California - Support For One Time 5% Wealth Tax On $1B Or More:

Support: 63%
Oppose: 23%

SurveyUSA / April 10, 2026

Market concentration → Less competition → Higher prices for consumers → Corporate profits at record highs → Record stock buybacks → Higher shareholder value → More power for corporations and the rich.

How do we fight back? Break up monopolies and rebuild union power.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history

Do protests change elections?

Prior research: "yes, and dramatically so."

But is that always true? What about protests in the last few years?

Our latest working paper challenges prevailing logic.

Our finding: most recent protests have failed to do anything to influence elections.

Book cover for The Working Class and Politics in Canada, edited by Jacob Robbins-Kanter, Royce Koop, and Daniel Troup. Illustration: within the dramatic blocky letters of the title are semi-transparent images of a server with a notepad, construction scaffolding, logging activity, and a welder in a helmet. Beside the book cover, text reads New in Paperback.

Working-class Canadians are often overlooked by politicians, policy-makers, and political scientists. “The Working Class and Politics in Canada” offers an up-to-date and much-needed assessment of class and its place in contemporary Canadian politics. #cdnpoli bit.ly/4tnJWd4

From our FirstView: The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines by VINCENT HEDDESHEIMER, @hannohilbig.bsky.social and @erikvoeten.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Will Female Graduates Break Chinese Patriarchy? Female education is often sold as the great equaliser. But are institutions really so meritocratic?

www.ggd.world/p/will-femal...

Dems 90%+ to win the House IMO

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

"In the 1960s, the 400 richest Americans paid about 50% of their income in taxes across all levels of government. Today, they pay about 24%"

#TaxTheSuperRich. Then #TaxTheRich too!

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics” Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordi...

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

🚨 I have an article out at APR titled “Educational Polarization in American Politics: More than Just a Diploma Divide” in which i look at how educational attainment shapes public opinion and political behavior across the entire education spectrum, not just the across the degree/no degree binary 1/x

The Trump budget is historic.

For the first time in recent history, the government would spend a larger share of its annual budget on defense than on domestic programs.

@morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social

What a great choice for
@avilewis.ca's first big policy intervention as
@ndp.ca leader: ndp.ca/news/ndp-mov.... This issue epitomizes how avg people are exploited by the tech & market power of oligopolists, & their intrusion into every moment of our lives. I predict this'll be very popular! /2

IMF analysis: Wars cause large, lasting economic losses in affected countries and spillovers to others - often worse than financial crises or natural disasters. Recovery dependent on sustained peace: War contributes to inflationary pressures. Early macro stabilization important.

Surrounded by windfarms but out of work: the reality of the green jobs boom on England’s east coast The government hails the ‘green revolution’ as a solution to economic decline, but some young jobseekers say the rhetoric does not match their experience

🤔 It is no coincidence that the Brexity/Reform vote has traditionally been strongest in eastern English counties, places that are struggling to provide decent well paid jobs and where, correspondingly, anger and despair can easily take hold... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

84% of Canadians say they want to strengthen trade and economic ties with the European Union 🇪🇺

The voter participation gap between rich and poor is already disturbingly wide. If Trump succeeds in restricting mail-in voting, this gap would likely grow even wider. Low-income voters face multiple barriers to voting in person, incl lack of paid time off & other costs of getting to the polls

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

"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.

By-elections: Conservative crash, some NDP rebound, LPC wins it all BQ-Liberal polarization tightens in Terrebonne, but Conservative collapse depolarizes Toronto races, helping the NDP.

BQ-Liberal polarization in Terrebonne squeezes Conservatives and NDP

Low Conservative support de-polarizes Toronto ridings, lets NDP rebound

Here’s the hard data analysis on Monday’s three by-elections:

open.substack.com/pub/tparkin/...

Sotomayor apologizing for politely speaking the truth about the right on the same day Thomas insults half the country is such a perfect commentary on the asymmetry in politics.

Cowering liberals think this is a manners contest while conservatives are waging an ideological war.

Extreme wealth is deactivating our democracy - CCPA We must address the root of the problem: the distribution of power and wealth

Extreme wealth is deactivating our democracy. We must address the root of the problem: the distribution of power and wealth. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣
🧪 #MedSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Meeting Students Where They Are: A Field Experiment of Classroom Interventions for Voter Turnout Among College Students Objective The goal of this project is to test the effectiveness of various get-out-the-vote (GOTV) strategies on college students’ propensity to vote in state and local elections. Methods We condu...

🚨New publication alert! 🚨 Social Science Quarterly: college students who receive a peer-led, short, in-class presentation about voting are 11 percentage points more likely to vote. Research done w grad and undergrad students at @scharschool.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy Hungarian election day!

Our final poll tracker update gives Tisza, the centre-right opposition, a 6pt lead over Orban's Fidesz: www.economist.com/interactive/...

Hungary’s turnout is BRUTAL: 37.98% by 11am (2022: 22.77%), pointing to 75–80% or more overall. In such a scenario, Orbán’s chances look slim, and it’s unlikely any party beyond Fidesz and Péter Magyar’s Tisza clears the 5% threshold.

Follow me for more #HungaryElection updates.

You think it's bad here?

Canadians Want High-Speed Rail Built Meanwhile, they're still open to joining the EU and the Canadian Armed Forces in a time of crisis

New polling finds Canadians support building the proposed high-speed rail line, still contemplate joining the European Union, and even joining the armed forces if we found ourselves at war

Read it for free here: canadianpolling.substack.com/p/canadians-...

6/6 🧵In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, Tuñón shows religion ⇏ conservative politics. In 🇧🇷, progressive bishops helped the leftist PT win votes - especially where labor unions were weak. When Pope John Paul II replaced them, PT support dropped. The church filled the gap unions couldn't. doi.org/qzk8

Ten years after Brexit, this is the UK: a divided nation frozen in time | Aditya Chakrabortty Tribalism has not faded over the past decade. Instead, new research reveals our politics has become ever-more polarised and fractious, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Ten years after Brexit, the UK is a divided nation frozen in time.

No economic gain, culture wars rife, minorities scapegoated.

Parties jostle over who can be more authoritarian; say little about inequalities, civil rights, public ownership, quality of life.

Architect of Brexit became richer.