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[Les Perreaux @perreaux]

I'm not sure Canadians grasp the scale of this catastrophe and the federal government appears to be intent on keeping it that way.

Fifteen soldiers still on venitilators three weeks later, nine in critical condition. Astonishing.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

Over the weekend, I traveled to Berlin with a delegation of constituents to commemorate the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-organized pogrom that saw the widespread destruction of Jewish businesses and synagogues, foreshadowing the horrors of the Holocaust.

I never imagined returning to America to discover that, during the same week as Kristallnacht’s anniversary, extremists had organized a boycott of Jewish businesses, declaring, “These Zionist establishments must go.”

We are unlearning the lessons of history at great peril not only to our Jewish brothers and sisters but also to ourselves.

[Prof. Brian Keating @Briankeating]

I am a professor at the @UofCalifornia. I am appalled by the conduct of one of its Regents, Scott Galloway, appointed in August by Governor Newsom.

@profgalloway is one of only 26 voting Regents entrusted with governing a university system serving hundreds of thousands of students & employing tens of thousands of faculty & staff.

Twice, first on a live Pivot episode featuring Hillary Clinton & on Prof G with Fareed Zakaria, Galloway called Elon Musk a “traitor to the West.”

He invoked Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for espionage, and declared that Musk should be held to the same standards.

He didn’t explicitly demand Musk’s execution. But invoking the deaths of two convicted spies while calling an American citizen a traitor makes the implication hard to miss.

Musk has not been convicted of treason. Indeed, “treason against the West” isn’t even an actual crime.

Now imagine UCLA alumnus @BenShapiro, appointed a UC Regent, saying the same about George Soros.

Would the Governor defend his right to serve? Would Regent leadership shrug and call it provocative commentary? Or would there be demands for resignation?

But there’s something worse here than another of Scott’s trademark podcast rants.

He sits on the Regents’ Academic & Student Affairs Committee.

The committee’s charter says it oversees student conduct, faculty conduct, academic personnel, & campus climate, among other responsibilities.

This is not some honorary title.

The Board sets university policy, controls institutional budgets, & appoints senior university leadership.

You can unsubscribe from a podcast.

A student who finds Scott’s comments morally repugnant can’t unsub from the Regents.

UC bylaws require Regents to serve the public trust with a “high degree of ethics and candor,” including as private citizens.

Professors owe students intellectual integrity. Regents bear an even greater duty: they govern institutions that teach it.

Yet a Regent serving on the committee responsible for student & faculty conduct invokes executions while labeling a fellow citizen a traitor.

What does that say to our students?

That intellectual restraint is expected of the governed but optional for those who govern?

That standards of conduct depend on whether the target of your rhetoric is politically fashionable to despise, as long as the audience applauds?

This isn’t about defending @ElonMusk. He needs no defense from me.

Nor is it about silencing Scott. As if that were possible. He’s free to express his opinions, however reckless they may be.

But freedom of speech is not freedom from accountability, and holding a university office of public trust is not an entitlement.

There is an enormous moral chasm between exercising your right to speak recklessly and demonstrating the judgment required of one of the 26 people who govern our great public university.

The UC Board of Regents isnt a podcast sponsors can boycott. It’s a public trust.

One final irony. At @NYUStern, Galloway teaches Brand Strategy, including a session on crisis management.

His own prescription for leadership in a crisis is unequivocal: acknowledge the problem, have leadership take responsibility, and “overcorrect.”

He’s praised the departure of corporate leaders as evidence of effective crisis management.

Now Galloway himself sits on the UC Board of Regents.

Will he hold himself to the standards he teaches, or does accountability apply only to other people’s institutions?

Professor lecture thyself!

I believe Scott Galloway should seriously consider whether his continued service on the Board of Regents is consistent with the ethical standards and responsibilities of that office, or whether he should resign.

I welcome the opportunity to discuss these issues with Galloway directly, including what standards we should expect of those entrusted with governing the world’s best university.

