When I tell people to not be afraid of maths I secretly picture this meme and go back to work on my Excel files…

Quite the chart

"Previous estimates showed the US economy generated 584,000 jobs in 2025, the first year of Trump’s second term, which was deeply discouraging. Now, the picture is far worse: The newly revised, final data shows that the U.S. economy actually added only 181,000 jobs..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Trump justifies his brutal immigration tactics by painting illegal immigrants as criminals. But in reality, they commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

When we have the power, we must grant citizenship generously to immigrants, and we must make reparation to the people that Trump and Miller have targeted: the Somalis and Haitians first, but all immigrants who have been wronged.

Every word of this 🔥 “The mask is off… for so long, many of us have been able to say that there is something deeply anti-democratic and racist at the heart of this MAGA project and of Trumpism.” - @maragay.bsky.social

New data shows that over 86% of ICE arrests didn’t involve anyone accused or convicted of a violent crime. cc: @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy

Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes. Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes. And thousands are CHILDREN. This will be another of America's greatest shames.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

This is why I frequently state that we should have started universal basic income 50 years ago. UBI is how to actually distribute a percentage of GDP growth universally. It should not all flow to the top 1%, and we should tax wealth as part of correcting the past 50 years with a high enough UBI.

We absolutely can afford a UBI, and we do need it, regardless of any impacts AI ends up having. The cost of UBI is its net cost, not its gross cost. If you get $15k and pay $7k higher taxes as part of the deal, that cost is $8k not $15k. Try calculating the costs of not doing UBI. Include fascism.

Epstein and the right-wing promoted QAnon as a cover for their own international pedophile and criminal ring. Trump is a part of it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

People like Donald get worse if they’re allowed to. His disgusting racism is increasingly blatant and dangerous because the Republicans, with their silence, encourage it. They are complicit in every awful thing they allow their hideous leader to do.

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

The Maastricht Treaty, signed on 7 February 1992, formally established the European Union. It laid the foundation for the euro, introduced EU citizenship, and deepened political and economic integration across Europe.

It’s almost like Putin is running our foreign policy.

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property

Immigrants have paid more in taxes than they have received in benefits every single year for the past 30 years, according to new analysis from Cato. Remember this the next time Trump and his racist lackeys call immigrants "freeloaders."

I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic

Trump loves to boast that he’s won trillions of new investments in the US, but if so, it hasn’t shown up in the data yet. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

Job openings in the US dropped to 6.5M in December, and November's numbers were revised downwards.

On immigration, Democrats already tried saying nativists have a point, the Statue of Liberty is wrong, we can be anti- too (though not quite as harshly). Put it into a 2024 bill and everything. Didn't work. Labour's trying something similar in the UK. Also failing. Maybe try pro-immigrant instead?

Before Trump took office, retail prices were trending downwards. His tariffs reversed that pattern. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

Rights are inherently universal. If you have a right to something, it's because everyone else does too. It also goes the other way. Something universal can over time become perceived as a right even if it didn't start as being seen as one. This is why the U in Universal Basic Income is so important

As soon as you attach a means-test to a benefit to exclude those with incomes deemed "too high" in order to get it, it's no longer a right and won't become one. Those in great need will also be filtered out by the test you expect and want them to pass. Don't worry about the rich. Just tax them more.

What USA thinks it's #1 in (and its actual rankings): Life Expectancy: 46th FreePress: 42nd Healthcare: 30th Education: 26th Happiness: 23rd Freedom: 17th What the USA is #1 in: Military Spending Number of Billionaires Incarceration Bankruptcy filings Medical debt Gun deaths Funding israel

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

UBI is a floor. It is a foundation. It is a human right that should not be withheld and we should have started it 50 years ago as a tech dividend when productivity first decoupled from incomes. There will always be work. There will always be a demand for human labor. We need not all work 40 hrs.

They bleeped it, but pretty sure Billie Eilish said "Fuck ICE"

Spot on 🎯

Keith Ellison: "The president is openly promoting authoritarianism and tyranny. That is what's happening in America. Most of us thought we would never see it, but here it is right in front of our eyes."

Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders

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The American Dream is to thrive, not just survive, and employers like Walmart use programs like SNAP as an excuse to pay low wages, knowing they have no power to refuse to work for such low wages. This is all why universal basic income is so important. The power to say no and freedom to thrive.

People like you don't care at all about actual people. You don't care that your precious income testing ends up EXCLUDING THOSE WHO FAIL THE TEST. False negatives. You should care more about excluding someone in need than including someone not in need. Only one of those errors can be fatal.

He's just going to give himself another $10B. Cool cool. Definitely totally legit. America First. Man of the people. It was super smart to vote for a billionaire using the logic that money couldn't corrupt him. Yep yep. MAGA.

You wouldn’t reform the Nazi Party.

This is the reality of means-testing and work requirements. Even those on the left can fall for this stuff and ignore the costs. To end this madness, we need to go universal. No more means-testing or conditions. Universal basic income, healthcare, and education. And tax the rich more than they get.

Historically, either the justice system handles murderers or other people do

Look, I'm glad we're having a conversation about the hypocrisy of the legal logic used by America's gun nuts. But can we stop pretending this is a new thing? They have never advocated for universal access to firearms. They only want their team to be armed. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...