Exciting new addition to already stacked lineup for TO book launch - Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan of the luminous Yo La Tengo music group will be spinning records all nights. Advance tickets here: ra.co/events/2368611
@tabathasouthey.bsky.social @itsakirby.bsky.social @jasonmcbride.bsky.social
JD Vance, crying as he fucks the couch.
My dear @derekmccormack.bsky.social, has a brilliant new book/art project out now — The Shithole Opry Collector's Guide — & it's his most fiendish & hilarious project to date. If you're in San Francisco on 4/23, join us at Cushion Works & see the art for yourself www.cushionworks.org/derek-mccorm...
Sina Rahmani & his The East Is a Podcast is a vital, profound & weirdly comforting voice in these shitty times. This interview with @sashafrerejones.bsky.social is a must-read n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/apri...
Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people.
Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.
What has this province done for kids — at all?!
Tracy Kidder's MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS is one of the most inspiring, captivating, beautifully reported biographies/works of journalism ever. RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...
Really can't imagine the level of asshole who would punch a crossing guard in the face thelocal.to/crossing-gua...
less talk about cold plunges and jawlines, more building your wife a table and your kids a playset
This profile of the great John Samson Fellows in @hazlitt.bsky.social is somehow both heartbreaking & heartwarming. I can't stop thinking about it hazlitt.net/longreads/la...
Front page of Toronto star
Will anyone stand up to Ford? My airport column makes a rare appearance on the front page of the Toronto Star today. Local democracy steamrolled. Backroom decisions. Liberals acquiescing. Feckless & weak establishment carrying his water. Fait accompli? Read here:
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...
No one covers education as thoroughly as @wencyleung.bsky.social
A must-read on the discrepancies between the ford govts stated aims in its board takeover —reining in spending —and the historic crisis of chronic underfunding that aim obscures
thelocal.to/ontario-scho...
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
Ha mine is obsessed with Wemby, refers to him as “my other father”
It is sadly necessary recon isn’t it
I daren’t ask my relatively sheltered teen bc I’m sure he doesn’t know but will immediately look into it if I ask
RIP to the legendary Michael Silverblatt. Here he is talking to John Berger in 2002 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLiv...
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers Genetic study finds domestic pigs' year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar
Headline of the day; everyone go back to bed. www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/a...
Absolutely stoked to celebrate the release of @thedonpyle.bsky.social's sweet, smart, fascinating new book. If you're in Toronto, join us on May 28!
And yet the Ford government will take over multiple school boards on the premise that they have mismanaged their finances.
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
berger year
Instead of endlessly writing about the dangers of wokeness (ie not being an asshole), the media could spend that time talking about the crisis of elite depravity and impunity, as exhibited in the Epstein files. The latter is an actual threat to our culture and society.
So true. What a beloved, singular, goofball genius 💔
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
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I wrote about the baudy, beautiful Kevin Killian—and his collected poems, out now on Nightboat—for The Poetry Foundation.This was a blast to write and I'd be thrilled if you read my essay on this snowy eve! See below for lovely original art by Stella Murphy poetryfoundation.org/articles/176...
I mean it’s true that there are “paid agitators” in Minneapolis. There are 3000 of them and they’ve assassinated two people.
