Breunig mostly covers execution stories for the Atlantic. She has always been driven, absolutely convinced of the rightness of her cause. Assuming she meant well here but a fictional measles story is a disaster for the magazine and will be a field day for anti-vaxxers.

She calls this “creative nonfiction”; it is not. And the fact that not every reader even understood it was fictional means something in the presentation of it went horribly wrong.

A great thread on the pitfalls of free transit. This comes up in Toronto now and then but nobody explains where the $1 billion in lost revenue will come from, and that's just for TTC, not GO or other GTA systems. Meanwhile much kvetching about how there should be more service.

“This morning before dawn, a hostage rescue team stormed a New York City townhouse and freed Savannah, who miraculously did not appear to be injured or even malnourished in any way,” said FBI director Kash Patel

We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.

Shteyngart novels about love and the finer points of morality blocked him from dirty beast social climbing. Oh what a lucky man etc.

Women, watch out for men wearing glasses with a little circle at the rim. They're filming you. They're IDing you. They know where you live. Thanks, Zuckerberg.

Just imagine being the kind of person who would build your personal security detail on the bones of dead women and children around the world.

Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...

Jack Thorne has followed Adolescence with another triumphant and troubling piece of work ✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social

The CBC rightly blames the ADL for getting social media evidence wrong about the Tumbler Ridge killer. But it's hardly fair to blame people for being too "impatient" for news about a school massacre or to say the world is moving too fast now. Modernity happened. www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

BREAKING: DP World Chief Executive Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem has just RESIGNED from after documents released by the DOJ showed he had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Below is Trump and Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem introducing The Trump International Tower and Hotel Dubai. Trump should resign next.

BREAKING: Kristi Noem and Lewandowski , both married, are in a relationship. The WSJ reports that they do little to hide their relationship inside the department. In one incident, Lewandowski reportedly fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane.

I don’t think Pam Bondi is very nice.

Everything that the journalist Rose George writes brings illumination. One of my favourite writers. Here she is on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/rosegeor...

Real Estate: It’s Gray Time!

I always said oats didn't have milk. They were juice if that, I said.

He lived a life of chaos in this house. Globe & Mail reports: "Police had seized firearms from the home a couple years ago, RCMP said, but someone in the family petitioned for their return. The guns were given back roughly a month ago, a family member said." www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/268786d...

it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states

Don't know why the CBC would run this before we know the killer's motives or who he killed. But worse, it really needs links. The U.S. mass shooting data is unreliable, race-based, has no femicide info, doesn't apply here and is impossible to summarize in a paragraph. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The University of Toronto is about to destroy the most beautiful part of its downtown St. George campus with a cheap ass glass hotel with a condo tower lobby. It's a disgrace. It's an embarrassment. It belongs out by the airport. www.blogto.com/real-estate-...

note that Josh Hawley is literally foaming at the mouth by the end of this clip

"Your daily dose of joy is on the way!" I don't know who advised the obviously desperate Fleet Optics to tell me that the obviously desperate Nespresso company has sent coffee capsules to my home for free. Am I that obviously desperate for what they think constitutes Canadian euphoria? I guess so.

Dish with dragon and tiger (Chelsea, c1750-52), Gardiner Museum, Toronto #c18th #c18 #18thc

Wife: Why didn’t you do the dishes yesterday? Me: the dow is over $50,000!

In the aftermath of the terrible news out of #TumblerRidge, British Columbia, @cnn.com is among media outlets that have been providing live updates all day today. Dr. @rblakebrown.bsky.social of @historysmu.bsky.social was interviewed for this piece. www.cnn.com/world/live-n... #SMUHistory

It was a terrible day in Canada for men shooting children. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

But they buy for food they want to eat. So perhaps Americans would pay piecemeal for digital news they want to read which is a business model that mainstream journalism should have tried many many year ago.

Isn't that odd. We felt briefly unwell and the taps gushed with blood.

A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. n.pr/4tx7oVq

Gilligan’s Island. “A three-hour tour”

The Dow? Over 50,000 DOLLARS?! Damn

No lectures from bike bros on X and Bluesky about your pompous oracular thoughts on the B.C. mass killer right now. Women didn't want to hear it during the incel Toronto van attack, don't want to hear it now.

It's time, Canada. You'll be greeted as liberators

OK, claiming property rights in a new term (I think). I just did a Substack live with Catherine Rampell, in which she suggested that young men may be pivoting from Bitcoin to prediction markets. And it just popped into my head: the Testosterone Trade.

It is so sad and frustrating to see mainstream media in Canada fail on the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting story but this is what social media + timidity have done. I know more about the killer, his history, 13th birthday "GOOD BOY" cake, family, mom's jobs, and opinions just by searching online.

Not since 9/11 … ???

Reports that the B.C. mass killer was a young male who began identifying as female in recent years, many guns in the family home, had a long history of violence.

Two and a half weeks later, 311 is still lying to people that you cleared downtown Toronto sidewalks when you never went near them. Very progressive of you.

"we left with all of my children" is an insane thing to say in this context. are you suggesting that you might have considered leaving one of your daughters on the Epstein Island??????

I think this is a good question for any person, even if you don't believe in hell which I don't. You know what it means. Do you think you are a good human, a moral person in the eyes of whoever made you?

Oh this is so bad, so cruel. No one can top Stephen Miller but this Epstein pal is a runner-up for the most heartless beast of the Trump administration.

Wow someone has finally topped proposing in public.

Leave no child behind

Nope. Dirty old men and the love of ostentation is not "of our age." There's nothing new about it. Industries and sources of the money may vary but status anxiety has always been screaming out, just like the victims of these awful men. Old old monsters.

Dirty old man has no idea. About that whole thing.

Dirty old man went to dirty old island, hides behind skirts of female family.

The 'Melania' director was behind that Mike Tyson Super Bowl ad. Brett Ratner, who has come under fire for sexual misconduct allegations and appearing in the Epstein files, directed the ad encouraging Americans to "eat real food." www.ms.now/news/the-mel...