Hier, j’ai lu un article de nouvelles sportives produit par un journaliste québécois. Il y utilise sans aucune espèce d’ironie le mot « palet ». Voilà l’un des dangers de l’IA : normaliser l’inacceptable.

The election of Trump—both of them—will reduce the scope of every American’s future, as well as reducing the scope of who can be and will want to be an American

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

Ma fille de 3 ans et des poussières aussi.

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

Zelenskyy's holding cards now.

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1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.

My god, les amateurs.

A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them. I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran. So here goes nothing. 🧵

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Épisode très important du podcast d’Ezra Klein. « Perhaps the biggest surprise for me is about the distribution or the paucity of bravery. » podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

New hard data show the same pattern of intense anti-Trump backlash that polls do. Protests against Trump are happening at 4x the rate as 2017-18, and special election swings offer more data on the same point www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-back...

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Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Alors j’imagine que l’alliance des démocraties raisonnables pourront quant à elles financier librement des think tank alignés sur la raison aux USA?

I understand folks are scared but I want you to think about the mechanics of this. There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate. Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?

“In my profession, I have seen many people break down in grief, but that image of Elizabeth’s father will stay with me forever,” she said. “I watched him sit in his car, bury his head in his hands, and cry uncontrollably. Those are images you do not forget.”

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.

Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."

Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Why is Dem leadership not on the ground in MN? If the answer is “polls show Trump’s disapproval is only -15 on deportations, but -25 on prices,” thats a Bad Use Of Polling and a complete failure in their capacity as leaders to lead public opinion and fight for democracy and the rule of law

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

Shorter NRA: Second amendment rights are only for Republicans.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.

The social sciences are the true hard sciences.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

1. M. Carney needs better Quebec advisors. Here is what he said this week: “The Plains of Abraham mark a battlefield, and also the place where Canada began to make its founding choice of accommodation over assimilation, of partnership over domination, of building together over pulling apart.”

I didn't say it. The Germans did.

Il y a un élément stratégique crucial amené par cette approche que je n’ai pas encore vu être nommé nulle part : la réalité objective est que les premiers bénéficiaires du système international depuis 1945 sont les américains eux-mêmes. Trump a beau le nier ou ne pas le voir, ça reste la réalité.

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Greenland is right. We must help ourselves, because our administration has forsaken our global partners. We will pay for this folly for a generation.

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

One of the things that progressives/liberals have a tendency to forget is that authoritarian regimes tend to actually believe the weird conspiracist beliefs they promulgate. They are rarely purely cynical. Hitler really believed that the Jews controlled FDR. 1/

shot chaser etc These early 2025 electoral realignment takes are so insane in hindsight

Introducing CanViz, my little side project over the break to make StatCan tables more accessible.

In my fifty years in politics, I don’t think I’ve seen anything like this before. I haven't always agreed with Jerome Powell, but what Donald Trump is doing is out of the dictator’s playbook. Kudos to Powell for speaking out.

📈 Our key finding: the rural–urban divide didn’t grow gradually. It *jumped* in 2016. Support for Republicans became much more strongly associated with living in rural areas in 2016—and this pattern then remained stable in 2020.

A thought-provoking interpretation of what’s going on, in Venezuela and beyond.

What is just crazy about this, aside from the need for this statement at all, is that Greenland already IS in the US sphere of influence. It's far cheaper for the US, in material, security, and reputational terms, to have Denmark continue administering Greenland and work within NATO on security.

C’est finalement la journée internationale des montréalais qui rigolent des parisiens virés fous sous leur 2 millimètres de neige. Joyeuse célébration à tous!