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Juliet Johnson

@excubs.bsky.social

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Professor of Political Science at McGill University. Money, trust, memory politics, central banks, and financial nationalism.

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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · Jun 12

Alison Johnston and I have a new open access article out arguing that pressure from domestic rather than foreign bondholders is most effective in forcing populist governments to rein in their economic policies. Our case studies are Italy and Hungary, but there are clear lessons for the USA.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Jun 12

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -

Bent into Submission? Domestic Investors and Populist Governments - cup.org/4l2b2l5

- Alison L. Johnston & @excubs.bsky.social

#FirstView

Banner displaying "Perspectives on Politics" over an image of a dense, informal urban settlement with the hashtag #OpenAccess at the bottom.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 8d

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It's one thing to succumb to the stick, but Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Penn, USC, MIT, UT, Arizona, Brown, and UVA absolutely must refuse to go chasing after promises of carrots.

Exclusive | White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage

An initial round of nine schools is being asked to sign a wide-ranging accord.

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McGill PoliSci @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · 8d

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@mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillumedia.bsky.social Homecoming week roundtable in the Department of Political Science

Democracy under Pressure: What’s at Stake for Canada and the World

Oct 23, 5:45 pm

Moderator:
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Democracy under Pressure: What’s at Stake for Canada and the World

In this special Homecoming roundtable, experts from the McGill Department of Political Science discuss today's most pressing issues.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 9d

Trump: I'm so disappointed with President Putin. I thought he would get this thing over with… He should have had this war done in a week. And I said to him: You don't look good. You've been four years fighting a war that should have taken a week. Are you a 'paper tiger'? And… it's a shame.

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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · 9d

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Trump to generals: "Canada called me a couple weeks ago. They want to be a part of it. To which I said, 'Well, why don't you just join our country. Become the 51st state. And you get it for free!' So I don't know if that made a big impact but it does make a lot of sense."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11d

Trying hard to moderate my Maia Sandu fangirling right now, but I gotta stress she's accomplished something no EEuropean reformist ever has: brought a fugitive oligarch back to face justice AND fended off massive Ru interference to win a referendum and two re-elections (parliamentary+presidential)!

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Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social · 12d

Get better analysis of the Russian economy than Trump does. Tune into Sasha & Sasha at The Bell.

pro.thebell.io/webinar_sept...

The Bell — A webinar with Alexandra Prokopenko and Alexander Kolyandr

When Will Russia Run Out of Money?

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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · 13d

Fantastic talk, thanks for coming!

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21d

There is no legitimate reason for this request; USDA already has the data. It's inexplicable beyond (1) a fig leaf to simply make people go hungry because cruelty is fun and/or (2) a deliberate effort to imperil personal data security and thereby increase fraud / identity theft.

Trump admin. threatens to withhold $460M in food-stamp funding if Pa. doesn't share personal data

A long-simmering battle between Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and the White House over the state’s food-stamp program is set to come to a head by the end of this week.

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 22d

Viktor Orbán's propaganda machine released a pseudo-report dismissing all Jean Monnet professors as "propagandists."

1. We're funded to study EU integration, not promote it

2. Many Jean Monnet scholars are among the EU's sharpest critics - including myself

3. Funding goes to universities not us

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 22d

While you still can, if you’re asking “who’s Sinclair?” John Oliver has you covered:

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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · 22d

Such a great initiative!

Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 22d

⏳Beyond thrilled to co-launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy next week — with this *incredible* lineup of female talent

🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 22d

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Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social · 23d

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 24d

The end of Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and National Resource Centers means the loss of critical language and area studies expertise across the United States. These are the actions of an administration that cannot imagine the future, presiding over a declining world power

Research at risk: Cultural fluency and critical language expertise | Cornell Chronicle

The federal government ended a program that has funded Cornell's Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program for decades.

news.cornell.edu

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Sep 9

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 9

Leavitt: "These are the bad guys that we are picking up in Washington DC every day. The president would love to do this in every Democrat-run city across the country."

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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · Sep 9

IR scholars in global governance/security, come join us in Montreal!

McGill PoliSci @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · Sep 9

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The McGill University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in International Relations, with an emphasis on global governance and/or international security.

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

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McGill PoliSci @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · Sep 9

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · Sep 7

Lots of handwringing over this every year or so, but I am unconvinced that there is any explanation needed other than the prevalence of male-dominated industries that pay well and do not require a degree.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/educa...

Canadian campuses are mostly female. What are men doing instead?

The gender gap in higher education has been widening for decades. Do universities need to do more to entice men back?

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Sep 7

More or less what you would get if you told a large language model to make pro-Trump fascist imagery (maybe what happened, TBH). Almost cartoonishly fascist; no mystery about what's going on here. Again, these are being promoted by the government that is in power right now.

Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Sep 6

How many more warning do American elites and masses need?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 6

New in PN: @itsafronomics.bsky.social on why Trump's attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women & Black economists

"In a time where there are attempts to erase the contributions of Black people & more specifically Black women from the history books, her leadership is needed now more than ever"

Trump's attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women

We all stand to lose if he gets away with it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

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Greg Jaffe @gregjaffe.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...

Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Aug 27

Story: buff.ly/F4PfY7u

Trump’s push to fire Fed governor threatens central bank independence − and that isn’t good news for sound economic stewardship (or battling inflation)

Politicians have long coveted control over monetary policy. Good economic governance requires that they don’t get it.

theconversation.com

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 26

I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/

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In the Matter of Lisa Cook

Trump’s attempt to fire a Fed governor is illegal. Now we find out whether that matters.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Aug 26

Everyone involved needs to stand up. The stakes are too high.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 26

Honestly this feels like a constitutional crisis.
*Powell needs to issue a quick statement pushing back.
*Will Trump try to use force to bar Cook from working?
*Assuming we get to litigation, will SCOTUS fold and go along with Trump's for "cause" rationale?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...

Trump Uses Threats to Push Federal Reserve Member Out of Office

Trump administration's weaponization of the DOJ part of an authoritarian pattern

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Aug 26

It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He Is Removing Lisa Cook From Federal Reserve Board

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history

The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.

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Shelley Clark @shelleydclark.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Shelley Clark @shelleydclark.bsky.social · Jul 29

My coauthors @lesja.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com , which offers insights into why most demographers do NOT think there is a current fertility crisis and the panic about population decline is unwarranted.
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Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · Aug 1

#OpEd "The flame of independent journalism Derk lit 30 years ago has not been extinguished. And we will bring it back to Russia," writes Moscow Times publisher Alexander Gubsky.

Inform and Inspire. In memory of Derk Sauer. - The Moscow Times

Opinion | Yesterday, Derk Sauer, founder of The Moscow Times, passed away.

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