Scores of journalists with access to the Pentagon handed in their press passes on Wednesday rather than sign on to new rules that sharply restrict access and raise the prospect of punishment for simply requesting information on matters of public interest. Here is what the new rules say.

Today’s the launch of @tvotoday.bsky.social (MIS)Treated, a podcast on women’s health. Thank you for the support & messages🙏❤️. About 7% of Canada’s federal spending goes to women’s health & women weren’t included in clinical trials until 1993 in USA and 1997 in Canada m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oco...

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

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"Inside The Times’s Reporting and Judgment Calls on Charlie Kirk’s Assassination." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u... [gift link] Using "judgment calls" as a heuristic is sound practice. It reminds us that the news is made, not found.

Yay! My fellow Canadian, Sarah McLachlan, is one of @jimmykimmel.com 's guests tonight, when @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social returns! (The world awaits an inevitable, predictable, hateful post by FOTUS on Truth Social🙄)

Thank you #JoeysRestaurant #NorthVan! We had the loveliest night on your fabulous deck. 🙏🏻

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt European election - BBC investigation

Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC after pressure from the United States government. This is a direct attack on the First Amendment. Everyone who values freedom of speech should be outraged — and they should speak out.

This statement should make your blood run cold 👇

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

So Flint, Michigan gave $1,500 to all pregnant people, plus $500 each month for the first year of the child’s young life. It saved Flint $6.2 million dollars a year, due to lower rates of rates of prematurity and low birth weight, with fewer corresponding admissions. The right thing, AND cheaper.

Rapturous crowd for #ArundhatiRoy tonight #Vancouver #vanwritersfest

One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.

Useful advice in these chaotic times, courtesy @jayrosen.bsky.social

Text exchange between Tyler Robinson and his roommate / romantic partner as transcribed in charging documents filed in Utah County:

This is interesting 👇.

🎧LEVER TIME PODCAST: A frank conversation with Robert Reich about his own difficult journey and his self-critical argument about the Boomer generation’s failures sowing the seeds of much of what we’re now living through. www.levernews.com/how-the-boom...

What happened after Canadian journalist @rachelgilmore.bsky.social posted about the potential repercussions of Kirk’s murder: doxxing and violent threats thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Since HOMELESSNESS is suddenly in the news in America in a shockingly monstrous way, here’s a reminder in thread form that there ARE actually solutions that work, and aren’t completely unhinged and sociopathic. Please check out and share.

Essential. We should be grateful to any writer who tells the truth this clearly.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

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UN General Assembly schedule for world leaders speaking, Sept. 23-29: PM Modi of India no longer coming, per revised list here [Snubbing DT?]

NEW: “Canadian urbanist @brenttoderian.bsky.social teamed up with the city of Paris and, in particular, its mayor, @annehidalgo.bsky.social on a new exhibition that shines a light on cities and global climate action.” Thanks very much @momentummag.bsky.social for the great questions! #Paris

Japanese student Shurina’s world shifts when she is cast as a Kamikaze pilot in a school play about World War II. As she prepares for her performance, she is forced to confront the brutal realities of war. On the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, find out more here: aje.io/Japan

If you give me 1 hour of your time, I'll give you 5 concrete ways you can safely intervene as a bystander if you witness hate or harassment in public spaces. It's open to anyone, anywhere aged 12+ and cameras/mics muted, so you're never on the spot! Register : zoom.us/webinar/regi...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

🤔 “Is anyone trying to fix this?” @debofficially.bsky.social of the Medill Midwest Solutions Journalism Hub explains how #SolutionsJournalism focuses on how people are responding to problems, not just the problems themselves. ⬇️ Watch the video on TikTok

As I've said many times, "America is purple -- purple like a bruise." I've got the same number of bestsellers on the list as Trump's former press secretary, in a state that Democrats routinely denigrate and dismiss.

Seattle Times describes the protests here today as "one of the largest protests in the city's history" with more than 70,000 people marching from Capitol Hill to Seattle Center: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Wow.

The Tony Awards are Sunday night. How well do you know this season’s shows and stars?

I felicitate @nytimes.com on todays incomplete #SpellingBee

Yup.

What is the Library of Congress? What does the Librarian of Congress do? Once again, Kelly Jensen from @bookriot.bsky.social has shared an important post that explains so much about what has been happening these last weeks and why it should matter to everyone. bookriot.com/what-is-the-...

Why is this story not in an American paper Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Do you have questions about equalization, why we have it, and how it works? In 2021, I recorded a great panel with some very smart Albertans, including @trevortombe.bsky.social @jaredwesley.ca @ericadams99.bsky.social and Ken Boessenkool, explaining it all. Perhaps just as relevant today! #ableg

#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥 @froomkin.bsky.social

Protect and defend editorial cartoonists this World Press Freedom Day

What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼

an interview I did recently with Pacifica Radio's Media & Democracy program will be broadcast on its network of more than 200 community radio stations next week, but the video and a written summary have now been posted on Wikiversity en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Canadia...

“A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”

This is interesting stuff. America went from a country where 60 Minutes was by far the most watched show for decades — until the 2000s, when American Idol took the crown. And that has in turn shaped political views. www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/the-...

Join us tonight for the 2025 Federal Leaders' Debate, live from Montreal! Watch it uncut and uninterrupted streamed on our homepage at 7pm ET. Mark your calendars and tune in at tgam.ca/debate.

I think I reached peak Vancouver on my walk this morning: cherry blossoms,Canada geese,song birds,crows,a few eagles, a couple of seals,a sea lion,and a grey whale off the Seawall ❤️ I love this freakin’ city so much. Everyday I’m reminded how lucky I am to live here. A pod of orcas is the next quest