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Pauline L
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Geography, housing, is it condos or rental? Opinions strictly my own. Duranie. Urbanist.
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evanhurst.substack.com
TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer.

(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
February 6, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
Total quack 🦆, though at least not FOJ (friend of Jeff) like the other dude hired. Glad I have an upcoming docuseries on longevity for @cnn.com Originals that is 1. Science based 2. Talks to real experts 3. For the rest of us normies 4. 💯 Epstein free www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor
Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:52 PM
daphne7411.bsky.social
I talk about the one area of the condo market with a little traction in the Globe: luxury www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...
Luxury sector only bright spot amid Toronto’s new-build condo market collapse
Last year saw a collapse of new condo sales, but luxury condo builds in the GTA are staying strong
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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atrupar.com
Rep. Sherman exposes HUD Director Scott Turner for being totally out of his depth
January 21, 2026 at 6:10 PM
daphne7411.bsky.social
While this is my personal account from time to time I talk the housing market. Some words on the 2025 GTHA apt & TH market by the Zonda Urban team: www.linkedin.com/posts/paulin...
Zonda Urban GTHA Q4-2025 Press Release | Pauline Lierman
Good morning! On behalf of our GTHA Zonda Urban team we are pleased to present the Q4-2025 and 2025 new condominium apartment and townhouse survey results. Press release is attached. Let's dig into ...
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January 21, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
January 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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jsweetli.bsky.social
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.

(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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January 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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schooley.bsky.social
Sure is.
Almost anyone can be an ICE agent now. That's a problem. | Opinion Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement hiring push lowers the bar for recruits, including reduced training, slower background checks and lower physical abilities. Thaddeus L. Johnson and Natasha N. Johnson Opinion contributors Dec. 3, 2025, 6:01 a.m. ET
January 7, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Curtis Yarvin is beloved of people of mediocre mind and weak character. They want to go Nazi, but they don’t have the cobbles to do it without a gloss of mediocre pseudo-intellectual gibberish supporting it.
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Jan 6
Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.”

A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:

“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin X.com I get a lot of questions about this tweet. Hitler was right that Anglo-American elites in the 1st half of the 20C were irrevocably hostile to German sovereignty, and defeat, diplomatic, political, military or economic, would lead to Weimar at best, Moscow at worst Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin • 5d Germany got Hitler because there were too many subjects about which only Hitler spoke the truth. This made a lot of Germans regard Hit!... 6:30 AM • 1/6/26 • 18K Views Curtis Yarvin @curt.. • 56m Hitler genuinely believed he was fighting a race war against an international Jewish conspiracy. Not a trace of evidence of any insincerity. When he bombed London his plan was to wake up Kipling's Saxons from their Jewish hypnosis. Of course he had never been to London Curtis Yarvin @curt... • 52m The live players whose actions match the models of "realist" statesmen are Hitler's enemies. If FDR or Stalin ever did anything that did not point in the direction of total world domination, I am unaware of it. Sure, their plans did not always work out. The first time Curtis Yarvin @curt... • 48m g When we look at the Jews in FDR's circle, they are perfectly assimilated as WASPs and mostly of German aristocratic descent. The only way to tell is the name and the nose. ••• The Jews around Stalin are 100% Bolshevik and 100% terrified of him. They might as well be Latvians Curtis Yarvin @curt...• 45m While there is never 0 ethnic solidarity, elite Western Jews consider ethnocentrism (for themselves) shameful and barbaric, and/or make elaborate excuses for it / jokes about it. Not that they're not excited about black ethnocentrism or terrified of white ethnocentrism. They are Curtis Yarvin @curti... •21m g ... It's not even untrue that on average, Jews are a little less American than WASPs, and maybe even neurologically divergent from the Albion's Seed populations, not just in IQ but also in personality traits. Genes are real. But my brother in Christ, these are very subtle effects Curtis Yarvin @curti... • 16m It wasn't Jews who first decided that there was some magic way to make all Somalis, Samoans, Sikhs and Senegalese into Americans. Oh no. This is a 19th-century mainline Protestant missionary trope. Core Boston mindset. "Imagine"
January 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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gilduran.com
Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.

Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️

The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.

It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Paul Graham, Y Combinator co-founder, posts: The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they'll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views. I used to be able to claim that tech billionaires didn't actually do this — that they just wanted to refine their gadgets. But unfortunately in the current administration we've seen all three.
January 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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fivebooks.com
"We used to dial, now we speed dial. We used to walk, now we speed walk. We used to date, now we speed date."
fivebooks.com/best-books/s...
Slow Living
The best books on Slow Living, as recommended by journalist and author Carl Honoré
fivebooks.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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joshuahind.bsky.social
For those who see Brad Bradford’s TTC refund policy and think, “That might be a good idea.”, consider that this one delivery truck has been holding up a streetcar for at least 5 minutes. Bradford would punish the TTC and do nothing to the driver.
December 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
I mean, we don't know if Karoline Leavitt still has that groomer today now that the photos are published. Well, what can I say? That's the makeup that she puts on, those are the injections she gave herself. If they show up in a photo, what do you want me to say? I don't know if it says something about the world we live in, the age of Photoshop, the age of AI filters on your Instagram, but the fact that the internet is freaking out because they're seeing real photos and not retouched ones says something to me. Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that's on the cutting room floor? I don't think there's anything I missed that I wish I'd gotten. I'll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, "Should I smile or not smile?" and I said, "How would you want to be portrayed?" We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, "You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people." And I looked at him and I said, "You know, you do, too."
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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thestar.com
#Breaking: Frank Gehry, the Toronto-born architect known for his bold and dynamic structures, dies at 96
Frank Gehry dies at 96
His notable projects include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and a new extension to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
www.thestar.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Of all the things destructive to the constitutional order of the United States, one of the worst is wealthy sociopaths feeling entitled to be free of criticism, and the willingness of sleazy lawyers to take their money to enforce that feeling of entitlement.
mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Dec 2
Over on x, David sacks is melting down about The New York Times reporting on his many conflicts of interest
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
daphne7411.bsky.social
Buy vs rent: The latter gains momentum - some insight from the Zonda Urban Q3 release torontosun.com/life/homes/r...
Buy vs rent: The latter gains momentum
Purpose-built rentals now make an astounding 70 per cent of all housing starts, according to CMHC.
torontosun.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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mattjelly.bsky.social
I saw the 75 James condos (LiUNA/Fengate/Hi Rise Group) are now listing units in Phase II at the "high 200k's". Out of pure morbid curiosity I checked and wow what a drop.
A screenshot from the website of the 75 James South Condos in Hamilton from 1.5 years ago advertising prices "from the $400,000s" A screenshot from the website of the 75 James South Condos in Hamilton from 1 year ago advertising prices "from the high $300,000s" A screenshot from the website of the 75 James South Condos in Hamilton from today advertising prices "from the high $200,000s"
November 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
daphne7411.bsky.social
In an effort of fearful jinx I will seeing the new Depeche Mode documentary this evening, and awaiting a roar from nearby Yonge-Dundas intersection...
October 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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pbump.com
I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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oliver-moore.bsky.social
Remarkable case of false balance. Trump is disappearing people, blowing up boats, musing about third term. Mamdani wants rent freeze and free buses. “Extremes“
October 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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brucearthur.bsky.social
This seems .... amazing, and something that should interest Canada
October 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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kristoncapps.bsky.social
Across all the major outlets — NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LAT, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC, CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg — the only outlet without a No Kings story on its home page is CBS News.

For every other outlet, it's near the top. Even Fox News is running with "Nationwide unrest looms as thousands mobilize"
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.
Speeds from 154 to 119
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
daphne7411.bsky.social
Another condo site (not surprising in this case) up for sale in Whitby, former Rossmont Green www.realtor.ca/real-estate/...
www.realtor.ca
October 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM