@lindawhite
Professor of Political Science @UofToronto. Researches inequalities in access to gendered care, education, and other social investment policies. All my posts should end with, “can’t we do it for the kids?” @equityed.bsky.social
Groceries & essentials are straining lower income household budgets.The CGEB could reach 12M+ Canadians.Who qualifies? How much will people receive? Who will benefit the most?
@gillianpetit.bsky.social & @shaimaayassin.bsky.social break it down in their new IRPP commentary: irpp.org/research-stu...
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👨👩👧👦 Parliaments often overlook MPs' family needs & this poses challenges for diverse recruitment & retention.
🤰 Yet, based on EJPR research, @jesssmith.bsky.social reveals that voters don’t penalise MPs for taking parental leave; women MPs even gain more support as mothers.
👉 bit.ly/4fSU6Ly
Louis Henderson and Jane Humphries argue in the OxREP that care labour is systematically neglected in conventional economic metrics. They illustrate how breastfeeding has been historically unrecognised despite its crucial contribution to infant health.
doi.org/10.1093/oxre...
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Alberta schools pull at least 160 titles from shelves to meet provincial order
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8
To mark International Women's Day, we feature portraits and profiles of determined women around the world. n.pr/4rXpezP
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
The “shield” is intolerable here as well.
“Parents tried to shield their children from water. Instead they died of dehydration.”
That’s what the @nytimes.com headline here says. Both “shield” and “instead” appallingly reinforce anti-vax attitudes and frames.
📣 Announcing The Local Fellowship 2026—paid positions designed to provide opportunities to early-career journalists from communities underrepresented in Canadian media. This year's Fellows will join us during the fall municipal election campaigns. Applications are open. thelocal.to/local-fellow...
One of our directors, Michal Perlman, has an article in @theconversation.com! She explains the importance of assessing the quality of early learning and childcare centers in Canada. Read more:
theconversation.com/good-quality...
@bdhuey.bsky.social @lindawhite.bsky.social @oiseuoft.bsky.social
As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter
It really is the MadLib War.
Which is not meant to be funny, but rather highlights how profoundly absurd the administration’s shifting aims and justifications are.
We attacked Iran because ______, and had to go now because _____.
45% of Dilley families aren't deported from there, but released.
“It boggles the mind why we're disrupting people from their immigration proceedings only to... incarcerate them at Dilley & then just recycle them out the back door,” Leecia Welch, of @childrens-rights.bsky.social said. (THREAD 5/)
Good addition: Canada continues "to urge a diplomatic resolution to the situation in the interests of civilian lives." This didn't appear in yesterday's statement.
Still missing: any reference to international law.
All violations of the UN Charter must be called out. Not some of them. All of them.
OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.
openai.com/index/our-ag...
A reminder that the administration spent the day before it launched a war in the Middle East feuding with tech companies over whether and how the AI models the Pentagon buys will be restrained from autonomously killing people.
Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/
Wow: @pamherd.bsky.social posted about how awful the SAVE Act was, and now it looks like it is dead (for now). www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
New from @splawinski.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: To stymie ICE, look at the sources of its power.
That includes money but also co-operative 287(g) agreements with state and local govts.
Blocking and reversing those agreements weakens ICE capacity. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-federali...
🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇
Really impressive to complain about "grievance politics based on religion" when *two sentences earlier* you've talked about "the monster of harversting muslim community bloc votes".
There's an undertone in British politics that any form of political activity which targets or represents Muslims is illegitimate, and it keeps getting louder and louder
Gorton and Denton by-election result
Grn 40.7% (+27 vs 2024)
Ref 28.7% (+15)
Lab 25.4% (-25)
Con 1.9% (-6)
LD 1.8% (-2)
Labour's 38th safest seat in 2024
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
Weber identified three types of power, emerging from traditional, legal-rational, and charismatic authority.
Please behold the purest example of the third kind below:
Grrr...
Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com
"Data collected by Repro Uncensored shows that Meta more than doubled its removal of content related to sexual and reproductive health, the LGBTQ community..."
Too many women in the workforce and delaying or foregoing childbearing? The Heritage Foundation has a plan for that. And it is the opposite of Robin Hood: It's a huge cash transfer from poor single moms to to wealthier married parents.
www.throughline.news/p/the-conser...
This is the way.
Many state constitutions have explicit language about the state's duty to support public schools.
