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Whenever the idea of a Universal Basic Income comes up, certain objections are raised almost immediately. These concerns deserve real answers. So here’s five of the most common objections, addressed plainly and clearly:
There's a basic question hanging over the future of work that almost no one in power is asking out loud:
Tim Hjersted
Let's get something clear: undocumented immigrants commit less crime than U.S. citizens. This isn't speculation. It's not "just one study." It's the consistent finding of virtually every serious analysis over decades. Study after study has shown that immigrants, both...
Tim Hjersted
In this segment of 51-49, James breaks down how a Jewish Congressman was ousted from a safe blue district — not by voters, but by a $3 million cash dump from the pro-Israel lobby. What looks like a normal primary election is actually a quiet case study in how foreign...
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What happens when a study goes viral? After the “trillion tree” campaign captured the internet's imagination, YouTube sensation, MrBeast, raised 20 million dollars to plant 20 million trees. But did they survive? We went to check in on them… and were shocked. In this episode...
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Our real opponents are the billionaires, the war profiteers, and the politicians in both parties bought by corporate money—not the few imperfect allies we have in power, and not the working class people who vote or think differently from us.
Tim Hjersted
President Trump is facing increasing criticism from big businesses over his decision to launch a global trade war.
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Cuts by the Trump administration are putting children at risk, according to a new report by ProPublica. The administration has cut funds and manpower for child abuse investigations, enforcement of child support payments, child care and more. On top of that, Head Start...
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In this video, Cenk Uygur announces Rebellion PAC to promote populist economic policies within the democratic party. Former Bernie Sanders presidential campaign co-chair, rep Ro Khanna is on board.
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Israel’s oldest newspaper tried to run a hit piece against us. Luckily, we recorded the whole thing. Hear this Haaretz journalist try to ask gotcha questions to Kei Pritsker to try to frame The Encampments film as anti-Semitic. - BreakThrough News
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In a world teetering on the edge of self-destruction, award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper sets out on a unique pilgrimage. Visiting the 'Ground Zeros' of the planet, he asks if it's possible to find hope in the darkest moments of human history.
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Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.
Chris Hedges
Texas is on the verge of passing a law that could defund public education. Vouchers send public taxpayer dollars to private schools. It could cost taxpayers $10 billion by 2030. And, it could destroy Friday Night Lights.
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Spending hundreds of billions on mass deportation for non-violent civil offenses or misdemeanors is the “war on drugs” rebranded. And it’s true—just like the war on drugs, mass deportation doesn’t solve the root causes of anything. It scapegoats vulnerable people, militarizes...
Tim Hjersted
Stephen Jenkinson is a storyteller, a ceremonialist, an off-grid farmer and a "grief literacy advocate". He's the author of many books, including prize winner "Die Wise". Jenkinson, along with his wife Nathalie Roy, is the founder of the Orphan Wisdom school, which operated...
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The deck is stacked against third party movements in the United States. If the Left wants to overthrow Trump and restore any semblance of democracy in this country, it needs to move past this notion. Any effort to build a third party hinders our ability to pursue leftist...
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The way some people answer the problem of evil can be an avenue to atrocity. - DARKMATTER2525▼
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Fatma Hassona, the 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and subject of the upcoming documentary film "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk," was killed with her family Wednesday by an Israeli missile that targeted her building in northern Gaza. The strike occurred just one...
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Jeffrey Sachs joins The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté to discuss the investigation into the origins of Covid-19. As chair of the Lancet COVID-19 commission, Sachs alleges that SARS-CoV2 originated from dangerous gain of function experiments sponsored and conducted...
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Donald Trump's tariffs are benefiting rich elites at the expense of the majority of the population, argues economist Michael Hudson. He explains how the US trade war on China is isolating the United States and encouraging countries to seek alternatives. Ben Norton hosts the...
59 min
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Zac & Gavin react to a "Secular Talk" clip of Kyle SOUNDING OFF on Bernie Sanders haters and fake lefties...
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Corporations are bringing in hundreds of thousands of foreign workers under the H-2A visa program. Workers tell us it’s basically a human trafficking scheme — a way to replace farmworkers who unionize and fight for higher pay. Trump could expand it with little oversight.
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Today we will be exploring the homes abandoned in New Albany, Ohio, and why they went abandoned. - Stringer media
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When you search for details about the Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, you will be greeted with copious slander and lies about his life. He is often defamed as a murderer or a bigot when, in reality, he was not. This video will debunk the lies about Che and...
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A former Palantir employee is sounding the alarm. The tech company, founded by Peter Thiel, claims they can revolutionize government systems with their AI-powered software. They’ve been hired by the Department of Defense, the FBI, ICE, and even Wendy’s. Now DOGE will likely...
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Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball interview Ben Norton on Trump’s failed skirmish against China.
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Richard Murphy is Emeritus Professor of Accounting Practice at Sheffield University Management School. He is director of Tax Research LLP and the author of the Funding the Future blog. His best-known book is ‘The Joy of Tax’.
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, the recently-confirmed administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. says that he wants to expand Medicare Advantage — a program that former health insurance executive Wendell Potter calls “one of the biggest scams [...] we’ve seen in this...
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Harvard University has pushed back as President Trump ramps up his attacks on higher education. After Harvard rejected demands by the Trump administration to eliminate all DEI initiatives and further crack down on Palestinian rights protests, including reporting international...
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The Trump administration is now seeking to deport Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who is being held in a prison in northwest Vermont. He was detained by Homeland Security agents when he went to an immigration services center to take a civics test that is the final...
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Second Thought explains neoliberalism.
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After Donald Trump imposed 145% tariffs on China, he was forced to issue exemptions for Chinese made cellphones, computers, semiconductors, and other electronics, because the deindustrialized US can't make them. Trump's huge trade war immediately failed, demonstrating that...
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Timothy Snyder, a historian and author of ‘On Tyranny,’ recently announced his decision to leave America due to rising authoritarianism. He also reacted to Trump’s defiance of the Supreme Court by warning that it marks the beginning of a new era of “state terror” in the...
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We are now in the midst of a outright coup against the Constitution, against the United States, and against our founding ideals. If we don't fight for and win the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, our democracy is dead.
Thom Hartmann
In a joint meeting with Trump and El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, both men refused to release an innocent immigrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from CECOT, a notorious Salvadoran prison. Both Bukele and members of Trump’s administration claimed they don’t have the...
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There's a worst case scenario looming here, isn't there?
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John Oliver discusses the ongoing chaos surrounding Donald Trump and tariffs, why the past week could have lasting repercussions, and why your grandma might be looking to start an OnlyFans.
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The modern left has normalized a lot of self-defeating behaviors. Let's talk about those behaviors and what traits we need to internalize instead. Probably not the last video I will do on the topic. - Anark
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Donald Trump's trade war went nuclear, hitting China with 145% tariffs, aimed at economic decoupling. This is already backfiring on the US economy, which is heavily reliant on Chinese imports. The volatility also fueled a crisis in the bond market, with Treasury yields...
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Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress and primarying an incumbent Democrat with a brutally honest campaign slogan, "What if we didn't suck?"
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During a CNN town hall, Bernie Sanders explained why so many Americans have lost faith in our political system: corruption. He explains how special interests are stacking the deck against voters and why politicians are complacent.
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An internal email suggests that a Trump-run government agency is specifically targeting David Pakman's book for removal from Amazon.
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Bernie Sanders is drawing the largest crowds he's ever seen, and an upcoming rally in LA could be his biggest yet. We went to Denver to see why tens of thousands of people across the political spectrum want to fight oligarchy.
