We keep hearing that rich people will leave places like NYC if their taxes go up. But our Chair, Morris Pearl, set the record straight in an @ms.now Town Hall last week with @mayor.nyc.gov: Millionaires can afford to live wherever we want. So go ahead. Tax us!

incredible math rock / social policy crossover

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My guest this week is Claire Trottier, co-owners of Joie de Livres @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social Montreal's first bilingual bookstore-bar-cafe that specializes in romance and speculative fiction! Bonjour, les voisins! You can find the full episode here: bit.ly/JoiedeLivres

Tremendous thread here 🔽

« Paulina Ibarra a fait valoir que le financement canadien de la société civile stimule la croissance économique en réduisant la corruption et en mettant fin aux politiques qui empêchent les femmes et les minorités de réussir sur le plan économique. » #polcan #aidworks lp.ca/zk3mw6?shari...

“Solar and wind, now the cheapest forms of energy, account for just under nine per cent of electricity generation in Canada, well below the G7 average of 19 per cent.” Canada is falling behind … www.cbc.ca/news/science...

We give billions in tax breaks to oil and gas corporations and AI server farms but sure let's get the general public angry at refugees trying to stop their kids from dying

We’re already at historic levels of inequality, and when money becomes power, democracy is on the line. That’s why Patriotic Millionaire Scott Ellis is calling on our leaders to step up and tax the rich.

SLAF!!!!!

Trust your common sense: yes, a series of massive fossil fuel supply shocks is, in fact, going to radically accelerate the process of electrification & decarbonization.

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

I feel called out

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by Universal Basic Income, which they will violently oppose thebeaverton.com/2025/11/tech...

Why wouldn't you want to fund this, and stop people from dying painful, premature deaths?

Yes. And quickly! Canada needs a windfall tax on oil industry war profiteering - www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/15/o...

There are so many insidious layers

SCOOP: An investigation by The Narwhal and Point Source shows LNG Canada burned 350 million cubic metres of gas in 2025, making it one of the worst polluters for flaring emissions globally and undermining Canada’s environmental claims. @writermjs.bsky.social #lng thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-b...

just admit you can't do anything and leave me alone about it! god!!!!!!!

Where is the protest music, they asked. Whoa.

Looks like the tide might be turning….

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

Hell yes 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

ZOHRAN: “I ran on taxing the rich — Today, we’re taxing the rich… the first ever pied-a-terre tax for second homes worth $5 Million+… $500 MILLION from the richest of the rich to fund child care, etc…💰” Promises kept.

When Spanish billionaire Amancio Ortega bought the Post office development in Vancouver, a loophole allowed him to avoid paying property transfer tax on the $1.2-billion purchase. Robert Renger writes. #vanpoli

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

We will be taxing the ultra-wealthy and global elites.

Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored. We were told we couldn’t take a joke, and that social media isn’t real life. Now the misogyny of early chatrooms and Gamergate has reached mainstream politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If oil prices remain at current levels for the next 12 months, the Canadian oil industry is on track to make $90bn in profits, which is $60bn more than it would have earned without the war...Applying 15% rate on excess profits of oil industry could generate $9 billion over the next 12 months. ⬇️

Cutting the gas tax is just a subsidy to corporate profiteering unless we impose an excess profit tax.

Là où loge Peur St-Pierre Plamondon. "Sur les questions de l’immigration, du nationalisme, de la liberté académique et du « wokisme », ses mots, il a choisi de situer ses positions dans l’orbite idéologique trumpienne." www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...

De la même façon que des féministes ont dénoncé le mythe de la « victime parfaite » de violences sexuelles, il faut dénoncer le mythe de « l’immigré parfait » - celui qui doit à tout prix être utile pour mériter des droits. Deuxième volet de mon reportage en Espagne: lp.ca/dPjWBM?shari...

Orban was a cornerstone of the international anti-trans movements. Hungarian trans people were among the early targets of his authoritarian regime. It'll take a long time to come back from it all but I hope Hungarian trans people sleep slightly better tonight.

Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country. Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

Authoritarians don't wait till after election to steal, they plant doubt, rig rules & block voting. Then they lose, they lie, they lash out. Beating them requires more than voting; requires showing you ARE the majority & will force will of people to prevail. www.instagram.com/reels/DV6ydh...

Meanwhile

« We need to imagine a more democratic, more egalitarian, more generous country, one that operates in recognition of an abundance of wealth that should serve all of us – and nature and future generations too – rather than is driven by the moral poverty of billionaires. »

THIS.

Our recent poll of Canadian millionaires found 61% would support a wealth tax on multi-millionaires and billionaires Every day Canadians and millionaires alike both know: It's time for a wealth tax.

It was clean. It was pure. It was the first 50th goal for a Canadiens player in 36 years. It was vintage Cole Caufield. It was most appropriately scored on a pass from Nick Suzuki fed by Juraj Slafkovsky. It's a moment in history. It could not have been sweeter.

The Citizens’ Assembly on Democratic Expression debunked many of the myths of modern publics: that policies have become too complicated and people are too busy to play more than a passive role in political life. Richard Johnson and Peter MacLeod write. #canpoli

Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax. Don't fall for their fearmongering. A one-time, 5% tax on their excessive wealth is essential to funding what millions of Californians need — and to preserving our democracy.

“You don’t have to invest in Palantir. You don’t have to invest in Elon Musk.” — @mendelmatt.bsky.social (@scpartners.bsky.social) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social pension funds can earn strong returns without undermining Canada’s future. At 8pm with Keith Ambachtsheer | Producer: Mike Attenborough

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

No American is served by creating ever bigger media monopolies funded by ever more elusive foreign entities.

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

Joie de Livres with @doctrott.bsky.social Tonight, 7pm Tix: democracyssecondact.org