Claire Trottier 🇨🇦

Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax' Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.

1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state.

2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible.

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Why I changed my mind on the genocide charge against Israel For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I’ve been wrestling with the contentious…

A tipping point is happening.

From the Chair of Israel Studies at UCLA:

At this point they could announce that Ghislaine Maxwell is being put in charge of labor statistics and I wouldn’t even be surprised

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Les angles morts de l’extrême centre Sa prétention à la rationalité masque une profonde irrationalité. Sa modération est devenue inflexible.

«l’extrême centre s’arroge le rôle d’arbitre du politique, comme si elle incarnait la sagesse pure, dénuée de passions idéologiques. Mais cette posture n’est ni neutre ni véritablement rationnelle»

À part une phrase (je vous laisse deviner laquelle), très bon texte👇
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Inequality doesn't just threaten our economy. It threatens the stability of our society and our democracies.

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

BREAKING - B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel call Israel's actions in Gaza genocide

Watch the video and read the 88-pages report entitled "Our Genocide" here www.btselem.org/publications...

Leading Israeli human rights group accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza | CNN A leading Israeli human rights group has accused Israel of “committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,” becoming the first such organization to make the claim.

B’Tselem report comes to “unequivocal” conclusion that Israel committing genocide in Gaza.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/28/m...

Millionaires won't leave if you tax them Jul 24, 2025

Time to puncture once and for all the myth of “millionaire tax flight.” The stats show no grand exodus by the rich out of jurisdictions that raise tax rates on their wealthiest. @patrioticmillionaires.org #taxtherich #inequality

YouTube video by The Interview Robert Reich: How Bullies Drive Economic Inequality | The Interview

"Inequality — be it economic, racial or political — erodes social trust, diminishes belief in democracy and can create openings for demagogues."

@rbreich.bsky.social in the NYT Interview.

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJtC...

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out.

In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.

Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

When you take Saez & @gabrielzucman.bsky.social's tax burden work in combination with wealth estimates, the issues with the U.S. economy is fairly easy to narrate: the wealthiest have shifted the tax burden onto the middle class.

#EconSky

I’ve said this before. Orgs that undergird movements need a new members committee. The people with tender hearts and endless patience can work with the “butwhatabouts” — the neophytes. The hard cores can keep their (useful) callouses.

Oh my god, if you make cycling safe and easy, people will do it.

Who. Would. Ever. Have. Thought.

Gorgeous 😍

This Is the Voyager Space Probe, and I’m Taking a Government-Mandated Mental Health Break from Social Media “President Donald Trump’s NASA budget plans look to cut its public relations funding by half, but already the agency is shuttering social media acc...

"By the way, how is Carl Sagan doing?"

When you strip away humanity

Reasonable people can disagree about the best ways to achieve Jewish safety, self-determination, or liberation.

Absolutely no one can justify the mass starvation of children and violent enforcement of statelessness upon another people.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

Trump is making media orgs and universities pay him money like a protection racket and the press is trying so hard to not report this obvious fact.

Brilliant article below that describes how most millionaires are unlikely to move if their local governments begin taxing them more. Those that do move, we are probably better off without them.
#taxwealthnotwork #taxtherich

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.

This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.

Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

Thanks for sharing this piece, it is truly excellent!

*UN 🤦🏼

Quite literally, this won't even register on CNN or the front pages beyond tomorrow, if it's even there at all. But entire books & wall-to-wall coverage for weeks on Joe Biden & his capacity/fitness to be president. Incredibly ugly & revealing.

Labour shouldn’t fear taxing the rich – the people I work with would welcome it | Stephanie Brobbey The UK still holds many attractions for the privileged despite prophecies of a wealth exodus if Rachel Reeves swoops, says Stephanie Brobbey of the Good Ancestor Movement

Love the work that the Good Ancestors Movement is doing.

We have these issues in Canada and they might get worse. Those who earn their money from their assets pay less in taxes than those who make their money from work.

And they are lobbying for even more.

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J’ai participé à une échange à propos des inégalités et la taxation des ultras-riches 👇