Papa Josh
@papa-josh.bsky.social
TV station executive, web developer and creative.
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Breaking: Trump just banned states from being able to wipe medical debt from Americans’ credit reports.
The Biden-Harris administration had moved to wipe medical debt from credit reports. Now this new rule will keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.
The Biden-Harris administration had moved to wipe medical debt from credit reports. Now this new rule will keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.
October 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Breaking: Trump just banned states from being able to wipe medical debt from Americans’ credit reports.
The Biden-Harris administration had moved to wipe medical debt from credit reports. Now this new rule will keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.
The Biden-Harris administration had moved to wipe medical debt from credit reports. Now this new rule will keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION
(not a typo)
(not a typo)
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION
(not a typo)
(not a typo)
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Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
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Amazingly disappointing, but true, no one talks about the #1 issue anymore…
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Amazingly disappointing, but true, no one talks about the #1 issue anymore…
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Ignore all laws about altering historic properties ✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅
#Ugh🤢✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅
#Ugh🤢✅
October 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Ignore all laws about altering historic properties ✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅
#Ugh🤢✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅
#Ugh🤢✅
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Big Tech oligarchs are coming for your job.
Jeff Bezos will be replacing 600,000 jobs at Amazon with robots. His vision: fully automate operations.
Amazon's not alone. That's the direction of every major corporation.
AI & robotics must benefit workers, not the top 1%.
Jeff Bezos will be replacing 600,000 jobs at Amazon with robots. His vision: fully automate operations.
Amazon's not alone. That's the direction of every major corporation.
AI & robotics must benefit workers, not the top 1%.
Amazon, the second largest employer in the U.S., aims to replace more than half a million jobs with robots, internal documents show.
Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.
nyti.ms
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Big Tech oligarchs are coming for your job.
Jeff Bezos will be replacing 600,000 jobs at Amazon with robots. His vision: fully automate operations.
Amazon's not alone. That's the direction of every major corporation.
AI & robotics must benefit workers, not the top 1%.
Jeff Bezos will be replacing 600,000 jobs at Amazon with robots. His vision: fully automate operations.
Amazon's not alone. That's the direction of every major corporation.
AI & robotics must benefit workers, not the top 1%.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare.
And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”
And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”
October 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare.
And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”
And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”
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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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He wrote the decision that legalized political bribery — now he’s getting glowing profiles.
@davidsirota.com & @jjmaher.bsky.social dig into Justice Kennedy’s lobbyist past in @Slate.com, adapted from Master Plan.
@davidsirota.com & @jjmaher.bsky.social dig into Justice Kennedy’s lobbyist past in @Slate.com, adapted from Master Plan.
October 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
He wrote the decision that legalized political bribery — now he’s getting glowing profiles.
@davidsirota.com & @jjmaher.bsky.social dig into Justice Kennedy’s lobbyist past in @Slate.com, adapted from Master Plan.
@davidsirota.com & @jjmaher.bsky.social dig into Justice Kennedy’s lobbyist past in @Slate.com, adapted from Master Plan.
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NEW: The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.”
Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.
Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.
Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.
www.propublica.org
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.”
Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.
Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.
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October 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Because this isn’t the movement of Reagan or Eisenhower or even Bush… if you still find yourself defending it, maybe the joke’s on you—because history never laughs with those who excuse the inexcusable.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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The GOP’s Young ‘Leaders’ Aren’t Kids — They’re Adults Praising Hitler
There’s a world of difference between gallows humor and glorifying genocide — one saves your sanity, the other kills your soul.
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Because this isn’t the movement of Reagan or Eisenhower or even Bush… if you still find yourself defending it, maybe the joke’s on you—because history never laughs with those who excuse the inexcusable.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org
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“Not paying for a product you exploit to sell your product is theft; not paying for labour you employ is slavery. If your business model is theft and slavery, you’re not an industry. You’re a pirate.” @vanbadham.bsky.social
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AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham
Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
“Not paying for a product you exploit to sell your product is theft; not paying for labour you employ is slavery. If your business model is theft and slavery, you’re not an industry. You’re a pirate.” @vanbadham.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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“I think the federal basic income program could be a nation-building program.”
We've seen study after study showing universal basic income works -- cheaper, more effective than current income programs. Doesn't disincentivize people from working. Reduces crime. Improves health. UBI now.
We've seen study after study showing universal basic income works -- cheaper, more effective than current income programs. Doesn't disincentivize people from working. Reduces crime. Improves health. UBI now.
Ireland is locking down basic income for artists. Could Canada follow suit? | CBC Radio
Ireland has made permanent its three-year pilot program that gave monthly income payments to thousands of artists. Canadian artists are hoping to use that program's success to build momentum for guara...
www.cbc.ca
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
“I think the federal basic income program could be a nation-building program.”
We've seen study after study showing universal basic income works -- cheaper, more effective than current income programs. Doesn't disincentivize people from working. Reduces crime. Improves health. UBI now.
We've seen study after study showing universal basic income works -- cheaper, more effective than current income programs. Doesn't disincentivize people from working. Reduces crime. Improves health. UBI now.
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So far in 2025 the U.S. has lost a total of 33,000 manufacturing jobs.
October 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
So far in 2025 the U.S. has lost a total of 33,000 manufacturing jobs.
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🚨NEW: Justice Anthony Kennedy authored the Citizens United decision & today released a memoir defending his ruling letting oligarchs buy elections - yet he says he worries democracy may not survive.
None of the media Kennedy is granting interviews has even asked him about Citizens United.
None of the media Kennedy is granting interviews has even asked him about Citizens United.
Anthony Kennedy Is Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This
The retired Supreme Court Justice who authored Citizens United is suddenly worried about the future of democracy.
www.levernews.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
🚨NEW: Justice Anthony Kennedy authored the Citizens United decision & today released a memoir defending his ruling letting oligarchs buy elections - yet he says he worries democracy may not survive.
None of the media Kennedy is granting interviews has even asked him about Citizens United.
None of the media Kennedy is granting interviews has even asked him about Citizens United.
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CBS News just aired a long profile valorizing Justice Anthony Kennedy without even once mentioning the Citizens United ruling that he authored and that empowered corporations and oligarchs to buy elections.
This omission exemplifies how the master plan works.
This omission exemplifies how the master plan works.
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
CBS News just aired a long profile valorizing Justice Anthony Kennedy without even once mentioning the Citizens United ruling that he authored and that empowered corporations and oligarchs to buy elections.
This omission exemplifies how the master plan works.
This omission exemplifies how the master plan works.
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Our economy is running on the spending of the top 10%. It does not care about the bottom 60%. I think this is also why they aren't pushing for universal basic income right when you'd think they would to maintain consumer buying power. Our consumer economy has become reoriented around elite spending.
October 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Our economy is running on the spending of the top 10%. It does not care about the bottom 60%. I think this is also why they aren't pushing for universal basic income right when you'd think they would to maintain consumer buying power. Our consumer economy has become reoriented around elite spending.
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Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.
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Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit
Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.
itep.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.
itep.org/trump-tax-la...
itep.org/trump-tax-la...