We do not need oil to create plastic!
#thereIsNoPlanetB
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Happy Earth Day! 🌎
Since tRump is still talking about things that were rigged:
How can we sent Kevin a copy of Shoup?
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂
This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 we are aware of….
A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job.
One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution.
Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?
A new human rights report documents the horrific use of sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian men, women and children.A former Israeli Prime Minister is calling on the International Criminal Court to launch war crimes trials.
Here is my latest:
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Pennsylvania's appellate court confirmed that access to abortion is a fundamental right under the Pennsylvania Constitution.
This decision is a win for all Pennsylvanians.
The government shouldn't be making your healthcare decisions - you should.
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Look at this chart.
Tax cuts for the rich are a policy choice. Cutting the social safety net in exchange for them is a policy choice.
States like New York have an opportunity to help undo this trickle down nonsense by raising taxes on the rich (who will still be rich).
I hope Gov. Hochul does.
Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes.
That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services.
This is why people are mad as hell.
A group of Indigenous women holding signs to raise awareness for MMIWG. There are large poster boards of pictures of the missing women. They are on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the location of Canada's federal government.
Every day I am going to post this (permission from Del Schilling).
Will you join me?
Over 5700+ Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls
#MMIWG #cdnpoli
The oligarch from Etobicoke. Time to send him packing.
This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇
"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani
Japanese anti-war group starts new campaign at Shinjuku Station, Tokyo.
”We want world peace! Fuck Trump!"
Mamdani: Democratic socialism viable anywhere. “...this is a politics that can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country – that’s the working class, and it’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of [public policy]..." www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...
Bollards save lives AND bring immense joy and happiness to the world.
#WorldBollardAssociation
If you think Doug Ford using taxpayer funds to buy his private jet is unrelated to his trying to have jets fly from Toronto's Island Airport, I've got a failed private waterfront spa at Ontario Place, a shuttered Science Centre, and a tunnel under the 401 to sell you.
#ONpoli #TOpolo
He said the summit will pitch "Canada, Inc.".... "If we don't get our resources out of the ground expeditiously in an investment-friendly regulatory climate, we are going to miss this window one more time and I don't know how lucky of a country we think we are, but we don't have the nine lives of a cat," Goldy Hyder, the CEO of the Business Council of Canada, said.
(1/2) Carney sees us as "Canada Inc." But we shouldn't run like a corporation.
This is were we really need to talk about 'growing the economy' versus actually making it work for people and the framing of regulation.
And the talk (speed/deregulation/oil/LNG) in this article is concerning. #CDNpoli
While death and destruction rained down on Iran during the war’s first month, the world’s 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits.
Yes, $30 million per HOUR.
All because of the deadly and reckless decision making of one man.
Met an ER Doctor who wears them to summarize interviews with patients so he can concentrate on the patient rather than on taking notes.
#topoli New from me in @torontostar-rss.bsky.social: With the feds doling out infrastructure mega-$$, a question: why don’t we just give cities the legal authority to raise funds for local projects on their own? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Tesla FSD v14.2.2.5 barrels towards a closed highway exit at 85 mph, ignores highway cones and plows over them at 70 mph, forcing the driver to slam the brakes to avoid a barrier. FSD is a danger to everyone on the road and must be banned.
High speed rail in Canada is a good investment. It’s the kind of ambitious nation-building that actually makes Canada more resilient etc. No surprise, far-right Pierre Poilievre says he’d cancel it, saying it will go over budget. Spoiler—it will. Just like EVERY car highway does. But he likes those.
These billionaires pay their workers so little that many of their workers need public assistance.
Meanwhile, their companies just got another round of tax cuts from a bill that gutted the public assistance their workers have to rely on to get by.
Trickle-down economics is a sham.