@mcnado

100% agree. Taxes are the dues of society, and I am happy to pay them, if they're going to fund the programs which support people with less than we have.

If they're going into the 1% pocket? I'll have to re-evaluate.

fellow wonkeratti hvdv sends this report from Oakland:

#ChunderRoad #ice

A proposed wealth tax on Canada’s richest 0.6% could raise hundreds of billions of dollars — enough to tackle housing, transit, and care. The sheer scale of what a tiny slice of billionaire wealth could fund is staggering. #cdnpoli

Designing a Wealth Tax for Today’s Robber Barons
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/wealth-tax-canada-inequality-austerity/

The bullshit over Starship is beyond anything i’ve ever seen.

It’s too easy to bullshit a public that has no idea how rockets are supposed to fly & grift taxpayer money like a vacuum.

HINT: They aren’t supposed to spin out of control right after entering space.

The Skybertruck has so far sucked everything US taxpayers gave to land on the moon! Nothing but molten metal fireworks over the Indian Ocean to show for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJbizr-37a8
#spacex #starship #elonmusk #bullshit #grift #space

Girl Literally Wants Food To Be Handed To Her On A Plate

https://theonion.com/entitled-child-expects-to-eat-lunch-every-day/

Somewhere Barbara Streisand can heave a huge sigh of relief. It will henceforth be known as "the Vance effect."

#JDVance #fascism #couchfucker

“If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax.” 👀 Protest banner targeting Jeff Bezos luxury wedding in Italy.

@jeffowski
Hey. We got all the money - so I guess its only right that we have all the power. "The masses", they'd just blow it on insulin - while pretending they're smart enough to "regulate" us. Climate might kill them all but we got air conditioned bunkers.
Let them eat shit!

Wake up to WOKE, baby!

Just hours after the Copyright Office released its report on AI training—stating the obvious, that much unlicensed commercial training of AI on copyright-protected material is unlikely to qualify as fair use—President Trump has fired the Register of Copyrights. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-fires-director-of-u-s-copyright-office-shira-perlmutter-sources/

The reason Texas is part of the USA is that Mexico made slavery illegal.

Remember the Alamo? A lot of white people don't know is that what the "brave" people in the Alamo were fighting for was slavery.

That's also why it took two years after the civil war ended for enforcement of anti-slavery in Texas. (it wasn't because of slow communication, as is told in revisionist histories, it was because white people willfully defied the law).

Freedom is always worth fighting for.

Check out this article about decarbonizing neighborhoods.

My favorite finding? It only works if the residents have existing social bonds.

If you haven't already, plan a block party. Whether fighting ice or climate collapse, the 1st step is a block party.
https://www.kqed.org/science/1997283/this-oakland-block-tried-to-quit-fossil-fuels-heres-what-they-learned

#solarpunk

So long as too many people are harping about homeless people and not homelessness, nothing will change.

#HousingForAll #housing

The dictatorship is here. The constitutional crisis is now. https://heidi-says.ghost.io/the-dictatorship-is-here-the-constitutional-crisis-is-now/ 6/6

@StefanThinks
I have been waiting for a Trump era espionage novel. Just read A Spy Alone by former MI6, Charles Beaumont. Nice ripping yarn but also the best yet analysis of the current coup of globalized oligarchs and propagandists against "the masses" and citizens of every nation. It ain't east vs west; it's 1% against 99%...

I have been waiting for a Trump era espionage novel. Just read A Spy Alone by former MI6, Charles Beaumont. Nice ripping yarn but also the best yet analysis of the current coup of globalized oligarchs and propagandists against "the masses" and citizens of every nation. It ain't east vs west; it's 1% against 99%.
I would add my view that a major motivation of the 1% is the fear that democratic climate action will strip them of the power and wealth they've amassed from oil.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic
I have been waiting for a Trump era espionage novel. Just read A Spy Alone by former MI6, Charles Beaumont. Nice ripping yarn but also the best yet analysis of the current coup of globalized oligarchs and propagandists against "the masses" and citizens of every nation. It ain't east vs west; it's 1% against 99%.

@pluralistic

I am in a state of high dudgeon this morning, because the hat trick, the brain stem hack super rich psychopaths have managed is to convince people that the predatory consequences of superrich collaborating to seize the means of government and society is proof that democracy is a failure and the solution is double down tyranny.

They’ve managed to convince most people that the destruction of equality and liberty justifies tyranny.

..

JOE ROGAN: “These ICE raids are fuckin’ nuts… if Trump had said we’re gonna go to Home Depot and arrest everyone, tackle people at construction sites, I don’t think anyone would’ve signed up for that… It’s crazy.” (PSA: You were warned, Joe. Yet you signed up for it.)

This headline is crazy, but it points out the study from @aoschlies and colleagues that biotic marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) techniques like ocean iron fertilization or macro algae cultivation could have severe negative consequences for marine ecosystems. The same is not true for abiotic techniques like ocean alkalinity enhancement.

https://futurism.com/ocean-suck-carbon-kill-marine-life

…Apparently, in 2018 there were about 13.4 million commercial flight hours per year: https://web.mit.edu/airlinedata/www/2018%2012%20Month%20Documents/Aircraft%20and%20Related/Total%20Fleet/Total%20Aircraft%20Airborne%20Hours%20-%20ALL%20AIRCRAFT.htm

So that’s about 36.7k flight hours per day.

At 10k litres of kerosene per hour, that’s 367 million litres of a one-time hydrocarbon jackpot pissed into the air each day, never to be seen again.

Totally normal