@jwheeldon.bsky.social
Law & Society Prof at Acadia University. Also: Music, Hockey, and Second Acts
This is good and all but I hope the NFL is ready for the tariffs. #badbunny
09.02.2026 01:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Canadian academics. Anyone interested in reviewing a book proposal on debating justice using foundational theories and Canadian controversies? Emond is seeking reviewers. It pays $$
06.02.2026 22:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Carney in Davos:
21.01.2026 08:45 — 👍 144 🔁 42 💬 12 📌 5
The Carney speech is worth reading in full: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
20.01.2026 20:42 — 👍 719 🔁 264 💬 9 📌 61@erinscafe.bsky.social rewatching the west wing and can’t stop thinking about the video of you singing the theme, but just using the words of the title of the show, over and over.
That’s not THAT weird right?
I admit that my rewatch of the West Wing is deeply strange at the end of 2025. At turns depressing, ridiculous, self satisfied, smug, etc etc. for example S3 is stark reminder of how Sorkin processed 9/11 and some of it gaspingly stupid. Yet, it is not as naive or American-centric as I recalled.
26.12.2025 13:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think reliability is an under appreciated virtue. Predictable, boring, steady? Sign me up.
09.12.2025 12:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The whole point of throwing a subordinate under the bus is that you don't jump down there with them
06.12.2025 23:52 — 👍 360 🔁 43 💬 16 📌 2Good morning. Danny Glover was only 41 when he declared he was too old for this shit.
06.12.2025 11:51 — 👍 365 🔁 78 💬 16 📌 16Friends. You cannot appease racists and xenophobes. No amount of hard line immigration annoucements will ever be enough. Centrists will lose their soul by playing footsie with Farage.
06.12.2025 12:44 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0If you want to be able to do something well, you gotta do it in such a way that it gets etched on your heart
One of the dangerous things about AI is it presents a deceptively easy way for folks to cut all of that out in a lot of fields
We remember them always.
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Trump retreats on Epstein files. Three lessons:
1. It can be easier to fracture the MAGA coalition than get "responsible" Republicans to step up.
2. Democrats should fight rather than find reasons not to fight.
3. Dems need to be anti-elitist not just anti-GOP.
www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...
Many people are calling it the Trump Challenge
09.11.2025 12:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just rewatched Don’t Look Up. Remembering how people panned it because US political leaders and big tech cronies couldn’t possibly be that selfish and stupid.
08.11.2025 00:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In case you missed the ad that Ontario put out concerning tariffs before Trump threatened his way to getting it taken off the air. I feel everyone should get to see it.
24.10.2025 23:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Donny John hates this ad and Ontario is promising to take it down.
youtu.be/pABUi669v3g?...
October in Nova Scotia. The tomatoes are still tomatoing
23.10.2025 16:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I don’t really care about the White House given the various assaults underway but I can’t shake the feeling this is more than mere metaphor.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Motion to replace the saying “jumped the shark” in the American lexicon with “flew the poop airplane.”
19.10.2025 05:28 — 👍 1185 🔁 196 💬 56 📌 12
UNY-PRC has developed a digital archive that helps bring together materials from system-affected people alongside hard-to-access state records on policing, alongside state records that are often difficult to access by researchers. Everyone is welcome to join.
Register at bit.ly/4mVbdAd
#academicsky
New "How not to write a poll question" example just dropped. (Kids: Learn to not write horrible poll questions like this.)
06.10.2025 21:57 — 👍 330 🔁 42 💬 36 📌 5
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
Ta-Nehisi Coates joins the show to discuss how the left should think about the work of politics and persuasion in this moment.
open.spotify.com/episode/4jQE...
youtu.be/UaeoDlLNnok?...
@timmiller.bsky.social hey. Saw this about West Virginia. Maybe a counter point to the Manchin interview?
youtu.be/RP8Oxe6OxJc?...
"On both ethics and politics, this is the right fight.
If Democrats can’t find the courage on their own, they should borrow it from the survivors—who risked their privacy, their healing, and their safety to demand justice. We owe them the same level of resolve."
open.substack.com/pub/endlessu...
Autocratic leader, building on racist propaganda, falsehoods about crime data, and an alleged assault on a member of his extralegal office devoted to gutting the budget, moves to have federal armed personnel take direct control of the streets of the capital city.
11.08.2025 16:52 — 👍 910 🔁 275 💬 16 📌 10Mboko! Wow.
08.08.2025 00:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At the point in my “academic career” that I will no longer write for publications that use Chicago citation style.
Thank you in advance for your cards and letters.
