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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 3h

The @nytimes.com continues to report with all the credulity of a seven-year-old on Christmas morning dutifully announcing that Santa’s reindeer ate the carrots that were left out.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

Over the past week, ICE and border patrol agents have clashed with Chicago residents, and federal guard troops arriving in the city might inflame tensions further. Our reporters describe the situation on the ground.

Listen to "The Daily."

Trump Claims ‘Rebellion’ in American Cities

President Trump said he would consider using the Insurrection Act to deploy the National Guard in Chicago and other places.

nyti.ms

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 4h

America doing brand outreach. I don’t think most people grasp there’s no “Trump’s America” on the world stage. You can’t simply reboot the franchise down the road.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 21h

What we might get out of it is a friendly tweet. I’m off for not posturing, but to me, this went too far.

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 23h

I have long said we aren’t going to win this by out Trump and Trump. Being Trump doesn’t even really work for Trump but this is not how you thread that needle.

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 23h

I would totally forgive this if there was any chance it would work but it absolutely will not. As it is this just a bonfire of Carney and Canadian credibility.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah. The opposition parties really seem to have bought into the idea that only suburban votes count.

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t need Doug Ford qualifiers in this headline. The Hospital for Sick Children’s study showing “automated speed cameras reduce aggressive driving and speeding by almost half” didn’t make the cut.
Just call them speed cameras.

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 1d

#Breaking: Doug Ford rejects mayors' plea to rethink banning speed camera 'cash grab'

‘The answer is no’: Doug Ford rejects mayors’ plea to rethink banning speed camera ‘cash grab’

“The only thing municipal speed cameras are 100 per cent effective at is taking money from hard-working people,” Doug Ford wrote in his response.

www.thestar.com

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 1d

I regret to inform you all we must retire the word “fucking.”
So long fucking, you served us so, uh, damn well.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 1d

Excited for this. The Moomins are in good hands.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 2d

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 4d

They’ve never really topped Lisa Simpson.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6d

Who are the best democratic messengers?

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 4d

The whole package, Peacemaker opening credits deserve a special Emmy.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d

Thankful for the new season of Peacemaker for putting this song into my personal rotation youtu.be/Om_VWBua0_M?...

Foxy Shazam - Oh Lord (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RHINO

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 4d

Van Art Nation

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
@DilanianMSNBC
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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote a short piece for the Observer on the attacks in Manchester.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

My son recently found a swastika drawn on the pavement at...

The Manchester attack didn't come as a shock. The only surprise is it hasn’t happened sooner

observer.co.uk

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 5d

With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

How Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss have taken the NY Times’ campus concern trolling to new heights in just 2 years

www.mediamatters.org

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

If you're interested in Paramount, CBS News, the Free Press, or the right-wing takeover of the media, please help spread this around and let's see if we can find out anything interesting :-)

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

If you work at CBS News and have anything you'd like to share, please text me on Signal premthakker.35

Your anonymity will be protected

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

Paramount is about to pay $150 million for this

New article from The Free Press

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human

“Not everyone is happy about this gorgeous innovation,” writes Tyler Cowen.

Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.
By Tyler Cowen
10.02.25

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

If you work at CBS News and have anything you'd like to share, please text me on Signal premthakker.35

Your anonymity will be protected

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely great to hear @cathmckenna.bsky.social speak at @utoronto.ca’s Trinity College tonight. Her new book is “Run Like a Girl” and boy, she sold it.

A photo of Catherine McKenna sitting on a chair on a stage wearing a bright pink dress while being interviewed, behind her is a large blowup of her new book “Run Like a Girl.”

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 7d

The people at this ostrich farm are the same gang that opposed M-103, co-opted yellow vests, push UN / WEF conspiracies, opposed lockdowns, face masks and vaccines, occupied Ottawa, harassed people at drag story time events etc

It’s all the same far-right influencers and content creators every time

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 7d

A 72-year-old woman who lives next to that ostrich farm where a group of convoy people are camping out was doused in gasoline and physically assaulted by a man in a balaclava who may have been trying to light her in fire

She says she survived the attack by kicking the man in the nuts and biting him

RCMP investigate alleged assault of woman who lives beside B.C. ostrich farm

The RCMP are providing round the clock protection for a B.C., resident who lives next to Universal Ostrich Farms (UOF) after a masked man doused the woman in gasoline and punched her in the face.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 7d

A 72-year-old woman who lives next to that ostrich farm where a group of convoy people are camping out was doused in gasoline and physically assaulted by a man in a balaclava who may have been trying to light her in fire

She says she survived the attack by kicking the man in the nuts and biting him

RCMP investigate alleged assault of woman who lives beside B.C. ostrich farm

The RCMP are providing round the clock protection for a B.C., resident who lives next to Universal Ostrich Farms (UOF) after a masked man doused the woman in gasoline and punched her in the face.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks @lucympowell.bsky.social. Every kind person, every not-particularly-kind-but-just-sensible person should oppose this cruel and unworkable ban. The traditional “sort yourselves out” policy is the only way to run a public bathroom.

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 7d

Lucy Powell has warned that Labour should not wave through a devastating trans bathroom ban 👇

Ripping up trans rights would be a disaster for Labour, for business, for women, and for the wider LGBT+ community.

It's wrong. Labour needs to stop aping Trump and Farage, and protect our human rights.

Lucy Powell calls for MPs to vote on single sex space guidance

The Labour deputy leadership candidate calls for a debate and vote on guidance which is expected to say that trans people should be excluded from single sex spaces.

news.sky.com

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 7d

I’m in London for a few months every winter and each time I go back I’m struck by how the air, and traffic, is noticeably better than the last time.

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Jake Tobin @jaketobin.bsky.social · 7d

Before sunrise in Toronto

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 7d

“The Ulez scheme, introduced in 2019, meant the drivers of the most polluting cars had to pay a £12.50 daily charge.
The zone was extended across the whole of Greater London in August 2023, creating the world's biggest pollution charging zone.”
And walk or bike through London, you feel it.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 7d

184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time.

This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.

London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says

The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.

www.bbc.co.uk

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