WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 07: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) (L) talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio before he and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speak to reporters in between closed door briefings about the U.S. capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, at the U.S. Capitol on January 7, 2026 in Washington, DC. Maduro and Flores were taken to New York on Saturday after they were captured by the U.S. military in Caracas. They are being detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and are expected to face federal charges related to drug trafficking and working with gangs designated as terrorist organizations. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

I was having a bad day, but then I remembered this photo of Marco Rubio wearing shoes two sizes too big exists.

Look, I don't want to keep arguing this. It is clearly better to walk into a homeless encampment and out money than it is to hand out coupons.

If gas gets cheaper, the rich use a lot more gas. You can argue that cheap gas is a bigger deal to the poor than the rich, but Iran faced this same question, chose to do cash over subsidies, and reduced poverty. The poor were better off with more money to buy food than cheaper gas and cheaper food.

Deflation is like a reverse flat tax. Its value increases as one's spending increases. That is regressive. Better to provide a flat benefit to everyone. The value of that does more for someone as their spending ability decreases. That is progressive.

They are not the same and clearly UBI is better.

Agree though that deflation does more for people who work (live in cash) than it does for the destitute bottom. A UBI really does target/help the bottom most effectively

Something costing less does nothing for someone with nothing. It can even enable a lot more consumption of something by those with high incomes. Think oil. Is it better for that to cost half as much? Or is it better for people to have more money to afford more expensive oil and also green choices.

Robber Barons Are Doing Better Than Ever A new report finds wealth inequality in Canada is reaching new heights, with a tiny elite enjoying lavish lifestyles while the many are left in the cold. The problem is not just moral obscenity but th...

Can the barons afford it though? 🤔 jacobin.com/2026/03/cana...

The part that makes me the most angry is that if these AI companies fail, we’ll see them bailed out, if they succeed, then the free market “will take care of it”

Post by Ken Yang: Chart shows corporate profits rising since 1980 while labor compensation share declines.

The only real answer is UBI as a dividend to citizens as shareholders

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“Nobody Cancels Elections. They Just Rig Them." YouTube video by Talking Feds with Harry Litman

Conversation on how other Trumpian leaders (such as Orban) took over their countries, and what we can do here in the US to help protect our democracy,

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How can a civilized society ignore the torture of children?

How can good people let toddlers & babies be incarcerated &deprived of clean drinking water?

If you care, do something.

Start by calling Congress & telling friends about this. 202-224-3121

Consider getting involved:
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Let me see if I understand this right: while talking to reporters at JBA (3/11/26), Trump said he knows the whereabouts of Iranian sleeper cells and they were let in by Biden.

So instead of ICE/CBP going after the sleeper cells, he allowed ICE to terrorize communities instead?

#ProudBlue
#IranWar

How is AI going to increase the economic power of the vocationally trained and working class?

Here is what I hear.....the working class will have very low paying jobs and the college educated will have no jobs.

So $250/wk vs $0/wk.

Is that's what's happening? That's what it sounds like.

The Tanker War The impact of mines—and mine countermeasures—in the 1980s Persian Gulf showdown offers potent lessons for today’s Marine Corps.

We have well-documented recent history on the effects of mining and that they are the greatest risk to naval vessels since the Korean war. But don't tell Trump that.

www.usni.org/magazines/na...

Are there bodies buried at the ranch? 📄 The Epstein files dropped, and NM Attorney General Raúl Torrez is finally going where the feds wouldn't. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-governor...

US military spent $9 million on crab legs and lobster in the months before Iran war Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, according to a watchdog report

You read that right - MILLIONS spent on lobster and luxury items while we cut SNAP benefits for hungry families.

These people are disgraceful. 🤬🤬🤬
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

When Iranian news is more honest than American news, if a bit repetitive.

Peace by blowing up stuff and killing people.

.. All because the Pandemic Protections were put in place by a "Black Man " .. Same reason we are in this #trumpepstienwar .. diaperdon ended the Nuke deal Oboma made .. because ... he is a Racist ..

.. The Last time we had Gas Problems was just after the Child Rapist Caused nearly 1 MILLION Needless Deaths in the USA Alone with his "handleing" of the Pandemic .. Everything was closed down .. The tankers couldn't move .. Stinky blamed Biden ..

yeah i guess, why not at this point right

I'd rather cut the military budget by 3 quarters, pay $10 a gallon for gas and apply it all to social programs; basic income, universal healthcare, and Ukraine

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delivered a #CupOfJoe w/ a latte truth about the SAVE Act.
It would put more red tape between women & the ballot box.⁠
⁠Why?⁠ They’re scared of women voters. Their goal is to take women’s rights backwards.
Fuck that. We will #KeepMovingForward!