Tabatha Southey🇨🇦
@tabathasouthey.bsky.social
Tabatha Southey is a freelance writer who is based, in Toronto. She/Her. Bylines Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Policy, Elle Magazine, National Post, Toronto Life, Explore Magazine and more, author of three books. 🇨🇦
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In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?
A proliferation of sexual deepfakes on X has prompted other countries to investigate Grok, the platform’s AI software, but, so far, Ottawa remains silent.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
‘Get the f**k off there’: MPs, Senators call on government to abandon X/Twitter following wave of ‘Grok porn’
A proliferation of sexual deepfakes on X (formerly Twitter) has prompted other countries to investigate Grok, the platform’s AI software, but, so far, Ottawa remains silent.
www.hilltimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?
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Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”
i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all
January 8, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”
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Among other things, what's so terrible about Noem's language labeling an innocent civilian a domestic terrorist is it creates an explicit permission structure and encourages individual agents to be more violent. Combined with ICE's lowered recruiting standards, it will absolutely make things worse.
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
January 8, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Among other things, what's so terrible about Noem's language labeling an innocent civilian a domestic terrorist is it creates an explicit permission structure and encourages individual agents to be more violent. Combined with ICE's lowered recruiting standards, it will absolutely make things worse.
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This kind of crass, absurd and obscene embrace of willful murder from a top official is basically participation in murder after the fact
Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"
January 8, 2026 at 1:01 AM
This kind of crass, absurd and obscene embrace of willful murder from a top official is basically participation in murder after the fact
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January 7, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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The video is worth watching if you can stomach it - to see what is being done with your money and in your name.
After border patrol agents fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, agents showed up to a high school and released chemical weapons during dismissal, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Their live reporting here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Live updates: Minneapolis confirms name of woman shot by ICE agent
Renee Good, 37, was identified as the woman shot and killed Wednesday morning by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis. ICE said Good was shot while trying to run over agents with her car. Mayor Jacob Fre...
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 12:32 AM
The video is worth watching if you can stomach it - to see what is being done with your money and in your name.
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These people will fire and deport you for insufficiently glazing Charlie Kirk but openly celebrate killings against perceived ideological enemies.
January 7, 2026 at 11:45 PM
These people will fire and deport you for insufficiently glazing Charlie Kirk but openly celebrate killings against perceived ideological enemies.
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"They carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," a witness says. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."
Watching woman die 'will change my life forever,' neighbor says
Emily Heller, 39, wasn't even dressed when she heard whistles alerting the neighborhood that ICE agents were in the area this morning. “I’ve never seen
www.nbcnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:23 PM
"They carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," a witness says. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."
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If the US moves to take over Greenland – a threat we’d be foolish to dismiss – Canada would be forced to rethink every aspect of its relations with the US. Canadian officials need to start thinking though this nightmarish scenario now, not later. It would be a seismic event.
January 7, 2026 at 9:38 PM
If the US moves to take over Greenland – a threat we’d be foolish to dismiss – Canada would be forced to rethink every aspect of its relations with the US. Canadian officials need to start thinking though this nightmarish scenario now, not later. It would be a seismic event.
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The "undressing" deepfakes generated by Grok on X were just the tip of the iceberg. @mattburgess1.bsky.social and I found far more explicit AI videos on Grok.com, including dozens that a researcher said they reported to a regulator because they appeared to be CSAM: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X
A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok’s official website shows it’s being used to create violent sexual images and videos, as well as content that includes apparent minors.
www.wired.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:53 PM
The "undressing" deepfakes generated by Grok on X were just the tip of the iceberg. @mattburgess1.bsky.social and I found far more explicit AI videos on Grok.com, including dozens that a researcher said they reported to a regulator because they appeared to be CSAM: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
Is this the male loneliness crisis I keep hearing about?
One of the strangest arguments I've heard recently against infill development..
"Who among your friends is going to come over for a visit, anyway, if they have to park a block-and-a-half away?"
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
"Who among your friends is going to come over for a visit, anyway, if they have to park a block-and-a-half away?"
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Lorne Gunter: Edmonton council's ‘progressive’ infill policy an attack on existing homeowners
When council passed this ridiculous experiment in social engineering in late 2023, only two of the current council voted against it.
edmontonjournal.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Is this the male loneliness crisis I keep hearing about?
You win by leading not by polling.
Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
January 7, 2026 at 8:05 PM
You win by leading not by polling.
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The message here should be “we want the shooter.”
Minneapolis mayor is "demanding ICE to leave the city immediately."
January 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The message here should be “we want the shooter.”
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Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Enjoy the ride as @polphilpod.bsky.social makes a very strong case for liberalism having a very strong case — a case they can win with if they stop grovelling and try it.
immigration is a great thing, we need to say that - & take the fight to the nativists
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off The Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Enjoy the ride as @polphilpod.bsky.social makes a very strong case for liberalism having a very strong case — a case they can win with if they stop grovelling and try it.
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My parents are divorced so we have two January 6ths
January 7, 2026 at 12:49 AM
My parents are divorced so we have two January 6ths
The rapist is pillaging.
Trump: “I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President”
January 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
The rapist is pillaging.
I noticed years ago how many men on Twitter who took issue with my work or existence would rush off to image search me and then opine elaborately on what they found — like they were back, but this time they were armed! Grok hands these guys nukes, by design.
In the five days that I've been monitoring this stuff on X, I've not detected any significant slow-down.
January 6, 2026 at 9:47 PM
I noticed years ago how many men on Twitter who took issue with my work or existence would rush off to image search me and then opine elaborately on what they found — like they were back, but this time they were armed! Grok hands these guys nukes, by design.
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Somewhere a @nytimes.com journalist pricks up his ears, speed dials his editor “I got a scoop!”
Trump: "Transgender for everyone! Bring your kids in, we're gonna change the sex of your child. Just send them our way. In some cases, like in Minnesota, they don't even tell the parents. Nobody believes it when I say it. They operate on the kid, they don't tell the parents. It's not believable."
January 6, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Somewhere a @nytimes.com journalist pricks up his ears, speed dials his editor “I got a scoop!”
Me: There’s no way Curtis Yarvin could be any more of a weird racist.
Curtis Yarvin: Albion. Seed.
Curtis Yarvin: Albion. Seed.
Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.”
A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:
“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words:
“The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”
January 6, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Me: There’s no way Curtis Yarvin could be any more of a weird racist.
Curtis Yarvin: Albion. Seed.
Curtis Yarvin: Albion. Seed.
During the pandemic Filmores had Maggie’s — a sex worker support organization — in partnership with the University Health Network, in to host low-barrier vaccine clinics. Later the marquee read “WE’RE WAXED, VAXED & READY TO PARTY! ARE YOU?” R.I.P.
Filmores Hotel announces ‘final curtain’ at strip club, with another chapter to come
Filmores Hotel announces ‘final curtain’ at strip club, with another chapter to come
The building and an adjacent parking lot were sold in 2020 for a combined $51.5 million to Menkes Development, under the corporate name Menfor Dundas Developments Inc
www.thestar.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
During the pandemic Filmores had Maggie’s — a sex worker support organization — in partnership with the University Health Network, in to host low-barrier vaccine clinics. Later the marquee read “WE’RE WAXED, VAXED & READY TO PARTY! ARE YOU?” R.I.P.
I noticed years ago how many men on Twitter who took issue with my work or existence would rush off to image search me and then opine on what they found — like they were back, but this time they were armed! Grok hands these guys nukes, by design.
January 6, 2026 at 1:31 AM
I noticed years ago how many men on Twitter who took issue with my work or existence would rush off to image search me and then opine on what they found — like they were back, but this time they were armed! Grok hands these guys nukes, by design.
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Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie
January 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie
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Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.
January 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.