"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This @nickhunebrown.bsky.social piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

If nothing else, this whole thing did at least drive me to put Ezra Pound's Cantos on hold at the library

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission in Jeopardy as U.S. Considers Abandoning Retrieval www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour

My annual reminder that if Nuzzi/Kennedy happened in Canada it would be studiously ignored.

The even-better news is that I'll be keeping up my newsletter (www.bugeyedandshameless.com), my new YouTube series (www.youtube.com/@JustinLing), and some occasional writing for American/European outlets (as time allows.)

I'm very happy to say that I'll I soon start writing a weekly column for @thestar.com, where I began my journalism career [redacted] years ago as a winter intern. I was on the copy desk, and my first headline was "Christmas trees find new life as wood chips."

Your weekend read, Canadians. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

If you read this story yesterday, it's very possible you did not read the actual ending, which was excised accidentally online. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

#Opinion Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found

Do yourself a favour and read @rwarnica.bsky.social aloud to yourself on repeat. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

From the Star's Moira Welsh: the Ford government gave Postmedia more than $1 million to train employees on AI as part of its under-fire job training fund www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

If you read this story yesterday, it's very possible you did not read the actual ending, which was excised accidentally online. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

And yet, despite all of that, I still came away from Texas more hopeful than I have been about American in a long time. I'll let you read the story to find out exactly why www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

The rapid unravelling of American institutions, the cruelty of mass detention and deportation, the deliberate kneecapping of anything and anyone reporting (in the broadest sense of the word) stories Trump doesn't like, is all very real. It isn't being exaggerated. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

What I found was both worse than I imagined and somehow, weirdly, better than I hoped. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

I spent some in Texas recently, looking at Trump's America a year(ish) after his election last year. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

This long read wherein Toronto Star reporter Richard Warnica goes to Texas is very much worth your attention this week: www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

"The bedrock tools we use to know the world are being undermined and discredited. In their place, a base inhumanity is rushing in — that, and an ignorance I can only describe as planned." www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

"Things really are as bad as they seem in the United States. But they are not hopeless." Incredible reporting and writing from @rwarnica.bsky.social in Texas, where there's hope amid the cruelty and despair www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

Hot damn, that is some spectacular work from @rwarnica.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

The piece will be in print Saturday, with what I think is my favourite ever piece of Star art: an oil painting based on a NOAA Satellite image of a Marfa Line storm done by one of Canada's best emerging painters, Zoe Koke.

I spent some in Texas recently, looking at Trump's America a year(ish) after his election last year. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...

I am wrong about this! This is, apparently, the wait time for refugees who have applied for PR. Will erase.

Anyone who lived, like I did, through the private equity decimation of Canada's largest newspaper chain will find a lot to think about here.

This is from 2022, but still totally cool.

Scientists at an observatory in Chile have found compelling proof that a galaxy named Messier “once tore apart a much smaller one” which seems like a story about an Oilers game from 1987.

Thought this was a lovely, poignant bit of writing by my colleague @gbayliss.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Sad news just now. Lenny Wilkens, whose impact on the NBA as a player, coach and ambasssador was immense, died today. In three years as the Raptors coach, he led team to its first playoff series win and was an integral part of the teams history. Condolences to his family and those who loved him

This is unlike any Toronto police undercover work to get a murder confession I think I've ever seen. Story from the Star's Jacques Gallant: www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

The feds raided an East Chicago home, arrested a mother and her 26-year-old schizophrenic daughter. She's been here since she's 2. In ICE custody, she had no meds and chose to leave the country. Now she's in Mexico, barely speaks Spanish, and her family can't find her.

Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

Thinking about getting really into musicals next year

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

Farewell sweet Prince

Sasha Suda, late of the National Gallery of Canada, lost her new job after spending god knows how much rebranding the Philadelphia Museum of Art to Philadelphia Art Museum. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

I would read Anna write about watching grass grow, so I highly recommend her fascinating - and funny! - piece on her latest attempt to overcome treatment-resistant depression: deep brain stimulation. Great presentation, too.

Overnight court filings seem to be giving us a peek at what U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino said in his deposition so far (it apparently continues today):

Be sure you get to the kicker in this essential investigation into Common Crawl, the data archive behind the AI boom

Nothing better illustrated the total aimlessness of the Kamala Harris campaign than her decision to stump with Dick Cheney.

I'm sorry to all my friends who I'm sure have written beautiful elegies to the Jays but two days later I have not been able to read a single one of them and I don't imagine that is ever going to change.

And somehow also the worst thing I’ve ever seen.

Someone’s about to win 22 million dollars and curse out Joe Carter in the same phone call

watched the end of game 7 from canada and at the end of game canadian tv cut to a literal child crying in blue jays swag

God I hate sports

There will never be a more Toronto moment than the Rogers livestream failing as the Jays let game seven of the World Series slip.