Sophie Paas-Lang
@sophiepaaslang.bsky.social
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Fixing the housing problem will require 1) massive unpopular physical change and 2) a lot of government spending. The feds have relative political freedom to push for the first thing, and they have all the money.
February 7, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Fixing the housing problem will require 1) massive unpopular physical change and 2) a lot of government spending. The feds have relative political freedom to push for the first thing, and they have all the money.
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The federal government has the power of the purse. They just tried to use it to push cities into rezoning, a powerful strategy, and then caved at the first sign of pushback.
Lots of blame to go around.
Lots of blame to go around.
February 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
The federal government has the power of the purse. They just tried to use it to push cities into rezoning, a powerful strategy, and then caved at the first sign of pushback.
Lots of blame to go around.
Lots of blame to go around.
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ahh.... womens ski jump. so pure, untainted by textile chicanery or penis enlargement tactics
February 7, 2026 at 5:05 PM
ahh.... womens ski jump. so pure, untainted by textile chicanery or penis enlargement tactics
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This might be a great year to say no to their $100 million budget increase demand.
Toronto mayor calls for ‘systemic changes’ amid allegations of police corruption
Chow reacts after 8 Toronto police officers charged in organized crime, corruption probe
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said the residents of her city “deserve to know that the police officers they deal with every day can be trusted, not corrupt, and acting with integrity.”
www.cp24.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
This might be a great year to say no to their $100 million budget increase demand.
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I knew about the tow truck wars in Toronto but I did not know that MORE THAN 1 IN 8 bullets fired by guns anywhere in Toronto in the year 2024 were related to tow truck driver turf wars???
And the police force is not just complicit but LEAKING INFO TO HITMEN????
And the police force is not just complicit but LEAKING INFO TO HITMEN????
February 5, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I knew about the tow truck wars in Toronto but I did not know that MORE THAN 1 IN 8 bullets fired by guns anywhere in Toronto in the year 2024 were related to tow truck driver turf wars???
And the police force is not just complicit but LEAKING INFO TO HITMEN????
And the police force is not just complicit but LEAKING INFO TO HITMEN????
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The long-winding saga for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT goes back further than you think...
Check out this super fun and interactive timeline made by McKenna Hart with words from me!
thestar.com/interactives... via
@thestar.com
Check out this super fun and interactive timeline made by McKenna Hart with words from me!
thestar.com/interactives... via
@thestar.com
Relive the twists and turns in the Eglinton LRT’s 50-year odyssey before Sunday’s launch — if you’re game
For more than five decades, rapid transit along Eglinton Avenue has been a must-have in any city plan. What took it so long?
thestar.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
The long-winding saga for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT goes back further than you think...
Check out this super fun and interactive timeline made by McKenna Hart with words from me!
thestar.com/interactives... via
@thestar.com
Check out this super fun and interactive timeline made by McKenna Hart with words from me!
thestar.com/interactives... via
@thestar.com
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it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 1:16 AM
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
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I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
February 4, 2026 at 11:53 AM
I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
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roasted his ass
the earliest depiction of Christ’s crucifixion is among the ruins of a Roman palace turned messenger boy’s school - a student mocking one of his Christian classmates with a doodle of a boy praying to a donkey-headed figure on a cross captioned “Alexamenos worshipping his God”
February 3, 2026 at 11:08 PM
roasted his ass
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One of Aristide Maillol’s early commissions, in 1939, was to illustrate Paul Verlaine’s Chansons pour Elle, poems about passion and desire. His spare, stylish woodcuts are a perfect complement to Verlaine, and you can see them all now at www.honesterotica.com/portfolios/5....
February 1, 2026 at 7:24 AM
One of Aristide Maillol’s early commissions, in 1939, was to illustrate Paul Verlaine’s Chansons pour Elle, poems about passion and desire. His spare, stylish woodcuts are a perfect complement to Verlaine, and you can see them all now at www.honesterotica.com/portfolios/5....
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And most of the major media did not take it as seriously as they should have because they were also often ridiculed by Gawker etc. An entire century thus far of reactionary politics from people getting owned online.
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
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 9:27 PM
And most of the major media did not take it as seriously as they should have because they were also often ridiculed by Gawker etc. An entire century thus far of reactionary politics from people getting owned online.
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"Sacrifices" sticker coming tomorrow.
December 10, 2024 at 1:49 PM
"Sacrifices" sticker coming tomorrow.
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Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank
Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank
Exclusive: ‘Regional defence’ settler units are escalating violent displacement of Palestinians, Israeli reservists and activists say
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Thomas Aquinas has a little chat with Christ in his spatially fascinating cell/chapel. As depicted by Sassetta, painter of Siena, whose day is today.
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Thomas Aquinas has a little chat with Christ in his spatially fascinating cell/chapel. As depicted by Sassetta, painter of Siena, whose day is today.
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no one knows what's in the Melania movie. and no one ever will. lost media currently playing in theaters
January 29, 2026 at 3:14 AM
no one knows what's in the Melania movie. and no one ever will. lost media currently playing in theaters
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Great reporting from my colleague @ericwickham.ca
Countries like Ireland and Italy have waived biometrics requirements and even facilitated departures for students in Gaza. But students accepted to Canadian universities are stuck in limbo.
Countries like Ireland and Italy have waived biometrics requirements and even facilitated departures for students in Gaza. But students accepted to Canadian universities are stuck in limbo.
More than 100 Gazans have been accepted to Canadian universities.
Canada isn’t letting them in.
pressprogress.ca/gazans-accep...
Canada isn’t letting them in.
pressprogress.ca/gazans-accep...
More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.
See a map of the graduate programs they're planning to attend, if the government finally processes their visas
pressprogress.ca
January 28, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Great reporting from my colleague @ericwickham.ca
Countries like Ireland and Italy have waived biometrics requirements and even facilitated departures for students in Gaza. But students accepted to Canadian universities are stuck in limbo.
Countries like Ireland and Italy have waived biometrics requirements and even facilitated departures for students in Gaza. But students accepted to Canadian universities are stuck in limbo.
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This is literally the same shit Putin has done in occupied Ukrainian territory.
The unimaginable evil of this. No punishment will suffice. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and sending them to Texas within hours — in at least two cases against a judge’s order. ...
www.mprnews.org
January 28, 2026 at 3:20 PM
This is literally the same shit Putin has done in occupied Ukrainian territory.
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I think that Toronto streetcars should be permitted to ram parked cars that are blocking the tracks. In fact, I they should have devices affixed to the front to better facilitate this.
January 28, 2026 at 12:51 AM
I think that Toronto streetcars should be permitted to ram parked cars that are blocking the tracks. In fact, I they should have devices affixed to the front to better facilitate this.
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I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911!
“I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads
“I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads
ICE Unloads
Immigration officers speak out: “Fuck this.”
www.kenklippenstein.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:38 AM
I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911!
“I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads
“I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.
January 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.