Draper Kauffman
@dksystems1.bsky.social
Climate. Inequality & tax/welfare reform. UBI. RCV. Pioneer forecaster & #systemsthinker. 5 books on systems & futures. Game designer & programmer (Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame). Bronze Star vet. Ex-TX. @systemspolicy
SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...
SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
A landmark new study shows COVID-19 isn’t ‘just a cold’: One infection left people with long-lasting immune damage, and those with heart disease lost up to 70% of key immune cells. Reinfections may wo...
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"People won't work if you give cash." The evidence keeps piling up: guaranteed income increases employment and improves job quality. In CA pilots, full‑time jobs rose up to 2x vs control; higher‑quality jobs 3x.
The new climate reporter at @theargumentmag.bsky.social argues that climate policy should be subject to cost-benefit analysis. But he also claims we can do that analysis under the assumption that “there are no thresholds we need to avoid.” This is wrong scientifically AND economically. 1/3
This photo is worth a thousand words. He can't help himself. robertreich.substack.com/p/he-cant-re...
He Can't Resist
This photo is worth a thousand words
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This is nuts: "Trump Media has unveiled a paid-for, licensed data feed that will give banks & trading firms 'the fastest' access to posts from influential Truth Social accounts Trump’s posts on the platform regularly move markets. High speed access to these could be very valuable to traders"
Truth Social to sell Wall Street firms the ‘fastest’ access to Trump’s posts
President Donald Trump’s posts on the platform regularly move markets. High speed access to these could be very valuable to traders and investors.
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Talarico: Every bar has that guy. He’s loud, he’s obnoxious, he makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking. That’s Paxton. And I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.
Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.
It’s five years this week since the PNW heat wave killed hundreds, wreaked havoc on ecosystems, and left Lytton BC in ashes after hitting 49.6 °C / 121.3 °F. As adaptation and mitigation lag, loss and damage - the things climate change takes from us that we can’t get back - will continue to grow.
Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You
A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.
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Your 'moment of doom' for June 26, 2026 ~ Rookie-level fear porn. "For starters, we could see mass deaths even among young people as heatwaves get more extreme. Then there’s our ability to feed people, the basis of civilisation." www.newscientist.com/article/2531...
If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be
The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page
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Universal programs are indeed the way to go — combined with taxes.
The Universality Argument for Basic Income
Why including everyone — yes, even billionaires like Elon Musk — works better than means-testing ever possibly can Imagine a room with a thousand people. You know that 999 of them need something to...
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I am BEGGING people - think tanks, governments, random organisations - to DATE YOUR REPORTS WHEN YOU DO THE PDFS. It should not be THIS HARD to find a BLOODY PUBLICATION DATE. You might think everyone will remember the magical day you published it years later. But you are delusional.
"No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the Man who can build his greatness upon his Country's ruin." ─ George Washington, 1778
61. Give universal basic income a try. www.parl.ca/documentview...
Public Bill (Senate) S-206 (45-1) - First Reading - National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Act - Parliament of Canada
Public Bill (Senate) S-206 (45-1) - First Reading - National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Act - Parliament of Canada
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‘Something I’d never heard of almost killed me’: Men face rising threat of HPV-related cancers www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill... via @lizszabo.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social
‘Something I’d never heard of almost killed me’: Men face rising threat of HPV-related cancers
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders announces plan for American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund that would take ownership stakes in the largest AI companies and make direct payments (UBI) to citizens. 'When a public resource generates wealth, the public should share in that wealth.'
"If anyone wants some semblance of true freedom, then genuine attempts should be established, and a UBI sits in those possibilities." From another signer of the AI Pledge for Humanity. Sign and share your own reason why you support the pledge for UBI. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
The AI Pledge for Humanity
I just signed the AI Pledge for Humanity and I want to tell you why. For fifty years, productivity has soared and wages haven't. Now AI is about to accelerate that pattern. The people building it say...
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I’m sure it eases the conscience to say “no one anticipated this!” but it’s an absolute lie. The second long covid started happening, disability activists were extremely clear what the consequences could be.
Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns | Will Bunch
The tangled web between Trump’s stock purchases, his policies, and blatant promotion is a new low for a corrupt regime.
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The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0
Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.
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SURGICAL MASKS DO NOT PROTECT So encouraging to see the sheer strength of feeling amongst so many highly-respected scientists & medical practitioners from across the world making representations to WHO This letter from World Health Network is a must-read tinyurl.com/WHN-Letter-t...
Open Letter to WHO: A Call for the Universal use of Respirators in Healthcare - WHN
January 7, 2026 The letter below (a button to download it as a .pdf file is at the bottom of this page) was sent to seven top officials at the World Health Organization on Wednesday 7 January. Press c...
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Hey, do you guys remember a prominent minimizer saying "Actually, tuberculosis (TB) incidence may represent the best bellwether for Covid induced post-infection immune damage"? I do. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
'This is a big outbreak': Nearly 1 in 5 affected by TB at SF school
The disease can turn active even decades after the initial infection.
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"If universal basic income enables even one more Einstein to become Einstein over the course of the next century, it will have paid for itself a thousand times over." www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...
The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI
Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâc...
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