Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

How bad are tariffs going? I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business. UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me. That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯

The latest from CPUW, sent to media this morning.

I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

YES. JUST DO IT FOR GOD'S SAKE

Nailed it. 10/10

This is what I'm doing this weekend! If you're in Ottawa, come say hello!

The data is out: We thought the pandemic made us fatter, and it's true. (As a fat girl, can confirm.) It will be interesting to see if this changes over the next data intake with the increase in weight loss drug availability. [www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...)

Canada Post CEO Doug Ettinger has sent a letter to Canadians to media. Here it is.

Some interesting data today from StatsCan about Canadians with life-shortening illnesses and their access to care. Also goes into caregiver burnout (which is big.) futureofgood.co/more-than-ha...

This all reminds me of when I was working for Postmedia and PKP flew all the MEs to Calgary for a day, gave an unhinged rant about unions and the CBC, told us we were either with his vision or not, then flew off in his private jet while we went back to our drinking-waterless newsrooms demoralized.

About 25% of women in the military & 6% of men experienced sexual harassment in the past year. 7% of women experienced "unwanted sexual contact" Fewer than a third reported it. Of those who did, 60% say they experienced retaliation.* It's tragic that this situation will almost certainly worsen.

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

This only happens to you once

NEW: Responding to a @nytimes.com report that the Trump Justice Department is planning to investigate the Open Society Foundations, @alexsoros.bsky.social said the massive left-leaning philanthropy did nothing wrong & would only stop its work "over my dead body."

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Yes and no. Their mandate states they have to remain financially solvent AND deliver mail to everyone. If the government wants to transition it to only service, then they have to change the mandate.

Figured this was inevitable. Having used both door-to-door and community boxes, I personally don't mind either way. But I know it will be a different story for the people in my life who have mobility challenges. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

I am down with this plan, because then we get two banjo bowls

Disney's crisis PR people be like

Really? The planet is literally and figuratively on fire, and they're wasting time with this nonsense? I sincerely hope the entire UN gives whoever is objecting to the word "gender" an eye roll every time, and then move on. PS. Trans rights are human rights.

Preach!

Oh, this'll be a good one. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

They don’t seem very sad that he died

WTF

There goes the First Amendment.

Getting your defamation lawsuit struck under Rule 8 is roughly analogous to getting sent home early on the first day of school because you decided not to wear pants ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

www.thewhig.com/opinion/fami... My latest: Famine worsens in Gaza | The Kingston Whig Standard

At least he's finally getting the message: "The ambassador says the elbows up expression is anti-American"

Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

This would be amazing.

Kimmel. Colbert. Suits against the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes. Extorting settlements from CBS, ABC, and others. Blocking the AP's access to the White House. 🧵

Nexstar is currently awaiting approval from the FCC and FTC on a $6.2 Billion acquisition of TEGNA.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

By the way, when Pierre Poilievre promises to end funding to the CBC, his ends are the same as Trump's with Kimmel. Trump doesn't like jokes about him. Poilievre doesn't like sober news coverage.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Reporting on Jimmy Kimmel getting purged should make clear Disney did this *after* the FCC chair explicitly threatened them

Bloody cowards.

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

One takeaway for Canadians watching what’s happening in the United States right now is that we need to put more pressure on governments / parties to strengthen democratic institutions and the fourth estate You can also defend democracy by supporting the work of journalists and civil society groups

Dictators silence comedians.

This is a must read for every journalist and publisher around the globe. A fantastic partnership between the @theijf.org and media outlets in Indonesia, Australia and Brazil. Bravo! theijf.org/bargaining-c...

Beautiful storytelling by Katie Engelhart. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Picking up someone at the airport? There is something called a Cell Phone lot right before the main building. Wait there until your person texts you what pillar they're at, THEN come get them. Do not idle at the main doors, dammit! Kid had to circle because the idlers would not get out of the way

Is it just me or is the field extra slippy?