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Oli Sharpe

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Oli Sharpe @olisharpe.bsky.social · Sep 16

I had a fun conversation with Steve Keen last week.

We talked about:
- using models to show the failures of neoclassical economics
- social media voices challenging economic academia
- Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
- the non-ergodic nature of international trade

... and more!

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Economics from first principles - Steve Keen on: new book, neoclassical failures, Elon Musk and MMT

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 3d

What You Can Do About UK Enterprise Zones

🧵 The UK’s enterprise zone network is expanding under Labour’s Industrial Strategy Zones. Here are concrete actions you can take to resist the corporate carve-up of Britain:
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 3d

My latest article on Substack explores Starmer's rebranding of Jacob Rees-Moggs post-Brexit REUL Bill. Starmer's government has gone even further than Mogg did.
No one voted for this. The UK is being privatised.
open.substack.com/pub/european...

The Deregulation Conspiracy: How Labour Quietly Continues the Tory Brexit Agenda

While you were looking elsewhere, Labour embraced Jacob Rees-Mogg’s deregulatory vision

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10d

The Caerphilly result is what we need to see everywhere at the next election: people coordinating to vote tactically for parties which seek a fairer, kinder, greener country.
Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.

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Mac McGill @maddmac.bsky.social · 13d

A thought provoking video by my friend @olisharpe.bsky.social about how we must CHOOSE to be a free and prosperous nation.

Performative protests, as beautiful as they are, are not sufficient.

Our Constitution is just a piece of paper at this point. It is an obviously insufficient zombie document.

Why Nations Fail - Book Summary and Review - plus lessons for USA

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d

Attending a No Kings march is the first step towards saving our democracy.

The next step? Fighting for policies that build a better future.

Here are some ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zNxm4RgSNA

Top 10 Ways to Unrig the System | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16d

#A_NewHope ✊

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 16d

Chicago - no kings

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 17d

Our enemy here is not Trump, says @ezralevin.bsky.social, one of the organizers of tomorrow's No Kings march: "our enemy is fatalism, nihilism and cynicism"
www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/u...

‘No Kings’ co-organizer responds to GOP officials who have ripped the rally | CNN

CNN’s Dana Bash speaks with Ezra Levin, one of the organizers for the “No Kings” rallies. Levin responds to GOP officials who have criticized the protests.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 17d

In September 2024, Chancellor Rachel Reeves flew to New York. Her mission? To meet Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm and now, remarkably, what they claim is “the largest provider of newly built affordable housing in the UK for the last three years.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19d

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18d

They lie about the ECHR.
Just like they lied about Brexit. Claiming if we just got rid of that ‘European’ thing, we’d be free, we’d have control, all our problems solved…
It’s NOT TRUE.
We’d inflict more chaos on ourselves and torch our own human rights framework for NOTHING.
For liars.
Again.

Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 19d

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 19d

The far right is corrupt to the core #Reform

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Torr 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · 20d

"Portland’s protests are getting ridiculous.

That’s the point.

Protesters in cities like Portland, Oregon, are using humor to reveal the absurdity of MAGA’s claims about them, joining a rich history of clowning against authoritarianism."

www.fastcompany.com/91421423/por...

Portland’s protests are getting ridiculous. That’s the point

Protesters in cities like Portland, Oregon, are using humor to reveal the absurdity of MAGA’s claims about them—and it might be working.

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 20d

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #TreeClub #EastCoastKin 🌱🌳

Tree by a bridge on a small stream in the woods

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 22d

Greater Anglia comes into public ownership today🎊🎉

Passengers are one step closer to a railway that is run in their interest, not the interest of shareholders from around the world.

Time for a railway that is run for us.

Image of a Greater Anglia train with the text "Greater Anglia brought into public ownership".

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 21d

Food systems consume 15 percent of global fossil fuels. More than half of the world’s fertiliser production is fossil-fuelled.
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steve3797.bsky.social @steve3797.bsky.social · 22d

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21d

This is either clever or crazy or both: a UK company will install, in your home, a miniature data center, about the size of a heat pump, to serve as your home heating.

UK Power Networks helping SHIELD vulnerable customers from Fuel Poverty

Customers struggling with energy bills could soon benefit from low-cost heating, thanks to an award-winning UK Power Networks innovation that re-uses heat from mini data centres.

www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 21d

This guy…

Something’s stirring and the polls are showing it too

We were thrilled to chat with him in a way, let’s be honest, no other news and politics podcast would

We met the one and only @ZackPolanski on @TheTrawlPodcast

OUT TODAY wherever you get your podcasts!

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 22d

I seem to have entered my 'helplessly taking pictures of trees' period of the year.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22d

That’s quite a telling statement, Stephen Miller. I guess you’re calling all the shots now?

Tweet from Sky Marchini: “‘I’.”
Below is Acyn’s tweet quoting Stephen Miller on CNN: “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice, sleepy southern town, is anyone going to riot?”
Screenshot shows Miller speaking on the right and the interviewer on the left, with the headline: “Illinois & Chicago sue Trump over Natl Guard deployment.”

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