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

Our cohosts evaluate One Battle’s controversial representation of leftist violence, highlighting the film’s focus on countervailing infrastructures in addition to punctuated actions.

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 · 2h

"When governments stop spending, money — the economy’s lubricant — dries up, and the economy grinds to a halt."

Blue Bonds

State debt is generative.

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2h

"Willa, 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 · 2h

"We have the precedents, we have the tools, and we have the urgency. What remains is to build the circuits of public credit that can say yes to democracy when private power will not."

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 · 2h

"f there is not enough for everyone, the only option is to leave some of us out."

Why Credit’s Due: Reclaiming Pride in Boro

By Rob Hawkes and Robyn Ollett The summer of 2025, like the summer of 2024 before it, has been one of heightened tensions surrounding the issues of race and immigration in the UK. This year, Union …

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2h

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.

The Activist Humanist with Caroline Levine

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…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2h

Scott and Jonathan affirm One Battle’s unapologetically leftist perspective as a breath of fresh air within a current political climate of despair–a feeling emblematized by films such as Ari Aster’s Eddington.

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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Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social · 7h

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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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 13h

"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.

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

Our cohosts speculate about the meaning of One Battle's rich aesthetic choices, including the mobile telephoto lenses that transform a conventional car chase into a dizzying allegory of an American culture unclear about its driving motivations and aims.

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

Don't be a bottleneck!

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 · 14h

One Battle After Another, 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

Our conversation centers on One Battle's contribution to popular political cinema under the authoritarian violence of the second Trump administration.

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

✨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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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 20h

“‘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 · 19h

This is the full piece I referenced in my post

From @moneyontheleft.bsky.social

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 19h

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 19h

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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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 22h

Drawing parallels with right wing attacks on contemporary drag performance and ballroom traditions, Will Beaman discusses Bakhtin’s analysis of the Medieval carnival humor, its manifestation in Renaissance literature, and its unique aesthetics of what he terms “grotesque realism.”

Mikhail Bakhtin Pt. 1 – Carnival Laughter & Grotesque Realism

Will Beaman (@agoingaccount) inaugurates the first of a lecture series on the work and ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin. Drawing parallels with right wing attacks on contemporary drag performance and ballr…

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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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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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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 1d

And also aesthetically:

note that the first image (national debt) is a clock. What is it counting towards? The apocalypse? The day we run out of society?

The savings calculator is NOT a coercive timer. It reflects necessary and essential costs (as savings for us!) on a timetable set by human need.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 1d

Compare

1. Debt from the perspective of bondholders, banks and government

2. Credit and savings from the perspective of the rest of us

…Even though these describe the same phenomena. Why should life as a cost to society (or to the gods??) supersede life as a gift? It’s a cruel accounting gimmick.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 1d

A Tale of Two Calculators

(Credit to @ericthor.com for making the Mamdani Savings Calculator)

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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.

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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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