Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
@martinlev.bsky.social
Economic Geographer
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Is there anything more British than being annoyed at the notion of admitting De Gaulle might have been right?
February 19, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Is there anything more British than being annoyed at the notion of admitting De Gaulle might have been right?
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get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
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If you're wondering why Canadians are nervous, it's never good to become the focus of the mentally unwell ruler of a larger nuclear armed neighbour
February 10, 2026 at 5:35 AM
If you're wondering why Canadians are nervous, it's never good to become the focus of the mentally unwell ruler of a larger nuclear armed neighbour
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Dems got what they wanted from the shutdown but it’s crickets from this site
January 9, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Dems got what they wanted from the shutdown but it’s crickets from this site
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If SCOTUS can rule against Trump in the fall of 2021, they could plausibly feel that doesn't kill GOP chances in 2024 - at that point many GOP pols still thought Trump might lose a primary fair and square!
By 2024 it's clear they rule for Trump or lose the WH and incur wrath of whole party
By 2024 it's clear they rule for Trump or lose the WH and incur wrath of whole party
December 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
If SCOTUS can rule against Trump in the fall of 2021, they could plausibly feel that doesn't kill GOP chances in 2024 - at that point many GOP pols still thought Trump might lose a primary fair and square!
By 2024 it's clear they rule for Trump or lose the WH and incur wrath of whole party
By 2024 it's clear they rule for Trump or lose the WH and incur wrath of whole party
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I'm mostly staying out of this but my take on whether anything would have been different at the SCOTUS had Trump cases come earlier. I think Roberts at least is political, not a Trump loyalist, and political implications were very different in 2021 vs 2024.
If SCOTUS can rule against Trump in the fall of 2021, they could plausibly feel that doesn't kill GOP chances in 2024 - at that point many GOP pols still thought Trump might lose a primary fair and square!
By 2024 it's clear they rule for Trump or lose the WH and incur wrath of whole party
By 2024 it's clear they rule for Trump or lose the WH and incur wrath of whole party
December 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'm mostly staying out of this but my take on whether anything would have been different at the SCOTUS had Trump cases come earlier. I think Roberts at least is political, not a Trump loyalist, and political implications were very different in 2021 vs 2024.
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"I recently spoke with Santa Claus, who is currently coordinating his staff of immortal blue-collar elves, about the morality of children and his friendship with a creature whom many carolers consider a war criminal: Krampus."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"I recently spoke with Santa Claus, who is currently coordinating his staff of immortal blue-collar elves, about the morality of children and his friendship with a creature whom many carolers consider a war criminal: Krampus."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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My dearest Martha,
This evening we shot pepper balls at a man clothed in a frog costume. It had no effect. He continued to dance and taunt us. We retreated before he could charge our lines and commit unspeakable horrors against our boys. I fear this war will never end.
Yours,
Silas
This evening we shot pepper balls at a man clothed in a frog costume. It had no effect. He continued to dance and taunt us. We retreated before he could charge our lines and commit unspeakable horrors against our boys. I fear this war will never end.
Yours,
Silas
October 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
My dearest Martha,
This evening we shot pepper balls at a man clothed in a frog costume. It had no effect. He continued to dance and taunt us. We retreated before he could charge our lines and commit unspeakable horrors against our boys. I fear this war will never end.
Yours,
Silas
This evening we shot pepper balls at a man clothed in a frog costume. It had no effect. He continued to dance and taunt us. We retreated before he could charge our lines and commit unspeakable horrors against our boys. I fear this war will never end.
Yours,
Silas
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its kinda funny how fundamentally undemocratic this mindset if you inspect it even a little, because it really just boils down to the following:
"people shouldn't get what they vote for"
"people shouldn't get what they vote for"
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
its kinda funny how fundamentally undemocratic this mindset if you inspect it even a little, because it really just boils down to the following:
"people shouldn't get what they vote for"
"people shouldn't get what they vote for"
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One of the lessons we refuse to internalize post FDR and LBJ is large swaths of this country need to be *dragged* kicking and screaming into modernity and improvement
July 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
One of the lessons we refuse to internalize post FDR and LBJ is large swaths of this country need to be *dragged* kicking and screaming into modernity and improvement
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The political theory behind IRA was roughly as follows: We have lost control of the information landscape and can no longer win rhetorical or purely political battles; however, if we make substantive policy progress that directly touches voters' lives, they will notice and reward us.
May 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The political theory behind IRA was roughly as follows: We have lost control of the information landscape and can no longer win rhetorical or purely political battles; however, if we make substantive policy progress that directly touches voters' lives, they will notice and reward us.
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Falling responses, budgets & staff are biting. #BLS will cut 350 #ProducerPriceIndex #inflation sub-indexes.
It'll be harder to gauge effects of #supplychain disruptions, #tariffs, #monetary, #fiscal & #regulatory #policy and more.
www.bls.gov/ppi/notices/...
