Jonathan
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Jonathan
@shreddread.bsky.social
· Dec 7
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Coheed and Cambria - "One Last Miracle" [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by Coheed and Cambria
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December 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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TLDR: Trusting people with money not only improves their mental health but makes them trust the system.
As someone who grew up in a family small business and seeing what an impact trusting someone to be a cashier had on them, I don't doubt this at all.
UBI is the only path forward in our society.
As someone who grew up in a family small business and seeing what an impact trusting someone to be a cashier had on them, I don't doubt this at all.
UBI is the only path forward in our society.
Finland Gave Two Groups Identical Payments. One Experienced 33% Better Mental Health.
New research from Finland's basic income experiment proves that simply trusting people with money—not just the money itself—significantly improves mental health
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December 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
TLDR: Trusting people with money not only improves their mental health but makes them trust the system.
As someone who grew up in a family small business and seeing what an impact trusting someone to be a cashier had on them, I don't doubt this at all.
UBI is the only path forward in our society.
As someone who grew up in a family small business and seeing what an impact trusting someone to be a cashier had on them, I don't doubt this at all.
UBI is the only path forward in our society.
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It’s almost as if UBI is a screamingly obvious, readily achievable, absolutely positive, thoroughly beneficial concept that’s objectionable only to someone with a big, deeply vested interest in a needlessly shite society.
November 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
It’s almost as if UBI is a screamingly obvious, readily achievable, absolutely positive, thoroughly beneficial concept that’s objectionable only to someone with a big, deeply vested interest in a needlessly shite society.
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I mean.. we probably wouldn't need disability payments or food stamps if we all got universal healthcare and UBI that covered all basic living expenses every month. It would probably save the government so much money in the long run, too.
But then we couldn't be made desperate and easy to exploit.
But then we couldn't be made desperate and easy to exploit.
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I mean.. we probably wouldn't need disability payments or food stamps if we all got universal healthcare and UBI that covered all basic living expenses every month. It would probably save the government so much money in the long run, too.
But then we couldn't be made desperate and easy to exploit.
But then we couldn't be made desperate and easy to exploit.
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Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome is the way
Six New Pilot Programs Show UBI Works | The Basic Income Show
YouTube video by Scott Santens
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October 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome is the way
The people without power are never the cause of the problem.
September 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The people without power are never the cause of the problem.
Sense8!
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.
What's yours?
What's yours?
September 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Sense8!
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This article is huge.
Billionaires spend millions to tell us Universal Basic Income doesn't work. Same playbook as companies pumping money to smear unions, same as US Army targeting any socialist government on Earth.
Billionaires spend millions to tell us Universal Basic Income doesn't work. Same playbook as companies pumping money to smear unions, same as US Army targeting any socialist government on Earth.
The Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban Basic Income Experiments
The Foundation for Government Accountability - a Florida-based lobbying group backed by the richest 1% - is working to get basic income experiments banned by state legislators across the U.S.
(This...
www.scottsantens.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This article is huge.
Billionaires spend millions to tell us Universal Basic Income doesn't work. Same playbook as companies pumping money to smear unions, same as US Army targeting any socialist government on Earth.
Billionaires spend millions to tell us Universal Basic Income doesn't work. Same playbook as companies pumping money to smear unions, same as US Army targeting any socialist government on Earth.
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What would humans do if they had a universal basic income?
They would find meaning in all the things that society currently doesn’t value. Not because those things are inherently without value – but because markets don’t always accurately value all human endeavors.
They would find meaning in all the things that society currently doesn’t value. Not because those things are inherently without value – but because markets don’t always accurately value all human endeavors.
August 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
What would humans do if they had a universal basic income?
They would find meaning in all the things that society currently doesn’t value. Not because those things are inherently without value – but because markets don’t always accurately value all human endeavors.
They would find meaning in all the things that society currently doesn’t value. Not because those things are inherently without value – but because markets don’t always accurately value all human endeavors.
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The fascists have fully convinced a lot of people—including almost all elected Democrats—that they will punish us if we do anything effective to stop the spread of fascism.
But here’s the thing. If fascism spreads, they will punish us anyway. So we have to do the things that threaten their power.
But here’s the thing. If fascism spreads, they will punish us anyway. So we have to do the things that threaten their power.
August 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The fascists have fully convinced a lot of people—including almost all elected Democrats—that they will punish us if we do anything effective to stop the spread of fascism.
But here’s the thing. If fascism spreads, they will punish us anyway. So we have to do the things that threaten their power.
But here’s the thing. If fascism spreads, they will punish us anyway. So we have to do the things that threaten their power.
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They’re closing hospitals to open concentration camps.
July 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
They’re closing hospitals to open concentration camps.
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This is ✨Senator Kim Pate✨
Canada's champion for Basic Income in Parliament
She just gave one of the most iconic speeches ever
- it's cheaper than poverty
- encourages work and entrepreneurs
- cuts crime and helps victims of abuse
We break it down🧵
Canada's champion for Basic Income in Parliament
She just gave one of the most iconic speeches ever
- it's cheaper than poverty
- encourages work and entrepreneurs
- cuts crime and helps victims of abuse
We break it down🧵
June 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is ✨Senator Kim Pate✨
Canada's champion for Basic Income in Parliament
She just gave one of the most iconic speeches ever
- it's cheaper than poverty
- encourages work and entrepreneurs
- cuts crime and helps victims of abuse
We break it down🧵
Canada's champion for Basic Income in Parliament
She just gave one of the most iconic speeches ever
- it's cheaper than poverty
- encourages work and entrepreneurs
- cuts crime and helps victims of abuse
We break it down🧵
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June 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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If you say that America is poised to institutionalize a police state - that the reality of concentration camps and regularized disappearances will become an ongoing facet of life - you'll still receive eye-rolls and clucked tongues. But that is not a possibility of this budget, it is the purpose.
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
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 4:00 PM
If you say that America is poised to institutionalize a police state - that the reality of concentration camps and regularized disappearances will become an ongoing facet of life - you'll still receive eye-rolls and clucked tongues. But that is not a possibility of this budget, it is the purpose.
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Professor @dem8z.bsky.social speaking on the steps of the Rotunda yesterday in protest of the authoritarian takeover of higher education.
June 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Professor @dem8z.bsky.social speaking on the steps of the Rotunda yesterday in protest of the authoritarian takeover of higher education.
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Resistance will take many forms in the days and months ahead.
June 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Resistance will take many forms in the days and months ahead.
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Adriana Smith’s tragic story is emblematic of our times in so many levels and layers that it makes my soul ache.
Georgia’s Abortion Ban Just Forced a Brain-Dead Woman On Life Support to Give Birth
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs upended decades of settled law. Adriana Smith and her family paid the price
ballsandstrikes.org
June 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Adriana Smith’s tragic story is emblematic of our times in so many levels and layers that it makes my soul ache.
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If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
June 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
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Universal basic income means people could dedicate their lives to helping others and still be able to live. Could you imagine what a world like that would look like?
June 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Universal basic income means people could dedicate their lives to helping others and still be able to live. Could you imagine what a world like that would look like?
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Really great episode of @staceyabrams.com 's podcast explaining what these creeps and predators that have too much power are really up to. #politics #power
Who Should Reproduce? The Politics of Family Planning in the Trump Era
Podcast Episode · Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams · 06/05/2025 · 58m
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June 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Really great episode of @staceyabrams.com 's podcast explaining what these creeps and predators that have too much power are really up to. #politics #power