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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 9d

Today and tomorrow! Learning about democracy and design from Black feminist perspectives, at the Lin Centre conference at McGill University. @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social @gripp-montreal.bsky.social @lecre.bsky.social

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Anna Jurkevics @annajurkevics.bsky.social · 28d

Hello APSA folks, please come and join me Catherine Lu, Arturo Change, Matt Longo, and Niklas Plaetzer for an author-meets-critics roundtable on my new book, Contested Territory (OUP 2025) on Thursday morning at 10am!

Thu Sept 11 10am Vancouver Convention Centre, East Ballroom C

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · Sep 4

This enthralling examination of a tragic personal/political story reimagines how people respond to politically tumultuous times, uncertainty & injustice. A bold, riveting, humbling reflection on humanity & human dignity. Congratulations, @leaypi.bsky.social! www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/752510...

Indignity by Lea Ypi | Penguin Random House Canada

The award-winning author of Free returns with an extraordinary investigation into historical injustice, personal and collective dignity, truth and imagination

www.penguinrandomhouse.ca

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · Aug 21

'It shouldn't be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.' Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · Aug 19

A very important message that everyone who assumes Ru victory needs to hear. But unfortunately Ru’s deluded fans and paid stooges in the West are so disconnected from reality they repeat that Ru has won already or will win tomorrow every day for 3.5yrs now.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · Jul 16

Check out this conversation I had about Trump, Europe, and the Russo-Ukrainian war for Pacifica Network's Ukraine 4 2 4 series: soundcloud.com/pacificanetw...

07.16.25 / Europe:

Dr. Maria Popva, Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal and expert in European, Russian, and Ukrainian geopolitics, describes the current situation for Europe: What

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · Jul 4

This Fourth of July, remember Fritz Gerlich, who warned his fellow Germans of Hitler and the road to ruin, and who was shot and killed on the Night of the Long Knives, 30 June 1934, during a purge of critics of the Nazi regime.

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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · Jun 19

Juneteenth is a celebration of Black resiliency and joy.

It’s also a day to think about systemic inequalities Black Americans face in criminal justice.

Read the latest from @brownphdgirl.bsky.social & @christines.bsky.social:

goodauthority.org/news/junetee...

Juneteenth is a celebration of Black resiliency and joy.

It’s also a day to think about systemic inequalities Black Americans face in criminal justice.

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Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social · Jun 18

Tonight it is finally time for Tommie Shelby's first Benjamin Lecture! He will begin with the topic of "Race and Class in the Political Ethics of the Oppressed". We are looking forward to seeing many of you at Haus der Kulturen der Welt at 6pm!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/benjamin_...

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NPR @npr.org · Jun 12

JUST IN: Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was removed from a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Sen. Padilla removed from DHS press conference

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was removed from a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · Jun 12

Wish I could join!

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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · Jun 12

Tomorrow

Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · May 26

Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam

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Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique @gripp-montreal.bsky.social · Jun 10

Co-lauréats 2025 du Prix de l’atelier annuel de théorie politique de Montréal du GRIPP:

Charles Girard, La liberté d’expression à l’épreuve: Dilemmes démocratiques @charlesgirard.bsky.social

Jakob Huber: Diachronic Democracy: A Political Philosophy of Hope @jakobhuber.bsky.social

Dates à venir

Gagnants du Prix de l’atelier annuel de théorie politique de Montréal du GRIPP 2025 | GRIPP Montréal

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Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique @gripp-montreal.bsky.social · Jun 10

GRIPP Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award 2025 co-winners:

Jakob Huber: Diachronic Democracy: A Political Philosophy of Hope @jakobhuber.bsky.social
Charles Girard, La liberté d’expression à l’épreuve: Dilemmes démocratiques @charlesgirard.bsky.social

Dates TBA

GRIPP 2025 Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award Winners | GRIPP Montréal

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Jun 8

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Feb 6

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Article title: Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting

Article Abstract

How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities? Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups exert little power. I propose the concept of agenda seeding to describe how activists use methods like disruption to capture the attention of media and overcome political asymmetries. Further, I hypothesize protest tactics influence how news organizations frame demands. Evaluating black-led protests between 1960 and 1972, I find nonviolent activism, particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, congressional speech, and public opinion on civil rights. Counties proximate to nonviolent protests saw presidential Democratic vote share increase 1.6–2.5%. Protester-initiated violence, by contrast, helped move news agendas, frames, elite discourse, and public concern toward “social control.” In 1968, using rainfall as an instrument, I find violent protests likely caused a 1.5–7.9% shift among whites toward Republicans and tipped the election. Elites may dominate political communication but hold no monopoly.

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · Jun 10

Sadly, this warning is even more true today. Courage to my American friends.

Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · Mar 5

Perhaps, as a Canadian to Americans, I can offer this thought: a friend is another 'self'. Trump's 'friend' is Russian President Putin, whose main accomplishment is to screw the Russian people. Whatever Trump is doing to Canada, he's doing it even more to the American people.

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · Jun 10

Congratulations, @jakobhuber.bsky.social ! Looking forward !

Jakob Huber @jakobhuber.bsky.social · Jun 10

Very excited to find out about this, but also slightly terrified to subject myself to grilling by @catherinelu.bsky.social @jacobtlevy.bsky.social @abizadeh.bsky.social @pablogilabert.bsky.social and all the other smart people in Montreal grippmontreal.org/2025/06/grip...

GRIPP 2025 Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award Winners | GRIPP Montréal

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · Jun 8

Make no mistake about what the unfolding political struggle in California is about. Are Americans free from tyranny and enslavement? 'This is what it means to be a slave: to be abused and bear it, compelled by violence to suffer wrong.' Euripides, Hecuba. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump authorizes 2,000 national guard troops to deploy to LA amid Ice protests

California governor calls move ‘purposefully inflammatory’ and says it will ‘escalate tensions’ amid immigration crackdown

www.theguardian.com

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · Jun 8

First Canada, then, maybe California? With the militarization of US federal-state relations, we can see now how presumptuous it was for Tyrant Trump to mock Canada becoming the 51st state, as if he could be certain that the union of 50 states would continue. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Canada won’t become the 51st US state – but could it join the EU?

Donald Trump’s extraordinary threats have angered Canadians and Europeans, and the idea of a new kind of transatlantic alliance is gaining traction

www.theguardian.com

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · Jun 8

Make no mistake about what the unfolding political struggle in California is about. Are Americans free from tyranny and enslavement? 'This is what it means to be a slave: to be abused and bear it, compelled by violence to suffer wrong.' Euripides, Hecuba. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump authorizes 2,000 national guard troops to deploy to LA amid Ice protests

California governor calls move ‘purposefully inflammatory’ and says it will ‘escalate tensions’ amid immigration crackdown

www.theguardian.com

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · Jun 8

First Canada, then, maybe California? With the militarization of US federal-state relations, we can see now how presumptuous it was for Tyrant Trump to mock Canada becoming the 51st state, as if he could be certain that the union of 50 states would continue. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Canada won’t become the 51st US state – but could it join the EU?

Donald Trump’s extraordinary threats have angered Canadians and Europeans, and the idea of a new kind of transatlantic alliance is gaining traction

www.theguardian.com

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SEIU California @seiuca.org · Jun 7

UPDATE: David Huerta has been released from the hospital but remains in custody.

His words: "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice."

Free David Huerta. Free them ALL.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · Jun 6

EVERYBODY WATCH.

ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL.

Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today.

He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader.

Don’t turn away.

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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · May 23

Congratulations, Anna! Can't wait to read!

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