@jwheeldon.bsky.social
Law & Society Prof at Acadia University. Also: Music, Hockey, and Second Acts
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 — 👍 318 🔁 40 💬 34 📌 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 — 👍 914 🔁 279 💬 18 📌 12Mboko! 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.
@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.
04.07.2025 14:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just 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
Incredible conversation here
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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!
22.05.2025 09:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Atheists from Chicago so torn right now.
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This breaks my heart.
#DemVoice1
Canadian election special
youtu.be/5psgJFXPpwE
Um. No thanks?
23.04.2025 20:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Rick 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.
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Hoping Canada Border folks are paying attention to this too. Their deciisons may have serious consequences. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
05.04.2025 22:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
27.03.2025 20:49 — 👍 18839 🔁 4118 💬 252 📌 138Trudeau: 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.
21.02.2025 11:37 — 👍 6713 🔁 1864 💬 35 📌 61#lifegoals
19.02.2025 11:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sure 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.
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It only took the entire history of film www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
