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â¨How Cities Can Evaluate Public Investment Without Bond Markets⨠In neoliberal parlance, âresponsibilityâ means showing that private investors see public investment as credibly profitable for themselves. Alternative evaluative metrics can intervene in this. 1/
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How Cities Can Evaluate Public Investment Without Bond Markets
By Will Beaman A series of recent articles from Money on the Left has argued that cities can sell municipal bonds to their own public banks, reclaiming public finance from private bond markets and âŚ
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/04/03/how-cities-can-evaluate-public-investment-without-bond-markets/
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Great thread, and after Trump thid should lead to a legal-accounting reckoning with how many social capacities are counted only as costs and hollowed out on the reasoning that it will secure financial reproduction. When doing so endangers reproduction writ large.
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There are hugely important critiques of AI, but the capitalist critique that it doesnât generate enough revenue is a dead end. Because what then do we expect from Socialism?
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This is like saying the Confederacy could not be expected to participate in its own dissolution, so therefore the Unionâs political horizon had to preserve the Confederacyâs constitutional order.
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Scott Ferguson
1 day ago
Anyone happen to have a PDF copy of Martha Easton's "The Wound of Christ, the Mouth of Hell: Appropriations and Inversions of Female Anatomy in the Later Middle Ages"?
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The main condition for a democratic socialist takeover of the Democratic Party is preventing the formation of a single anti-left bloc at the decisive moment. It wonât be centrists vs. socialists in a vacuum. It will be that either centrists or socialists will be boxed out of the coalition.
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Her instincts on timing and caution aside (and these obviously matter), AOC wouldnât be doing this if she didnât want to empower politicians to her left.
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Harris is chasing after Mamdani, AOC and Mamdani are endorsing more democratic socialists. Everyone is moving to the left.
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Itâs wild that rebranding colonial partition as a âtwo-state solutionâ has worked for so long in America
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Nathan Goldwag
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I think we should maybe think about the fact that insisting that a state grant citizenship to everyone under its rule, regardless of their race or ethnicity, would be considered destroying it.
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Jason Wilson
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imho it's very very good that the utility of "seniority" as a protective amulet is diminishing
rollcall.com/2026/07/01/d...
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DeGetteâs defeat in Colorado shows the fading clout of seniority
Colorado Democrat Diana DeGette was counting on her decades of experience in Congress to sweep her to victory over her insurgent rival in her deep-blue district. . The 15-term House incumbent pitched ...
https://rollcall.com/2026/07/01/degettes-defeat-in-colorado-shows-the-fading-clout-of-seniority/
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BREAKING: thread in progress
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It happening in front the green reflecting pool would be amazing
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For a country that needs to change everything to move forward we sure do treat the Constitution like Godâs Commandments instead of a living document
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Says the guy who thinks everyone to his left is a Stalinist, and then uses this to muse that fascism would be more appealing than this imaginary Stalinism
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To be clear DSA has nothing to do with Stalinism. But Tom is concerned that if the left keeps provoking Americans theyâll become fascist. And by concern I mean fantasizes.
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Vivek Chibber is Marxism's Jonathan Chait
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Jacobin Magazine is a model for how you move from reified scarcity to nativism and fascism while calling yourself a socialist the whole time. TRASH
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Infrastructure and political culture are PROVISIONED CAPACITIES. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PUBLIC CAPACITIES.
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Ultimately we need a constitutional amendment allowing subnational governments to create money like the federal government does.
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Though this country's mythology is all about the genius of our Constitution and Amendements, it is taboo to talk about e.g. amending the constitution further as a political goal, even in a national crisis. Institutional design is invoked as patriotic in order to take it off table for everyone.
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Start with a diverse working class, cook it down to just the reactionary parts, and youâve got yourself a delicious class reduction.
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The thing about Jacobin is theyâve always been kinda fashy
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Fascism: The Political Logic of Late Centrism
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Anna Kornbluh
3 days ago
go go go cultural work is work
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Anna O. Law
4 days ago
Wrong take. Pack. the. Court.
