Mostly on BlueSky (@wellejonathan) Fighting for economic democracy with @cleveland_owns @pb_cleveland
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
May 21
Hello @JeffBezos, since you question the results of our studies on the unfairness of the US tax system, please allow me to remind you of the main conclusions of our work, the most comprehensive research to date on this issue.
May 20
Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
May 15
We can have a moral, and also purely materialist, commitment to confront climate crisis, which is in the interest of global working class, and non-human nature. And then we can talk about the best strategy to achieve that, which might not always involve explicit climate rhetoric.
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
Apr 20
Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy.
I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all.
Out in October with @randomhouse.
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Apr 15
Hello
“You don't need an invitation, you can just start doing.”- Jonathan Welle #JustEconomy hubs.ly/Q04ccjTv0
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Apr 14
Leaning lots from Stephanie and the Baltimore Neighborhood Exchange in this session. They’ve enabled 14,000 people in Baltimore to invest in local businesses - an awesome win.
“Many businesses have been left out of asset based opportunities, like businesses in Baltimore.”- Stephanie Geller #JustEconomy hubs.ly/Q04bYXxJ0
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Jan 21
This is a great win for public transit in Ohio City!
This is the way! Between Detroit and Monroe is the most important part of the corridor to get bus lanes. Without it, the whole project is virtually pointless.
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
This is the way! Between Detroit and Monroe is the most important part of the corridor to get bus lanes. Without it, the whole project is virtually pointless.
Jan 20
West 25th bus lanes to move forward
GCRTA, city offer $500K Market District work
neo-trans.blog/2026/01/20/we…
@CityofCleveland @CLEcityplanning @GCRTA @ohiocityinc @CLEforTransit @AllAboardOhio @FTA_DOT @the_transit_guy @NOhioNAIOP @ClevelandULI
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
Jan 20
The law that empowers Trump is Clinton’s, the paramilitary that Trump deploys was built by Bush jr and Obama. The war on drugs is half a century old. And it was Clinton who both militarized the border and turned “illegal alien” into a term of political art. So sure, Trump.
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
Jan 13
CPP crews are hard at work repairing the damage from last night’s explosion near W44th Street.
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
Jan 12
By almost every measure, the great state of Ohio is failing its people. We can either change direction, or keep going with all the failed and corrupt policies that are making life so tough for Ohioans.
The choice in this election—and the stakes — could not be more clear.
Jan 10
Once a political and economic powerhouse, Ohio is now expected to lose 675,000 people by 2050, the state Department of Development said. That's due to lack of sufficient job opportunities, an overwhelming majority of economists said in a recent survey ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/…
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
Jan 12
Jan 10
Once a political and economic powerhouse, Ohio is now expected to lose 675,000 people by 2050, the state Department of Development said. That's due to lack of sufficient job opportunities, an overwhelming majority of economists said in a recent survey ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/…
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
With the world's eyes on US oil interests, let's not forget who benefits from fossil fuel profits: The richest of the rich.
Our research shows: 50% of the record fossil fuel profits in 2022 went to the wealthiest 1% of US Americans, the bottom 50% only received 1%.
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
31 Dec 2025
The Tooze tweet on solar/wind/batteries vs the rest prompted me to look into generation investment in China. Per @EIAgov, China added 34 GW of nuclear between 2014 and 2023 and 277 GW of solar in just 2024 (more than double the amount of total installed solar in the U.S.).
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
31 Dec 2025
Notably, Mamdani's child care plan includes a home child care benefit option. Some very smart policy people in that campaign!
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28 Dec 2025
Might as well just get fully Hale-pilled than play around with this idea that it's possible to non-circularly determine whether any utility rate is "legitimate"
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
25 Dec 2025
Turn of 20th century Cleveland mayor Tom Johnson
"I believe in the municipal ownership of all public service monopolies because if you do not own them they in turn will own you. They will rule your politics, corrupt your institutions and finally destroy your liberties."
This is impacting my district on Christmas Eve. PG&E is focused on investor profits over California residents.
They have paid off Sacramento politicians.
It's time to make it a customer owned utility.
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
21 May 2025
Ken Silliman is out here on LinkedIn mixing it up with the Cleveland corporate class on Browns stadium. God's work.
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14 Oct 2025
A reminder the ruling class is a club and you ain’t in it
13 Oct 2025
Mayor Justin Bibb, flanked by Dee and Jimmy Haslam, says the Browns have agreed to demolish the city-owned lakefront stadium as part of a $100 million settlement.
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Jonathan Welle retweeted
11 Oct 2025
The Democratic Party in the imagination of Republicans goes so hard
10 Oct 2025
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
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