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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

✨ New! ✨

"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩‍💻

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · 12h

Teaching this under-appreciated gem again.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 12h

They’re calling it Woke 2.0 moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/d...

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 14h

"What’s a Blue Bond? It’s a municipal or state bond, issued to replace the funds that Trump has illegally impounded. Blue states and cities can issue these bonds and use them to fund all the research, subsidies, programs and projects that Trump is trying to murder."

Blue Bonds

State debt is generative.

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 14h

This episode examines how One Battle, which draws loose inspiration from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, deliberately removes specific historical markers to place the story in an ambiguous present of ongoing revolution and counter-revolution.

One Battle After Another

In this episode of the Superstructure podcast, Scott Ferguson is joined by independent film scholar Jonathan Haynes to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. T…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 14h

"The present text argues that a robust response to the ills of market ideology requires cultivating shared knowledge about the political constitution of money."

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · 16h

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 17h

We speak with Lauren Arrington about her forthcoming book on women artists in the Federal Arts Project.

Women in the Federal Arts Project with Lauren Arrington

We speak with Lauren Arrington about her forthcoming book on women artists in the Federal Arts Project. The Great Depression rendered 140,000 women and girls across the United States homeless. In 1…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 17h

"[W]hen we allow the appearance of money scarcity to persist, current human capacities and biophysical resources can appear secondary to money’s availability, and potentially redundant."

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so excited to share this document.

Hopefully Mamdani’s campaign inspired us enough to inspire them back 💙💛🧡

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

✨ New! ✨

"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩‍💻

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Rowan Zeoli @rowanzeoli.bsky.social · 18h

Genuinely crying at the idea of a politician who will represent me loudly advocating for my safety. trans people deserve this, we all do.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.bsky.social · 18h

Yes. Tish James' prosecution also a story of—

1️⃣ Black women leading the way, time and time again, in protecting what few forms of democracy the US has had;

2️⃣ The struggle to block fascism and build instead a fuller, true democracy; and

3️⃣ The united front for democracy's leadership by the Left.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 19h

Throwback to this photo of Biden looking at the first quantum computer and integrating it into his Cold War boomer ideology as some kind of God

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 20h

“DPF builds on MMT’s insights but pushes further: it sees money not just as a federal tool but as a design system embedded in law and governance at every level. It asks how public credit can be mobilized even within existing constraints…”

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Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 20h

“It asks how public credit can be mobilized even within existing constraints—and how those constraints themselves can be named, politicized, and changed.”

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polqat @polq.at · 21h

Yay!

The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 1d

The wheels have come off Musk’s monstertruck trib.al/3vhBGId

The wheels have come off Musk’s monstertruck | The Observer

It was touted as the future of motoring, but has proved to be a turkey in a stainless steel jacket. It’s time Elon parked his Cybertruck for good

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videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · 21h

polqat @polq.at · 22h

Interesting article, especially around reframing the neoliberal view of debt and taxation, similar to MMT: "the rhetoric of money scarcity devalues workers’ actual and potential contributions."

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

✨ New! ✨

"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩‍💻

videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · 22h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 23h

"The language and ideas we champion today shape what becomes imaginable tomorrow."

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 23h

Willa (Chase Infinity), our cohosts argue, embodies the entangled, embattled, and yet still hopeful left politics that the film ultimately celebrates.

One Battle After Another

In this episode of the Superstructure podcast, Scott Ferguson is joined by independent film scholar Jonathan Haynes to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. T…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 23h

We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis.

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videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · 23h

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 23h

We outline four strategies for the Mamdani mayoralty to consider. Each strategy is designed to advance inclusive democratic projects, while undermining the political legitimacy of manufactured crises perpetuated by establishment Democrats and the Trump administration.

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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sammurrey.bsky.social @sammurrey.bsky.social · 1d

“In countless scenarios, when talented organizers are ready, coalitional energy is real, and the democratic appetite for change is present, the dominant political imagination consistently stalls at the threshold of private investors.” To that, I echo Money on the Left in saying: “Don’t be reckless.”

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

✨ New! ✨

"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩‍💻

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

moneyontheleft.org

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 1d

“This approach redefines responsibility, shifting the focus from arbitrary budget rules to the well-being of people and the environment.”

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

✨ New! ✨

"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩‍💻

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 1d

This is very intriguing (and exciting!)

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