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The Canadian Liberal Party trashes Donald Trump relentlessly, and yet he just helped them achieve an improbable come-from-behind victory. Where does he go for his apology?

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Not a fan of this reboot of the 1996 movie Beautiful Girls

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it will take approximately 21 years to pay back the student loan debt incurred for the marketing degree that resulted in this sign

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Charlie’s father “worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and screwed the little caps onto the tops of the tubes of toothpaste ... But …however hard he worked, and however fast he screwed on the caps, [he] was never able to make enough” to feed his family. Roald Dahl

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‘Mavis Gallant’s temperament is the opposite of a universalising one: she doesn’t believe that people’s experiences and feelings are the same under their different clothes. She thinks, like an anthropologist, that the clothes make all the difference.’ Tessa Hadley: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.

submitted 29 days ago • 1090 comments

This is a brilliant piece by Tessa Hadley on Mavis Gallant's work including our very own GREEN WATER, GREEN SKY. Super recommended read! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

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This is a friendly reminder that library cards are free, and your local public library will never make you pay extra so you don't have to watch ads.

submitted 43 days ago • 53 comments

Nothing outrageous here, just the vice president of the United States promoting Nazi white supremacist ideology.

submitted 46 days ago • 93 comments

For #InternationalWomensDay, my favourite photos by my favourite women photographers Two ladies at the automat, New York, 1966 📷 Diane Arbus

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I think what we're going to see is the conservative numbers in Canada drop because people are looking at the destruction that Trump is unleashing and Canadians are thinking, 'If this is what MAGA looks like, there's no damn way we're going to vote for it in Canada.'

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Real-life couple: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward ❤️

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Last month, interviewing the great crime-journalist / screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, I asked why his mother painted a photo from National Geographic, and exactly how it ended up in Goodfellas. This was the missing piece of the puzzle for me, and completes my master opus on this whole affair. Here!

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Hey @halbfinger.bsky.social, could you or someone else at the Times explain how firing a qualified senior general “root[s] out diversity initiatives?” Which initiative specifically did this “root out?”

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‘By the end of 1979, hesitation had given way to dread. We fully expected to be facing the end of the world. We needed someone with a big presence, a big story, and there was Marianne Faithfull.’ Lavinia Greenlaw on Faithfull and ‘Broken English’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

submitted 69 days ago • 525 comments

First on the chopping block: The federal proofreaders.

submitted 70 days ago • 48 comments

The dumbest part of this DOGE nonsense is that of COURSE there's a lot of wasted money in the government and some reform isn't a bad idea. The Emmys are broken, too. But that doesn't mean we just say, "Fuck it, let Rob Schneider decide."

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

My cartoon for Wednesday's Metro

submitted 86 days ago • 307 comments

At least if Trump just appointed his horse to the Senate, the horse wouldn’t put on this annoying Collins/ Cassidy pretense of deliberate decisionmaking before agreeing to everything he wants to do whenever it actually counts.

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

submitted 95 days ago • 103 comments

trying to remember that we truly do not know what tomorrow brings. for instance you can shoot your puppy and write about it and it seems like your political life is over but next day you’re running Homeland Security in a cowboy hat and lip filler

submitted 88 days ago • 31 comments

Every Canadian once the yankees try using economic force to push us into the Union:

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

How big a bunch of assholes do you have to be to piss the Canadians off of all people

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

gonna be four years of solemn headlines saying "President Trump Issues Statement On Disaster" and the statement is "if I was flying the plane I would keep it in the sky"

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

Holy shit, I’m a cat?

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Thank the lord for Private Eye

submitted 99 days ago • 211 comments

It's only -3 c but its too cold for Donald to take his oath outdoors. And this buffoon is going to take over Canada? What the hell is he going to do when he runs into Canadian women? At -40 the party is just getting started. Donald, it won't even be close.

submitted 102 days ago • 127 comments

Rembrandt - A Young Woman Sleeping c. 1654. Brush and brown wash, some white mixed into some parts of the wash

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

english.elpais.com/culture/2022...

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It’s a good thing that Trump is super-ethical or otherwise this would be fertile ground for some corrupt dealings. thedispatch.com/article/big-...

submitted 110 days ago • 5 comments

I guess I never paid close enough attention, but was Facebook all that good about moderating slurs before? Because all of the so-called newly allowable slurs have always showed up in comments on our FB posts. Not trying to minimize the damage they cause or defend FB, of course

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I mean, if a guy did this in front of me, I would marry him too. Congrats to Zendaya and Tom Holland for their engagement🙏

submitted 115 days ago • 61 comments

incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

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@alejandrabravo.bsky.social 🥶 OPEN the warming centres. #toronto @cityofto.bsky.social @mayortoronto.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.bsky.social

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The one and only, legendary, and inimitable Thelma Schoonmaker tells a fascinating story about ‘Goodfellas’ cinephiliabeyond.org/goodfellas/

submitted 118 days ago • 2 comments

3x Academy Award winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker turns 85 today.

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It was another stunning year for global climate and weather extremes. As data is processed and released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new historical records. Apologies for my many graphs in advance! 😬 Spiral below produced by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190

submitted 119 days ago • 27 comments

“The Post Office loses money” yeah so does the Fire Department, shut the fuck up

submitted 122 days ago • 49 comments