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Jason McBride

@jasonmcbride.bsky.social
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Writer, Toronto. Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker (Simon & Schuster, 2022) www.jason-mcbride.com

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
in advance of the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation I spoke to Kimberly Murray & Connie Walker about their efforts to raise awareness about this looming destruction, which survivors may not even know is happening next year. read it today at @thenarwhal.ca:
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 15/04/2026
an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News
A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"What is certain, however, is that a vast sum of our money will be wasted, countless Torontonians will find themselves profoundly inconvenienced for extended periods, and, eventually, a cyclist will get struck by a car. But at least the congestion will be worse." spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nobody's asked but still (have not seen Breaking Bad, btw)
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
High Maintenance was fucking robbed
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Elizabeth Holmes - Nathan Fielder meme: We need to restore the vehicle lanes to stop the congestion
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I HATE it when people say “the culture wars” or “the discourse” are ruining the WNBA. BE PRECISE. Right-wing fascists are introducing misogyny and bigotry through their narratives and demands, in an effort to delegitimize an organization full of popular black women who vocally champion inclusivity.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Which is to say: Pick up that pen and WRITE. Open that sketch book and DRAW. Buy that book and READ. Sit down at a table with new people and TALK. Hang that painting by a local artist in your HOME. Paint that room whatever fucking color you WANT (screw resale value). Be HUMAN to the fullest.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hot Take Saturday: I think we are on the cusp of a MASSIVE humanities revival. I’m talking handmade, craftsmanship, maximalism, art collection for everyday folks, rich music, unfettered written masterpieces, deep thought experiments…all in rejection of AI and our corporate overlords.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are all dogs locked in god’s hot car
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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 17/08/2026
I nominate @lanrickbennett.bsky.social !!
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Lovely essay by @brettstory.bsky.social on the enduring power of John Berger's writing & its particular relevance to our very dark moment www.filmcomment.com/article/real...
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Reality Is All There Is to Love: Despair and Hope in John Berger | Film Comment
In his work and life, Berger grappled with the ways in which how we see the world can offer solutions and salves for political despair
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 11/08/2026
Isn’t this Brad Bradford guy an avid cyclist who has been advocating building more bike lanes across the board for years?
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More folks are rediscovering the bike as a great way to get around during the pandemic. Remember to equip your ride with lights, a bell, and a lock for o... See moreBrad Bradford • • Follow
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Great afternoon with Mayor @JohnTory down at Lake Shore East for #ActiveTO. Plenty of folks out enjoying the great weather and maintaining a safe distance.
Stay tuned for a big announcement of more cycling infrastructure!Brad Bradford
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This mirrors what I'm hearing when speaking with neighbours. I'm a driver, I'm a walker and a cyclist.
People want to travel safely whether they're walking, cycling or driving. We need to build more safe infrastructure, not tear it up. https://www.cbc.ca/news/ canada/toronto/bike-lane-poll-toronto-1.4766745Brad Bradford
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Today we took a meaningful step towards designing and implementing a bike lane pilot on the Danforth. Progress like this will hel... See more
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Biidaasige Park's the best thing to happen in Toronto in recent memory www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and...
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A bigger Biidaasige Park is another waterfront triumph for Toronto
The project, two decades in the making, is a revolutionary use of space. It’s also endangered
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Carney’s flight to Edmonton, where he’d hear Danielle Smith’s pipeline plan pitch, is grounded due to extreme weather —which is exacerbated by the climate crisis that pipeline plan would worsen 🤗 WHEEEEEEEEEE WHAT A WORLD
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I quibble with the rankings of course — I'd move Dead Ringers & My Winnipeg right up to the top — but this is a very respectable list. The only thing I'm really missing is Steve Reinke's The Hundred Videos, which may not count as a "real" movie (or even one movie) but is tops in my heart!
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
So bummed to see the end of 4Columns. Nice, tho, to see @sashafrerejones.bsky.social go out with this lovely review of Fanny Howe's This Poor Book 4columns.org/frere-jones-...
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This Poor Book
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hey some Toronto establishment with back bone. Even some Liberals.
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Margaret Atwood, David Mirvish and Haley Wickenheiser among Torontonians urging ‘reality check’ on Billy Bishop expansion
A group of Toronto residents say the public needs to see a plan before there can be meaningful consultation
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Repulsive. Public money paying for fascist propaganda. Encampments are rare; they are not a danger; this government is doing nothing to help the people who live in them or to solve the underlying problems.
