Linda A. White
@lindawhite.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science @UofToronto. Researches inequalities in access to gendered care, education, and other social investment policies. All my posts should end with, “can’t we do it for the kids?” @equityed.bsky.social
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Our story is so much better than theirs. We should be telling it better before it's too late.
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The Stories We're Not Telling
Liberal democracy is in danger. We need the stories of those who rescued it last time.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Our story is so much better than theirs. We should be telling it better before it's too late.
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In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.
December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.
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"This is, quite straightforwardly, a program for regime change in Europe, aimed at turning it into an illiberal polity."
Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
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America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe
Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
www.programmablemutter.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"This is, quite straightforwardly, a program for regime change in Europe, aimed at turning it into an illiberal polity."
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We remember them always.
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We remember them always.
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
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Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan
Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan
Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan
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i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
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They really thing if they say "cultures" it's not clear they mean "people" bsky.app/profile/just...
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
They really thing if they say "cultures" it's not clear they mean "people" bsky.app/profile/just...
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Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.
“Upend it”
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.
CDC's vaccine advisers meet to question long-used vaccines
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.
n.pr
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“Upend it”
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Social scientists spent the last 50 years arguing that racism is still prevalent in US even if it's covert (racism w/ a veneer), unconscious (racism w/out intent), or systemic (racism w/out racists).
Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.
Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Social scientists spent the last 50 years arguing that racism is still prevalent in US even if it's covert (racism w/ a veneer), unconscious (racism w/out intent), or systemic (racism w/out racists).
Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.
Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.
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A vaccine that could offer protection against fentanyl overdoses is entering early-stage trials next year. @emilymullin.bsky.social has the details!
A Fentanyl Vaccine Is About to Get Its First Major Test
ARMR Sciences of New York is trialing a vaccine in the Netherlands to protect against fentanyl-related overdose and death.
www.wired.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A vaccine that could offer protection against fentanyl overdoses is entering early-stage trials next year. @emilymullin.bsky.social has the details!
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Excellent essay from historian Steven Mintz on why he’ll only evaluate writing he can witness firsthand
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AI Killed the Take-Home Essay. COVID Killed Attendance. Now What?
Reclaiming Learning in an Age of Distraction and Artificial Intelligence
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November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Excellent essay from historian Steven Mintz on why he’ll only evaluate writing he can witness firsthand
open.substack.com/pub/stevenmi...
open.substack.com/pub/stevenmi...
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Official 🇺🇸 policy: Ethnic cleansing.
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Official 🇺🇸 policy: Ethnic cleansing.
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Absolutely stunned and honored to see THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on this list.
I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.
I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.
The 10 Best Books of 2025
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Absolutely stunned and honored to see THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on this list.
I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.
I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.
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🌍The latest cleavage: the universalist divide
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social , @dpzollinger.bsky.social , @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, and @lhaffert.bsky.social provide evidence from the 2024 European Election Study 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social , @dpzollinger.bsky.social , @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, and @lhaffert.bsky.social provide evidence from the 2024 European Election Study 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
🌍The latest cleavage: the universalist divide
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social , @dpzollinger.bsky.social , @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, and @lhaffert.bsky.social provide evidence from the 2024 European Election Study 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social , @dpzollinger.bsky.social , @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, and @lhaffert.bsky.social provide evidence from the 2024 European Election Study 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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What an honor! @na-wehl.bsky.social & I received the ALLBUS Preis 2025 for our paper "How education policies shape political inequality: analyzing policy feedback effects in Germany"! 🥳🥳 Thanks a lot to the jury & a very kind laudatio by Markus Tausendpfund @gesis.org Mannheim!
December 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
What an honor! @na-wehl.bsky.social & I received the ALLBUS Preis 2025 for our paper "How education policies shape political inequality: analyzing policy feedback effects in Germany"! 🥳🥳 Thanks a lot to the jury & a very kind laudatio by Markus Tausendpfund @gesis.org Mannheim!
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Over on LinkedIn, we're publishing some articles for a Research-in-Progress Series. Here's our latest, about "Play Together" - a virtual platform helping measure collaboration: www.linkedin.com/pulse/play-t...
@bdhuey.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @lindawhite.bsky.social @technologyreview.com
@bdhuey.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @lindawhite.bsky.social @technologyreview.com
Play Together: A Virtual Platform to Evaluate Teamwork and Leadership
Dr. Roman Zarate, a leader of one of our research teams, explains his new platform Play Together that helps researchers study teamwork and leadership in real time.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Over on LinkedIn, we're publishing some articles for a Research-in-Progress Series. Here's our latest, about "Play Together" - a virtual platform helping measure collaboration: www.linkedin.com/pulse/play-t...
@bdhuey.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @lindawhite.bsky.social @technologyreview.com
@bdhuey.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @lindawhite.bsky.social @technologyreview.com
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Indeed: Huntington was an early warning sign of how, amidst skyrocketing inequality, a small coterie of unpatriotic super elites would seek to tear down state structures while shouting racist narratives of blood and soil into the media that they control
Amid the liberal internationalist optimism of the late 1990s, Samuel Huntington foresaw a world marked by continued conflict.
Samuel Huntington Is Getting His Revenge
The idea of a global “clash of civilizations” wasn’t wrong—it was just premature.
foreignpolicy.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Indeed: Huntington was an early warning sign of how, amidst skyrocketing inequality, a small coterie of unpatriotic super elites would seek to tear down state structures while shouting racist narratives of blood and soil into the media that they control
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New @nberpubs: "The Economic Legacy of Racial Trauma in the American South" www.nber.org/papers/w3452...
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
New @nberpubs: "The Economic Legacy of Racial Trauma in the American South" www.nber.org/papers/w3452...
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"Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough"
" The best way to prevent whooping cough is by receiving the Tdap or DTaP vaccine, which protects against three bacterial infections — diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, say public health experts." kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
" The best way to prevent whooping cough is by receiving the Tdap or DTaP vaccine, which protects against three bacterial infections — diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, say public health experts." kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
"Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough"
" The best way to prevent whooping cough is by receiving the Tdap or DTaP vaccine, which protects against three bacterial infections — diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, say public health experts." kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
" The best way to prevent whooping cough is by receiving the Tdap or DTaP vaccine, which protects against three bacterial infections — diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, say public health experts." kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
“opinions on the value of a college degree were sharply divided by party. About 22 percent of Republicans said college was worth the cost compared to 47 percent of Democrats. In 2013, 55 percent of Republicans and 61 percent of Democrats thought college was worth the cost.”
Survey: One-Third of Americans Say College Is Worth the Cost www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Survey: One-Third of Americans Say College Is Worth the Cost
About one-third of American voters said in a recent NBC News survey that a four-year degree is worth the cost. Two-thirds of respondents say the four-year degree isn’t “worth the cost because people o...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“opinions on the value of a college degree were sharply divided by party. About 22 percent of Republicans said college was worth the cost compared to 47 percent of Democrats. In 2013, 55 percent of Republicans and 61 percent of Democrats thought college was worth the cost.”
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Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.