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More than a week has passed and no updates on charges of 'criminal mischief' being dropped against Savanna

This is despite the fact #Montreal mayor Valérie Plante has spoken about how 'freedom of the press is obviously essential in any circumstance”

ricochet.media/labour/media-l…

Last week I was arrested despite identifying myself as a journalist. My arrest is not a rare example, but it is yet another case identifying a trend in journalists being apprehended over the last few years in Canada. Thanks Christopher Curtis for covering this. #JournalismIsNotACrime

'Officers at the site of the protest told [Craig] she didn’t ‘look’ like a journalist because, for example, she was not wearing a press vest often worn by correspondents in conflict zones' - Police Montréal suggesting journalists now need Kevlar vests to do their jobs in Canada?

Montreal Police must immediately drop these charges against Savanna.

The Canadian Association of Journalists is closely monitoring this case.

Journalism is not a crime.

Ahhh, signs of fascism in Canada. Watching closely to see how our “liberated” media will document this nonsense (read: fear) as it grows: Palestinian kaffiyehs banned from the Ontario legislature ⁦Toronto Star⁩ ⁦Review of Journalism⁩ thestar.com/politics/provi…

i love annie dillards essay about the eclipse if you haven’t read :) pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tota…

It's here! A big old reckoning with gaslighting. A labor of mind and heart and spirit for The New Yorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

'introspection can become a trap—a system by which you control yourself so that you do not disturb the peace of the world outside of you.'

wrote an essay about our lives of 'self care' and therapy and how we're probably just all lonely and understimulated
mentalhellth.xyz/p/a-culture-of…

'The Making of the Genocidal Mind' by Sophie Monks Kaufman: hazlitt.net/longreads/maki…

The way this almost had me crying on the subway.

This piece will either perfectly articulate your everyday anxieties, in which case you’ll want to read it—or it’ll all sound totally unfamiliar to you, in which case you need to read it. defector.com/the-money-is-i…

🧵 Canadians can now freely access over 2.6 million pages of internal government documents never before made publicly available with our newest dataset, Open By Default. Explore the huge database of internal government documents: theijf.org/open-by-default

For n+1, I wrote about Aaron Bushnell and the history of immolation. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

another aaron bushnell reddit response
captured march 2023 via the wayback machine

Love this quote from Marilynne Robinson from the recent The New York Times interview:

“If you waste your time in the right way for 14 years, you might end up with a book at the end.”

Anne Carson from Short Talks