Marian Botsford Fraser

fabulous conversation; fyi, Janice's sound quality was uneven, and if she began speaking while you were still speaking, we could hear nothing that she said.

Echo chamber pot.

I got so mad, I replied twice. (We met a million years ago, in Riga.) Keep up your good work.

Drives me crazy. How can any self-respecting journalist put words like "policy" and "strategy" and "Trump" in the same sentence??? Unless preceded by words like "mockery of" or "sham". Or just plain FAKE.

I don't understand how any self-respecting serious journalist can put Trump and policy/strategy in the same sentence. It's some form of weird autofill. It could only work within quotation marks, or preceded by "so-called" or "mockery of" or "fake".

Seems my local NH Republican legislators are looking to overturn mandatory rabies vaccination for pets. I guess the Deep State can turn your puppy trans communist using microbots. Anyway, everyone knows you can cure rabies just by getting your dog to drink whole milk in a hot tub.

Kathleen Edwards at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom last night

Kathleen Edwards last night at Vancouver's great Commodore Ballroom. Two hours nonstop, great voice, great band, music for the love of music.

MaHaHaHaHa

and Kathleen Edwards at the Commodore tonight!

hey, @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Kathleen Edwards at the Commodore Friday night! I haven't been there for forty years, betting it's the same as it ever was...

they lost me at "fulsome".

Mark, this is heartbreaking to read, and must have been so to write. Thank you and your colleagues for being there. Kudos to @theglobeandmail.com for continuing to support robust coverage of this dreadful war.

When reporting becomes elegiac.

I’m Canadian, familiar with this phrase. I’d never use it and expect it to be used about a certain kind of man.

This is glorious.

This 1898 photo shows a demonstration at Cambridge University against the proposal that female students receive a degree upon completion of their study. An effigy of a cycling woman representing the "new woman."

This 1898 photo shows a demonstration at Cambridge University against the proposal that female students receive a degree upon completion of their study. An effigy of a cycling woman representing the "new woman."
- The Conversation

This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters Welcome to the internet’s nihilism crisis.

I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.

Curling doesn't necessarily have to be just a winter sport.

The death of the CIA Factbook and Trump's war on usefulness Wherever government does something helpful, the regime wants to kill it.

The CIA scrubbing the World Factbook from the web may not seem like a big deal in itself, but it's a symptom of something larger: the Trump administration's war on government usefulness.

My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/cia-world-...

I agree with your premise, wondering who are the Canadians who should have been hired?

@ishaantharoor.bsky.social I’m so sorry to learn that you’ve been laid off. You (and @roncharles.bsky.social) were the only reasons I hung on to my subscription. You’re indispensable on the Trump administration’s foreign “policy,” and you’re an excellent writer. The Washington Post is a carcass.

A large stuffed folder of files with the title “Epstein” is seen with what looks, at first glance, like a red page marker sticking out of the bottom. On closer inspection it is the bottom of a Trump red neck tie. French newspapers once again showing the kind of basic journalistic integrity lacking from most US national newspapers - whose collective negligence has helped ensure a man implicated in the world’s most notorious sex trafficking ring gets to remain President. That the orange pedo felon remains in office is a plague on all their houses. Cunts, one and all.

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde

Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

Ella Baron on Jeff Bezos’s cuts to the Washington Post – cartoon Having bankrolled the Melania documentary – a box-office flop – the Amazon founder has now laid off hundreds of journalists

Ella Baron on Jeff Bezos’s cuts to the Washington Post – cartoon

📢 NEWS RELEASE ALERT – Bill S-208 is a critical step toward ending unjust mandatory minimum sentences, advancing reconciliation, and redirecting resources away from punishment and toward safer, healthier communities.

#SenCA #BillS208 #CriminalJusticeReform #EndMandatoryMinimums #JusticeThatWorks

“What would you think
To be thus used? This is the strangers’ case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity.”

sadly, no longer open for signing (but more than 17,000 did)

Canadians could channel their feelings about what's going on at the Post not into Bluesky posts but writing their MPs about acting on foreign ownership, telling them to get off X and hold press conferences when they have something to say (and be questioned after), keep their promises on the CBC...

Solid evidence that our recommendations to high-risk Apple users makes sense... 👇

Excellent reckoning from @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

One of the best books sections that has ever existed