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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 8d

MLK followed the lead of NWRO.

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · 19d

Influenced by NWRO, MLK’s guaranteed income proposals were generally linked with his job guarantee proposals

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jul 3

AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.*

The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential

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Weeks earlier, when I’d messaged Alex, he had said that everyone he knew used ChatGPT in some fashion, but that he used it only for organizing his notes. In person, he admitted that this wasn’t remotely accurate. “Any type of writing in life, I use A.I.,” he said. He relied on Claude for research, DeepSeek for reasoning and explanation, and Gemini for image generation. ChatGPT served more general needs. “I need A.I. to text girls,” he joked, imagining an A.I.-enhanced version of Hinge. I asked if he had used A.I. when setting up our meeting. He laughed, and then replied, “Honestly, yeah. I’m not tryin’ to type all that. Could you tell?”

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jun 24

I miss @adybarkan.bsky.social every day. This last week especially, his call on all of us to do what we each can to @beaheroaction.bsky.social has been ringing louder than ever in my ears.

Grateful to spend a bit of e-day with @rscar.bsky.social & @ Sarah Johnson.

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · Jun 25

Ady would have LOVED it.

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · Jun 25

Last NYC mayoral post (pretending I still live in NYC is my favorite hobby). Zohran’s win is huge but part of the reason it feels so transformative is this partnership. The love for Brad at Zohran’s party last night was palpable. Can’t wait to see them building a better New York together.

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander with their arms around each other during Zohran’s victory speech.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · Jun 24

Today, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social examines the reactionary vision of governance emerging under the Trump administration—and offers a progressive alternative focused on dismantling systems of domination.

Anti-Domination and the Future of Progressive Administration

The Trump administration is simultaneously dismantling, weaponizing, and centralizing state capacities in order to enact a reactionary vision of administration — one which seeks to roll back efforts…

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · Jun 23

🚨TOMORROW: You still have time to join @davidstein.bsky.social,‬ @iraregmi.bsky.social‬, @bilalb.bsky.social‬ and Clara Mattei for this important conversation.

Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · Jun 20

Decades of austerity have gutted public programs. We need bold alternatives for a government that truly uses all its resources to serve the people.

On June 24 we're unpacking the chaos unleashed by Musk & Trump’s "Dept of Government Efficiency" 👇 rooseveltinstitute.org/event/...

Department of Government Efficiency as Austerity’s Endgame - Roosevelt Institute

Join the Roosevelt Institute on June 24 for a critical conversation on the roots and repercussions of this moment.

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Ira.R @iraregmi.bsky.social · Jun 23

Clara Mattei and @davidstein.bsky.social are precisely the people we need to hear from in this moment. Join us tomorrow so that we can make some sense of what history tells us about austerity and how we understand the current moment!

Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · Jun 23

🚨TOMORROW: You still have time to join @davidstein.bsky.social,‬ @iraregmi.bsky.social‬, @bilalb.bsky.social‬ and Clara Mattei for this important conversation.

Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · Jun 20

Decades of austerity have gutted public programs. We need bold alternatives for a government that truly uses all its resources to serve the people.

On June 24 we're unpacking the chaos unleashed by Musk & Trump’s "Dept of Government Efficiency" 👇 rooseveltinstitute.org/event/...

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · Jun 20

Decades of austerity have gutted public programs. We need bold alternatives for a government that truly uses all its resources to serve the people.

On June 24 we're unpacking the chaos unleashed by Musk & Trump’s "Dept of Government Efficiency" 👇 rooseveltinstitute.org/event/...

Department of Government Efficiency as Austerity’s Endgame - Roosevelt Institute

Join the Roosevelt Institute on June 24 for a critical conversation on the roots and repercussions of this moment.

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · Jun 19

I’ll be speaking at this exciting @rooseveltinstitute.org
event on Tuesday with Clara Mattei, @bilalb.bsky.social, and Ira Regmi. And I’ll be bringing one of the best charts of New Deal economic analysis you’ll ever see.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · Jun 16

Trump and Musk’s “efficiency” agenda isn’t about fixing the government—it’s about breaking it.

Join us June 24 as experts unpack the harms of austerity politics and chart a path toward a government that serves the people. events.zoom.us/ev/Ar-gjHUXJ7M...

Roosevelt Events

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · Jun 13

DOGE promised “efficiency.” It delivered chaos.

