My new band, Nat Shays Whisky, has a new protest song out, "The Home of the Fat Homeless." It's almost up to 10,000 plays on Spotify alone. (extra kodus if you can figure out the origin of the name of the band) open.spotify.com/artist/1TsoR...

Nat Shays Whisky

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A new kind of club wants people to share the wealth. By Stephanie Hughes. MarketPlace, American Public Media, July 27, 2026

A new kind of club wants people to share the wealth

A Marylander started an income redistribution club last year after a bunch of his friends who worked for the federal government lost their jobs.

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This article is free to read or download UNTIL September 11, 2026. So don't delay, act now Michael W. Howard, “Basic income, reciprocity, and the power to exit,” World Development Perspectives, Volume 43, September 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Basic income, reciprocity, and the power to exit

This paper will address the following questions: 1) what kind of basic income would enable exit from paid employment? 2) Is such a basic income sustai…

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How a ‘terrible’ website helped basic income go global. By Tyler Prochazka, BasicIncome .org, July 14, 2026

“Donald Trump couldn’t make it tonight. He got caught in sex traffic.” -Whitney Cummings, at the Mark Twain Award ceremony, June 28, 2026

How ‘lonely fighters’ built basic income’s first home. By Tyler Prochazka, BasicIncome.org, July 9, 2026

If you study poverty read Progress and Poverty and if it gets difficult skip through it Then after read Agrarian Justice Then Basic Income books by @karlwiderquist.bsky.social and articles by @scottsantens.com and Guy Standing and you’ll start to get a picture of what’s broken and the fix 1/2

I love it when a reporter quotes me ripping on Trump: "I can't think of a favorable comparison between Trump & Hamilton...Hamilton was an intellectual who co-wrote the Federalist Papers [&] thought about how to design good institutions...Trump is a bully who's trying to get money out of people"

Critics cackle as Trump lackey attempts to compare president to a founding father

One of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, recently compared the Republican leader to an American founding father — and experts cannot stop laughing at...

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Why Aren’t We Working 10-Hour Weeks? By Karl Widerquist, The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity YouTube channel, June 12, 2026 youtu.be/_kDkVSIAnG4

Why Aren’t We Working 10-Hour Weeks?

YouTube video by The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity

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The Cost of Ending Poverty Has Fallen Dramatically. By Karl Widerquist, The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity YouTube channel, June 12, 2026

The Cost of Ending Poverty Has Fallen Dramatically

YouTube video by The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity

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The Most Misunderstood Part of UBI. By Karl Widerquist, The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity YouTube channel, June 12, 2026

The Most Misunderstood Part of UBI

YouTube video by The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity

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Very important article on taxation and the funding of UBI

How Do We Pay for Universal Basic Income? Tax Stock the Way Companies Already Issue It.

A 1.5% annual stock dilution tax on corporations with revenue over $100M would raise over $1.4 trillion a year — enough to send every American about $365 a month, automatically.

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Basic Income Explained: Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) vs. Universal Basic Income (UBI). By Floyd Marinescu & Ken Yang. Progress . org, Volume I, number 1, 2026 @floydmarinescu.bsky.social @kenjaminyang.bsky.social @michaelalewis10.bsky.social @scottsantens.com

Basic Income Explained: Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) vs. Universal Basic Income (UBI)

We already have basic income models that work around the world: guaranteed basic income to buy people time by keeping them out of poverty, and UBI dividends from common wealth. This piece explains the...

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Canada's Sovereign Wealth Fund: Investing for Future Generations. By Ken Yang and Floyd Marinescu, Common Wealth, May 22, 2026 @floydmarinescu.bsky.social @kenjaminyang.bsky.social

Canada's Sovereign Wealth Fund: Investing for Future Generations — Common Wealth Canada

The Canada Strong Fund is a start, but our sovereign wealth opportunity is much larger. A true Common Wealth Fund would capture more of our natural, technological, financial, and publicly created weal...

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Basic Income Explained: Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) vs. Universal Basic Income (UBI). By Ken Yang, UBI Works, 2026

Basic Income Explained: Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) vs. Universal Basic Income (UBI)

We already have basic income models that work: guaranteed basic income to lower poverty and UBI dividends from common resources. We explain the differences and how they work together to provide econom...

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Martin Luther King said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." And I believed him. I guess we were both wrong.

TODAY: Stand Up for Democracy neighborhood pop-up protest, 5-6pm, Thursday, May 7, City Park & Esplanade in New Orleans @indivisiblenola.org

"Every good pogromist thinks he's acting in self-defense" - I don't remember who said that

Great article: "The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI." By Scott Santens, , 18 Apr 2026 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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I don't know David Allen Coe knew anything about Basic Income, but he was a hero to the Basic Income movement, because he wrote, "Take This and Shove it." I'm sad to hear that he's died.

Take This Job and Shove It Too

YouTube video by David Allan Coe - Topic

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Is Universal Basic Income More Affordable Than You Think? By Soomi Lee, the US BIG Blog, April 27, 2026

TODAY: Honk for Democracy: neighborhood pop-up protest, "No Wars without Review by Congress—It’s Just That Simple—Join Us!" Tuesday, April 28, at South Carrollton Ave. and Oak St. from 4:00 to 5:00pm

I'm quoted in this article: "Elon Musk wants the government to write everyone a check when his robots take their jobs." By Walter Schulze, Startup Fortune, April 24, 2026

Elon Musk wants the government to write everyone a check when his robots take their jobs – Startup Fortune

Elon Musk's universal high income proposal is bigger than UBI and more complicated than he admits

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Bill Jordan, one of the greats of the Universal Basic Income movement has passed.

I agree 100% with Trump's statement: "A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody." We should get the nuclear powers to promise not to use their nuclear weapons AND to cooperate to destroy any government that does use them. Trump won't anything like this. But it's what we need.

TODAY: Stand up for Democracy, neighborhood, pro-democracy / anti-war pop-up protest: - Thursday April 23, 5-6:00pm, at the Esplanade entrance to City Park in New Orleans @indivisiblenola.org