enough to capture on film but nothing that anybody’d buy at the drugstore to send home." - A Love Letter from the Sunrise Trail jjakin.substack.com/p/a-love-let...

My son-in-law is chronicling his move from Minnesota to Nova Scotia in a series of Substack essays. In doing so, he is reminding those of us who live in “New Scotland”🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 of the many readons we love this place. open.substack.com/pub/jjakin/p...

I woke up Saturday morning thinking I’d spend the afternoon at the beach. Pictou Island had other plans. open.substack.com/pub/jjakin/p...