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PSC has launched an important new campaign: Don't Buy Apartheid. We're calling on all individuals, shops, cafés, and venues to engage in two key boycott actions: boycott Israeli produce, and boycott Coca-Cola. Join your local PSC branch and take action at supermarkets selling...
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Something stopped me from going alt-right: being happy.
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We tip our hat to any journalist brave enough to speak the truth and expose government lies—especially when they do so on a network that’s typically hostile to reporting on war crimes committed by states our government is allied with. - Films For Action This is a clip from...
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We have never witnessed an attempt to build a global empire by trade and economic war alone before now. Trump is trying it. How should the world respond?
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You won’t see this on BBC or CNN.
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An immigration judge has announced she could rule as early as Friday on whether the Trump administration can continue to detain Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student protest leader incarcerated at an immigrant detention center in Louisiana. Khalil, a legal...
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Ryan and Emily discuss Naomi Klein saying Trump is not the anti globalist we envisioned.
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Red Fever is a witty and entertaining documentary about the profound Indigenous influences on Western culture and identity, from sport and fashion, to politics and the environmental movement.
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The details can be complex, but the value of public banking is actually simple to understand.
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This feature length film explores the legacy and cultural resurgence of South American singer-songwriter and activist Victor Jara, who was brutally killed in 1973 following a military coup in Chile.
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Six years in the making, award-winning film AFTER WINTER, SPRING is an intimate portrait of a rural community in southwest France as it grapples with a profound question: will it be the last generation of family farmers in a region continuously cultivated for over five...
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The Trump administration’s nationwide roundup of international students accused of holding opinions it dislikes is picking up speed, sowing fear, separating families and driving people to go underground or out of the country. This targeting appeals to President Trump and his...
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Kanye West’s latest spiral—from unhinged rants to losing his last industry allies—shows what happens when social guardrails disappear. Once one of the most influential artists in the world, Kanye is now a case study in how unchecked rhetoric spreads in today’s political and...
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The newly minted Department of Government Efficiency is taking a buzzsaw to red tape. They're promising a leaner, faster and better government. But when are the cost-cutters going to take a hard look at the largest government bureaucracy: the Pentagon.
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Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS. (Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)
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Pro-Trump influencers like Dave Portnoy, Adin Ross, DJ Akademics and Ben Shapiro are now complaining about Trump’s tariffs despite using their massive platforms to boost him before the election. They even joked about wanting Kamala Harris to “come back.” Furthermore, tech...
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When analyzing the ongoing assault on Gaza, it is imperative to begin not with slogans or opinion, but with the clear and unequivocal framework of international law. The UN Genocide Convention of 1948, to which nearly every nation on Earth is a party—including Israel and the...
Tim Hjersted
John Oliver discusses why trans athletes seem to be at the center of U.S. politics right now, the nuances around competition and safety, and where the conversation could be headed.
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The United States is facing a constitutional crisis, one that if it is not resolved, will cement into place an authoritarian state. The Trump administration has unilaterally revoked birthright citizenship, frozen federal spending, signed executive orders to dismantle over a...
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From award-winning filmmakers comes the story of how a simple idea shaped a nation, and the quiet revolutionaries who made it happen.
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Join the localization movement to build resilient local economies and flourishing communities. Local Futures produced a detailed Localization Action Guide to encourage everyone to 'GO LOCAL' - anytime, anyplace. It offers tangible and tested ways for individuals, communities...
Local Futures
Even Fox Business propagandists are having a difficult time rationalizing Trump’s insane tariffs. After he announced his ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, the start market nosedived, prompting panic among some Republicans and Fox News hosts about the political and economic...
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The Shitthropocene is a mock anthropological view of humanity's consumption habits, turning a satirical (yet brutally honest) eye on how everything is turning to shit and why the impulse towards more might destroy us all.
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"Can't Look Away: The Case Against Social Media" is a new documentary that exposes the real-life consequences of the algorithms of big tech companies and their impact on children and teens.
