Tom Malleson

I've moved to Bluesky.

[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

The best antidote to rising fascism is economic security. Free groceries for all would be a great start!
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[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

@Freedland Why do you write editorials when Jewish people are (horribly) murdered, but when it's Palestinian children you have so much less to say? Shouldn't your outrage be proportional to the amount of death, not the religion-ethnicity of the deceased?

[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

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[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

Smart words from the brilliant @gpbaiocchi on social housing.
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[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

If we taxed only ONE individual – David Thompson (USD$71.3 billion) – at only 1% of his wealth, allowing him to keep the other 99%, that would be enough to eradicate homelessness in Canada.

(Wealth estimates from Forbes; nightly homelessness estimates from statcan)

[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

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[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

I am overcome with grief and with fear. For Gaza. For women. For migrants. For working class people. For trans kids. For the environment.

The coming days and years will be dark indeed. But the question we must ask ourselves now is the question put so beautifully by Valarie Kaur: Will this be the darkness of the tomb, or perhaps, the darkness of the womb?

Tonight we breathe. Tomorrow we labour.

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[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

@gabriel_zucman Well said @gabriel_zucman!

[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

Elon Musk bribing voters to vote Republican, Patrick Soon-Shiong preventing the largest newspaper in California from freely expressing their support of Democrats – everywhere you look, billionaires are dismantling democracy.

We can have billionaires or democracy, not both.

[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

Don't avert your eyes. We cannot be both innocent and silent.
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[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

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[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

From 1865-1911 Sweden’s political system allocated votes based on wealth. The richest, who paid more taxes, got more votes. For instance, in 1871, there were 54 voting districts in which a single individual cast more than 50 percent of all the votes (@PikettyWIL 2022).

The rationale for this system was that those who invested more in the community (by paying more taxes) had a greater stake in community affairs, and so should have the most power.

This is precisely the same rationale behind the structuring of corporations today. Governance is allocated on the basis of ownership of shares on the grounds that those who invest most have the most at stake, and so should have the most power.

If Sweden’s system is so obviously outrageous in the political sphere (because it disenfranchises the poor), how can we accept the exact same system in today’s economic sphere (which disenfranchises the workers)?

[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

This is exactly why we need to democratize the large corporations via economic bicameralism.

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[Shane Martínez @martinezdefence]

The Heseg Foundation was co-founded by Indigo CEO Heather Reisman and effectively subsidizes Israel's Ministry of Defense.

Let's examine where tax-deductible donations to Heseg end up, and why this appears to be at odds with rules set by the Canada Revenue Agency. 🧵

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Right now Indigo is applying for injunction in court to force the take down of Indigo Kills Kids campaign https://t.co/piQFrRTp6i

Indigo CEO is Director of HESEG foundation, which funds soldiers to join IOF.

Desperate censorship & gross overreach, sign: https://t.co/MJwMDoZly8

[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

I have courageous friends from the anti-racist movement who have travelled to the West Bank to support Palestinian human rights. But it’s getting scarier and scarier to do so…

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[Tom Malleson @Tom_Malleson]

“Homosexuality” was removed from the DSM in 1973. “Gender Identity Disorder” was removed in 2013. By that measure, social progress towards trans equality is 40 years behind gay equality. If gay folks achieved rough status equality in North America around 2015, that means we still have about 30 years to wait before our trans families are free. I don’t want to wait that long.