Johannes Wheeldon

At 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.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social howdy. Working on a book on reimagining debate. I’d like to speak with you briefly about your views on how public debate can move forward.

Just had an incredible interaction with Robert M Ellis who helped me think through the philosophical basis for debate. His work is broad, multidisciplinary, and fascinating.

www.robertmellis.net Robert M. Ellis – Writer on the Middle Way

How to Beat Trump Back on Trans Rights — and Much Else Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 06/17/2025 · 1h 35m

Incredible conversation here

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Jeff Garvin (@jeffgarvinbooks.bsky.social) 📚Award-winning novelist (Symptoms of Being Human)🎙️Podcaster🤘Rocker✍🏻Writing spec fic & chasing the human condition🧠Free deep thoughts on Substack.

Just want to thank Dan Zarzana &
@jeffgarvinbooks.bsky.social
for their Heroes Journey Podcast which gave my family and I hours and hours of joy and laughter. You introduced my kids to critically engaging media in a wonderful way. Thank you for your efforts and best of luck in your future endeavors

Unsolicited Suggestion. Re-read your conclusion and see if you can mirror but not repeat yourself in the intro. Big ideas. Key themes. Core questions. Good luck!

Atheists from Chicago so torn right now.

This breaks my heart.
#DemVoice1

YouTube video by 22 Minutes Vote Canadian: A 22 Minutes Election Special

Canadian election special

youtu.be/5psgJFXPpwE

Um. No thanks?

Rick on PP

"Because I guarantee you, you get any member of the Conservative caucus alone in a room and you ask them who is the last man on Earth who should be put in charge of reforming democracy and they will tell you Pierre Poilievre."

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"No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions... except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land." - Magna Carta, 1215.

Ever.

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

Hoping Canada Border folks are paying attention to this too. Their deciisons may have serious consequences. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump slapped a tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands yesterday. Uninhabited islands that are only home to wildlife.

Tell me you don’t know what tf you’re doing without telling me you don’t know what tf you’re doing.

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

Trudeau: We didn't ask for this. But we'll fight back.

Ford: Here's some tariffs for you, my friend.

Kinew: We will not do business with US firms. Canada stands united.

Smith: What should I wear to my Ben Shapiro interview?

Nova Scotia has proposed legislation increasing political interference in universities.

Political interference in education isn’t just an American phenomenon. It’s alive and well in Canada too.

Politicians should not dictate the priorities of universities.

If you are at an event where someone on stage gives a Hitler salute and that person is not dragged off by security and kicked out, you are at a Nazi rally.

#lifegoals

Sure hope Kid Rock, Stacy Dash, and Kelsey Grammar have open schedules. There will be a lot of nights to fill at the Kennedy center, even after the six month Jean Claude Van Damme movie marathon.

Female protagonists reach parity with men in top-grossing films of 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in recent history, the percentage of top-grossing films featuring female protagonists equaled the percentage of films with male protagonists, according to a

It only took the entire history of film www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

We call upon our elected representatives to stand with us and to insist upon adherence to the rule of law and the legal processes and procedures that ensure orderly change. The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore. These are not partisan or political issues. These are rule of law and process issues. We cannot afford to remain silent. We must stand up for the values we hold dear. The ABA will do its part and act to protect the rule of law. We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law."

Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.

www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

The Onion has a better grasp of Canadian sovereignty than the New York Times. theonion.com/perky-canada...

Disappointed that no senator asked RFK Jr:

“You previously stated publicly that you intended to eat a roadkill baby bear carcass that you found. Do you think that was sensible from a health perspective?”

That genuinely seems like a reasonable question to ask a nominee for Secretary of Health.