Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

“We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims.”

Idk man, maybe you don’t get to “not be in politics” when one side is blowing up international relationships you depend on www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

That is an incorrect answer. Thank you for playing.

Thanks, Jen. I missed that clip when it first aired.

Kirk clearly had his bell rung from the foul ball off the mask. It took him a bit to get sorted for the next pitch.

Jays lost first two games at home in 2015 ALDS against the Texas Rangers. I'm keen on a future bat-flip moment.

Hey, @castanet.net, you might want to tell your readers why the new head coach in Kelowna lost his broadcast job.

Happy metric Thanksgiving to all my Canadian peeps.

Who do Canadians regard as an “enemy”? This comes from a new Angus Reid report on India, but get a look at the redder end of that list

(Red = enemy/threat; pink = maybe so)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Absolutely brutal.

Ugh.

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

A cartoon by Barry Blitt.

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

The Trump Economy
Our wine sales to Canada are down 96%!!!!!!!!!
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Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Both lefties at the dish.

American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

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‘American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in key international markets opt for alternatives to U.S.-made products.’

we love dogs - noem go home. on a sign above a woman walking her dog at night.

god. I love Portland. Such an awesome American city. Iused to visit regularly but now I miss it, that amazing vibe.

Hey, @nytimes.com. If you're incapable of reporting that Portland is neither on fire nor a war zone, then I might as well cancel my 25+-year subscription.

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

On October 10 (yesterday) in 1845, was played the first baseball game that would hit the newspapers. Brooklyn beats NY, 22-1. Reported three days later, in True Sun, October 13, 1845.

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Hey, @forbes.com. The "51st state" rhetoric isn't just demeaning, it's threatening. Canada is not going to be your %$#@! Sudetenland.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Congrats, Sarah.

I'm very honoured to be shortlisted for the Lane Anderson Award for science writing! My book, Signs of Life, looks at the increasingly elaborate and expensive things we're doing in Canada to try to save endangered species, and how we can turn things around (yes, there is hope for #biodiversity).

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.