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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m with Homeland Security Investigations. I came here to talk to you about some online threats you made against ICE. Get the fuck off my property.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 28/09/2026
The food people need is in grocery stores. They just need the permission slips (cash) to access it. Food banks should not exist. They are a symptom of failed policy. They exist because universal basic income doesn't. We need UBI and it's a fight because the people doing this are doing it on purpose:
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 28/09/2026
This is why it's such nonsense for anyone to say that with UBI, people will lose meaning. First, jobs aren't any source of meaning for many people with jobs. Second, the jobs people can't say no to are in the way of a getting a lot of meaningful work done. And third, the rich seem to find meaning.
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Nimble / NuclearPad (comms OPEN) @nuclearpad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I feel that over half of what is being given to the military right now should instead be put towards benefitting the public through stuff like universal basic income and single-payer healthcare
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 22/09/2026
The take that UBI is bad because it would make us need government is bad. The same argument could be used against doing Social Security or Medicare if we didn't already have them. If everyone needs a government program, that's good for democracy and bad for politicians who threaten those programs.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More importantly, why the fuck would you TELL the public where you’re storing “sniper ammo”
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nmcb3299.bsky.social @nmcb3299.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...
sign.moveon.org
No Trump Ballroom!
The ballroom is just another in a long line of Trump’s attempts to continue his authoritarian power grabs in D.C., like his plans to build the so-called "Arc de Trump" along the Potomac River. And his...
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nmcb3299.bsky.social @nmcb3299.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If tear gas is too dangerous for a battlefield, there is no justification for using it against people in our cities. Sign the petition. sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...
sign.moveon.org
Tell Congress: Don’t silence dissent with tear gas
If tear gas is too dangerous for a battlefield, there is no justification for using it against people in our cities. Sign the petition.
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UBI4ALL @ubi4all.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s @basicincomeweek.org! People around the world are taking action for a basic income—and we’re part of it. With our UBI4ALL raffles, we get money into people’s hands. Join in, share a post, start a conversation. Let’s get more people behind basic income. 🙌🏾
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Money promised tomorrow does NOT erase the money people have already spent trying to survive today." Please have a listen.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 15/09/2026
"UBI should be understood as more than a social policy. It is a political institution that fortifies the material conditions necessary for exercising civil liberties under stress." www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
From the journal
Basic Income Studies
Article
Abstract
Illiberal regimes increasingly rely on “soft repression” that weaponizes economic precarity while preserving a veneer of legality. This article develops a theoretical framework demonstrating how Universal Basic Income (UBI) alters the strategic interaction between citizens and the state. By guaranteeing survival independent of political compliance, UBI lowers the personal cost of moderate dissent, functions as a universal “strike fund” facilitating collective action, and solves coordination problems by reducing the fear of exemplary punishment in moderate dissent. More importantly, UBI raises the threshold for repression. By neutralizing cheap and deniable economic coercion, it forces illiberal regimes either to tolerate higher levels of dissent or to escalate to more visible and costlier forms of “hard” repression. The article concludes that UBI should be understood as more than a social policy. It is a political institution that fortifies the material conditions necessary for exercising civil liberties under stress.
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Fllics @fllics.com · 15/09/2026
Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon Demand A.I. Control. What You Need To Know – September 15 Artificial intelligence has created an unlikely political alliance, with Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon coming together to demand more human control over A.I.; President Donald Trump says there's a deal that…
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Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon Demand A.I. Control. What You Need To Know – September 15
Artificial intelligence has created an unlikely political alliance, with Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon coming together to demand more human control over A.I.; President Donald Trump says there's a deal that could help lower costs as oil and gas prices continue to rise; it comes as images show Iran-backed Houthi rebels firing at a Saudi oil pipeline in the Red Sea, driving up oil prices globally; Ukraine is calling a fight between two naval drones the first-ever combat between the technology; the Supreme Court has rejected President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting; new details about whether drugs played a role in actress Hayden Panettiere's death are expected to be released; a girl in Philadelphia narrowly escaped injury after being hit by a truck; Abbott Laboratories will pay $385 million to settle a lawsuit linked to contaminated baby formula factories; the Kansas City Chiefs won the opening game of Monday Night Football, beating the Broncos; and the premiere of season 35 of 'Dancing with the Stars' airs tonight, streaming on Disney+. -- Watch more episodes of What You Need to Know streaming on @disneyplus:
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/09/2026
Got my updated COVID and flu shots today because I prefer not dying and also fuck RFK jr and this whole willfully ignorant and malicious administration.
Two bandaids, one for my COVID shot and one for the flu. I didn't know which is which, I didn't look.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 15/09/2026
