Has the guy who *checks notes* popularized “Your body, my choice. Forever,” on social media won over women on the left?

Any IR folks here planning a panel for CPSA this June?

I have a paper on Canada-US relations under Trump and a paper on international stigma politics. Let me know if you're interested.

This looks neat!

What happens to digital diplomacy after Twitter?

Drawing on theories of facework and aesthetic insecurity, @ericvanr.bsky.social argues that Twitter’s recent transformation represents a source of insecurity for states, particularly liberal democratic ones.

📄 👉 rdcu.be/eI4y6

The Canadian government needs to be *extremely* careful about what it promises here.

To date, no one has been spared from U.S. sectoral tariffs, and that includes countries that have a 'deal' with the Trump admin.

Carney is promising something that no one else has.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It was so good!

I'll say one thing.

All the people harping on the importance of desire and fantasy in politics, especially the Lacanians--you were right. Please take the win.

The question raised by Miliband's blowup is to what extent UK elites will tolerate the threat posed by Musk?

UK elites could certainly chose to stop using X (and some certainly have), but most haven't. They want Musk's platform, but without his politics. But the two are inseparable.

I have longer discussion of Musk's reactionary politics in my recent article 'After Twitter' (link.springer.com/article/10.1...), but the TLDR is this:

Musk seeks to portray liberal democracies as ugly and undesirable, thereby sensitizing audiences to ideological alternatives.

Congratulations Andrew, looks great!

This is all the more galling for Canadians who have been told we deserve massive tariffs because our inaction in stemming fentanyl is killing millions of Americans.

I'll just say one more thing about the supposed decline of Right-Wing Violence.

Where do we think all these people went? Did the surge in ICE-related violence come from nowhere?

The likely answer is that right-wing extremists didn't disappear. The government just gave them a badge & a gun.

Also, maybe release your dataset to the public if you are going to make radical claims...

(If they have, please feel free to send me a link).

Lots of good critiques here, but I'll add one more.

Simply counting the number of attacks actually obscures quite a bit.

Coding Jan. 6th as 'one attack' which has equal weight to an attack by a single, isolated leftwing extremist is a massive misrepresentation of the level of violence.

Several diplomats and world leaders are likely mocking Trump's abysmal performance in private and behind closed doors.

To understand why, see my article on Backstage Mockery in Diplomacy in Global Studies Quarterly: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

This is probably one of the smartest critiques of the 'AI enhances productivity' claim I have ever seen.

It also comes from what is often seen as the best use case for AI: coding.

mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...

“Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among MAGA activists…We find [they] are not simply voters responding to policy preferences or culture-war appeals but are also participants in a social movement organized around a shared perception of lost honor, declining esteem, and institutional disrespect.”

One problem with the Trump admin's plan to make life a "living hell" for US government employees is that it makes espionage operations a lot easier.

If you employer hates you and is actively trying to make you "miserable," why wouldn't you want to take money from foreign governments?

The year is 2047.

Endnote asks if I want to send a Haiku of recognition to the author I just cited. Microsoft word's AI is begging me to use just one space after the period (I decline).

TikTok reminds me that it is time to record my 12-second referee report. I nod and get ready to scream...

Among a long list of failures in the last twenty years was the failure to permanently stigmatize the worst members of the Bush administration.

I mean, you presided over the worst foreign policy disaster in decades, and you get a cushy stream of high-profile op-eds and speaking engagements...

The irony of this is that governments and consultants are going all-in on AI just as GPT5's launch was an abject failure, AI companies are hemorrhaging money, and concerns are growing that these companies are wildly overvalued.

Anyways, I planned to read the report in closer detail.

But I have to pick up my son this afternoon because his summer camp is closing...because of extreme heat.

All the economic that it helped generated is over for the day, and a bunch of parents need to stop working.

The report talks about "trade offs", but frames this a difference between the costs of reducing emissions, and an imagined future where we don't reduce emissions *and* don't have to pay any economic price for climate change.

But, the report fails to model any of the actual costs of climate change into its accounting.