liam and his dad are home! and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

Non-UK category:

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

Today's front pages from Canada's national scope newspapers. Spot the American-owned one.

BigB Radio song of the day! I enjoy when MVs take their titles literally. (eng subs in CCs) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkPj...

Oh hey Ohio folks et al, there’s a thing on Monday in Springfield, where Haitians are losing Temporary Protected Status. web.cvent.com/event/f89b68...

There's too many fucking people in the Epstein files. Need Yakko Warner to sing a song about it to help me get caught up

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Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

Spend your Friday watching Catherine O'Hara being hilarious on SCTV. youtu.be/liOtOSR_Pp0?...

HOW THE FUCK IS THIS HAPPENING. (rhetorical question, Bluesky. shut up.)

WHAT?!?!?!?!?

I think they’re trying to get Black people to the streets because shooting white people isn’t working out for them narratively.

BigB Radio song of the day! (eng subs in CCs. you’ll want them here bc they make everything 80% cuter) youtu.be/hVAc1Vf2ITU

Got a question about how to register to vote from abroad, or to request all your ballots for 2026 primaries and elections? Bring your questions and join us for Live Voter Help on Zoom. The next one is this Monday, Feb 2, noon ET. www.democratsabroad.org/live_voter_h... #USpolitics #USpol #Vote

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Ask a horse if it wants to be a cop and there's your answer. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

baffling that the media isn’t making more of an issue out of how carney is gutting key federal agencies/depts and what that’s going to mean for gov capacity when we’re supposed to be more independent and capable. food inspection, health canada, statscan, global affairs — all being cut, and more

"I gotta start learning French by the way" oh god he's running

OH MY GOOOOODNESS. Literally all my faves working together? Sex Crims? Iconic Fraction/Zdarsky joint? Emily and Kumail? Tze? Am. I. Dreaming. This is truly sincerely amazing news. Congrats all & can't wait to watch #brimpers #sexcrims #detectivehole #notinthis #yet

BigB Radio song of the day! youtu.be/kOHB85vDuow

PLEASE REACH OUT. Springfield is ready to welcome helping hands. There's a lot to do, a place for you can and will be found! We have to keep our plans and rotations off SM bc we are a small town, organizers here are running different risks than in major metros Find us! We will connect you!

I am pretty devastated that I've been left no option but to leave an official role advising Gander...if you've followed my career, I want nothing more than a better option for Canadians online...but I won't back something that isn't capable of meeting this need with total integrity and excellence.

This is a special piece of work. (Also! Useful!)

Boycotting Amazon / Audible? 👇 Tech to Know #2: LibroFM (@libro.fm) - DRM-Free Downloads (you own your book) - Credit subscription available - Human support Best yet, they are employee-owned and donate a portion of each sale to a local bookstore 📚

One great writer's obituary for another. Brian Howard on Dan McQuade. "Nobody understood Philadelphia, and Philadelphians, like Dan." www.phillymag.com/news/2026/01...

So there have been Canadians detained or sent back bc they don’t want them working in the US buuuuut… 🤷🏻‍♂️

@amandafollett.bsky.social covered it yesterday for folks looking for more detail: thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

shout out to Dan McQuade, who took me up on an offer to see Hannibal Buress at the Troc, pulled out his phone to record the Bill Cosby joke, and through the butterfly effect of the internet sent Bill Cosby to prison and kickstarted the #MeToo movement. He was one of the kindest guys I’ve ever met.

Well, it’s time to re-up with these guys again! haitiansupportcenter.org

As @jenniferkates.bsky.social reminds me, it was Dan McQuade who was at Hannibal Burress's October 2014 show at the Troc when he said “You rape women, Bill Cosby,” happened to be recording it, made it go viral, and from then on no one ever could forget or deny who Bill Cosby was.

Heyyyy new banger from my fave Toronto YouTuber just dropped. youtu.be/uxJ_IncugBY?...

lol like anyone really wants to know why the Browns never win. But yeah, read it anyway.

Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money. And he was still threatening to kill someone.

Yes ofc can’t trust the one not meant to make money, got it. 🙄

I interviewed @laurajedeed.bsky.social for @longlead.com's Depth Perception newsletter about her recent piece for Slate about applying for a job with ICE. Check it out: depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/journalist...

Bigb Radio song of the day. 🐯🕸️ youtu.be/eOOsAeOx5a0

Having to be on FB bc of family sucks but the niece posted videos of her husband pulling her and the girls on sleds around a yard track on his little scrambler plow and that was pretty fucking dope.

BigB Radio song o’ the day! (eng subs in CCs) youtu.be/ZvhpjERxJlQ

Oh. Found the LRAD. In Minneapolis. Being used on Americans. By their own militarized state police forces. That we all pay for. www.reddit.com/r/NextGenReb...

Bonus Time! Jeb and @mauraquint.bsky.social decided to find out what happens when two pals finally watch a show where nosediving into a Canadian backyard pond hurls you backward through intergenerational women's trauma AND the space time-continuum.

Hey folks! A friend on the ground in the Twin Cities has shared another wishlist with me! These supplies will also go to support folks who are walking patrols & protecting communities! There are many ways to join the professional pop-up leftist supply depot bankrollers! 💓

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

Why are our tax dollars subsidizing American propaganda?

BigB Radio song of the day. “Killer Joy” is just *such* a phrase. youtu.be/ND5FhEsjVUk

I don’t naturally look for conflict in general, but I firmly believe Paul Hollywood is going to absolutely fucking spiral during production and British media will be packed with tales of drama. I’d like to be wrong. But c’mon. That said, LFG Nigella.

Niko was in the Yukon with The Odyssey, North of 60 and Red Green; I was in Ohio with Party Game, Seeing Things and Carole Pope singing High School Confidential on the Junos. This stuff matters.

Bluesky idea: It’s not about “you”.

Ah, we’ve got walking-in-the-middle-of-the-street snow. Got it. #dlws #toronto