New article from me where I propose a Pigovian automation tax to slow down the deployment of AI by companies in a way that also creates an incentive for them to embrace shorter workweeks, lower their prices, boost the incomes of displaced workers, and take a healthy step toward Medicare for All.
scottsantens.substack.com
A 4-Day Workweek, Medicare for All, and the Tax That Gets Us There
How a Pigovian automation tax can turn AI’s productivity gains into a 4-day, 32-hour workweek and universal healthcare
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Go Away Mitch McTurtle, And Take Your Spineless RepubliKKKan Party With You.......🐢
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JustSayin @justsayin-fromx.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NOT HAPPENING MAGOTS!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/09/2026
Katie Phang on a Russian oligarch bankrolling Don Jr.’s wedding: “They’re so dumb, we see it happening in real time. But because there’s no consequence or accountability, they just do it in the wide open.”
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And they'd probably fall for it
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nmcb3299.bsky.social @nmcb3299.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Quick signature: Tell HHS to keep politics out of childhood vaccines! action.momsrising.org/sign/2026_va...
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Quick signature: Tell HHS to keep politics out of childhood vaccines!
Sign on now to support science-based vaccine rules that protect our children’s health and communities!
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 10/09/2026
I'm holding out for the lifelong monthly $1,500 counteroffer.
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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not gonna lie, my heart stopped for a second thinking this was taxidermy 😭 #LifuX #Cat #Cats #Catsofbluesky #Caturday
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Old Hippie On Line Activist 🦋 @teresalynnkocsis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 09/09/2026
If you're in or near Portland, OR, come to this event next week! And if you can't come, share it with those interested in universal basic income who can!
partiful.com
Basic Income Mini-Film Festival | Partiful
Love watching documentaries? This event is for you! 💛 To kick off the BIG Conference, we’re inviting the public to a special basic income mini-film festival in Portland, OR. We’ll start with previews...
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🩵💙🩵 Beth 🩵💙🩵 @bethtoja.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It won’t cost billions. Knocking that stupid arch down will take no time at all, it will just have to be hauled away and the grounds restored. Same with the Rose Garden. I don’t know what they’re going to do with the stinking ballroom, but that has to go also, and that could be big bucks.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO, AS WELL.......
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/09/2026
Making sure that unpaid care work is supported is great, but limiting it to only married couples and reducing the support for single and unmarried working parents just isn't the right way to go about it. The right way to do it is universal basic income.
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Politico @politico.com · 07/09/2026
This week's POLITICO Magazine cover story: Bernie Sanders lets loose on the Democratic Party, the midterms and 2028. The 84-year-old progressive champion built a movement. Could it survive without him? 🔗 politi.co/4czy413 Also in this issue👇🧵
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/09/2026
I wrote about the proposal for RISE Pilots, which is a new conservative alternative to UBI that looks to consolidate a bunch of existing programs into one benefit with a low phaseout rate—which is good—but instead of using unconditional cash, using programmable currency with behavioral requirements.
scottsantens.substack.com
Conservatives Demonized UBI as Programmable Currency. Then They Proposed Exactly That.
RISE pilot programs propose government-controlled spending, behavioral requirements, and weekly surveillance instead of the cash and freedom of choice of basic income
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Aldo "Antifa" @annoyed-aldo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
America today - taxation without representation. . . 🤣🤣🤣 Money for Israel Money for Argentina Money for ICE Money for Trump Money for APAC Money for Baron You get the picture
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
His wife, his staff, and Jennings should all face legal consequences. 😠😡
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 04/09/2026
Because of union loss, offshoring, automation, and gig labor, workers have far less collective bargaining power to demand a larger share of the pie. I believe the only real solution is to distribute that share directly as UBI and, in doing so, skyrocket the individual bargaining power of all workers
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Tobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
With the recent promising successes in mRNA technology defeating pancreatic and now glioblastoma (brain cancer), it’s looking like anti-vaxxers may be the only ones that will die from these diseases soon. Dolly Parton backed mRNA research. This may end up being her greatest gift. #science
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nmcb3299.bsky.social @nmcb3299.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I just told Congress: don't sneak a tax break for private jet owners into a bipartisan aviation safety bill. Billionaires need to pay what they owe. @inequality.org @taxprivatejets.org actionnetwork.org/letters/ineq...
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Tell Congress: Close the loophole that subsidizes private jets!
Lobbyists tacked a tax break for private jet owners onto the ALERT Act — a bipartisan bill meant to fund air-traffic controller training after last year's deadly helicopter-jet collision over DC. I j...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
While Nearly 500,000 U.S. Citizens File For Medical Bankruptcy Each Year.......💪🏻
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3dlanyard.bsky.social @3dlanyard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information. There are a ton of nefarious ones, though.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 01/09/2026
New @itsafoundation.bsky.social newsletter out today with what I consider to be the top UBI-related news you need to know from August. Stay up to date on what's happening in the world of basic income by reading and subscribing. Please share: itsanewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/itsa-newsl...
Here's the Latest and Biggest UBI-Related News:

