Steven Nuss 🇨🇦

Wherein @maxfawcett.bsky.social expands on my point much more eloquently:

FWIW, I think Pancholi is largely correct. The Premier's address and proposed referendum questions seemed designed to address one of the grievances of the APP leaders. Unfortunately, the Premier hasn't learned that it won't be enough. #ableg

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🚨 New paper out at @ajpseditor.bsky.social 🚨

Do the public hold meaningful attitudes? Using the case of abortion policy preferences, we provide strong evidence that policy prefrences can be coherent, stable over time, and causally explain vote choice.

doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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I love that this debate has existed for almost a decade. Incredible.

I've heard folks talk about changing what matters for hiring (*esp. as a PhD student now*) and promotion vis-a-vie publications as agentic AI takes off, but I wonder how long changes will actually take? To me, that seems like a culture challenge, and culture can be slow moving.

The UK government is in crisis mode over Mandelson's appointment. In the USA, almost the entire cabinet had ties to Epstein, and there's far less pressure on Trump.

CHRÉTIEN: At this moment, our friend from the south has created a mood that a Canadian have never been so proud to be Canadian ... The desire to have a referendum is very low in Quebec. I don't know what the hell is going on in Alberta.

HARPER: I didn't sign the petition.

Just so everyone is clear: the valve here releases pressure that would otherwise build on her leadership from within her party.

She would rather lose the country than her own job.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford asking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith "to stand up and say enough is enough" to those leading Alberta's sovereignty movement as they meet with U.S. officials, saying you're either with Canada or not with Canada.

Report: Trump Administration Met With Groups Pushing Alberta To Break With Canada

Members of the Trump administration reportedly met three times over the past year with a group leading a push for Alberta to secede from Canada

The Alberta Prosperity Project has been touting meetings with American officials for several months now, but is this the first time anyone on the American side has even vaguely confirmed such meetings?

bsky.app/profile/fina...

Knowing too much to see fascism ? By Daniel Ziblatt

open.substack.com/pub/ziblatt4...

When I teach Vietnam, I explain that opposition to the war really grew in fits and starts. Some big rallies and visible protests, but also a steady stream of celebrities and ordinary folks breaking with their priors and taking a new stand.

This last month, this last week, feels like a real shift.

From a recent interview with Dr. Dennis Modry, one of the APP leaders. And also,

thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...

+1 to Williams comment here: #ableg

Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."

The political socialization literature suggests that the present moment is likely to have enormous impact on the political views of young people for decades to come.

Federally, the @mark-carney.bsky.social government must summon the US ambassador for an explanation and, barring a complete retraction and an apology, expel him in protest.

Provincially, Alberta government needs to pick a side. Are Premier Smith and the UCP loyal to Canada, or separatists?

A marked — and profoundly dangerous — difference from how the Clinton Administration commented on Quebec in 1995.

To the separatists: how will this uncertainty and threat from the US make us better off economically? (Hint: it won’t.) #ableg

"Whether it proves a speech for the ages, however, depends on what happens next. If Canada is serious about charting a new path, distinct from the great powers of the world, it must do more than talk."

Let's assume that the skeptics were right and that Trump's threats toward Greenland were never serious.

Allies are still noticing that Congress was willing to let the executive threaten a NATO ally.

"Aren't you guys going to do anything about this?" remains the underlying trust problem.

Ontario Liberal caucus names John Fraser as pick for interim leader | CBC News The Ontario Liberal caucus has named John Fraser as their pick for interim leader, a role he is poised to hold for a third time.

Groundhog Day, but Bill Murray's character keeps waking up to discover that he's once again interim leader of the Ontario Liberal party.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”

mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent

Congrats, Robson! As someone training in political science and researching Canadian political behaviour/psychology, I've always appreciated how you blend data and storytelling. I hope our paths cross down the road!

Twirling, twirling towards...instability...

Storming The U.S. Capitol Was About Maintaining White Power In America On Wednesday, after weeks of refusing to accept the outcome of the election, President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol of the United States as members of…

I wrote this on 1/6/21 while watching a mob of white Americans storm the Capitol, worried race would be sidelined in discussions of Jan. 6.

“They do not simply come in defense of Donald Trump. They come in defense of white supremacy.”

I hate how right I was.

fivethirtyeight.com/features/sto....

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