Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦

The problem so often includes tying the degree to specific job: if you study poetry it must mean you are hoping to be hired as a poet.

train people we hire to do our job. We want people who have already been trained to think critically, analyze, ask informed questions, communicate clearly; that’s why we are always open to hiring humanities graduates.” The wider evidence has borne this out in advanced economies since the 1990s.

Absolutely right. Part of the mistake comes from conflating professional technical degrees tied to a job ((law, engineering, medicine), with general education degrees. The latter have held their own well in Fortune 500. The CEO of JP Morgan Asia told me years ago”we don’t need technocrats we will

Trump says trade talks 'complicated' but Canada will be 'very happy' with eventual deal Despite the warm words, Canada remains the only G7 country not to have reached a trade deal with Trump this year.

Trump understands the purpose of the auto pact. That’s why he wants to end it.

"The key to understanding Pete Hegseth is to have a deep appreciation for the fact that he's a dork." --Kevin Williamson on The Dispatch Podcast

Hamas military leader in Gaza objects to ceasefire plan, BBC understands President Trump's proposal, accepted by Israel, stipulates that Hamas disarm and have no future role in governing Gaza.

Hamas chooses war. Again.

Dean: The president is unhinged

Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him

Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals.

Johnson: I didn’t see it.

Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

Analysis: Why Trump’s pledge to defend Qatar is so extraordinary | CNN Politics President Donald Trump has bestowed upon the nation of Qatar a remarkable security guarantee that could include coming to its defense militarily.

Is there anyone left in the GOP caucus who cares about the prerogatives of Congress? Are you all just rubber stamp toadies to a king now?

Cousins fined maximum for actions in Senators game | NHL.com Forward disciplined for slashing against Canadiens’ Demidov

Cheap shot punk. Hope he plays next game and meets the Sheriff.

Nuts

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Vicious war criminals

“WE MAKE, THEY TAKE”

From @moreperfectunion.bsky.social — 50 billboards across 8 states are driving home the message that working Americans (teachers, nurses, etc) keep 🇺🇸 running, but billionaires keep taking more & more.

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Thank you very much, this was very informative.

Show me a project where ground has been broken, and physical work is underway, and I will consider it. We have had far too many words and promises. Enough exhortation. Get to work. Call me again when that happens.

Orwell would recognize this

Malkin, Flower, Crosby, and Letang

You are right.

Bravo Zulu.

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
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Yes based on Russias outstanding combat performance in Ukraine, they are the one to turn to for advice on training for battle …

A lot of people are reacting to the mad statement in headline, and sleeping on the even madder statement that "if we lose, we lose, but you lose by war anyway". You are running to be president of a country that won its independence *in a war*.

Considering he has a good claim to have been the most important brave man in world history, we should indeed remember him and what he did.

Senior Hamas official defends ‘high price’ of Oct 7 for Palestinians, saying attack created ‘golden moment’ | CNN A senior Hamas official has defended carrying out the deadly October 7 attacks on Israel, telling CNN that it created a “golden moment” for the Palestinian cause despite the tens of thousands of death...

CNN showed Hamad footage of people in Gaza urging Hamas to give up power. In one clip, one anti-Hamas protester says: “Some say they killed with our children’s flesh, while they sat in hotels.”
Hamad refused to look at footage for more than a few seconds, pushing the iPad displaying the images away

Better than room mate I guess … but not much

Today in 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels along the Thames in London - doffing his hat and giving thumbs-up to a passing boat - to inspect recent bomb damage, in footage by Harry Rignold of the War Office Film Unit. A thread...🧵

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Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands. ​​​

Applebaum, always thoughtful analysis;