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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.

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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:
@excubs.bsky.social

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Trump sounds sad that Putin's effort to quickly recolonize Ukraine failed.

No

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)!

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

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Fantastic talk, thanks for coming!

Wildly illegal, unprecedented, and authoritarian things that would have ended most previous presidencies, now happening daily

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

Such a great initiative!

Just the most incredibly shortsighted & idiotic thing to do, from a party & people supposedly obsessed with maintaining 🇺🇸 power in the face of a rising 🇨🇳 & other geopolitical threats around the world. All to save <checks notes> $86M, which we've already blown on military parades & invading 🇺🇸 cities.

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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.

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3222):

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

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.

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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.

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"

The funny thing about this scene in Apocalypse Now is that after that helicopter squadron killed a bunch of innocent people while playing the Ride of the Valkyries, Col Kilgore covered the whole village with napalm.

At no moment in the movie was he depicted other than a war criminal & psychopath.

This painting is classic Lost Cause revisionism; it was commissioned after Truman ordered desegregation of the military.

Army Secretary Gordon Gray was a nepobaby (daddy was chair of RJ Reynolds) who led the dubious "Gray Board" that yanked Oppenheimer's clearance. Real piece of work all around.

Story: buff.ly/F4PfY7u

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

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

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.

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