🇨🇦 Janet Somerville
@janetsomerville.bsky.social
#Gellhorn enthusiast. Dog lover. Anti-fascist. Writer for hire.
HOW MIDSUMMER NIGHT (2024)
YOURS, FOR PROBABLY ALWAYS: MARTHA GELLHORN'S LETTERS OF LOVE & WAR (2019)
Contributor to Toronto Star #book pages.
https://janetsomervillewriter.com
HOW MIDSUMMER NIGHT (2024)
YOURS, FOR PROBABLY ALWAYS: MARTHA GELLHORN'S LETTERS OF LOVE & WAR (2019)
Contributor to Toronto Star #book pages.
https://janetsomervillewriter.com
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Happy pub day to #JohnSayles & his glorious epic novel CRUCIBLE!
I spoke with him about it & much more. @melvillehouse.bsky.social
#HistoricalFiction #HenryFord #LabourMvt #DiegoRivera #FridaKahlo #Detroit #Fordlandia
thestar.com/entertainmen...
Treat yourself or ask for it at your #library.
I spoke with him about it & much more. @melvillehouse.bsky.social
#HistoricalFiction #HenryFord #LabourMvt #DiegoRivera #FridaKahlo #Detroit #Fordlandia
thestar.com/entertainmen...
Treat yourself or ask for it at your #library.
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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
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Angus: It’s like having to negotiate with Al Capone in his syphilitic period. You want to shut down the bridge? Go ahead. Every day, 1,500 nurses from Canada go to help keep Detroit’s health care system going. I personally think those nurses should be working in Canada.
February 11, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Angus: It’s like having to negotiate with Al Capone in his syphilitic period. You want to shut down the bridge? Go ahead. Every day, 1,500 nurses from Canada go to help keep Detroit’s health care system going. I personally think those nurses should be working in Canada.
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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“Tapestry” turns 55 today. 🎂
“I wasn’t thinking about making history,” said @carolekingofficial.bsky.social. “I was just trying to make the best record I could. I had been writing songs for other people for years, and this was my chance to sing them the way I heard them.”
“It’s Too Late”
“I wasn’t thinking about making history,” said @carolekingofficial.bsky.social. “I was just trying to make the best record I could. I had been writing songs for other people for years, and this was my chance to sing them the way I heard them.”
“It’s Too Late”
February 11, 2026 at 12:32 AM
“Tapestry” turns 55 today. 🎂
“I wasn’t thinking about making history,” said @carolekingofficial.bsky.social. “I was just trying to make the best record I could. I had been writing songs for other people for years, and this was my chance to sing them the way I heard them.”
“It’s Too Late”
“I wasn’t thinking about making history,” said @carolekingofficial.bsky.social. “I was just trying to make the best record I could. I had been writing songs for other people for years, and this was my chance to sing them the way I heard them.”
“It’s Too Late”
Fuck Goebbels Barbie. Today and every day.
February 11, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Fuck Goebbels Barbie. Today and every day.
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New York Magazine’s coverage from 2007 treated her as a joke & backgrounded Epstein raping her. (“rococo law filings filed by William J Unroch, Esq, on behalf of his client and maybe-girlfriend, Maximilia ‘Ava’ Cordero, a self-described model who claimed that at 16 she was molested by…Epstein”)
Leslie Wexner, former CEO of Victoria's Secret, was the other man named by Ava Cordero as her rapist and abuser alongside Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, only to be mocked and degraded and dismissed as crazy because she's trans.
For all the WHO ARE THE NAMES people in the comments: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
February 10, 2026 at 9:32 PM
New York Magazine’s coverage from 2007 treated her as a joke & backgrounded Epstein raping her. (“rococo law filings filed by William J Unroch, Esq, on behalf of his client and maybe-girlfriend, Maximilia ‘Ava’ Cordero, a self-described model who claimed that at 16 she was molested by…Epstein”)
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Fascism cannot produce art that lives because living art relies on unqualified engagement with an other, a challenge to the self. Fascism can only ever conjure an ever more atrociously gilded mirror reflecting back faces that refuse even the realities of time.
From Melania to Kid Rock’s halftime show: why is Maga art so dreadful?
From Melania to Kid Rock’s halftime show: why is Maga art so dreadful?
As the right stokes culture wars, their alternatives to ‘woke’ Hollywood prove to be shoddily made and uninspired
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Fascism cannot produce art that lives because living art relies on unqualified engagement with an other, a challenge to the self. Fascism can only ever conjure an ever more atrociously gilded mirror reflecting back faces that refuse even the realities of time.
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Yet another example of predators hiding in academia.
This is an excellent report by The Daily Texan and student Justin Doud.
Former professor Thomas Hubbard appears in the Epstein files asking for $10,000 to set up a conference meant to challenge the notion of consent and sexual assault.
This is an excellent report by The Daily Texan and student Justin Doud.
Former professor Thomas Hubbard appears in the Epstein files asking for $10,000 to set up a conference meant to challenge the notion of consent and sexual assault.
February 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Yet another example of predators hiding in academia.
This is an excellent report by The Daily Texan and student Justin Doud.
Former professor Thomas Hubbard appears in the Epstein files asking for $10,000 to set up a conference meant to challenge the notion of consent and sexual assault.
