In light of the encampment clearings at Dufferin Grove Park, it's worth revising this stellar piece by @brendoherty.bsky.social and Nick Kozak in @thelocal.to thelocal.to/toronto-enca...

I wrote about art, activism and Trumpian aesthetics for @thewalrus.ca. tinyurl.com/4num7yxk

Sometimes my dog looks like Kash Patel.

How do you picture Donald Trump? In January, writer @rwarnica.bsky.social visited the Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, with Isabelle Brourman: the artist who may come closest to “excavating what there is of Trump’s soul.” thewalrus.ca/the-artist-who-t...

"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

No more beardos.

Great reporting from @alyshah.bsky.social and Mahdis Habibinia. The @thestar.com continues to do a superb job covering the city

Well don't I feel stupid

Please enjoy Ethan Hawke screaming “Longform!” while getting thrashed by Tulsa thugs.

I made a joke earlier about surviving the worst 20 years in newspaper history but I think that might be literally correct. Newspaper revenues in the U.S. peaked in 2005. I graduated j-school in 2006. They went down that year and have basically been going down ever since.

Suck it, David Grann.

Been gone from B.C. so long I actually enjoy the sound of rain now.

The darkest timeline sure but a real golden age of the @nymag.com political feature nymag.com/intelligence...

Charlie Kirk's murder has accelerated something I started thinking about in New Hampshire last year, over lunch with @jeffsharlet.bsky.social . www.thestar.com/news/world/u...

Donald Trump held a rally in Queen's last year with two accused gang murderers. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

I wrote about what the desperate attempt to find a trans connection to the Charlie Kirk assassination tells us about the deep psychological impulses at work in Trumpism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

ABC's decision reeks of Orbanism. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán consolidated control of the media in his country using autocratic carrots and sticks, and President Trump appears to be following the same playbook. I laid it out on CNN TV and in this column: www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/m...

Amid the incessant flood of bad news in the world, there is one unfailingly great thing happening right now and that is the World Cup run by the Canadian women's rugby team. www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...

We have spent more than a decade uploading our politics and civil society to a cloud owned by oligopolistic tech firms. As the Trump administration moves to take over those companies, it is a direct threat to democracies everywhere. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

Incredible www.wsj.com/world/americ...

The Globe and Mail's (@theglobeandmail.com) incredible Opinion team is hiring an editor. Details below, but message me if you have any questions: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

An all-timer of a parenthetical clause.

Whit Stillman directed three critically acclaimed movies in the 90s and also one episode of Homicide: Life on the street

Charlie Kirk’s death was a tragedy. That doesn’t mean we have to celebrate his life. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

I was hoping this place would be like really old Twitter where it was just weirdos and dumb jokes

Incredible kicker

I find it hard to be shocked by much anymore but this is genuinely obscene. www.bbc.com/news/article...

There are many layers going on in this NASA press conference. Notably, the head of science Nicky Fox just gave a hard sell for NASA science missions, in the presence of the acting administrator who has not said a lot about science to-date.

To sum up: we have 🪨 A cool rock from #Mars that may or may not hold evidence of ancient life 🛰️ An internal fight over whether NASA should spend its money on science or human exploration, and on what planet 🤔 A totally uncertain future for this amazing rock 🧪

The rover stage of NASA's Mars Sample Return mission may have found proof of life on another planet, according to the acting NASA administrator who has cancelled the Mars Sample Return mission. www.nasa.gov/live/

Ending vaccine mandates is a cynical political play – and it threatens children’s lives, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com

A thing I find kind of weird: Through the whole Kawhi thing, I've seen very little criticism of Kawhi. I get it — it's hard to care given how dumbly rich everyone involved is. I am Team Get That Money for players. But at some point, shouldn't he be responsible for the weirdness of his career?

In 2019 Kawhi Leonard’s uncle asked the Raptors for a piece of the Leafs and a Paul George trade, but also for two notable extras: no-show sponsorships, and ownership shares in outside companies. Which he seems to have gotten with Aspiration, and the Clippers. www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...

Big scoop by @brucearthur.bsky.social

What’s incredible is that paid TTC employees keep coming and adding these

Reminds me of a Tribute to Capitalism series a former employer did that famously yada-yada’d the Raj.

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ

“What’s being undercut isn’t just NASA’s technical ability to carry out missions, although that would be bad enough. It is America’s—and the world’s—capacity to wonder, to believe, to know.“ www.wired.com/story/the-de...

Just trying to imagine the pure joy of being out reporting a profile and having this kicker manifest itself in your life.

A wonderful piece of writing in which Richard Warnica spoke to a senior ex-NASA engineer about the grief surrounding Trump's cuts to the agency and what it means for our capacity to wonder and look beyond ourselves. "Like witnessing a death of an ideal.” www.wired.com/story/the-de...