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Lucan Ahmad Way

@lucanway.bsky.social
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Polisci Prof U Toronto. Study democracy/dictatorship & Ukraine. Books: Revolution & Dictatorship (PUP 2022); Pluralism by Default (JHUP 2015); Competitive Authoritarianism (CUP 2010)

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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Trump's decision to take over the police despite historically low crime and no protests etc. The President literally requires NO provocation to impose emergency measures.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
As a Ukr specialist, I have mixed feelings on Iran: 1 A hatred of the IRI that is totalitar and supprts Russia BUT 2 an appreciat of why a small-med sized country wld want nukes in a world where nukes virt the only deterrent to invasion. Not defeating Russia encourages nuclear proliferation.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
www.crimsoncourage.com
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Crimson Courage
Crimson Courage is a growing community of Harvard alumni from all schools and decades united in standing up for academic freedom at Harvard and beyond.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
newrepublic.com/post/194245/...
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RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People
And he’s using private medical records to make it happen.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
How could a pope who was so good in so many areas have been so awful with regards to Russia? Genuine question. Does it have something to do w Latin American left?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The newsrooms of 21st century America exist in a parallel factual universe where questions are raised and raised again, sometimes prompting concerns, sometimes prompting further questions, but never, ever answers.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
really awful. CTV has acted in an incredibly irresponsible manner. pressprogress.ca/ctv-cancelle...
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CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Look, I have my criticisms of the Trump administration. But when RFK Jr ends autism by September, the libs are going to look pretty foolish for having doubted him.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
really hard to advise ANYONE to get educated in the States right now.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is a very good point that I haven't seen made yet. It's not just Trump that is undermining trust in the US. It is also the inability of US institutions to stop him. And even if you make that "inability to stop him so far," it's already too far to maintain trust.
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Barry McCaffrey @brma64.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... first overt threat to directly terrorize American citizens and control targeted opponents. We are headed to a one man authoritarian state.
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Trump orders probes of two former officials who defied him
Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor both served in Trump's first term. Krebs questioned Trump's claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Taylor criticized his conduct in office.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
How many in the Trump administration do you suppose bought a bunch of stock just before Trump announced he was caving on tarriffs? The opportunities here for insider tradiing are truly astounding...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
EVERY time EVERYONE stand up to Trump, he caves Paging university presidents/chancellors
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
a billion frozen from Cornell!!!
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I know that this is the least of our concerns. But the failure of political science to in any way anticipate the breakdown of democracy in the United States is truly astounding.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Why is the Democratic Party having such a hard time mobilizing the tremendous grassroots anger at Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
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Spartz, Republican Lawmaker, Faces Anger at Town Halls Over Musk Cuts and Hegseth
Representative Victoria Spartz, a Republican, defended Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts to the federal government, drawing jeers from the crowd.
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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Read @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social on Trump's McCarthyite attack on campus activism www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
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Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil
Don’t fool yourself into thinking it will stop with Mahmoud Khalil.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The easy capitulation of the powerful to Trump is perhaps the most depressing part of all of this.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 27/03/2025
If Paul Weiss and Skadden don't think they can out-litigate the doofuses in Trump's DOJ willing to take these cases, why would any client stick with them? Have a spine. You're not going up against top legal minds here. You are the top legal minds.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 28/03/2025
The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." 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.
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 27/03/2025
The decision a lot of universities face now is whether to: -- have their federal funding pulled because they stood on principle to protect their students and the integrity of their research, or -- have their funding pulled anyway just because they exist, regardless of how cravenly they submit.
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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I spoke at yesterday’s Vigil for Democracy at Columbia. Here is an excerpt.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Criminalizing climate work is just WEIRD... newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
What is to stop Trump from successfully demanding the firing of individual tenured professors for their opposition to Trump? Serious question.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
After a number of Western tourists have been detained for little apparent reason at the US border, it is insane that countries like Canada are not posting travel advisories about travel to U.S.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 14/03/2025
Shorter Pelosi: Hey Chuck, remember when I took out Biden? Just thinking about it for no reason.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Great commentary Seva!
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Great speech.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Elbows up!
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
People are PISSED
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A conversation bewtween Janice Stein myself and Tim Snyder on the breakdown of Amderican democracy can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Authoritarianism in America
Democracy in the United States faces its gravest threat since the Civil War. Backed by the richest men on the planet, the Trump administration is radically transforming the American political system. What lies ahead? How did we get here? Historian Timothy Snyder and political scientist Lucan Way discuss the future of the world’s oldest democracy and the origins of the current crisis
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Serious corruption by Musk
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 27/02/2025
Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
voted for Chrystia Freeland in the Liberal Party leadership race!
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Great discussion about democratic breakdown in US with Matt Galloway and Larry Diamond on The Current.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
From the amazing Ed Schatz www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/ea04725...
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Donald Trump’s playbook on Ukraine is the same one he used to withdraw from Afghanistan
The President’s approach is familiar to those involved in the U.S.’s 2020 deal with the Taliban: prioritize a quick resolution, ignore the human, material, and political consequences, and undermine th...
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Trump's "plan" is both depraved and unworkable paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-belgian-...
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A Belgian Congo Plan for Ukraine
Plus a conversation with Phillips O’Brien
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Canadian friends! Chrystia Freland needs your support in her fight to be the next leader of the Liberal Party. Trudeau's office is now mobilizing against her. Please contact your Liberal Party MP today to show your support! www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/s...
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Current Members of Parliament - Members of Parliament - House of Commons of Canada
Current Members of Parliament - Members of Parliament - House of Commons of Canada
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
yep. Sachs is a total mystery...
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
So, I've just published a book, if I haven't told you already. And I am promoting it so that I could donate more, because that's where everything I make from sales goes. Also, be kind to me, please, if you can. Thank you.
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Intent to Destroy
Written with “erudition and verve” (Timothy Snyder, New York Times-bestselling author of On Tyranny), this is the full story of how and why Russia has tr...
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
So proud of Chrystia Freeland for the way she has represented Canada. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/w...
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Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister, Resigns From Cabinet
The departure of Ms. Freeland, who had been helping lead Canada’s response to the incoming Trump administration, threatens Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ability to lead his party.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
If you think Luigi Mangione is the first masked heartthrob to set the internet on fire, let me introduce you to the mysterious Subcomandante Marcos who led the indigenous Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico on January 1, 1994. His hot masked visage nearly brought down the year-old worldwide web.
Photo of the ski masked Subcomandante Marcos who set the nascent Internet ablaze in 1994 and became an overnight international sex symbol.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/wh...
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Why Restraint With Russia Won’t Work
Only by imposing real costs on Russian malfeasance can the West expect to prevent further escalation.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/wh...
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Why Restraint With Russia Won’t Work
Only by imposing real costs on Russian malfeasance can the West expect to prevent further escalation.
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Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Just wanting it to be official so I can get work done..
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