Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC

Prof. & Head of Program in Developmental Cog. Neuroscience, UBC- Wife, mom, grandma; trailblazer, scientist, educator; lover of justice, compassion, & democracy

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

excellent way to reframe the conversation

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

Trump has 3 reasons for his tariffs
(a) destroy small businesses & small farms (lrg businesses can weather tariffs)
(b) help his buds make great bonanzas from advance info on tariffs going up or down
(c) have a regressive tax system where those w/ the least pay same % as the rich

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

What head of state sh..s on his own constituents? Literally dropping feces on the citizens of his own country and his nation's largest cities.
#NoKings #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

AMEN. Everyone in America should read this.
Please share.

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

For I was hungry, and you voted against the school lunch program that provided me my only meal of the day, I was thirsty and you voted against clean water legislation, a stranger and you deported me without due process to an infamous prison in El Salvador.

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

What great idea!

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Tax Day Reminder:

If your job requires a college degree, you should be able to write-off your student loan payments as a business expense the way CEOs write off their private jets and yachts for their jobs which require neither.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.

2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0

Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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[Richard Angwin @RichardAngwin]

a lesson on presidential powers

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

MAJOR BREAKING: Governor JB Pritzker just revealed that during COVID, Donald Trump told him he would only send life saving equipment if he agreed to praise him on the Sunday talk shows.

Is Donald Trump evil or just completely fucking deranged?

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

Absolutely correct

[Dr. Cole @1drcole]

Do you agree?

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

@mhdksafa This is awful. This is a tragedy. The Jewish state is perpetrating another holocaust on another defenseless people. 😢😢

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

@bluhue123 ✋

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

I agree!

[Belinda Dodson @BelindaJDodson]

That includes us, Canada. Let's show solidarity with South Africa as it, too, faces the wrath of Trump.
Our govt can start with increased trade, finance, and development cooperation, as the EU just announced. And invite Cyril Ramaphosa to the G7.

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

US Defense Dept has restored the webpage of Charles Rogers. 😊
But now it's taken down 10 webpages dedicated to Native American Code Talkers who were critical to the success of EVERY major Marine Corps operation in the Pacific in WWII, esp. the victory at Iwo Jima.
Outrageous! 👎

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

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This is outrageous!
The US Defense Dept's webpage about US Army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s Medal of Honor has been taken down - because he's black.
Rogers received the Medal of Honor for actions showing extraordinary courage & leadership in Vietnam in 1968.

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

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Rogers was Lieutenant Colonel in command of a 300-man battalion when it came under heavy attack. Rogers rallied his men &, despite being badly (a leg split open from shin to ft, flesh & nerves ripped from the back of his leg), led his men to victory, repelling the attack.

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

@RpsAgainstTrump Totally disagree.
We need a new leader in the Senate.

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

Canada should cancel the $19 billion contract to buy US F-35 fighter jets
The US controls its source code & upgrades.
Canada would be dependent on US suppliers for parts, maintenance & upgrades
Tell Trump what we think of his tariffs & annexation threats. Cancel the F-35 contract

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

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Trump is destroying small, family farms – withholding funds awarded in signed contracts & hobbling them w/ tariffs

Trump is destroying small businesses – tariffs hurt small businesses most, many won't be able to survive them

[Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC @DrAdeleDiamond]

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Trump wants to concentrate all power in the hands of a few, then they can set wages as low as they want & prices as high as they want
He wants a nation of sharecroppers & slaves - overburdened by major loans, forced to accept meager wages & at the mercy of price-gouging.