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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦
@tabathasouthey.bsky.social
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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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It looks like you are trying to create a portmanteau. Do you need some help with that?
A Trump tooth social post that reads: There is a new word for a TRUMP REPUBLICAN, which is almost everyone (great policy is the key!) is it TREPUBLICAN??? Or, TPUBLICAN???
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Happy Fat Squirrel Season to those who celebrate.
#fatsquirrelseason
A fat squirrel, staring straight into the camera. He standing in front of a tree.
November 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I know just enough to know when a happy baseball thing has happened. Yonge and College Pigeon Man says, Go Jays.
A handsome older middle-aged man with a pigeon on his arm and some handmade lamented Blue Jays logo posters in his hand, sits at the busy corner of Yonge College. He is wearing a baseball cap and there is a cup for donations.
October 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Absolutely great to hear @cathmckenna.bsky.social speak at @utoronto.ca’s Trinity College tonight. Her new book is “Run Like a Girl” and boy, she sold it.
A photo of Catherine McKenna sitting on a chair on a stage wearing a bright pink dress while being interviewed, behind her is a large blowup of her new book “Run Like a Girl.”
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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And RIP The Washington Post too, while we’re at it.
Still from All the President’s Men, Robert Redford on the phone at a desk in a newsroom.
September 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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The Snowbirds at the London, Ontario air show, which really is a great time, made especially memorable by the friendly staff and volunteers.
Nine small aircraft (the CT-114 Tutor) The Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds, flying in tight formation against a blue sky with a white cloud.
September 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Some pure evil from The National Post. Note the quotes. I wonder if the journalists who penned this gave a thought to how normalizing the murder of journalists by calling them terrorists might someday bite them, or someone else whose basic humanity they recognize, in the ass.
National Post headline that reads: IDF kills Hamas terror cell leader posing as ‘Al Jazeera’ journalist.
August 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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National Post headline that reads: IDF kills Hamas terror cell leader posing as ‘Al Jazeera’ journalist.
August 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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The trans parade route is so well lined. Toronto is good.
A large crowd of supporters with pro trans rights signs.
June 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Trans March Toronto, in and is the heart of the city.
Marchers with signs, big crowd
June 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Trans March Toronto begins.
A picture of some lovely ladies at the start of trans march Toronto. A big crowd.
June 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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It rather feels as if Greenspan is overplaying her hand with this line of questioning. In a just world this would backfire on her client, but of course this trial isn’t taking place in a just world.
I hope E.M. knows she is heard and believed. www.tsn.ca/hockey-canad...
Screenshot of newspaper article that reads: A lawyer representing Callan Foote, one of the five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team who are on trial after being charged with sexual assault, suggested Tuesday the complainant in the case has had “an agenda” by referring to the defendants throughout the trial as “men” rather than “boys.”
May 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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(Almost) 100 days in - and this is how the Republic falls, from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/how-the-re...
Text in bold font that reads: We cannot predict the contours of America’s political system or societal order five or ten years from now. In a stable democracy, the range of plausible outcomes should be narrow. But for America, it now includes complete democratic breakdown and full-blown despotic rule
April 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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And you know, I don’t think he’s ever forgotten that.
Screen shot of Erin O’Toole retweeting this video with text that reads: Love this message. Glowing hearts from coast to coast to coast. 🇨🇦
April 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Quillette really is just a whole closet full of hotdog suits.
Tweet form Clair Lehmann that reads: Yes. Moving our social world online is having weird effects, one of them being the empowerment of psychopaths. They glom onto whatever ideological fashion is in vogue using it as a cover for their own self interest.
April 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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If you missed it, catch up. From NYTs, it sure looks, Ontario, as if Doug Ford is taking your land and cash and blowing it on an off-brand spa. Gift link while it lasts: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
Two different company logos for Therme, one in Budapest, one in Erding. Both are of Botticelli’s Venus.
April 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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He’s keen now and just wait until Poilievre drops below 18.
A tweet from Matt Gaetz that shows a Polymarket chances to win chart that has Carney at 75% and Poilievre at 25%, his post reads: Carney won’t do well in the upcoming debate. Take Pierre now!
April 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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“In your place” “smackdown”
These creeps are really going to try and “Daddy Trump is taking off his belt” Poilievre, aren’t they?
If my candidate were polling “Yikes No” with women I’d simply not highlight the times the guy who took 1h40m of questions from Jordan “Women B Chaos” Peterson did this.
A picture of Poilievre at a podium and a tweet that reads: Pierre Poilievre dismisses a follow-up question from CTV's Judy Trinh on the Modi connection story by labeling her as a protestor as he moves on to another question in French. It is retweeted with: He ain’t Carney. So be prepared to be put in your place. #ctvsmackdown
April 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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How does Pierre Poilievre imagine the real world works?
“Governor of the Bank of Canada’? Oh, I got that at the Kiwanis Walleye World Fishing Derby and I just put ‘Governor of the Bank of England’ under jobs, they’ll never check.”
Screenshot of text from Globe and Mail that reads: that’s why Poilievre turned up the attacks on Monday morning, calling the liberal leader’s past governor of the bank of England and bank of Canada posts ‘trophy titles’, and accusing him of making ‘false resume’claims.
April 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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And this, a demoralizing profile of a discouraged, former Women’s Marcher who’s given up, was WaPo’s prominent story for much of the day, like it was run in lieu of protest coverage, which eventually emerged. NYT merely reported protests were planned in 50 states while Guardian gave scope and scale.
A picture of a middle-aged woman with a headline, subhead that reads:, She marched against Trump in 2017. Now, she says, ‘just let it all burn.’ Democrats are struggling to match the massive “resistance” movement that sprang up in Trump’s first term — and battling cynicism among their own voters.
April 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Thanks, @blairrr33.bsky.social
Picture of me standing in front of a van wearing overall Tabatha’s window replacement.
April 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Here’s the text he sent me from the Rogers Centre.
Text that reads: If the Jays demographic is a gauge of the Canadian population we’re doomed !!! Everyone drinking American beer and I was in the minority when it came to sitting for the American anthem
March 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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In a just world this would be a career headstone.
Group chat message beside Hegseth avatar: •“1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)” •“1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier ‘Trigger Based’ targets)” •“1536 F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.” •“MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline)” •“We are currently clean on OPSEC”—that is, operational security. •“Godspeed to our Warriors.”
March 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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We have always been at way with Eastasia, just ask anyone in the 'War With Eurasia' group chat.
Tweet from Karolyn’s Leavitt, @presssec, Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary that reads: Jeffrey Goldberg is well-known for his sensationalist spin. Here are the facts about his latest story: 1. No “war plans” were discussed. 2. No classified material was sent to the thread. 3. The White House Counsel’s Office has provided guidance on a number of different platforms for President Trump’s top officials to communicate as safely and efficiently as possible. As the National Security Council stated, the White House is looking into how Goldberg’s number was inadvertently added to the thread. Thanks to the strong and decisive leadership of President Trump, and everyone in the group, the Houthi strikes were successful and effective. Terrorists were killed and that’s what matters most to President Trump
March 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM