Heard Spielberg did a reboot of X-Files and it's in theatres now. IDK. Might go see it.

Tax wealth not work

As always, might makes right.

The cat is finally out of the bag. Something we've all known, or at least strongly suspected, is true. Carney's "AI" push is motivated by increased market potential for the natural gas industry. thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

Tax wealth not work

I am on my way to the Cuban embassy to interview the ambassador about the devastating impacts of the Trump blockade. Our interview will air on @meidascanada.ca @meidastouch.com

“They’re fine with the undemocratic influence of wealthy interests … in Canada’s elections and policy-making processes.” www.readthemaple.com/liberal-loop...

Every time a billionaire has profits, he uses it to buy more assets, which generate even more profits so he can buy up even more assets and the political and economic power that goes with them. We must break this cycle, else they'll be the only ones who own anything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_PM...

"I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy." -- Wab Kinew www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Bill C-22, the mandatory spyware law.

4/ That’s why before rushing ahead, with no brakes, we need a robust regulatory framework. Every other industry in this country, from forestry to banking, is regulated. Yet somehow, when it comes to generative AI that is controlled by MAGA-aligned billionaires, the usual rules don’t apply.

Canadians Please Listen 🚨🚨🚨

Last week I wrote a piece where I said that batteries were a gas power assassin. @robshum.bsky.social pointed out that the correct word to describe batteries is "gassassin." Either way, there is a killing going on down under.

US billionaire Stan Kroenke, heir to Walmart fortune and Trump donor controls 1.2 million acres of BC farmland. Similar story for Mark Walter, investor in ICE detention centres and Palantir. Sign BC Greens petition! bcgreens.ca/petitions/st...

Book review. As Doctorow says "It's a history of the Jewish Labor Bund, a socialist, internationalist organization that once dominated Jewish political identity." pluralistic.net/2026/06/01/d...

The class struggle takes many forms

Paraphrase: "The goals aren't gone, the strategy now is to have our kids do it. We can't interrupt the flow of cash to our foreign-owned O&G masters now, can we?" Canadian government is creating an energy backwater, not an energy superpower. The future for fossil fuels is bleak, yet here we are.

Autocrats always know where they sit in the pecking order and act accordingly depending on whether they want to stay in their current location in that order, or if they want to move up it.

When it comes to championing working Canadians while royally screwing them, Carney is the only Canadian politician capable of out-Trudeauing Trudeau. 8/

Calvin's pretty quick for his age.

BREAKING: Canada exported $14.6 million of military goods to Israel in 2025, according to data released today by Global Affairs Canada. www.readthemaple.com/canada-expor...

You can bet your future on an industry where line go up, or you can bet it on an industry where line go down. Canada, Alberta, and BC are betting on the line go down industry. O&G subsidies abound, and new solar/wind/battery are all but banned in Alberta, the sunniest and windiest place in Canada.

Forcible deportation of people is defined as a crime against humanity under Article 7 of the Statute of Rome. Slobodan Milosevic could only have dreamed of getting this kind of white-washed, feather duster headlines from western media. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The more money the super-rich make, the more assets they buy. More assets means they make more money, then buy more assets, then make more money etc etc until they own everything and rent it out. Only two ways to break that cycle. 1. end of civilization, or 2. tax on excess wealth. Choose wisely.

Yes. Based on the leaf symbol and a quick scan of their Telegram, this is an affiliate of Second Sons Canada, a white nationalist active club. This is propaganda, intended to recruit through giving people in your area access to their socials (which has info for joining). Tear it down.

Austerity for us though. I am so tired of Canadian Liberals, omg. You heartless, moral cowards. #cdnpoli

American billionaires are buying up record amounts of farmland in BC. While provinces like Quebec have put heavy restrictions on foreign ownership, we’re watching some of the richest men in America make huge speculative purchases - pushing out locals and taking valuable land from farmers.

1/ Right now, a bill called C-22 is moving through Parliament. It would let police pull information on who you talk to, when, and where, all without a warrant. It's at committee this week. 🧵

Paywalled, but the part that gets me is: "... Sherritt, its business destroyed by the sanctions, announced an agreement that would allow an investment firm representing a billionaire ally of Trump to buy a majority stake in the company at a significant discount." www.hilltimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

The two main parties in the BC legislature fighting over who wants LNG more. terracestandard.com/2026/05/26/s...

I think it's ok to feel inadequate at times, just like I think it's ok to feel guilty at times. It may be warranted. But these things should move us towards action or a better understanding of what we're doing (or not doing). Don't wallow in these feelings, let them radicalize you ;)

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

One step closer to Canada Infrastructure Bank giving $1B loan to the American company that owns Ksi Lisims LNG project, (built in Korea, so I wonder how much Korean govt is kicking in) in order to de-risk it enough for billionaires to make even more billions. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Once again a banger essay with lots to chew on. Seems to me we should buy a plot of land in Latvia (where CAF troops are stationed) and turn it into a cemetery for future Canadian dead. Silly yes, but less silly than posting troops there in the first place, whose only role is to be the first to die.

Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.

Billionaires paying zero tax is radical. Taxing them more is not.

"We have asked for and expect an independent investigation and those responsible to be held to account." How is that "investigation" going into the Canadian citizen Israel murdered in Lebanon? Or better yet, how's the investigation into where our country's fucking backbone is?

Neuroscience tells us that with great wealth comes great loss of empathy. Rich and powerful people are physically incapable of caring for or about others due to changes in the human brain associated with wealth and power. They are exactly the last people we should allow control over food supply.

What the US is doing to Cuba is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a genocide as defined by the United Nations. www.un.org/en/genocide-...

Any power you have should emerge from the responsibilities you have. If people recognize you have responsibility over a thing, they will allow you power over that thing until you fail in your responsibility. You shouldn't have power simply because you're rich or popular.

A true, verifiable statement, backed by neuroscience and experiment: As wealth and power increase, compassion and empathy go down, and entitlement and self-interest go up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fchr...

#SolidarityWithIran #SolidarityWithCuba

It's important to note that capital makes choices that are not necessarily wise, good or efficient choices, merely ones that best advantage those who control capital. The invention of the automobile did not *have* to lead to, say, the choice to destroy minority neighborhoods to build interstates.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

One step closer to Eby saying "oil pipeline ok". Carney's super-rich friends get a pipeline, D. Smith's super-rich friends get a pipeline, and Eby's super-rich friends get a piece of the action. Something for everybody here. Win-win as the super-rich say.

A couple members of Skeena Local Action Network just returned from Cuba. What they saw there, despite the US-imposed total blockade and forced economic collapse, was a people working together to help each other through the crisis. terracestandard.com/2026/05/21/c...

These days to be popular with the masses you don't need to deliver good results for them. You only need to deliver a good speech.

He vigorously opposed this dam until he was elected, and then he was all for it. Maybe we can name the FPTP voting system after him too, cuz he pretended to be for proportional representation then made the referendum impossible to win. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Thanks to FOI requests from @thetyee.ca reporter @amandafollett.bsky.social we know that RCMP-CRU is monitoring Treaty negotiations and climate advocates, and sharing that information with various Provincial Ministries. So today in Question Period we asked what info they're sharing, and why #bcpoli