Dear #shondaland - please please, can we get Season 2 of #TheResidence? I’ve watched S1 three times.

Tweet from March 2018 warning of false hope about Mueller and other officials and warning that Trump would take us to brink of nuclear war

Posted eight years ago today.

David Ellison will soon control CNN. In response, I wrote to Democracy Docket subscribers today about the importance and urgency of building a strong independent media ecosystem.

Whether it is Democracy Docket or another independent news outlet, please support one today. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

To anyone whose not yet read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social work on Trump, you are missing out one of the most prescient, accurate & frightening commentators writing from the USA. Her truths are not always kind. She's described him as the face of those he represents since before his first term in office

Why Canada still doesn’t have a full-time fact-checking beat - Poynter Canadian Daniel Dale became a star fact-checking Trump. Back home, the work remains ad hoc. That says a lot about Canadian politics and media.

At Poynter: "Why Canada still doesn’t have a full-time fact-checking beat"
www.poynter.org/business-wor... #media

TODAY #NorthVan - curious about the story of your house? The NV Archives is open this aft for a #free special event helping people to research their heritage homes.

In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?

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What is actually shocking here is Canada’s public broadcaster referring to the dude on our loonies as “King of England.”

Here's the link to The Early Edition's 2025 All-Request Christmas Music Playlist.
Thanks again, so much for listening.
Have a great Holiday! - SQ
open.spotify.com/playlist/61C...

White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin YouTube video by Tim Minchin

For all us non-religionists on this merry happy day - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNv...

Fabulous show of Christmas tunes @cbcearlyedition. Want something to listen to as you work your way down today’s To Do list? Grab this 👇 from @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social

Love this!

Read the CBS Report Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to See A transcript of the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador.

The 60 Minutes episode about CECOT was not only worth running, it was an exceptionally powerful work of journalism that made clear the US government has embraced torture. You can read the transcript here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Awesomeness for your Christmas Eve

Predictions for Journalism 2026: Platforms realize they don’t need journalists www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/plat...

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

Can AI help you live well? @alexandrasamuel.com introduces @jeyantvo.bsky.social to her AI coach and talks about the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence that inspired her @wearetvo.bsky.social podcast Me + Viv podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m..., at 8pm | Producer: @carrletta.bsky.social

Indigenous Veterans Day The Story Pole in Victoria's Beacon Hill Park is not just one of the tallest totem poles in the world - it carries memory. Raised in honour of Indigenous veterans, it stands for those who served and those we must never forget. Photo of the Story Pole in Beacon Hill Park in Victoria BC.

Today, we honour generations of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples who have served with courage.

From the War of 1812 to Afghanistan, Indigenous veterans shaped Canada’s military history—yet many returned to discrimination.

Lest we forget.

What Do the New Pentagon Press Reporting Rules Say? The new rules codify strict limitations on access and raise the prospect of punishment for requesting information on matters of public interest.

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.

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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

"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.

Jimmy Kimmel’s First Guests After Suspension: Glen Powell and Sarah McLachlan, Who Canceled a Performance to Support His ‘Free Speech’ Glen Powell and Sarah McLachlan will join Jimmy Kimmel for his first night back on the air after being suspended for his Charlie Kirk comments.

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 An undercover reporter discovers a network is offering to pay for social media posts undermining Moldova’s ruling party.

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