Trump's decision to take over the police despite historically low crime and no protests etc. The President literally requires NO provocation to impose emergency measures.

As a Ukr specialist, I have mixed feelings on Iran: 1 A hatred of the IRI that is totalitar and supprts Russia BUT 2 an appreciat of why a small-med sized country wld want nukes in a world where nukes virt the only deterrent to invasion. Not defeating Russia encourages nuclear proliferation.

How could a pope who was so good in so many areas have been so awful with regards to Russia? Genuine question. Does it have something to do w Latin American left?

The newsrooms of 21st century America exist in a parallel factual universe where questions are raised and raised again, sometimes prompting concerns, sometimes prompting further questions, but never, ever answers.

really awful. CTV has acted in an incredibly irresponsible manner. pressprogress.ca/ctv-cancelle...

Look, I have my criticisms of the Trump administration. But when RFK Jr ends autism by September, the libs are going to look pretty foolish for having doubted him.

really hard to advise ANYONE to get educated in the States right now.

This is a very good point that I haven't seen made yet. It's not just Trump that is undermining trust in the US. It is also the inability of US institutions to stop him. And even if you make that "inability to stop him so far," it's already too far to maintain trust.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... first overt threat to directly terrorize American citizens and control targeted opponents. We are headed to a one man authoritarian state.

How many in the Trump administration do you suppose bought a bunch of stock just before Trump announced he was caving on tarriffs? The opportunities here for insider tradiing are truly astounding...

EVERY time EVERYONE stand up to Trump, he caves Paging university presidents/chancellors

a billion frozen from Cornell!!!

I know that this is the least of our concerns. But the failure of political science to in any way anticipate the breakdown of democracy in the United States is truly astounding.

Why is the Democratic Party having such a hard time mobilizing the tremendous grassroots anger at Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...

Read @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social on Trump's McCarthyite attack on campus activism www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

The easy capitulation of the powerful to Trump is perhaps the most depressing part of all of this.

If Paul Weiss and Skadden don't think they can out-litigate the doofuses in Trump's DOJ willing to take these cases, why would any client stick with them? Have a spine. You're not going up against top legal minds here. You are the top legal minds.

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The decision a lot of universities face now is whether to: -- have their federal funding pulled because they stood on principle to protect their students and the integrity of their research, or -- have their funding pulled anyway just because they exist, regardless of how cravenly they submit.

I spoke at yesterday’s Vigil for Democracy at Columbia. Here is an excerpt.

Criminalizing climate work is just WEIRD... newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

What is to stop Trump from successfully demanding the firing of individual tenured professors for their opposition to Trump? Serious question.

After a number of Western tourists have been detained for little apparent reason at the US border, it is insane that countries like Canada are not posting travel advisories about travel to U.S.

Shorter Pelosi: Hey Chuck, remember when I took out Biden? Just thinking about it for no reason.

Great commentary Seva!

Great speech.

Elbows up!

People are PISSED

A conversation bewtween Janice Stein myself and Tim Snyder on the breakdown of Amderican democracy can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Serious corruption by Musk

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

voted for Chrystia Freeland in the Liberal Party leadership race!

Great discussion about democratic breakdown in US with Matt Galloway and Larry Diamond on The Current.

From the amazing Ed Schatz www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/ea04725...

Trump's "plan" is both depraved and unworkable paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-belgian-...

No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

Canadian friends! Chrystia Freland needs your support in her fight to be the next leader of the Liberal Party. Trudeau's office is now mobilizing against her. Please contact your Liberal Party MP today to show your support! www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/s...

yep. Sachs is a total mystery...

So, I've just published a book, if I haven't told you already. And I am promoting it so that I could donate more, because that's where everything I make from sales goes. Also, be kind to me, please, if you can. Thank you.

So proud of Chrystia Freeland for the way she has represented Canada. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/w...

If you think Luigi Mangione is the first masked heartthrob to set the internet on fire, let me introduce you to the mysterious Subcomandante Marcos who led the indigenous Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico on January 1, 1994. His hot masked visage nearly brought down the year-old worldwide web.

Just wanting it to be official so I can get work done..