Wow! Impressive, and maybe a little bit crazy. Ha! But, it's obviously served you so well. As a grad student, I am grateful for all the resources you provide!
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Wow! Impressive, and maybe a little bit crazy. Ha! But, it's obviously served you so well. As a grad student, I am grateful for all the resources you provide!
As someone about to write his second comp. next month (what a slog!), why did you have to write exams in so many different fields?
I think war is serious business, real life-and-death stuff, and should be taken seriously by people who initiate and prosecute it.
Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.
Via Kevin Maimann of CBC. Alberta Prosperity Project co-leader Dr. Dennis Modry took at least $1.3M from elderly relatives with dementia and Alzheimer's.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.
Quebec sovereignty has dipped below 30% support, the lowest level since 1995.
Of note, this is a Léger poll. Around here, the firm is generally trusted to be in tune with Quebec public opinion.
www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/03/03/m...
Big news as someone who lives in Alberta and works in BC. 👀
Prof. Robert Pape:
"I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history".
Of course other people will pay the price for his choices. This has always been true. But the way he dismisses the consequences of his own actions as "the way it is" is just at a new level of sociopathy.
A few more thoughts. USFP/natsec usually works from bottom up, even for prez-directed policies. Bureaucrats, mid-levels, political appointees work the problem, then top people bless it. Diplomacy (JCPOA) works like this. Military planning can move faster w/ prior plans, but similar. 1/
Fun Fact: You've died, and this is purgatory
Alberta immigration trends and Danielle Smith's rhetoric: a visual timeline.
Wherein @maxfawcett.bsky.social expands on my point much more eloquently:
FWIW, I think Pancholi is largely correct. The Premier's address and proposed referendum questions seemed designed to address one of the grievances of the APP leaders. Unfortunately, the Premier hasn't learned that it won't be enough. #ableg
YEEEAAHH BABY. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
🚨 New paper out at @ajpseditor.bsky.social 🚨
Do the public hold meaningful attitudes? Using the case of abortion policy preferences, we provide strong evidence that policy prefrences can be coherent, stable over time, and causally explain vote choice.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
YES. ONWARD. 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
I love that this debate has existed for almost a decade. Incredible.
I've heard folks talk about changing what matters for hiring (*esp. as a PhD student now*) and promotion vis-a-vie publications as agentic AI takes off, but I wonder how long changes will actually take? To me, that seems like a culture challenge, and culture can be slow moving.
The UK government is in crisis mode over Mandelson's appointment. In the USA, almost the entire cabinet had ties to Epstein, and there's far less pressure on Trump.
CHRÉTIEN: At this moment, our friend from the south has created a mood that a Canadian have never been so proud to be Canadian ... The desire to have a referendum is very low in Quebec. I don't know what the hell is going on in Alberta.
HARPER: I didn't sign the petition.
Just so everyone is clear: the valve here releases pressure that would otherwise build on her leadership from within her party.
She would rather lose the country than her own job.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford asking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith "to stand up and say enough is enough" to those leading Alberta's sovereignty movement as they meet with U.S. officials, saying you're either with Canada or not with Canada.
Members of the Trump administration reportedly met three times over the past year with a group leading a push for Alberta to secede from Canada
The Alberta Prosperity Project has been touting meetings with American officials for several months now, but is this the first time anyone on the American side has even vaguely confirmed such meetings?
bsky.app/profile/fina...
When I teach Vietnam, I explain that opposition to the war really grew in fits and starts. Some big rallies and visible protests, but also a steady stream of celebrities and ordinary folks breaking with their priors and taking a new stand.
This last month, this last week, feels like a real shift.
From a recent interview with Dr. Dennis Modry, one of the APP leaders. And also,
thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...
+1 to Williams comment here: #ableg
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."
