Carol Off
@caroloff.bsky.social
Author of At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage --"an instant #1 bestseller."
It's the story of how political words have been weaponized and who weaponized them.
caroloff.ca
Substack.com/@caroloff
It's the story of how political words have been weaponized and who weaponized them.
caroloff.ca
Substack.com/@caroloff
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Carol Off
@caroloff.bsky.social
· Nov 17
The tour for this book has been a wild ride. I met so many people who are trying to understand what's happening to civil society. I offer some ideas -- and encouragement.
Thanks to all those who made this a bestseller.
Thanks to all those who made this a bestseller.
Thank you Bookman!
An important, eye-opening, and absolutely necessary book. @caroloff.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Thank you Bookman!
Margaret is one funny woman and her Book of Lives: a Memoir of Sorts is one great book.
Thanks for teaching me how to make a tit puppet, Margaret.
Thanks for teaching me how to make a tit puppet, Margaret.
December 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Margaret is one funny woman and her Book of Lives: a Memoir of Sorts is one great book.
Thanks for teaching me how to make a tit puppet, Margaret.
Thanks for teaching me how to make a tit puppet, Margaret.
I will have a look. Thanks for the tip.
September 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I will have a look. Thanks for the tip.
I’m told that it can capture it. Or it soon will. maybe it will be sufficiently “human” to satisfy publishers and readers. Market forces.
September 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I’m told that it can capture it. Or it soon will. maybe it will be sufficiently “human” to satisfy publishers and readers. Market forces.
And I will always enjoy the task of writing. But I despair that one day the publisher will not bother waiting for me to prime the pump or stoke the wood stove.
September 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
And I will always enjoy the task of writing. But I despair that one day the publisher will not bother waiting for me to prime the pump or stoke the wood stove.
Yes books will survive. Written by AI. Technology will take over the task. I despair.
September 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Yes books will survive. Written by AI. Technology will take over the task. I despair.
As I struggle each day to write another book I can't help but think that this activity will one day be as obsolete as hand-pumping water from a well or stoking the kitchen stove with wood in order to cook dinner.
September 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
As I struggle each day to write another book I can't help but think that this activity will one day be as obsolete as hand-pumping water from a well or stoking the kitchen stove with wood in order to cook dinner.
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Our #BlueskyBookClub pick today is from Senior Consultant @alysonfair.bsky.social: At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage, by Carol Off
It's a powerful reminder that civil discourse isn’t just nice, it’s necessary.
#BlueskyReads #BestPoliticalReads #ConversationMatters #canpoli
It's a powerful reminder that civil discourse isn’t just nice, it’s necessary.
#BlueskyReads #BestPoliticalReads #ConversationMatters #canpoli
August 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Our #BlueskyBookClub pick today is from Senior Consultant @alysonfair.bsky.social: At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage, by Carol Off
It's a powerful reminder that civil discourse isn’t just nice, it’s necessary.
#BlueskyReads #BestPoliticalReads #ConversationMatters #canpoli
It's a powerful reminder that civil discourse isn’t just nice, it’s necessary.
#BlueskyReads #BestPoliticalReads #ConversationMatters #canpoli
Ha! I arrived at our cottage to find this issue from last year still on the coffee table. Before the US election. Before Trump 2.
SCOTUS already in place to enable him.
What a difference a year doesn't make.
SCOTUS already in place to enable him.
What a difference a year doesn't make.
July 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Ha! I arrived at our cottage to find this issue from last year still on the coffee table. Before the US election. Before Trump 2.
SCOTUS already in place to enable him.
What a difference a year doesn't make.
SCOTUS already in place to enable him.
What a difference a year doesn't make.
Voting in favour of a bill that you know will hurt your people but presuming they won’t find out until you are re-elected is the height of cynicism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Voting in favour of a bill that you know will hurt your people but presuming they won’t find out until you are re-elected is the height of cynicism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Republicans want to slash food and medical aid for impoverished Americans in order to subsidize Jeff Bezos extravagance. These things are directly connected.
How do these people sleep at night?
How do these people sleep at night?
June 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Republicans want to slash food and medical aid for impoverished Americans in order to subsidize Jeff Bezos extravagance. These things are directly connected.
How do these people sleep at night?
How do these people sleep at night?
I hear you. It’s a difficult time for those folks.
June 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I hear you. It’s a difficult time for those folks.
It's dubbed the "None is to many" law. Canada sends asylum seekers back to the United States under a treaty that's supposed to protect their rights. We know it's not happening. Canada has legal obligations here.
My latest substack. Free to read. Free to subscribe.
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My latest substack. Free to read. Free to subscribe.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Mr. Carney, Tear down that wall.
Canada's urgent obligation to asylum seekers in the United States
open.substack.com
June 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's dubbed the "None is to many" law. Canada sends asylum seekers back to the United States under a treaty that's supposed to protect their rights. We know it's not happening. Canada has legal obligations here.
My latest substack. Free to read. Free to subscribe.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
My latest substack. Free to read. Free to subscribe.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Violent attacks on journalists who are trying to cover the protests around Los Angeles, according to @adamrose, the Press Rights Chair at Los Angeles Press Club.
Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime.
This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇
This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇
June 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Violent attacks on journalists who are trying to cover the protests around Los Angeles, according to @adamrose, the Press Rights Chair at Los Angeles Press Club.
Trump wants to create violence in California as a distraction while his agents round up families, farm workers and students for detention and deportation.
June 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Trump wants to create violence in California as a distraction while his agents round up families, farm workers and students for detention and deportation.
Canada is sending refugees back to the US -- a regime that violates their rights and deports women and children.
We have obligations to those people. It's time we honoured them.
Mr. Carney, tear down that wall.
My latest substack.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
We have obligations to those people. It's time we honoured them.
Mr. Carney, tear down that wall.
My latest substack.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Mr. Carney, Tear down that wall.
Canada's urgent obligation to asylum seekers in the United States
open.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Canada is sending refugees back to the US -- a regime that violates their rights and deports women and children.
We have obligations to those people. It's time we honoured them.
Mr. Carney, tear down that wall.
My latest substack.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
We have obligations to those people. It's time we honoured them.
Mr. Carney, tear down that wall.
My latest substack.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Canada's Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States is endangering the lives of countless people.
It's immoral and probably unconstitutional.
Mr. Carney, tear down that wall.
My latest substack. Free to read. Free to subscribe.
It's immoral and probably unconstitutional.
Mr. Carney, tear down that wall.
My latest substack. Free to read. Free to subscribe.
June 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Canada's Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States is endangering the lives of countless people.
It's immoral and probably unconstitutional.
Mr. Carney, tear down that wall.
My latest substack. Free to read. Free to subscribe.
It's immoral and probably unconstitutional.
Mr. Carney, tear down that wall.
My latest substack. Free to read. Free to subscribe.
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Beauty pageants, the flag, the search for symbols.
“We are defined by what we do, not by what we wear or what authority figure we can trot onto stage. We have a lot of reconciliation still to do at home but, mixed as it is, I believe our record can speak for itself. It's better than most.”
“We are defined by what we do, not by what we wear or what authority figure we can trot onto stage. We have a lot of reconciliation still to do at home but, mixed as it is, I believe our record can speak for itself. It's better than most.”
Why is it so hard for Canada to show the world what we are?
Canada: a nation in search of an identity and a symbol.
My latest substack. Free to read; free to subscribe.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Canada: a nation in search of an identity and a symbol.
My latest substack. Free to read; free to subscribe.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Canada - a nation in search of a symbol
Because nothing says "Canada" better than the king on his throne
open.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Beauty pageants, the flag, the search for symbols.
“We are defined by what we do, not by what we wear or what authority figure we can trot onto stage. We have a lot of reconciliation still to do at home but, mixed as it is, I believe our record can speak for itself. It's better than most.”
“We are defined by what we do, not by what we wear or what authority figure we can trot onto stage. We have a lot of reconciliation still to do at home but, mixed as it is, I believe our record can speak for itself. It's better than most.”
Good question! I would say our parks.
May 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Good question! I would say our parks.
Why is it so hard for Canada to show the world what we are?
Canada: a nation in search of an identity and a symbol.
My latest substack. Free to read; free to subscribe.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Canada: a nation in search of an identity and a symbol.
My latest substack. Free to read; free to subscribe.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Canada - a nation in search of a symbol
Because nothing says "Canada" better than the king on his throne
open.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Why is it so hard for Canada to show the world what we are?
Canada: a nation in search of an identity and a symbol.
My latest substack. Free to read; free to subscribe.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Canada: a nation in search of an identity and a symbol.
My latest substack. Free to read; free to subscribe.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Canada is standing up to the global neighbourhood bully -Donald Trump. And the world is watching.
Their takeaway? Never underestimate nice people.
My latest free Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Their takeaway? Never underestimate nice people.
My latest free Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
How the outside world sees Carney and Canada
Never underestimate nice people.
open.substack.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Canada is standing up to the global neighbourhood bully -Donald Trump. And the world is watching.
Their takeaway? Never underestimate nice people.
My latest free Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Their takeaway? Never underestimate nice people.
My latest free Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/caroloff...
Reposted by Carol Off
For #gettinglitwithlinda, @caroloff.bsky.social addresses her new book, At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage & examines how #freedom, #democracy #truth are being hijacked & weaponized to diminish liberal democracy. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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May 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
For #gettinglitwithlinda, @caroloff.bsky.social addresses her new book, At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage & examines how #freedom, #democracy #truth are being hijacked & weaponized to diminish liberal democracy. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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In all seriousness, this is the very scenario I was imagining. Hasn't he asked for a military parade on his honour?
May 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
In all seriousness, this is the very scenario I was imagining. Hasn't he asked for a military parade on his honour?