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“A fun thought experiment! Also, very often the true purpose of invoking personal responsibility is to get disadvantaged groups to shut up.” - Adam Something
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“In the end, it was Sargon's unimpressive intellect that gave me the first nudge. Who would've thought.” - Adam Something
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Yes, the oligarchs are enormously powerful. They have endless amounts of money. They control our economy. They own much of the media. But, from the bottom of my heart, I am convinced that if we are well-organized, they can be defeated. My thoughts on the current moment. ...
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The US-Mexico border is the most militarized border in the world and it comes at an immense cost: each year American taxpayers spend over 4.8 billion dollars on Border Patrol and another 8.4 billion on Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Is this southern border really worth...
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What do you know about the Civil War? Everyone knows the familiar images: soldiers in Union blue versus troops in Confederate gray, the Emancipation Proclamation, the triumphant end of slavery. But there’s something schools don’t teach about the Civil War: it was also...
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For nearly a half century, trickle-down economic policies have resulted in a tax system rigged in favor of the rich. This is not only bad for our economy, but it’s leading to a billionaire takeover of our democracy as well.
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Trump seems to have given up on making groceries cheaper. Wasn't that what the entire election was supposedly about?
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The assault on historical memory by the Trump administration is designed to obliterate our shared understanding of reality and whitewash the crimes of the past to whitewash the crimes of the present.
Chris Hedges
In what he called "Liberation Day", Donald Trump imposed heavy tariffs on countries around the world, falsely claiming they were "reciprocal". In reality, the taxes on imports were based on the US trade deficit with other nations. Ben Norton explains how the Trump...
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Arno Michaelis is a former white nationalist skinhead, lead singer of the neo-Nazi metal band Centurion, and member of Hammerskin Nation, one of the most violent white supremacist gangs in the US.
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"Millions of Americans are deeply concerned about what is going on in Gaza today. The Netanyahu government has killed more than 50,000 people and wounded over 112,000. They have destroyed virtually all of Gaza’s infrastructure. And on top of all that destruction, Netanyahu...
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You can learn more about US foreign policy, military operations and geopolitics from this 9 minute clip than you could attending university for 4+ years.
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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich breaks down how power has shifted from labor unions to corporate giants over the last few decades, resulting in the rich getting richer at the expense of the working class.
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In a recent episode of his ‘Monday Morning Podcast,’ comedian Bill Burr took aim at the right-wing “babies” constantly whining about wokeness in movies. It’s a sign of growing cultural backlash to conservatives’ war on woke, which eerily resembles the SJW caricature they...
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Elon Musk spent nearly $20 million to buy a seat on Wisconsin's State Supreme Court. Unfortunately for him, his attempt to buy that election failed, as his chosen candidate was defeated in a landslide victory.
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This video delves into the legal and ethical implications of using copyrighted images in AI image-generating model training. The discussion covers key factors such as transformation of original works, the amount of copyrighted material retained in AI models, and the legality...
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The Australien Government and the Opposition have made an ad about minority governments, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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Read the full article here (originally published March 11, 2025):
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In a new interview with NBC News Trump refused to rule out a third presidential run in defiance of the 22nd Amendment. He also clarified that his past statements about running for a third time were intended to be taken seriously. Moreover, Republican operatives are trying to...
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The Government of Not-America has made an ad ahead of the coming election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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Elon Musk announces he will be stepping down from DOGE in May, claiming to have accomplished everything.
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Why do so many Americans see Donald Trump as a necessary evil? What does The Dark Knight reveal about the myth of the anti-hero—and the failure of democratic institutions?
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Jason Stanley, a Yale University professor with expertise on fascism, has announced his plans to move to Canada, and warns that The United States is on a clear path towards a “fascist dictatorship.”
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Bernie Sanders has always been more flawed than many on the left would like. His refusal to call Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide, along with several of his foreign policy votes over the years, have been disappointing. Bernie's latest mistake was at a "