Timothy Smith

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

16 years ago Google pulled its search engine out of China because they wouldn’t submit to an authoritarian government.

Today, they’re renaming lakes to appease one.

[Jeromy (Pathfinder) Farkas @JeromyYYC]

"If we're going to rail against equalization at the federal level, then we can't keep doing the same thing to our municipalities."

Last night, Council approved our property tax bylaw, complying with the UCP government's order to issue their largest property tax hike in our city's history. Despite our Council team approving only a 1.2% tax increase for city services like police and fire, Calgarians will see an increase nearly ten times that.

**You need to know that nearly half of your property tax bill goes to the province, in an equalization formula described here by the Premier.** The UCP has hiked property taxes by 57% in four years. Their latest 21% increase represents about $339 more per household. Chestermere and Airdrie will pay even more than that. By contrast, Edmonton homeowners will only pay $154 more.

Our Council team cares about affordability. We will continue to push for responsible spending while investing in core services like safety and infrastructure. Let's work together for a fair deal for municipalities and deliver transparency for where property tax dollars actually go.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨Trump today:

“We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We’re fighting wars. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.”

The United States has spent:

$21 billion on the Iran war in 30 days.
$100 million on Trump’s golf tab this term.
$200 billion requested for Pentagon weapons.

$8 trillion on wars since September 11th.
But daycare is not possible.
Medicare is not possible.

Medicaid — which covers 72 million Americans including children, seniors, and people with disabilities — is not possible.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Pls thank Mike Johnson and Donald Trump for the TSA lines this week.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

A declaration of no quarter is an explicit violation of Article 23 of the Hague Convention and therefore a war crime under U.S. law, specifically the War Crimes Act of 1996. And there is no statute of limitations.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Remember when Trump sued ABC, Meta, X, and Paramount, and they all agreed to settle for millions of dollars?

Well, that money was supposed to go to Trump’s future presidential library fund—except that fund has been dissolved with no public accounting of where the money went.

If these payments were labeled “charitable contributions,” the corporations could even write them off on their taxes. That’s why @SenWarren, @SenBlumenthal, and I are demanding answers!

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.

A truly extraordinary moment.

We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.

Act like it.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Stock piling weaponry.
Building mass detention centers.
Creating an AI-fueled mass surveillance system.
Labeling anti-Trump speech as indicators of “domestic terrorism.”
Denying due process.

Are you paying attention yet?

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

So, the Trump DOJ failed to release files concerning an Epstein accuser with claims involving Trump... but did manage to accidentally reveal that the files existed?

Americans are fed up with this administration’s mix of incompetence and corruption. Time to come clean.

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

Raj Sherman says he's been friends with Premier Smith for several years.

He ran for the UCP under her leadership in 2023- supporting her HC vision.

But he says her decision to blame Alberta's budget woes on certain immigrants is the final straw as he calls for new leadership.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “Today, you know there’s this huge #blizzard on the east coast. Today, for some reason, Kristi Noem’s department decided to fly a real deportation flight into New Hampshire. They flew it into…New Hampshire at 1 am today, right at the height of the blizzard. The airport…said they had NO IDEA this flight was coming, had they known they would have told them don’t come, it’s not safe, but Kristi Noem’s department, in its INFINITE WISDOM, flew this plane full of people there, presumably shackled…and then they left the people on that plane on the tarmac for more than 12 HOURS in the middle of that blizzard.”🤦‍♀️

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This is in project 2025.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

So Trudeau both drove people in and out of Alberta simultaneously?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

Albertans please read this. It is the truth.

Our premier is lying to us. Her government is *not* meeting with MD's to solve the problem (as they promised). And it is government that has refused to meet. MD's are begging for help.

This gov needs to be accountable.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

How about some new sanctions on Russia instead of on Minnesota?

[Kristy Greenberg @KGreenberg_]

I led SDNY’s health care fraud prosecutions for years. You don’t cut off Medicaid for people who need it to stop fraudsters who abuse it. This isn’t a War on Fraud. It’s a War on Minnesota.

[Congressman Shri Thanedar @RepShriThanedar]

Normally, when someone is killed and it's covered up, there's a charge and conviction.

When Trump's masked agents do it, it's called "immigration enforcement" (the victim was a citizen by the way).

Trump is operating a state sponsored terrorist organization.

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

ICE deported Juana 36 weeks into her pregnancy over the weekend. She had been at Dilley trailer prison for three months with her two young children. She was fearful of giving birth while imprisoned. When ICE first attempted to deport her, doctors and airlines REFUSED to clear her for travel because she was too close to her due date. But ICE shopped around for a doctor and airline that would be complicit in this cruelty.

Juana said that the stress is so bad that her hair is falling out—that she can’t take it anymore. I am gravely concerned that ICE is failing to meet the most basic medical needs of expecting mothers like Juana while imprisoned. Treating pregnant women and their unborn children with such cruelty is unconscionable. I will continue to inspect Dilley and uncover how ICE is treating pregnant women—who they hid from me during my last oversight inspection—to ensure their safety and wellbeing. We must #ShutDownDilley and #FreeOurChildren.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Your periodic reminder that ICE is a for-profit industry.

The companies profiting from the mass surveillance, weapons, and private prisons are the companies donating millions to the politicians voting to fund ICE and who spread hate about immigrants.

Corruption breeds fascism.