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Fred Plamondon
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Professeur, département de management (ESG-UQAM)

"Nummati illegitimi non carborundum"
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fredplamondon.bsky.social
Jia Talentino is spot on.

Must read.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · May 3
Jia Tolentino writes about how Donald Trump and “his lieutenant content-generator Elon Musk” harness the internet to damage our sense of the real.
My Brain Finally Broke
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.
www.newyorker.com
May 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
L’histoire ne s’écrit pas à coups de décrets : lp.ca/ge56Ql?shari...
L’histoire ne s’écrit pas à coups de décrets
La communauté historienne se dresse contre l’ingérence dont fait preuve la Maison-Blanche et invite les politiciens d’ici à ne pas emprunter cette voie dangereuse
lp.ca
April 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
We write from our small campus in southern New Jersey, Stockton University, a mid-size public university. We are receiving the same message [as other institutions]: if not outright appeasement, do not make waves. Keep your heads down. Stay the course"

= stay silent.

lithub.com/silence-is-c...
Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism
We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…
lithub.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
Ces résultats retiennent mon attention.

Je serais curieux de connaître la distribution du vote selon le genre chez les 18-34 ans.
April 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
Même la presse écrite libertarienne n'y croit pas.
reason.com Reason Magazine @reason.com · Apr 4
We know for a fact that "Liberation Day" will hurt farmers, burden consumers, and further bloat the budget deficit—all oh-so-misleadingly in the name of "America First."
'Liberation day' tariffs will liberate people—from their income
We're told that "Liberation Day" tariffs on imports from around the world will raise $6 trillion in federal revenue over the next decade, plus another
reason.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
La mafia trumpistes déteste l'expertise et le professionnalisme.

"By the numbers, the tariffs are less an expression of economic theory and more a Dadaist art piece about the meaninglessness of expertise."

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
There Is Only One Way to Make Sense of the Tariffs
The policy is absurd. It’s also an extension of Trump’s chaotic personality.
www.theatlantic.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
Quand le AI Slop sert le bien commun.

Ou l'éternel retour du meme!
A meme based on Zelensky being bullied by Trump and Vance. The picture shows 3 persons in the Oval Office : 2 idiots arguing with a pingoin.
April 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
Ça n'aura pas pris une semaine à Poilièvre pour se ranger du côté de la mafia trumpiste et pour copier le playbook de Viktor Orban.

www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/...

#polcan
March 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
Snyder's lessons on tyranny.

Nevermind the cheesy soundtrack, those lessons are still worth reflecting upon.
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
open.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
"Shooting some liberty seeds"

White House Official X account's.

White male fragility can't get creepier.

Oh wait, it probably will.
White house official X account showing a picture of VP Vance Shooting from an assault gun. Quote: "Just the VP of USA sending some freedom seeds downrange".
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
La bullshit pour militariser le langage et restreindre la pensée.

Utiliser la langue pour restreindre le vocabulaire disponible et rendre impossible de penser la resistance.

Détruire le sens et le remplacer par le signal.

#novlangue

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
Forget about soft power, spheres of influence political theory or other sane-washing narratives.

Witness the rise of "dumb power".

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb
The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Reposted by Fred Plamondon
alexhanna.bsky.social
The State Department has said they have revoked visas of more than 300 students.

They have been terrorizing hundreds and aim to terrorize hundreds, if not thousands more.
March 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
Wow.

Le titre dit exactement de quoi il est question.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
1/ C'est juste moi où bien Yves Gingras crée une équivalence entre l'assaut anti-scientifique aux USA et l'Énoncé de politique des trois conseils (EPTC-2022) en matière d'EDI? @ledevoir.com

Selon lui, il s'agit de deux pratiques inversées d'une même idéologie.

www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...?
La nouvelle politique scientifique américaine
On ne devrait pas avoir besoin d’invoquer l’épouvantail Trump pour justifier d’investir dans nos universités.
www.ledevoir.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...
Opinion | Bernie Sanders, A.O.C. and the Surging Politics of Anger
Struggling working class voters fear that the country they’ve always counted on is sliding away because of President Trump.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Reposted by Fred Plamondon
adambonica.bsky.social
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump). • Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges. • Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side. • A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush. • The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
À quoi ça ressemble une oligarchie? À ça.
March 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
Un entretien avec John Bolton, dans lequel il reprend le même argument qu'il présentait dans @theatlantic.com le 11 mars dernier.

Trump est un sollipciste inculte: il est l'expert de sa propre réalité décousue, qu'il impose selon l'humeur du moment. On a donc tort de chercher à le rationaliser.
March 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
Timothy Snyder ne se gêne pas pour dire les choses comme elles sont.

substack.com/home/post/p-...
Timothy Snyder explains that Trump's Big Lie strategy comes straight from Hitler's playbook : « Mein Kampf » : Tell a lie so big, advised Hitler, that people will not believe that you would deceive them on such a scale.
March 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reposted by Fred Plamondon
adambonica.bsky.social
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).
February 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Reposted by Fred Plamondon
brucearthur.bsky.social
OK, this is almost funny
March 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
Tant qu'à vivre une fin de régime, j'aurais voulu qu'elle soit provoquée par quelque chose d'excitant : une apocalypse de zombie ou des extra-terrestres... mais non, à l'ère des réseaux sociaux, c'est la bêtise qui pose le plus grand risque selon ce chroniqueur.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...
Opinion | Democracy Dies in Dumbness
Until Donald Trump, no president has been so ignorant of the lessons of history, so incompetent in implementing his own ideas.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Reposted by Fred Plamondon
chrischirp.bsky.social
My latest post is now out.

I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.

This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!

christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
christinapagel.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
fredplamondon.bsky.social
www.businessinsider.com/godfather-of...
From DEI to DOGE: how Peter Thiel foresaw the future
Back in 2009, the tech titan Peter Thiel laid out a sweeping vision for demolishing the government. Now he's getting what he wanted.
www.businessinsider.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM