David Grondin
@dgrondin.bsky.social
Prof @UdeM en comm. politique & internationale, études internationales & médiatiques//guerre; sécurité; États-Unis; national security state; culture pop; surveillance; frontières; infrastructures; mobilité; IA, big data & numérique; gouvernance// papa de 3
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"In the face of this disapproval, Trump’s foot soldiers have fanned out across the country to sell an increasingly wary nation on effectively federalizing policing in American cities."
Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem's shambolic ICE tour
Miller and Noem try to sell Trump’s troop takeover — but even Fox News is no safe space
www.salon.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"In the face of this disapproval, Trump’s foot soldiers have fanned out across the country to sell an increasingly wary nation on effectively federalizing policing in American cities."
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Des nouvelles venant des Etats-Unis, est-ce qu'on en lit trop au Canada?
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
Le malaise de Véronique Hivon devant la place de l’actualité américaine dans nos médias | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Tout un matin : Le malaise de Véronique Hivon devant la place de l’actualité américaine dans nos médias
ici.radio-canada.ca
September 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Des nouvelles venant des Etats-Unis, est-ce qu'on en lit trop au Canada?
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
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Good evening from outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, IL. The scene at the moment m calm but very tense. Federal agents and several dozen protestors separated by the large fence that was erected - Broadview officials say illegally - earlier this week.
September 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Good evening from outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, IL. The scene at the moment m calm but very tense. Federal agents and several dozen protestors separated by the large fence that was erected - Broadview officials say illegally - earlier this week.
Une première participation pour moi sur l'histoire des émissions de fins de soirée à la télévision américaine à Aujourd'hui l'histoire sur Ici Radio-Canada Première et disponible en rattrapage sur la plateforme Ohdio. Ce fut une fort agréable discussion avec Maxime Coutié! tr.ee/1Lqz9fohfE
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Prof @UdeM en comm. politique & internationale, études internationales
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September 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Une première participation pour moi sur l'histoire des émissions de fins de soirée à la télévision américaine à Aujourd'hui l'histoire sur Ici Radio-Canada Première et disponible en rattrapage sur la plateforme Ohdio. Ce fut une fort agréable discussion avec Maxime Coutié! tr.ee/1Lqz9fohfE
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Three operations. Three nations. One trend: warfare as spectacle. warontherocks.com/20...
Is Warfare Becoming More Performative? - War on the Rocks
In the span of three weeks this June, the world witnessed three extraordinary military operations: Ukraine’s decimation of Russia’s strategic bomber
warontherocks.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Three operations. Three nations. One trend: warfare as spectacle. warontherocks.com/20...
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2002: Russia's NTV cancels its most watched political satire program Kluky (Puppets) to appease the Kremlin.
2025: CBS cancels its popular Late Night show to appease the White House.
The health of political satire seems a fairly good indicator of the comfort of politicians with democracy.
2025: CBS cancels its popular Late Night show to appease the White House.
The health of political satire seems a fairly good indicator of the comfort of politicians with democracy.
July 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
2002: Russia's NTV cancels its most watched political satire program Kluky (Puppets) to appease the Kremlin.
2025: CBS cancels its popular Late Night show to appease the White House.
The health of political satire seems a fairly good indicator of the comfort of politicians with democracy.
2025: CBS cancels its popular Late Night show to appease the White House.
The health of political satire seems a fairly good indicator of the comfort of politicians with democracy.
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Trump and his allies want to defund NPR and PBS not because they’re irrelevant—but because they still tell the truth Public broadcasting isn’t corporate propaganda. It educates, investigates and elevates voices that authoritarians fear most the people’s. Full Article www.facebook.com/share/p/16oV...
July 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Trump and his allies want to defund NPR and PBS not because they’re irrelevant—but because they still tell the truth Public broadcasting isn’t corporate propaganda. It educates, investigates and elevates voices that authoritarians fear most the people’s. Full Article www.facebook.com/share/p/16oV...
