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cheating on one book by dropping its revisions to draft a completely new book for which the idea just came to me shhhhhhhh, don’t out me

Weaponized road construction. What a fantastic idea. Unions should be all over this.

tyranical leaders will be overthrown…by the familiars of the cat ladies

This is important. We can’t keep looking away.

Elbows up is a *defensive* move, used to enforce boundaries.

Cancelling Disney to stop fascism reminds me of bringing my own bags to the grocery store to save the environment. I mean I’m on board but like… we all gonna need to stretch a bit more too I think.

It’s the law.

The good news is we came back from it then, we can do it again.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Unifor, Canada's largest private sector union, has launched a new 'Fact Checked' campaign to combat misinformation and support Canadian journalism. www.chch.com/chch-news/ca...

THEY GOT TO DEREK

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

💔

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“President Donald Trump didn’t create all our divisions as Americans. But he has found every fault line in America and wrenched them wide open.” — Robert Redford, 1939–2025

this is the most gen x post that i, a gen x’er, have ever seen

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

the only rational explanation

Bwahaha

in a way, isn’t that exactly what every woman is for forty-ofd years of their life

the thread you need today

Not a fan of "reminder" posts, but today maybe relevant to recall that the first lie of fascism is inevitability.

and in doing so, proving it’s true.

We see you, America ♥️

Not for nothing, the character in Apocalypse Now that he’s quoting, Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, spoke this line “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning” while he was in the process of committing heinous war crimes, murdering an entire village of Vietnamese civilians with Napalm.

BELIEVE WOMEN

Not sure why people are so upset at the death of democracy. We hardly used it.

He can’t really be a Kennedy. He hasn’t succumbed to the Kennedy curse. i want my money back

*primal scream*

100%

PRAISE BE

LIVIN THE DREAM

This is what we created government to do for us.

How do you reinvigorate your creativity when it flags? Author Emilie-Noelle Provost shares her methods and tips, today at WU.

Truth Bomb 💣

I wrote this about our wildfire summer and the particular anger that comes with so much good knowledge going unused as ignorance is leveraged. And included a snippet of reporting! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Oh, thank the gods. Watching American society participate in the patently obvious delusion that what’s happening is normal was becoming painful to watch.

NEW CROP APPLES OMFG ITS HAPPENING

Fight the class war, not the manufactured rage-bait culture war.

Apparently some folks are unaware that I have a YouTube channel, and I have been told that I should promote it, so here is my YouTube channel mostly full of political comedy but I'm pretty sure my old Survivor application video is on there too. Like an easter egg! www.youtube.com/@itsclarebla...

There should be a word to describe the specific hollow loneliness of finishing a book.

So heartening! 💙

Really appreciated this conversation with Adam Straus about THE SLIP for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social!

Anyway, here's an article I wrote about eugenics. It's old now, so many more terrible things have happened. I haven't gone back in time yet to include them, which I'm sure will offend some, but, nevertheless. www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

Good Morning Gays!

August has gone from feeling like gently swinging at the tip top of the ferris wheel to being on a high speed train with no brakes, crashing into September.

THE PEOPLE