John Semley

Global News’ Ben Mulroney Shared a Video of Airstrikes. The Footage is Actually from a Video Game. The host of Global News’ West Block gets lost in a misinformation-driven fog of war as American and Israeli forces strike Iran

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While US and Israeli forces launched strikes against Iran this weekend, Global News' The West Block host Ben Mulroney reposted video of fighter jets that had been miscaptioned as American F-15s attacking Iran

I double-checked. Ben was actually sharing footage from a video game

Great review of the movie event of the year.

ELLA MCCAY ORIGINS: ESTELLE

I’m a Canadian 42 year-old man from Welland, Ontario. I have custody every 7th weekend. I drop my kids off at the Seaway Mall to see a movie and I wait in the car and look at my telephone. Auston Matthews is my property and my other big concern is the Islamification of Germany.

I see we're doing this again.

this Ryan Reynolds cover of TL includes a profile OF him, by me, nestled inside, which sort of makes this point.

The Buffalo Sabres are back.

The older I get, the less likely it seems that I’ll shock a proprietress at a Chinese restaurant by conversing in perfect Cantonese or even Mandarin.

Tired of watching Canada lose in bars full of Americans! I want to eat shit with my countrymen!

Incredible game so far, score notwithstanding.

Let's goooo!

Tom Morello Spreads the Gospel of Judas Priest in Berlin Something exciting often happens when musicians make movies about other musicians, like Tom Morello’s new documentary, ‘The Ballad of Judas Priest.’

Something exciting often happens when musicians make movies about other musicians, like Tom Morello’s new documentary, ‘The Ballad of Judas Priest.’

As a child I always wondered what Gabrielle would taste like, if she was made of corn and sugar and some brand.

Stop that!

I’m glad you enjoyed this!

Tom Morello Spreads the Gospel of Judas Priest in Berlin Something exciting often happens when musicians make movies about other musicians, like The Ballad of Judas Priest.

Went a little personal with this one... On Tom Morello and Sam Dunn's THE BALLAD OF JUDAS PRIEST. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

My only advice to young journalists (other than don't be a journalists):

1. don't go to journalism school
2. spend $299/year on a RocketReach subscription and $7.95/month on a newspaper subscription; both can be claimed as business expenses
3. be annoying

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 2, Episode 17

“To suggest that this rich person would try to enrich himself is absurd.”

More than 600 people were fired or punished for posting about Charlie Kirk’s death. They want justice Acolytes of the far-right activist urged employers to fire his critics. Now those who were terminated are suing and claiming their right to free speech

“By November of 2025, a Reuters investigation estimated that 600 people had been terminated, disciplined, investigated, suspended or otherwise admonished for their Kirk posts, likening the reaction to an ideological purge.”

I am 1 of 600 who’ve been fired/disciplined over comments re: Charlie Kirk.

More than 600 people were fired or punished for posting about Charlie Kirk’s death. They want justice Acolytes of the far-right activist urged employers to fire his critics. Now those who were terminated are suing and claiming their right to free speech

Hundreds of people were fired, suspended, or harassed out of public life for comments made after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Now, some of them are trying to put their lives back together.

A look at life after the Kirk Purges, for the @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Fred Wiseman. One of the all-time greats. His doc on the CRAZY HORSE inspired me to check out the legendary club when I was in Paris years back; a task I attended to with a keen eye and sober journalistic focus that was, in both spirit and practice, Wisemanian.

Tom Morello & Rob Halford - The Ballad Of Judas Priest (2026) (Berlinale Special Midnight)

I’ll say this for Philly. A pint of beer is $3. Sometimes less depending what games are on.

The Death of Megadeth On Megadeth's final album and what comes with it

For OLD NEW I wrote about Megadeth's final album, Dave Mustaine's class resentments, and how he finally chilled out about getting fired from Metallica: oldnew.substack.com/p/the-death-...

LeBron stats are meaningless to me. “Oldest player to record a triple-double.” OK. Until he records another one next week, and then the day after that, etc.

Fascinating image...

This Czech hockey team is a JOKE! (No offence to my many followers from Hodonín, Praha, Jirkov or even Dvůr Králové nad Labem.)

that’s true. I’m excited for them to possibly maybe somehow make the playoffs for the first time in *fifteen years*. Leafs fandom is like Dodgers fandom by comparison.