This is an excellent report by The Daily Texan and student Justin Doud.
Former professor Thomas Hubbard appears in the Epstein files asking for $10,000 to set up a conference meant to challenge the notion of consent and sexual assault.
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We. Are. The. Shithole. Nation.
Read the letters referenced by Rep. James Walkinshaw here:
February 10, 2026 at 7:00 PM
We. Are. The. Shithole. Nation.
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With the news that his name appears in the Epstein files
OVER A MILLION TIMES
Congress needs to subpoena EVERY PERSON involved in reviewing the documents to find out why they are covering for Donald Trump
Plus Pam Bondi and Howard “I took my kids to visit Epstein Island” Lutnick must be fired
OVER A MILLION TIMES
Congress needs to subpoena EVERY PERSON involved in reviewing the documents to find out why they are covering for Donald Trump
Plus Pam Bondi and Howard “I took my kids to visit Epstein Island” Lutnick must be fired
(AXIOS) - Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that, when he searched President Trump's name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up "more than a million times."
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
February 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM
With the news that his name appears in the Epstein files
OVER A MILLION TIMES
Congress needs to subpoena EVERY PERSON involved in reviewing the documents to find out why they are covering for Donald Trump
Plus Pam Bondi and Howard “I took my kids to visit Epstein Island” Lutnick must be fired
OVER A MILLION TIMES
Congress needs to subpoena EVERY PERSON involved in reviewing the documents to find out why they are covering for Donald Trump
Plus Pam Bondi and Howard “I took my kids to visit Epstein Island” Lutnick must be fired
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Beware of falling icicles as things melt. One just went near me and it was like a shotgun sound when it hit the ground. Dagger meets shotgun.
#dlws
#dlws
February 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Beware of falling icicles as things melt. One just went near me and it was like a shotgun sound when it hit the ground. Dagger meets shotgun.
#dlws
#dlws
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We have reached the 'cadaver dog' stage of this Presidency.
February 10, 2026 at 5:33 PM
We have reached the 'cadaver dog' stage of this Presidency.
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Jesus.
Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein
February 10, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Jesus.
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NEW: Dr. Maya Angelou's estate has joined an ACLU of Utah lawsuit after 2 Utah school districts banned I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings under the state's "sensitive materials" law.
The government doesn't get to decide what we read.
The government doesn't get to decide what we read.
February 9, 2026 at 10:29 PM
NEW: Dr. Maya Angelou's estate has joined an ACLU of Utah lawsuit after 2 Utah school districts banned I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings under the state's "sensitive materials" law.
The government doesn't get to decide what we read.
The government doesn't get to decide what we read.
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“I wish I could see you. But you wouldn’t like me much. I have gone angry to the bone.” ~Martha #Gellhorn, 1938 letter to Eleanor Roosevelt
February 9, 2026 at 4:59 PM
“I wish I could see you. But you wouldn’t like me much. I have gone angry to the bone.” ~Martha #Gellhorn, 1938 letter to Eleanor Roosevelt
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“You were not a bystander”
February 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
“You were not a bystander”
“I wish I could see you. But you wouldn’t like me much. I have gone angry to the bone.” ~Martha #Gellhorn, 1938 letter to Eleanor Roosevelt
February 9, 2026 at 4:59 PM
“I wish I could see you. But you wouldn’t like me much. I have gone angry to the bone.” ~Martha #Gellhorn, 1938 letter to Eleanor Roosevelt
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Like seriously, rewatch the Ring ad. It's worth outlawing and then breaking up Amazon. This is surveillance state technology the worst authoritarian dictatorships of the past always dreamed of.
February 9, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Like seriously, rewatch the Ring ad. It's worth outlawing and then breaking up Amazon. This is surveillance state technology the worst authoritarian dictatorships of the past always dreamed of.
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Spirit Bear with Silver Stars
Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq
n.d.
Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq
n.d.
February 9, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Spirit Bear with Silver Stars
Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq
n.d.
Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq
n.d.
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"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
www.lemonde.fr
February 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
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I just rewatched the legendary Omar clip to be sure that it’s “at” and not “for,” and I’m not sure I’d ever noticed the rat scurrying across the street right before the big moment.
Nice touch.
Nice touch.
February 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I just rewatched the legendary Omar clip to be sure that it’s “at” and not “for,” and I’m not sure I’d ever noticed the rat scurrying across the street right before the big moment.
Nice touch.
Nice touch.
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Pearson Airport. Toronto.
#photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #payphone #pearsonairport #toronto
#photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #payphone #pearsonairport #toronto
February 8, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Pearson Airport. Toronto.
#photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #payphone #pearsonairport #toronto
#photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #payphone #pearsonairport #toronto
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This week Congress gets to view the unredacted files, so buckle up, folks. We're not only going to learn about the worst of the worst, but find out just how deep this coverup goes. If this ends without a dozen people in prison, we will have failed these women and as a nation.
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 9:06 PM
This week Congress gets to view the unredacted files, so buckle up, folks. We're not only going to learn about the worst of the worst, but find out just how deep this coverup goes. If this ends without a dozen people in prison, we will have failed these women and as a nation.