The video shows him walking away unharmed and asking someone to call 911.

New article from me today about a centuries-old policy in Brazil that has a lot to tell us about just how high a universal basic income can be set at without seeing the effects on employment that so many people assume.

K-12 education which is the bedrock of our country’s future, is the stepchild of public policy. The entire system needs to be transformed from the curriculum created in 1893 to the infrastructure created in 1906.

Based on data from 27 reports, basic income recipients are more likely to find long-term employment, and not a single pilot has resulted in reduced work. Recipients also experience less stress, because of course they do.

Usually, mail-in ballots arrive a few weeks before election day. At some point in time, we have to assign responsibility to voters who should be returning them as soon as they get them.

I was a libertarian my whole life until the age of 72 in 2008 when the Great Recession taught me that it wasn't individual behavior that caused immiseration, it was the rigged system. Before that, I had run for Congress in the 6th CA district as a Republican in 1998.

Instead of raising the age, remove the cap that limits social security contributions to $176,000 of income. Imagine if there was no cap, social security would be funded for ever.

In case you missed it, there is now a bill in Congress for Universal Basic Income. The proposal is by Rashida Tlaib and called the BOOST Act as part of her Economic Dignity for All Agenda. The amount would be $250/mo.

The irony is that the phrase originated in the 19th century, initially describing a physically impossible, absurd task. Think about it, how can you literally lift yourself up by your bootstraps? But that's the upside down, "1984" world we lie in.

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But unlike other billionaires, he founded the Mark Cuban Cost+ Pharmacy that has eliminated profit from the drugs he supplies.

New article from me today about my take on those Trump Accounts and how we should be ending child poverty in the here and now by just providing money every month to parents instead of letting child poverty fester for another two decades in a way that's nice for stock prices.

HOW? Constitutional amendment? It will never happen. Congressional lawmaking? The current administration is riding roughshod over them. Elimination of the Electoral College and gerrymandering? Reforming the Supreme Court?

If the DOJ wins the law suit and Maryland controls the information, then Maryland should take a leaf from the administration’s playbook and simply refuse to comply.

The original meaning of the phrase was meant to covey an impossibility. Think about it.

And out of food, and out of housing, and out of education because those are the essentials for the survival of the species.

We know they break the laws every day in every way. The problem is who is going to do what about it?

This administration breaks the law every day in every way and what can anyone do about it?

Democrats have to adopt Mamdani's playbook. He was outspent four-to-one but won anyway. Every Democrat candidate has to adopt his grass-roots campaigning. He had 100,000 volunteers.

I will never understand how a holiday meant to celebrate the birth of a revered religious icon has turned into an orgy of spending for gift giving.

Yes, not to mention the election of the first Democrat mayor in Miami in 30 years by double digits.

🎉 BREAKING: WE DID IT! 🎉 After days of intense pressure from D.C., the Indiana Senate REJECTED the mid-decade gerrymandered map! This victory belongs to every Indivisible member, every activist, and every Hoosier who called, emailed, and showed up.

Bye, bye tourist industry.

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

No one deserves $93M because of actions that resulted in billions for Starbucks because it operates on the backs of the barristas. What if part of that amount was used to raise their pay since without them, Starbucks would not exist. I think $30M would be ENOUGH to acknowledge the CEO's contribution

Continuing to insist we must "earn a living" while simultaneously reducing our ability to earn anything at all is not a viable social contract and is how to get people to start building guillotines instead of resumes. It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.

Her candidacy is performative politics. She doesn’t have a prayer in the general election but he does. TOO BAD

Bad news. She doesn’t have a prayer to win in the general election.

Too bad, she doesn’t have a prayer.

In a scene in the Netflix series "The Beast in Me," the member of a crooked, very wealthy family who is challenged about his lowly status and asked whether he is envious of what its members have, answers: "I have something they don't have, ENOUGH."

Tom Cotton would not even be in Congress, were it not for the huge defense contractors supporting him from the beginning and keeping him flush with cash.

We have to eliminate the Electoral College, the lifetime appointment to the SCOTUS, the Citizens United ruling, the presidential immunity ruling, and gerrymandering. We have to strengthen the Voting Rights Act that is being dismantled. Finally, we have to institute rank choice voting.

BREAKING: WELL, WELL, WELL! Newly unearthed footage shows Pete Hegseth saying EXACTLY what the six Democrats said in their video that prompted Trump and Hegseth to hysterically smear them as traitors! You must refuse illegal orders.

All the people who are American citizens and are arrested in this manner should launch a class action suit against the government.

When the Dells contribute $6.25B to the Trump baby bonus program, the payout occurs when the child is 18. In the meantime, the children in poverty who need it most won't have the opportunities to know what to do with the money - a good education and a healthy upbringing.

Word salad and NO FOLLOW UP QUESTION!

As a senior citizen covered by Medicare, I can tell you that it is riddled with problems like unnecessary tests, fraudulent doctors and middlemen and a lack of oversight. I have yet to see a detailed plan for Medicare for All that addresses these because not doing so will bankrupt this country.

Check in with Zoran Momdani - he has the playbook.

Zoran Mamdani proved that in elections, it isn't always money that talks but enthusiasm and organizing. Nelson Rockefeller couldn't buy the presidency and Michael Huntington couldn't buy the CA governorship.

Medicare for All will bankrupt this country if Medicare is not transformed beforehand. Unnecessary very expensive tests, outright fraud perpetuated by doctors and middlemen, unconscionably expensive drugs (insulin was given away by its inventor) will not be sustainable if everybody is eligible.

Thanks, Merrick Garland..

It should become a class action suit.

It was TRANSLATED by the US from Russian into English, not authored by the US.

NOVEMBER 25th - DECEMBER 2nd. Get ready! Shop for groceries now - plan ahead and then SHUT IT DOWN!

What happened to American Exceptionalism?

This is my kind of good trouble.

We need universal basic income. It will function as a cushion for people so that losing a job or not being able to find one doesn't mean zero income, and having basic income will also better enable finding or even creating a new job. Also, AI is trained on all our work. We should all get our share.

First country in the world to implement UBI: Marshall Islands! This is a fascinating article how it happened and how it's being paid for: scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...