Welcome to strip-tease-every-time-you-go-indoors season.

ICE agents spent Christmas Eve arresting a man in a Walmart parking lot—even taking his groceries for themselves. A bystander asked ICE if she could take down the phone number of his wife to let her know her husband had been detained. The ICE agents refused. trib.al/kF8CDpe

We don’t have a complete account of Donald Trump and his family’s finances. But a clear picture has emerged: enrichment of the First Family on a scale that is unprecedented in American history. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wKHd1v

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...

Use the proceeds from penalties to fund mental health care. Also, just fund mental health care anyway. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

A group of Venezuelans who were sent to a maximum-security El Salvador prison from the US and then returned to Venezuela called for the United States to comply with a ruling that would allow them to challenge their deportation in US courts reut.rs/4pVoB8V

Journalism is not a crime. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

It's been snowing for about eight hours.

This is worth a read. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...

Toronto motorists: There is a snowstorm. If you want to drive more than 20km/hr in the city, stay home and play Mario Kart.

If your child is a minor and has no "internal flight alternative" in the US you all *might* have a shot...but (a) that's a deliberately high bar; (b) I'm not sure how Canada employs "medical inadmissibility" in that context.

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate (even secularly)! If you're having turkey tonight, you might find this cookbooklet useful over the next few days!👇

I know why news orgs do this. But I think, given the spread of misinformation and decline of media literacy, we need to get better at saying in the hed, "The evidence says he's wrong." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

How do I render plantain palatable without frying it? Tried roasting (skin on) and it turned out inedibly dry.

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A depression drug's failure is (sorry) depressing but even more so is the company's intention to eschew future psychiatric trials. We need better treatment options so badly. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Rather than shuttling detainees around the country to wherever detention space is available, ICE aims to speed up deportations by renovating industrial warehouses to hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time, according to a draft solicitation. https://wapo.st/4aqyir8

Toronto sidewalks are frozen runnels of snot today. Careful out there.

"Happy holidays. Talk soon" is going to get me an uttering threats charge.

Ditto for mental illness.

Anyone else having issues with Canada's access-to-info site?

"their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back. They were not defending a universal right to freedom of speech; they were defending a right to monologue." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... via @adamserwer.bsky.social

"Some of the countries that have signed [health deals with the U.S.] either have been hit by U.S. aid cuts or have separate agreements with the Trump administration to accept and host third-country deportees, although officials have denied any linkage." apnews.com/article/us-a...

"since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I'm in a medical waiting room and the receptionist is blasting Sabrina Carpenter and I can't help feeling like this is part of the experiment.

"Two men have been found guilty of plotting to “kill as many Jewish people as they could”, in what detectives believe would have been the UK’s worst terror attack if it hadn’t been thwarted." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

These are the journalists the US President is calling enemies of the people.

NEW: @annamaria.bsky.social spent time at a maternity ward in Kakuma, Kenya, after the Trump administration cut funding for food rations there. New mothers told her stories about their pregnancies as they were left to starve.

Things you'd rather not overhear from a subway station supervisor: "Yeah, we've got a whole nest in there."

me: false binaries are a scourge. also me: there can *only* be rain OR snow; nothing in between.

There are a lot of bad things happening but surely one of them is that we're setting the stage for some truly awful historical fiction.

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

So Weiss failed to 1) protect her newsroom and reporters 2) understand public perception 3) comprehend the impact of her own actions 4) REALIZE THEY ALREADY SENT THE EPISODE TO CANADA WHERE PEOPLE HAVE THE INTERNET AND CAN BROADCAST IT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

Can't remember the last time I watched a 60 Minutes episode but I kinda have to, now, huh.

Making an intvu subject laugh is either a good sign or a really, really bad one.

In the throes of a bad respiratory illness season, Canadian provinces are in the pocket of Big Virus.

Reiterating, just because: I am hungry for stories, tips, burning questions. Send me yours: [email protected] or [email protected] or DM.

Just scheduled an email for January 5. I am a benevolent monster.

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