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Writer, editor, film classification researcher (censorship, children's rights). Recent romance novel: Ocean's Lure http://bit.ly/3llHbIV Nova Scotian by choice. he/him
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@covell.ca
· Dec 26
My first romance novel. Another is in editing, and more are drafted. Available in eBook or paperback from online retailers, or order from any bookstore. More at this link: somewhatgrumpypress.com/oceans-lure-...
'The agency was holding 68,440 people in detention in mid-December; nearly 75% of them had no criminal convictions. December was also the deadliest month in ICE custody – six people died.'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 31 people who died in custody
The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:12 PM
'The agency was holding 68,440 people in detention in mid-December; nearly 75% of them had no criminal convictions. December was also the deadliest month in ICE custody – six people died.'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
'“You can’t just buy the data you never collected,” she added. Even corporations hoping to meet the demand rely on federal forecasts and infrastructure. “The private sector sits on top of a foundation of government science that is falling apart.”'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say
Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:10 PM
'“You can’t just buy the data you never collected,” she added. Even corporations hoping to meet the demand rely on federal forecasts and infrastructure. “The private sector sits on top of a foundation of government science that is falling apart.”'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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This seems like it should be a way more humongous story, considering it’s about Elon Musk using Grok as a tool to commit violence against women on Twitter
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ICYMI: Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is “altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.”
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January 4, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This seems like it should be a way more humongous story, considering it’s about Elon Musk using Grok as a tool to commit violence against women on Twitter
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Greenland after Venezuela.
January 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Greenland after Venezuela.
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While Trump lickspittle Pierre Poilievre fails to condemn an obvious violation of international law, it’s worth noting that 50% of Conservatives approve of the Trump administration.
This tells you everything you need to know about the state of the Conservative Party.
cultmtl.com/2025/12/50-o...
This tells you everything you need to know about the state of the Conservative Party.
cultmtl.com/2025/12/50-o...
January 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
While Trump lickspittle Pierre Poilievre fails to condemn an obvious violation of international law, it’s worth noting that 50% of Conservatives approve of the Trump administration.
This tells you everything you need to know about the state of the Conservative Party.
cultmtl.com/2025/12/50-o...
This tells you everything you need to know about the state of the Conservative Party.
cultmtl.com/2025/12/50-o...
Not to mention all the people executed in the boats.
Reminder that Pierre Poilievre has a Venezuelan wife and is celebrating the death of 40 Venezuelans.
January 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Not to mention all the people executed in the boats.
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The thing that makes the most sense to me is that autocracy is necessarily arbitrary. As Orwell pointed out, the point of the Party is Power, there is no purpose other than power, and power is most perfectly expressed through nonsensical violent cruelty.
January 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The thing that makes the most sense to me is that autocracy is necessarily arbitrary. As Orwell pointed out, the point of the Party is Power, there is no purpose other than power, and power is most perfectly expressed through nonsensical violent cruelty.
The USA adopts the domino theory for offense instead of defense.
January 4, 2026 at 6:38 PM
The USA adopts the domino theory for offense instead of defense.
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The Mind’s Eye, or minding the eye…
I've been reading the excellent The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks, in my continuing search to learn all the things about medical history to provide interesting challenges for Ruth in my next novel. It's fascinating, as are most of Sacks' books, but this is probably…
I've been reading the excellent The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks, in my continuing search to learn all the things about medical history to provide interesting challenges for Ruth in my next novel. It's fascinating, as are most of Sacks' books, but this is probably…
The Mind’s Eye, or minding the eye…
I've been reading the excellent The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks, in my continuing search to learn all the things about medical history to provide interesting challenges for Ruth in my next novel. It's fascinating, as are most of Sacks' books, but this is probably not his best. He tells multiple stories of people who have various visual losses, of the ability to read, to see with binocular vision, to cope with blindness.
dorothyanneb.ca
January 4, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The Mind’s Eye, or minding the eye…
I've been reading the excellent The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks, in my continuing search to learn all the things about medical history to provide interesting challenges for Ruth in my next novel. It's fascinating, as are most of Sacks' books, but this is probably…
I've been reading the excellent The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks, in my continuing search to learn all the things about medical history to provide interesting challenges for Ruth in my next novel. It's fascinating, as are most of Sacks' books, but this is probably…
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🍿 SPECIAL: Fritz Lang's visionary silent masterpiece METROPOLIS screens this Tues, Jan 6 with a live, improvised electronic score to kick off the 2026 Upstream Music Open Waters Festival.
