New piece out on @donmoyn.bsky.social 's blog! I explore how ICE's coercive capacity is assembled through transnational supply chains, from armoured vehicles to data systems to deportation logistics, and what this means for accountability and structural leverage.

The new government website TrumpRx is aimed at helping patients use their own money to buy medicines. But researchers who study drug pricing warned that many patients could pay too much if they use the site.

Hm… We also need to account for the subset of symbolic separatists who answer “Yeah, totally” in an Angus Reid poll but would definitely think twice about doing so in an actual referendum. globalnews.ca/news/1165913...

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

portraying epstein as a "foreign agent" of [fill in the country] is satisfying but lets the US off the hook for creating the network enabling him, and misunderstands his business model as hierarchical links with foreign spies instead of a node in a global network of converging interests

Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney joins @davidfrum.bsky.social to discuss annexation threats, the unraveling of U.S.-Canada relations, and how Donald Trump is forcing allies to rethink democracy, defense, and immigration. Watch the episode:

Unfortunately, nothing in this article is a surprise and, in many parts of the world, this continues to happen. The “profit over people” model of repro tech is alive and well. www.sbs.com.au/news/insight...

Right, yes. Let’s all calmly integrate this information into our day, I guess.

Worth stating this clearly: American constitutional law affords due process protections to non-citizens, even those without legal status. Any official who does not respect those rights—whether a political official or law enforcement officer—violates their oath to support the Constitution.

If 90s era Quebec separatism taught Canada anything, it’s How To Separate From Canada. We have an idea of how constitutionally viable separatism would work… with a few caveats, of course (🧵) www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/a...

Are the separatists in talks with Americans committing “treason”? Like everything else in politics, “it depends.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/po...

Hey, @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social can we get this on the Canadian major field exam?

If 90s era Quebec separatism taught Canada anything, it’s How To Separate From Canada. We have an idea of how constitutionally viable separatism would work… with a few caveats, of course (🧵) www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/a...

❇️ FirstView – 💼 Profession Daniel Stockemer, Engi Abou-El-Kheir & Stephen Sawyer explore the relationship between the percentages of female editorial board members, female editors, and of female authors published across 120 political science journals. 👉 buff.ly/Wi1ONla

At COPPR: a fascinating but incredibly bleak discussion of the cycle where citizens lose faith in the state, then vote for politicians whose primary goal is to break it further.

The @polprocessrsch.bsky.social conference is off to a wonderful (and very fancy, I mean look at that ceiling!) start 📝

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"With so much written on disinformation and misinformation over the past decade, original research on these topics has become rare. But @dmsilverman.bsky.social “Seeing Is Disbelieving" is genuinely novel..." Review of 'Seeing Is Disbelieving' in @lawfaremedia.org https://cup.org/4qDjN80

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

Canada is not Venezuela. But, that doesn’t mean we’re somehow immune to geopolitical conflict. A few have wondered if ‘aligning with American interests’ would protect us. But… getting at what that actually means depends on who you ask. Sigh.

In a 2021 essay, Renee DiResta and Alex Stamos discussed the factors that led to the January 6 storming of the Capitol—and warned that “echo chambers, hyperpartisan media, and peer-to-peer misinformation are not going anywhere.”

Got called “carceral” for this which means it’s time to lay my favorite game: does this person not know the difference between civil and criminal law, or do they simply think that “carceral” is a magic word that delegitimizes all feminist resistance to sexual abuse?

New Cambridge Element of Public Policy on AI "Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy" by Fernando Filgueiras www.cambridge.org/core/element...

We remember them always. Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

Oh hey, it’s me! 🤓

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

This is such a great piece. It's not directly about the current SCOTUS's extreme unitary executive jurisprudence, but it shows how that body of cases -- though justified in the name of democracy -- is in fact anti-democratic. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Melatonin: 0 Baseball: 1

I apologized to my neighbour in advance because, as soon as it began, I knew I’d be yelling at my tv. Go #BlueJays!

50% of American adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. Just 10% are more excited than concerned. 🧪

Oh my GOSH, I’m behind the times. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I know people do discourse analysis, content analysis, word embedding, etc but does anyone study the use of emojis in politics? …I gotta look this up.

4. Diverge - deepen the political divide and intensify polarization

My book is now available for pre-order with Cambridge University Press (cup.org/4nfM2IM). Here, I reflected on America's acceleration of reliance on Medicare Advantage and the new traditional Medicare prior auth administrered with AI, through the lens of my findings open.substack.com/pub/miranday...

assistant professor, associate professor, grad student

My first post probably should have been more generic. Hello world, etc.

Somewhere in the distance the Advocacy Coalition Framework people are crying.