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 By: Andy Wyatt Micheal Tubbs at the launch of his UBI experiment in Stockton  Universal Basic Income is more than just a policy solution to combat workplace automation. Andrew Yang popularized his UBI plan in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.  "The mission in this campaign has to be for us to disentangle economic value and human value, say they are not the same things, and make this case to our fellow Americans that we each have intrinsic value as citizens, as human beings, and as owners and shareholders of the richest country in the history of the world."-Andrew Yang, 2020 Democratic primary debates.  We know from recent UBI pilots such as the Stockton Basic Income program that gave some participants $500 each month. They also had a controlled group that did not get $500 a month and followed them and their spending habits; they found that a majority of those that received the extra $500 a month spent that money on home goods, utilities, and other bills...

By: Andy Wyatt  January 27, 2022 Image Source:CNN Is America truly a free country if you can be arrested for smoking a plant that mildly alters your thoughts and can help ease your mind after a long stressful day in a capitalistic hellscape? Something that has been proven to be less addictive than coffee . Just like healthcare is a human right, so should be the right to grow, smoke, and profit from the plant.   Any arrest or conviction of marijuana-related drug charges should not only be expunged by the court systems, but victims should be paid in restitution for the damages caused to their reputations. People have lost their livelihoods over a failed drug war. The War on Drugs has been primarily propped up by the legacy status quo media, the establishment of GOP, and the establishment Democratic party. Joe Biden, a Democrat himself, is on record when he was running for 2020  in the primary, saying that we don't know if marijuana is a gateway drug at a town hall ....

     Joe Biden has said it himself. He's a mainstream Democrat; he's not Bernie Sanders . That's true. Bernie Sanders is a left-wing progressive who supports marijuana legalization and understands that we need to end the federal prohibition of cannabis via executive order. Bernie Sanders supports Medicare for All, and Joe Biden favors our current status quo broken healthcare system.  The progressive movement has a unique opportunity to point out their differences in local elections in the upcoming midterms. Biden doesn't have a winning message to run on. Joe Biden's approvals are at a record low , but the left can come out on top if we effectively highlight and communicate the apparent differences between progressive and establishment democrats to voters. It's a verifiable fact Bernie Sanders has a higher approval rating than the sitting president among the American public. Progressives are for universal healthcare during a pandemic. Medicare for all means heal...

Leafly/Trainwreck Today people are still being arrested and given records for a plant that is now legal in 11 states and 33 states for medicinal use as of June 2020. People that are detained in states where it is illegal are sometimes thrown in jail, fined, and given a record. It's almost as if it's their goal is to humiliate people for getting caught with a herb that grows on Mother Earth, naturally. When people are arrested for possession, they are not eligible for federal funding like other citizens, they are stripped of social safety net, they are not given boots, only laces. People shouldn't be punished because they smoke something that is natural and of the earth.  Who are we as mortal men who piss-yellow to tell someone they can't fish or they can't hunt? There are far more hunting accident deaths; then, there are people who have died from smoking marijuana. Still, we have that right to get out into nature, climb trees and hunt for our food if we wish to do ...

Disney + has been big for me, I've officially finished watching the Mandalorian series in search of finding something else I came across an old cartoon, one of those 7 minute Disney classics from way back in the technicolor days. Upon watching this old cartoon I didn't think too much about it other then enjoying the style and the voice acting, particularly for this type of cartoon given how ancient it is. If I fast forward to some of the hard losses that the progressive movement had on super Tuesday II. I've come to the conclusion after thinking long and hard that it wasn't to all that bad in reality, it's a very competitive race, sure but there are plenty of silver linings at play here. Bernie sanders preforms well among younger voters , a key demographic that rarely votes and on the other hand Biden gets voters that are older and regularly vote. Today if you look at CNN and MSNBC believe it or not there are some pundits that are coming to grips with the...

UC Berkley graphic from LATimes I have been watching a lot of mainstream media lately and I must say from the perspective of someone who generally watches independent media I've been noticing a trend in how the mainstream media covers Bernie Sanders they don't, they try to ignore him. It's really that simple. A recent story came out about ABC's coverage of Bernie Sanders they have covered him for a full 7 minutes. Read more here at The Free Beacon . The fact that ABC has only covered him for 7 minutes in 2019 when he is a top tier candidate in the democratic primary is asinine and plays into the blatant media bias against Bernie Sanders, it seems to be helping him build the case that he is the true outsider candidate, luckily he has a rather large online media platform thanks to Facebook and Twitter and YouTube. In the past having the most cash on hand was considered an indicator of the race and now that Bernie is leading the field they hardly bring it up. To be...