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Ray
@warzoid.bsky.social
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Producer of notorious & occasionally award-winning TV. Comms. Media. 20yrs no-fly. Dark green/left. Arts. Precautionary principle. Existential harm reduction.

Also sells eco-socialist/anti-fascist/anti-technofeudalist t-shirts @ www.revolutionarysell.com
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pawlbologna.bsky.social
I remember when I became fully UBI pilled during the worst of covid and that position is a lock for life.
theycallhimbfg.bsky.social Wikipedia Brown @theycallhimbfg.bsky.social · May 28
TL; DR: the study found it motivated people to find work and it instilled confidence in others to leave abusive situations and enroll their children in extracurricular activities.

It also debunks criticisms that it's just a handout that'll make people dependent on the government.
"Participants in the Los Angeles-based program reported that they had better employment outcomes, felt safer at home, enrolled their kids in more extracurriculars, and were more likely to leave domestically abusive situations, according to the pilot study's results. The Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot, or BIG:LEAP, gave over 3,200 households $1,000 in monthly no-strings-attached cash payments for 12 months starting in January 2022. Participants had to have or be expecting a dependent child and fall below the federal poverty threshold, with average household incomes of slightly above $14,000 a year. BIG:LEAP compared the outcomes of households receiving cash payments to nearly 5,000 households with similar incomes and family situations in the control group. ""There's this really open question in the research and among policymakers around how much cash does it take over what period of time to create change," said Amy Castro, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania who coauthored the study. "What we've seen with BIG:LEAP is that in that 12 months, families really engaged in an accelerated decision-making process to establish safety." The study found that participants were significantly more likely to find full-time jobs than remain unemployed and not looking for work, feel able to cover housing costs, have greater food security, and establish more harmonious home environments compared to the control group. Within the first six months of the program, participants left situations of intimate partner violence more frequently than the control group. In the last six months, participants were more likely to establish proximate safety and work toward protecting themselves in the future. Participants were also significantly more likely than the control group to enroll their kids in enrichment activities. Bo-Kyung Elizabeth Kim, an associate professor at UCLA, told BI this result suggests parents are using the cash to better their children's futures and increasingly have the time to take their kids to these activities. Participants reported significantly fewer worries about their family's safety compared to control participants across all measurement periods — including six months after the last payment. "By establishing that sort of immediate safety right away, participants were then able to engage in their neighborhoods because they had the time to do so," Castro said. "They had the time to parent, and they had the time to build relationships with community leaders." Though many of these effects are significant, the effect sizes aren't large for some variables. For instance, 50% of control group participants reported having to eat less in a day because of a lack of food compared to 42% of recipients. Across the board, the study reported no negative effects of cash payments on participants, who were "significantly more likely to secure full-time employment than to remain unemployed not looking for work" than those in the control group. Castro said this study reveals a wider range of positive impacts on participants receiving unconditional cash payments than many of its predecessors. Overall, it stands in contrast to what some critics of basic income argue, including that cash payments majorly reduce employment or don't prepare participants for the future. Some critics have argued these programs cost millions of dollars, often from taxpayer money, and foster dependency on the government for help.
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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blobbystc.bsky.social
Especially since all institutional pathways for anyone vaguely like him are cynically blocked. Just ask Faiza Shaheen. Why? Well the fear is that the actual politics would be popular
timbale.bsky.social Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d
Perhaps it worked for him (don't know enough about US politics to know) but it's an all too familiar hope on the part of the British left - one that, time and time again, is sadly dashed when the results are counted and the analysis is done.
Zohran Mamdani’s win shows the power of mobilizing non-voters | Ben Davis
Mamdani reshaped the electorate, bringing hundreds of thousands of non-voters out to the polls, from young people to left-behind immigrant communities
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
It's just the beginning...
Former White House Historian Offers Dire Warning After Entire East Wing Is Demolished
www.comicsands.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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glendunlap.bsky.social
This is just awful. If you are position to donate to your local food bank, they are going to need our help more than ever.
At least 25 states plan to cut off food aid benefits in November
The pause in benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would begin in states from California to Arkansas just before the busy holiday season.
www.politico.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
warzoid.bsky.social
Palantir needs driving out of British infrastructure as a matter of urgent national security. This is a hostile takeover & the fact Labour are as complicit as the Tories = the end of political trust.

