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[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

When Carney gave his now-famous speech in Davos, many of us - perhaps naively - were excited that Canada would emerge as a global leader to reinforce international law and its principles.

Ever since, Carney has worked hard, it appears, to disappoint us.

Here, for instance, he downplays Trump's language of annihilation as mere "war talk" and goes on to repeat the Israeli line that Iran constitutes an existential threat to Israel.

Carney's key point in Davos was that Western states applied international law "with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim."

And that is exactly what Carney did here. He downplayed Trump's horrific language (would he have done it if Pezeshkian had uttered those words?) and then went on to indirectly justify the illegal war by repeating Israeli propaganda re Iran's threat to Israel.

Deep inside, I knew he would disappoint. Just not this fast and not this embarrassingly.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

There is very simple math behind the need to tax billionaires. Billionaire wealth is increasing at an accelerating rate vastly outpacing the overall rise in GDP. This means that their wealth is not growing because the whole pie is growing. Their wealth is growing at your expense and the trend is accelerating. If you are not a billionaire and you and your children want to own things, this is your fight.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Scumbag.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Just so you get the truth and not the partisan spin here, Republicans came up with the idea of the mid-decade redistricting fight and started in Texas. Then, in Virginia, the RNC spent $0.00 to fight. Now, as drawn, the Democrats have an advantage from the redistricting fight.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Reminder:

Any Democratic Attorney General could sue under the Clayton Act to prevent this, but not a single one has.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Disney: $8.3B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

CVS Health: $6.57B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

Tesla: $5.7B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

Citigroup: $4.45B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

United Airlines: $4.3B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

Coinbase: $1.62B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

Palantir: $1.58B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

PayPal: $1.43B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

Yum! Brands: $1B in profits
$0 paid in taxes

At least 88 companies reported $105B in profits last year, and paid $0 in taxes.

But Republicans want you to think someone working 40 hours a week for poverty wages, relying on SNAP and Medicaid to survive, is the problem.
https://t.co/mLksxq8qo7

[Ruchi Gupta @guptar]

The lopsided balance of power between capital and labour: the workers have no ability to refuse to wear the cameras which are training systems which will eventually replace the workers themselves

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

🇨🇦 | Canadian doctor:

“We saw everything with our own eyes, Israel is lying. Be brave and declare that this crime is a genocide!”

[Dan Osborn @osbornforne]

Before Citizens United, billionaires spent around $16 million on presidential elections. In 2024, they spent $2.6 BILLION.

And what did they get for that money? They got a MASSIVE tax cut for themselves.

[William Murphy @420GHz]

This isn’t a verdict on universal healthcare—it’s a receipt for austerity. ER wait times don’t come from “too much public care,” they come from too little funding, too few staff, and decades of capitalist market logic hollowing out public systems. Scarcity is managed neglect.

[🎟️ @best8itw]

when he chants 'death to america' in 10 yrs theyll say its because "muslims hate our freedom"

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Kevin O'Leary is building the world's largest AI datacenter in Alberta Canada. It will consume 24 million cubic meters of water annually (460,000 people's lifetime consumption) and set back 20 years of carbon emission reductions (including all gains made by phasing out coal)

[Niz @NizMhani]

Dont believe Palestinians if you prefer.
Dont believe the media and dont believe human rights groups if you prefer.

But perhaps you'll believe a British NHS surgeon testifying, emotionally, to Israels atrocities.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Most moral army in the world shot Muhammad’s thumbs off after learning he was only 2 weeks away from becoming a surgeon.

[Linda McQuaig @LindaMcQuaig]

A Canadian doctor describes an unspeakable crime--Israel blowing off the thumbs of a Palestinian surgeon. @MarkJCarney & @AnitaAnandMP must listen to his plea that Canada finally stand up against such atrocities.

[Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) @BenNephrology]

Muhammad was in his final year of medical school in Gaza when he was kidnapped and imprisoned by Israeli military while caring for his patients.

Two weeks from his final exams, he begged to be released, so he could live his dream of being a surgeon.

The Israeli guard then shot off both his thumbs. Did Canada give Israel the bullets?

Watch the press conference demanding an end to Canadas support for Israel's ongoing genocide

@AnitaAnandMP @MarkJCarney stop weapon transfers now. End diplomatic relations now.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Just so we're clear, Israel is now the first state to have an ethnicity-based death penalty since Nazi Germany.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is factually untrue and false and a lie as I explain, with evidence and receipts, here:

[Suppressed Man @SuppressedMan]

“They have stolen my harvest and taken everything from us they’ve left us with absolutely nothing. They’ve destroyed our identity.”

A Palestinian grandfather cries after Zionist settlers destroyed his olive groves and stole the olives in Tulkarem (West Bank).

[ostonox @ostonox]

ratio with 30 minutes of Hasan separating Zionism from Judaism and calling out anti-Semitism