Matthew Cooper

I mostly retweet other people’s posts, & don’t really care about follower numbers. Sometimes I accidentally click “follow” on an account I don’t mean to.

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#DougFord #ONpoli

[Adam ⚾️ @GradyTripp00]

It’s all folksy bullshit theatre from Doug Ford.

This self-anointed ‘Captain Canada’ is requiring ALL public school teachers to buy their school supplies from American chain ‘Staples’.

His new modular reactors will run on fuel that can only be supplied by the United States.

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#ONpoli #DougFord

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

Sylvia Jones reimbursed Loblaw-owned Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacies up to $75 per MedsCheck consultation & billed Ontarians over a two-year period $81M (spanning the 2022 to 2024 fiscal years) as Jones reimbursed a family doctor through OHIP $37.95 for a typical visit in 2024.

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#DougFord #ONpoli

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

In Trump's 51st state tariff war, Doug Ford announced an American corporate investment firm JP Morgan was behind Billy bishop airport YTZ expansion as Ford designated YTZ a "lawless special economic zone" with Lecce's bill 5 while praising Trump's tariffs.

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#DougFord #ONpoli

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

Trump launched 50% tariff on Canada after Ford's regime launched "buy American & screw Ontarians" as Lecce banned cheap large-scale, ground-mounted solar farms, ignored Canada's Candu reactors & billed Ontarians $21B for 4 U.S.A. reactors that rely on the states to operate.

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#ONpoli #DougFord

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

During Ford's $189M snap election, Global News FOI found Ford, Fedeli, & Lecce billed Ontarians $100K for a gravy plane, wine & dine event at U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington as Mike Crawley @CBC asked Ford's staff "where are the Americans?"

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#DougFord #ONpoli

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

The biggest exporter of Canadian jobs to the U.S. is Doug Ford & Lecce:
• $1B for private companies administering Ontario gov programs
• $9B Ontario Line trains from U.S.
• $21B for four U.S. nuclear reactors
• $140M U.S. Trillium Hospital

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#DougFord #ONpoli

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

Trump tariffs Canada 50% & says Canada "wants the benefits" of being a U.S. state "without being one" as Ford, Lecce & Calandra "buy American & screw Ontarians." Ontario school boards paid $300M from their taxpayer budgets for school supplies from Staples, an American company

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#DougFord #ONpoli

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

Trump launched a 50% tariff on Canada after Ford's regime closed 9 privately run Independent ServiceOntario Centres, billed Ontarians $11.7M for Staples Canada, "an American company," to run 9 ServiceOntario Centres & billed Ontarians $750M + $60M contract for teachers supplies.

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#DougFord #ONpoli

[Captain Dick @CaptainDick12]

AND just to prove how Captain Canada he is Ford signed a $14.5 million deal with a company in Texas to take over Ontario's WSIB services and fired 466 Ontario workers. The Ford signed deals with 9 US states that are meaningless bafflegab. Ford is a useless twit, not a Premier.

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#DougFord #ONpoli

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

Harmon Brampton (a division of Harmon Canada) closed its 330,000-square-foot manufacturing plant and laid off 250 employees two days after Ford's regime awarded $140M Mississauga hospital exterior glass & metal façade to a U.S.A. subcontractor.

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 15 Aug 1970 Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton delivered a speech in NYC criticisng homophobia and sexism in revolutionary movements and arguing for "full participation of the gay liberation movement and the women's liberation movement" https://t.co/t1vfKXC8PL

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development charged his riding association more than $21,000 for “out of country” staff meal expenses, public records show, while simultaneously billing taxpayers for official government-related travel.

https://t.co/WuXiLfCeiL

#onpoli

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#USpoli #capitalism

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Trump: “Americans can’t buy a home because they don’t work very hard.”

75% of Americans can’t afford a median-priced home not because we don’t work hard, but because we’ve been priced out by a system that concentrates wealth into fewer and fewer hands off the backs of our labor.

It’s wild that anyone could still support a president who blames the very people he was elected to serve for the systemic corruption that’s destroying our lives.

The problem isn’t that Americans aren’t working hard. The problem is that we’re working hard, but still can’t get ahead because the system is rigged against us.

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#ONpoli #DougFord

[TheTrillium.ca @Thetrilliumca]

Lead of controversial Muskoka proposal paid $1,000 to PCs to dine with premier while working to acquire land from province https://t.co/msdLON89MG

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#UShistory #USpoli

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 20 Aug 1998 the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum North, Sudan, was destroyed by the US military, killing one worker and injuring 11. The US claimed it was making nerve gas but really it supplied half of all medicines used in Sudan https://t.co/Yr0zdwZp8i

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#UShistory #USpoli

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 19 Aug 1953 PM Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran was overthrown in a coup organised by the CIA on behalf of the British and American governments. Mossadegh had instituted social reforms and planned to nationalise the British-owned oil fields https://t.co/Bp1mwaXwkz

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#ONpoli #DougFord

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford held a private meeting with the CEO of one of Canada’s largest grocery chains, government records reveal, as the Progressive Conservatives rejected efforts by opposition parties to further regulate the industry.

https://t.co/YKaZXLlhx6

#onpoli

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#UKhistory #capitalism

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 15 Aug 1911 prison vans transporting 90 people convicted for involvement in the Liverpool strikes to jail were attacked. A stand-off resulted in two deaths, after the soldiers escorting the vans opened fire on a crowd throwing bottles and bricks https://t.co/G7oTUAQoMp

[John Bowker @bowker_john]

Months before the PC Party’s creepy spy operation, amid the Greenbelt scandal, the PC government house leader falsely accused the NDP of sending a spy to Doug Ford’s daughter’s wedding (it hadn’t; see: https://t.co/nh3gEzQx7D). Every accusation is a confession, etc #onpoli

[Matthew Cooper @CooperMatthew_1]

#ONpoli #DougFord

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

NEW: Ford government will award its $750 classroom supply card portal to a single corporate vendor, according to procurement documents - fueling concerns about choice, flexibility & pricing.

Teachers tell us they currently rely on a variety of retailers & suppliers depending on the needs of their students. https://t.co/V4D7fdYzH6