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The Colorado-New York axis of socialism must be contained in the Colorado-New York area and not be allowed to spread outside that small bubble
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Democratic Socialists of America
3 days ago
Another Democratic Socialist is going to Congress! Congratulations to DSA member
@melatkirosco.bsky.social
! Congresswoman Kiros will take the fight for a better world to D.C: to Abolish ICE, free Palestine, and win Universal Childcare and Medicare for All.
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Noah Berlatsky
4 days ago
so does gavin newsom it's the same dynamic. they amplify white supremacists because they think white supremacy is uniquely important, interesting, and validating.
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Marisa Kabas
3 days ago
and they said it couldnât be replicated outside new york đ
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3 days ago
@videotroph.bsky.social
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
and I think weâre doing something cool.
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Listen below âŹď¸ Or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
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In the Loop: Revolutionizing Public Finance, Ep. 1
The Money on the Left Collective is proud to launch its new podcast series, In the Loop: Revolutionizing Public Finance, hosted by Scott Ferguson, Tyler Suksawat, and Will Beaman. In this debuâŚ
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/13/in-the-loop-revolutionizing-public-finance-ep-1/
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Another preview of Ep.1 for the âIn the Loopâ podcast from
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
. Want the loop as a sound bite? Here it is, but you should probably give a listen to the entire episode. We expect to release episode 2 this week. In which we dive into the Seattle Loop and its initiatives.
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onion person
3 days ago
another radical DSA candidate easily winning
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Not to be cringe and mawkish but it really is so cool to see women of color leftists and progressives winning local elections all over the country
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Taniel
3 days ago
A downballot result: In the highest-profile Democratic primary for Colorado's state Senate, the progressive side has easily prevailed. Chela Garcia Irlando, an environmental advocate, has won over AndrĂŠs Carrera, a former staffer for Governor Jared Polis.
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Kyle Clark
3 days ago
Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros extends her lead to 4.5% over Democratic Rep Diana DeGette. Goodnight, folks.
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Dylan Flesch
3 days ago
Mamdani promised 0.5% of the total city expense budget would be allocated to our public libraries and he promised 1% would go to our public parks. The Adopted budget dropped today and libraries only got 0.43% ($91 million short of his promise). Parks only got 0.56% ($549.5 million short).
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Kiros won. It's over. Dem freakout all over again LFG
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HOLY SHIT
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Kiros is winning đ¤
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Colorado primary election results: Melat Kiros leads Dianne DeGette in congressional race; Phil Weiser leads Michael Bennet for governor
Here are the early, unofficial results as of 7 p.m. ⢠In the governorâs race, Phil Weiser, the current attorney general, is leading U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in the Democratic primary, while Barbara Ki...
https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/06/30/colorado-primary-election-results-melat-kiros-leads-dianne-degette-in-congressional-race-phil-weiser-leads-michael-bennet-for-governor/
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#StupidSuez
3 days ago
What I respect most is courage but it is in short supply and only a handful had it in 2023 and 2024. Sucks but it is what it is. Second thing I respect is people just doing what I want regardless of the underlying motive.
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Contrary to what some people still insist on saying, this is in fact meaningfully different from what her position was just one year ago where she tried to split the baby on the idea of "offensive" v "defensive". I happen to think this is a great evolution and this amendment adds credibility to it.
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
That's why universities need Loops of their own.
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What would it mean to redesign asset recognition/categorization itself around the reproduction of social capacities?
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I know "reactionary centrism" is the phrase, but I like "late centrism"
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The endgame of Third Way politics is âI oppose fascism, but fascism will become inevitable unless the left stops provoking ordinary people.â And then just fascism
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Bright D Limm ěëě¤
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Imagine a government whose duty to meet all of its residents' needs legally overrides its obligations to creditors. It would be a society in which austerity for the many has been abolished. To achieve this, we must reconstruct public finance.
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
helps us imagine how.
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Sharon
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it really is fascinating how immigration increasingly seems like what the 21st century church splinters over
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Iâm already door-knocking for not them
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diärrheä diäriÍs
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Imagine ONE member of your family, more likely than not a breadwinner, just disappears. A child just disappears. The parent resurfaces as a corpse. The child resurfaces pregnant. This is your nation. These are your institutions. Every day, the past is demolished, a family is broken and a future dies
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