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So this is Rupert Murdoch reading my book on universal basic income, the 15-hour workweek, and open borders around the globe. I'm sure he'll love it. dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/arti…
Rutger Bregman
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Rutger Bregman
@rcbregman
Historian. Books: 'Utopia for Realists' (2014), 'Humankind' (2020) and 'Moral Ambition' (2025). Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition.
- Absolutely incredible footage from today, the biggest protest of the 21st century in The Netherlands. 150,000 people in The Hague to protest against the genocide in Palestine.
00:00 - For some reason, I haven't been invited to Davos this year. Was it something I said? 🤔
- 1/ Here’s the interview that @TuckerCarlson and Fox News didn’t want you to see. I chose to release it, because I think we should keep talking about the corrupting influence of money in politics. It also shows how angry elites can get if you do that.Watch Fox News host Tucker Carlson call one of his guests a 'tiny brain...moron' during an interview. NowThis has obtained the full segment with historian Rutger Bregman that Fox News is refusing to air.
00:00 - WOOOW. A Canadian research project gave homeless people $7,500 each — the results were 'beautifully surprising'. Turns out: basic income for the homeless pays for itself. It's free money, because 'the project saved the shelter system $8,100 per person'. '
- How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced.
- People like @GretaThunberg and @AOC are often dismissed as ‘radical’ or ‘out of touch’. But the reality is: their radicalism is the future. While the planet is heating up, it's the so-called 'moderates' who are out of touch.
- This is simply an extraordinary study. Researchers gave $7,500 (CAD) to homeless people in Vancouver. The result? The program *saved* money. It helped many of them to move into housing faster, which saved the shelter system $8,277 per person. 🧵👇
- Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal. And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.
- "Anyone who disagrees with my views is welcome to come on and explain why" Just make sure to make your own recording.
- Replying to @rcbregman3/ Years ago, when he was asked a similar question, Chomsky replied: ‘I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believe something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.’
- We knew it, but seeing the data laid out – it's still shocking: higher taxes for most, deep cuts to Medicaid & SNAP—all to fund tax breaks for the top 1%. It's difficult to fully grasp the scale of the con being perpetrated on Americans right now by the Trump administration.
- 96 private jets full of corrupt elites and celebs flying into Venice, a city destroyed by tourism, to celebrate the wedding of the world’s most shameless tax dodger: Jeff Bezos. Well, it's the perfect anecdote for future historians writing about this Second Gilded Age --> 🧵
- So @TuckerCarlson just called me a ‘fucking moron’ during a prerecord for his show, for pointing out that he’s a millionaire funded by billionaires. Let’s see if they’ll air it. ‘Did they get it on audio?? Fuck fuck fuck’ we heard them say here.. (Yes, we did.)
