i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them they would 100% eat us if given the chance

Picturing Carney practicing, practicing, practicing by the mirror to conquer his famous disinclination to suffer fools.

I can never quite un-see the preternaturally **earnest** faces of these self-proclaimed angels of mercy. www.youtube.com/shorts/ct6WU...

NDP (🇨🇦’s left party)’s chief electoral officer calls out Yves Engler for illegally fundraising prior to entering leadership race. Among Engler's positions: "Jewish Canadians are “'overrepresented in positions of power’.” Let’s watch the NDP vetting process at work, shall we?

On the uncertainties of Emergency Powers & their limits in Trump’s America. Re-upping this piece I did last December for @thestar.com which is just constantly timely. (USA = Eternal kairos of the fretful mind?)

Too many fishky sours.

This comprehensive new compendium on constitutional theory is fantastic. (And not JUST because I have a chapter on constitutional legitimacy in it 😁). @rbellamy.bsky.social and Jeff King have done a huge service to students and to the profession. The culmination of many years of effort.

New article with Bryan Mabee - and it's open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We set different ages for kids to exercise different freedoms for good reason. (See @alixabeth.bsky.social ’s important work.) In my jurisdiction, kids get control over their medical records and treatment from 12, & this seems like a good age for parents to mix out of book choices too. 6? Less so.

Hello Gorgeous.

Oh you sad sad Yankees. Such shame. Such humiliation.

The Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö is releasing a special edition of Orwell’s 1984. The book cannot be read, on account of having two spines. The “double bind” is a protest against censorship across the world: malmo.se/boundbookspr...

October 5: Apologies for the bad news, but today is one of the 3 unluckiest days of the year in the Roman calendar. Definitely let people know that the underworld opens up to the living today (mundus patet) and so you just can’t leave your house, especially to sail (also on August 24 & November 8).

Hey NYYankees! Be dolls, will ya, and wear your microfiber uniforms today? That way, when the Jays wipe the floor with you (again), it gets a real nice sparkle. *ting!* 🌟

Congratulations to the New York Yankees on their run this evening!

#Solar becomes main source of electricity in the #EU for first time. More than half of the EU’s #electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from #RenewableEnergy www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...

This is not true, as eminent Roman archaeologist and coin expert Emanuel Mayer notes below:

Trying to restrain myself from live-bleeting (please tell me this is now what we call such activity) this whole Swift text. I came for the satire of apoclayptic interpretation. I stayed for the lols. So many lols!

Jonathan Swift on Original Intent: "I hold it fit to lay down this general maxim. Whatever reader desires to have a thorough comprehension of an author’s thoughts cannot take a better method than by putting himself into the circumstances & posture of life that the writer was in… 1/3

Does this here time scholar need a pair of “before” and “after” spectacles? Yes, right?

Oh man, America. Oh man.

dune *is* about worms

🚨 Just out in Jurisprudence: a special issue, edited by D. Dyzenhaus and G.B. Ratti, devoted to the close relationship between HLA Hart and Norberto Bobbio. It comprises a.o. the translations into English of five essays by Bobbio, substantial excerpts from the Hart-Bobbio correspondence... 1/2

The state is a brutal thing. Its sharp edges are very sharp, being cavalier or complacent about it can lead to a massive amount of avoidable suffering. Anti-state critics are useful for reminding us of this. But non-state alternatives have *a much worse track record* on all margins.

Gemeinschaft is not a fun place to live. And it's the exact opposite of liberation, it's basically as far from liberation as you can get. This is why I think communitarianism is always intrinsically reactionary as a political project, no matter how radical the rhetoric and theory.

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A weird thing about cafe writing is first date adjacency. I now inadvertently know way too much about these two charming youngsters. I’m gonna say: seems like a decent match. Good luck to you both & hope your cat feels better soon!

So psyched for this "Heart of the Constitution – Exploring the Power of Preambles” nerd-fest at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest this December. I have the coolest idea & am furiously scribbling my paper for them *RIGHT NOW*. Well, as soon as I close bluesky. mcc.hu/en/article/a...

Law never rules on its own. Never ever. Never ever ever. Not even constitutions. It does not auto-persist. It does not auto-enforce. People rule by or with law. So easy to forget, until we can’t. And America is having another bad day.

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

My Bluesky feed is almost 0% funny. I mean, I know the world is about 99% WTF, but it's also still minimum 23% funny.

I would like to shamelessly boast (so shameless!) that last year I taught the entire History of Political Thought lecture course and only looked at my notes one time. = 👑 ! Thank you! 🙇🏻‍♀️ Thank you very much! 💐

Found this handsome Triarthrus digging for bugs with @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social . I think I will call him Berthold. #trilobites #fossils

Folks, which title do we like for this weirdly artistic, accidental snap of my kid and I, which I found on my phone? Mother and child” Or: “And Now, the Chemistry Homework”

Reading 1840’s Mormon history and thinking Emma Smith should have listened to her parents and not married that guy, right? Hmmm, could trot this out if my kid brings home a guy I think is 🤨“See? See what happened to Emma Smith??? Listen to your mama!”

Let's cheer the Canadian women dominating world rugby. They had to crowd source to raise the money to even get into the tournament. Nobody took them seriously. They crushed the New Zealand giants. They are going into the finals. Come on fellow Canucks - is the real miracle team. So proud.

In a feat of TRULY extravagant procrastination, today I knit this totally useless pencil. ✏️

What I’m saying is that Derrida wasn’t a nihilist he was just a dweeb

"A riveting chronicle of the battle for chess supremacy & the brilliant, eccentric, extremely online grandmasters changing an ancient game." Can’t wait to read this, from multi-award winning writer (aaaaand top three all-time favourite brother) Jordan Himelfarb.

Reform, Revolution Chronos, Kairos How we conceive of the shape of events in time, in turn shapes how we do politics. Thinking about the UK org I just discovered, called ‘Kairos,’ in this context…

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree... The McGill University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in International Relations, with an emphasis on global governance and/or international security.

Board-book shopping for my baby niece and…. *Mood*

😬 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It begins.

Canada’s constitution is one of only eight, still in force since the 19th century. Fun fact I just learned reading Voermans et al. as I cram constitutional preambles. Gonna be a nerdy Friday night! Hell yeah!

People:”Why doesn’t the media cover Type of Death X like Charlie Kirk?” What would ‘equal’ death-attention look like given the vastness of violence and unjust death? Sudanese death gets vastly less attention than Palestinian death. Child death by intestinal worm less than fentanyl death etc

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

🚨 BREAKING | Wind and solar generated over a THIRD of #Brazil’s electricity for the first time in August this year ☀️🌪️ 🇧🇷 Previous droughts saw fossils rise to cover shortfalls, but rapid renewables growth helped avoid costly fossil spikes this year. ember-energy.org/lat...

On 5 Nov 2025, 4pm GMT, we will host a seminar on new research by Prof Michael Pal (Ottawa) on #Fourth_Branch #Constitutionalism. Prof @tarunkhaitan.bsky.social (LSE) and Dr Ming-Sung Kuo (Warwick) will be responding; and CCC co-director Dr @maramalagodi.bsky.social will chair.

Meanwhile…. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...