@lindamcquaig
Author, journalist, supporter of the oppressed (& animals on factory farms), detractor of corporate shills posing as "populists." Latest book: (with Neil Brooks) Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'If we consider the top 1% as the “treeline” on a mountain, then the real story of the phenomenal wealth growth in the last few decades has taken place almost completely above the treeline' @policyalternatives.ca @lindamcquaig.bsky.social
The issue of wealth inequality is one of the most pressing social and economic problems of our time. States must take action to rein in the power of billionaires—and one key tool for doing so would be a wealth tax. By @lindamcquaig.bsky.social + Neil Brooks.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
The competition for the dumbest member of the United States Senate has just heated up with the elimination of one its strongest contestants!!
How OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY is going so far:
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Well would you look at that
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
Book cover for Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks (Dundurn): Nonfiction. A jarring portrait of a deeply unequal Canada and how a wealth tax could rein in the destructive power wielded by today’s billionaires. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754836-cancelling-billionaires-before-they-cancel-us
Book cover for The Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro, trans. by Christina MacSweeney (Two Lines Press): Literature in translation reviewed by Catherine Parnell ("Divided into three sections, each with mini-chapters or narratives, the novel wends its way through Adriana’s life as she struggles with Lady Death and Lady Manipulator—the death, that of her mother and maternal grandmother, and the manipulator? Who’s to say." -- https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/september/voices-adriana-elvira-navarro) for 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/).
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us (by @lindamcquaig.bsky.social & Neil Brooks, @dundurnpress.bsky.social) (yes please) & The Voices of Adriana (@elviranavarro.bsky.social, trans Christina MacSweeney, @twolinespress.com). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
Would you be surprised to hear that none of the leading American political reporters are talking about this? They are acting like this never happened. Because it reveals the state of mind of our Commander in Chief. And that’s a taboo subject in America.
Gas could reach a national average above $3 per gallon for the first time this year, as analysts anticipate crude oil prices will jump next week.
It’s really crazy how much I’ve been agreeing with Rep. Thomas Massie recently!
Zero Republicans call for Benghazi-style hearings. No rightwing media outrage. Republicans dined off of 4 dead Americans in Benghazi for a decade, and yet 3 dead Americans at the hands of a GOP president who promised no new wars gets no pushback. Fuck these fake outrage ghouls.
I prefer non-lethal distractions from the tRUMPSTEIN Files like renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making Canada the 51st state & buying Greenland. Sure it was hugely offensive to longtime friends & allies, but at least no one died.
Currently trending on X.
I am closely monitoring the ongoing military operations in Iran. International military actions have a direct and profound impact on Maryland’s families and communities.
I served in Afghanistan and I’ve seen who pays the price when Washington rushes into conflict.
Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
But they said he was “The peace president.” 🥴
I still think they’re just trying to distract from the Epstein files
Here's how the story should have been written:
"Despite a strike that killed more than 100 Iranian schoolgirls, PM Mark Carney has endorsed Donald Trump's attack on Iran..."
A PSA from Thomas Massie:
When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.
“How’s my new war going?”
“Not good, Mr President. They’re still talking about the files.”
#TrumpGuilty
#Epstein
I have this cancer in remission (nearly 20 years now). I'm convinced the only reason I'm still alive is because I was (for a neuro knock-on catastrophe) treated with immunoglobulin donated by strangers. Their antibodies taught mine, got me out of a wheelchair.
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For the record, as I understand it, there is ZERO evidence Iran has the capacity to weaponize enriched uranium.
So even if they stockpile it, they have no way to pack it into a weapon and launch it — and that’s a VERY difficult bit of knowledge to obtain.
Not exactly an immediate nuclear threat!!!
Khanna: I think that there was some sexism in the way Secretary Clinton was treated. She was treated worse than President Clinton was treated.
fell for it again award
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