Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
@martinlev.bsky.social
Economic Geographer
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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"
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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.
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
“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”
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
Elbows up, Canada.
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Elbows up, Canada.
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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.
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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!"
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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.
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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...
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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.
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
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.
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
Some concrete ideas about what to do moving forward — in lieu of our usual circular firing squad — from @emptywheel.bsky.social
And PS, If SCOTUS was *always* going to blow up the Trump cases, then the fault lies with CJ Roberts, not AG Garland being slow.
www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/30/t...
And PS, If SCOTUS was *always* going to blow up the Trump cases, then the fault lies with CJ Roberts, not AG Garland being slow.
www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/30/t...
The Opportunity Costs of Conspiracy Theories about Merrick Garland - emptywheel
You have a choice. You can spend the next few weeks making a big stink about the fact that the aspiring FBI Director tried to help Trump steal classified documents. Or you can spend it clinging to fal...
www.emptywheel.net
December 31, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Some concrete ideas about what to do moving forward — in lieu of our usual circular firing squad — from @emptywheel.bsky.social
And PS, If SCOTUS was *always* going to blow up the Trump cases, then the fault lies with CJ Roberts, not AG Garland being slow.
www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/30/t...
And PS, If SCOTUS was *always* going to blow up the Trump cases, then the fault lies with CJ Roberts, not AG Garland being slow.
www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/30/t...
Reposted by Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦
Some thoughts on the demands for "reckonings" and just what kinds. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/recko...
Reckonings of Contempt
You can’t turn a virtual page these days without finding a new article or column or editorial forecasting or demanding a “reckoning” for Democrats after Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris for the…
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Some thoughts on the demands for "reckonings" and just what kinds. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/recko...