7:30pm @ King's College Alumni Hall, 🎟️🎟️ $20 (suggested): upstreammusic.org/event/open-w...
7:30pm @ King's College Alumni Hall, 🎟️🎟️ $20 (suggested): upstreammusic.org/event/open-w...
January 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM
🍿 SPECIAL: Fritz Lang's visionary silent masterpiece METROPOLIS screens this Tues, Jan 6 with a live, improvised electronic score to kick off the 2026 Upstream Music Open Waters Festival.
7:30pm @ King's College Alumni Hall, 🎟️🎟️ $20 (suggested): upstreammusic.org/event/open-w...
7:30pm @ King's College Alumni Hall, 🎟️🎟️ $20 (suggested): upstreammusic.org/event/open-w...
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We’re looking back over our most read articles in 2025. 👇
3️⃣1️⃣ @basitmahmood91.bsky.social reported on who was behind a Britain First march for remigration.
3️⃣1️⃣ @basitmahmood91.bsky.social reported on who was behind a Britain First march for remigration.
Britain First’s ‘March for Remigration’ led by convicted people smuggler, Hope not Hate reveals
Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle Vietnamese migrants into the UK.
leftfootforward.org
January 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
We’re looking back over our most read articles in 2025. 👇
3️⃣1️⃣ @basitmahmood91.bsky.social reported on who was behind a Britain First march for remigration.
3️⃣1️⃣ @basitmahmood91.bsky.social reported on who was behind a Britain First march for remigration.
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🇨🇦 Canadians, in case you missed it: there's a petition collecting signatures to ask that the federal government intervene to protect access to healthcare for trans people in provinces who have restricted it (eg Alberta's egregious use of the notwithstanding clause): www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
January 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
🇨🇦 Canadians, in case you missed it: there's a petition collecting signatures to ask that the federal government intervene to protect access to healthcare for trans people in provinces who have restricted it (eg Alberta's egregious use of the notwithstanding clause): www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Feels like for a lot of people, the president's biggest sin is just being to blunt too put a nice, jingoistic, propagandistic cover on what the what US is and does and always has been.
Public figures squawking about democracy and liberation while he goes "BLOOD AND OIL" is darkly, darkly funny.
Public figures squawking about democracy and liberation while he goes "BLOOD AND OIL" is darkly, darkly funny.
January 4, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Feels like for a lot of people, the president's biggest sin is just being to blunt too put a nice, jingoistic, propagandistic cover on what the what US is and does and always has been.
Public figures squawking about democracy and liberation while he goes "BLOOD AND OIL" is darkly, darkly funny.
Public figures squawking about democracy and liberation while he goes "BLOOD AND OIL" is darkly, darkly funny.
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When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.
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The stories making the news about unvaccinated children dying from the flu are heartbreaking, and while I understand that in our current environment it is necessary to point out that these were healthy kids, it's also necessary to remember why we're pointing this out: eugenicists currently run HHS.
January 4, 2026 at 11:16 AM
The stories making the news about unvaccinated children dying from the flu are heartbreaking, and while I understand that in our current environment it is necessary to point out that these were healthy kids, it's also necessary to remember why we're pointing this out: eugenicists currently run HHS.
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4 January 1921 | Dutch Jewish woman Ester Levitus was born in Amsterdam. A clerk.
In 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz, where she was killed on 21 August with a phenol heart injection. Her parents Jakob & Sophia and younger sister Lena were also murdered in the camp.
In 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz, where she was killed on 21 August with a phenol heart injection. Her parents Jakob & Sophia and younger sister Lena were also murdered in the camp.
January 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
4 January 1921 | Dutch Jewish woman Ester Levitus was born in Amsterdam. A clerk.
In 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz, where she was killed on 21 August with a phenol heart injection. Her parents Jakob & Sophia and younger sister Lena were also murdered in the camp.
