UBI is expensive, but so is the system we have now and there’s a major savings that you’ll have firing all those people who are assessing who is worthy of what. Philosophically, I think that it’s really important to bear in mind two things. One is it’ll show people that you don’t have to force people to work, to want to contribute. It’s not that people resist work. People resist meaningless work; people resist stupid work; and people resist humiliating work. But I always talk about prisons, where people are fed, clothed, they’ve got shelter; they could just sit around all day. But actually, they use work as a way of rewarding them. You know, if you don’t behave yourself, we won’t let you work in the prison laundry. I mean, people want to work. Nobody just wants to sit around, it’s boring. . - David Graeber

There are a lot of misconceptions about peoples' desire to work and to contribute.

The turkeys, brothers from Thailand, run a crypto fund and made 10-figure investments in Jared Kushner’s enterprise.

YouTube video by Women's March Dear ICE Agents: What Will You Say?

To ICE agents across the country – shame on you. Your kids are watching.

New powerful ad from @womensmarch.com

youtu.be/684ncxqERO4

Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…

1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.

Thank you to everyone who joined us at last week’s Ohio TESOL Conference!

Connecting with so many dedicated Ohio educators left us truly energized.

We’re grateful to the organizers for another great year, and we hope to see you again in 2026! 🙌

#OHTESOL #ELPA21 #ELL #MLL

There is no plan. There was no plan. There will never be a plan. The plan is you get sick, you go broke, you die, the end.

A simple cartoon showing how Democrats became so far left.

Pretty wild watching health workers going from “essential” and “heroes” in 2020 to “unprofessional” in 2025

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Getting emails from recruiter places about design jobs that are offering $18-$20 an hour. People, I got $16 an hour at my very first production design gig more than 25 years ago. Adjusting for inflation that's equivalent to getting kicked in the teeth.

First Human Dies of Rare H5N5 Bird Flu Strain. Here’s What You Need to Know H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in U.S. wildlife since late 2021 but has caused only one human fatality. Now a different type of bird flu has also caused a death

H5N1 bird flu has been circulating in U.S. wildlife since late 2021 but has caused only one human fatality. Now a different type of bird flu has also caused a death

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

THIS!!! We are not mad enough.

Folks, if your library doesn’t have a book you want to read, ask them to buy a copy. Most have a convenient form and will let you know when it comes in. If your library offers ILL, they can even borrow books from other libraries.

fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. " ALT: fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. "

Step 1: Sign up for a FREE library card at your local library today.

Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities.

Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.

"The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.".. (quote David Shuster) ..(Cartoon David Horsey)

A Roman Inscription Found in Cartagena Reveals the Name of an Unknown Governor and the Use of a Urn for Casting of Lots in Antiquity A team of Spanish researchers has presented the discovery of an extraordinary object from the Roman period that sheds light on the history of ancient Cartagena (southeastern Spain). It is a metal cont...

An interesting inscription reveals new information about a previously unknown Roman governor at Carthago Nova (Cartagena), Spain.
#EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology #RomanEmpire

www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/a...

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

Waters: This is an important press conference that is being held to let you know what we're all doing: resisting this lowdown dirty no good filthy president

I am not going to dive into the back and forth on piracy. I have a side, you can guess what it is.

But I will say one thing: if you get the books from your library, you're still not paying for it and the author does get compensated.

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

First human bird-flu death from H5N5 – what you need to know A patient in Washington state has died from H5N5 bird flu, the first known human infection with this virus – but experts say the wider risk remains low.

The first human case of H5N5 bird flu (sadly, a fatal case) was reported at the end of last week. I've summarised what we currently know and what this might mean for @uk.theconversation.com

Woah...

What the fuck. So recruiting homeless in DC to use as an expeditionary force to invade Haiti...

Umm yeah they actually were trying....

This is what we fight.... Stupid. The very stupid.

#Resist ✊🏽💙🔥💨✌🏽

Apple is anti-union.

Tesla is anti-union.

Amazon is anti-union.

McDonald's is anti-union.

Starbucks is anti-union.

Google is anti-union.

Walmart is anti-union.

These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.

Let me make it crystal clear here: the under-deemed professions by the Linda McMahon's Department of Education are all women-majority professions.

This is more subjugating rhetoric brought to you by the Heritage Foundation and the need to control women's autonomy.

Because men are lonely.

Here are some things about farmers:
1) American farm policy needs to change
2) operating a farm in the US is difficult because of agriculture and corporate policy.
3) corporate consolidations have decreased competition and makes farmers less profitable and is also bad for consumers

Not only are there serious conflicts of interest, but it’s also a major national security issue that someone like Jared Kushner, who has no official role, is allowed to negotiate such matters

If you need another example of the difference between legacy media and independent pro-democracy media, compare The Washington Post and Democracy Docket's coverage of the same story. ("controversial video"--WTF.)

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Robert Reich (@robertreich)

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