mattfodor.bsky.social
@mattfodor.bsky.social
Political scientist and author
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Wondering why Liberal politicians are courting right-wing votes rather than enacting extremely popular “leftist” policies?

It’s cuz they serve the same capitalist system and, when it’s in crisis (ie now), they need to divide us to survive.

Resist whenever/wherever you can. ✊🏻
June 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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NEW from me in @theprogressreport.ca:

@albertateachers.bsky.social president @schilldawg.bsky.social says the best way to ensure age-appropriate material in school libraries is to ensure school boards are properly funded.

www.theprogressreport.ca/ucp_should_l...
UCP should listen to educators, not ‘far-right interest groups’: ATA prez
www.theprogressreport.ca
June 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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The New Democratic Party has lost its ideological footing in Canada. The Walrus editor-in-chief, @cstarnino.bsky.social, sits down with author and political scientist Matt Fodor to examine what the party must change if it hopes to survive the next decade. thewalrus.ca/can-the-ndp-rebu...
May 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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🚨NEW ORCHARDCAST🚨

@mattfodor.bsky.social joins me to discuss the impending federal NDP leadership race, and how the party establishment is attempting to ensure nothing changes.

open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
What's next for the federal NDP?
Author and academic Matt Fodor discusses how the federal NDP went from the electoral heights of 2011 to its worst-ever result and what needs to change.
open.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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After the @NDP.ca’s epic collapse in the 2025 federal election I spoke w/ @judreb.bsky.social on my @ricochetmedia.bsky.social podcast about the future of the party. Rebick has been active in Canada’s most significant social movements for the past 60 yrs. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...
In Bed with the Elephant
Politics Podcast · In Bed with the Elephant is a podcast for people who crave debate and conversation and are passionate about ideas. It’s a show with grit that goes deep and wide. Each episode I in...
podcasts.apple.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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On my @ricochetmedia.bsky.social podcast “In Bed with the Elephant” economist @ArmineYalnizyan.bsky.social. assesses the costed platforms of Canada’s federal political parties days before the election. We”ll talk about “the productivity crisis”& GDP per capita. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-qwg2f-...
Armine Yalnizyan - Canada's Economic Future, Recession and Evaluating Federal Party Platforms
Armine Yalnizyan has spent her career explaining budgets, markets and fiscal matters to generations of Canadians. She’s an economist and the Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers and a regular colu...
www.podbean.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Certain partisans have been citing Canada's performance on per capita GDP as evidence of a supposed 'lost decade' and economic mismanagement. In @irpp.org's Policy Options, I deconstruct this arbitrary and misleading statistic, in two parts. #cdnecon #cdnpoli. /2
April 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Rights of due process don't depend on our personal opinions of the accused. For example, I regard the January 6, 2021, criminals as insurrectionists and traitors - yet I am still glad that each and every one of them got a proper trial before they were convicted and sentenced.
April 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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“The deep state is real,” Kennedy warned HHS bureaucrats in an all-hands meeting in April of 2025, “There are institutional pressures that affect every institution that’s created by human beings.” What exactly does ClownSec think the deep state is?
RFK Jr. Warns FDA Staff of ‘Deep State’ in All-Hands Meeting
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned Food and Drug Administration staff about the influence of the “deep state” on the agency in an all-hands meeting Friday where he also made off-color comments about childre...
www.bloomberg.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Federal government bullying of universities extended to Cornell (withholding $1-billion in federal funds) and Northwestern (withholding $790-million) to make them serve Trump's ideology. Giving in to bullies only empowers them.
www.linkedin.com/news/story/f...
Funds cut for Cornell, Northwestern | LinkedIn
One billion dollars in federal funds and grants to Cornell University and $790 million to Northwestern University have been frozen, the White House confirmed to CNN.
www.linkedin.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The arrogance. The ignoring of the scientific process & the body of evidence. The fearmongering. The lies...

It is staggering & sickening.

U.S. will know cause of autism epidemic by September, Health Secretary RFK Jr. says www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...
U.S. will know cause of autism epidemic by September, Health Secretary RFK Jr. says
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the government has launched a ‘testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world’
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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The first episode of my new podcast “In Bed with the Elephant” on @ricochet_en
features a conversation with political journalist
@stphnmaher about the 2025 Federal Election in Canada. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...
In Bed with the Elephant
Politics Podcast · In Bed with the Elephant is a podcast for people who crave debate and conversation and are passionate about ideas. It’s a show with grit that goes deep and wide. Each episode I in...
podcasts.apple.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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It's fascinating how some Canadian commentators have suddenly discovered the evils of U.S. imperialism over the past couple months.
January 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Communists and socialists are not the problem. Had liberals/cebtrists listened to them instead of excommunicating them you may have won the election. That doesn’t mean you would’ve followed through.
You tank the reelection prospects of the left of your party and expect us to believe you’re with us
January 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Capitalism kills.
January 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Incredible
January 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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This isn’t a coincidence.
November 25, 2024 at 2:39 AM