📅 Join us on June 24 for a conversation on how DOGE used the austerity politics playbook to undermine democracy and strip down essential public services. events.zoom.us/ev/Ar-gjHUXJ7M...

Event flyer for 'Department of Government Efficiency as Austerity's Endgame' webinar on June 24, 2025, featuring speakers from Roosevelt Institute and universities, with an image of the U.S. Capitol and dollar bills in the background.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · Jun 8

Jacobin seems to have decided to be the official journal of the anti-tolerance, anti-personal autonomy left. If you are a socialist who thinks that kids these days have it too easy, and that all those druggies should be back in jail, then they're the journal for you. jacobin.com/2025/06/futu...

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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · Jun 5

Summer is here, and nothing says 'beach read' quite like these scorching hot analyses of rent control, eviction processes, and profit-push inflation. 🏖️

LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · Jun 5

Today, we reach into the vault and highlight some of our most illuminating posts on the legal underpinnings of the housing crisis.

Featuring Angela Harris, Duncan Kennedy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, David Stein, Kathryn Sabbeth, Karl Klare, Tara Raghuveer, and more!

From the Vault: LPE & Housing

A collection of our favorite posts about the legal underpinnings of today’s housing crisis, and about what might be done to restore a conception of housing as shelter, not commodity.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · Jun 5

Today, we reach into the vault and highlight some of our most illuminating posts on the legal underpinnings of the housing crisis.

Featuring Angela Harris, Duncan Kennedy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, David Stein, Kathryn Sabbeth, Karl Klare, Tara Raghuveer, and more!

From the Vault: LPE & Housing

A collection of our favorite posts about the legal underpinnings of today’s housing crisis, and about what might be done to restore a conception of housing as shelter, not commodity.

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bendinovelli.bsky.social @bendinovelli.bsky.social · May 14

Excited to share that my new paper, The Federal Reserve’s Forgotten Credit Mandate, was just published in Harvard Law Review! 🚨It argues that we are misinterpreting the Fed’s statutory mandate. 1/22

The Federal Reserve's Forgotten Credit Mandate

<p>Today, many policymakers, academics, and commentators claim that the Federal Reserve has a "dual mandate" to pursue stable prices and <span>ma

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · May 7

Urgent piece by @trevorgriffey.bsky.social on Gavin Newsom’s massive cuts to higher ed, and the refusal of Democratic electeds to resist. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/04/will...

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · Apr 27

Happy birthday Coretta Scott King. Study her organizing work on inflation, Black unemployment, and the idea of a peacetime economy—among the many underappreciated aspects of her legacy.
@davidstein.bsky.social @bostonreview.bsky.social

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Why Coretta Scott King Fought for a Job Guarantee - Boston Review

She saw economic precarity not just as a side effect of racial subjugation, but central to its functioning.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · Apr 19

As some of you have seen, Paul Krugman has interviewed me again for his newsletter. This time about the Trump Tariff Financial Crisis. It is surreal to have done two of these in seven weeks, & it may yet become a regular thing. Thanks again @pkrugman.bsky.social!

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Liquidity, Volatility and Market Craziness: Paul Krugman Interviews Nathan Tankus Again

SubscribeTip! Exactly seven weeks since the first interview Krugman did with me was published, I have another interview to bring readers. It's quite surreal to be something like a regular corresponde...

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · Apr 1

awwwe--TY! <3

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · Mar 30

Very psyched to read "Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956-1979" by historian David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social with my seminar this coming week

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Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social · Feb 12

Our fight, Veena reminds us (citing @davidstein.bsky.social), "is not just for workplace power, but for sustained working-class economic power." <3

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Feb 12

And this essay, in a collection curated by @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social & Samir Sonti, argues that the labor movement needs to work to “Release the Wage” from the clutches of monetary & fiscal policy which otherwise “corrects” for hard won wage gains.

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Release the Wage

Hunger will tame the fiercest of animals, it will teach decency and civility, obedience and subjection, to the most perverse. In general, it is only hunger whic

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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · Feb 8

The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...

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David Stein @davidstein.bsky.social · Feb 11

I really loved this Luke Herrine piece. lpeproject.org/blog/on-writ...

On Writing Down Our Dreams During a Living Nightmare

When it's time to rebuild from the wreckage of the Trump-Musk rampage, the left may have the opportunity to implement a truly transformative agenda. However, unless we have relatively detailed…

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