Heather Mallick
@hmallick.bsky.social
Canadian news columnist formerly CBC, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, etc. author, feminist, bookish person, centre-left. Substacker.
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Why is it always guys who look like Mayberry's dentist that talk like Rambo?
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Why is it always guys who look like Mayberry's dentist that talk like Rambo?
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"There is a valid tactical rationale for the prime minister’s reluctance to criticise the US right now, but it has to serve a strategic recognition that Britain’s future lies with Europe. There is not much evidence that this is the plan." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Is Starmer’s reluctance to criticise Trump smart tactics – or the sign of a man without a plan? | Rafael Behr
The PM won’t call out Trump over Venezuela, and won’t commit to Europe. His refusal to choose leaves vital choices for Britain to be made by others, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:19 PM
"There is a valid tactical rationale for the prime minister’s reluctance to criticise the US right now, but it has to serve a strategic recognition that Britain’s future lies with Europe. There is not much evidence that this is the plan." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Exactly one Allied combat fatality happened in Greenland during World War II, and he was a Danish soldier on patrol killed in a firefight with a German weather station crew.
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Exactly one Allied combat fatality happened in Greenland during World War II, and he was a Danish soldier on patrol killed in a firefight with a German weather station crew.
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There we go. That there’s a headline.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
There we go. That there’s a headline.
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Someone should come up with a system to print out the news on a piece of paper and deliver it from home to home.
Maybe call it a Paper of News.
Maybe call it a Paper of News.
January 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Someone should come up with a system to print out the news on a piece of paper and deliver it from home to home.
Maybe call it a Paper of News.
Maybe call it a Paper of News.
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(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee
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"Maybe the war's over. Maybe it's peace."
"Oh, hurrah! The big knobs have got round the table and yanked the iron out of the fire!"
"Thank God! We lived through it! The Great War, 1914 to 1917."
"Oh, hurrah! The big knobs have got round the table and yanked the iron out of the fire!"
"Thank God! We lived through it! The Great War, 1914 to 1917."
January 6, 2026 at 11:13 PM
"Maybe the war's over. Maybe it's peace."
"Oh, hurrah! The big knobs have got round the table and yanked the iron out of the fire!"
"Thank God! We lived through it! The Great War, 1914 to 1917."
"Oh, hurrah! The big knobs have got round the table and yanked the iron out of the fire!"
"Thank God! We lived through it! The Great War, 1914 to 1917."
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anyone else noticing the sudden use of "Western Hemisphere" from all corners?
January 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
anyone else noticing the sudden use of "Western Hemisphere" from all corners?
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This line applies to so many people: "Webster’s defense attorney had argued in a presentencing filing that judging his client’s character based solely on January 6 was like 'judging the sea by a jugful of its water.'”
January 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM
This line applies to so many people: "Webster’s defense attorney had argued in a presentencing filing that judging his client’s character based solely on January 6 was like 'judging the sea by a jugful of its water.'”
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So much incredible stuff in this piece about a January 6 protester (jailed, pardoned) and a January 6 cop (injured, bemused about Trump's re-election) but something that stands out is that both of them feel haunted by being captured in a viral image www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Donald Trump Wants You to Forget This Happened
January 6, five years later
www.theatlantic.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:34 PM
So much incredible stuff in this piece about a January 6 protester (jailed, pardoned) and a January 6 cop (injured, bemused about Trump's re-election) but something that stands out is that both of them feel haunted by being captured in a viral image www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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As a DVD extra, here is the Marie Antoinette picture posted on X by Newsom:
January 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
As a DVD extra, here is the Marie Antoinette picture posted on X by Newsom:
It contains Helen Lewis’s phrase describing his ex, Kimberley Guilfoyle’s “open-casket MAGA makeover.” Lewis is an exquisite writer.
I went to Sacramento to profile Gavin Newsom, governor of California and purveyor of mean tweets about Trump. I was pretty surprised by what I found:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Front-Runner
California’s Gavin Newsom would rather be wrong than weak.
www.theatlantic.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
It contains Helen Lewis’s phrase describing his ex, Kimberley Guilfoyle’s “open-casket MAGA makeover.” Lewis is an exquisite writer.
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I don't often agree with Donald Trump.
But this time he is absolutely, positively 💯 percent correct.
Please help us make poor Donald's nightmare come true:
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But this time he is absolutely, positively 💯 percent correct.
Please help us make poor Donald's nightmare come true:
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Trump: "You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don't win the midterms, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached."
January 6, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I don't often agree with Donald Trump.
But this time he is absolutely, positively 💯 percent correct.
Please help us make poor Donald's nightmare come true:
secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_g...
But this time he is absolutely, positively 💯 percent correct.
Please help us make poor Donald's nightmare come true:
secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_g...
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Lebensraum
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Lebensraum
So Miller got Policy. Polish. Poland. The Department of Poland. Software. Delivery. Delivery generally. It's a big team. Everybody's working great. Other than that I don't want to say.
COLLINS: Stephen, you're part of the group the president has said is running Venezuela. What are your day to day responsibilities?
STEPHEN MILLER: ... heh heh. The president has asked Rubio to be the lead
C: But what are you specifically doing?
M: I don't want to talk too much about myself
STEPHEN MILLER: ... heh heh. The president has asked Rubio to be the lead
C: But what are you specifically doing?
M: I don't want to talk too much about myself
January 6, 2026 at 2:30 AM
So Miller got Policy. Polish. Poland. The Department of Poland. Software. Delivery. Delivery generally. It's a big team. Everybody's working great. Other than that I don't want to say.
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im genuinely curious if this resonates with voters. this naked appeal to imperialism from a shrieking, shrill man
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 6, 2026 at 12:04 AM
im genuinely curious if this resonates with voters. this naked appeal to imperialism from a shrieking, shrill man
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What a rotten man.
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 12:01 AM
What a rotten man.
I greatly admire the brave Lionel Shriver, she of We Need to Talk About Kevin and the magnificent short story Kilifi Creek. Am wondering now if her new novel can still "fill a cultural space." Trump filled it first, with blood. You can't outrun him. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Lionel Shriver’s Dangerous Ground
The author’s latest novel is a provocative exploration of immigration in America—readers can expect a bumpy ride.
www.publishersweekly.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM
I greatly admire the brave Lionel Shriver, she of We Need to Talk About Kevin and the magnificent short story Kilifi Creek. Am wondering now if her new novel can still "fill a cultural space." Trump filled it first, with blood. You can't outrun him. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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I'm getting pretty tired of living through history.
January 5, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I'm getting pretty tired of living through history.
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Kash Patel is on Fox & Friends kissing Trump's ass and you can hear an aide screaming "guys, you cannot be adjusting his light!" as they struggle with his shot
January 5, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Kash Patel is on Fox & Friends kissing Trump's ass and you can hear an aide screaming "guys, you cannot be adjusting his light!" as they struggle with his shot
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In Europe, officials are - at least rhetorically - turning up the pressure over the spread of nonconsensual sexualized imagery on X.
In the United States ... crickets.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
In the United States ... crickets.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
EU calls Grok's sexualised AI photos 'illegal,' Britain demands answers
The European Commission said on Monday that the images of undressed women and children being shared across Elon Musk's social media site X were unlawful and appalling, joining a growing chorus of offi...
www.reuters.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM
In Europe, officials are - at least rhetorically - turning up the pressure over the spread of nonconsensual sexualized imagery on X.
In the United States ... crickets.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
In the United States ... crickets.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Another example of this horror? A young girl (15 years old) died in a fire in Switzerland.
Her photo was published to pay tribute to her, and guess what these POS did?
Her photo was published to pay tribute to her, and guess what these POS did?
January 5, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Another example of this horror? A young girl (15 years old) died in a fire in Switzerland.
Her photo was published to pay tribute to her, and guess what these POS did?
Her photo was published to pay tribute to her, and guess what these POS did?
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
www.huffpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
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Just to give you a sense of the scale of this, these are the search results for "@grok string bikini" over the last hour.
January 5, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Just to give you a sense of the scale of this, these are the search results for "@grok string bikini" over the last hour.