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Fred Plamondon

@fredplamondon.bsky.social
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Professeur, département de management (ESG-UQAM) "Nummati illegitimi non carborundum"

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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Jia Talentino is spot on. Must read.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
L’histoire ne s’écrit pas à coups de décrets : lp.ca/ge56Ql?shari...
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L’histoire ne s’écrit pas à coups de décrets
La communauté historienne se dresse contre l’ingérence dont fait preuve la Maison-Blanche et invite les politiciens d’ici à ne pas emprunter cette voie dangereuse
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
We write from our small campus in southern New Jersey, Stockton University, a mid-size public university. We are receiving the same message [as other institutions]: if not outright appeasement, do not make waves. Keep your heads down. Stay the course" = stay silent. lithub.com/silence-is-c...
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Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism
We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Ces résultats retiennent mon attention. Je serais curieux de connaître la distribution du vote selon le genre chez les 18-34 ans.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Même la presse écrite libertarienne n'y croit pas.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
La mafia trumpistes déteste l'expertise et le professionnalisme. "By the numbers, the tariffs are less an expression of economic theory and more a Dadaist art piece about the meaninglessness of expertise." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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There Is Only One Way to Make Sense of the Tariffs
The policy is absurd. It’s also an extension of Trump’s chaotic personality.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Quand le AI Slop sert le bien commun. Ou l'éternel retour du meme!
A meme based on Zelensky being bullied by Trump and Vance. The picture shows 3 persons in the Oval Office : 2 idiots arguing with a pingoin.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Ça n'aura pas pris une semaine à Poilièvre pour se ranger du côté de la mafia trumpiste et pour copier le playbook de Viktor Orban. www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/... #polcan
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Snyder's lessons on tyranny. Nevermind the cheesy soundtrack, those lessons are still worth reflecting upon.
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"Shooting some liberty seeds" White House Official X account's. White male fragility can't get creepier. Oh wait, it probably will.
White house official X account showing a picture of VP Vance Shooting from an assault gun. Quote: "Just the VP of USA sending some freedom seeds downrange".
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
La bullshit pour militariser le langage et restreindre la pensée. Utiliser la langue pour restreindre le vocabulaire disponible et rendre impossible de penser la resistance. Détruire le sens et le remplacer par le signal. #novlangue www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Forget about soft power, spheres of influence political theory or other sane-washing narratives. Witness the rise of "dumb power". www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
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Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb
The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.
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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The State Department has said they have revoked visas of more than 300 students. They have been terrorizing hundreds and aim to terrorize hundreds, if not thousands more.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Wow. Le titre dit exactement de quoi il est question. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
1/ C'est juste moi où bien Yves Gingras crée une équivalence entre l'assaut anti-scientifique aux USA et l'Énoncé de politique des trois conseils (EPTC-2022) en matière d'EDI? @ledevoir.com Selon lui, il s'agit de deux pratiques inversées d'une même idéologie. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...?
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La nouvelle politique scientifique américaine
On ne devrait pas avoir besoin d’invoquer l’épouvantail Trump pour justifier d’investir dans nos universités.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...
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Opinion | Bernie Sanders, A.O.C. and the Surging Politics of Anger
Struggling working class voters fear that the country they’ve always counted on is sliding away because of President Trump.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump
Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump).
	•	Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges.
	•	Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side.
	•	A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush.
	•	The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
À quoi ça ressemble une oligarchie? À ça.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Un entretien avec John Bolton, dans lequel il reprend le même argument qu'il présentait dans @theatlantic.com le 11 mars dernier. Trump est un sollipciste inculte: il est l'expert de sa propre réalité décousue, qu'il impose selon l'humeur du moment. On a donc tort de chercher à le rationaliser.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Timothy Snyder ne se gêne pas pour dire les choses comme elles sont. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Timothy Snyder explains that Trump's Big Lie strategy comes straight from Hitler's playbook : « Mein Kampf » : Tell a lie so big, advised Hitler, that people will not believe that you would deceive them on such a scale.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.”
	•	The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives.
	•	The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000.

Each point represents a federal agency:
	•	Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs.
	•	Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs.

Key Observations:
	•	Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates.
	•	Notable targeted agencies include:
	•	HHS (Health & Human Services)
	•	EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
	•	NIH (National Institutes of Health)
	•	CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
	•	Dept. of Education
	•	USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
	•	The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies.
	•	A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size.

Takeaway:

The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology.

Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
OK, this is almost funny
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Tant qu'à vivre une fin de régime, j'aurais voulu qu'elle soit provoquée par quelque chose d'excitant : une apocalypse de zombie ou des extra-terrestres... mais non, à l'ère des réseaux sociaux, c'est la bêtise qui pose le plus grand risque selon ce chroniqueur. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...
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Opinion | Democracy Dies in Dumbness
Until Donald Trump, no president has been so ignorant of the lessons of history, so incompetent in implementing his own ideas.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My latest post is now out. I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook. This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must! christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
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Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
www.businessinsider.com/godfather-of...
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From DEI to DOGE: how Peter Thiel foresaw the future
Back in 2009, the tech titan Peter Thiel laid out a sweeping vision for demolishing the government. Now he's getting what he wanted.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"DoD does not do climate change crap" - Pete Hegseth, qui n'a pas suffisament de neurones pour réaliser que les changements environnementaux ont des impacts tactiques et stratégiques.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Tout est normal. Nothing to see.
A picture showing Trump and Musk. It shows a BBC article titled "Trump says he will buy à Tesla after stock slump"
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Pour comprendre ce qui se passe aux usa, on peut regarder du côté de Viktor Orban en Hongrie. verfassungsblog.de/how-the-dest...
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How the Destroyers of Academic Freedom Masquerade Themselves as Its Victims
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Définancement des Universités au États-Unis. La mafia trumpiste frappe encore. #standforscience
L'administration Trump définance l'université Columbia à hauteur de 400 000 000$. L'université aurait failli à protéger les étudiants juifs pendant les manifestations pro-gaza de l'an passé.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Tellement!
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
David Frum, de @theatlantic.com commente le #SOTU et la soumission volontaire du parti Républicain à l'autorité d'un président mafieux et qui sait que ses politiques seront impopulaires. Trump se prépare-t-il à refuser les résultats des élections de mi-mandat? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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His Next Coup?
Trump tried to steal the 2020 election. He shows no sign that he would accept a loss in 2026.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social à propos des tarifs les plus cons de l'histoire des tarifs. Pour travailler avec la mafia trumpiste, "Being vile is a fundamental job qualification", et Donal Trump déteste la décence canadienne.
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Trump Hates Canada for its Decency
The president lacks basic decency, and loathes people who do
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Tymothy Snyder à propos du processus de négociation entre l'Ukraine et la Russie. Snyder est professeur à Yale, titulaire de la Chaire Levin et spécialiste des relations Ukraine-Russie, de l'histoire de l'Europe centrale / de l'est. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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The Logic of Negotiation (video)
How to get from war to peace
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
10 raisons pour résister à l'utilisation de l'IA générative en éducation supérieure. Richement documenté en plus.
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Yanik Dumont Baron @yanikdb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Beaucoup de de que fait l’administration Trump est tiré du fameux « Projet 2025 ». Petit outil pour suivre le « progrès », par département. www.project2025.observer?utm_campaign...
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Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
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Observatoire des délires conspirationnistes du Québec @odcq.ca · 27/02/2025
J'ai l'impression que c'est nécessaire de le rappeler !
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Nature Reviews Bioengineering @natrevbioeng.nature.com · 26/02/2025
An assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
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Antagoniste 🏴 @antagonisteqc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
la caq
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
21 spécialistes du DOGE ont choisi de démissionner, citant les pratiques délétères et risquées de Musk et de ses collaborateurs. Ils signent cette lettre: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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USDS Resignation Letter
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Canadians taking the piss at Ketamine King of X.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
L'avantage de prendre le train de @viarailcanada.bsky.social sur le corridor Qc-Mtl, c'est que ça donne le temps (beaucoup de temps) pour lire confortablement. Pour survivre aux retards de cette semaine:
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Le management et l'ingénierie partagent une longue histoire. Ce numéro de Engineering Studies rappelle que l'histoire a montré que la science appliquée n'est pas neutre. La montée de l'autoritarisme devrait inciter les ingénieurs à réfléchir de manière critique à leur rôle social.
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Alain Saulnier @alain-saulnier.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Demain, 25 février, je vous invite à lire mon appel à résister aux géants du web dans Le Devoir. Ceux-ci, de connivence avec le président/monarque américain, Donald Trump, voudront bloquer les mesures adoptées par nos gouvernements afin de les réglementer. Les laisser faire? Non.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I think everyone should apply for a DOGE job. Or at least, you know, fill out the form. Maybe even apply for other people. Fictional people, even. Inanimate objects. In this form right here. doge.gov/join
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Join the U.S. Digital Service (DOGE) | DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency
Drive change that uplifts the American people.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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How to Survive the Broligarchy
Three months ago, I warned we were entering the age of technoauthoritarianism. It's now here. We can and must fight back.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is phenomenal. Everyone read this. Pay particular attention to point two: Stop Talking, Start Doing. We can talk on here, but we must take to the streets, organize, ACT. No sitting wondering about a backlash. We are the backlash. Make it visible through ACTION.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Elon Musk sur l'île aux génies de l'efficacité organisationnelle. Devenir plus productif en 2 étapes faciles. 1. Congédier des fonctionnaires avec des compétences reconnues. 2. Donner une promotion à celles et ceux capables d'opérer Grok 3 pour générer un rapport d'activité bullshiteux.
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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Many thanks to prof @chrischirp.bsky.social for reviewing Trump's authoritarian actions and the dynamics of resistance. Une analyse des dynamiques entre les actions de la mafia trumpiste et la résistance. Cela permet de constater les angles morts et inspirer notre propre resistance.
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