Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Bruce MacKinnon: Drive-by government

Elections Alberta has approved a citizen-initiated petition application to gather signatures in support of the proposal to end public funding to independent/private schools.

Calgary teacher Alicia Taylor says she brought it forward because it could help improve funding for public schools. #AbEd

Gaza aid flotilla says Israeli forces 'attack convoy', intercept boats reut.rs/46ECX6w

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

They still don't get it.
They think they can come up to Canada and sweet talk us into buying their shit.
Ain't gonna happen.
Donald Trump said that there was nothing Americans needed from Canada.
We can start with you not needing money from our booze purchases.
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"A member of the union representing Saskatchewan nurses says issues with overcrowding at Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital are not due to seasonal surges that are typical for emergency rooms, but are in fact 'routine.'”

I did it. I added some Keystone Cops music to this:

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

🗣️PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER

Patti Smith 🥰

Staying up late in case the Jays call in me in as a pitcher.

Please don’t blame me for the current situation.

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

I finally remembered the best one - PG Wodehouse learning of Jack Kerouac's recent death during a 1969 interview with the Paris Review and having a perfectly Bertie Wooster-ish reaction: 'those chaps sure do go quickly, don't they'

Honestly? It rocks being a bandwagon fan. No downsides. Will bandwagon again. #GoJays

(Thank god my belief in this will never be challenged by a Leafs team that, you know, wins.)

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

In the October issue of @reviewcanada.bsky.social I review Katherine Ashenburg’s “Margaret’s New Look”

Marjorie Taylor Greene just realized her adult children’s insurance premiums would double if the Republican cuts to ACA go through.

She’s broken party lines and is siding with the Dems.

How many more MAGA people are out there like her? Who don’t realize these cuts will financially devastate them?

i want to remind people that the free press does not publish "journalism" in the way that someone who works in an actual newsroom would understand it

anyway god speed to the good folks at cbs news who will now be taking editorial direction from this genius bsky.app/profile/oliv...

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it