Monica Rorvik

@Wesgro retired end 2025Dec from Head: Trade in Services (incl Film &Media) CityofCapeTown & WesternCape, South Africa: 🐙 home of My Octopus Teacher /FBxENDO

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Thousands flooded streets with "Ivanka, Go Home" banners to block a $4B resort. Now, a foreign government has frozen the bank accounts behind the deal. Read the massive international blowout: 👇
https://t.co/k7tVRwsTI5

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Just take the Albanian Island deal. Jared and Ivanka secured a $1.4 billion resort on Sazan, a protected island on state land. By his own account, he was introduced to Albania's prime minister on the Rothschilds' yacht. Ivanka called the place a "private island" they "discovered." Albanian prosecutors have now opened a corruption inquiry into how that land lost its protected status.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Never before have we had so much income inequality.

Last year, the bottom 50% saw their income go down by $27, on average, while the top 0.01% gained $2.9 million.

And the top 0.001%? They saw their income go up by $20 million. In a single year.

Yes. We must tax the rich.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump promised not to “touch” Medicaid.

Now he is cutting it by $1 trillion and taking health care away from patients with cancer, AIDS and other life-threatening diseases to pay for tax breaks to the top 1% and his wealthy campaign contributors.

Unimaginable cruelty.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, per WaPo

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

We are saying no to a data centre in Île-des-Chênes because there are big threats to the environment and not much benefit to the economy.

Our message to any tech company out there… if you want to build technology with a thoughtful, human-centred approach that puts humanity first, then Manitoba is open for business. 🦬

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Wab Kinew: I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy.

[Monica Rorvik @Moni_R]

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[Terry T. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @terry_truchan]

Mark Carney walked into the Economic Club of New York, & instead of grovelling like every other world leader who's come to kiss the ring, he stole the MAGA slogan straight off Trump's head & used it as a weapon.

"Canada Strong will help make America great again." 1/2 🧵#cdnpoli

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

As Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon concludes her service as Governor General, we thank her for a lifetime dedicated to Indigenous rights, reconciliation, and service to all Canadians.

We’re honouring her work with $5 million to establish the Ajuinnata: The Mary Simon Catalyst for Mental Wellness and we’re matching every dollar up to $10 million that the Rideau Hall Foundation raises. Building on Mary Simon’s advocacy, this project will provide lifesaving counselling, culturally grounded services, and peer-led mental health care to Northern and Indigenous communities.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The great issue facing humanity is the economic, political and media power of a handful of oligarchs

If we believe in democracy, economic & environmental justice, this reality can’t be ignored.

The billionaires have the money. We have the people. We must organize for victory.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

All you Maple Maga loving motherfuckers always wanna whine about Carneys conflicts of interest, but cheer on Trump! And wonder why we don’t give a shit about making a deal with him!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump is reportedly considering halting immigration and customs processing at airports located in sanctuary cities.

If implemented, that would mark a major escalation in the long-running battle between the federal government and Democratic-led cities over immigration policy.

This would directly use federal airport and immigration infrastructure as leverage against local governments that refuse to fully cooperate with federal enforcement priorities.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Canadian conservatives have become the loudest bunch of whiners in the country.

“No investment.”
“No energy strategy.”
“No export markets.”
“No one wants our resources.”

Then the second a major deal gets announced, like LNG exports to Germany, suddenly it’s:
“Terrible deal.”
“Selling out to Europe.”
“Not enough profit.”
“Why are we helping Germany?”

So which is it?

For years they screamed that Canada needed to diversify energy exports, reduce dependence on the US market, and build stronger relationships with allies. Germany literally comes looking for stable Canadian energy after Europe got burned by Russian dependence, and now the same people act offended that Canada is doing business with them.

Apparently conservatives want investment, jobs, pipelines, exports, trade deals, and energy dominance… but only if they can still complain afterward.

At this point, complaining IS the platform.

[Bloomberg @business]

Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation found signs of possible subsurface water-ice beneath four permanently shadowed craters near the Moon’s south pole using radar data from the Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter https://t.co/LpCFyTRzwp

[Crypto Tice @CryptoTice_]

BREAKING:

The Bank of Japan is about to dump $2,860,000,000 in U.S. Treasuries.

The largest Japanese Treasury liquidation in 30 years.

The last time Japan did this.
The stock market crashed 15%.

Japan is the second largest holder of U.S. debt on earth.

When they sell. Yields spike.
When yields spike. Everything breaks.

China reducing Treasuries to 2008 lows.
Japan dumping at a 30 year record.

The two largest foreign holders of U.S. debt.
Selling at the same time.

The Fed will have to buy everything they're selling.
More printing. More inflation. More pressure.

The system is breaking in slow motion.

And nobody is talking about it.

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

Doug Ford is responsible for nearly 40% of Ontario’s $500B debt

[Ontario Liberal Party | Parti Libéral de l'Ontario @OntLiberal]

Doug Ford’s government is hoarding power, hiding records, and shutting the public

A democracy belongs to the people — not politicians trying to dodge accountability.

#onpoli

[Mike Angelle ⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛⬜ @trainofangels00]

@CanadaKlr @SofaAssoc If homelessness in Ontario is mainly from federal immigration, why has it risen nearly 50% since 2021 under Doug Ford — with shelters full and encampments doubling in places like Kitchener — when provinces control housing, shelters, and social services?

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

This week Doug Ford gave a provincial government contract to Home Depot the same way he did Staples, and I say it's time Canadians doubled down on boycotting not just American products but their conglomerates as well. Why shop at Home Depot when Canadian Tire is right there?