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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville

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#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

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · Jul 26

It was the privilege of my life to speak with the smart, sassy, fierce, indefatigable @ejeancarroll.bsky.social.

Be sure to pick up her gutting & glorious #memoir NOT MY TYPE or request it at your library.

Read about our conversation in today's Toronto Star, a 🇨🇦 exclusive. #BelieveWomen

short bouquet of red and orange flowers sits next to E. Jean Carroll's memoir NOT MY TYPE, photo of her in a dark jacket over a cream turtleneck; her honeyed bob grazes her shoulders as she smiles widely from behind sunglasses

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 13h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 11h

I cannot imagine what it would be like to find 13 rare medieval and Roman artifacts at a charity thrift store in Chilliwack, BC, but I'm glad they were donated to Simon Fraser University for further study: www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...

Rare ‘medieval’ artifacts found in B.C. thrift store donated to SFU for study

Rare artifacts dating back potentially thousands of years have been found in a British Columbia thrift store and donated to Simon Fraser University for study.

www.sfu.ca

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 15h

Puck ruined the comfortable inflatable cone in order to access his incision, so back to the vet today for this indestructible one.

13 more days.

They're going to be long ones.

black lab sits in a car, wearing a clear plastic protective Elizabethan collar with cheery messages printed around the disc: Spoil me, Be nice, I'll be back, Kiss me...

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 19h

Scenes from an American Robin bath #birds

Brown bird with rufous belly and chest and bright yellow beak is splashing in a bird bath.

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 19h

Gorgeous Hollyhocks making everything brighter.

#FlowersOfBluesky
#MomentOfBeauty

Climbing hollyhock pink set against the background of a distressed adobe shed.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 1d

1) every year we all get to vote on which classic story gets made into a muppet movie

2) every year you guys make that muppet movie

3) we will ALL go see every one of these

4) you will never not profit from this

5) why are we not doing things this way

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 1d

I have not been able to stop thinking about this book since I read (and edited!) it. Chanda is one of the most brilliant people I know + a writer who has continually helped me think about the universe, our place in it, and so many other things in new & necessary ways. Trust me, you want to preorder:

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

If you're attending #nycc #nycc2025, stop by the Penguin Random House table to get info about accessing an excerpt of #EdgeOfSpaceTime and then preorder!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 23h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Is it an effort or is he just doing it? I expect more Democratic electeds to be indicted.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A federal grand jury reportedly indicted Letitia James, Trump’s latest effort to weaponize the Justice Dept. to punish political rivals

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 1d

Puck was neutered today. It’s going to be a long 14 days before his stitches come out & he can run again. The poor chap.

Black lab sits in a car on a brown towel, a royal blue pillow collar preventing access to surgical stitching

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been curating an exhibition about the Two Roberts and it opens next week at Charleston in Lewes. Over 100 works, including some that have never been shown before! Big gay Scottish working-class art lov and joy FOR YOU! Book now:

www.charleston.org.uk/exhibition/r...

Charleston — Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders

Explore the lives and work of the 'Two Roberts'

www.charleston.org.uk

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 1d

A huge deal. Original Bob Ross paintings are like fairy dust. His foundation kept almost all of them.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Thirty original paintings by Bob Ross will be available for sale beginning next month through the auction house Bonhams, the artist's estate said. The proceeds will benefit public TV stations that have been grappling with funding cuts by the Trump administration.

Bob Ross’s ‘Happy Little’ Paintings Will Be Auctioned

Thirty canvases, many created for viewers of Ross’s PBS series, “The Joy of Painting,” will be sold to benefit public television stations grappling with funding cuts.

nyti.ms

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Free College Prep Workshops Coming This Fall - Free Library of Philadelphia
libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/post/5553

Blog: Register in Advance: Free College Prep Workshops Coming This Fall

Free college prep workshops are returning to the Free Library for Fall 2025! Field Teen Center hosts these FREE workshops in partnership with The Alexander Advantage and …

libwww.freelibrary.org

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 2d

TBF I *am* that pillow's message, too.

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 2d

Every day Martha IS what the pillow says: fresh out of fucks. #dogs

yellow Labrador is curled on a blue chair, her chin resting on an arm, while behind her a pink floral patterned throw pillow reads fresh out of fucks

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 2d

I understand.

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JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 2d

Love to see this!! Canadian author and journalist Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” is a nonficiton nominee for the 2025 National Book Awards. His important book is about the response of America and Europe in Gaza.

#Booksky

Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards

www.nytimes.com

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 2d

Every time is a good time for a Peggy TL cleanse. 🐾

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 2d

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closeup of golden retriever sleeping on a blue and white mat with one of her front paws curled up under her head

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

His wit’s as thick as Tewksbury mustard

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 3d

Blue Jay
Patrick Hunter ~ Anishinaabe
n.d.

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 3d

"The Big Lie, always delivered in a prolonged scream, was a winning Hitlerian tactic, usefully adapted by all kinds of governments since." ~Martha #Gellhorn

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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