Liz Renzetti
lizrenzetti.bsky.social
Liz Renzetti
@lizrenzetti.bsky.social
Author, journalist. New book: What She Said: Conversations About Equality. Quill & Packet mysteries with Kate Hilton. Bury the Lead (2024); Widows and Orphans (2025) Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lizrenzetti
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FBI sought interview with former prince Andrew during Peter Nygard investigation
FBI sought interview with former prince Andrew during Peter Nygard investigation
The revelation comes in the latest batch of documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice related to Jeffrey Epstein.
www.thestar.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Darling of the US right Russell Brand facing more charges in the UK, including rape and sexual assault
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Russell Brand charged with further sexual offences including rape
The former entertainer, 50, faces one count of rape and one of sexual assault of two more alleged victims
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Two men have been found guilty of plotting to “kill as many Jewish people as they could”, in what detectives believe would have been the UK’s worst terror attack if it hadn’t been thwarted."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Two men found guilty of Manchester plot to ‘kill as many Jewish people as they could’
Preston court finds Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein guilty of preparing acts of terrorism after buying AK-47s from undercover officer
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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These are the journalists the US President is calling enemies of the people.
December 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Canada, number one supplier of samizdat
New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Here it is
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.

It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.

The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Does PM Carney not have any female friends he can appoint to things? I’m sure Wiseman is solid but it’s always ‘an old buddy’ getting the call.
December 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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For the Star’s opinion section I contributed to the year end “loss” package: the loss of the TTC as “The Better Way”. Not yet the worst way but sliding towards it. Many culprits, ultimately but it’s our own fault for not demanding, & voting, better.
Shawn Micallef: The better way no more: What the decline of the TTC says about Toronto
What was once a point of pride in the city is increasingly a source of frustration.
www.thestar.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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‘This is preventative medicine.’ Toronto hospital starts $1-million fund to help patients with rent
‘This is preventative medicine.’ Toronto hospital starts $1-million fund to help patients with rent
‘This is preventative medicine,’ says Dr. Andrew Boozary with the University Health Network, as research shows a link between evictions and worse health outcomes. The fund will help patients on a case...
www.thestar.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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My god. This is incredible. It includes a 1949 recording of E.E. Cummings that immediately brought me to tears. Never heard his voice before, only imagined it. Poetry read out loud reaches into your body & grabs on to your cells. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...
Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape.
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Police use riot shields to help recapture runaway Wiltshire goat
Police use riot shields to help recapture runaway Wiltshire goat
Escapee was seen chasing a woman around Upper Seagry and trying to eat fruit on a festive wreath An escaped goat which went on a rampage in a Wiltshire village was safely lassoed by police carrying riot shields. The runaway ruminant mammal was trotting around Upper Seagry, near Chippenham, and was seen chasing a woman around the village and trying to eat oranges from a Christmas wreath, an eyewitness told the BBC. Wiltshire police used riot shields and a lasso to round the animal up before it was safely returned to its owner on Thursday morning. The goat also attempted to munch on safety equipment from the back of the officer’s car. “Apparently it’s not very nice,” one of the officers can be heard saying on body-worn camera footage. The officer added: “We’ve got it on a tow line, we’ve got some [riot] shields because he’s trying to butt my head.” The animal briefly slipped the lasso before being re-captured and taken home. A Wiltshire police spokesperson said: “PC Ferris and PC Miller, from Chippenham Response, swiftly responded, controlled the situation and returned the goat to his owner.” In October, an attempt to retrieve a stranded goat at the bottom of a bridge arch led to an emergency call-out in Cumbria to rescue someone attempting to save the animal. Three fire crews and police were sent to Longtown Bridge in Carlisle after reports someone had gone into the water while trying to reach the animal. They had managed to extricate themselves but to “prevent a repeat incident”, fire officers were sent to retrieve the animal, Longtown fire station said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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City Hall Christmas tree & main municipal menorah. The biggest real tree in Toronto (disputed) glows Toronto-blue (old Tory town). Tree’s largess belies city’s financial crisis. Some councillors call for fewer lights for the people (old Tory town) but new millionaire home tax will cover it. 14.5/10
December 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Also the paperback cover of my book on why we need MORE feminism (out in February) is alarmingly close to this garbage.

Choose your fighter!
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What the flying fuck is happening
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency." The details in this NYT story are stomach-turning.
I continue to marvel that any woman ever voted for this grotesque, corrupt man.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I wrote about why AI is a useless novelist, and also thank you for buying a book this year www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Elizabeth Renzetti: To be a soldier in this war, your words are the weapon. Here’s how to use them
Creating is a process - one that can’t be done by a human being in under five minutes. Nor should we want it to
www.thestar.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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I don't mean to amplify the garbage .... but also I really need to stress here once again that KIDS DON'T GET LOWER SURGERY. That doesn't happen!!!

All of these government officials are obsessed with talking about HYPOTHETICAL CHILD GENITALS
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Current television makes me aware that my man Montagu bears a certain resemblance, in countenance and certain aspects of disposition, to the late Chester A. Arthur
December 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM