Marty

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New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

This week on CZM! 🧪📹🏃🏾‍♂️

This violence is not exceptional or limited to the actions of extreme individuals It's the direct result of years of mainstreaming led by mainstream media and politicians who have legitimised racism and other forms of exclusion Arrests will not stop this spiral www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

Vote Binface

Good, clear coverage: "Those playing a pivotal role in the spread of the footage on Elon Musk’s X included the far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson, fresh from a meeting this week at a sumptuous Moscow hotel with the billionaire’s father" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in Oct. 2025, "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only" and "Don't rely on Copilot for important advice" (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Pretty obsessed with this group of Thai kids who absolutely shred (have to do this one on two parts)

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

Ok I turned this into an essay about fascists and shame, for easier sharing:

CBS pulled the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, but Canada aired it anyway. The segment was streaming via Global TV and YouTube (since taken down). Having a VPN set to Canada helped. 🇨🇦 My take, there is no reason we shouldn’t see this. Most of it was known information, easily searchable. 1/5

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post. She said it all.

Exactly this

Advice please: what are the new local journalism outlets sticking it to power? I'm thinking of publications like the Bristol Cable, Inside Croydon and West Country Voices. Which others should be on the list? Thanks.

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

Moose hunting season begins soon in Manitoba, but non-Indigenous hunters will be turned away at check stops managed by Bloodvein River First Nation in an effort to protect the moose population. Here’s what Nisichawayasihk Chief Angela Levasseur had to say.

'There is an element of self-fulfilling prophecy as many people start accepting that immigration is indeed a major concern for ‘the people’, if not for them. As such, they stop protesting or asking for better as they are made to feel their views are marginal' aurelmondon.medium.com/the-people-l...

Flag graffiti is attempt to intimidate, says vicar #Lincolnshire #BBCNews 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Plenty of them around these days, especially in governments around the world. But also on the streets and on social media. "See no evil, hear no evil, so evil can't be happening" they say with their heads buried in the sand.

I found the article a useful synthesis of what many historians of specific societal upheavals argue. I preordered the book immediately

Ok, controversial statement time. MAGA movement is right about the political system! Its rigged in favour of wealth. We do massively disagree on the solutions but if we want to get back to normal , this is common ground that can start discussions ! time.com/5888024/50-t...

Great video by @philmoorhouse.bsky.social ocial drawing on crucial investigative work by the team @desmog.com " #Reform UK are not against net zero because they think it's bad, but because fossil fuels pay them more money" youtu.be/tOoRyykV7Sg

Margaret Thatcher is looking up from hell smiling….

The Not In Our Name petition of cis women opposed to Starmer’s state transphobia is now less than 2,500 signatures away from hitting 40,000! www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

It's not town vs country, whatever the culture warriors might tell you. It's money and power vs people. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Absurd yes. But also sinister. This country has a long and proud history of civil disobedience, trespass & symbolic acts to challenge militarism. This is no worse than Greenham Common or Faslane protests in fact it’s minor in comparison PROTESTING GENOCIDE IS NOT TERRORISM

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social that was one hell of an episode. Beautiful & moving, tender, emotional & gut wrenching. Subjective in the best possible way & unflinchingly honest. I wept, for Heather, for you, for T & L & all of us. Thank you ❤️ a dog mom & a wise story teller - kinda a mom to all❤️

So a guy is gonna start WW3 because nobody came to his birthday party? Entitled old white men will kill us all

Collapse has already started. But it’s not evenly distributed. Some are losing homes & their way life, forced to flee to unforgiving, unwelcoming places or face war, fire, famine, flood… some are taking their main family holiday at Easter rather than a more traditional summer getaway. FFS BBC

Very worthy cause for hard working deserving person and Emily the cat. Please chip in.

a woman just trying to get home gets shot

Here is a drawing in my sketchbook of a skateboard kid standing in resistance with the community to fascist ICE raids today in Paramount California giving the middle finger to the agents who fired dozens of munitions at them. Pen and ink on paper.

Today closes with ICE looking like biggest pussies on earth. Less than 100 Paramount Angelinos kept ICE agents trapped at a stand off for 8 hours. The civilians were unarmed and only called ICE agents names.

Don't search for Skateboard Kid in the physical world, going through photos and names and social accounts. Instead search for Skateboard Kid in your own heart.

I discuss this at length here if you're interested journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW IDSG: South African Farm Murders & 'White Genocide'. @danielharper.bsky.social & I host guest Bianca van Wyk, a South African disinfo advocate, & talk about right-wing narratives around crime in SA, plus Trump & Afrikaner 'refugees', Musk & Grok, etc. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/130-south-af...

Let's talk about plaster on straw. #howtostrawbalebuilding series🧵1/6

*Copy one of Boris Johnson's stupidest and most self-destructive policies. *Ignore the massive wave of public fury it ignited. *Smear and attack anyone warning that it might not be a great idea. In this week's column I ask what the hell Keir Starmer is playing at. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why isn’t there a “coalition of the willing” to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza?

Some of the best Warhammer players in the world are boycotting a championship in the U.S. over our embrace of fascism. One Belgian player cited specifically legal actions against trans people as one reason he will not participate. Nice to see.

@iwriteok.bsky.social I remember… We were all so young, innocent and full of hope in those long distant sun-filled days of yesteryear…

strangely proud to tell you that the fascists have found my YouTube channel and are coming in with the thumbs downs -- so if you want the algorithm to show other people antifascist content, head over there and watch the vids, give em a like, subscribe, etc www.youtube.com/@fifteenminu...

REMEMBER THIS! -ALWAYS. So much of their strategy is based on compliance in advance & making people too scared to stand up. Because standing up Works. One person alone is vulnerable but if one dares to stand & others are emboldened to join them they can become an unstoppable wave. A revolution even

Pushback works

This is intolerable! #ClassWar "The Wall Street Journal, an authoritative voice of the capitalist class, published on its front page Wednesday a report that the 19 richest households in America increased their wealth by $1 trillion in the year 2024." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...