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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦

@tabathasouthey.bsky.social
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Tabatha Southey is a freelance writer who is based, in Toronto. She/Her. Bylines Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Policy, National Post, Toronto Life, Explore Magazine, Toronto Star and more, author of three books, and the River-Daughter. 🇨🇦

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Doug Ford lighting traffic-snarling bonfires of your money and throwing the odd body on in the hopes of keeping his base warm.
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
An ICE agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during arrests in New York and Minneapolis, a WIRED investigation finds.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Short Talk On The King And His Courage He arose laden with doubt as to how he should begin. He looked back at the bed where the grindstone lay. He looked out at the world, the most famous experimental prison of its time. Beyond the torture stakes he could see, nothing. Yet he could see. -Anne Carson
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thanks for reading.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Reposting for the evening crowd, you guys are way cooler anyway.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I feel like the President of the United States overtly trying to incite a pogrom should have resulted in a news alert or something.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Radio Rwanda
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NB to those saying universities should appease the administration with some ritual self-denunciation: they are going to keep coming after us no matter what. They will keep fabricating excuses to do so.
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Rick Innis @rickinnis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“the American exports we should be most wary of consuming — after lettuce — are isolationism and jingoism.”
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I absolutely agree. And, damn, Lanterns is a triumph of good writing.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thanks for reading!
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For @thestar.com I wrote about the gross American export Canadians should avoid most of all. Gift link! www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
The newspaper article itself, which shows prepared to Canada with Maple leafs on them. The headline reads What is “Buy Canadian” just makes us more American?
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And as usual this @lrb.co.uk is well worth reading.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Canadian poet Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize ] ] ] in Literature.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That was exiled to Longwood House.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A little weird that I have to go on that site to get updates from my federal member of parliament. Isn’t it, @evansolomon.bsky.social ? Evan? Evan? Hello!
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 07/10/2026
When the anti-EDI folk complain about inclusion and diversity, this is what they're opposing: more perspectives, richer debate, more wisdom, better understandings and - overall, messily - inevitably better outcomes.
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MountDoom🇨🇦🇺🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @mountdoom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
LOL - took this photo just this morning!
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You absolutely forget the first time you had sex, but you never forget your first turkey vulture.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 06/10/2026
This sounds unintentionally horny. There's another cockpit Israelis need to rush … 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯.
iOS push notification from the NYT:

Opinion From Bret Stephens
There's Another Cockpit Israelis Need to Rush
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the debate Ford-fav Carolyn Parrish called former mayor Bonnie Crombie a “blonde bombshell” and accused her of wearing “a pretty dress and high heels.” Time will tell whether the as yet untried “Jolene, Jolene, I’m begging of you please don’t take my municipality strategy” will prove effective.
thestar.com
Mississauga’s unpredictable mayoral election goes from two-way to three-way race
A new poll from Liaison Strategies shows current mayor Carolyn Parrish and former Bonnie Crombie neck-and-neck with a challenger gaining ground
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Damn you, Jerry, I wasn’t ready to publish.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You all do whatever you want but I’m going to need a separate BlueSky for people who liked Supergirl.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you!
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.thestar.com/news/gta/mis...
thestar.com
Mississauga mayoral debate gets ‘out of control’: Here are 3 key takeaways
Leading candidates incumbent Carolyn Parrish, former mayor Bonnie Crombie and current councillors Alvin Tedjo and Dipika Damerla squared off
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the debate Ford-fav Carolyn Parrish called former mayor Bonnie Crombie a “blonde bombshell” and accused her of wearing “a pretty dress and high heels.” Time will tell whether the as yet untried “Jolene, Jolene, I’m begging of you please don’t take my municipality strategy” will prove effective.
thestar.com
Mississauga’s unpredictable mayoral election goes from two-way to three-way race
A new poll from Liaison Strategies shows current mayor Carolyn Parrish and former Bonnie Crombie neck-and-neck with a challenger gaining ground
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Alice Southey @alicesouthey.com · 05/10/2026
Proud to announce I will be leading a new national party based on a platform of making it legal (possibly mandatory, we'll sort the details out at the convention) for university professors to throw tennis balls at anyone who starts loudly packing a bag while they're trying to wrap up a lecture.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anyone in London, Ontario have any recommendations for movers willing to bring a 64x48 inch framed picture to Toronto? (Did not fit in my car.)
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This alone should be causing riots.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 05/10/2026
Gift link for Shawn's excellent column, which as he points out draws on and advances @rorywh.bsky.social's reporting on "agitslop" in the Toronto election. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Circumstances are such that I was forced to be both mother and dad-joker to my children.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Glaze the tart” it said. Oh, you are an amazing tart. You are the absolute best tart ever.
An apple tart on a brass trivet.
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Gustaue Flavbert @cataribartok.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
and risk being called a "Bulbous Broth Angel, Slick and Dirty" by a man who sounds like a bag of rocks?!??!?
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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gorilla Glue just sounds like a name they came up with to calm down the horses.
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Shawn Furey @gottaplan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks for visiting 🇨🇦 we’re a big country with lots to see.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well worth your time.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not on the subway, I’ll bet.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seriously, we need to get to the bottom of this, Toronto. What kind of God forsaken loser is sitting on the subway on the way to work playing Brad Bradford Crush on their phone?
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You don’t see posts on how men should react if they hear a kitten’s being tortured in another room. Most men just get the hell over there and yell “Knock it off!” But then men can do that without losing social cachet. No man worries he’ll get a rep as “that buzzkill who monitors how you treat cats.”
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Debbie T Knits 🧶 @debbietknits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love this photo from the opening ceremony of Shetland Wool week. 💖 all those glorious hats! 🧶 #knit
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By rights, each post in this thread should be nail in the coffin of Brad Bradford’s campaign. Great work, @nationalobserver.com.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"They include — contrary to the premier’s anti-Trump rhetoric — a form enabling U.S. firms to participate." Doug Ford isn’t even promising to buy local vandalism.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“…how is it possible that we’re still begging for the same scraps of humanity?”
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Julian Simpson @juliansimpson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you missed out on the Call of Cthulhu campaign, the chance to get access to the show (when it is released) and various other goodies are now available on the pre-order store: lovecraft5.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
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If you missed the campaign, now is your chance to get on board. The show is planned for release in early 2027. All physical items will ship shortly thereafter. PLEASE NOTE: Shipping will be charged s...
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Leave 5ive alone.
theguardian.com
Five UK nationals arrested at RAF Fairford released on bail
Police say alleged offences could have been committed ‘knowingly or unknowingly’ on behalf of a foreign state
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Alice Southey @alicesouthey.com · 27/09/2026
A Rolling Stone columnist wakes in a cold sweat, mind reeling from the terrible realization. Someone, somewhere, is not listening to top forty radio.
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