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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28m

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 39m

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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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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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 6h

keep thinking about the downstream damage of vandalising this sector. there are so many jobs directly and tangentially tied to making a university (town) run

Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 5d

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

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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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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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 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 · 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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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

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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videotroph @videotroph.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 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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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 18h

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

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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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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.bsky.social · 19h

Everything you've made for both NY WFP and Zohran's campaign this cycle has been beautiful and visually intuitive. 🙏

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Philip Leff @philipleff.bsky.social · 20h

Thrilled to see my latest work for @nywfp.bsky.social out in the world.

Visit wfp.info for a great summary of the whats and whys of Fusion Voting in NYC, and be sure to vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on ROW D!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22h

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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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

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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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

repealing the right to culture

NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 1d

The cuts at the National Endowment for the Humanities go far deeper than any of these agencies - almost 70% of 179 people were terminated, despite no change to the agency's budget.

There were no savings here - only idealogical destruction. #NEH

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

How much smaller the federal workforce is now vs. a year ago
Ed Dept 42%
OPM 33%
HUD 31%
Treasury 29%
Defense (civilian jobs) 22%
Small Biz Admin 21%
Energy 20%
Interior 15%
HHS 14%
SSA 11%
EPA 10%
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

We recorded this last Wednesday, and remarked on how much would probably change before it's up since there are like a dozen new horrible things every day now.

In the time since then, Border Patrol tear gassed several neighborhoods—and shot a woman:

Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 1d

New It Could Happen Here

Mia talks with Unraveled’s Raven about ICE’s horrific raids in Chicago from a traffic stop murder to helicopter apartment raids.

@miawong.bsky.social @unraveledpress.com

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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.

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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

"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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