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Stephen Colbert didn’t retire. CBS pulled the plug. Not for ratings, but because truth became too expensive. In a sanitized media landscape, satire is being dismantled piece by piece. Colbert was just the next to fall.
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July 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Stephen Colbert didn’t retire. CBS pulled the plug. Not for ratings, but because truth became too expensive. In a sanitized media landscape, satire is being dismantled piece by piece. Colbert was just the next to fall.
Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/16sr...
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Excellent texte dans Le Devoir d'une étudiante en études internationales de l'UdeM. Une écriture limpide, sensible et qui vise juste. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...?
Apprendre la paix dans une salle en feu
Je suis celle qui sait que le monde ne tient pas entre deux parenthèses dans un article de «Foreign Affairs».
www.ledevoir.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Excellent texte dans Le Devoir d'une étudiante en études internationales de l'UdeM. Une écriture limpide, sensible et qui vise juste. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...?
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"Ceci n'est pas une dystopie. C'est la Californie sous contrôle démocrate..."
La droite, l'administration Trump et les troubles à Los Angeles.
La droite, l'administration Trump et les troubles à Los Angeles.
June 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Ceci n'est pas une dystopie. C'est la Californie sous contrôle démocrate..."
La droite, l'administration Trump et les troubles à Los Angeles.
La droite, l'administration Trump et les troubles à Los Angeles.
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"Donald Trump has never been good at business. He’s good at image creation, and to the extent he made money, his business model is fraud."
Tariffs Expose Wall Street's Misplaced Faith in Trump
Bankers and business leaders imagine a more reliable, less protectionist version of the president than the one that actually exists. Now they're finding out the hard way.
www.arcdigital.media
April 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"Donald Trump has never been good at business. He’s good at image creation, and to the extent he made money, his business model is fraud."
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Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the 4 other members of the Five Eyes spy alliance—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom—are reportedly examining whether to continue including America in international intelligence.
Trump’s Russia Obsession Just Cost the U.S. a Crucial Intel Tool
Donald Trump’s clear affection for Vladimir Putin has U.S. allies rethinking a few things.
newrepublic.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the 4 other members of the Five Eyes spy alliance—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom—are reportedly examining whether to continue including America in international intelligence.
Pour avoir un peu d'espoir.
If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime, you are hardly alone. But a groundswell of opposition is growing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism
February 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Pour avoir un peu d'espoir.
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As Trump empowers Russia and the far right, he is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/20/trump-musk-oligarchy-russia-far-right
In the global clash between democracy and oligarchy, the US is switching sides | Robert Reich
As Trump empowers Russia and the far right, he is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
As Trump empowers Russia and the far right, he is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/20/trump-musk-oligarchy-russia-far-right
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A brief word today at the end of the fifth horrific week of Trump 2.0. We are witnessing the transformation of our democracy into a dictatorship (or, as Trump enjoyed promoting this week, a monarchy). https://robertreich.substack.com/p/from-democracy-to-dictatorship
February 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A brief word today at the end of the fifth horrific week of Trump 2.0. We are witnessing the transformation of our democracy into a dictatorship (or, as Trump enjoyed promoting this week, a monarchy). https://robertreich.substack.com/p/from-democracy-to-dictatorship
J'ai écrit ceci dans La Presse (en ligne), section Dialogue. (écrit avant le ralliement américain du CPAC et le salut nazi de Steve Bannon).
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...
Comment une dictature s’installe à la Maison-Blanche
Juste avant l’investiture de Donald Trump, je soulignais sur ces plateformes1 un retour de sa présidence-spectacle en m’inquiétant qu’il se ferait peut-être sous le signe de la tragédie, en brandissan...
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February 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
J'ai écrit ceci dans La Presse (en ligne), section Dialogue. (écrit avant le ralliement américain du CPAC et le salut nazi de Steve Bannon).
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...
Bon topo sur ce qui se passe. Il y a le bruit de a stratégie Choc et stupeur et l’approche inspirée de Steve Bannon où tu dois frapper fort et sur plusieurs fronts pour empêcher les oppositions de s’organiser. 1/2
"The administration blew up 140 years of consensus, across the political parties, about the need for a technically expert, politically accountable civil service." And they're just getting started.
