Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦

Man Fascinated With Fire Imagery Is Arrested in Palisades Blaze, Officials Say

“I’m angry that an individual would be so depraved,” Mr. Fahn said. “It doesn’t take away from my sense of frustration and anger with government.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Where shore meets horizon - Chicago Reader Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky, the artist's debut monograph, compiles 20 years of her painting to coincide with her Denver Art Museum show.

A lovely review of the catalog for Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky at the Denver Art Museum! It features a fantastic essay by @arunadsouza.bsky.social. chicagoreader.com/books/books-...

Wow. I rarely pay attention to market stuff but I thought these two galleries would be relatively immune.

Toronto, Calgary—no second t in the first, no second a in the second

Houston (St)

Wow I have literally never heard of this term. I feel very out of touch!

As far as I can tell, no Canadian has ever been shot in Washington DC.

Americans can’t afford to buy cars made in Canada or anywhere else thanks to the consumer tax increase disguised as tariffs.

That poor young man. What an utter travesty.

I can’t stress enough that the problem is the state and its monopoly on violence and not any individual actors.

If you saw someone do something cool and illegal NO YOU DIDN'T.

Ah yes because Super Bowl tickets are famously purchased by local residents and not millionaires and billionaires who fly from all over the country to see a game.

Don’t forget priests, vicars, and very old lady detectives.

Read this as many times as it takes to understand how perverse the attacks on transgender people are.

I was JUST (like this minute) telling a friend that we are all indentured—capitalism weighs us down with debt and we spend our lives just working it off.

Me too

Also whoa MetroNorth riders are way bigger seat hogs than Amtrak.

Can someone explain to me why so many cars on MetroNorth and Amtrak have their seats facing away from the direction of travel? I feel like on Amtrak, which I’ve been riding regularly for like 15 years, the increase in number of rear facing seats has jumped.

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

It's always the people taking consistent action who feel they aren't doing "enough." Let that shit go. You are doing more than 85% of others.

I am personally at more than capacity. What we need is for others to do their part(s) too.

Oh I know! I’m just shocked at how quickly we’ve gotten to “send in the army to fight against US citizens minding their own business.”

I hope that’s it.

You guys wtf is happening. This is completely bonkers. Are we all going to have to show up in Portland to defend it against the U.S. army?!?!

Now she knows how trans people feel. Good. May she never have access to a public restroom again.

Nice Canadian content here.

I sat on an admissions committee for a prestigious graduate program and the chair proposed choosing the top students—all women—then skipped down to near the bottom of the list so they could have “enough” men in the group. (No one seemed bothered that there were no POC of any gender on the list.)

Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.

Admission "paused" for 20 undergraduate majors including fine arts and digital humanities while Syracuse University opens a content creator center. To bring back a millennialism, I can't even.

Forced to Flee Two Homes, a Painter Finds a Refuge on Canvas

My latest for the NYT: the Iraqi-American painter Hayv Kahraman had to flee Baghdad as a child because of American bombs, and had to flee her home in Altadena because of wildfires. The two events come together in her new paintings. I interviewed her about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...

Is her statement in English? Is English in the room with us?

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...