‣ Taiwan Will Pay Every Resident an AI Dividend of NT$10,000 in Its 2027 Budget

‣ Texas Senate Nominee James Talarico Puts an “AI Dividend” at the Center of His Economic Platform

‣ The World's Largest Unconditional Cash Transfer Is Building an Economy in Rural Malawi

‣ South Korea Moves to Create a Basic Income for Artists

‣ Somerville's Basic Income Pilot Raised Incomes by More Than the Payments Themselves

‣ BIEN's 25th World Congress Convenes in Toronto With Canada's Basic Income Bill at Center Stage

‣ The Heritage Foundation Tries a Weird New Line of Attack on UBI: It Makes Dads Invisible
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 01/09/2026
Can you imagine being a member of Congress, and having to be ambulanced to the hospital, and not doing a single video to let your constituents know you are okay? In the year 2026? For over 79 days and still counting? There's no way he's okay.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 01/09/2026
It's hard to fight for a sustainable planet when you're fighting day after day to sustain YOURSELF. Meanwhile, billionaires profit from climate destruction. Economic security and wealth taxes are key to climate strategy. UBI and M4A would give people more freedom to think and act on climate change.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is why you can't have healthcare. www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigratio…
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ICE plans to buy robot ‘dogs’ for some immigration enforcement operations
The doglike robots are equipped with cameras and sensors that can detect chemicals and would be used in situations that
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 31/08/2026
Would be nice to see Iowans start to get really pissed off about their basic income program ban. It works. The ban is because it works.
littlevillagemag.com
Letter from Mandi Remington: Guaranteed income helps Iowa families focus on what matters - Little Village
By Mandi Remington, Iowa City Most of us want the same basic thing for our families: to know that our children are safe, fed, and cared for, and that one unexpected expense won’t send the whole househ...
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Tobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Mild guacamole. Severe diarrhea. I don’t know how US citizens even eat anymore. #cdnpoli #uspoli #foodrecall www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/reca...
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Whole Foods guacamole recall elevated to Class 1 over salmonella concern
The FDA’s update follows a massive Whole Foods recall Aug. 12 involving 43 prepared food products.
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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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The Smocking Gun @thesmockinggun.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Don't forget the biggest crook (after tRump) - Elmo Musk
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Mike the Dog @photochris5511.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just gonna leave this here.
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Basic Income Waterloo Region @basicincomewr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“People will waste it” gets said every time economic security comes up. But when people have stability, they usually spend money on what they actually need — housing, food, bills, breathing room. Basic income is about dignity, not punishment. #BasicIncome
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