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Journalist & author of “Too Dumb for Democracy?” Podcast host: the David Moscrop Show. Substacker, radio & TV guest. PhD in political science from UBC, just in case. Work in the Washington Post, Globe and Mail, Jacobin, TVO, the Guardian, etc.
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Remember, no matter what a team from Florida accomplishes, it still has to be a team from Florida.

No kings? Donald Trump has made America a monarchy again. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Great piece from @wickdchiq.bsky.social on the Liberal government's border bill. 'Why is Mark Carney pushing a Maga-inspired border bill?' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ban smartphones. jacobin.com/2025/06/ban-...

Thoughts and prayers for the poor bastard at Global Affairs Canada going through the thesaurus right now to find the most equivocal words known to the English language.

New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped

Replacing my (wired) smoke detectors requires me to turn off the power and then turn it back on when they're installed, which means I get to say this.

BEGGING LIBERALS TO READ THIS

Why do I get the sense that Canada's AI strategy will be to give private companies with sharehodlers in foreign countries a bunch of money to do sweet fuck all or to fire their domestic employees?

Whatever you think of the Longest Ballot, this response as anti-democratic and quite simply insane. And I'd like to think unconstitutional.

Alongside murder mysteries, I'm planning a summer of non-fiction. Here are six books way up my list, including what is sure to be a hate-read (not the one pictured here). www.davidmoscrop.com/p/what-im-re...

Pretending this is reddit for a sec. We need to replace our smoke detectors. Anyone have a model they recommend? I prefer wired (the place is already wired) and, ideally, interconnected. Considering joint smoke-CO2 units. tldr: I'm 41. What's your favourite smoke detector?

We really don't have any principles, do we.

Remember how Canada's stupidest columnists argued for years about how Trump was no big deal and passed it all off as culture war hysteria? Those dopes aren't still writing, are they?

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

Given the world, if I were a non-American politician, I probably wouldn't be introducing a bill that massively expands police powers and curtails the rights of asylum seekers and migrants