Our President, Erica Payne, spoke with Fast Company, and shared our super simple message for the FAA during the shutdown: “If you need a 10% reduction [in flights], you can get 100% of your reduction from the private planes.” www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa...

I want to print out this piece and frame it. “We need greater structural limits on the extractive power of essential businesses – to allow others to thrive. What is needed can best be termed an architecture of equality.”

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Incredibly weak statement from Canada at COP30. It says “effective action starts with detailed planning” and points to this week’s climate competitiveness plan as proof of Canada’s efforts. Weird given that plan has no target, no GHG modelling, dismantles policies policies and calls LNG low carbon.

Billionaires (and wannabe billionaires) spend more on campaign donations than they would on wealth taxes. Because what they care about most isn't money. It's the ability to exchange money for power.

Sudan is experiencing the largest humanitarian crisis ever recorded. 12 million people have been displaced — that is the population of the state of Georgia. And more than 635,000 people are facing famine. We must push for an arms embargo on Sudan and get aid in immediately.

LETTER: “Youth climate activist urges leaders to prioritize science over politics.” So proud of @sophiamathur.bsky.social for speaking truth to power. We made a pinky promise 8 yrs ago to do our part to tackle the climate crisis & she lives up to it every day! www.baytoday.ca/letters-to-t...

EXACTLY #TaxTheRich

Gee. I wonder why they fired all the political reporters at Teen Vogue this week…

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."

«New York will remain a city of immigrants, built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant»

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

The names of multinational corporations that cheated on billions in tax in Canada was kept from the public. Our gov’t had the tax records but didn’t make them public. Doing so could’ve recovered C$9 BN #NameTheTaxCheaters #TaxJustice2025 bit.ly/taxjustice25

Mega-rich corporations which prioritise financial engineering and playing the tax system end up ripping off the UK and everyone who lives here. Phil White, @patmillsuk.bsky.social #UNtaxConvention #TaxJustice2025 bit.ly/taxjustice25

Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes." Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.

Meanwhile, in Canada. Deep, deep sigh.

So a young democratic socialist running on an avowedly progressive platform can beat the elite money candidate, even with the entire weight of the billionaire class, GOP, and DNC establishment thrown against him Every young person in America needs to remember this

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

It's absolutely true that defeating fascism requires a very big tent. And for that tent to stand, it has to have a pole -a backbone. Otherwise it's a tarp that merely smothers you. We come together around widely held values and against this regime of the bullies, for the billionaires.

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Thinking ahead to tomorrow's federal budget and all the talk of Canadians needing to make sacrifices, I can't help but wonder when the wealthiest few might be asked to do that. Unfortunately I don't think that's part of the plan.

The largest oil & gas producers in Canada may be under-reporting their clean-up costs by **$113 billion**

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Teen Vogue did some great journalism around immigration detention and enforcement. Sounds like corporate has now killed that off. The media landscape shrinks even further.

$698 Billion. That’s how much more wealth the 10 wealthiest Americans have just this year, as SNAP funds remain frozen. #unconscionable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"It would appear Solomon, and Carney, for that matter, have swallowed the marketing pitch of technology companies in a misguided pursuit of economic growth. In so doing, they have inexcusably ignored the glaring threats posed to Canada’s sovereignty and security, and the well-being of its citizens."

Tech bros directly influencing government policy, what could possibly go wrong? This is deeply concerning.

We’ve all been “Reviewer 2’d” but I strongly believe in the peer review system. This demand for information, in its current form, will undermine it for one of Canada’s largest research funding programs: If reviewers can’t be honest in their opinions without fear of reprisal, it all falls apart.

They better not go and shake that man’s hand while he’s kidnapping folks from the community that made them

have they ever had to change the clocks at a baseball game

These city tv announcers are really adding to the stress, please stop

Other countries are not coming to save scientific research & academia. Maybe to poach a few high-profile scholars. But no one is going to do things at scale to replace 🇺🇸, & most every other rich country is also doing educational austerity. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Satellite images from the El Fasher massacre are such that bloodstains can be seen from space. What more will it take for the world to take action to end the horror in #Sudan? Where is Canada @mark-carney.bsky.social & @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social?

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

“Reducing income and wealth inequality ought to make the list, too, including programs designed to shift business ownership and control to the workers who run them, an idea that, as far as I can tell, is nowhere near the government’s radar, but which would, to borrow a term, catalyze economic growth

👏👏👏Billie Eilish To billionnaires « Give your money » www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Faiza absolutely dismantled the scaremongering with straight facts on #BBCQT the other night. 1️⃣ There is no millionaire exodus— the numbers are fraudulent 2️⃣ If a greedy few would rather bail than pay their way? Fine, just make sure they settle up on their way out with an #ExitTax.

Les prix du logement et de l’alimentation ont bondi d’autour de 30% en cinq ans, touchant surtout les moins nantis, souligne l’Observatoire des inégalités du Québec.

"Canadians are not embracing any talk of "austerity," and if needed, a majority — nearly 60 per cent — says Ottawa should hike taxes on wealthier Canadians if new spending is needed" www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Whilst the rest of us struggle, the super-rich just keep getting richer and richer. 🤑 That's why at this budget, tax rises should be on wealth not work. 🔥 🔥 Our very own Faiza Shaheen made the case on #BBCQT last night. 🔥 🔥

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

NEW: Whether you measure it by number of supporters, fundraising ability, or by the size of its militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger or more of a threat.

Fifty shades of purple, the latest numbers on Quebec's identity spectrum. My column for @thewalrus.ca ↓ thewalrus.ca/quebec-is-a-...

Fact check: EVs are still the future, no matter what the Trump administration tries to do to forestall it. The question for Canada now is whether we want to participate in that future or get stuck in the past. maxfawcett.substack.com/p/yes-evs-ar...

People like to claim the rich already pay too many taxes. But the wealthiest 1% pay an effective rate of 23.6% The average for working Canadians? 36.7%/ Check out the new inequality scorecard from our friends @oxfamcanada.bsky.social www.oxfam.ca/publication/...

At a time when fossil fuel projects are part of Ottawa’s nation-building agenda, new research shows climate impacts driven by burning fossil fuels could cause more damage to GDP than previously thought. via @natashabulowski.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/29/n...