Don Kettl on Trump's war against the civil service:
Don Kettl on Trump's war against the civil service:
In High-Speed Power Grab, Trump Seeks to Remake the Federal Government
Bending and breaking the law to fire and disempower bureaucrats.
www.thebulwark.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Bon topo sur ce qui se passe. Il y a le bruit de a stratégie Choc et stupeur et l’approche inspirée de Steve Bannon où tu dois frapper fort et sur plusieurs fronts pour empêcher les oppositions de s’organiser. 1/2
Great piece on the safe third country agreement - pour bien mieux comprendre les tenants et aboutissants sur comment on rend encore plus dangereuse la frontière.
New commentary from @meggaucher.bsky.social & me on Canada-US border & the dangerous language of loopholes. A sneak peak from our chapter in @emmettmacfarlane.com & @katepuddister.bsky.social forthcoming book Disciplinary Divides in the Study of Law & Politics!
theconversation.com/why-the-lang...
theconversation.com/why-the-lang...
Why the ‘language of loopholes’ should be avoided if Trump cracks down on the Canada-U.S. border
Focus on supposed ‘loopholes’ that allow migrants to claim asylum echoes Canada’s longstanding preoccupation with how people negotiate the border.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Great piece on the safe third country agreement - pour bien mieux comprendre les tenants et aboutissants sur comment on rend encore plus dangereuse la frontière.
Pas de surprise, mais la manne de la sécurisation de l’immigration avec la nouvelle administration - et ne perdons pas de vue que c’est une tendance déjà bien amorcée aux USA et chez les démocrates aussi.
Lots of quotes from @petramolnar.com and myself in this latest article “Private contractors in US eye windfall from Trump’s push to deport migrants.”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
Private contractors in US eye windfall from Trump’s push to deport migrants
Trump’s pledge to pursue ‘mass deportation’ is likely to increase demand for detention facilities and surveillance.
www.aljazeera.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Pas de surprise, mais la manne de la sécurisation de l’immigration avec la nouvelle administration - et ne perdons pas de vue que c’est une tendance déjà bien amorcée aux USA et chez les démocrates aussi.
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Trump talked about using the National Guard to carry out deportations in an interview published by CNN on May 1. What seems different now is that it’s getting taken seriously.
November 24, 2024 at 5:44 AM
Trump talked about using the National Guard to carry out deportations in an interview published by CNN on May 1. What seems different now is that it’s getting taken seriously.
Une lecture juste. Des leçons à tirer pour les médias d’abord mais aussi pour les analystes.
I wrote about being more focused covering trump’s second administration in @vanityfair.com
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
We Need to Cover Donald Trump Differently This Time
Every outrage and insult can’t be a five-alarm fire, as it’s critical for the media to stay focused on the most serious threats to America’s democratic institutions.
www.vanityfair.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Une lecture juste. Des leçons à tirer pour les médias d’abord mais aussi pour les analystes.
Sur la sécurité aux frontières et sur l'immigration, il y avait certes des différences dans le ton entre les deux partis aux présidentielles. 1/2
Biden’s Policies Offer a Starting Point for Trump’s Border Crackdown
Mr. Trump has criticized the Biden administration for what he calls its lax handling of the border — but it has left him with tools he can use to shut down the border.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:04 AM
Sur la sécurité aux frontières et sur l'immigration, il y avait certes des différences dans le ton entre les deux partis aux présidentielles. 1/2
Quand les démocrates prennent le pouvoir, ils essaient souvent de prêcher pour des projets bipartisans. C'est ce qu'Obama a fait et que Biden aspirait à suivre. 1/3
Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment
The president-elect’s early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Quand les démocrates prennent le pouvoir, ils essaient souvent de prêcher pour des projets bipartisans. C'est ce qu'Obama a fait et que Biden aspirait à suivre. 1/3