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@columbiauniversity.bsky.social don't even think about asking me for more alumni donations until you grow a backbone and stand up for academic freedom.
This week in Best of Substack! - Robots and personhood - A Sandy Hook poem - Joy and Taylor Swift - Transitioning to fall - Spies in Denmark - Disinformation in Europe - Margaret Atwood slays - Tolstoy in the White House Please share and subscribe! bestofsub.substack.com/p/best-of-su...
Summer's Not Over
This, but with a monocle.
Fixed it for you @cnn.com. Do your fucking job.
"I cherish peace with all of my heart. I don't care how many men, women and children I need to kill to get it.”
Down time on the film set. Catching up on my daily anti-fascism reading list. @brittlestar.com #fightfascism #everyday #allday
"Then they came for the firefighters, and I said nothing, because I was not a firefighter, and also who the fuck stops firefighters in the middle of a fire to check their IDs?"
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If you've ever wanted to be a war correspondent but don't like traveling outside the U.S., I have good news for you.
There's a difference between asking for a break and asking for an opportunity to earn a break. I'd reserve judgement until I could hear his pitch to your boss.
Scott please check out my new post where I break down the rhetoric of how we got here, and where it is taking us. substack.com/home/post/p-...
So coolio to interview @elliotkirschner.bsky.social for The Tyee on his new Robert Reich documentary "The Last Class." Full video in Best of Substack: bestofsub.substack.com/p/best-of-su... Edited Q&A in the Tyee: thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
The softball questions they ask him are heartbreaking. As if this were a matter of opinion. The question is "What are you going to do about the famine in Gaza, and why are you in the Epstein files?"
Harken! My new article explaining the rhetorical tricks the government is using to justify a war against its own people. Please read. Please share. Please subscribe. Please resist. cannonwriter.substack.com/p/america-ha...
When I searched for an emoji last week. Poetry.
How Empty Cans Became a $7 Million Crime—and more in the latest Power Metal newsletter! #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling powermetal.substack.com/p/the-7-mill...
If the answer to his claim is "no," THAT should be the headline! @nytimes.com we are looking to you, and you are failing us.
Good catch here. This is ludicrous, @nytimes.com
This week in Best of Substack: - Community vs Audience - Fuck the gatekeepers - Newsom’s strategist - On being quiet - The value of the tangible PLUS! - Q&A with Steven Watson - The worst coffees - Clever design - Saint Laurent in Marrakech Please read, share, subscribe, and restack!
Thank you. I can finally properly articulate this issue to my wife.
I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.
This week in the Best of Substack: Ecosystem AI prompts. Music for Montana. The politics of mRNA vaccines. Democratic change-makers. Immigrant memoir comics. Tariffs and fascism. The Dawn of Everything. The clean energy transition. Channeling Anaïs Nin. bestofsub.substack.com/p/best-of-su...
Are you still talking about the BIGGEST political scandal of all-time EPSTEIN & how the president of the United States is connected to the most notorious child-sex-trafficker ever AND is covering up his own involvement???!!! Good. #RememberTheUnderageVICTIMS 💔
@fsgbooks.bsky.social really did something beautiful for Nicholas Boggs’ new Baldwin biography.
My daily commute just tripled.
Fly like a butterfloat, stang like a bee-otch.
There's so much interesting content on Substack, so I started a "Substack Digest" of sorts. So you'll be seeing this message every week now. You're welcome. bestofsub.substack.com
When I say don’t mess with Texas women, I’m talking about State Rep. Jolanda Jones.
Breaking it down as simply as possible. The lies flow downward, the money upward.
Normalize billionaires swallowing other billionaires.
Some of these are shot in Vancouver and my kids act in them. It's basically a day hanging out in a rental mansion waiting for A.I. to "write" your lines for you.
But geocities IS part of Canada's peoples history. Respect for living their technovalues.
Summer office.
Thrilled to have the lead story in The Tyee, adapted from my substack. Read the original at cannonwriter.substack.com/p/foreigners...
Substack Notes is basically writers asking other writers what they're writing about.
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
It wouldn’t look good for a country with such xenophobic ambitions to admit they need help from their neighbors. My new post. open.substack.com/pub/cannonwr...
This is a great thread.
🎯 Scott please check out my substack post on this from a few weeks ago, "Us and Them." cannonwriter.substack.com/p/us-and-them Thanks for all the great work you do. 🙏
Happy Caturday! Support independent artists! @brittlestar.com
Amazing. Stewart you gotta follow my anti-fascist substack Communication Breakdown at substack.com/@cannonwriter, and my political satire site thecanadaparty.com. We love your work!
Where is DOGE when you need it?
Why is birthright citizenship being targeted in the US? Because they want to turn America into a gated community — from jus soli (right of the soil) to jus sanguinis (right of blood). If you are not of the right blood, you're not welcome where you were born. magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2025/spring-...
My new post! Scenes that offer wisdom and encouragement for those of us fighting the slow creep of disinformation, media manipulation, and fascism. open.substack.com/pub/cannonwr...
This clip gets more relevant with every passing moment. Is America the greatest country in the world? youtu.be/16K6m3Ua2nw?...
So needed. I'd love to be on this -- check out my substack Communication Breakdown. Wishing you success! substack.com/@cannonwriter
Trump's new tariff announcements are not targeting foreign countries, they are targeting America. My feature in this month's New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/1961...
I put out a substack today about this very thing. substack.com/home/post/p-...
I put out a substack today about this very thing. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Hot off the press! Why July 4th feels like a funeral instead of a birthday. cannonwriter.substack.com/p/happy-birt...
Fuck is it Christmas again already?
what did I say lol
The big, beautiful bill. "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." -Frédéric Bastiat
This photo is an insult to camouflage. WE SEE YOU.
I seem to have actually been blocked. Not sure how my reply was offensive. Apologies.
Ok but give me time to study.
Why not both?
Please let it actually be the last thing he does on this earth.
Mark please check out my substack that I started specifically to address this. substack.com/@cannonwriter
Would they mind moving the entire office to Vancouver?
My new substack post: Donald Trump is a box of cats. cannonwriter.substack.com/p/schrodinge...
Boosting my first substack post from last week — thanks for the reads! New posts up soon. Get a free subscription to Communication Breakdown if you want to monitor how misinformation and disinformation are being weaponized to lead America down a path of governance by tortured rhetoric.
Check out my new feature in The New Republic on how Trump's playing-jenga-with-oven-mitts approach to the economy is killing the town of Point Roberts. newrepublic.com/article/1961...
Sound on.
Proud to have written this for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social
I love it when things are progressive and cringey at the same time. Complexity is instructive. Brace yourself: www.youtube.com/shorts/a1_i1...
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We just started rewatching “Star Trek: TNG”, which I haven’t seen since it aired, and I remembered the pilot involving Q putting humanity on trial but forgot that it ended with “Don’t shoot! Those two giant space diaphragms are in LOVE!” which feels like the whole series in a nutshell.
And please like and share FFS.
I've launched a substack called Communication Breakdown. Please read my first post, "Us and Them," and subscribe if you want more. cannonwriter.substack.com/p/us-and-them
He among you who has never deployed the National Guard against US citizens to distract from the richest man on Earth calling you a pedophile can cast the first stone. One line, please.
Sooooooooo she's going to re-arrest the Jan 6 rioters? There was some touching involved.
Presenting the Word's Poorest Billionaire.
Please stop calling me Taco Belle.
I wrote a feature on you for UChicago magazine about 20 years ago (as Chris Smith). Glad to see you are still literating.
How many times a day do you read a headline and mutter the F word?
My friend Danielle (@griefcasseroles.bsky.social) writes raw and devastating grief lit. If you have suffered, you will see yourself in her. Please support her substack: substack.com/@griefcasser...
I have no idea what shredding is. Is it a kind of cake?
My friends founded the Seattle Cascades lol. You know I coach ultimate right?
Does a rising tide really lift all boats? Technically, yes. Which is great if you happen to live on a boat. Read (and share!) my new feature on why the rich are getting richer and how a widening wealth gap is damaging democracy. magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2025/spring-...
The Chicago Sun-Times ran a summer reading list on Sunday. Ten of the books didn't exist -- they were fabricated by ChatGPT. Today in Rejected by McSweeneys... medium.com/rejected-by-...
I have the same thing but with legos.
Birthright citizenship is under attack in America. Read my new piece on the importance of birthright citizenship in the US and Canada, and how anti-democratic forces are eroding "jus soli" across the globe. magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2025/spring-...
The DHS just announced that they are considering a reality show where immigrants compete for citizenship. The official distance from satire to news is about 3 weeks.
"We have a term, 'democracy.' It's about to be an old term."
best guesses on what young people call groceries now: Skibbidy Edibles El33t StomachWarez Prenoms Chewbait Bespoke Mouthery Nutrish Pooprint Toner Tastepunk Bitebait Hunger Vax Lifework Batteries (blue pill) Cum Stock (red pill) Self Upvotes Snail Energy Literal Snacks
I am here for this.
@williamshatner.bsky.social Make America Canada Again! youtu.be/aPBbjY0N-dA?...
My new piece in Rejected by McSweeney's. Like it, share it, like it again. medium.com/rejected-by-...
Canada solves America's immigration problem by weaponizing reality shows. New video! #UnAmericanIdol #AmericaButBetter youtu.be/KL9vqhT1J24
Do I have to wait until Canada is absorbed by the US before I can apply from Vancouver?
"But his Signal chats!" is the new "But her emails!"
Fuck it we're cartoonists now. #tariffs
