Mastodawn

**The case for a Canadian wealth tax**
By @pluralistic

A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is that they will back whichever psycho promises the lowest taxes and least regulation, no matter how completely batshit and unfit that person is

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/billionaires-eh/

Pluralistic: The case for a Canadian wealth tax (23 Jun 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Lord HeeHaw II 2d ago

Hacker News 2d ago

US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
L: https://www.thejournal.ie/us-visa-changes-6740830-Jun2025/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44354298
posted on 2025.06.23 at 06:47:36 (c=2, p=4)

US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications

The move has been heavily criticised by Taoiseach Micheál Martin who described it as “excessive”.

TheJournal.ie

Lord HeeHaw II 2d ago

Richard Murphy 2d ago

Farage is planning to boost migration into the UK at cost to the poor https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/23/farage-is-planning-to-boost-migration-into-the-uk-at-cost-to-the-poor/ Farage has a plan to increase migration into the UK at cost to everyone already living here - and he obviously thinks we're daft enough to fall for it.

Have Labour MPs had enough of Starmer?

Keir Starmer is facing rebellion from more than 120 Labour MPs over benefit cuts that target the UK’s most vulnerable. Could this be the beginning of the end for his leadership? There is no audio version of this video. This is the transcript: Is Keir Starmer facing a leadership crisis in the Labour...

Funding the Future

Lord HeeHaw II 4d ago

Show thread

saxnot 6d ago

@veronica @tdelmas @bengo @Mer__edith perhaps we need to anthropomorphize the company behind it.

"Shady meta shows its heuristic tools again. Meta tried to evade blame by letting the tool evade the topic of metas misconduct"

Lord HeeHaw II Jun 17

Aure Free Press

Jun 17

70 Gazans Seeking Food Aid murdered at distribution point

The residents were walking to a food distribution point when they came under gunfire.

The IDF had no comment this morning!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas #BreakingNews #Breaking

Israeli bomb blast in Gaza

Lord HeeHaw II Jun 17

Aral Balkan Jun 17

“On June 8th, I was kidnapped in international waters by Israel.”

– Rima Hassan; EU MEP

#europe #eu #europeanValues #euParliament #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #kidnapping #piracy #Madleen #humanRights #humanitarianAid #RimaHassan https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/114694665432865730

MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 (@fkamiah17@syzito.xyz)

Attached: 1 video "As long as this Parliament is silent, Europe will no longer be a voice for human rights, but the echo of its own complicity and political cowardice." Rima at the European Parliament today 🔥 #FreePalestine #Madleen #GazaHolocaust

Syzito.xyz

Lord HeeHaw II Jun 17

JuneSim63 Jun 17

"The world appears to be facing an unprecedented upending of the post-1945 international legal order. Israel’s government is operating with a level of impunity rarely seen before. At the same time, the Trump administration is actively undermining the global institutions designed to enforce international law"
Brian Brivati, Kingston University

#Israel #Iran #UNSC

https://theconversation.com/israel-iran-and-the-us-why-2025-is-a-turning-point-for-the-international-order-258044

Israel, Iran and the US: why 2025 is a turning point for the international order

The world appears to be facing an unprecedented upending of the post-1945 international legal order.

The Conversation

Lord HeeHaw II Jun 16

Ben Royce 🇺🇦Jun 16

What 3 years of captivity in #Russia does to a defender of #Ukraine

Luckily he was able to be returned in a #POW swap

(he was a defender of #Mariupol, source: https://x.com/olddog100ua/status/1934462695970844974 )

#UkraineWar #RussiaIsATerroristState

Lord HeeHaw II Jun 15

JR Horsting Jun 15

This is reality.
Trump is pretending he's great.
Putin is provably helping him misinform the US.
There's a Middle East war going on.

Putin supports Iran.
Trump supports Bibi Netanyahu.
Death happens.
Trump & Putin stand together.

Why is that?
Support Ukraine.
These guys suck.

Lord HeeHaw II Jun 15

Indivisible ❌👑Jun 15

No Kings Day was one of the largest days of protest in US history. From deep red small towns to our largest cities, millions of people turned out to make it clear that the American people will not bow to fascism. #NoKings