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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 2h

When your team is not playing, playoff baseball is incredible entertaining.

When your team is playing, it's like watching your only child tightrope walking.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 4h

A 66 year old residential school survivor was invited to be the first to start tearing down the remains of his former residential school near Tofino, B.C. this week. He says he was scared to return but ultimately it helped heal his soul www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Survivors hope for healing as former residential school near Tofino is demolished | CBC News

The last remaining buildings of the Christie Residential School on Meares Island near Tofino, B.C., were demolished in a ceremony Thursday, attended by survivors who said they hoped the destruction of...

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 10h

Bari Weiss is a no-talent hack, but full credit for getting a moron billionaire to pay $150 million for a site with 170,000 paid subscribers.

Defector @defector.com · 12h

How could the Free Press be worth a reported $150 million, and why is its oafish founder about to oversee a huge press operation? Respectively: It isn't, and she shouldn't. defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor…

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 10h

Good riddance to one creepy former panelist.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 23h

What did the slug order for secondi?

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering Moby Doll - the #killerwhale whale who changed the world on the anniversary of his death in 1964 #orca @skaana.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/leirenyo...

Remembering Moby Doll

The Killer Whale Who Changed the World Drowned on Oct. 9, 1964

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Damned Yankees.

Donald Trump gives thumbs-up while posing with Yankees players in their clubhouse.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 2d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 2d

“Habeas Corpus is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 2d

Since Google doesn't yet do Canadian-to-American translations, @brittlestar.com is here to help us out.

Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 2d

PASSIVE AGGRESSION TRANSLATED

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 2d

How can I re-cancel my already cancelled subscription?

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 2d

Ramones played the University of B.C. campus in Vancouver, Canada, in 1980, the same year Tennessee Williams became a writer in residence on campus. (Alas, the events were several months apart.) @raxkingisdead.bsky.social

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 2d

When Babe Ruth's future adopted daughter, Julie Ruth Stevens, was born in 1917, he had only seven career home runs to his name. She lived long enough to see him hit 714, Henry Aaron hit 755 and Barry Bonds hit 762. She also lived long enough to witness Shohei Ohtani's rookie season.

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Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 3d

Two men convicted of fraud over allegations from the $300-million redevelopment of Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital.

My colleagues first uncovered the procurement issues of this project a decade ago. Investigative journalism is a long-term commitment.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Two men convicted of fraud in connection with St. Michael’s Hospital redevelopment

Verdict marks the culmination of a process that began in 2015, when Bondfield was awarded the $300-million project

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 5d

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 6d

Genuinely incredible how unprofessional these guys are. One dude yelling in your face and you immediately assault them on camera?

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 6d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 7d

During the October Crisis in Québec in 1970, police seized books on cubism thinking they were about Cuba.

Gabi 雪 @gabimccauley.bsky.social · 7d

I'm still just baffled at the sheer stupidity here.

“You got a vial of opium that was in your center console,” an officer told Raghu. “Go and take a seat.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Arkansas man seeks to have visa status restored after being arrested for ‘Opium’ perfume bottle

Police thought bottle contained drugs and arrested Kapil Raghu, who was then taken into custody by Ice

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 7d

Dude, no living Soviet leaders were depicted on currency.

Nazi Germany put Hindenburg, not Hitler, on its coins.

Fascist Italy put King Victor Emmanuel III, not Mussolini, on its coins.

Only two-bit fascists like Franco were insecure enough to place their own image on coins.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7d

As a kid, I got into politics partly to do my bit fighting the Soviet Union.

Now we have a president who wants to turn us into a country that mimics the Soviet Union.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin

The draft design of the coin, which was overseen by the Office of the U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, features Trump’s profile on one side of the coin.

www.politico.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

Several journalists resigned this week from three newspapers in Alaska after the publications’ corporate owner made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk’s death, after pressure from a Republican state lawmaker who had criticized the coverage.

Journalists at 3 Alaska Newspapers Quit Over Charlie Kirk Story

The publications in Alaska lost significant staffing after the owners made changes to an article that had drawn criticism from a Republican state lawmaker.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 7d

Privately hoping that someone in Canada's vast Ukrainian diaspora will read about the need for Ukrainian-language Harry Potter books in at the school library in Pavlohrad, and decide to fill that gap...

Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 7d

Life, death - and just carrying on - in a Ukrainian city as the war gets closer.

A week in the life of Pavlohrad, a city bracing for its turn on the frontline if Pokrovsk, an hour's drive to the east, falls.

My report, with amazing photography by @olgaivashchenko.bsky.social

This Ukrainian city isn’t on the front lines yet. If that changes, everything changes

Pavlohrad is bracing for the day it turns into another Mariupol or Bakhmut. The Globe went there to see how locals feel – and what hard choices they might face if the Russians come

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 8d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 8d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 8d

This Day in Labor History: October 2, 1968. the Mexican military slaughtered students protesting in the Tlateloco Plaza at the edge of Mexico City. The Tlateloco Massacre demonstrated the complete corruption of the Mexican Revolution’s ideals!!!

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