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Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦 @neufeld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Impressive speech from UK PM Burnham. Ambitious and moving — the best political speech I’ve heard in a long time.

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Andy Burnham's speech to Labour Party Conference - 2026

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No matter what happens in the 2026 midterms -- or even the 2028 presidential election -- Canadians will never trust the United States the way it used to. The north remembers. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/o...

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America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes

Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you

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The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 28/09/2026

That's de Adder's take: www.hilltimes.com/cartoon-dead...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing. If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so. If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hearing someone say ‘we could go there but it might be a bit quiet’ as if that’s a bad thing.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Greenland “deal” epitomizes Trump. A huge amount of drama, a huge amount of damage that won’t be fixed for years and maybe never. And in the end he gets literally nothing but the diplo equivalent of Danish FIFA peace prize. 🏆 Stood down by Greenland and Denmark. Both hilarious and pathetic. Sad!

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 19/09/2026

Live shot of the BC Conservative Party caucus.

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Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦 @neufeld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Spot on. The fact that DJT was elected *twice* shows that the US is simply not a minimally responsible country. If you repeatedly give the car keys to a drunkard, the problem is you.

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Micah Schwartzman @micahschwartzman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Publication day for this volume. My thanks to co-editors @nelsontebbe.bsky.social and Cécile Laborde, and to a terrific set of authors, for seeing it through. Thanks also to Anna Schuleit Haber for allowing us to include her artwork in the cover design. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

nuclear deterrence works

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 09/09/2026

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the chat bots. - Shakespeare

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Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦 @neufeld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Another brilliant work of art from Michael de Adder. I recently downloaded MapQuest and plan to use it in the future. (Wish I knew how to do without Apple products altogether...)

de Adder cartoon contrasting Apple Computers in 1984 (against "Big Brother") with Apple Computers in 2026 (kissing DJT's book by renaming "Lake Ontario").

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Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦 @neufeld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For “New Books in Philosophy” (part of The New Books Network), I discuss _Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice_ (OUP 2026) with Jonathan Quong (USC). newbooksnetwork.com/political-ph... #philsky #philosophy #polphil #moralphil

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Jonathan Quong, "Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice" (Princeton UP, 2026) - New Books Network

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

These snivelling cowards. Canadians will not forget that America treated Putin's Russia like its best friend and us like an enemy. Ever.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Canada has declared its independence from a dying empire. This is an important discussion with Stephen Marche host of the Gloves Off Podcast. Canada has openly defied a reckless regime and we aren't going back. But the collapse of the American order presents serious risk. youtu.be/rnBmndKhBWc?...

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THE USA IS A DYING EMPIRE

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Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦 @neufeld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Know your coffee history people…

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Absolutely disgusting stuff Why are we this way

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Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦 @neufeld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Reasoning about public reason again in Manchester this week (my fifth time)...

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Theories of Public Reason

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 31/08/2026

America: We will crush Canada in this trade war. *eats lettuce, dies*

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Smug idiot does not understand what is happening.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)

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William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I hear a lot of smart professional people talk about how the latest AI makes quiet a good research assistant/fact checker now and all I can think is they are literally cannibalizing the future of research and writing by using AI rather than teaching people how to do it. Pulling up the ladder behind.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A Parliamentary committee should convene next week and issue a legal summons to the executives of Google Canada to explain why they are actively undermining our sovereignty. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...

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Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America Following Trump’s Executive Order

Users in the United States will see the new label, following President Trump’s executive order last week.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 27/08/2026

We should expropriate any companies operating in Canada that go along with Trump’s fake renaming nonsense. It’s time for some material consequences.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’ll keep saying it: The issue the world has with America goes deeper than Trump. It’s the institutions that enable and fail to check the American threat to peace, order, decency and justice. bsky.app/profile/dkmu...

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Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦 @neufeld.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

To my dying day I will regard it to be the blackest of marks that the US electorate conferred upon one of the worst human beings to have ever lived the US presidency, not once but twice. 🇨🇦

de Adder cartoon of US President DJT shooting himself in the foot.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Such fucking loser energy

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think Canada should simply refuse to recognise the existence of the USA. Will take some adjustment but would bring them inner peace.

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Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦 @neufeld.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Based on what's been leaked so far about the US-Canada trade "deal" I'm starting to hope that Kinew, Eby, Frechette, Ford, et al., hold the line and refuse to restock US booze in their provinces. Carney seems to have lost his spine after his Davos speech. The premiers should supply him with one.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I write partly because I like to find a sentence with rhythm and colour and economy of expression. (I realise I’m taking a risk announcing this.) Using AI to help me write would, for me, be a joyless admission of failure.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They can put it back on the shelves as a bargaining chip. That doesn’t mean we’ll be buying it or serving it. That national taboo will be harder to break.

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Learn to Ode!

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hey, we’ve got this new technology that’s going to utterly ruin Higher Education and replace it with broken dreams, blighted careers, and unreliable sources. Cool, what do you call it? Artificial Intelligence, of course.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oh God. Further degeneration of a once great journal (Philosophy & Public Affairs) I think we are going to have to refer to pre-phylloxera and post-phylloxera PPA from now on, if you’re ready for an inside joke.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 08/08/2026

We couldn't if we tried. And vanishingly few of us try.

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