Don't be fooled by the Neo-Liberal lie that Government debt is the same as the household debt of ordinary citizens.

They are two separate things.

"Back in the early 1950s, Germans who lived through the Nazi era warned Chicago journalist Milton Mayer that they had “become used to being governed by surprise” and told him how each step toward Hitler’s eventual tyranny was incremental." www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

What is the difference between tariffs and VAT? Either ways it’s an additional cost on every item traded, paid by the poor as a bigger total cut of their worth. VAT is worse if you think about. That’s why the tories always increase it.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social we should tax the money that Americans take out of the UK. We only have 10%tarrifs because our deficit with the USA is negative.

Our economy is more and more resembling Feudalism.

Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it.

www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...

On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

The IDF: the most moral army in the world; allegedly. And a trusted ally of the UK...makes you proud to be British🤮

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social

Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Everyone trying out Meta's gen AI "users" is giving the platform what they want: clicks and engagement metrics that Meta engineers can use to justify creating more gen AI "users."

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. 🧵

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Israeli forces raided Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, detaining dozens of medical staff, including the hospital’s director. Patients and others who were ordered to evacuate during the raid recall their experience reut.rs/4gxhJdi

“While leaving the town, I saw many bodies lying on the ground, and dogs were devouring some of them. I also saw men and women who were wounded, still alive but drowning in their own blood, with no one to help them. This is not life; we are dying slowly”

A #BasicIncome doesn't COST society money. It SAVES society money. It's money we're NOT having to put into hospital care, jail stays, shelters, health care, and much more!

So let's tax the rich hoarding record profits and put it back in our communities!

cc @scottsantens.com

#WealthTax

Sooomeeoonne brought up the "People need Jobs for Dignity! Basic Income is just a handout, Job Guarantee would be better!"

Lets unpack, shall we?
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🧵A thread of fundraising accounts for people in Gaza, and anywhere else facing Israel's oppression.

These proud people don't want to rely on charity, but until this madness ends, it's all they have, so give kindly, share and add any that aren't on the list.

And read their stories!

#FreePalestine

"What Basic Income ultimately proposes is to detach livelihood from work. Its immediate effect would be to massively reduce the amount of bureaucracy in any country that implemented it."

(From the book, Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber).