Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦
@tomhawthorn.bsky.social
Mean and nasty Canadian. Author of "Play Ball!," a lavishly illustrated, coffee-table book about pro baseball in Vancouver, B.C., now available for sale at Nat Bailey Stadium and the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
Dersh ("I Kept My Underpants On When Given Massage by Babushka") is so charismatic even a lowly Martha's Vineyard pirogi maker doesn't want his business.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Dersh ("I Kept My Underpants On When Given Massage by Babushka") is so charismatic even a lowly Martha's Vineyard pirogi maker doesn't want his business.
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Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
More like the Upper Canadian Baseball League.
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
More like the Upper Canadian Baseball League.
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Just heard the news that Jimmy Cliff has died
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
RON SINGS "SITTING IN LIMBO" BY JIMMY CLIFF
YouTube video by Rawnboy
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just heard the news that Jimmy Cliff has died
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
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A garish, aspirational portrait for POTUS
#artwriting #creativeprocess
open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
#artwriting #creativeprocess
open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A garish, aspirational portrait for POTUS
#artwriting #creativeprocess
open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
#artwriting #creativeprocess
open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
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Look what we did. From the ever-creative @carlynyandle.bsky.social. And me.
A portrait for POTUS open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
A portrait for POTUS open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
A portrait for POTUS
Why a good drawing needed glitter-bombing
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Look what we did. From the ever-creative @carlynyandle.bsky.social. And me.
A portrait for POTUS open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
A portrait for POTUS open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...
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Sixty-two year ago this morning, I heard a prophet speak on the Fort Ord firing range. First published in The Tyee in 2003: thetyee.ca/Life/2003/11...
As Good a Shot as Oswald | The Tyee
Rifle in hand, I heard Kennedy was murdered. Suddenly the map no longer fit the terrain. Somehow it led to Canada.
thetyee.ca
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Sixty-two year ago this morning, I heard a prophet speak on the Fort Ord firing range. First published in The Tyee in 2003: thetyee.ca/Life/2003/11...
Too soon?
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Too soon?
So I guess the middle initial in RFK Jr. doesn't stand for Fitzgerald after all.
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
So I guess the middle initial in RFK Jr. doesn't stand for Fitzgerald after all.
McFaul has this exactly right. Ukraine is the example that disproves all the lies on which Russian politics are based.
I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
McFaul has this exactly right. Ukraine is the example that disproves all the lies on which Russian politics are based.
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I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
Dumbdumb Macoute
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
NTX men planned to murder men, enslave women on foreign island: Indictment
Two North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
www.fox4news.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Dumbdumb Macoute
I took my 5-year-old son to the final Canucks game at the Pacific Coliseum on May 27, 1995.
He's now 36 and will be attending tonight's sold-out inaugural home opener of the Vancouver Goldeneyes at the Coliseum.
He's now 36 and will be attending tonight's sold-out inaugural home opener of the Vancouver Goldeneyes at the Coliseum.
Tonight marks a huge milestone as the Goldeneyes hit the ice for their first-ever home opener at the iconic Pacific Coliseum!
A brand-new team in the PWHL and already making history with a sold-out game. B.C, let’s show up loud and proud to cheer them on as they take on the Seattle Torrent! #PWHL
A brand-new team in the PWHL and already making history with a sold-out game. B.C, let’s show up loud and proud to cheer them on as they take on the Seattle Torrent! #PWHL
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I took my 5-year-old son to the final Canucks game at the Pacific Coliseum on May 27, 1995.
He's now 36 and will be attending tonight's sold-out inaugural home opener of the Vancouver Goldeneyes at the Coliseum.
He's now 36 and will be attending tonight's sold-out inaugural home opener of the Vancouver Goldeneyes at the Coliseum.
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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On Jan. 29, 1942, the German submarine U-132 torpedoed USCGC Alexander Hamilton off the coast of Iceland, killing 26 of her crew.
On Sept. 9, 1942, a German torpedo sank USS Muskeget, killing 117 USCG crew.
What a disgrace to their memory.
On Sept. 9, 1942, a German torpedo sank USS Muskeget, killing 117 USCG crew.
What a disgrace to their memory.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
On Jan. 29, 1942, the German submarine U-132 torpedoed USCGC Alexander Hamilton off the coast of Iceland, killing 26 of her crew.
On Sept. 9, 1942, a German torpedo sank USS Muskeget, killing 117 USCG crew.
What a disgrace to their memory.
On Sept. 9, 1942, a German torpedo sank USS Muskeget, killing 117 USCG crew.
What a disgrace to their memory.
Random thought: Lake St. Clair is the Pluto of the Great Lakes.
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Random thought: Lake St. Clair is the Pluto of the Great Lakes.
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I would urge anyone from another country thinking of setting foot in the US for the World Cup or otherwise, don't go.
An Irish woman. A veteran’s wife.
Detained since JULY. Since JULY!!
In case you thought any of us were safe.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Detained since JULY. Since JULY!!
In case you thought any of us were safe.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
‘She’s been degraded’: A man’s battle in Washington to free his Irish wife from Ice detention
Jim Brown tells representatives about the plight of his wife, Donna Hughes-Brown, who has been detained since July after returning from Ireland
www.irishtimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I would urge anyone from another country thinking of setting foot in the US for the World Cup or otherwise, don't go.
Those Freedumb Truckers did cause two political leaders to lose jobs — Erin O'Toole as Conservative leader and his successor Pierre Poilievre as MP for Carleton.
Incredible Taibbi article where he said Trudeau’s battle with the Freedom Truckers was his “Ceausescu moment” (Trudeau was not, as it turned out, executed on Canadian public television, he left office on his own two feet a couple of years later and his party was re-elected, so Taibbi was wrong)
I hope no one gives that clown money to read this slip, but yes sadly here is the link:
www.racket.news/p/justin-tru...
www.racket.news/p/justin-tru...
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Those Freedumb Truckers did cause two political leaders to lose jobs — Erin O'Toole as Conservative leader and his successor Pierre Poilievre as MP for Carleton.
I miss @lizrenzetti.bsky.social's column in the Globe. Happy to find her in @thestar.com.
Trump’s deployed the word ‘Piggy’ against a woman reporter. Here’s why that shows he’s getting scared
#Opinion from Star contributor @lizrenzetti.bsky.social
#Opinion from Star contributor @lizrenzetti.bsky.social
Elizabeth Renzetti: Trump’s deployed the word ‘Piggy’ against a woman reporter. Here’s why that shows he’s getting scared
Finally, the hounds of justice are nipping at Trump’s heels
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I miss @lizrenzetti.bsky.social's column in the Globe. Happy to find her in @thestar.com.
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This Day in Labor History: November 19, 1915. Utah executed IWW organizer Joe Hill for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. But he was an Wobbly and dispensable to society, especially in Utah, a starkly conservative western state outraged by the sheer existence of these radicals!!!
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 19, 1915. Utah executed IWW organizer Joe Hill for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. But he was an Wobbly and dispensable to society, especially in Utah, a starkly conservative western state outraged by the sheer existence of these radicals!!!