it’s patriotic to let your country’s rich guys enslave you

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

What a delight to talk to @waleswbg.bsky.social for their inaugural podcast episode about the wealth tax (and @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social 's work on this issue ) and how it can help address the gender wealth gap.

Arriving in Toronto and demanding an audience with Tim Horton

A lot of people are learning that cowardice won’t save them in real time. Might as well be brave.

New Statesman cover this week. Online tomorrow. On newsstands Thursday.

The millionaire exodus widely reported in the news is a complete fiction. This is "scaremongering", the @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social @fmohiuddin.bsky.social says and points out that most wealthy people do want to pay more tax. #BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich

We're less than £2k from our goal. Help us train 3 new media spokespeople to push for a wealth tax.

Proud to be out with @patmillsuk.bsky.social & the @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social team this morning driving a bus round Westminster & calling to #taxourwealth

Charity leaders calling for our wealth tax proposal in the @theguardian.com: "This was not an inevitable decision. Labour had alternatives, such as a modest 2% wealth tax on assets over £10m." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cutting Medicaid will kick grandparents out of nursing homes. Cutting Medicaid will throw people with disabilities off insurance. Cutting Medicaid will threaten coverage for 2 in 5 births in America. This is what Republicans just voted to do to fund tax cuts for the rich.

Oh no

centrists are unbelievable sometimes

Love how every single liberal party strategy is “moving right wins elections” then when moving right repeatedly fails to win elections cause they’re running against OPENLY RIGHT-WING PARTIES they just go “Well clearly we didn’t move right enough.” Like even a child could tell you what’s wrong

What kendrick did to drake, I need bill burr to do to ben shapiro comedically and professionally

138 NGO leaders tell Keir Starmer: "It is unacceptable that taxing extreme wealth was not looked at before cutting UK aid." www.bond.org.uk/press-releas...

Sam Altman is talking about bringing online "tens of thousands" and then "Hundreds of thousands" of GPUs. 10,000 GPUs costs them $113 million a year, 100k $1.13bn, so this is Sam Altman committing to billions of dollars of compute for an expensive model that lacks any real new use cases. Suicide.

LLMs like ChapGPT don't know anything. They don't have knowledge. So if you ask them anything you then have to properly check the answer. So you might as well just...start by...getting the answer yourself using proper research, save some time.

If a German Stiftung is named after someone, never google their name and "1933-1945"

We're seeking a podcaster for a tax justice podcast for audiences in India and Pakistan!!! We're adding to our fantastic family of regional podcasts, details here: taxjustice.net/jobs/india-a... We're open to your ideas, we think a podcast for listeners in India AND Pakistan will be a powerful thing

Greatest city in the world 💖

I gotta keep doing this, it worked lol

Congratulations to the winner of the German federal elections.. BlackRock, Inc.

Life in Germany in 2025

It's weird that we're all forced to pay for public broadcasters in Germany but foreigners have basically zero representation in the public broadcasters. @rbb24.de @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy

"Do we govern global taxation or do we let the wealthiest few govern us?" Powerful messages from Pres Sanchez Pres Lula Former Pres Mbeki @abigaildisney.bsky.social @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @jayatighosh.bsky.social at @icrict.bsky.social's Vatican event today taxjustice.net/press/govern...

📢 A landmark event for #TaxJustice! The fight for fair and effective global tax reform is now! It’s time for corporations and the superrich to pay their share. #TaxThePower #TaxTheSuperRich Join @icrict.bsky.social this Thursday live from the Vatican Watch live: www.youtube.com/@CasinaPioIV

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

So I'm a "serf" simply because I'm rooting for my own subjugation? Did you even consider that the lord says these changes will actually be good for me?

Had a request to look at some stuff in the latest WEO. For fun, I compiled the countries with the highest projected interest to government revenue ratios in 2025. Egypt and Pakistan are on a league of their own, 6 of the top 10 are African countries, and notable presence of India in this group 🧐

This was a weird message to wake up to. It happens with surprising regularity that some people feel the need to say to me, an immigrant, how much they don’t make immigration. My entire career and life in Germany that I enjoy is best off of unskilled immigration. I am an unskilled immigrant.

The British Virgin Islands – the world’s biggest corporate tax haven – is trying to dodge reforms that would reduce tax abuse. taxjustice.uk/blog/british...

“China is the new Islam” is something Tracy Jordan would say on cable news in a cutaway 30 Rock joke

Oh cool that’s great I love this neoliberalism is poison.

“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” - Friedrich Merz

Fun fact: what is today the U8 U-Bahn line was originally proposed as a 'Schwebahn', or suspended railway. Here's a test section from Brunnenstrasse.

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

Errinerungskultur-Updates via YouGov

Finally pulled the trigger and deleted Twitter. Here to stay.

For Portuguese speakers, this seismic reparations investigation into Banco do Brasil is covered this month by @TaxJusticeNet podcast @e_dasuaconta who interviewed prosecutor Júlio Araújo, article here> www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o... Link to hear the podcast here> taxjustice.net/2023/10/27/c...

Experiencing surreality at Hamad Airport right now

Working in tax justice for over a decade, this is the most succinct example of the way the media narrative undermines progress 😭:

Struggling to think of a pithy first post and so, here’s Bernie: