Sinclair caves! Well done, all! variety.com/2025/tv/news...

At the very least, need to add some context along the lines of "vital norms on which the practice of democracy depends".

A lot of people are asking questions clearly answered by the President's "It's not revenge" t-shirt

This chart just blows my mind.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

My god, they really did it.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

“Their accounts paint the picture of someone with a vaguely libertarian bent who despised both major parties and politicians generally (including Trump) but who didn’t engage with politics beyond that. He preferred edgy humor, video games and the message board 4chan”

CNN: The ratings are in for the first day. 6.26 million viewers on ABC. That was four times Jimmy Kimmel's average. And that's despite the show not even being available in a quarter of all American homes.

Really, NYT? We're going with the frame of "opinions differ on the wisdom of a governmental attack on freedom of speech, and its reversal"?

Chatted about how mayoral campaigns are being announced more than a year before the civil election and the importance of SWAGGER to Vancouverites - thanks @stewartprest.ca! More on Bligh’s announcement below ⬇️

What is the point of a CFL that tries to look just like the NFL?

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: < A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

The next few years are going to be littered with millions of untold stories like this. Mothers watching their babies die of starvation because Musk took a woodchopper to USAID www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/a...

Back in 2021, I wrote about how the biggest fault line in Canadian politics ran squarely through the country's conservative movement. This has remained true ever since. www.readtheline.ca/p/stewart-pr...

When reporters call to ask about the relative merits of a proposed change to municipal electoral systems.

Terrific piece, especially this part.

Designating some groups as "terrorist" creates space to limit a variety of Charter-guaranteed freedoms we wouldn't otherwise tolerate, even for people who have done no violence whatsoever. It also creates a frame justifying a deployment of state resources in ways that wouldn't otherwise be rational.

🔥💯 Jon Stewart's prophecy from 2022: "When a democracy is under threat: comedians are the ones who get sent away first. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to art, to music, to thought, to progress. It ain't the pronoun police, it's the Secret Police. It always has been & it always will be."

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

“And on Wednesday’s now-scrapped show, he had put together an explainer on what he actually said vs. what the right-wing media claimed he said. Now, that won’t air.” variety.com/2025/tv/news...

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Reporting on Jimmy Kimmel getting purged should make clear Disney did this *after* the FCC chair explicitly threatened them

Cancel culture. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Progressive crits of “urbanism” can miss the specificity of Canada’s urban history. The big cities 1950-1975 built tons of apartments; that *did* help keep them affordable. Suburban flight was not the whole story. Not even close. iwouldprefernotto.substack.com/p/cities-are...

Elon Musk is trying to violently overthrow the government of the UK and replace it with a far-right racist regime, a fact that will not inform how US elites see him at all

“ there will be dire policy consequences from Kirk’s assassination, regardless of the actual ideology of his killer, because his death fits a pre-existing narrative about left-wing campus radicalism that is already the driver of federal policy” www.chronicle.com/article/char...

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

PM Mark Carney is releasing details of his first wave of nation-building projects. Dr. @stewartprest.ca UBC poli sci lecturer, discusses why an oil pipeline is not among them, and what that means for B.C. via @globalnews.ca

Global is a really important part of BC’s news ecosystem Just to name one example, they were able to break a series of important stories about the Noelle O’Soup case globalnews.ca/news/9032414...

The Trump administration is reviewing material about slavery, the destruction of Native American culture, and climate change at federal parks after employees flagged information that could be "disparaging" to Americans.

NEW: The law is supposed to protect unaccompanied migrant children from being summarily whisked out of the country by ICE in the dead of night. But that didn't seem to matter on Labor Day weekend, when the Trump administration tried to do just that. My latest: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Let me say what the President won't: Domestic violence is not okay. It's immoral, illegal and abusive, and no real man is okay would do it, approve of it, or minimize it.

This is worth a read. There's a strong tendency to dismiss all anti-vaxxers as thoughtless or dumb, and having interviewed Lydia I can attest she is neither. What she does do is speak to fear, finding community and the psychological discomfort of abandoning a core truth she thought she knew.

🚨Challenge Trump and you’ll be punished. My new substack looks at how Trump’s weaponisation of government has rapidly escalated. Judges, journalists, officials, politicians, business leaders, celebrities - even whole cities - are all in his sights. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-war...

I can

Trump’s Tariffs Are Basically All Illegal, Federal Appeals Court Rules www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

Alberta apparently now in the era of government directly telling libraries what books to ban and which to leave on the shelf.

Alberta is banning The Handmaid’s Tale in schools.

Well that's a pretty clear signal.

Is it possible to die from irony? Because I think I might be dying of irony.

The latest from @acoyne.bsky.social arrives just in time to land on the syllabus of my contemporary threats to democracy course. Was looking for exactly this sort of up-to-the-moment summation of the state of play in the states. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

We are seeing some inevitable truths reassert themselves. Just as all social apps tend towards email, all video streaming tends towards cable.

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...