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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 54m

Are we ready for a Tucker Carlson/MTG antisemitism ticket once Trump is out of the picture? And for how enraptured the centrist press will be with how much they’ve both matured politically since their firebrand days?

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

grimly fucking funny that Marjorie Taylor Greene is turning out to be one of the most reality-based Republicans. getting a little chuckle out of that www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on her unexpected break with Republicans over health care in shutdown fight

The MAGA firebrand sparked criticism from GOP leadership after giving voice to a key Democratic demand — extending expiring Obamacare funding to avoid premium hikes.

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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 9h

It’s just 10 days to go until our launch event on Saturday 18 October at Teesside University and there are still a few places available - don’t miss out!

Visit our website for more information and please share widely: wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com/events/

Poster for the Where Credit’s Due project - a rainbow border surrounding the text:

“Where Credit's Due

Making Money for Ecosocial Justice

Reimagining Public Credit and Building
Intersectional Solidarity in Boro

• 18.10.25, 1.30pm: Finding the Money Film Screening and Q&A. Teesside Uni.

• 23.10.25, 7pm: A Curious Night at the Museum. The Dorman Museum.

• 22.11.25, 10.30am: Workshop 1: Where
Credit's Due. The Dorman Museum.

• 17.1.26, 10.30am: Workshop 2: The Other Saltburn. The Dorman Museum.

• 7.3.26, 10.30am: Workshop 3: Everyone's
Included! The Dorman Museum.

Join us to tell new stories about money”

Beneath the text are logs for Where Credit’s Due and TU Proud, the words BOOK HERE and a pointing hand emoji next to a QR code for the Where Credit’s Due website.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 18h

✨New!!!✨

@videotroph.bsky.social is joined by Jonathan Haynes to discuss PTA’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. The conversation centers on the film’s contribution to popular political cinema under the authoritarian violence of the second Trump administration.

Don't miss it! 🙌

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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videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · 18h

Check out the latest episode of Superstructure during which I wax rhapsodic about One Battle's allegorical use of mobile telephoto lenses.

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 18h

✨New!!!✨

@videotroph.bsky.social is joined by Jonathan Haynes to discuss PTA’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. The conversation centers on the film’s contribution to popular political cinema under the authoritarian violence of the second Trump administration.

Don't miss it! 🙌

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 · 15h

"Austerity can’t get us out of a collapsing economy. It is precisely when the private sector withers that the state must step in, providing the income that people need to do the purchasing that makes the private sector possible."

Blue Bonds

State debt is generative.

doctorow.medium.com

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 19h

The Democratic base has been rehearsing enthusiasm for over a decade for a candidate who doesn’t suck, and every time the candidate who sucks thinks it’s proof they are amazing and takes the base for granted.

Newsom will meet the same fate as Kamala and Dark Brandon.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 19h

Triangulating with fascism is unspeakably disgusting, but what *annoys* me is the conventional wisdom that it’s a winning strategy.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 20h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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onion person @junlper.beer · 20h

if the democratic party starts stepping away trans people they might as well sign this country away to the far right forever

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 20h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 22h

A frequently repeated line from a colleague who retired a few years ago after a long career at my university: "Remember, when they say they don't have the money to fund something, what they mean is they don't have the money *for you*."

Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 22h

“‘Anything we can actually do, we can afford.’ Taxation controls the distribution of wealth. At bottom, however, state spending never rests on private profit. This means that an impoverished public good such as the present higher-education system reflects an impoverished public imagination.”

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 22h

“‘Anything we can actually do, we can afford.’ Taxation controls the distribution of wealth. At bottom, however, state spending never rests on private profit. This means that an impoverished public good such as the present higher-education system reflects an impoverished public imagination.”

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 21h

What the hell, emailed this (and the original full piece referenced) to @governorwalz.mn.gov Maybe he'll read it

Tl;dr if states repeal their balanced budget rules, they can issue blue bonds to cover funds (illegally) clawed back by Trump & thus save their states

pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/f...

Pluralistic: Blue Bonds (04 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 21h

This is the full piece I referenced in my post

From @moneyontheleft.bsky.social

moneyontheleft.org/2025/06/11/b...

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

"[T]his is 'the true Abundance agenda' — not the 'diet Reaganism' of deregulation and sacrifices to the market gods being peddled by the corporate wing of the Democratic Party."

-Cory Doctorow

Blue Bonds

State debt is generative.

doctorow.medium.com

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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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

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

The assumption that only billionaires or suburban taxpayers can provision democracy has become so entrenched that it is easier to imagine acquiescing to authoritarianism than bypassing this veto.

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 · 1d

"[Mamdani's #ZcavengerHunt] worked not as clicks or gimmicks, but rather as mapped routes, opened rooms, staffed corners, and kitchen windows that made movement legible and safe. In that register, play is not a nudge; play is public works."

Zohran’s #ZcavengerHunt was a Rehearsal

by the Money on the Left Editorial Collective What yesterday’s New York City #ZcavengerHunt made visible is a coalition rehearsing public works before even winning the general election. It was not …

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

We speak with Levine at length about moving beyond critical gestures of dissolution and toward an activist formalism that moves constructively between politics and aesthetics.

moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...

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

The Metaphysics of Accounting with @paoloquattrone.bsky.social

The Metaphysics of Accounting with Paolo Quattrone

Paolo Quattrone (@PaoloQuattrone) joins Money on the Left to discuss the metaphysics of accounting and the significance of accounting’s repressed history for political economy today. Prof…

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

"This is a fundamental restructuring of public spending, a way out of neoliberalism’s violent allergy to the fiscal spending that expands the economy and lifts up the population."

-Doctorow

Blue Bonds

State debt is generative.

doctorow.medium.com

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

"Du Bois’s phrase does not merely point to a parallel between money and status. It stages something more robust and flexible than a metaphor: an analogy."

Jim Crow to Trump: Reconsidering the Psychological Wage

by Will Beaman W.E.B. Du Bois’s “psychological wage” has long been treated as a metaphor. In Black Reconstruction, he describes how white workers, denied meaningful economic uplift, found compensat…

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 1d

This is the correct “can we afford it” framing for everything.

We always do infinitely more to support each other than what shows up on balance sheets. If work is being done, the capacity is there to pay people for it by definition. And the distributive effects are pretty much always positive.

JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 1d

As the brilliant Michael Kinnucan points out, it's more than a bit strange that there's a debate over whether New York can afford universal childcare. New York already has universal childcare! Every single child is cared for by somebody. Small children are never left home all day by themselves.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 1d

Cc @moneyontheleft.bsky.social

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