source: @bronzeagemantis on X Trump and congressional Republicans plan to cut $880 billion from Medicaid, which could eliminate coverage for 15.9 million people. These proposed Medicaid cuts are to pay for the tax cuts that will mostly benefit the wealthy and corporations. Medicaid is healthcare for low-income and disabled people, which differs from Medicare for... Read More

Bathing of Court Ladies in the 18th Century, by François Flameng (1888) source: @_ArtMuseum on X A UK Telegraph article proclaimed that it is deeply Middle Class to get uptight about nudity. Historically, the middle class has been the most prudish and considered themselves the gatekeepers of morality while both the upper and lower classes... Read More

United Healthcare is in the news these days after its CEO was killed by a gunman in New York. The words Delay, Deny, and Depose were inscribed on the bullet casing. Clearly the killing was motivated by a grievance against the company and the industry in general. United Healthcare stands out as a particularly vicious... Read More

source: @ScottMGreer on X Scott Greer has a recent YouTube podcast Don’t Take the Welfare Pill, denouncing the embrace of welfarism on the dissident right. Greer is a reactionary and an elitist who promotes White identity based on preppy WASPs and fraternities. While a degree of elitism is needed, the reality is that country club... Read More

Source: @ChrisUnits on X Proponents of abolishing inheritance include many leftists, from French socialist economist, Thomas Piketty, to the Jacobin’s Ben Burgis, on standard wealth redistributionist or equity grounds. Basically, that privilege is bad so we must eliminate all privilege. There are also concerns about racial inequities in inheritance, such as arguments that repealing the... Read More

The Great Class Swap (Introduction) Matt Yglesias endorses the Great Class Swap Radically Unconventional Solutions to Inequality (including Universal Orphanhood) What would the Great Class Swap look like if implemented The Great Class Swap is more of a thought experiment, philosophical outlook, and metric to judge a society by rather than a concrete political agenda.... Read More

Part 1 Source: 1CoastalJournal Twitter Peter Zeihan has a video about why California’s lucky streak is running out. Zeihan points out that immigration is no longer enough to offset California’s ageing population. The other point is that since California’s economy is so heavily linked to globalization, both tech and the shipping industry, its economy will... Read More

It could not be better timing for Universal Basic Income to rise in popularity and enter the public discourse, and then inflation sets in. Overall there is currently less discussion of UBI then during the 2020 election and the pandemic. The stimulus checks have been blamed for causing inflation, with the overall money supply increasing... Read More

There is hype of a political realignment with a new populist GOP in contrast to an oligarchic democratic party. Trump initially made inroads with formerly democrat-voting working class voters while Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden appealed to wealthier swing voters, but the characterization of a total realignment on class is overly simplistic. The problem with... Read More