i need to eat but i can't do it :( ive been struggling to eat enough lately

he's dead he's dead!!!

i only care about M4A and UBI don't talk to me about anything else unless you also support those things ill vote for anybody who supports one or the other or both preferably

universal basic income now. yesterday, even.

i should kms or become an alcoholic and die before 50 like my dad ill never be able to have a normal life with decent housing

i would rather have a lower standard of living in a socialist society with my needs met than in a capitalist hell scape

i wish i had a friend

we should have affirmative action for the ugly

Horrifying. IMPEACH, REMOVE, ARREST.

Universal Basic Income — like Social Security — isn't about creating dependency; it's about ending it. It gives people the leverage to negotiate better wages and better conditions. It turns the labor market from a coercive "choice" into an actual choice. That's the freedom we should be fighting for.

i give up on trying to learn anything or do any activity at all just give me an experience machine and let me rot in peace until i die

See now that it's factually confirmed that Trump and the Secretary of War Crimes bombed an elementary school, murdering 165 precious children, in a functional country THEY WOULD BE IMPEACHED, REMOVED AND ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY.

Tulsi, RFK and JD Vance are the most shamelessly vapid and empty careerist freaks of all time. Defining themselves as anti-war then supporting a genocidal pedophile imperialist warmonger with a crusading bloodlust. Special place in hell for them.

The same MAGA lunatics who are attacking hero Officer Michael Fanone for flipping off a House fascist republican were more than okay just a few days ago when the orange felon gave the middle finger to an American worker. Yes, it’s a cult.

"What struck me most was how they've turned the right-wing argument about UBI on its head. Rather than disincentivising work, as critics claim, they show that UBI actually removes perverse disincentives in the current system. It eliminates the fear of losing benefits…" @richardjmurphy.bsky.social

New York promises to pay people an additional $365 a week on the condition that they remain unemployed. As opposed to offering a universal basic income that has no such condition, that continually shows increases in employment as a result.

2 studies of the Rx Kids program are out today—one about the moms and one about the kids. Here's what happened when $1500 was given to ALL pregnant moms in Flint and also $500/mo for a year after birth: Flint saved $6.2M in NICU expenses due to fewer premature births Postpartum depression fell 14%

We live in a country where about half the population thinks the other half must be FORCED TO WORK with the threat of starvation and homelessness. After universal basic income is achieved, we will live in a country where each of us knows that none need to be forced and that we all WANT TO CONTRIBUTE.

They're so dumb

Yes!

If you take seriously the idea that we need to have zero trade deficit with every country, we better get to helping massively develop every poor country until they’re rich enough to afford our high value manufactured goods. Sounds like a job for USAID.

is that good

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

Musk is unilaterally wrecking the government from within and lining his own pockets. Get him out, terminate his access to all government systems. If you can't rally the public against a cartoonishly corrupt bond villain who's stealing from them in plain sight then get out of politics

I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?

what the FUCK

The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button

100%. Do not enable all of this. A short term government shutdown is nothing compared to illegal systematic government shutdown via DOGE

It’s awesome that we have a car dealer president now.

Still not good that 4 members of the Supreme Court agreed with a clearly unconstitutional executive action. Won't be good either when 47 ignores it and his loyalist Congress does nothing.

Love to say you’re running government like a business and then immediately gut the accounts receivable team

I hate it here!

I’m not really surprised by anything the admin has done, but I expected the vibes to be closer to “private equity stripping a company down for parts” rather than “meth head stripping the walls for scrap metal”

You know things are going poorly when people in the ponzi scheme industry are like, "woah woah woah, seems a little scammy"

There's something wrong with billionaires having billions in an $85k GDP per capita economy with 40 million Americans living with less than the federal poverty line of $1300/mo. There's something wrong with billionaires existing but universal basic income not existing to universally prevent poverty.

i am very scared for the future of the country and i am very scared for my own and families future if these cuts actually happen and seems like now they'll just happen with or without congress whatever muskrat wants

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Evergreen

There is genuinely a ton of Medicare Advantage fraud by rich doctors and hospitals, but somehow I doubt that will be taken on with the same vigor as applied to pulling food and medicine from poor people around the world

so i guess were literally experiencing a coup? its not lib hysteria???

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

BREAKING: Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. The entire text of the bill reads "The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished."

eat some potatoes and NOT an animal carcass that you stuck things in their ass

merry christmas frens eat some potatoes

Why are people obsessed with 'single issue bills'? For those who claim to value efficiency, this doesn't make sense. Every bill is already public information; it's a waste of time to pass them individually when they could all be passed in a single bill.