This is a fascist regime.

Means testing and asset caps on the disabled are unethical and immoral. No one should be forced into poverty just to access vital services. Picture by @liberaljane.bsky.social

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality. Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook. Our duty is to stand up to brutality. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

Full paper in nature here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The regime is afraid of facts.

Reminder about Jan 6: it really happened It was a horror 140+ police were injured A range of violent weapons were used by attackers Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard There was a gallows and guns Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached

Universal, Unconditional Single Payer Healthcare NOW.

HEY USA FRIENDS it’s holiday season at the post office so here’s my annual thread on how to make all of your postal workers have a nicer month! 1. Be nice and prepared if you’re mailing things! You might have to wait! Still be polite and click the smiley face on the stupid little screen!

Exactly. The arguments that #BasicIncome will let people sit around and do "nothing" are firmly rooted in the LIE that the only appropriate adult human activity is selling your labor to others, and JEALOUSY that someone else might not have to work themselves to the bone.

This is the #GestapICE

The State of Georgia should be 100% financially responsible for this child's care. Plus restitution to the family for pain and suffering. www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

Medicare for All and universal basic income aren't separate policies - they're two parts of the same answer to the economic insecurity that AI and automation are accelerating.

The fact that the media isn't calling ANY of the regime on ANY of their bullshit is PART OF WHY WE'RE IN THIS MESS. "fog of war".... and not a single journalist went "Sir, that's not what that term means." They just let GI Ken spout whatever, including calling *them* the liars.

Reason for UNCONDITIONAL, UNIVERSAL #BasicIncome number 847294701347029357162348234 "But despite initially living with her parents, she had to return with the children to the marital home due to financial reasons." www.bbc.com/news/article...

not to keep ragescreaming about Hillary Clinton but can you imagine if she and Biden had just gracefully retired after the Obama administration? they were popular then! they would have gone out on top! and then they just lit it all on fire. honestly the desire to be president feels like a red flag

Every time trump uses the term "Sleepy Joe Biden", the media needs to run with these clips. Not just Colbert, or Oliver or Maddow... ALL THE MEDIA.

Can you imagine how many *truly* small businesses would have survived Covid if we'd had an actual UBI for individuals, and small business? (instead of "loans" that got taken by large companies?)

Universality will haul us out of the fire.

One more reason to travel by #amtrak komonews.com/news/local/t...

Gods, this regime is just so *OBVIOUS*, and the cult just so *OBLIVIOUS*. It would be hilarious if it wasn't driving the country to ruin.

Nazis started on the disabled and homeless. Sound familiar?

For the first time a U.S. county is making their guaranteed income program permanent. The Cook County Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved $7.5 million to continue its guaranteed income program. Each month over 3,000 households will get an unconditional $500.

She should have been in jail by judge 3.

"Which means if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200. It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000." #BasicIncomeNow www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

They’re doing eugenics right out in the open now, largely because Trump, RFK Jr, Dr Oz and the rest of the fascists have been pushing a eugenicist agenda since they seized control. It’s white Christian nationalism and it’s dangerous. Disabled people are not “imperfect”. We are also not expendable

gofund.me/e0cd2ff1e Eleri's Nook will be a Creative Third Space, and PWYW supply and class source.

Anyone invoking Death of the Author as an excuse should be aware that Rowling and her TERF friends sharply disagree with you. Rowling has even explicitly claimed that the popularity of her properties is itself a ratification of her transphobic beliefs

Morning thoughts about "AI". Where do we go from here?

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

If we had universal, unconditional Basic Income, Healthcare and Education, then news like this wouldn't be a headline.

He's cosplaying Mamdani today. This is hilarious.

Folks will talk about universal basic income, free public transit, and unrestricted public welfare systems like "just because it worked in a tiny town doesn't mean it can work in big cities" as if we don't have decades of studies showing that it actually works there too. There too. Yup, and there. 🙄

That's right y'all! The US government has decided that nurses are no longer professionals! Because, you know, nurses are just an accessory to Doctors, right? /sarcasm.

It was never about being pro life, it's about pro control.

This is you semi-regular reminder that Elongate Muskrat didn't invent anything. He doesn't actually create anything. He bought Tesla. He has actual scientists and engineers at SpaceX. He's just a white apartheid nepobaby taking credit for other people's labors, just like every other wealth hoarder

They aren't "rich people". They aren't even the "ultra wealthy", or my personal favorite "wealth hoarders". They're resource black holes. Money goes in, and it never comes out. They're over-bloated societal leeches.

Sure, some MAGAts are jumping ship. HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE for the harms their actions have done. Then EXPECT CHANGED BEHAVIOR. Until they do something different, they still believe the MAGAt cult.

If urban housing isn't planning for accessibility from the first blueprint, then it is contributing to societal ableism. And "accessibility" isn't just 'wheelchairs and ground floor', it's thinking about everyone's needs. Start here: www.abilities.com/2013/04/17/i...

Thou shalt not forgive or forget all the evil things Marjorie Taylor Greene said and did. The main reason she is talking more ‘sane’ these days is because she wants to inherit the MAGA cult.

Just watched the Black Mirror episode "Common People" for the first time and... I already push for universal basic income and healthcare, but holy shit, people, it is really REALLY fucked up that we don't already have universal basic income and healthcare and that without them, DYSTOPIA IS NORMAL.

This is an important new line being crossed. Trump isn't just pardoning the act of attempting to overthrow the government on January 6: he's pardoning *those people* for committing crimes generally. He may be creating a group of (federally) legally untouchable people.

Refusing to fund SNAP is ableism. Cutting Medicaid is ableism. Terminating ACA subsidies is ableism. Slashing affordable housing is ableism. This regime has a very clear eugenics agenda. They’re targeting services they know disabled people rely on to survive. We are not expendable.

PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 ARE CALLED CHILDREN. Anyone trying to semantic that statement is attempting to cover for someone.

Mutual aid saves lives. Now more than ever we need robust community care to ensure our survival. If you can’t donate, boost like and share. We’re being abandoned by governments, by society and sometimes even by loved ones… but we can commit to not abandoning each other.

I'd guess that 85-90% of American scientists would be ineligible for future funding under this law, maybe close to 100% in the R1 universities. So much for funding proposals based on scientific merit. Apart from being sinophobes, the people pushing this have no clue how science or higher ed works.

When Trump calls the Epstein files a “hoax”, he’s taking something from the survivors When someone says they were “barely legal” & it wasn’t pedophilia, they’re taking something from the survivors These were children who were trafficked & raped They deserve better then being made political pawns

This is why midwives should be the primary source of birth care in the USA, and hospital-independent doulas should be REQUIRED at every in hospital birth.

Having people with wealth isn't the real issue. Wealth *hoarding* is. A small sliver of people who have amassed assets in excess of anything they could use in several lifetimes, existing in countries where people go without food, shelter and health care is unethical and immoral.

The regimes wants people to starve.

Every time a someone from the GOP says "illegal immigrants" replace that with the word "Jews" and ask yourself if it sounds like something a Nazi would say. That's how you know it's fascism.