Do the most good for the most people while harming as few as possible. Protect the powerless. Fear no evil. The Luddites were onto something...
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William Luddy retweeted
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bottom 50% of Americans held 4% of the country’s wealth.
By the 2020s, this had been cut in half to 2%.
This is due to decades of tax breaks for corporations and billionaires.
William Luddy retweeted
The Big Beautiful Bill will leave most Americans worse off. Workers will work more, earn less, and ultimately won’t be able to make up for the losses caused by atrophied social programs.
It's good for rich people though
ALT Big Beautiful Bill will leave most households worse off. Projected financial gain or loss, by income group. Bottom quintile, –$24K; 2nd quintile, –$10K; 3rd, –$2K; 4th, +$13K; top, +$50K. Figures show average equivalent variation, the amount a household would need to gain or lose under current policy to be as well off as under the new policy. Data: Penn Wharton Budget Model, July 2025.
William Luddy retweeted
My soulless DC rep @NMalliotakis says “nobody loses benefits” and then goes on to say seniors on Medicaid should get up off their couch and go work 20 hours a week to keep their insurance. Then she runs away.
NY's 11th Congressional District has 300,000+ people on Medicaid.
William Luddy retweeted
This man is a GOP representative. When I call the Republican Party a satanic fascist terrorist death cult I mean it.
William Luddy retweeted
Bro you can’t even retain staff bc you won’t let them work on improving lives in the US
Last week, Gallup polled only 36% of Democrats are “extremely or very proud” to be American.
In the greatest country in the world, that’s just wrong.
I’m unapologetically grateful for our nation and the American Way of Life—today, and always.
Happy Birthday, America. 🇺🇸
ALT A black and white picture of Senator Fetterman’s union-made jeep with an American flag decal on the hood, in front of the Edgar Thompson Steel Works in his home of Braddock, PA.
William Luddy retweeted
On July 4, 1901, socialist luminary and labor agitator Eugene V. Debs proclaimed in a fiery speech: "I like the Fourth of July. It breathes a spirit of revolution."
We reprint the fiercely anticapitalist address here in full. jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-d…
William Luddy retweeted
This is devastating.
Over a hundred BBC staff have signed a letter declaring they've been forced to do PR for Israel.
Just the latest chapter in the biggest scandal of Western journalism of our time
owenjones.news/p/bbc-staff-w…
William Luddy retweeted
Kentucky saw the third largest increase in multifamily housing construction in 2022 - a 97.7% increase in approvals. Still, the percentage of rent-burdened residents increased to 47%.
Building into a rigged market will not deliver lower rents. This week, Kentucky sued RealPage.
William Luddy retweeted
It steals from the hungry, cutting nutrition assistance for 40 million people, including 1 in 5 children nationwide.
300,000 New Yorkers could lose all or some of their SNAP benefits. cbpp.org/research/food-assis…
William Luddy retweeted
Over 1 million New Yorkers are going to lose their healthcare because of this bill.
Here’s how many Americans will lose healthcare in each state if Republicans let this thing pass:
It’s time to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill!
We must deliver on President @realDonaldTrump’s mandate to deliver the largest tax cut in history, secure our borders, fuel job growth, unleash energy dominance, cut wasteful spending, and deliver peace through strength.
William Luddy retweeted
One lesson for 2029 from this bad day:
As a matter of political durability, universal benefits and direct public investment are superior to means-tested programs and tax credits
William Luddy retweeted
this is as graphic an illustration of corruption as I can imagine.
No one believes fossil fuels are doing anything but killing the planet and us.
William Luddy retweeted
Is every Democratic governor doing this? If not, why not?
Before the federal budget bill comes to a vote, call your U.S. Representative and tell them to reject the soaring deficit, the cuts to Medicaid and food assistance, and the higher electricity bills.
Call and tell them to reject this disastrous bill: (202) 224-3121.
Feel free to tell them I sent you.
William Luddy retweeted
Great point
In @Newsweek, @ZephyrTeachout & I write how the #TikTok case has hindered #BigTech's use of First Amendment doctrines. TL/DR: the 1A can no longer be used as a tool for them to smother our liberties or act with reckless abandon. newsweek.com/supreme-court-w…
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With his signature, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has allowed a controversial funding plan for a new Browns stadium to go forward. The state will tap its multi-billion-dollar pool of unclaimed funds — money which belongs to ordinary Ohioans — to pay for it. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/…