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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2d
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"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

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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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videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · 2d
So proud to finally publish MotL’s public finance strategy for Mamdani’s NYC. This is a collective labor of love months in the making. Now is the time to democratize finance at every level of government, no exceptions.
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2d
✨ 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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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 6d
Want to see what blue bonds or other sub national credit creation might look like… issue credit and experiment with a tax circuit and mobilize real resources.
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 6d
Adapted from a prompt by Professor Benjamin Wilson (SUNY Cortland, Spring 2025), this assignment encourages students to perceive money and the labor it mobilizes as social forms that we can collectively remake.
Assignment Prompt: A Classroom Currency Experiment
Adapted from a prompt by Professor Benjamin Wilson (SUNY Cortland, Spring 2025), this assignment encourages students to perceive money and the labor it mobilizes as social forms that we can collect…
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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 8d
A framework like this (compelling!) needs to be used to account for billions in funds illegally impounded by Vought when Trump for lifesaving global health as well
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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 8d
It’s time to go on offense and to push limits for prosperity not simply resisting or being appalled by fascism
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 8d
"Blue Bonds are the good version of Trump's beloved shitcoins. Rather than wildcat money created by and for speculators, Blue Bonds are a source of public prosperity, backed by a present or future Fed under democratic control, accountable to the people."

-Doctorow

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 8d
Tremendous thanks to Cory Doctorow for helping us get the word out about Blue Bonds, MotL's fiscal strategy for mobilizing sub-federal debt financing to defeat authoritarian sabotage & extortion.

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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 8d
Yes!
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Pluralistic: Blue Bonds (04 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 9d
Food, Money & Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient & Equitable Communities of Work

By Benjamin C. Wilson, Taylor Reid & Max Sussman
Food, Money & Democracy
Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2022)ISSN 2833-051X Food, Money & Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient & Equitable Communities of WorkBy B…
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9d
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 3: Earl Manigault

When he stepped onto the court, the world watched. No one dunked harder or jumped higher. But the GOAT never made it pro.

There are countless NYC stories like his. Brilliant talents lost to drugs or crime. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 10d
✨MotL 93 is live!✨

We speak with @carolinelevine.bsky.social about her important book: The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis.

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*Transcript forthcoming!
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 10d
This essay introduces a critical theory of mediation developed by the Money on the Left Editorial Collective (MotL) and demonstrates the value of the collective's thinking for current debates in media theory.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.bsky.social · 11d
The "Blue Bonds" concept was developed by people at @moneyontheleft.bsky.social.

As its name suggests, MotL is a great resource for Leftists who want to identify, and unlearn, orthodox assumptions about money that unnecessarily constrain public spending.

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Blue Bonds: Duck or Rabbit?
Chronicle of a Summer by Will Beaman We are living through a strange reversal of the monetary story many of us have spent the last decade telling. Modern Monetary Theory helped a broader public see…
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 13d
Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14d
So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 15d
Continued escalation from Trump this morning. I need to hear a forceful response to this from Gov. Kotek, assuring Oregonians we will not tolerate this level of illegal intimidation. To service-members: remember you do not have to follow an unlawful order such as implied below.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 15d
Trump says he authorizes Hegseth to deploy the military to Portland, which he lyingly calls "war ravaged," and says he is authorizing "full force."
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump + At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 506 ReTruths 1.62k Likes 9/27/25, 9:19
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15d
This is very good.
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 15d
Just say no to bottlenecks.
The Case for Fiscal Insurgency
by Will Beaman A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, Ne…
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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 17d
Maybe now they can start sending out checks for the use of all of our digital labor?
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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 20d
If blue states and cities had a peacetime bond drive to outlast this administration, that “debt” could be purchased by a progressive administration too. Same with complementary currencies of all kind.

Whether it’s money or debt is politics, not economics.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20d
Breaking news: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said 'all options' are on the table for the Trump administration to support Argentina through a bout of severe market volatility on.ft.com/3W5D9W4
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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 22d
Wide spread understanding of money as a public utility not a finite zero sum fight with billionaires.
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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 23d
That is all that endogenous money really is: the courage to issue it, met by a public capacity that has already rehearsed its legitimacy.

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The Case for Fiscal Insurgency
by Will Beaman A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, Ne…
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 24d
"Today’s challenge is to remember that history and mobilize it—to see in Greenbacks, war bonds, Blue Bonds, and complementary currencies not oddities of fiscal history, but usable precedents for democratic survival."
The Case for Fiscal Insurgency
by Will Beaman A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, Ne…
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 26d
Mayoral front-runner Assemblymember @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social joined striking workers in a show of solidarity at their Bronx picket line on Monday. The only mayoral candidate visiting that morning, Mamdani vowed to continue to fight alongside the workers.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 26d
We relaunched our canvassing operation a month ago— and our volunteers already surpassed 235k doors knocked, including 39,700 this past weekend.

There's a hunger in our city for a new kind of politics and it's motivating people to participate at a scale they never have before.
Huge group photo of canvassers at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. Many are carrying signs that say "Jews for Zohran" and "Jews for Racial & Economic Justice." About a dozen volunteers taking a group photo. About 20 volunteers taking a group photo. About a dozen volunteers taking group photo.
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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · Sep 12
I think airline miles or credit card points might be a good example but instead of brand loyalty they are designed to encourage coordination and resilience in care communities.
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.bsky.social · Sep 12
That, in a nutshell, is the kind of radical, insightful, and necessary way of thinking being advanced in this piece by @moneyontheleft.bsky.social.

I welcome more of us on the Left to join in the radical task of advancing how to make money & credit serve our ends.
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How the Zetro Card Can Save NYC (Really)
by the Money on the Left Editorial Collective A domestic occupation is currently being staged in the United States. National guard units have been deployed to Washington, D.C., with similar moves s…
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