«At a time when #Trump admin is putting increasing pressure on private & publc universities 2 conform or lose funding, #philosophy prof #JasonStanley recently left his position @ #Yale #University & moved family 2 #Canada, where he’s now #BissellHeyd chair in American studies @ #MunkSchool of #GlobalAffairs & #PublicPolicy @ the #UniversityOfToronto. The move, he says, has allowed him 2 talk about the US in a way that wouldn’t have been possible if he remained»

#Fascism

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/jason-stanley-fascism-trump-history/

Last Year's Move to #Toronto

And This Year's Politics (video and commentary)

Timothy #Snyder Jun 02, 2025

I moved with the family last year, largely for family reasons, attracted personally by the prospect of a change to Toronto and to its Munk School in particular ...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/last-years-move-to-toronto

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#MunkSchool #Yale #Academia
#USA #America #Trump #TrumpAdministration

Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears

History department power couple #TimothySnyder and #MarciShore and philosophy professor #JasonStanley will begin teaching at the University of #Toronto ’s renowned #MunkSchool in fall 2025. #canada #academicexodus

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03/27/three-prominent-yale-professors-depart-for-canadian-university-citing-trump-fears/

Via #TheGuardian @ 5:26pm ET on Mar 26, 2025

A #Yale professor who studies #fascism is leaving the #US to work at a #Canadian #university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “#FascistDictatorship”.

#JasonStanley, who wrote the 2018 #book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto’s #MunkSchool of #GlobalAffairs and #PublicPolicy.

#USpoli #CANpoli

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada

Irene Poetranto on the panel “What the World Can Learn from Indonesia’s Democracy”

https://citizenlab.ca/2024/11/irene-poetranto-on-the-panel-what-the-world-can-learn-from-indonesias-democracy/

#MunkSchool #democracy #Indonesia #Events

[thread] spyware, NSO Group, Pegasus

BLASTPASS NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in Wild
https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37425007

Awesome group/work (here/historically)! 👍️
@jsrailton | @billrobinson | @tek

* Citizen Lab found actively exploited zero-click vulnerability
* delivers NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware

#CitizenLab #MunkSchool #NSO #NSOgroup #exploits #CellPhones #security #surveillance #spyware #Pegasus #BLASTPASS