Starmerism = austerity, authoritarianism, co-operation with the Israeli genocide & Palantir. NOPE.
europeanpowell.bsky.social EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · Oct 7
Louis Mosley is quoted as saying that Palantir's strategy for entry into the British health industry was to "Buy our way in" by acquiring smaller rival companies with existing relationships with the NHS in order to "take a lot of ground and take down a lot of political resistance"
October 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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donnachadhmc.bsky.social
US "Christians" threatening to murder gay people...
US Republican Party Magaism is unleashing our darker demons...🙈
Progressives need to unite & win freedom for all..
youtube.com/shorts/DlvKR...
MAGA supporter THREATENS to K*LL me over simple question
YouTube video by Parkergetajob
youtube.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Bari Weiss "is a self-described 'Zionist fanatic.' The idea that a 'neutral media organization' is led by someone who has a long history as a pro-Israel ideologue...is really worrying. I think there will be a lot more censorship of Palestinian voices." - me to Piers Morgan about CBS News and Weiss:
October 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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alonghurst.bsky.social
UN experts have said the IDF's "targeted destruction" of Gaza's health-care system amounts to "medicide." The UN has accused Israel of deliberately attacking and starving health-care workers, paramedics and hospitals in order to wipe out medical care in the besieged enclave.
October 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
warzoid.bsky.social
Same, and I am mad as hell about it. Britain is a filthy outlier that now won't even give boosters to former cancer patients in their 60s, living with one kidney and other immunity-compromised conditions. Both successive govts and the UKHSA have failed us.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Oct 9
If we had responded to Covid by normalizing masking, providing respirators in healthcare & adopting clean air standards…we could have beaten the virus.

We would also be seeing less measles, colds & flu.

We would all be healthier.

I believe history will see it as one of our greatest failures.
October 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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meemalee.bsky.social
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
warzoid.bsky.social
Labour is failing because the comfortably-off don't understand how desperate for culture and meaning the lower economic classes are. They talk about the "importance of jobs" as though servitude in any role for any recompense is better than time spent creating, connecting or thinking. It isn't.
October 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Seeing lots of this tonight after that party political broadcast.

The Green Party are on track to overtake the Tories in membership.

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
October 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
We are living through an unprecedented time.

We’re witnessing a fascist uprising.

We’re watching as people refuse to learn from history. Seemingly doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Document everything.

Keep a journal. Write it all down.

We must ensure they can’t re-write history.
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
warzoid.bsky.social
Boycott every last thing Israel is connected or associated with.

No rewards for genocide. No recognition for genocide appeasers.
October 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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caitoz.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
warzoid.bsky.social
Starmer is a gift to Farage - not only forcing Britain to follow his agenda, but putting in place legislative infrastructure that'll enable the far-right to do anything and everything they want without oversight should they win the next election. Every Labour MP enabling this madness must go.
donnachadhmc.bsky.social Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · Oct 6
WHAT?!
Starmer proposing monarchical planning powers!!
Whatever PM decides should be built, will be built!
No parliamentary democracy.
No judicial oversight.
No say by local people.
Starmer keeps laying groundwork for Reform dictatorship.
#StarmerMustGo
October 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
I'm very concerned about all the #GlobalSumudFlotilla detainees, but especially Hannah Schafer, who seems likely to be held in extended detention in Israel. Israeli armed forces have committed grave and multiple breaches of international law in attacking the flotilla and mistreating its crew.
October 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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gilltav.bsky.social
We have no time to lose. It’s not just @zackpolanski.bsky.social - there’s a fantastic leadership team and over 80k members (and growing daily) who are all prepared to stand up for decency, kindness and the power of Ordinary people working together with moral courage at their core.
October 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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charleskeener.bsky.social
from the smoldering ruins of 1948, to the 1982 massacres of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon, to the ruins of Gaza and the West Bank in 2025. What is truly burning is Israel’s false moral façade, and with it, Western civilization.
September 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
This is an overstatement, it will not protect the Flotilla, Italy has refused to blame Israel, Italy refuses to recognise Palestine.

The frigate is only there to try rescue them if Israel sinks their ships and only because there are Italian citizens in the flotilla.

Do more.
September 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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humanitymustwin.bsky.social
The root of all our troubles is that the concentration of wealth and power became too extreme.
September 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
warzoid.bsky.social
bylinetimes.bsky.social Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Sep 18
🔴Peter Thiel’s Race Science Network Extends Its Reach Into Reform UK, Conservatives and Labour

A Byline Times investigation can reveal how Donald Trump’s key backer is now exporting discredited race science into mainstream politics in the UK

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/18/p...
Peter Thiel’s Race Science Network Extends Its Reach Into Reform UK, Conservatives and Labour
A Byline Times investigation can reveal how Donald Trump’s key backer is now exporting discredited race science into mainstream politics in the UK
bylinetimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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unrwa.org
The cost to flee homes in #Gaza City - under intense Israeli military operations.

Fuel is scarce.

UNRWA’s shelter supplies have been banned for almost 7 months.

Spaces are overcrowded, hard to find.

After nearly 2 years of war people have not had incomes.

Let us bring in our aid.

#CeasefireNow
September 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
warzoid.bsky.social
The persecution of ecological & anti-genocide protestors + yesterday's treatment of #LedByDonkeys in Windsor & Kevin Maguire on #GMB indicate that the once-largely centrist British media & establishment are hardening in favour of the very far-right. Be in no doubt: fascism is winning in the UK.
September 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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ukstoptrump.bsky.social
THIS IS THE CROWD THAT HAS KEPT TRUMP OUT OF LONDON
Crowd at Parliament square Crowd at Parliament square
September 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM