Canada has lost its measles elimination status...a sad milestone. Now is the time to double down on lowering barriers to routine childhood immunizations and ensuring Canadians have access to credible, science-based information. Link: tinyurl.com/c8nfxvk3

What a preventable tragedy caused by a disinformation grievance industrial complex. Shameful.

JUST IN: The Trump administration late Saturday directed states that they must "immediately undo" any actions they have made to provide benefits to low-income families via SNAP.

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

Following a historic career, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is retiring at the end of her term. Not to put too fine a point on this, but officials with records like the California Democrat’s tend to have buildings named after them. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The thing about being a woman and navigating the world, is that you are never safe from being sexually harassed by strangers even if you are a freaking head of state. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Probably on the advice of counsel.

But I just read in the New York Times that women are ruining the workplace by complaining about this behaviour

Should women have rights? We go through the pros and cons bsky.app/profile/jess...

“Ms. Smith’s government has put checks on health officials and amended a Bill of Rights to make explicit that a person cannot be forced to be vaccinated.” And this is the effect: Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...

Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Relieved to read that vital parts of social infrastructure are retained in the federal budget: www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

For upwardly mobile students, meritocracy myths are a bitter pill. Because, to believe they're special enough to deserve to get out, they have to accept that the people back home are not. Some of these students never get over the bitterness. Others, like JD, swallow it with a glass of champaign.

Stand by this. Brutal ending, but an amazing game. It was a privilege to have my heart ripped out by it. Jays did themselves and the country proud.

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”" www.prb.org/resources/se...

It’s possible to live a normal, happy life in America, and it produces many brilliant, enlightened, warm, generous people. But, on some issues it remains a deeply alien, troubling, almost medieval place eg death penalty, gun rights, bigotry, religious extremism. The best and worst of mankind.

“.. the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion .. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Good question. Why Do We Allow Child Marriage in America? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

Story notes corporal punishment still permitted in schools in some states. I’m …stunned.

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet. Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀 #PublicHealth

Everywhere I go, people are wearing Jays gear. People I know who have never watched baseball (me included) are staying up past midnight to for an 18th inning. The coffee shop has baseball donuts. And, I cannot emphasize this enough, I am in a city *3000 km from Toronto* Canada is behind this team

Alpha School, which promises to educate kids using an "AI tutor" in two hours a day, is a budding national empire and a darling of the Trump administration. According to some parents who spoke to @wired.com for this investigation, it's had nightmarish effects on their kids.

"Housing experts are sounding the alarm about a new bill by the Doug Ford government proposing changes to security of tenure rules, which they say threatens the foundation of tenant protections and rent control in Ontario." #OnPoli #GiftLink 🎁 www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Last month, playing tape of Charlie Kirk's words was enough to get people fired for the new category of anti-Kirkist hate speech. This month, playing tape of Ronald Reagan's words is enough to spark a presidential tantrum and diplomatic breakdown. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Yay! This is going to be so much fun. Thanks to the @atkinsoncentre.bsky.social for being such amazing conveners.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Our new Virtual Special Issue highlights some of our editors' favorite articles published during their editorial terms. The current editor @mlkrook.bsky.social selected work from across subfields highlighting gendered politics in several arenas. #OpenAccess until December 2025!

Today we will return to the articles from Issue 14 of 2024, a special issue focusing on the topic of Gender and Authoritarian Politics. Please enjoy! #polisky #socialscience #ComparativePolitics #academicsky

Open access. Using original data from party manifestos, @anacweeks.bsky.social @pcaravantes.bsky.social @elombardo.bsky.social et al investigate the role of party ideology & critical junctures in the attention parties give to gender-related political interests. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: A Jan. 6 rioter who breached the Senate floor — and was subsequently pardoned by Trump — was arrested Sunday for threatening to assassinate Leader Hakeem Jeffries. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

It's telling that Vance's first instinct following the Politico leak was to tell his sons to be wary of what they write in group chats--to assume “some scumbag is going to leak it in an effort to try to cause you harm.” His message here is basically--be racist; just don't get caught.

One of the writers best explaining Trumpism right now is not a full-time writer, but @donmoyn.bsky.social, an academic and professor. The Times should give him a column. But for now, you can read his great stuff via his newsletter. Another sharp piece here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Post the good news where you can find them 👇

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

Ah the time-honoured scientific method of first deciding what the truth is and then generating the data to prove yourself correct.

Supported by both the Fordham Institute and @wallacefoundation.bsky.social, Michael Hartney and I explored the extent to which U.S. school board members are politically and demographically representative of the communities they serve. Here's a summary of our main findings: 1/12

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

What is it like serving on a board of education? Here’s what Chicago school board members have to say about the unpaid job — so far.

As a small-town Midwesterner with a PhD in education policy, I know the world of competitive high schools exist...but I still can't process it. Growing up, the options were the local public high school or a regional Catholic school. I went to the public school and turned out okay-ish.

NEW: Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

Congratulations!🎉

"Within the academic world, it doesn’t change things all that much. I still write my papers, I submit my papers, I get them rejected." 🤣

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

“Every parent wants their child to get to and from school safely. Cameras slow drivers down where it matters most.” I want to know if the Ford government's external consultant on this strategy anticipated all of the pushback & the fact that those pushing back would put their focus on kids. #OnPoli

If you're in line to be prime minister of France, STAY IN LINE

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment