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lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · Feb 23

The Mockingjay for 2028

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSil...

AOC's Speech at NY Rally with Federal Workers | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · 14h

ALL lies & propaganda from some low-life, narcissist, wife & child abusing, alcoholic, white supremacist, ex-Faux News LIAR hiding behind the cult of evangelical xhristianity
BEGGING for KARMA to bring its most destructive force

lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · 14h

It's republiKKKans & corporate democrats, the uni-party or republican-lite, broadcasting their reality TV show... maybe only a handful of current Dems that aren't progressives that are FDR democrats, but doubt it cause AIPAC pays so well.

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How The United States Ended Up With Two Right-Wing Parties

YouTube video by Second Thought

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lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · 15h

I know people like him; psychologically damaged to such a degree they eat their own as the hole in their heart can never be filled
Typically, they make the world better by leaving it.

lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · 15h

Turn your guns around

lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · 15h

Amend the Constitution so this man can run for president

He will revolutionize New York & remind the U.S. of what FDR did for the working class by creating a strong middle class that made the American dream a reality...or just elect AOC for vice prez for 8 years & then prez for another 8 years.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Dec 5

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. 🧵

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI

No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis)

Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%)

Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis)

New mothers extend their maternity leaves

Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition

Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve

Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)

Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%)

Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%)

Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people)

Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%)

Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables

Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%)

Savings go up, debts go down

Source: scottsantens

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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to Blaze Foley. It will do you good.

Bob Dylan said Blaze was his favorite songwriter. Townes Van Zandt said Blaze was one of the most spiritual people he ever met. John Prine covered his work. Merle Haggard tracked down every recording he could get. The public has mostly forgotten.

Blaze Foley - Clay Pigeons, rare Live

YouTube video by Dave HJ

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Joe Segal @joesegal.bsky.social · 1d

My friends, the 1st Amendment says we are guaranteed freedom of speech. And the Supreme Court has ruled that "money is speech". I think it can fairly be argued, therefore, that we the people are all due free money! This is the rationale for instituting UBI! Universal Basic Income!

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 1d

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Ireland did a trial run of a program that provides basic income for artists, and is now keeping it. (See link in post.) I'm an artist who desperately wants to be able to slow down enough to make art again, and something like this would benefit me, if only it was available in the USA, but at this rate, it's never going to happen.

Pic is of a dog leaning its head on a brick wall, looking longingly at a grill fill of meat and veggies, which is on the other side of the wall. I made the image into a meme format with "me" pointing at the dog. Pointing at the meat & veggies is text that says "Basic income for artists programs (also universal healthcare / child care / elder care / college, gun control, ceo income caps, vacation days, unions, and all the other cool egalitarian shit americans don't get to benefit from.)"

All the best things seem just out of reach, huh lil doggy?

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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 20h

Typical american mind set...blame workers rather than owners.

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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 21h

We will need a New new deal, a redistribution of wealth as basic income, guaranteed healthcare, childcare, education, and affordable housing.

We need a restructuring and hardening of all our institutions. Expansion of SCOTUS, congressional term limits, the repeal of Citizens United.

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lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · 1d

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lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · Feb 23

The Mockingjay for 2028

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSil...

AOC's Speech at NY Rally with Federal Workers | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

www.youtube.com

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Blackout The System @blackoutthesystem.bsky.social · 8d

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Blackout The System @blackoutthesystem.bsky.social · 9d

This is what we are working towards! Join us for the #secondwave of #blackoutthesystem and let’s work together to see a #generalstrike that will change the world! Stop the flow from WITHIN!

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lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · 4d

Rare Species Discovered

Scientists theorize it evolved from the excrement of billionaire greed during the 80's

It feeds on bigotry, racism, misogyny, hate, theft, scams, criminal acts, McDonalds, abuse, & insatiable lying

Beware...The Stinky Orange-Faced, Short-Fingered Vulgarian Trumpet-Blowfish

lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · 4d

STOP corporate Slave labor
BOYCOTT ALL Starve-Us Corporations

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Starbucks' outrageous CEO-to-worker pay gap might make you spit out your morning coffee. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:

$100 billion

Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:

$100 billion

One is decried as "welfare." One is not.

Why?

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lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · 5d

Trump could shoot me, my spouse, & kids in the head, have it filmed live & reported on every news channel & posted on every social media site, boast he did it b/c he just wanted to & there would be ZERO consequences. MAGA would buy all the merch promoting our deaths all in the name of Christianity.

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[email protected] @blueangie.bsky.social · 6d

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KattWilliamsportalkey @bornyesterdae.bsky.social · 7d

Humans are weird, see a bird with a broken wing…you feel the need to help it fly again…take it to the vet, help it even if it bites at you and hisses at you. You know it’s because the creature is scared and the doctor told you. Humans will see a human with a broken spirit and you kick/blame it more.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 7d

@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC.

“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”

So good!! 🔥

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

“It’s always in the darkest chapters when the brightest lights emerge.”

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lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · 7d

Reagan; the godfather of the plutocracy & the rigged Trump figurehead.
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old

The U.S. is survived by a country of the same name, the United States of America, now a...

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lovegrassalachia @lovegrassalachia.bsky.social · 8d

This is why...
the why for EVERYTHING working class Americans can't afford to live & dream, have freedom, be happy, have security, be healthy, live life, own a home, & just be

Should be ILLEGAL for sh*t like this

SICK of RICH people
High-Income countries; U.S. ranks #1 in SUICIDE