Tom Pogson
Musician, writer, and Basic Income Victoria BC Guy who knows the abundance of a better world IS possible.
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- Even Full-Time Workers Struggle to Afford Food in Canada. #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/02... #cdnpoli
- Hey look, yet another pilot that shows GBI (guaranteed basic income) works. Meeting people's basic needs works. Housing, food, health care, education.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- I’m having a hard time thinking of an interview between two human beings I enjoyed more than tonight’s interview of the great Ian McKellen by the great Stephen Colbert. Every moment of it was a pleasure that I highly recommend… but then came the most REMARKABLE ending that you really HAVE to watch.
- What's interesting is that at the time this was thought to be true but it turned out it wasn't. Yes, men in Congress in the 1970s freaked out about divorce rates from basic income pilot data. They screwed up the analysis. It was later discovered that relationships improved. bsky.app/profile/scot...
- When you're so coked up and stupid you put the scope on backwards:
- Besides being costly, means-testing creates potentially lethal false negative errors and non-takeup issues that universality eliminates in favor of non-lethal false positive errors that can be addressed via the tax system Universal basic income and healthcare and progressive taxes are the way to go
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- It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.
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View full threadTotally forgot to add this but someone mentioned how eerie it is that a train track is running near the area and it actually runs directly behind the proposed concentration camp. This video is from the parking lot:
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- CANADA NEWS: University of Toronto Family Medicine Chair and basic income advocate Dr. Danielle Martin has been nominated to replace former Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland in upcoming Toronto by-election (University-Rosedale) The healthcare case for guaranteed income security is overwhelming.
- You’re spending $650M on seven soccer games. Maybe start there you ghouls www.biv.com/news/rob-sha...
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- A top doc who's prescribed UBI and running for office Yes, more of this
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- Our February newsletter edition for the UBI piloters' Network is out! Here we share findings, best practices, and collaborations across UBI pilot efforts worldwide. Access and join our network through the link. zurl.co/zLqsU
- Periodic reminder: When someone shares news with "BREAKING" and they aren't a journalist and don't link to a news story, it's probably not the best source for people to be resharing. It might be trying to get rage reposts, even! Better to find a news article that is accurately describing facts.
- If you think of universal basic income as just "more money," you aren't understanding it and what makes it so different and effective. The fact it comes at a regular frequency is a key factor. When you know that whatever happens next month, you can still buy food, that's a huge deal. It's STABILITY
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- Trump is going to demolish the Kennedy Center, isn't he
- Dead Kennedy Center
- They censored her. But I’m pretty sure she said FUCK ICE
- Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."
- Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
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- Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
- Universal basic income could be used to soften hit from AI job losses in UK, minister says
- A monthly basic income for artists working in Scotland? What a marvellous idea @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2580...
