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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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@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:48 PM

And here’s @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social with a message for Alberta — that much of the rest of the world needs to hear as well.

@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:55 PM

I feel very lucky to have born a Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon.

@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:55 PM

Amazing! Was at The Salmon Run Festival in Port Hope last month. I can’t believe no one has found a way to introduce betting into the whole procedure.

@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:16 PM

Doug Ford lighting traffic-snarling bonfires of your money and throwing the odd body on in the hopes of keeping his base warm.

@wired.comOct 9, 2026, 11:05 AMReposted by @tabathasouthey.bsky.social

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.

wired.comICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal ArrestsBrenden 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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@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:43 PM

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

@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:40 AM

Thanks for reading.

@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:08 AM

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@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:06 AM

Reposting for the evening crowd, you guys are way cooler anyway.

@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:03 AM

I feel like the President of the United States overtly trying to incite a pogrom should have resulted in a news alert or something.

@brucearthur.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:14 PMReposted by @tabathasouthey.bsky.social

Radio Rwanda

CCharles Johnson@charles.littlegreenfootballs.comOct 8, 2026, 9:35 PM

I know everyone’s jaded and exhausted by the continual parade of madness, but this is the president of US openly inciting racist violence against an entire community of immigrants. (w/ alt text)

The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing.
They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help — and leave the rest to us! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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@jacobtlevy.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 6:16 PMReposted by @tabathasouthey.bsky.social

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.

@rickinnis.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 2:49 PMReposted by @tabathasouthey.bsky.social

“the American exports we should be most wary of consuming — after lettuce — are isolationism and jingoism.”

@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:49 PM

I absolutely agree. And, damn, Lanterns is a triumph of good writing.

@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 2:20 PM

Thanks for reading!

@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 2:16 PM

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?
@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 1:11 PM

And as usual this @lrb.co.uk is well worth reading.

@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:54 PM

Canadian poet Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize ] ] ] in Literature.

@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:20 PM

That was exiled to Longwood House.

@tabathasouthey.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 11:09 PM

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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