Still true. Infighting between republicans over whether we should be viciously rounding up immigrants or allowing them to stay and work as a vulnerable underclass just reminds me that both sides of that debate are wrong. The enemy of my enemy is not not my friend.
September 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Still true. Infighting between republicans over whether we should be viciously rounding up immigrants or allowing them to stay and work as a vulnerable underclass just reminds me that both sides of that debate are wrong. The enemy of my enemy is not not my friend.
Charlie Kirk’s death is like an unseasonably warm winter day caused by climate change. I know it’s part of a bigger issue we should address, I mourn all the people who have been hurt or killed by it, and I will continue to advocate for change.
But I’m also going to go outside and enjoy myself.
But I’m also going to go outside and enjoy myself.
September 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Charlie Kirk’s death is like an unseasonably warm winter day caused by climate change. I know it’s part of a bigger issue we should address, I mourn all the people who have been hurt or killed by it, and I will continue to advocate for change.
But I’m also going to go outside and enjoy myself.
But I’m also going to go outside and enjoy myself.
Dear @nytimes.com, can you please stop using bad-faith quotes from hacky Trump appointees to characterize your headlines?
“In a post on X, the agency’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, said that start-stop technology was just a ‘climate participation trophy’ for companies, and that ‘everyone hates it.’”
“In a post on X, the agency’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, said that start-stop technology was just a ‘climate participation trophy’ for companies, and that ‘everyone hates it.’”
Should the Government Stop Subsidizing a Car Feature That ‘Everyone Hates’?
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Dear @nytimes.com, can you please stop using bad-faith quotes from hacky Trump appointees to characterize your headlines?
“In a post on X, the agency’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, said that start-stop technology was just a ‘climate participation trophy’ for companies, and that ‘everyone hates it.’”
“In a post on X, the agency’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, said that start-stop technology was just a ‘climate participation trophy’ for companies, and that ‘everyone hates it.’”
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UBI will NOT cause runaway inflation!
In fact, it may be the strongest tool we have to fight it.
Here’s why the “UBI = inflation” fear is a myth, debunked point by point🧵
In fact, it may be the strongest tool we have to fight it.
Here’s why the “UBI = inflation” fear is a myth, debunked point by point🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
UBI will NOT cause runaway inflation!
In fact, it may be the strongest tool we have to fight it.
Here’s why the “UBI = inflation” fear is a myth, debunked point by point🧵
In fact, it may be the strongest tool we have to fight it.
Here’s why the “UBI = inflation” fear is a myth, debunked point by point🧵
Reposted by Erik L
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace” — Trump acknowledges immigrants are hardworking and law-abiding
Trump Tells Farmers ‘Changes Are Coming’ to Immigration Crackdown
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace” — Trump acknowledges immigrants are hardworking and law-abiding
So can we call it a constitutional crisis yet?
“President Trump…said he does have the ability to help return the wrongly deported Maryland man, but is not willing to do so because he believes he is a gang member.”
“President Trump…said he does have the ability to help return the wrongly deported Maryland man, but is not willing to do so because he believes he is a gang member.”
Trump Live Updates: Latest on Deportations, Tariffs, U.S. Economy and More (Gift Article)
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
So can we call it a constitutional crisis yet?
“President Trump…said he does have the ability to help return the wrongly deported Maryland man, but is not willing to do so because he believes he is a gang member.”
“President Trump…said he does have the ability to help return the wrongly deported Maryland man, but is not willing to do so because he believes he is a gang member.”
The @nytimes.com just can’t help themselves, can they? Trump/Musk stripping your first amendment equal protection rights?
Yeah, well, some nameless college kids protested at an Exxon CEO speech once.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Yeah, well, some nameless college kids protested at an Exxon CEO speech once.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
February 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The @nytimes.com just can’t help themselves, can they? Trump/Musk stripping your first amendment equal protection rights?
Yeah, well, some nameless college kids protested at an Exxon CEO speech once.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Yeah, well, some nameless college kids protested at an Exxon CEO speech once.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Harris’s “shape-shifting makes her emblematic of a party that was never deeply committed to the kinds of fights that have motivated its base to get into the streets and engage in politics. That doesn’t make her loss attributable to an excess of progressivism but to too flimsy an association with it”
February 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Harris’s “shape-shifting makes her emblematic of a party that was never deeply committed to the kinds of fights that have motivated its base to get into the streets and engage in politics. That doesn’t make her loss attributable to an excess of progressivism but to too flimsy an association with it”
Adult white and Black men are taller than Asian and Latino men by ~2” on average in the US. That confers an obvious advantage in basketball. Should we require they play in separate leagues?
Obviously not, but this is pretty much the same logic being used to keep trans people out of sports. 🏳️⚧️
Obviously not, but this is pretty much the same logic being used to keep trans people out of sports. 🏳️⚧️
February 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Adult white and Black men are taller than Asian and Latino men by ~2” on average in the US. That confers an obvious advantage in basketball. Should we require they play in separate leagues?
Obviously not, but this is pretty much the same logic being used to keep trans people out of sports. 🏳️⚧️
Obviously not, but this is pretty much the same logic being used to keep trans people out of sports. 🏳️⚧️
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Let's say there's "waste" and "fraud" in the government.
Well that’s why every department had an inspector general to find and stop it.
But guess what? Trump fired most of these independent auditors who should be insulated from politics.
None of this is about waste and fraud.
Well that’s why every department had an inspector general to find and stop it.
But guess what? Trump fired most of these independent auditors who should be insulated from politics.
None of this is about waste and fraud.
February 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Let's say there's "waste" and "fraud" in the government.
Well that’s why every department had an inspector general to find and stop it.
But guess what? Trump fired most of these independent auditors who should be insulated from politics.
None of this is about waste and fraud.
Well that’s why every department had an inspector general to find and stop it.
But guess what? Trump fired most of these independent auditors who should be insulated from politics.
None of this is about waste and fraud.
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Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Reposted by Erik L
My EI blog post today addresses the claim from CA's rooftop solar industry that the 2023 change in net energy metering rules devastated their business. State's DG database shows it didn't. Just pulled forward sales to beat the new policy.
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/g...
#EnergySky
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/g...
#EnergySky
Guess What Didn’t Kill Rooftop Solar?
California’s solar industry is doing just fine despite their complaints about net energy metering reform. There is a new administration in DC producing a raft of misguided actions to bolster fossil…
energyathaas.wordpress.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
My EI blog post today addresses the claim from CA's rooftop solar industry that the 2023 change in net energy metering rules devastated their business. State's DG database shows it didn't. Just pulled forward sales to beat the new policy.
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/g...
#EnergySky
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/g...
#EnergySky
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Thank you for reading to the end of this thread. I hope you also take the time to read my article. And also thank you to all my monthly supporters on Patreon who make it possible for me to write articles like this to better inform UBI discussions. Basic income is a floor that better enables purpose.
Did Sam Altman's Basic Income Experiment Succeed or Fail?
An article to better inform the discussion of the results of the OpenResearch unconditional basic income pilot experiment
The results of one of the biggest basic income experiments ever came out ...
www.scottsantens.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Thank you for reading to the end of this thread. I hope you also take the time to read my article. And also thank you to all my monthly supporters on Patreon who make it possible for me to write articles like this to better inform UBI discussions. Basic income is a floor that better enables purpose.
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"It might seem inefficient to give people a benefit if you’re going to essentially take it back from them in taxes, but what you actually end up with is a much more efficient program that is more easily administered and doesn’t leave anyone out."
This is why UBI. 👇
www.vox.com/policy/39322...
This is why UBI. 👇
www.vox.com/policy/39322...
What if everyone qualified for welfare benefits?
Universal programs are much easier to administer than means-tested ones.
www.vox.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"It might seem inefficient to give people a benefit if you’re going to essentially take it back from them in taxes, but what you actually end up with is a much more efficient program that is more easily administered and doesn’t leave anyone out."
This is why UBI. 👇
www.vox.com/policy/39322...
This is why UBI. 👇
www.vox.com/policy/39322...
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"America didn’t swing rightward, but couchward."
How Trump “Won”
The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority
www.weekendreading.net
January 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"America didn’t swing rightward, but couchward."
How is this what people managed to take away from the presidential election?
December 22, 2024 at 1:37 AM
How is this what people managed to take away from the presidential election?
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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. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
Reposted by Erik L
I found this election analysis by David Wallace-Wells to be very smart. Enjoy, share, rest up and get ready peeps.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...
Opinion | Election Myths, Traps, Truths and Lessons (Gift Article)
We won’t have enough data to tell the full story of the election for some time. But there are a few things we can say for sure now.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:27 PM
I found this election analysis by David Wallace-Wells to be very smart. Enjoy, share, rest up and get ready peeps.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...