Saddened to hear that a writer was contacted by a fake Danielle Dutton (not our very real and human editor) pretending to be asking for work on behalf of Dorothy. We do not solicit work that way (i.e., cold emails). Please help us spread the word?!

NEW: @amnesty.org says Ahmed Soliman & another man, Samson Birhane, had bags put on their heads, were beaten when arrested in Equatorial Guinea. They demand their immediate release. Both lived in the US since they were kids, ICE expelled them unlawfully. TAKE ACTION: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Late to posting this (hopefully a functioning gift link) but a) what a satisfying outcome for a culture org victimized by criminals; and b) GREAT reporting here www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi... @joshokane.bsky.social

Scotiabank paid music funder FACTOR $11-million in heist case settlement, documents show

Scotiabank, FACTOR had previously declined to reveal value of settlement stemming from $9.8-million theft from music funder’s account in 2014

theglobeandmail.com

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

WAPO: “.. The Associated Press is advising its reporters and others who follow AP style to continue referring to Lake Ontario by its original name, despite President Donald Trump’s order to rename it Lake America last month ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Hm negligible, a population the size of California. What an insufferable lying asshole

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

what Scott Bessent says here during this "interview" with Lara Trump is simply an insane way to talk about Canada

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry

Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥

Just checking, google maps staying the course on our beautiful lake

will never ever not be insane to me that we are actively starving/destroying Cuba bc supposedly an active threat while we run a concentration camp on the island itself

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last mo.

Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.

This whole thread is saving my commute (and maybe can lead to collective action for you know what 🤷‍♀️)

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last mo.

okay! Kendra asked for some suggestions here, and I'm going to offer something like a Litany of the Saints for all your "dear God, please let It™️ happen soon" prayer intentions there's no one immediate obvious candidate, but an "Avengers, assemble" approach to these folks might be worth trying:

My brain reaching into the far far past to surprise me with saint-knowing

Laura Rock Gaughan@laurairock.bsky.social · last mo.

Not patron of, but this reminds me of the story about St Philip Neri and the story about his anti-gossip penance (spread feathers on the wind)

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

St Dolly 💔 RIP

Calling this an escalation is frankly offensive to altitude, verticality, and Y axes.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last mo.

President Trump threatened to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” in the latest escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Canada.

Newly relevant

Laura Rock Gaughan@laurairock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have paused the tariffs that were scheduled to kick Canada on which you were probably basing stock trades 50 percent tariffs they were beautiful three days and we'll see

I have paused the tariffs that were scheduled to kick Canada on which you were probably basing stock trades 50 percent tariffs they were beautiful three days and we'll see

Rachel Reid, who wrote the popular “Heated Rivalry” novel, has donated $300k to Annapolis Valley Regional Library, “one of the most significant private gifts” in their history. “I credit my local library for being a huge part of the reason I’m a published author today,” Reid said #Halifax #HaliSky

‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia libraries

Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.

ctvnews.ca

!! this @electricliterature.com interview with 3 debut novelists, great stuff electricliterature.com/3-debut-auth...

LET HE WHO HAS NOT had his bloated carcass stuffed in an airplane food cart to escape a conference where we embarrassed ourselves whilst being threatened with murder by a country we decided to start a random war with for no discernible reason CAST THE FIRST STONE

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Spotted on GO train platform in Toronto not an hour ago: fellow in natty window-pane check suit but shorts instead of pants. Cuffed shorts. Serious briefcase. I expected a bowtie but no. #IloveYYZ

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The man who wears shorts to the office is telling everybody that he wants to be somewhere else,” David Coggins writes. “The fact that he really does want to be somewhere else does not excuse this.”

Oh look, the Commerce Department quietly announced 7 new equity stakes in private companies. Brought to you by the people fighting "communism." https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6000186-commerce-ai-chips-stakes/

Commerce Department quietly announces 7 new equity stakes in private companies

The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seve…

thehill.com

What an indignity to have your farm or house seized via eminent domain, to see it razed and replaced by a weed-choked empty field, a lonely foundation slab, or an abandoned empty building that could only ever be repurposed for laser-tag or an ICE concentration-camp: gizmodo.com/trump-on-dat... 6/

Trump on Data Centers: 'You Can't Fight It. You Have to Go With It'

Usually it's not great when a person in power tells others to just give up and do what they want.

gizmodo.com

This x 1000

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What you need to know (and didn’t read) about Trump’s new tariffs: presswatchers.org/2026/07/what... NEW from me.

Is this real are we back to normal comms

scott dagostino@scottdagostino.ca · 3mo ago

Wait, what?? This is…good 😮

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Andrew Kurjata@akurjata.ca · 3mo ago

Listen I will just say to any American politicians who are just watchimg their colleagues issue veiled threats at Canada for having wildfires in one of the largest boreal forests in the world you better not issue any "please buy or wine and visit our casino" notices

So here's an interesting thing I'm seeing in these conversations about "Canadian wildfire smoke." Some Yanks are saying the wildfires are because Canada outlawed Indigenous traditional burning practices. This way, Canada remains the bad guy for oppressing Indigenous Peoples - which is true. 1/5