About Justin Ling
Bug-eyed and Shameless is a newsletter that asks: Where are we, and how did we get here?
I am your newsletter captain: Justin Ling. I’m a Montreal-based journalist, podcast host, book-writer, columnist for the Toronto Star, and all-around good-time Charlie.
From the start of my career, I’ve been covering abuses of the state: Mass surveillance, police misconduct, mass incarceration. In recent years, however, I’ve been focusing on how the glue that holds our collective reality together has become unstuck. QAnon runs in the halls of power, anti-vaccine convoys occupy major capitals, Moscow says jump and our compatriots at home ask “как высоко?