Chris Iorfida
@iorfida.bsky.social
Sr. Writer, CBC News digital.
Toronto/Mississauga
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaica's ambassador of reggae, dead at 81 | CBC News
Jimmy Cliff, who was a presence at the birth of modern Jamaican music and helped spread the influence of reggae around the world through his albums and starring role in The Harder They Come, has died....
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Grateful I got to see, in 2012, the man I consider the most important figure in reggae history (earlier than Marley to the rest of the world, and, legend has it, brought Bob to an early audition in Kingston).
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I know space is tight but not sure why the @ms.now banner says Kelly is being investigated for "anti-Trump video."
That's Fox News-type reduction.
That's Fox News-type reduction.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I know space is tight but not sure why the @ms.now banner says Kelly is being investigated for "anti-Trump video."
That's Fox News-type reduction.
That's Fox News-type reduction.
Grateful I got to see, in 2012, the man I consider the most important figure in reggae history (earlier than Marley to the rest of the world, and, legend has it, brought Bob to an early audition in Kingston).
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaica's ambassador of reggae, dead at 81 | CBC News
Jimmy Cliff, who was a presence at the birth of modern Jamaican music and helped spread the influence of reggae around the world through his albums and starring role in The Harder They Come, has died....
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Grateful I got to see, in 2012, the man I consider the most important figure in reggae history (earlier than Marley to the rest of the world, and, legend has it, brought Bob to an early audition in Kingston).
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
The posts on the other site about the 60 Minutes segment on Trump fam's World Liberty and CZ are despairing and delusional.
November 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The posts on the other site about the 60 Minutes segment on Trump fam's World Liberty and CZ are despairing and delusional.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Wow.
EXCLUSIVE-U.S. MILITARY RESCUED SURVIVORS BY HELICOPTER AFTER THURSDAY STRIKE IN CARIBBEAN AND IS NOW HOLDING THEM ON A NAVY SHIP, FOUR SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER TELL REUTERS
EXCLUSIVE-U.S. MILITARY RESCUED SURVIVORS BY HELICOPTER AFTER THURSDAY STRIKE IN CARIBBEAN AND IS NOW HOLDING THEM ON A NAVY SHIP, FOUR SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER TELL REUTERS
October 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Wow.
EXCLUSIVE-U.S. MILITARY RESCUED SURVIVORS BY HELICOPTER AFTER THURSDAY STRIKE IN CARIBBEAN AND IS NOW HOLDING THEM ON A NAVY SHIP, FOUR SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER TELL REUTERS
EXCLUSIVE-U.S. MILITARY RESCUED SURVIVORS BY HELICOPTER AFTER THURSDAY STRIKE IN CARIBBEAN AND IS NOW HOLDING THEM ON A NAVY SHIP, FOUR SOURCES FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER TELL REUTERS
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I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
October 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
Is it...requesting content moderation?
2.5 years after a $787M settlement, the righteous winner, Dominion Voting Systems, has been sold to a Republican operative clearly sympathetic to the fantasia perpetuated on Americans that the election was stolen, and the owners/losers who helped spread the lie are set to own a piece of TikTok
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October 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
2.5 years after a $787M settlement, the righteous winner, Dominion Voting Systems, has been sold to a Republican operative clearly sympathetic to the fantasia perpetuated on Americans that the election was stolen, and the owners/losers who helped spread the lie are set to own a piece of TikTok
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Bonkers this went live on NYT.
Peace Prize nominations CLOSE ON JAN. 31. That's never changed.
Moreover, several countries were involved in this pact, even if led by US. (Clinton didn't get one for Oslo, remember)
Netanyahu said he nominated DJT for Abraham Accords, not clear if it was by Jan. 31
Peace Prize nominations CLOSE ON JAN. 31. That's never changed.
Moreover, several countries were involved in this pact, even if led by US. (Clinton didn't get one for Oslo, remember)
Netanyahu said he nominated DJT for Abraham Accords, not clear if it was by Jan. 31
The Times out of the gate with the fantasy take this morning.
October 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Bonkers this went live on NYT.
Peace Prize nominations CLOSE ON JAN. 31. That's never changed.
Moreover, several countries were involved in this pact, even if led by US. (Clinton didn't get one for Oslo, remember)
Netanyahu said he nominated DJT for Abraham Accords, not clear if it was by Jan. 31
Peace Prize nominations CLOSE ON JAN. 31. That's never changed.
Moreover, several countries were involved in this pact, even if led by US. (Clinton didn't get one for Oslo, remember)
Netanyahu said he nominated DJT for Abraham Accords, not clear if it was by Jan. 31
New hot allegation from Republicans: Spying/tapping of phones through time travel.
October 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New hot allegation from Republicans: Spying/tapping of phones through time travel.
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SNL returns in 1 week after a Sept. of Kirk, Kimmel.
SNL's 3rd ever show had Larraine Newman playing Squeaky Fromme a month after Fromme & Sara Jane Moore (whose death was learned this week) shot at POTUS Ford.
To quote Lou Reed: Those were different times
SNL returns in 1 week after a Sept. of Kirk, Kimmel.
SNL's 3rd ever show had Larraine Newman playing Squeaky Fromme a month after Fromme & Sara Jane Moore (whose death was learned this week) shot at POTUS Ford.
To quote Lou Reed: Those were different times
As Trump blasts late-night TV, reaction of the 1st president satirized by SNL is a glaring contrast | CBC News
Donald Trump, who hosted Saturday Night Live twice before becoming president, has consistently complained about his treatment on the sketch comedy show. The show returns next week, and Trump's aggress...
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September 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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SNL returns in 1 week after a Sept. of Kirk, Kimmel.
SNL's 3rd ever show had Larraine Newman playing Squeaky Fromme a month after Fromme & Sara Jane Moore (whose death was learned this week) shot at POTUS Ford.
To quote Lou Reed: Those were different times
SNL returns in 1 week after a Sept. of Kirk, Kimmel.
SNL's 3rd ever show had Larraine Newman playing Squeaky Fromme a month after Fromme & Sara Jane Moore (whose death was learned this week) shot at POTUS Ford.
To quote Lou Reed: Those were different times
Imagine if Atlantic said to CSNY May '70 after Kent State, "We can't release Ohio right now. Might upset Nixon admin & haters of campus leftists."
Bogdanovich's Targets, with an assassin character, was released by Paramount August 1968, per imdb.
Bogdanovich's Targets, with an assassin character, was released by Paramount August 1968, per imdb.
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Imagine if Atlantic said to CSNY May '70 after Kent State, "We can't release Ohio right now. Might upset Nixon admin & haters of campus leftists."
Bogdanovich's Targets, with an assassin character, was released by Paramount August 1968, per imdb.
Bogdanovich's Targets, with an assassin character, was released by Paramount August 1968, per imdb.
Markwayne Mullin's blatant, sleazy lying before Senate health committee was something to behold.
Tried to browbeat Susan Monarez by suggesting there was a recording of her meeting with RFK and others.
Then outside committee told reporters he was mistaken in his recording claim.
Tried to browbeat Susan Monarez by suggesting there was a recording of her meeting with RFK and others.
Then outside committee told reporters he was mistaken in his recording claim.
September 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Markwayne Mullin's blatant, sleazy lying before Senate health committee was something to behold.
Tried to browbeat Susan Monarez by suggesting there was a recording of her meeting with RFK and others.
Then outside committee told reporters he was mistaken in his recording claim.
Tried to browbeat Susan Monarez by suggesting there was a recording of her meeting with RFK and others.
Then outside committee told reporters he was mistaken in his recording claim.
Trump's angling for a Nobel, may have to settle for an ICC warrant if he keeps it up (with the bombing of boats)
September 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Trump's angling for a Nobel, may have to settle for an ICC warrant if he keeps it up (with the bombing of boats)
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Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.
September 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.
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As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
We need to make the same thing happen this time.
We need to make the same thing happen this time.
September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
We need to make the same thing happen this time.
We need to make the same thing happen this time.
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Contrary to the assertions of the "it's a trap!" crowd, Donald Trump's use of the military to intimidate and control Americans is unpopular -- and his approval on handling crime is underwater.
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Trump’s military occupation of American cities is unpopular. The media is trying to manufacture consent for it.
Donald Trump’s military assault on America’s cities has been denounced by legal and national security experts as an “authoritarian power grab” that is “dangerous for liberty” and “an absolute seizing control of our country through our own military used against us” in an attempt to “dominate” the American
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August 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Contrary to the assertions of the "it's a trap!" crowd, Donald Trump's use of the military to intimidate and control Americans is unpopular -- and his approval on handling crime is underwater.
www.findinggravity.net/trumps-milit...
www.findinggravity.net/trumps-milit...
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The FBI is raiding John Bolton's house, right now. www.thebulwark.com/p/developing...
DEVELOPING: The FBI Is at John Bolton’s House
In a dawn operation, FBI agents descended on the home of Trump’s former national security advisor.
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August 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The FBI is raiding John Bolton's house, right now. www.thebulwark.com/p/developing...
Remember that time in Trump 1.0 when he blasted Post reporters for claiming in a book he speculated about moats, if possible, near border wall, but, oops, the book was by Times reporters?
Had forgotten that gem myself.
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Had forgotten that gem myself.
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August 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Remember that time in Trump 1.0 when he blasted Post reporters for claiming in a book he speculated about moats, if possible, near border wall, but, oops, the book was by Times reporters?
Had forgotten that gem myself.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...
Had forgotten that gem myself.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...
Anon. Euro official on Trump.
As Billy Bragg sang in Goalhanger, 'Trying to pin him down is like nailing water to a wall'
As Billy Bragg sang in Goalhanger, 'Trying to pin him down is like nailing water to a wall'
August 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Anon. Euro official on Trump.
As Billy Bragg sang in Goalhanger, 'Trying to pin him down is like nailing water to a wall'
As Billy Bragg sang in Goalhanger, 'Trying to pin him down is like nailing water to a wall'
Jeanine Pirro has long been concerned about random violent D.C. crime.
Who can forget all those times she slapped down her Fox colleagues for spreading lunatic theories about Seth Rich?
Who can forget all those times she slapped down her Fox colleagues for spreading lunatic theories about Seth Rich?
August 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Jeanine Pirro has long been concerned about random violent D.C. crime.
Who can forget all those times she slapped down her Fox colleagues for spreading lunatic theories about Seth Rich?
Who can forget all those times she slapped down her Fox colleagues for spreading lunatic theories about Seth Rich?
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Turns out one of the Americans the Trump admin took back in the prisoner swap with Venezuela is a mass murderer!
July 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Turns out one of the Americans the Trump admin took back in the prisoner swap with Venezuela is a mass murderer!
Absolutely egregious CNN keeps booking Chad Wolf
July 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Absolutely egregious CNN keeps booking Chad Wolf
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Mike Waltz claims he doesn't know that Israeli settlers killed an American citizen in the West Bank.
July 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Mike Waltz claims he doesn't know that Israeli settlers killed an American citizen in the West Bank.
The departing statement is nigh-on delusional on any day, but esp. after the Grok stuff.
Linda Yaccarino has left X.
Linda Yaccarino Exits as CEO of X
Linda Yaccarino has left X.
bit.ly
July 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The departing statement is nigh-on delusional on any day, but esp. after the Grok stuff.