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.

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.

Algeria Worblebot@algeriaworblebot.bsky.social · 2w ago

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.

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?

UBI Works@ubiworks.bsky.social · 2w ago

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."

I’m with Homeland Security Investigations. I came here to talk to you about some online threats you made against ICE. Get the fuck off my property.

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:

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

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:

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.

halloweenie beanie@blobulouscat.bsky.social · 2w ago

THIS is what UBI is for: freeing us up to do what matters to each cleaning up public areas? producing art? volunteering at a shelter - animal or human? caring for a family member, mentoring, teaching, or just being able to *rest*

I feel that over half of what is being given to the military right now should instead be put towards benefitting the public through stuff like universal basic income and single-payer healthcare

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.

Joanna Bryson@j2bryson.bsky.social · 3w ago

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...

More importantly, why the fuck would you TELL the public where you’re storing “sniper ammo”

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3w ago

Why do we need to build a massive triumphal arch for sniper ammo and drones? We don’t have any place else that those can be stored?

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“Money promised tomorrow does NOT erase the money people have already spent trying to survive today." Please have a listen.

"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...

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…

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 could help lower costs as oil and gas prices continue to rise; it comes as images show Iran-backed Houthi rebels firing at a Saudi oil pipeline in the Red Sea, driving up oil prices globally; Ukraine is calling a fight between two naval drones the first-ever combat between the technology; the Supreme Court has rejected President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting; new details about whether drugs played a role in actress Hayden Panettiere's death are expected to be released; a girl in Philadelphia narrowly escaped injury after being hit by a truck; Abbott Laboratories will pay $385 million to settle a lawsuit linked to contaminated baby formula factories; the Kansas City Chiefs won the opening game of Monday Night Football, beating the Broncos; and the premiere of season 35 of 'Dancing with the Stars' airs tonight, streaming on Disney+. -- Watch more episodes of What You Need to Know streaming on @disneyplus:

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Got my updated COVID and flu shots today because I prefer not dying and also fuck RFK jr and this whole willfully ignorant and malicious administration.

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.

A 4-Day Workweek, Medicare for All, and the Tax That Gets Us There

How a Pigovian automation tax can turn AI’s productivity gains into a 4-day, 32-hour workweek and universal healthcare

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Go Away Mitch McTurtle, And Take Your Spineless RepubliKKKan Party With You.......🐢

NOT HAPPENING MAGOTS!

Katie Phang on a Russian oligarch bankrolling Don Jr.’s wedding: “They’re so dumb, we see it happening in real time. But because there’s no consequence or accountability, they just do it in the wide open.”

And they'd probably fall for it

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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

I'm holding out for the lifelong monthly $1,500 counteroffer.

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I’m holding out for the $10,000 Democratic counteroffer.

Not gonna lie, my heart stopped for a second thinking this was taxidermy 😭 #LifuX #Cat #Cats #Catsofbluesky #Caturday