UBI and universal health care.
24.10.2025 10:17 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@awithonelison.bsky.social
Science fan, anti-vax disliker. ADHD since 1960. Happily retired in Spain. She/her.
UBI and universal health care.
24.10.2025 10:17 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Itβs everywhere except Australia. I donβt know if H5N1 will make the jump to human adaptation and pandemic potential, but itβs never had more opportunities.
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY?...
Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is βthe presidentβs main priorityββ¦not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcareβ¦.building a ballroom
23.10.2025 22:36 β π 31893 π 10909 π¬ 1850 π 616Nothing universal that benefits regular people will ever happen in the US.
24.10.2025 10:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Trump needs to stop wondering if he's going to get into heaven. The answer is clear.
24.10.2025 10:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trump doesn't care. If he eliminates elections, as planned, the electorate is irrelevant.
24.10.2025 10:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The GOP wants the children to woek, though...
24.10.2025 10:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The GOP wants them dead, too.
24.10.2025 09:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Especially since the government eliminated so many jobs and corporations are looking for people who'll work for slave wages.
24.10.2025 09:58 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0βLet them go a month without meals. Maybe they will get a jobβ
First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. Theyβre just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality.
Second, many are disabled and children and canβt work.
Third, no one should starve to death.
It *never* is a drag queen. Ever.
24.10.2025 08:22 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Absolutely no one spends $350 million on a remodel to a house they plan on leaving in three years. No one!!!
24.10.2025 02:14 β π 16524 π 3570 π¬ 1248 π 223Good evening to all who remember Michelle Obama getting criticized for planting a vegetable garden at the White House.
24.10.2025 00:15 β π 3747 π 872 π¬ 77 π 26Trump has never made anything *less gross* in his life.
24.10.2025 07:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He'll paint his name on top so big it can be visible from space.
24.10.2025 07:24 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0With any luck, he won't live long enough to do any more damage.
24.10.2025 07:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0NYT rendering of Trump White House ballroom plan, with a massive thing bigger than the White House proper replacing the East Wing, and also showing the much smaller West Wing.
You might say this will, among other problems, look weirdly lopsided, but I think the obvious implication is he's totally planning to do the West Wing next.
24.10.2025 05:39 β π 595 π 115 π¬ 40 π 32I imagine accuracy doesn't even come to play in their plans.
23.10.2025 22:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wouldn't that include Trump and most people he's given jobs to?
23.10.2025 22:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also people who aren't bringing drugs into our country. And people who haven't done anything wrong at all. Plus some US citizens who are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
23.10.2025 22:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He's been an idiot all his life.
23.10.2025 22:01 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Gonna save this for when he blocks me.
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23.10.2025 18:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You don't know about his PhD or his reputation as a scientist, I see.
23.10.2025 18:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Children starving in November is waaaay at the bottom of his list.
23.10.2025 18:42 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0You're trying to cover up for the fact that you didn't read what I wrote.
23.10.2025 18:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Your timeline shows he's your hero. You approve of every stupid thing he does or says.
23.10.2025 18:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Let me tell you, my friends here in Spain from other countries have plenty of ridicule for this man.
23.10.2025 18:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Oh, so if something doesn't cause outrage, it's completely harmless? Interesting. What about all the things that *did* cause outrage? Gor excuses for why those don't matter?
23.10.2025 18:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And it caused huge amounts of harm to our image abroad.
23.10.2025 18:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0