Normal writer: "A ship called the Nellie set sail from London and headed towards the sea." Joseph Conrad:

The early months of 2025 felt like they could be a moment of real political ferment in Canada. Eighteen months later — partly thanks to the Carney government's chosen direction — the dynamic is one of stasis and a familiar state of affairs has returned. [link in next tweet]

That Blue Jays outing today, woof.

Matsui. Suzuki. Murakami. Ohtani. Okamoto. #BlueJays50📷

Andrés Giménez is the Blue Jays’ undisputed king of clutch hits

A missile, even for Okamoto. Pretty sure this ball landed somewhere in Vegas.

Until the recent collapse of trade talks, the Carney govt did everything it possibly could to cajole and curry favor with the Trump admin - all so they could get a bad deal and call it a victory. What Trump is doing is insane, but this is underdiscussed.

Have you all met my beautiful Rosie

Does anyone I know work at Meta? Or know anyone who works at Meta? Need some tech support that isn’t from a chatbot.

Folks...the Toronto Blue Jays are back at .500. It'll go higher.

It was touch and go there for a moment but then I saw the label reassuring me that the box of Kraft Dinner was "processed in Canada." A great weight has been lifted from my shoulders.

It's so beautiful I can't even look directly at it

Been a hell of a two weeks for these guys. If this keeps up...man, oh man... #BlueJays50

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If I'm being honest, when Max Scherzer went on the IL I didn't think we'd see him pitch for the Blue Jays again — especially as a starter. And I never imagined he'd give us a start like this. Historic masterclass today. #BlueJays30

Blue Jays 8, Mariners 1 #BlueJays50

Must…crush…Mariners

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I'll be joining @dwdavison, @dbessner, and @AmPrestigePod tonight live at 8pm EST to talk about the recent collapse of Canada/US trade talks, the Carney government's approach to Trump, and much more. Tune in if you can! [link in next tweet]

Louis Varland is the most lethal pitcher in baseball. #BlueJays50

The Blue Jays bullpen is absolutely killing it tonight. Miles, Little, Dallas, Fluharty have given us a masterclass so far. Chad Dallas especially was an absolutely assassin. #bluejays50

**kisses fingers like an Italian chef**

200th strikeout of the year for future Cy Young winner Dylan Cease. #BlueJays50

It'll go higher #BlueJays50

Louis Varland needed just four pitches to strike out the Yankees and win the game. Four. The Blue Jays win 3-1, are 7-3 in their last 10, and are now only 1 game back from a playoff spot. Never in doubt. #BlueJays50

Got an early galley copy of this and it's already good as hell. When this book comes out in the fall, it's definitely going to be worth your time. www.simonandschuster.com/books/American-So...

Fifth series win in a row, 10 wins over the last 14 games, 2 games shy of a wildcard spot. Let's roll. #BlueJays50 voante.com/BlueJays/status/208771923703704...

Legendary 8th inning for the Blue Jays tonight. Five runs banked starting with this beauty. #BlueJays50

I still think about this

A beautiful summer’s night at the Skydome with Dylan Cease on the mound. Let’s go. #bluejays50

He cooled off a bit after that big debut in Baltimore earlier this season but I was sure we hadn't seen the last of Charles McAdoo. #BlueJays50

I have an extremely annoying bureaucratic thing I have to deal with that requires, of all thing, a fax machine. Does anyone know of a place with a fax machine in Toronto?

You don't usually think of Andrés Giménez as a home run guy but he'll then surprise you by smacking a first pitch homer straight into the heavens. #BlueJays50

It's quite something to see all these Clintonite dinosaurs rebrand themselves as authentic champions of the working class fighting a war against the overrepresentation of the college educated. Their entire project was openly about abandoning the former in favour of the latter.

The dumbest, most obsequious guys on the planet have earnestly convinced themselves that this guy is cool

I wrote this before the results of the Michigan Democratic Senate primary were known, but in light of what some of the ensuing discourse now is I think it’s probably even more topical.

I rarely watch MSNBC but it’s infinitely better than having to endure even a second of Van Jones over on CNN

It was, and remains, completely insane that the government of Canada invested itself in a public monument that was **quite literally** a monument to Nazis. They've scrubbed the names, but the original charity is still involved and the structure is still standing.

Forgive the cliche, but when these guys tell you what they think and want you should believe them. They really do believe people who invent new ways of selling things on the world wide web are promethean god emperors who should be the masters of civilization.

Despite what the cynics may be saying, AI chatbots are revolutionizing customer service by innovating an entirely new step where you have to repeatedly beg a machine for the privilege of talking to another human being.

I have a new piece on Substack today about the longstanding centrist chimera of "electability", which has always been more about disciplining the Democratic base than actually winning elections.

I'm in the Star today with a piece on the Carney government's handling of relations with the United States. Last year, Canadians gave Mark Carney a mandate to disentangle our country from the empire to the south. He's done the exact opposite. Link in next tweet.

Luis Urías is the hitter we didn't know we needed. #BlueJays50

I love watching Dylan Cease pitch

Hear me out...what if the Blue Jays just kept Kevin Gausman right here in Toronto.

A delicious banquet of pundit idiocy on display right here. Some of American socialism's deepest roots are in Wisconsin. The ostensibly "electable" Democratic presidential nominees lost it in both 2016 and 2024. And I'm pretty sure this race is getting lots and lots of attention.

Some thoughts on why so many of the ad reads on right wing shows and podcasts are also accidentally hilarious. Link in first reply.

22 save opportunities, 22 saves. Just incredible.