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Katie Cannon
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Since the Fascists have seized our national currency, we need to get busy using sub federal public institutions to create public money.

@moneyontheleft has been doing the work on this. Highly recommend.
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The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4h
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:

Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
SUSAN RODRIGUEZ Susan Courtwright Rodriguez, nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, is a longtime conservative lawyer whose career reflects deep partisan ties, loyalty to corporate interests, and a record of rulings that hurt workers, employees, and consumers and puts profits over people. She held multiple roles in the George W. Bush administration, including as a political appointee for the then-newly formed Department of Homeland Security, as well as with the White House counsel’s office. After a second stint at the DHS, Rodriguez spent 12 years at McGuireWoods, where she co-led the Financial Institutions Industry Team and defended banks, payday lenders, and fintech companies against lawsuits and government investigations. She now serves as a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. CORPORATE DEFENSE & FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS At McGuire Woods, Rodriguez devoted her practice to defending large financial institutions and high-cost lenders. She co-authored industry-facing publications framing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s regulatory oversight as part of a “name-and-shame playbook,” and dismissed CFPB efforts to hold corporations accountable for consumer abuses. She defended Sprint against allegations brought by CFPB and the Federal Communications Commission related to unauthorized third-party charges and represented banks accused of violating anti–money laundering laws (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Sprint Corp.). In one case, Rodriguez defended Truist Bank against claims brought by a whistleblower executive who alleged the bank failed to report suspicious wire transfers and allowed accounts linked to criminal activity to remain open (Denise WHITING, Plaintiff, v. TRUIST BANK f/k/a Branch Banking and Trust Company, Defendant). Rather than addressing systemic fraud, the bank allegedly retaliated against the executive, demoting and ultimately firing her. Rodr… Rodriguez’s leadership role on the board of Mira Via underscores her alignment with organizations that oppose reproductive rights. Mira Via explicitly affirms life “from the moment of conception,” situating Rodriguez firmly within the anti- abortion movement. Her long membership in the Federalist Society and Republican National Lawyers Association further underscores her alignment with conservative legal networks committed to rolling back reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights, and other substantive constitutional protections. STAUNCH CONSERVATIVE ADVOCACY Since joining the bench, Rodriguez has issued rulings that repeatedly favor corporations, law enforcement, and institutions over individuals seeking relief. In Rodriguez v. Wipro Ltd., she ruled against a whistleblower who raised concerns about corporate conflicts of interest and later suffered retaliation that exacerbated serious health conditions, dismissing the case for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. In Puranda v. City of Charlotte, she dismissed a civil rights case brought by an 18-year-old subjected to an aggressive traffic stop, where officers allegedly drew weapons, forcibly removed him from his car, and detained him without cause. In Robey v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, she rejected claims brought by parents whose child had repeatedly disclosed self-harm to a school counselor who failed to notify them, ultimately leading to a hospitalization. In each of these cases, Rodriguez prioritized institutional protection over the workers, children, and their families who simply wanted justice when they were hurt.
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
Only Democrats to have cast < 10 votes aligned with Trump this year

Merkley: 7
Murphy: 5
Sanders: 5
Warren: 4
Markey: 2

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Tracking Senate Votes 2025
docs.google.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Reposted by Katie Cannon
jonathancohn.bsky.social
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:

Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
SUSAN RODRIGUEZ Susan Courtwright Rodriguez, nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, is a longtime conservative lawyer whose career reflects deep partisan ties, loyalty to corporate interests, and a record of rulings that hurt workers, employees, and consumers and puts profits over people. She held multiple roles in the George W. Bush administration, including as a political appointee for the then-newly formed Department of Homeland Security, as well as with the White House counsel’s office. After a second stint at the DHS, Rodriguez spent 12 years at McGuireWoods, where she co-led the Financial Institutions Industry Team and defended banks, payday lenders, and fintech companies against lawsuits and government investigations. She now serves as a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. CORPORATE DEFENSE & FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS At McGuire Woods, Rodriguez devoted her practice to defending large financial institutions and high-cost lenders. She co-authored industry-facing publications framing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s regulatory oversight as part of a “name-and-shame playbook,” and dismissed CFPB efforts to hold corporations accountable for consumer abuses. She defended Sprint against allegations brought by CFPB and the Federal Communications Commission related to unauthorized third-party charges and represented banks accused of violating anti–money laundering laws (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Sprint Corp.). In one case, Rodriguez defended Truist Bank against claims brought by a whistleblower executive who alleged the bank failed to report suspicious wire transfers and allowed accounts linked to criminal activity to remain open (Denise WHITING, Plaintiff, v. TRUIST BANK f/k/a Branch Banking and Trust Company, Defendant). Rather than addressing systemic fraud, the bank allegedly retaliated against the executive, demoting and ultimately firing her. Rodr… Rodriguez’s leadership role on the board of Mira Via underscores her alignment with organizations that oppose reproductive rights. Mira Via explicitly affirms life “from the moment of conception,” situating Rodriguez firmly within the anti- abortion movement. Her long membership in the Federalist Society and Republican National Lawyers Association further underscores her alignment with conservative legal networks committed to rolling back reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights, and other substantive constitutional protections. STAUNCH CONSERVATIVE ADVOCACY Since joining the bench, Rodriguez has issued rulings that repeatedly favor corporations, law enforcement, and institutions over individuals seeking relief. In Rodriguez v. Wipro Ltd., she ruled against a whistleblower who raised concerns about corporate conflicts of interest and later suffered retaliation that exacerbated serious health conditions, dismissing the case for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. In Puranda v. City of Charlotte, she dismissed a civil rights case brought by an 18-year-old subjected to an aggressive traffic stop, where officers allegedly drew weapons, forcibly removed him from his car, and detained him without cause. In Robey v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, she rejected claims brought by parents whose child had repeatedly disclosed self-harm to a school counselor who failed to notify them, ultimately leading to a hospitalization. In each of these cases, Rodriguez prioritized institutional protection over the workers, children, and their families who simply wanted justice when they were hurt.
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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qasimrashid.com
Corporate Dem Rep Henry Cuellar & his wife were indicted in March 2024 for accepting hundreds of thousands in foreign bribes.

Trump just pardoned them.

Hakeem Jeffries is praising Trump’s decision as “exactly the right outcome” & praising Cuellar as “a beloved member of the House.”

Ridiculous.😐
December 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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matthewdownhour.bsky.social
This is becoming a cycle:

-Assault/shoot/abduct someone
-Press charges against the *victim* to muddy the waters
-Defame said victim in public
-Quietly drop charges when it’s time to back up those claims
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
katiecannon.bsky.social
evonomics.com/moneysupply/
Rapid Money Supply Growth Does Not Cause Inflation - Evonomics
Neither do rapid growth in government debt, declining interest rates, or rapid Increases in a central bank’s balance sheet
evonomics.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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atrupar.com
Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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americasvoice.bsky.social
"They are using gestapo tactics and it's not about public safety. More than 4,000 people have been arrested by federal agents in Chicago but only about 3% have any type of criminal record. They are not going after criminals, they are clearly using racial profiling." - Rep. @chuygarcia.house.gov
December 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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wikisteff.bsky.social
"The Supreme Court recently rejected Maxwell’s case and left the guilty verdict against her intact."

"The grand jury materials, if released, would 'create undue prejudice so severe that it would foreclose the possibility of a fair retrial' if Maxwell’s new petition is granted."
December 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Reposted by Katie Cannon
peark.es
Extremely good stuff from @darioperkins.bsky.social on Perkins v Beamish this week.

overcast.fm/+ABKrk8yGXIo
The Big Fed Conspiracy — GlobalData TS Lombard: Perkins Vs Beamish
Fed Cut, AI and the UK BudgetAndrew Slazenger (reach out for a free trial, institutional investors only: [email protected]) hosts Dario Perkins and Freya Beamish as they answer:1) Is a Fe...
overcast.fm
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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moneyontheleft.bsky.social
How the Zetro Card Can Save NYC (Really)
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…
moneyontheleft.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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katiecannon.bsky.social
We should use sub federal public institutions to create public money

Especially since Trump has seized our national currency

bsky.app/profile/mone...
moneyontheleft.bsky.social Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 3d
"The Zetro card is an ongoing campaign technology. I hope that it continues after the campaign ends, but it also is just an interesting kind of pedagogical thought experiment for thinking through and living and embodying this way of seeing fiscal policy."

moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...
December 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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stephmu00mls.bsky.social
🐦💯🎯!

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
AI poses unprecedented threats. Congress must act now | Bernie Sanders
Despite the speed at which it is progressing, AI is getting far too little discussion in Congress, the media and within the general population. That has got to change
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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moneyontheleft.bsky.social
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 money as an inexhaustible and malleable public institution.
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
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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laywilliams.bsky.social
One of the best pieces you'll read on AI's existential threat to education. Highlight here is its emphasis on the complicity of university administrators in this fiasco. Any respectable president or chancellor would have called for Congressional hearings for this being unleashed with no forethought.
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
katiecannon.bsky.social
I wish I was a Constitutional scholar & historian so I could give a better arg for why the most important revolution was the creation of our Constitutional Public Money.

& that it’s not “optional”, but Constitutionally determined, that our gov should pay for a big, wealthy, diverse, public sector
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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jwmason.bsky.social
The thing about immigration is that xenophobia and racism are the elite centrist position. Here's a senior fellow at Brookings, spouse of CRFP head Maya MacGuineas, explaining the mere presence of foreigners in Germany is a "problem" that someone must solve with "speed and determination."
November 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch authorized a plan for Fox News to embrace Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020 in a bid to win back viewers angry with the network, a lawyer for the voting technology company Smartmatic argued on Tuesday. “The conservative viewers, their bread and butter,
Murdochs blessed Fox News plan to air 2020 election fraud claims, Smartmatic alleges
In key hearing in defamation case, Fox counters that network simply covered allegations by Trump associates
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.

You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.

It says it right in the Constitution.
Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
We too often look at prices when talking about affordability & not enough at wages. As Harold Meyerson explains, had the bottom 90% earned the same share of national income they did in 1975, by 2023 they would have made an additional $79 trillion!
prospect.org/2025/12/03/7...
The $79 Trillion Heist - The American Prospect
We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.
prospect.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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judah-grunstein.bsky.social
I think it is impossible to separate any discussion of any aspect of the industrial revolution from slavery and its associated triangle trades. But I'm also finishing up Eric Williams' Slavery and Capitalism right now, so I'm even more pilled on that right now.
December 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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simonlester.com
"Palantir’s federal contracting business has bloomed during the Trump administration. Its September tally of new federal contracts was $128 million, its largest monthly sum on record, ... . The company’s stock price is up more than 120 percent this year"
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 20h
Palantir CEO Alex Karp, whose company builds tools that power US immigration polocy and Trump's deportation campaign, says he holds the "truly progressive" position on immigration, and insists his own politics have not changed.
How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
“The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data-mining company’s chief executive.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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annmlipton.bsky.social
New Shareholder Primacy podcast! Me and @activistinvestor.bsky.social talk about the all-of-government war on proxy advisors.

Here at Apple:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Proxy Advisors and Activism
Podcast Episode · Shareholder Primacy · 12/03/2025 · 41m
podcasts.apple.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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bentarnoff.com
I wrote a book with Quinn Slobodian called MUSKISM. It'll be published in the US in April 2026, and I hope you'll consider pre-ordering it.

The elevator pitch is: if Fordism defined the capitalism of the 20th century, Muskism may well define the capitalism of the 21st.
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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quinnslobodian.com
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM