FACT CHECK: Medicare for All Would Save the U.S. Trillions... Medicare for All Would Cover Everyone, Save Money and End Medical Debt Via @publiccitizen.bsky.social www.citizen.org/news/fact-ch...

Our President, Erica Payne, spoke with Fast Company, and shared our super simple message for the FAA during the shutdown: “If you need a 10% reduction [in flights], you can get 100% of your reduction from the private planes.” www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa...

Public safety and affordability are related. If democratic government focuses on increasing wealth for a relative few, rather eliminating precarity for all, civilization will always be susceptible to authoritarianism and look to an Übermensch for answers. What is your plan democrats?

Why are so many on food assistance? Why does the ACA use insurance to fund healthcare? Why do student loans fund education? Why is expanding roads by one lane in each direction better than rail? When democrats offer a plan based on superior answers to above questions and others, they will win.

Hedonistic wealth growth for one or a few should not be the goal of civilization. Instead, it should be to eliminate suffering for all. To achieve that an economics should be conceived to incentivize the growth of happiness based on virtuous, ethical-based wisdom, Eudaimonia.

This index implies stabilizing infinite growth of wealth, not growth in civilizational stability. Democracy is on the verge of suffocation by predatory capitalism, replaced with fascism. Critical and Emerging Technologies Index Via @belfercenter.bsky.social www.belfercenter.org/critical-eme...

Don't fund fascism.

What’s the Opposite of Fascism? Via @umairh.bsky.social www.theissue.io/whats-the-op...

Bodhi a UHart student on why he will be in the streets of DC on 11-05 instead of in class 11-05 11AM Washington Monument No work! No school! Rally & March Launch unrelenting nonviolent protest to demand TRUMP MUST GO NOW! What’s YOUR reason?! RefuseFascism.org

Don’t forget they are sociopaths too because they believe the whole has no value, only the parts. Those fuckers are anti-civilization, in effect, destroying what created them in the first place!

I can’t stop thinking that there is profound error in the form of obscene overvaluation of AI: Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq notch fresh records as Nvidia soars ahead of Fed rate decision Via @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st...

The ignoble descent of Faustian man: The decline of the West, described in great detail by Oswald Spengler a hundred years ago, is now entering its final phase. Via asiatimes.com asiatimes.com/2022/03/the-...

Maybe he wants to be lost so he can blame Tesla’s poor performance on the board not giving him that pay package rather than his poor leadership. If they do give it to him, he continues purchasing the political system. Via @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-m...

“The researchers analysed 89 stories from these seven societies and found that 70% touched on themes of cooperation, equality, and fair dealing. “ Stop Selling Stories- It's Breathing, Not Intervention Via philosophicaltheatrefacilitator.substack.com open.substack.com/pub/philosop...

Could it be a better time than right now to discuss the #FederalJobGuarantee program/system @ptcherneva.bsky.social? Also, any recent work taking advantage of AI fear mongering? Are US workers feeling doomed as more companies announce layoffs? Via @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/video/us-wor...

I have not seen any American media outlets explain the difference between an fx swap and financial aid @wbmosler.bsky.social. Makes it obvious that this is a unitary political move. How does the US-Argentina currency swap work? @baheraldcom.bsky.social buenosairesherald.com/economics/ho...

How to respond to societal collapse | Sarah Wilson | #metacrisis #meaningcrisis Via @ www.tedxsydney.com youtu.be/l7Ay73HHHrE

I wonder if those higher-income households would be able to spend, if lower-income households doing their jobs, stopped? Think about how important those lower-income jobs are to the economy of those higher-income households. Automation can’t replace their jobs. finance.yahoo.com/news/america...

Wall Street (S&P 500)—up ~15 right now. Business as usual for capital. What a joke! A shutdown needs to be no work(except Congress), no transfers for taxes, loans, interest, payroll, social security; no FAA, TSA, etc. Shut It Down! Via @yahoofinance.com www.yahoo.com/news/article...

This moment calls for more than Memes/TikTok’s. Government is owned by the top 1%—Fin/Ins/Tech monopolies. Get up! Stop watching mindless games/culture! Essential labor, in the bottom 99%, has leverage vs capital. Labor is fact, capital is fiction. Labor does real work, capital not. Take action!

Ford CEO Jim Farley warns of a labor shortage causing a crisis in the “essential economy” of blue-collar workers. @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-ce...

Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to his Gen Z factory workers: They were saying they ‘had to have three jobs’ Via @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-ce...

Perhaps if the government stopped paying all the defense contractors, subsidies to all manner of constituencies, congressional representatives, senators, white house staff, the supreme court, et. al., we might get some business done on behalf of the people. #ShutItDown

Have you @wbmosler.bsky.social or are you aware of any other #MMT economist who has reviewed the findings of this @nber.org paper? Seems like inflation is slowing since Turkey's central bank started to cut its benchmark interest rate. The paper calls its rate cuts "unorthodox."

@aidanwalker.bsky.social Great job, Aidan Walker. You've left us hopeful. ⚖️ #RealTime

You can cheat this a little with automation, but contrary to investor scare tactics, only a small percent of the workforce can be replaced by AI tools, mainly in management roles (which they don't want replaced), and some administrative and support roles. Immigrants are the solution.

I honestly think if we made it more affordable and safer to have kids people would have more of them. But honestly the state is so hostile to kids due to this myth that welfare scroungers live off of welfare them

I was alerted to such an ambitious prospect by this tumblr thread and associated links, whose discussion you might find interesting: www.tumblr.com/random-thoug...

Men do not benefit from removing a source of household income and adding a lifetime expense. Those men that want a patriarchal family structure do so out of a desire for power. Taking on the financial commitment of a child is a burden to any individual or family group in a post-agrarian society.

Following new reporting, I'm launching a new line of investigation to determine the extent of JPMorgan's compliance failures, the role of top execs in the decision to keep Epstein as a client until 2013, and the degree to which the bank enabled Epstein’s sex trafficking.

I mean really, what is the point of humanity if this is its ethos? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

TikTok’s US operations are changing hands and will be retraining the algo on US-only data. No word yet on whether a new app is needed. Meanwhile, @skylight.social — the TikTok of the atmosphere — is seeing massive growth this week. 🔗 skylight.social

Use AI for something worthwhile. Take those Epstein bank/financial records, then cross reference them with the Panama Papers, and perhaps we can move from war economics towards global peace and equity economics. Via @yahoofinance.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

It’s really not the political left versus right in the United States; rather, it’s the economic capture by the wealthy Top 1% versus Bottom 99%!! Guess who is winning? Via @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-...

The End of the American Experiment. 1776 to 2025. Via UNFTR Media YouTube Channel @UNFTR youtu.be/zBUxIa_5cuM?...

Yanis Varoufakis: Technofeudalism and the Death of Capitalism Via Glenn Diesen YouTube Channel @GDiesen1 youtu.be/PFRrTuVyhNg?...

Israel's Pressure Campaign Against Charlie Kirk (w/ Max Blumenthal) via The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel @ChrisHedgesChannel youtube.com/watch?v=mzBa...

“Growing up, I was heavily into sports, and you're given these slogans: ‘It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.’ I realized that was a lie. You could be the worst-behaving character in the world. If you won, it didn't matter.” www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Bill Black: Myerson's Ode to Crony Capitalism Via @dollarsandsense.bsky.social www.dollarsandsense.org/bill-black-m...

Former Goldman Sachs CEO during 2008 crash says markets are ‘due’ for a crisis: ‘It doesn’t matter that you can’t see where it’s coming from’ Via @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/former-...

Perhaps these kinds of crazy valuations for highly suspect, debatable investments (e.g. Winklevoss/Gemini, et al) are because we are pumping $1T+ in interest payments on the debt into the economy? Via @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/gemini-...

A shadow central bank based on a Trump stablecoin: Is this as bad as this conversation makes it sound @rohangrey.bsky.social?

Deep dive with Chris Cuomo on the Trump family stablecoin grift. Do not sleep on this issue. We don't have much time to stop the Senate from passing the last two crypto bills that could privatize monetary policy. Related - if this issue is your jam follow Molly @molly.wiki White.

The bitcoin of AI grifts. A relative few within the financial system benefit. AI is being setup to be just another parasitical force robbing the whole. How will this improve or even stablize society or any social system for that matter? Via @yahoofinance.com finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-...

Is capitalism the correct economic system for a world where human labor is obsolete, replaced by AI, AGI, Superintelligence? Via @yahoofinance.com www.yahoo.com/news/article...

AI, AGI, Superintelligence: What is the point of life? Just genetic dynasties of their megalomaniacal founders? Via @yahoofinance.com www.yahoo.com/autos/ev-and...

“He redefines currency as a tax credit…showing that the government, as a monopoly issuer, sets the price level through its spending. Thus, unemployment and price instability are political choices, not economic necessities.“ via @thinkbrics.bsky.social thinkbrics.substack.com/p/the-moneta...

More people need to understand that finance is destroying the US. Much of the ~$US 37T in US Debt is held by these global asset managers because it’s collateral for them and the overnight @federalreserve.gov Fed Funds Rate pays 4.33%, GUARANTEED!! investingintheweb.com/blog/largest...

Maybe we need to widen the definition of what a paid human job is and who/what creates that job within a better economics framework. Pavlina Tcherneva @ptcherneva.bsky.social discusses that in: The Case for a Job Guarantee: bookshop.org/beta-search?... finance.yahoo.com/news/labor-m...

Why does the US equate health insurance with healthcare? Like education, shouldn’t healthcare be a public good @petergeorgescu.bsky.social?