The problem is not your inability to budget. The problem is wage theft. #UBI

JOHN OLIVER: “JD Vance is right — Trump definitely revealed corruption like nobody else… in the same way nobody taught us more about a Ponzi Scheme than Bernie Madoff.”

“Effectively” /reaching Behold, it doth bequeath thee irony, a mere rhetorical specter thou art bid not to grasp. Yet thou art the aggressor in thine own utterance, compelled to hear thine own folly echoed back.

Completely and utterly agree. Anyone else?

Strongman vibes

Okay here’s my Monday morning hot take before I head off to labor Russia, China and North K deploy troops in Iran if US does Russia alone would create a quagmire for the US What’s your thoughts on this?

"Nobody wants to work anymore!" says the class of people who live off dividends.

We destroyed their capabilities, yet somehow they’re moments away from using their capabilities. Let me sum it up for you in the words of this generation: Six. Seven.

Where do we draw the line as a country? If you ask me, a lot of Americans connect the idea of freedom to their cars, so my guess is people won’t really push back until gas prices hit a breaking point.

In the liberal tradition, property rights come from self‑ownership: if we own ourselves, we own the products of our labor. That right has limits when others lack “enough and as good” opportunities. Basic income is a way to universalize those opportunities and keep the promise of that tradition alive

Pay down debt.

We could do $12,000 every year, or better yet, $1,000 every month (or better yet $1,300/mo per person instead of per household of four). And we could do it for everyone instead of only households under $150,000 in annual income and call it universal basic income instead of direct payments.

Now this is closer to the truth! When we reveal our motivation is our own pain. I bet that tree felt strong and safe to climb up, but time to come down little kitten, it’s okay to be scared, mistreated, hurt, frightened

I’ve been deliberately lately but feel the need to bring attention to a cycle of certain attacking posts. What Donald Trump has done is unacceptable. The people who supported him are not beyond return. Holding people permanently guilty for believing him only guarantees they keep believing him.

Greenland has a model worth exploring it has a traditional Inuit stewardship of land as a shared resource. You can own buildings and long-term rights to use land, but no one privately owns the land itself in Greenland as it’s held by the public and maintained by its government.

This isn’t left versus right anymore. It’s a system that protects predators, launders power, and demands we look away.

DOGE, aka the “Department of Gutting Elections,” is not above the law. We’ll continue proving it in court.

A system built on extraction cannot admit that it owes its existence to the labor of millions. Universal basic income becomes inevitable once we face that truth and demand that no one becomes rich on their own.

One year ago, our grassroots movement took its first steps. To celebrate our "birthday," we're calling for a day of action on February 14 at Tesla facilities everywhere. Find an action near you or plan one of your own! 🧵 #TeslaTakedown actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Minnesota, get out and caucus today, it’s kinda important, just sayin caucusfinder.sos.mn.gov/results

I’m convinced conventional economics is brain damage, we strip the forest and the seas, we fence off land and force our neighbors to rent and make bread all to put this wealth in banks.

Police Ask For Public’s Help In Falsifying Report

Let us not pretend our SS data wasn’t compromised. Everyone who cares about what’s happening and holds retirement funds need to call their wealth manager and divest. #TeslaTakeDown

Reminder. Here are the House Democrats who crossed party lines and voted to fund ICE. House Democrats who voted to fund ICE: - Tom Suozzi (D-NY) - Henry Cuellar (D-TX) - Don Davis (D-NC) - Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) - Laura Gillen (D-NY) - Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) - Jared Golden (D-ME)

Pam Bondi just got roasted when she made a demand for MN voter rolls! Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

In honor of Trump loudly and repeatedly claiming he's stopping a new war every week, here's Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev laughing at Trump with Emmanuel Macron about his bullshit boasts. He is an international laughing stock. All of America is.

Donald Trump spread lies and conspiracy theories to his followers to make them believe the 2020 election was rigged against him, then incited an angry mob to attack the U.S. Capitol to stop the election certification. These are Special Counsel Jack Smith’s findings.

If this was a functioning democracy, Trump would be in prison right now.

Jack Smith testifies publicly on Thursday at 10am at House Judiciary Committee Smith has been pushing to give OPEN and PUBLIC testimony about his probe of Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election results

Good stuff from the Bellingham Troublemakers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMLl...

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whelp, Star Trek and sports are trending so guess it’s time to release the Epstein files.

Thank you, Minnesota open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

"At Gov. Walz’s direction, the Minnesota National Guard have been mobilized and are staging to support local law enforcement and emergency management agencies. ... are ready to help support public safety, including protection of life, ... supporting the rights of all who assemble peacefully."

"The gross cost of this UBI scheme is $16,000 times the U.S. adult population (267 million) plus $8,000 times the U.S. child population (73.1 m), 10 which comes to $4.86 trillion... Therefore, by these estimates, the net cost, the real cost of UBI ($605.5 billion) is one-seventh of its gross cost."

Everything Trump is doing now (from from Portland to Minneapolis to Chicago) is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but I've been warning for months of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

When we come through this chapter of history and accountability is finally met, we will understand that extreme concentrations of wealth are incompatible with democracy. We rebalance global power, restrain authoritarianism, and share the wealth our society creates through a Universal Basic Income.

Musk also said: -He'd put a man on Mars in 10 years (2011) -Tesla FSD would be fully operational (every year since 2016) -Cybertruck would sell 250k units a year -DOGE would save America $2 trillion -We'd all get a DOGE rebate check You get the point. #TeslaTakedown

Canopy Hotel by Hilton. Dwtn Minneapolis. We did this earlier in the week & got ICE kicked out of the Hampton Inn by MSP. However, Hilton Hotels punished the Hampton Inn for canceling ICE’s reservation & dropped that location as a franchisee. Hilton Hotels are the new Target, it’s time to boycott!

Donald Trump is scared out of his mind that Republicans are going to lose the House in the midterms, if not sooner given how fast things are unraveling, which is why he’s accelerating his authoritarian and fascist plans at a pace we’ve never seen before. This isn’t confidence, it’s panic.

Beleive in humanity! ✊ #UBI Keep making #GoodTrouble

Stay calm...be peaceful.. Dont give them a reason to invoke martial law.. They want to call off the midterm elections. Be smart.

Something I’ve been postulating about is whether there may be a strategic upside to running as a democratic socialist here in the US. Contrast and akin to the Tea Party–to–MAGA outcome, it could swiftly swing this country in a progressive direction. Is it just me, or others feeling it too?

Universal Basic Income now

Every means-tested program creates two costs: 1. Administration 2. Fraud prevention Universal Basic Income eliminates both by design. If everyone qualifies, there’s nothing to game.

I’ve been sitting with this idea for a while and made some updates today Liberty Pocket is my attempt to think seriously about UBI and mutual aid as real advocacy and a path toward policy change If it resonates, consider supporting my work libertypocket.com