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Trump supporters delight in Trump’s cruelty, of course, but they also engage in their own vile speech and actions as a virtual initiation rite into the MAGA movement — it’s the way that they demonstrate that they have the "courage" necessary to take on the left. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

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This clip is so unexpected it leaves you speechless before you can even say "damn

This needs to be a much bigger story, folks.

Chris Kreider walking into the Bell Centre to meet the Habs

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They were spot on. This was The New York Times Sunday Opinion section on October 27, 2024.

My man!

A remarkable essay. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

It’s taken me 47 years, but some kind of switch flipped this year and I’ve gotten really into the Grateful Dead. www.npr.org/2026/08/03/n...

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I cannot emphasize enough that people need to read. Anything and everything. Read shit you don't understand, read about points you don't agree with, read someone's praise AND criticism of something you love. You cannot stop learning. You cannot get lazy or complacent. Don't let them dumb you down.

My column on Kylian Mbappe standing against the tide of gambling that is drowning the world of sports. montrealgazette.com/sports/socce...

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

"Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities." ~ Voltaire

‘All men are created equal’: America has lost its values. It’s time to go back to the founding text | Ted Widmer #TheGuardian

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

And another great one, this on Infantino's cowardice, from the Guardian's Jonathan Liew. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

There was more outrage in the Qatar World Cup for alcohol being banned than there is in this World Cup for people being banned.

Very compelling all around but my favorite detail is that Scott Pelley had never even heard of Bari Weiss before she was put in charge of his newsroom

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us....

Terrific piece on the end of Gallagher's great Montreal career.

@jacktodd.bsky.social Do you expand a lead or extend it?

"'It's been an excruciating 23 hours without being on TV,' Colbert said from the studio. 'So I am grateful to be able to be here on Monroe Community Media before they also get acquired by Paramount.'" www.detroitnews.com/story/entert...

Stephen Colbert is a national treasure: The day after his show was canned after 11 years by CBS to appease a tyrant, he shows up on the Monroe, MI public access channel where he did his first Late Show broadcast in 2015.

Kylian Mbappé, the French soccer superstar, has never made a secret of his distaste for the far right. His latest warnings about its rise in France, a month before the World Cup, have thrust him back into the treacherous scrum of sports and politics.

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”

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"The US Supreme Court..has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances." A British King just did a better law interpreting US law than some Justices have...

Which NHL record is better? 9 consecutive 50 goal seasons or 21 consecutive point per game seasons

Let me guess which country’s president joined Trump’s Board of Peace www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Not to be overly alarmist, but everyone should be worried about DOJ’s indictment of SPLC. Here’s why: joycevance.substack.com/p/whats-wron...

Followers of the white-nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes once constituted a tiny subculture of America’s young right; now they hope to overtake it. Antonia Hitchens reports on the Groypers’s growing influence over the Republican Party. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/8Ami3_

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

My column on the Leafs, the Habs and an astonishing 45-point swing between them in a single season. montrealgazette.com/sports/hocke...

I know it’s crazy, but as an alternative, White House staffers could simply choose not to commit any crimes.

Habs game of the year #GoHabsGo

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@jacktodd.bsky.social Vic Rauter is the Pierre Houde of announcers in his sport