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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 3d

Your daily reminder that fascist Russia depends on fossil revenue to bankroll its evil war against our democratic ally Ukraine🇺🇦.
Why is Taiwan🇹🇼 importing 🇷🇺 naphtha + coal??? See the helpful @creacleanair.bsky.social thread👇for more info.
#FossilFuelsFundFascists
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain

Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air @creacleanair.bsky.social · 10d

🇷🇺🛢️NEW | Report: Taiwan's average monthly imports of Russian naphtha spiked nearly 6x between 2022 and H1 2025 to USD 1.3 bn, making Taiwan the world’s top importer

W/ Isaac Levi, Luke Wickenden, Hsin Hsuan Sun, Mark Pojen Hsu, Vladimir Slivyak

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 2d

Good call. Perhaps less catchy, but “Walking Policy Failure” also works.

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…firm’s many performance + governance issues. “We are concerned that the Board remains fixated on pleasing Mr. Musk, rather than responsibly addressing his many varied pursuits, at least some of which have come at the expense of Tesla shareholders.” Time for pension plans in 🇨🇦 to ditch this 🍋! 15/x

Tesla Shareholders Told To Reject Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package

A shareholder battle is brewing over the proposed $1 trillion U.S. pay package being offered to Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk. Major Tesla shareholders, led by the New York City employee pension fund...

www.baystreet.ca

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 2d

Resuming our thread highlighting the growing number of pension funds that are sick of investing in Tesla: several big US pension funds are trying to replace the board and stop a potential $1 Trillion(!) pay package for the Nazi-loving, USAID cutting, sociopathic CEO. The letter details the…. 14/x

Pension funds call to vote down Musk's $1T pay package, replace Tesla board

A group representing several large pension funds sent a letter with concerns about Tesla's board, opposing its proposals.

electrek.co

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing our fun thread ”LNG is Poison for People + the Planet”, here’s a look👇 at an LNG plant’s horrifying impact on local air quality in Texas.

Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 17d

🔥 The EU’s dependence on fossil gas is fuelling death and environmental destruction! Hear it from John Beard, founder and CEO of the Port Arthur Community Action Network in Texas. Watch John’s full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9z...

#TheCostOfMethane #CutMethane #PhaseOutFossilGas
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 3h

And here’s a closer look👇at the US- based companies that continue to do business in fascist Russia. These awful firms directly enable the Kremlin’s brutal war on Ukraine, by paying lots of taxes, keeping Russians employed, and providing key goods + services. Please boycott them! @b4ukraine.org 4/x

B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · 3d

The US, Ukraine’s largest bilateral donor, is also the largest corporate contributor to Russia’s war economy. In 2024, US firms paid $1.2B in profit tax to the Kremlin, dominating several segments, including Alcohol & Tobacco (Philip Morris), Food & Beverages (PepsiCo, Mondelēz), FMCG (Mars, P&G).

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2h

We need help to protect our civilians from blackouts, cold and darkness, and a new wave of refugees to the EU.

Right now, there are two very important areas that Ukraine needs help with:

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 3h

And here’s a closer look👇at the US- based companies that continue to do business in fascist Russia. These awful firms directly enable the Kremlin’s brutal war on Ukraine, by paying lots of taxes, keeping Russians employed, and providing key goods + services. Please boycott them! @b4ukraine.org 4/x

B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · 3d

The US, Ukraine’s largest bilateral donor, is also the largest corporate contributor to Russia’s war economy. In 2024, US firms paid $1.2B in profit tax to the Kremlin, dominating several segments, including Alcohol & Tobacco (Philip Morris), Food & Beverages (PepsiCo, Mondelēz), FMCG (Mars, P&G).

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 15d

Fortunately not! This ICBC = Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, one of many 🇨🇳 firms still doing business with fascist Russia.
Speaking of which… here👇are many example of such fascist-friendly firms that BC Public Sector Pension Plans continue to invest in. (Likely other 🇨🇦 pensions too!)

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Nov 29

Hey BCI + BC Public Sector Pensions Plans! In March 2022 you agreed to divest👇 from Russian firms. How about taking the next step and dropping the awful Western firms that continue business in/with 🇷🇺? Their taxes + tech fuel the Kremlin’s genocidal war on 🇺🇦! For example… 🧵 www.bci.ca/bci-is-activ...

BCI is Actively Working to Sell Remaining Russian Securities

BCI takes action to sell remaining Russian securities, prioritizing commitment to responsible investment and fiduciary duty

www.bci.ca

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Sep 2

While anybody with eyes and ears could see 20 years ago that Putin’s regime is a kleptocratic dictatorship and serial abuser of human rights, fascist Russia’s genocidal war on Ukraine should have been the final straw for foreign firms. Why do they continue business with the Kremlin? 3/x

B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · Sep 1

Russia’s withdrawal from Europe's anti-torture convention proves once again that it is a land of lawlessness, where human life means nothing. Western businesses have no place in a brutal dictatorship where torture is state policy. They must refuse to participate in Russia’s crimes—and get out now.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Aug 30

And here’s more on the new @b4ukraine.org report highlighting the critical role foreign firms play in bankrolling Putin’s regime and its crimes against Ukraine. These firms are complicit in fascist Russia’s terror attacks in 🇺🇦 and should be boycotted + ostracized! 2/x

B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · Aug 29

Int'l firms could effectively be bankrolling 1M Russian soldiers through taxes paid in the country, according to our new report.

G7/EU must urgently tackle the role their businesses play in Russia and how it impacts Ukraine and the war’s outcome.

Read @newsweek.com's coverage: bit.ly/3HXlIni

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hey 🦋 friends! Please see + share the new @b4ukraine.org report👇 detailing the immoral foreign firms still doing business in fascist 🇷🇺. By paying taxes to the Kremlin and providing jobs, goods, and services that keep the wider Russian economy afloat, they enable Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine. 1/x

B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · Aug 27

🚨 NEW REPORT: 17 of the 20 top profit taxpayers in Russia are companies from G7 and EU countries, undermining their own govs’ efforts to curb the Kremlin’s revenues and support Ukraine. Int'l firms paid $60B in taxes to Russia since 2022 — half of Russia's military budget for 2025. bit.ly/4fVdY1H

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 13d

Also: BCI + AIMCo are really, really bad on climate, with heaps of $$ in fossil firms - from SaudiAramco to Exxon to Enbridge to Total to giant refineries in India and gas networks in Europe.
(BCI also happily continues to invest in tobacco and many fascist-friendly firms doing business with 🇷🇺+🇮🇱)

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Feb 20

Hey 🦋 friends - check out the 2024 Canadian Pension Climate Report Card from @shiftaction.bsky.social
Another bad grade for BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans! Is a C- really the best you can do in a climate emergency?🚨 That’s second-WORST in class. Pension 💵 won’t mean much if the 🌍 is 🔥 1/x

Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health @shiftaction.bsky.social · Feb 19

Today Shift released its annual Canadian Pension Climate Report Card, an independent benchmark for evaluating the quality, depth and credibility of climate policies for 11 of Canada’s largest pension managers, collectively managing $2.4 trillion in retirement savings.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 12d

💯 Glad to see others making this point. Long past time for Canada and other democracies to act accordingly.

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Totally. NATO members + EU states have been WAY too slow to support Ukraine, to see fascist Russia for what it is, and to appreciate the scale of the threat. Even now, many in Canada and Europe don’t understand that Ukraine is defending the wider democratic world - the Kremlin is at war with us too!

Canada expresses concerns to Russia after reports of plot to put incendiary devices on planes | CBC News

The government of Canada has expressed concerns directly to Russia following reports that Moscow was behind a plot to put incendiary devices on planes flying to North America.

www.cbc.ca

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 10d

In the face of such fickleness, betrayal and grifting by fossil firms, it’s incredible that certain premiers and Cons continue to believe (or lie) that renewables are “unreliable”.
Add this to the long list of reasons BCI + other 🇨🇦 pension fund investment managers should quit Exxon + Imperial Oil!👇

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Jan 22

Fun fact! BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans have ~$75.32M in ExxonMobil, the climate arsonist that owns 70% of Imperial Oil. See @shiftaction.bsky.social 👇 on absurdity of pension plans claiming "engagement" is helping Imperial improve its enviro oversight, reduce GHGs and align with net-zero.

Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health @shiftaction.bsky.social · Jan 21

1/ The Alberta Energy Regulator has laid nine charges against Imperial Oil after the company leaked an estimated 5.3 million litres of oil sands tailings and toxic chemicals into Alberta waterways from its Kearl oil sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 9d

It appears they don‘t need to go to such lengths. Per various media - including Colbert - the fascist dotard was confused by a Fox clip that interspersed current clips of Portland with those of much bigger protests a few years ago. Would be funny if it weren’t so alarming and dangerous.

A Lifeline For Easily-Confused Senior Citizens

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 5d

Precisely! Smith, Moe and the rest of the dinosaurs pushing fossil fuels (and actively undermining renewables) have some serious ideological blinders on. (That‘s the charitable explanation - no doubt for many of them, continued support for oil + gas is entirely mercenary.)

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 3d

You spelled “one-way ticket to The Hague” wrong.

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 2d

Likely has a lot to do with wider impacts of war, e.g. economic dislocation, sanctions, resource diversion to military + labour shortages. (Though of course climate change surely doesn’t help.)
#MakeRussiaSmallAgain

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Aug 19

Fascist Russia is much more fragile than its cowardly apologists admit - its epic war losses are accelerating a demographic death-spiral and economic collapse.👇 So it’s incredibly important that 🇨🇦 + allies seize the moment to better help 🇺🇦 by tightening sanctions and hastening Moscow’s defeat.

B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · Aug 18

“This is a serious enough slowdown that we’ve already been noticing it for the last 6 mths. Even military-industrial complex is beginning to slow down, partially because of the rates but also lack of labor, lack of ability to invest.” @eribakova.bsky.social via @financialtimes.com: on.ft.com/4muEgKU

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Anna from Ukraine @annafromukraine.bsky.social · 14h

🏦 Want the truth about Russia’s economy? Just look at Russians rushing to pull out their deposits! 💸 Over 1 trillion rubles withdrawn since April, and panic is rising. They wanted war, but got a #RussiaIsCollapsing reality: fuel crises, empty budgets, and a #RussiaBankingCrisis.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 5h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 4h

This is frightening -> "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Aug 24

Good points. In BC especially, the complex structure (BCI invests on behalf of MPP + other public sector pension plans) helps obscure things and shield BCI from scrutiny + pressure.👇 Meanwhile, lots of other big pension funds (e,g. in 🇳🇴 + 🇸🇪) are way more active in divesting + excluding bad stuff.

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Nov 17

Why should you care about how BC Investment Management Corporation (BCI) invests? It manages ~$250 BILLION in assets, mainly on behalf of 10 public sector pension plans, including the BC Public Service Pension Plan, Municipal Pension Plan (also includes nurses + many others), Teachers’ Pension Plan…

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Aug 23

(continued) … ~$11.67M in Airbnb, whose co-founder is heavily involved in DOGE, ~$6.92M in right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel’s Palantir Technologies (evil stuff like collaborating with ICE, societal surveillance), and ~$81.54M in fellow Apartheid aficionado Elon Musk’s Tesla (detailed below).

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Feb 3

We call on BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans to drop their ~$81.54M stake in Tesla. Far worse than Tesla’s litany of labour + safety issues, its CEO and 13% owner is a raging fascist threatening the US, Canada, and others. Pensions will be worthless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy. 1/x

Elon Musk's speech in Germany raises concerns about his increased political meddling abroad | CBC News

Elon Musk's comments at a rally for Germany's far-right AfD party last weekend have raised concerns about the billionaire’s escalating political interference in foreign countries — including Canada.

www.cbc.ca

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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · Aug 23

Keeping with the theme of “your pension is funding fascism” (catchy!), here’s a great July 2025 Rolling Stone piece👇 highlighting several firms that have very close ties with the odious Trump regime. 🇨🇦 pension plans have lots of $$ in these firms - e.g. BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans have…

Blue States Invest Retirees' Savings in Firms Boosting Trump's Extreme Agenda

California, New York, and Illinois have invested their public employees’ retirement savings in some of Donald Trump’s biggest corporate supporters.

www.rollingstone.com

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