Granville Cat

I hop the OneBC racists haven't discovered BlueSky yet.

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

Looking to speak with families with young children in Chicago for a story on how the ICE raids are impacting them. Reach out to Jessica.Washington@TheIntercept.com, if you're interested.

Want to learn more about how to write your own alt text? Check out this thread of resources from my website! bsky.app/profile/vero...

Here's a great video from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew who is the first indigenous Premier dancing in his jingle dancer regalia for a every child matters gathering for Truth and reconciliation day 🧡 so powerful #EveryChildMatters

.@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social The 2025 BCNDP Convention is coming in November. There will be resolutions forwarded by party electoral district associations discussed.
The situation of people with disabilities in BC living far below the poverty line is a major subject.
bsky.app/profile/catw...

"Market Basket Measure" poverty line amount in Vancouver is $2,294.25/month.
Monthly BC disability benefit is $1,483.40/month.
People with severe disabilities cannot work part-time & top up their income.
As a result they are struggling to eat!
#bcpoli
www.disabilitywithoutpoverty.ca/en/take-acti...

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim railed against his predecessor for 'dumb' spending. Is his own office budget better? Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim blasted his predecessor for the size of his office's budget, but has so far been unable to trim it

Let’s talk “efficiencies”:

Mayor Ken Sim campaigned on cutting Kennedy Stewart’s Mayor’s Office budget of $1,137,110.

Sim’s 2024 budget was $1,200,000, and this doesn’t include his ~$450,000 VPD Ford Escalade + security detail.

#VanPoli vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Why are we making people with disabilities starve in Canada?
Unless a person with disabilities can work part-time or has very affordable or social housing, they will literally struggle to eat in this country. Why?
PWD live far below the poverty line!
www.disabilitywithoutpoverty.ca/en/take-acti...

Not good enough given the vagaries of the first past the post electoral system with its false majorities along arbitrary geographic boundaries.

I have always preferred Zussmann to Elroy honestly.

Reichtum in Deutschland: Warum kommt keine Vermögenssteuer? Gut 100 Jahre lang gab es in Deutschland eine Vermögensteuer. 1997 wurde sie "ausgesetzt". Wie kam es dazu? Und warum ändert sich daran nichts?

Der Werdegang der SPD ist schon seltsam.
Die SPD unter Schroeder hatte anscheinend NULL Interesse the Vermögenssteuer, die Deutschland bis 1997 hundert Jahre lang existierte wieder einzuführen.
www.zdfheute.de/wirtschaft/v...

a close up of a cat 's ear with a tiktok watermark in the corner ALT: a close up of a cat 's ear with a tiktok watermark in the corner

Finally makes Bluesky accounts and hastens to find @richardzussman.bsky.social on there, but finds that he's not even half as active on the Butterfly thing as he used to be on the Bird thing.

All these old men in power causing so much harm could have a heart attack tomorrow, but they'd just be replaced by younger men with giant egos causing harm with divide & conquer rhetoric.
It's when people stop wanting to sit at the bully's table to feel strong & popular, that we'll have the cure.

Anti-fascists in Buchenwald built a united front composed of members from different parties (social democratic, conservative & communist). In 1944, they succeeded in building a German "Popular Front Committee". This was a clandestine organization within the camp.
#Antifa
Photo: after liberation

Opinion: B.C. has a revenue problem, not a spending problem Experience from early 2000s shows that underfunding public services and failing to address poverty leads to higher economic and social costs

Not morning anymore, but I read this great Op Ed by @iglikaivanova.bsky.social discussing BC's budget challenges in a rather simple and elegant way.
If you could get her and someone from the BC Government concerned with taxation on your show?
#bcpoli
theprovince.com/opinion/op-e...