Such a great article about Heated Rivalry, featuring Carrie-Ann Kloda from @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social 😍 montrealgazette.com/entertainmen...

California wants to tax billionaires with a 5% wealth tax and the CEO of Nvidia, who would have to pay $8 billion on his $163 billion fortune, says it like it is: that's perfectly fine! 🧵

Decades of research show that billionaire “flight” is wildly exaggerated. Wealthy people don’t uproot their lives over modest taxes. A one-time wealth tax would fund health care, food security, and education—all of which are driving up affordability. www.forbes.com/sites/teresa...

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

« Sachant que la série allait être un hit, Claire Trottier et son équipe ont commandé un grand nombre de livres avant sa diffusion. Et cela semble avoir été une très bonne idée. » ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-fo...

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Watch for it

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

And if appeasement and flattery fail to rein Trump in, leaders are going to need their publics to a) understand the danger we’re all in, and b) trust leaders to implement riskier policies. Lying to the public about Trump does neither of these things

Canada finally reacts, through our foreign affairs minister (not our prime minister). Really, embarrassingly timid statement when you consider what just happened.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

The surge in corporate profit rates that began during COVID has never ended - a greater share of corporate revenue is profits than ever before, and we are taxing those profits less than ever. No wonder CEO pay has hit another record high!

J’ai été invitée aux ondes de 98.5 pour parler d’inégalités et de taxe sur la richesse aujourd’hui www.985fm.ca/audio/747173...

J’ai parlé des inégalités et de taxe sur la richesse ce matin à Radio-Canada ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

Chants of “tax the rich” break out among thousands of New Yorkers huddled up outside the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani as Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks.

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

So after finishing Heated Rivalry last night it’s clear we need a full resurgence of actually soft romantic films and tv shows with people who can actually act. The whole cast was great but Connor and Hudson just did an excellent job.

I'm so appreciative that Jacob Tierney took the time to chat with me a few days before the #HeatedRivalry finale about finding the right cottage, those new end credits, his broad ideas for Season 2, and more:

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

If I could time-travel I would not go back in time to see dinosaurs or kill Hitler, I would go back in time to watch Heated Rivalry episode 5 at this bar

Canadian economy rallies as #1 export now Heated Rivalry

I honestly feel Bad for people That don’t read romance. They have no idea that they could feel this way ALL THE TIME.

MITT ROMNEY is arguing in favour of taxing the rich.

I am quoted in the New York Times today talking about Heated Rivalry, my favourite that has been adapted into a smash hit TV show. It’s within a glowing profile of @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social , who deserves all the flowers www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...

With a backroom deal, Carney has bulldozed Canada’s remaining #climate policies and ignited a firestorm among #Indigenous communities across the country. It is a betrayal, for which future generations will pay. @richardbrooks.bsky.social at @stand.earth: ricochet.media/climate/the-... #Alberta

Another good reason for Mark Carney to open up the market to affordable European and Chinese electric vehicles. The United States is going backward and Canada does not have to follow its lead.

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.

Ever wonder how some billionaires can get away with paying such low tax rates compared to working class Americans? Here’s their secret playbook and what we can do about it.

Chronique | Nooran, bien sûr, aurait pu être mon fils: ✱ Ça pourrait très bien arriver à mes ados aussi.

Look: it’s all anyone’s talking about, it’s certainly all I’m thinking about, so now is as good a time as any to remind everyone that I wrote about Heated Rivalry over 5 years ago (!) on my blog: closereadingromance.com/2020/04/17/f...

The coming years are going to reveal a lot more waste on 'AI' like this by our governments, to the tune of 10s of billions squandered on appalling nonsense, all to make rich Tech Bros richer.

Gabriel Zucman, the “Billionaire Buster,” is honoured as one of Europe’s 28 most powerful political figures shaping 2026! We’re happy to see our work recognised! 👏 #POLITICO28

Tax the rich

NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Human rights groups are sounding the alarm on Bill C-12, the government's border and immigration bill - calling it straight out of the Trump playbook "Canada should not be violating migrants’ rights, especially those of women and children”

Very cool job opportunity, with the very cool @hscoffield.bsky.social at the newly formed Canadian Tax Observatory. canadiantaxobservatory.ca/now-hiring-s...

Tax the rich

Rachel Gilmore on the anti-DEI movement: "I think that to attack these notions is a dog whistle to the worst elements of society that are seeing a slide towards a more fascistic world. And every politician who engages in that should be ashamed of themselves."

Rachel Gilmore: "Thanks to a confluence of factors—including the advent of social media, incompetent moderation from tech giants and manosphere influencers creation of soft entry points for a more radical ideology—anti-feminist ideology is experiencing a resurgence."

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

The Polytechnique massacre wasn't just a mass shooting — it was a mass femicide. The gunman explicitly targeted women and blamed feminists for the troubles in his life. We must fight like hell to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Don’t you dare forget their names. #December6

Really sad to see @catabreu.bsky.social & @simondonner.bsky.social quit Canada’s Net Zero Advisory Body. Cat and Simon are globally respected climate leaders. More than ever, Canadians need experts giving independent advice about how Canada can achieve its goal of net zero emissions.

Here is what I wrote in 2020, once again exhausted at people's refusal to name the problem for what it is - misogyny.

🧵 On 6 December 1989 a man entered a mechanical engineering classroom at Montreal’s École Polytechnique with a semi automatic weapon. Separating women and men, he shot the women, screaming, “You are all feminists” 14 women were murdered. Today we remember their names and not his.

There's a lot of talk about the steaminess of #HeatedRivalry, but there are more reasons to watch. Jacob Tierney's direction and the microexpression work of the actors is sublime — especially as mainstream American-produced streaming prioritizes "passive viewing." www.slashfilm.com/2043077/cana...

I am enjoying the gay hockey show.

My favourite romance-turned-TV show has reached another level in pop culture and I am here for it