Scott, you have an open invitation to join me on @Into_Impossible for an honest conversation.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

I wonder if Scott Galloway realizes that whatever he does from here on out, whatever books he writes or whatever academic heights he reaches, he is forever now still going to be known as the guy who pooped in his own car. On purpose.

[kyleseeback @kyleseeback]

It is now official that the Brampton Assembly Plant has been sold by Stellantis and will never produce another automobile. Ten months ago @melaniejoly said in the House of Commons that the Liberals would sue Stellantis to get the jobs back. She did nothing. She also said that she would sue Stelco if they didn't restore the job cuts there in 15 days. She didn't sue Stelco. No one should believe anything she says about protecting jobs. All of these people at Stellantis and Stelco deserve so much better than those empty words.

[Sara Ghorbani @d_white_rabbit]

They forced me into hijab at age 6 and forced me to wear it for the next 25 years till I left. They told me my whole life I’d go to hell and burn for an eternity if a man sees my hair and lusts after me even though I was a little girl. They told me I was worth half a man my whole life; I’d inherit half, my witness in court is half, my blood money is half, I’m half-brained. They told me if I dishonour my family, my father or grandfather or uncle or any man in my family would kill me to restore the family honour with no consequences to them whatsoever. They told me my father is my male guardian and gets to decide if I get an education or a job or even a lifesaving surgery. When I got married to a Muslim man, they told me now he was my male guardian and would get to make those decisions for me. They told me if I ever give birth to my own children, he would own them forever like my dad owned me. They told me I couldn’t divorce him even if he beat me to death or married 3 other women simultaneously. They’d chase me around and arrest me if my hijab wasn’t proper enough for decades. They imprisoned my uncle in solitary confinement for having unIslamic ideas. They told me they’d imprison me if I’d had unIslamic ideas. They murdered thousands upon thousands upon thousands people like me who had unIslamic ideas. They still tell me I was never a real Muslim and am not a real exMuslim now. They still call me a whore/ slut/ jendeh/ fahisha/ majoosi/ prostitute for speaking about my own experiences. They send me death threats quite frequently. They stalk me, harass me, threaten me, insult me (and my parents) to silence me.

Do you get the picture or do you want me to go on. Because I can go on.

[Lorrie Goldstein @sunlorrie]

Program note:
A 'Sovereign Wealth Fund' (aka the Canada Strong Fund) financed entirely by $25 billion of government-issued debt when the gov't is running deficits, is not a wealth fund. It's a debt fund. A wealth fund would be financed by budget surpluses, which we don't have.

[REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND @RepOfSomaliland]

⚠️Situation: Ugandan🇺🇬 troops withdraw from Somalia after two decades. Clans take up arms against the government and join al-Shabaab. Situation unfolding in real time, like Taliban-style takeover.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

New job numbers yesterday.

The grocery bill doesn’t wait for the job market to recover. From January to October 2026, the U.S. added 861,000 payroll jobs while Canada had 45,900 fewer people employed.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

To give you an idea of just how insane it is to bring 600,000 permanent residents to Canada in a single year, that's more than the *last five* years of immigration under Pierre Trudeau. From 1980 to 1984, total permanent immigration came to 570,400.

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

What is “art”? An age old question, now apparently solved by the Carney administration. I look forward to reading the qualification criteria.

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

JUST IN: Democrats are planning to repeal Trump’s Canada tariffs first.

Senate Finance Committee Democrat @RonWyden is already coordinating with colleagues on a bill to roll back the levies once he takes over as committee chair in January 👇 (1/4)

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Just put in eight hard hours and have no one to love? Reach for a Hungry-Man, you miserable son of a bitch.

[Gallery X @realgalleryx]

이번 주 텍사스 상원 선거에서 이긴 제임스 탈라리코가 조 로건 방송에 나왔을 때 나눈 대화입니다.

로건: 왜 민주당원이에요?

탈라리코: 말씀드렸듯이 저는 싱글맘 밑에서 태어났습니다. 어머니는 국경 도시 라레도 출신 목사의 딸이었어요. 열아홉에 집을 나와 오스틴으로 왔고, 거기서 제 생부를 만났습니다. 고등학교 중퇴에 술 문제가 있는 사람이었어요. 술 때문에 어머니에게 손찌검을 할 때도 있었습니다.

어느 날 밤 어머니와 저, 생부가 같이 있었는데, 그날도 술을 많이 마시고 또 폭력을 썼습니다. 그게 마지막 결정타였어요. 어머니는 그 자리에서 떠나기로 했습니다.

짐을 다 싸서 저를 작은 포드 에스코트에 태우고, 일하던 시내 호텔로 갔습니다. 매니저가 방 하나를 몇 주 내줬고, 그동안 동오스틴에 작은 아파트를 구했어요. 어머니는 호텔에서 두 사람 몫을 일했습니다. 자기 몸이 위험할 때도 매번 저를 위해 싸웠어요.

90년대 초였는데, 어머니는 텍사스 주의사당을 바라보면서 앤 리처즈, 밥 불록 같은 텍사스 민주당 사람들을 봤습니다. 서민, 일하는 사람, 잊히고 뒤처진 사람 편에서 싸운 사람들이었죠. 그게 원래 민주당이었습니다.

유치원 때쯤 학교에서 누가 정당 얘기를 하길래 어머니한테 우리는 뭐냐고 물었더니, 민주당은 사람들 편에서 싸우니까 우리는 민주당이라고 하더군요.

어머니는 지금도 민주당원입니다. 그런데 지금 우리 당이 아직 그 모습인지는 잘 모르겠어요. 다만 서민 편에서 싸우는 당, 그게 우리 역사라는 건 압니다. 그렇게 할 때 가장 좋았고, 거기서 벗어날 때 가장 나빴습니다.

로건: 그건 동의합니다.

탈라리코: 그래서 저는 아직 민주당이 그 뿌리로 돌아갈 수 있다고 믿습니다. 작년이 특히 중앙당한테 경종이 됐으면 해요. 우리가 아끼는 문제를 풀 큰 연합을 만들려면 무엇을 바꾸고 어떻게 달라져야 하는지에 대해서요. 그래서 저는 민주당원이고, 당이 그 뿌리로 돌아가길 바랍니다.

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

My pal @Sean_Speer puts it well:
“We now have a government that’s far more than 50% larger than when Justin Trudeau first became prime minister. A government growing 9% year over year implies such a larger, more intrusive government over our economy and society, and I don’t think that should be lost as we discuss and debate this budget.”

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

The biggest unreported story from yesterday: Carney snuck into the budget a massive immigration increase with the LARGEST NUMBER OF NEW PERMANENT RESIDENTS EVER next year.

Nearly 200,000 more than Trudeau’s highest-ever number year. When we have a shortage of jobs, homes, and health care.

Now we know why Carney snuck his immigration plan into a budget when everyone was distracted by the midterms and right before Parliament shuts for 10 days.

Unacceptable. This needs a real debate.

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

I really worry we are anti-Americaning ourselves into a centrally-planned economy — and those don't exactly have a stellar track record. But a lot of Canadians will go along with anything that's pitched as a "sovereignty" thing.

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

People are sometimes like "Carney is basically governing as a conservative!" but this budget of his really dispels that. His is truly a vision of a government-planned economy, down to which sports people should be playing.

[Andrew Lawton @AndrewLawton]

The Liberals are tabling their budget today, on a Thursday afternoon before MPs return to our ridings for a week. He will face no questions in the House of Commons about the country's finances until two weeks from now. His utter contempt for parliament is disgraceful.

[Franco Terrazzano @franco_nomics]

Carney’s budget is a debt disaster!

Carney is borrowing more than $60 billion this year.

Carney is NOT balancing the budget. He’s adding $287 billion to the debt by 2031.

Interest on the debt costs taxpayers $1 billion every week.

Carney spending $14 billion overbudget. Gross