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“[R]eally lean into universalism in general and taxing the rich. Fuck the billionaires and big corporations.” -Scott Santens
UBI, Proportional Representation, Ames, ISU, US Soccer, life, liberty & justice for all, happiness, promote the general welfare.
UBI, Proportional Representation, Ames, ISU, US Soccer, life, liberty & justice for all, happiness, promote the general welfare.
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A next-gen Bernie needs to run hard on economic populism. Universal basic income, universal healthcare, universal college, universal school meals, really lean into universalism in general and taxing the rich. Fuck the billionaires and big corporations. Make them pay for all the universal programs.
I think universalism in general and taxing the rich is a great campaign strategy.
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“For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
- Thomas Paine, 1776
America has no kings and it never will.
- Thomas Paine, 1776
America has no kings and it never will.
October 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
- Thomas Paine, 1776
America has no kings and it never will.
- Thomas Paine, 1776
America has no kings and it never will.
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TAX WEALTH. DISTRIBUTE UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME.
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
TAX WEALTH. DISTRIBUTE UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME.
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Republicans just shut down the government to rip away healthcare and hand Trump another blank check for his illegal power grab. Instead of negotiating a budget that protects families, Republicans chose to throw working families under the bus. This is the GOP’s shutdown & they own the damage from it.
Shutdown near certain after Senate again rejects funding bills
Lawmakers are poised to barrel into the first government funding lapse since 2019.
www.politico.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Republicans just shut down the government to rip away healthcare and hand Trump another blank check for his illegal power grab. Instead of negotiating a budget that protects families, Republicans chose to throw working families under the bus. This is the GOP’s shutdown & they own the damage from it.
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Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.
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Damn @carolleonnig.bsky.social with a barn burner of a scoop www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
www.msnbc.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Damn @carolleonnig.bsky.social with a barn burner of a scoop www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
“The whole US party system would have to change.”
Yes. That’s the point.
But to answer your question: Party primaries with PR could continue to work the way they do now. There are lots of elections now where each party nominates by primary 5 candidates to fill 5 seats in a general election.
Yes. That’s the point.
But to answer your question: Party primaries with PR could continue to work the way they do now. There are lots of elections now where each party nominates by primary 5 candidates to fill 5 seats in a general election.
I've spent years watching attempts at electoral reform go down in flames in Britain, Canada, and elsewhere ─ countries where the preconditions are already far better for PR than the US.
Like, how are party primaries supposed to work under PR? The whole US party system would have to change.
Like, how are party primaries supposed to work under PR? The whole US party system would have to change.
September 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“The whole US party system would have to change.”
Yes. That’s the point.
But to answer your question: Party primaries with PR could continue to work the way they do now. There are lots of elections now where each party nominates by primary 5 candidates to fill 5 seats in a general election.
Yes. That’s the point.
But to answer your question: Party primaries with PR could continue to work the way they do now. There are lots of elections now where each party nominates by primary 5 candidates to fill 5 seats in a general election.
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ICE continues to assault us.
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
September 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
ICE continues to assault us.
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
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he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest
September 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest
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US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked
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So, just to clarify, the choice for homeless people is concentration camps or prison, where the cost of either one is around $4,000-$10,000 a month. Meanwhile, a $500/mo basic income in SF reduced homelessness by two-thirds.
It should be considered cruel and unusual to not do Universal Basic Income
It should be considered cruel and unusual to not do Universal Basic Income
Leavitt says that Trump will imprison homeless people who refuse to go to shelters
August 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
So, just to clarify, the choice for homeless people is concentration camps or prison, where the cost of either one is around $4,000-$10,000 a month. Meanwhile, a $500/mo basic income in SF reduced homelessness by two-thirds.
It should be considered cruel and unusual to not do Universal Basic Income
It should be considered cruel and unusual to not do Universal Basic Income
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Taylor: I had a six-figure income Substack until late 2023. I moved it first to Beehiiv then, because I didn't care for it, then to Ghost in late 2024. Each time the new site handled migration with no subscriber falloff and no income interruption. You are operating on bad information. Just move.
July 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Taylor: I had a six-figure income Substack until late 2023. I moved it first to Beehiiv then, because I didn't care for it, then to Ghost in late 2024. Each time the new site handled migration with no subscriber falloff and no income interruption. You are operating on bad information. Just move.
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Substack sent a push alert to users not just of a Nazi sub but one that uses a swastika for its icon and people are still writing about the discoverability on the platform being hard to replace - I mean what are we even doing here
July 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Substack sent a push alert to users not just of a Nazi sub but one that uses a swastika for its icon and people are still writing about the discoverability on the platform being hard to replace - I mean what are we even doing here
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I made the switch from Substack to Ghost in January, and I said out loud I was wrong to have used Substack in the first place. I knew about the Nazi ish but believed the PR about needing the "network."
My old posts migrated smoothly, my site looks better, and I feel better.
My old posts migrated smoothly, my site looks better, and I feel better.
people who you would assume having a huge problem with substack promoting and profit sharing with nazis have remained puzzlingly silent or even gotten defensive about it and it’s one of the most confusing dynamics in media.
July 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I made the switch from Substack to Ghost in January, and I said out loud I was wrong to have used Substack in the first place. I knew about the Nazi ish but believed the PR about needing the "network."
My old posts migrated smoothly, my site looks better, and I feel better.
My old posts migrated smoothly, my site looks better, and I feel better.
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Trump: I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her. So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.
Stern: So you can’t date 16 year olds!
Trump: [Laughs] 🤮
youtu.be/AN1EOwPlBgc?...
Stern: So you can’t date 16 year olds!
Trump: [Laughs] 🤮
youtu.be/AN1EOwPlBgc?...
Donald Trump discusses dating, Howard Stern Show, 6/03/1999
YouTube video by Bob B
youtu.be
July 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Trump: I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her. So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.
Stern: So you can’t date 16 year olds!
Trump: [Laughs] 🤮
youtu.be/AN1EOwPlBgc?...
Stern: So you can’t date 16 year olds!
Trump: [Laughs] 🤮
youtu.be/AN1EOwPlBgc?...
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In a 2010 deposition, Epstein invoked the Fifth when asked if he’d socialized with Trump around underage girls. The resurfaced clip renews scrutiny of Trump’s Epstein ties and efforts to bury the client list.
“105…‘Have you ever…?’ Epstein took the Fifth.” Id. at 89.
reason.com/wp-content/u...
“105…‘Have you ever…?’ Epstein took the Fifth.” Id. at 89.
reason.com/wp-content/u...
July 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
In a 2010 deposition, Epstein invoked the Fifth when asked if he’d socialized with Trump around underage girls. The resurfaced clip renews scrutiny of Trump’s Epstein ties and efforts to bury the client list.
“105…‘Have you ever…?’ Epstein took the Fifth.” Id. at 89.
reason.com/wp-content/u...
“105…‘Have you ever…?’ Epstein took the Fifth.” Id. at 89.
reason.com/wp-content/u...
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That's a bold strategy, Cotton.
July 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
That's a bold strategy, Cotton.
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If this bill passes, in whatever hybrid House-Senate form, it would truly transform U.S politics & society. It would create massive new misery & poverty, make the super rich even richer, and create an enormous internal army that Trump treats as his personal guard and that operates largely unchecked.
Comparing How the House and Senate Bills Deliver on Trump’s Agenda
A look at some of the key provisions in Republicans' domestic policy bill and where the two chambers are divided.
www.nytimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If this bill passes, in whatever hybrid House-Senate form, it would truly transform U.S politics & society. It would create massive new misery & poverty, make the super rich even richer, and create an enormous internal army that Trump treats as his personal guard and that operates largely unchecked.
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“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
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First, SCOTUS issued a sweeping grant of immunity to a president who committed unprecedented crimes in office
Now they have prevented courts from stopping this administration's open and routine violations of the law
Democracy and the rule of law are on the line
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Now they have prevented courts from stopping this administration's open and routine violations of the law
Democracy and the rule of law are on the line
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
First, SCOTUS issued a sweeping grant of immunity to a president who committed unprecedented crimes in office
Now they have prevented courts from stopping this administration's open and routine violations of the law
Democracy and the rule of law are on the line
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Now they have prevented courts from stopping this administration's open and routine violations of the law
Democracy and the rule of law are on the line
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Still struggling with the idea that the President authorized a country, with which we were engaged in armed conflict, to attack a US base with US soldiers in harm's way ("gunners") and it isn't a bigger story. This goes beyond even impeachment and removal from office.
June 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Still struggling with the idea that the President authorized a country, with which we were engaged in armed conflict, to attack a US base with US soldiers in harm's way ("gunners") and it isn't a bigger story. This goes beyond even impeachment and removal from office.
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Trump gave Iran permission to fire missiles at U.S. troops at our base in Qatar. You’ll recall the last time this happened and our troops suffered TBI, Trump downplayed the serious injuries as “headaches.” www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/ju...
Trump says Iranians asked U.S. what time they could bomb American military base in Qatar
President Trump said Iranian leaders cleared their plan with the U.S. to fire retaliatory strikes against an American airbase in Qatar, and even requested a specific time to attack.
www.washingtontimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Trump gave Iran permission to fire missiles at U.S. troops at our base in Qatar. You’ll recall the last time this happened and our troops suffered TBI, Trump downplayed the serious injuries as “headaches.” www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/ju...
This should be it. Trump brags that he gave permission to Iran to attack a US military base.
This should be repeated ad nauseam. It’s indefensible, so make Trump and Republicans talk about OKing Iran attacking the US.
This should be repeated ad nauseam. It’s indefensible, so make Trump and Republicans talk about OKing Iran attacking the US.
“They said is 1 o’clock ok? I said it’s fine.”
Trump recounts giving Iran permission to shoot at a 🇺🇸 military base in Qatar.
Trump recounts giving Iran permission to shoot at a 🇺🇸 military base in Qatar.
June 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This should be it. Trump brags that he gave permission to Iran to attack a US military base.
This should be repeated ad nauseam. It’s indefensible, so make Trump and Republicans talk about OKing Iran attacking the US.
This should be repeated ad nauseam. It’s indefensible, so make Trump and Republicans talk about OKing Iran attacking the US.