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Universal Unconditional Basic Income

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Basic Income. Education. Healthcare. The foundations for a better future.

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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 3h
If "Did Not Vote" had been a presidential candidate in 2024 they would have beaten Donald Trump by 9.1 million votes, and they would have won 21 states, earning 265 electoral college votes to Trump's 175 and Harris's 98. VOTING MATTERS. A RANKED system of voting would matter even more.
Two charts showing the outcome of the 2024 election if "Did Not Vote" had been a candidate. On the left, a map of the United States, showing Harris states blue, Trump states red, and DNV states yellow. The majority of states are yellow.  The same colours are used in the pie chart to the right, showing 75+ million votes for Harris, 77+ million votes for Trump, and 89+ million eligible voters who did not vote.
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Maya May @mayaonstage.bsky.social · 4h
The same people who thought kids would be traumatized by masks and learning accurate history are going to livestream a death by firing squad. Elections have consequences. Vote wisely.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 4h
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The Four Cornerstones of a Basic Income Foundation
UBI advocates often talk about unconditional Universal Basic Income as a “floor” or a “foundation”. A stable structure that keeps people from sinking, and gives a place to b…
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The reputable publications say we should not panic about the (possible) plague case(s) in Russia, and they may be right, and let us hope they are right, but it would be easier to trust their coverage of this if they didn’t keep insisting that Covid is in the past.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And this, right here, is the problem. He HAS BEEN doing whatever he wants if he wants it. No accountability, no consequences, and all the Dems do is grab right wing talking points and pearl clutching about trans people.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Privatize all the things? Cause this is how you get the Magneto origin story... you want the Magneto origin story?
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
YOUR DIGNITY AND VALUE IS NOT BASED ON YOUR PARTICIPATION IN PAID EMPLOYMENT.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#BasicIncome makes survival the Default Setting- not something you have to earn, not something you have to strive for, not something you have to prove yourself worthy of.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AND when relocating AND when aging AND when escaping abuse AND when starting over AND during natural disasters AND during stress AND when embarking on adventure AND when volunteering AND when participating in civics AND when recovering AND when caring for your mental health
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Unconditional, Universal #BasicIncome would help people SURVIVE between periods of employment. AND during loss AND during illness and disability AND while caring for others AND when going to school AND when starting a business AND when resting AND when creating AND when being a new parent
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reason number bajillion to END means testing of the disabled and elderly, and implement unconditional, universal Basic Income and Single Payer Healthcare, instead.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't see a single ChristoTheocrat saying that Pike surviving lethal injection was "God's Will".
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Tom Pogson @basicbc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah, were just not a "do nothing" species...
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People fret about poor people getting things they don't "deserve", but never have a problem with wealth hoarders having more than they will ever need.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wealth hoarders don't do anything to help humanity, because wealth hoarding *requires* extreme exploitation of humans. People who actually want to take care of others aren't capable of that level of pathology.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The ONLY thing that might redeem the GestapICE, is if they started going after white, wealthy child predators with the same gusto they go after brown people with potentially expired paperwork.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A MARKET CHOICE IS ONLY 'FREE' IF YOU CAN SAY NO.
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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 03/10/2026
A reason worth adding: a blind system also protects dignity. The moment you means-test, you force people to disclose their poverty to a stranger just to get help, divorce records, disability, irregular income, whatever makes their case "complicated." Universal means nobody has to justify needing it.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 03/10/2026
This is the reality of people gaining a basic income floor for the rest of their lives. They don't get lazy. They get busy. They get to doing all the things they consider meaningful, paid or not.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Forcing the disabled to "recertify" year after year isn't fraud protection, it's control. It's a deliberate effort to force people to give up on accessing needed services. It's demeaning, and the bureaucracy of it costs more money than it purports to save.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 02/10/2026
This is a big one that I think many people don't fully appreciate. Given a room of 1,000 people, it can be hard for one person to find and help those who need the most help. Give everyone UBI and watch as more than half the room leaves, because they only needed a bit of money. Those left need more.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unconditional, universal #BasicIncome is the foundational floor for our society to build UP on.
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coin @coindragon.solidarity.social · 30/09/2026
If I’m learning anything it’s Proportional representation Tax land not work Provide basic housing Provide basic income Provide basic healthcare Provide basic mobility Provide basic education.
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Basic Income Earth Network @basicincomeearth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🧠 Did you know? Part 3 of our Basic Income series is live. Who should receive a basic income, and why? The idea: everyone. No means test, no work test, no stigma, just simple access. Swipe through 👇🏾
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reason for unconditional, universal #BasicIncome number 25648349284902473821
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"This story's exactly why we need a truly unconditional basic income, not welfare systems that trap and police. A free society trusts people to spend their money better than the government can."
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is who's in charge of the US' nukes, all because people couldn't handle a black woman president.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Palestine's suffering should not be being used as a political purity test. That BS is what got us Cheese Powder Mussolini.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NO FAMILY, selling their labor to others or not, should have to decide between heating their home or putting food on the table. #BasicIncome creates a solid foundation for EVERYONE.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reason for Unconditional, Universal #BasicIncome number 785389023746523497924 Means testing the disabled leaves them at risk for abuse, or forces them into poverty to get needed services.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Colleges side with rapists
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Women choose the bear, because she can be raped by seven men, and they get scolded and help finding cushy jobs, while she has to justify every decision she made for years before and after it happens.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
*SNERK*
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rape culture thrives on cis het male silence.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think income caps on people running for office would be more effective than income caps on the elderly and disabled.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Ollie K-H @ollie-kasper-hope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have two interests that do not usually turn up in the same sentence: #UniversalBasicIncome, & #grief. So I wrote a piece where they meet. Would #UBI let bereaved people stop working for a bit, without first proving who died & how close they were? aftergrowthollie.substack.com/p/would-univ...
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Would Universal Basic Income Help the Bereaved?
The state already knows grief stops people. It just wants to know who died first.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS IS BY DESIGN. They *want* there to be so much red tape for benefits of ant kind, that you give up
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unconditional, Universal #BasicIncome is SO MUCH EASIER to implement and manage than patchwork means-tested programs. It is *LITERALLY* "just send everyone a check".
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of my favorite apps on my phone is the @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social Merlin app. Deleting it, because #FuckCornell
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the antidote to the "Dignity of Work" poison. It's not selling our labor that brings dignity, it's doing things that *matter* to us, that are OUR CHOICE.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Non-GOP should be running on a platform of accountability and consequences. Instead we're getting pearl clutching over "boys playing girl's sports!" Notice no one is flailing over "girls playing boy sports!" It's all based in "We Think Trans People Are Icky!"
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is what fascism looks like.
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Mayors for a Guaranteed Income @mayorsforagi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Direct, unconditional cash [is] the most effective way to address deep-seated economic insecurity, improve public health, and accelerate the closure of the racial wealth divide". thegrio.com/2026/09/23/what-happene…
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What happened when Black women received guaranteed income? New data offers answers
A new report found Georgia's In Her Hands program has been bolstering Black women's bank accounts and helping their families thrive.
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income @universal4usa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE that the SMALL number of transgender people in sports impacts "fairness" or "safety". @blakegendebien.bsky.social is yet another GOPLite Dem willing to throw transgender humans under the bus in order to get votes.
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cageyratfish (they) UTC-7 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Basic human rights should not be conditional on one's ability or willingness to sell their labour. It's fucked up. every single fucking UBI study ever conducted has proven that UBI improves people's lives & lets them contribute to society *more*, not less. Enough with the fucking studies already!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.
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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.
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