#econsky #PPI @aaronsojourner.org
It'll be harder to gauge effects of #supplychain disruptions, #tariffs, #monetary, #fiscal & #regulatory #policy and more.
www.bls.gov/ppi/notices/...
#econsky #PPI @aaronsojourner.org
BLS to Discontinue Selected PPIs
BLS to Discontinue Selected PPIs
www.bls.gov
May 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Falling responses, budgets & staff are biting. #BLS will cut 350 #ProducerPriceIndex #inflation sub-indexes.
It'll be harder to gauge effects of #supplychain disruptions, #tariffs, #monetary, #fiscal & #regulatory #policy and more.
www.bls.gov/ppi/notices/...
#econsky #PPI @aaronsojourner.org
It'll be harder to gauge effects of #supplychain disruptions, #tariffs, #monetary, #fiscal & #regulatory #policy and more.
www.bls.gov/ppi/notices/...
#econsky #PPI @aaronsojourner.org
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“keir this is poland, we just signed them. they spent over 4% of gdp on defense last year. their only flaw is they’re not deterred by mutually assured destruction”
March 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“keir this is poland, we just signed them. they spent over 4% of gdp on defense last year. their only flaw is they’re not deterred by mutually assured destruction”
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Elbows up, Canada.
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Elbows up, Canada.
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Read about the insanity of doing business in the US economy
March 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Read about the insanity of doing business in the US economy
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maybe you could explain how oil, potash, aluminum, uranium and other critical minerals are not “critical for national security purposes”.
Seems like an odd way to frame the situation.
Seems like an odd way to frame the situation.
March 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
maybe you could explain how oil, potash, aluminum, uranium and other critical minerals are not “critical for national security purposes”.
Seems like an odd way to frame the situation.
Seems like an odd way to frame the situation.
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Many, many people have been warning about this all along. Since roughly 2000 I have been shouting & waving my arms: "hey, seems like allowing a giant shadow media full of lies, designed to permit & justify the grossest, cruelest behavior, is gonna have some ill effects on our politics!"
February 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Many, many people have been warning about this all along. Since roughly 2000 I have been shouting & waving my arms: "hey, seems like allowing a giant shadow media full of lies, designed to permit & justify the grossest, cruelest behavior, is gonna have some ill effects on our politics!"
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Screaming this for 25 years now, as America's political & media elite simply opened their arms to RW media, welcomed it in, followed its queues, chased all its shiny baubles, sweatily worked to gain the approval of its viewers ... and now here we are, collectively unable to think clearly.
February 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Screaming this for 25 years now, as America's political & media elite simply opened their arms to RW media, welcomed it in, followed its queues, chased all its shiny baubles, sweatily worked to gain the approval of its viewers ... and now here we are, collectively unable to think clearly.
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Glad we got through the tariff emergency (at least the first wave of it....).
Also glad that people are bringing creativity, energy, and determination to figuring out a medium and long-run response.
But I want to throw cold water on three ideas I've seen floated. I'll explain...
Also glad that people are bringing creativity, energy, and determination to figuring out a medium and long-run response.
But I want to throw cold water on three ideas I've seen floated. I'll explain...
February 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Glad we got through the tariff emergency (at least the first wave of it....).
Also glad that people are bringing creativity, energy, and determination to figuring out a medium and long-run response.
But I want to throw cold water on three ideas I've seen floated. I'll explain...
Also glad that people are bringing creativity, energy, and determination to figuring out a medium and long-run response.
But I want to throw cold water on three ideas I've seen floated. I'll explain...
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i mean. trudeau is right. donald trump represents a betrayal of everything america promised to be. canada has been our ally for a hundred years, through the fires of two world wars, the cold war, all the great struggles of the twentieth century--and this is how we repay that? it's disgusting
February 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
i mean. trudeau is right. donald trump represents a betrayal of everything america promised to be. canada has been our ally for a hundred years, through the fires of two world wars, the cold war, all the great struggles of the twentieth century--and this is how we repay that? it's disgusting
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People in CancerLand also are reporting that ongoing scheduled cancer trial treatments at NCI suddenly have been canceled, leaving desperately ill people with no alternatives. People will die from this, and years of human trial data will be ruined from this.
Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
January 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
People in CancerLand also are reporting that ongoing scheduled cancer trial treatments at NCI suddenly have been canceled, leaving desperately ill people with no alternatives. People will die from this, and years of human trial data will be ruined from this.
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Having a servant be even implicitly disrespectful to their station causes acute psychic damage to American rich people and I think that's a really underrated dynamic in why they went so insanely off the rails under Biden's economy and worked to tank it.
January 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Having a servant be even implicitly disrespectful to their station causes acute psychic damage to American rich people and I think that's a really underrated dynamic in why they went so insanely off the rails under Biden's economy and worked to tank it.