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Send them a $1,300 check every month and tell them America is so great it's issuing a regular dividend to citizens now just like our greatest corporations do.
Can Trump supporters define communism? Here's a sneak peek at @jordanklepper.bsky.social’s new special, Red Flags, premiering Monday at 11:30/10:30c on Comedy Central.
The Census Bureau’s new proposed rule would drastically change how many seats each state receives in the House of Representatives and how much federal money your community receives. Use this page and urge them to say NO: act.standupamerica.com/letters/cens...
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ICE VIOLENTLY BEAT A FATHER IN FRONT OF HIS 1 YEAR OLD CHILD. Please repost this every 🔊 bsky.app/profile/resi...
A one-year-old girl watched masked ICE agents beat her father on the roadside in Donna, Texas. He is a U.S. citizen, and his wife had already told the agents that they were Americans. The agents continued the assault as his wife watched helplessly. Repost this everywhere!
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Donald Trump and every one of his appointees and cabinet members and advisors must be destroyed financially, stripped of literally all their money and assets, and denied all future government employment. Let them live off of whatever UBI and public housing/health care they can scrounge up.
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This is a big one that I think many people don't fully appreciate. Given a room of 1,000 people, it can be hard for one person to find and help those who need the most help. Give everyone UBI and watch as more than half the room leaves, because they only needed a bit of money. Those left need more.
This whole debacle is another reason why I'm champing at the bit for UBI. If everybody gets their basic needs met without eligibility & compliance hoops to jump through, they won't be clogging up the pipes for the people who need extra assistance.
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Universal basic income ensures that everyone has the ability to express basic demand for basic goods and services. This is market improving. Markets can't differentiate between 0 and Ø. A store can fail because not enough customers. But is that because they didn't like it or they did but were broke?
South Korea's UBI pilot shows major success 1 year. Local businesses grew by 2,000 and rural population went up 4.7%. Most of the money was spent, causing "an increase in new businesses in essential services such as restaurants, cafes, supermarkets, and hair and beauty salons."
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The food people need is in grocery stores. They just need the permission slips (cash) to access it. Food banks should not exist. They are a symptom of failed policy. They exist because universal basic income doesn't. We need UBI and it's a fight because the people doing this are doing it on purpose:
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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This is why it's such nonsense for anyone to say that with UBI, people will lose meaning. First, jobs aren't any source of meaning for many people with jobs. Second, the jobs people can't say no to are in the way of a getting a lot of meaningful work done. And third, the rich seem to find meaning.
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The take that UBI is bad because it would make us need government is bad. The same argument could be used against doing Social Security or Medicare if we didn't already have them. If everyone needs a government program, that's good for democracy and bad for politicians who threaten those programs.
one of 7 take aways on #futureOfWork, this one on #BasicIncome. I'm worried about more than suppression #ubi joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/03/basi...
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...
If tear gas is too dangerous for a battlefield, there is no justification for using it against people in our cities. Sign the petition. sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...
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It’s @basicincomeweek.org! People around the world are taking action for a basic income—and we’re part of it. With our UBI4ALL raffles, we get money into people’s hands. Join in, share a post, start a conversation. Let’s get more people behind basic income. 🙌🏾
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"UBI should be understood as more than a social policy. It is a political institution that fortifies the material conditions necessary for exercising civil liberties under stress." www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon Demand A.I. Control. What You Need To Know – September 15 Artificial intelligence has created an unlikely political alliance, with Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon coming together to demand more human control over A.I.; President Donald Trump says there's a deal that…
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New article from me where I propose a Pigovian automation tax to slow down the deployment of AI by companies in a way that also creates an incentive for them to embrace shorter workweeks, lower their prices, boost the incomes of displaced workers, and take a healthy step toward Medicare for All.
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Quick signature: Tell HHS to keep politics out of childhood vaccines! action.momsrising.org/sign/2026_va...
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If you're in or near Portland, OR, come to this event next week! And if you can't come, share it with those interested in universal basic income who can!
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It won’t cost billions. Knocking that stupid arch down will take no time at all, it will just have to be hauled away and the grounds restored. Same with the Rose Garden. I don’t know what they’re going to do with the stinking ballroom, but that has to go also, and that could be big bucks.
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This week's POLITICO Magazine cover story: Bernie Sanders lets loose on the Democratic Party, the midterms and 2028. The 84-year-old progressive champion built a movement. Could it survive without him? 🔗 politi.co/4czy413 Also in this issue👇🧵
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I wrote about the proposal for RISE Pilots, which is a new conservative alternative to UBI that looks to consolidate a bunch of existing programs into one benefit with a low phaseout rate—which is good—but instead of using unconditional cash, using programmable currency with behavioral requirements.
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Because of union loss, offshoring, automation, and gig labor, workers have far less collective bargaining power to demand a larger share of the pie. I believe the only real solution is to distribute that share directly as UBI and, in doing so, skyrocket the individual bargaining power of all workers
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
I just told Congress: don't sneak a tax break for private jet owners into a bipartisan aviation safety bill. Billionaires need to pay what they owe. @inequality.org @taxprivatejets.org actionnetwork.org/letters/ineq...
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There’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information. There are a ton of nefarious ones, though.
🚨 NEW: ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database: As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database. @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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New @itsafoundation.bsky.social newsletter out today with what I consider to be the top UBI-related news you need to know from August. Stay up to date on what's happening in the world of basic income by reading and subscribing. Please share: itsanewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/itsa-newsl...