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Haven't written a magazine story in a dog's age, but here's my @torontolifemag.bsky.social piece on the arrival of the WNBA in Toronto. Just in time for the Tempo's first W! torontolife.com/deep-dives/h...
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Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team - Toronto Life
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to assemble a...
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026
personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned.  The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
And you know, @liberalca.bsky.social, @mark-carney.bsky.social what’ll put builders off this fine plan is you allowing a major airport to be built on the lake. Almost 30% of TO residents don’t own a car. Their sympathy for people who resent having to leave downtown to go to the airport is limited.
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City unveils Copenhagen-inspired plans for new island neighbourhood — with a car-free street. Is Toronto ready for it?
Ookwemin Minising will be “a neighbourhood like none other in the city,” says Toronto’s chief planner.
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
.@derekmccormack.bsky.social is bringing The Shithole Opry to NYC! See him in conversation with the great Lynne Tillman on May 14 at Artists Space artistsspace.org/programs/ani...
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A Night at the Shithole Opry with Derek McCormack featuring Lynne Tillman
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Ja’Kobe Walter might be my fave Rap now
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Don Pyle @thedonpyle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Exciting new addition to already stacked lineup for TO book launch - Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan of the luminous Yo La Tengo music group will be spinning records all nights. Advance tickets here: ra.co/events/2368611 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social @itsakirby.bsky.social @jasonmcbride.bsky.social
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 13/04/2026
JD Vance, crying as he fucks the couch.
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My dear @derekmccormack.bsky.social, has a brilliant new book/art project out now — The Shithole Opry Collector's Guide — & it's his most fiendish & hilarious project to date. If you're in San Francisco on 4/23, join us at Cushion Works & see the art for yourself www.cushionworks.org/derek-mccorm...
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Derek McCormack: The Shithole Opry Collector's Guide - Cushion Works
Derek McCormack: The Shithole Opry Collector's Guide
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Sina Rahmani & his The East Is a Podcast is a vital, profound & weirdly comforting voice in these shitty times. This interview with @sashafrerejones.bsky.social is a must-read n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/apri...
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April 5 2026
That Israel is attempting to annex South Lebanon and displace over a million residents is no secret—such missions are claimed proudly now. Two related...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 07/04/2026
The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.
Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Tracy Kidder's MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS is one of the most inspiring, captivating, beautifully reported biographies/works of journalism ever. RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...
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Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Really can't imagine the level of asshole who would punch a crossing guard in the face thelocal.to/crossing-gua...
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The New Reality for Toronto's Crossing Guards | The Local
Once a job for local retirees backed by the police, today's crossing guards are poorly paid contract workers employed by private companies. As they confront growing road rage and speeding drivers, the...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
less talk about cold plunges and jawlines, more building your wife a table and your kids a playset
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This profile of the great John Samson Fellows in @hazlitt.bsky.social is somehow both heartbreaking & heartwarming. I can't stop thinking about it hazlitt.net/longreads/la...
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Lay It Down | Hazlitt
People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Will anyone stand up to Ford? My airport column makes a rare appearance on the front page of the Toronto Star today. Local democracy steamrolled. Backroom decisions. Liberals acquiescing. Feckless & weak establishment carrying his water. Fait accompli? Read here: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Front page of Toronto star
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...
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Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 05/03/2026
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
RIP to the legendary Michael Silverblatt. Here he is talking to John Berger in 2002 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLiv...
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John Berger and Michael Silverblatt - part 1
YouTube video by sdeslimbes
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Headline of the day; everyone go back to bed. www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/a...
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Genetic study finds domestic pigs' year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Absolutely stoked to celebrate the release of @thedonpyle.bsky.social's sweet, smart, fascinating new book. If you're in Toronto, join us on May 28!
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
And yet the Ford government will take over multiple school boards on the premise that they have mismanaged their finances.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 04/02/2026
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
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Grace of God Variety Store Union @gogvarietystore.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
berger year
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Instead of endlessly writing about the dangers of wokeness (ie not being an asshole), the media could spend that time talking about the crisis of elite depravity and impunity, as exhibited in the Epstein files. The latter is an actual threat to our culture and society.
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
So true. What a beloved, singular, goofball genius 💔
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 27/01/2026
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
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