here's a photo of a Toronto cop brandishing a semiautomatic weapon in the middle of the afternoon to redirect traffic during a protest last week. I counted at least three others with these guns. TPS just announced that we'll be seeing a lot more of this going forward: www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Toronto - I'll be launching my book with a reading and Q+A led by the great @declouxj.bsky.social next month!

It enrages me that the Iran fiasco had basically relegated Israel’s absolutely horrific assault on Lebanon to a sideshow which barely gets noticed. That alone should be a crisis that grips the urgent attention of the entire world and nobody even notices.

"Documentary Film" - a strip for Cinematographe's Winter 2026 issue vinegarsyndrome.com/products/thi...

feel like i think about this Stuart Hall sentence once a day

Yikes

Israel’s tightened restrictions on the entry of aid into Gaza since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran have led to shortages of basic necessities and an astronomical rise in prices, raising fears of a return to famine. mondoweiss.net/2026/03/food... #Palestine #Israel

more Carney-ism in practice www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Harm reduction saves lives. The Ontario government's decision to cut all public funding for supervised consumption sites in the province is a deadly policy decision that will result in more deaths from overdoses. Supervised consumption sites are a healthcare service for people who use drugs.

Excerpt from a new one - "The Future of Confectioneries"

A week of state and media fear-mongering with the express purpose of making this rally as unsafe as possible. The last minute injunction was never intended to be "real," just another way to sew confusion

getting asked if i'd design a plush toy for a grimes-voiced AI toy remains the funniest thing i've ever received in my inbox

POD DROP! Author and cartoonist Michael DeForge on the No Arms in the Arts campaign that contributed to Scotiabank’s divestment from the Israeli weapons maker Elbit Systems. @michaeldeforge.bsky.social @palestinestudies.bsky.social @canadiandimension.bsky.social tiny.cc/4570101

guess which law firm Arif Virani, former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada, wound up at

logo design for the Law Union of Ontario

Tehran residents warned of acid rain after oil storage attack ft.trib.al/1vHcns1

Absurd. Via @justsayrad.bsky.social on the hellsite, The Toronto Film Critics Association censored lle-Máijá Tailfeathers acceptance speech because she mentioned Palestine. Both weird and pathetic!

The figures from the UN come as Israeli forces continue striking parts of the country and also staged a ground incursion into south Lebanon's border zone this morning

poster for an upcoming Toronto screening of Dreams In Nightmares, presented by Black Gold

embarrassing that anyone not born yesterday took Carney's "middle powers" Davos speech as anything more than a barefaced, cynical embrace of militarism and austerity

from the archives: this 8 year old poster for an SLC Punk screening I forgot I drew

wrote something brief on Frederick Wiseman www.patreon.com/posts/on-fre...

Pile and Ren

NEW: After Scotiabank divested from Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, I spoke to activists who kept up the pressure for 3 years. “I do think it’s safe to say that Elbit became less and less sustainable for them to hold on to.” www.readthemaple.com/scotiabank-d...

people get mad about everything being mogging this or that-maxxxing, when full ass adults are out here writing "journalism is better when it's backed by live markets"

made fan art for my favourite horror movie

I see! So what are their names

In what could be the “largest rent strike in the US in the last 100 years," a coalition of tenant + labor unions representing over 25K workers are threatening a mass rent strike in the face of the ongoing occupation by ICE. www.commondreams.org/news/minneso...

I made a playful site for TGW again this year with poster art from @michaeldeforge.bsky.social. There are three easter egg alt-sites, click around and find out?

www.noarmsinthearts.com/scotiabank-d... Campaign statement on the divestment here:

Frederick Wiseman - rare case where a 96-year-old filmmaker’s death feels tragic because they had so much more left to do. Uninterrupted streak of curiosity, empathy, wisdom, and quiet anger, ended only by the reality of living in a human body.

Frederick Wiseman was the greatest American artist to have ever lived. RIP

Cuban government has informed airlines that they only have about 24 hours worth of fuel left for planes. Beyond the obvious damage that suddenly shutting down any country's air travel would have, a not at all small % of food and medicine in Cuba comes by luggage on airlines efe.com/economia/202...

Some spots drawn for thelocal.to, illustrating some of the many delays that led up to the completion of the Eglinton LRT

poster for an Eastern Promises screening of Tsui Hark's Shanghai Blues, a movie I *love*

poster design for this year's Toronto Games Week!

New story in The Grind. Amjad Ramadan, a 52-year-old Palestinian-Canadian, is suing his former employer for wrongful dismissal after he was abruptly terminated for speaking out for Palestine. "There is a campaign to silence us," he told me. @thegrindto.bsky.social

Two illustrations for a Masayuki Suo double bill Blu-ray from @filmmovement.bsky.social and available to preorder from @vinsyn.bsky.social: Fancy Dance and Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

Front cover design for the forthcoming Between The Lines book, Mobilizing Data For Justice

New comic up for Patreon subscribers www.patreon.com/michaeldeforge

GAR chapter 2 is now available to read ! Free (tho you can pay for it, if you want) on patreon and substack! Linktr.ee/spiderbabby

I’m no longer invested in anyone figuring out the “good” social media platform, so whatever. but lol still

🔗 Read the full report: Leaked Documents: “Planned Community” in Rafah Would Force Palestinians Into Israeli Panopticon www.dropsitenews.com/p/cmcc-leake...

ALL THE CAMERAS IN MY ROOM by @michaeldeforge.bsky.social and THE WOODCHIPPER by @oldjoeollmann.bsky.social are in Quill & Quire's graphic novel Spring preview: quillandquire.com/omni/2026-sp...

a look into what exactly Judy Schulich, the scion to a mining fortune, has been up to while on the boards of so many Canadian arts institutions in addition to being a large donor to Zionist organizations, the Schulich Foundation has also given millions to the far right think tank Fraser Institute

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

Nancy 1/24/26

very generous of zoe, and as always, all agitprop i've drawn is available to print for whoever wants it drive.google.com/drive/folder...

“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising