Richard Warnica
@rwarnica.bsky.social
Senior Writer and occasional feature editor at the Toronto Star.
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I spent some in Texas recently, looking at Trump's America a year(ish) after his election last year.
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RFK Jr. revealed that he personally ordered the CDC to change its website to push the widely debunked claim that vaccines and autism are linked
CDC’s Autism Website ‘Update’ Came Directly From Kennedy, He Says
Ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis called the update a “national embarrassment.”
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November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
RFK Jr. revealed that he personally ordered the CDC to change its website to push the widely debunked claim that vaccines and autism are linked
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“The U.S. recorded 6,600 pertussis cases in early 2025
Texas has already passed 3,500 cases this year” www.healthday.com/health-news/...
Texas has already passed 3,500 cases this year” www.healthday.com/health-news/...
Whooping Cough Surges Nationwide as Vaccinations Fall
THURSDAY, Nov. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Whooping cough is making a major comeback in the United States, with sharp increases now seen in Texas, Florida, Cali
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November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“The U.S. recorded 6,600 pertussis cases in early 2025
Texas has already passed 3,500 cases this year” www.healthday.com/health-news/...
Texas has already passed 3,500 cases this year” www.healthday.com/health-news/...
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“What’s disturbing about the scandal though, is how blatant it is. Political appointees are handing out hundreds of millions of dollars from a public slush fund to organizations that are either close to the government or that hire the right political insiders.”
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Star Editorial Board: Doug Ford’s latest scandal is almost too brazen to be believed
It suggests Ford has established a system where public money is being handed out not based on need or merit but on who you know or who you pay
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November 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
“What’s disturbing about the scandal though, is how blatant it is. Political appointees are handing out hundreds of millions of dollars from a public slush fund to organizations that are either close to the government or that hire the right political insiders.”
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Ford has established what amounts to a modern-day spoils system in his government, where public money is being handed out not based on need or merit but on who you know or who you pay.”
The @thestar.com editorial board on Doug Ford’s skills training slush fund.
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The @thestar.com editorial board on Doug Ford’s skills training slush fund.
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Star Editorial Board: Doug Ford’s latest scandal is almost too brazen to be believed
It suggests Ford has established a system where public money is being handed out not based on need or merit but on who you know or who you pay
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November 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Ford has established what amounts to a modern-day spoils system in his government, where public money is being handed out not based on need or merit but on who you know or who you pay.”
The @thestar.com editorial board on Doug Ford’s skills training slush fund.
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The @thestar.com editorial board on Doug Ford’s skills training slush fund.
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In an interview today, Netanyahu says the following
•There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia
•Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories
•Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran
•There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia
•Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories
•Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran
Netanyahu: ‘There will not be a Palestinian state,’ even at cost of ties with Saudis
In interview with Telegram channel, PM says border deal with Syria 'preferable' but won't budge on security demands; Israel to boost arms industry to ease reliance on US
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November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
In an interview today, Netanyahu says the following
•There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia
•Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories
•Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran
•There will never be a Palestinian state, even if this means no normalization with Saudi Arabia
•Israel won't leave the occupied Syrian territories
•Israel would like a deal with Turkey but is prepared to treat it like Iran
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"Ford has established what amounts to a modern-day spoils system in his government, where public money is being handed out not based on need or merit but on who you know or who you pay."
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Star Editorial Board: Doug Ford’s latest scandal is almost too brazen to be believed
It suggests Ford has established a system where public money is being handed out not based on need or merit but on who you know or who you pay
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November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"Ford has established what amounts to a modern-day spoils system in his government, where public money is being handed out not based on need or merit but on who you know or who you pay."
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
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For @thestar.com, I wrote about the federal NDP, who wisely did not throw themselves into the sea
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Scott Stinson: The NDP was wise not to trigger an election. Now the party can focus on staying alive
Having not hurled themselves toward certain doom this week, there remains the question of what the New Democrats should do next.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
For @thestar.com, I wrote about the federal NDP, who wisely did not throw themselves into the sea
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"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This
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piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...
@nickhunebrown.bsky.social
piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This
@nickhunebrown.bsky.social
piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...
@nickhunebrown.bsky.social
piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...
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I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.
If nothing else, this whole thing did at least drive me to put Ezra Pound's Cantos on hold at the library
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If nothing else, this whole thing did at least drive me to put Ezra Pound's Cantos on hold at the library
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NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission in Jeopardy as U.S. Considers Abandoning Retrieval www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
NASA Found Something on Mars. Now We Might Just Leave It There
NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring home. Now they might be stranded
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November 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission in Jeopardy as U.S. Considers Abandoning Retrieval www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
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GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour
My annual reminder that if Nuzzi/Kennedy happened in Canada it would be studiously ignored.
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
My annual reminder that if Nuzzi/Kennedy happened in Canada it would be studiously ignored.
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The even-better news is that I'll be keeping up my newsletter (www.bugeyedandshameless.com), my new YouTube series (www.youtube.com/@JustinLing), and some occasional writing for American/European outlets (as time allows.)
Bug-eyed and Shameless | Justin Ling | Substack
Dispatches from the fringes of the information war. Click to read Bug-eyed and Shameless, by Justin Ling, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The even-better news is that I'll be keeping up my newsletter (www.bugeyedandshameless.com), my new YouTube series (www.youtube.com/@JustinLing), and some occasional writing for American/European outlets (as time allows.)
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I'm very happy to say that I'll I soon start writing a weekly column for @thestar.com, where I began my journalism career [redacted] years ago as a winter intern. I was on the copy desk, and my first headline was "Christmas trees find new life as wood chips."
November 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm very happy to say that I'll I soon start writing a weekly column for @thestar.com, where I began my journalism career [redacted] years ago as a winter intern. I was on the copy desk, and my first headline was "Christmas trees find new life as wood chips."
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If you read this story yesterday, it's very possible you did not read the actual ending, which was excised accidentally online. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If you read this story yesterday, it's very possible you did not read the actual ending, which was excised accidentally online. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
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#Opinion Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found
Richard Warnica: Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found
Trump has radically changed the U.S. But everywhere, there are signs of resistance.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#Opinion Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found
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Do yourself a favour and read @rwarnica.bsky.social aloud to yourself on repeat. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
Richard Warnica: Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found
Trump has radically changed the U.S. But everywhere, there are signs of resistance.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Do yourself a favour and read @rwarnica.bsky.social aloud to yourself on repeat. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
From the Star's Moira Welsh: the Ford government gave Postmedia more than $1 million to train employees on AI as part of its under-fire job training fund www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
From the Star's Moira Welsh: the Ford government gave Postmedia more than $1 million to train employees on AI as part of its under-fire job training fund www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
If you read this story yesterday, it's very possible you did not read the actual ending, which was excised accidentally online. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If you read this story yesterday, it's very possible you did not read the actual ending, which was excised accidentally online. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
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And yet, despite all of that, I still came away from Texas more hopeful than I have been about American in a long time. I'll let you read the story to find out exactly why www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
And yet, despite all of that, I still came away from Texas more hopeful than I have been about American in a long time. I'll let you read the story to find out exactly why www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
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The rapid unravelling of American institutions, the cruelty of mass detention and deportation, the deliberate kneecapping of anything and anyone reporting (in the broadest sense of the word) stories Trump doesn't like, is all very real. It isn't being exaggerated. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The rapid unravelling of American institutions, the cruelty of mass detention and deportation, the deliberate kneecapping of anything and anyone reporting (in the broadest sense of the word) stories Trump doesn't like, is all very real. It isn't being exaggerated. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
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What I found was both worse than I imagined and somehow, weirdly, better than I hoped. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What I found was both worse than I imagined and somehow, weirdly, better than I hoped. www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...