In 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz, where she was killed on 21 August with a phenol heart injection. Her parents Jakob & Sophia and younger sister Lena were also murdered in the camp.
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40 people (at least) died. It's the official policy of these newsrooms that Latin American lives aren't worth anything. Again, if you still pay for an NYT subscription I think you're trash.
NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor
January 4, 2026 at 2:48 AM
40 people (at least) died. It's the official policy of these newsrooms that Latin American lives aren't worth anything. Again, if you still pay for an NYT subscription I think you're trash.
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September 1, 1939: Using lies as justification, Hitler broke international law by invading Poland.
February 24, 2022: Using lies as justification, Putin broke international law by invading Ukraine.
January 3, 2026: Using lies as justification, Trump broke international law by invading Venezuela.
February 24, 2022: Using lies as justification, Putin broke international law by invading Ukraine.
January 3, 2026: Using lies as justification, Trump broke international law by invading Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 11:56 PM
September 1, 1939: Using lies as justification, Hitler broke international law by invading Poland.
February 24, 2022: Using lies as justification, Putin broke international law by invading Ukraine.
January 3, 2026: Using lies as justification, Trump broke international law by invading Venezuela.
February 24, 2022: Using lies as justification, Putin broke international law by invading Ukraine.
January 3, 2026: Using lies as justification, Trump broke international law by invading Venezuela.
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For all the few people who, last week, told me Trump never had a mandate to annex Canada so not to worry, MAGA isn’t supporting it—
—I hope this week you’re recalibrating your expectations and acting accordingly.
—I hope this week you’re recalibrating your expectations and acting accordingly.
Talking with people at a holiday gathering here in Toronto last night, and when it came up, most of us nodded that we likely won’t ever visit the United States again.
It’s a weird feeling, and weird to acknowledge in a group.
It’s a weird feeling, and weird to acknowledge in a group.
January 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
For all the few people who, last week, told me Trump never had a mandate to annex Canada so not to worry, MAGA isn’t supporting it—
—I hope this week you’re recalibrating your expectations and acting accordingly.
—I hope this week you’re recalibrating your expectations and acting accordingly.
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If only there had been some hints or clues that Trump and his supporters don't believe in laws - international, criminal, and civil.
(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Deranged Trump Now Threatening Mexico Following Illegal Attack on Venezuela
Trump Hints at Next Target After Shocking Invasion
The president warned, “Something’s going to have to be done with Mexico.”
www.thedailybeast.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:33 PM
If only there had been some hints or clues that Trump and his supporters don't believe in laws - international, criminal, and civil.
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Again, the Conservative Party is endorsing the US invading a sovereign state and kidnapping its president. What will Poilievre say if the US decides that Canadian sovereignty is equally malleable?
Statement from Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre:
“Congratulations to President Trump … Down with socialism. Long live freedom”
“Congratulations to President Trump … Down with socialism. Long live freedom”
January 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Again, the Conservative Party is endorsing the US invading a sovereign state and kidnapping its president. What will Poilievre say if the US decides that Canadian sovereignty is equally malleable?
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Actually, that exactly how JURISDICTION works unless you have an extradition treaty
Vance pushes back and says this was not illegal, arguing "Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas."
January 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Actually, that exactly how JURISDICTION works unless you have an extradition treaty
Haven't seen Car Wash (1976) for a long time. Better than I remembered, in both content and structure. youtu.be/fXXmeP9TvBg?...
Car Wash (2/10) Movie CLIP - "Car Wash" Theme Song (1976) HD
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January 3, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Haven't seen Car Wash (1976) for a long time. Better than I remembered, in both content and structure. youtu.be/fXXmeP9TvBg?...
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If I were a political leader from a country whose sovereignty had been repeatedly threatened for over a year by an autocrat who falsely maintains we are a source of illicit drug trading, I simply wouldn't be cheering for an illegal military strike made by the same regime.
January 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
If I were a political leader from a country whose sovereignty had been repeatedly threatened for over a year by an autocrat who falsely maintains we are a source of illicit drug trading, I simply wouldn't be cheering for an illegal military strike made by the same regime.