i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services

Boss, it's the fascism.

There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok

This really feels like crossing a rubicon, frankly.

Good source protection from Benny here.

Eternal optimism of my dog who really does believe the meanest dog in the dog park, deep down, just wants a friend

this discussion on global consensus around rearmament is worth a listen podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.

This quote from neurobiologist Alison Twelvetrees hits: “A lot of men who get to the top, they’re cowards.”

“The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry.” - Epstein in email about women attending a scientific conference. “…no really smart women – none.” - Epstein in email about women in science. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

PREACH

When a healthcare system provides risk intervention signage at admitting that absolutely none of the admitting staff follows, it: (a) makes clear that the system's goal is to reduce their liability, not patient health risks; & (b) sends a message to patients that it's fine (& in fact, sensible) 1/3

Ask everyone you know what their favorite and most memorable class was in college and take careful note of how few of them name a course from their major or that is relevant to their current career.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

Started the morning with a spirited debate with tween about the merits of wearing a winter coat to school in winter. Concepts of “cold”, “temperature”, and nature of seasonality itself were all litigated to the mental decline of all involved

I'm not certain how British media managed to find such an absolutely corrosive bunch of columnists, but it really is a particularly vile crop nowadays.

Truly astounding as a trans person to watch your community be told we're not worthy of consideration by Democrats on Monday, be told to be silent and grateful all of Tuesday, and by Wednesday an entire state has criminalized trans citizens' existence.

Y’all think these are dance moves when they really are tactical maneuvers for when they are deployed to suppress us. But keep thinking it’s cute to watch how deftly robots dance.

politicians get away with bullshit because the vast majority of people let them. folks have expectations below the basement.

Disorienting to read an article talking up fed’s male mental heath strategy build up (feelings!) and then read about provincial cuts to OSAP that make higher ed an even more tricky proposition for lower income kids and collective shrug

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

No better metaphor for what association with Trump gets you than the guys who won Team USA's first gold medal since 1980 being forever remembered as the sad losers who were served cold McDonald's and bottled water at a lunch Trump didn't even bother showing up to.

Wow. This story. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

My @thestar.com column: Doug Ford’s snap decision to ban speed cameras could take $50 million and THIRTEEN YEARS for Toronto to deal with. The premier promised there’d be immediate alternatives for road safety. The problem: those alternatives don’t really exist. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Let me be the umpteenth person in your feed today to tell you this interview is remarkable.

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

So I worry the govt will use the public's justified & rightful anger re Open AI / Tumbler Ridge & how Canada still lacks that FIRST set of laws—reigning in industry—as license to pass SECOND set of laws, lawful access. While still giving us NO AI REGULATIONS. Since Solomon & AI cos are tight like 🤞

"Why not both?" Yes, it cd be both, so I'm saying, don't forget to keep pressure focused on laws that wd actually get to the root of AI-facilitated harms & abuses. Don't let Open AI outsource responsibility by just fwd'ing to LEA & washing their own hands of problems they caused & profit from.

No excuses, Ontario Let your voice be heard - comment to the Toronto Star Gift link www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Benefits of investing in province-wide vaccine registry where this info isn’t siloed 👇🏼

by my count there are only 23 films directed or co-directed by women on this list. It just makes me so dispirited that user based lists almost always have this bias for a myriad of reasons.

To those of you who have read and enjoyed any of my three books, the reason they wound up in your hands is that in 2004, Ann Godoff, the editing and publishing giant who founded Penguin Press, took a chance on me. She died yesterday at 76. I owe her more than I can say. She changed my life. >

Important context for what is being reported and what isn’t and unanswered questions.

Clarifying that it is the data report that informed global’s reporting that’s no longer being publicly produced.

Important context for what is being reported and what isn’t and unanswered questions.

🧵Between 2020 and 2023, the Ontario government produced a roll-up of data summarizing the deaths of children associated with its care network. And now, while raw numbers are still reported to the ministry, the data roll-ups showing trends seem to have been cancelled. #OnPoli

We know our reporting was on the radar of the government because, when they decided to introduce (still unpublished) audits of child welfare, it was raised as a potential communications problem in a report (see below). #onpoli

Since we published our story, the government sent another statement saying it "100% tracks and reports data on tragic deaths" and that "detailed reporting is preferable to aggregated roll-ups because it allows for specific actions that prevent tragedies from occurring again."

The question it still hasn't answered, though, is why the aggregate roll-ups only lasted for four years and why it decided to discontinue them. If they were useful in 2022, why weren't they informative in 2025? #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1169038...

We asked the government why it had stopped producing the aggregate reports, which showed the trends and had allowed us to report on deaths associated with the child welfare network. This is what we asked, and what they said #OnPoli

they sat through over two hours of racist, transphobic, hateful propaganda grinning like the idiots they are.

I was asked for thoughts on Open AI / Tumbler Ridge and sent 4-5 paragraphs of comment. I think the current discourse around whether they should have reported to the police, even though I agree 100% w/ negative sentiment twds AI cos, puts us on a dangerous precipice in terms of human rights. 🧵 1/??

Run of stupid injuries now includes cutting hand on a rusty nail.

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

NEW: CNN also confirms my reporting — and furthers the story — that the DOJ withheld at least 3 FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/u...