Pritzker and Democrat governors need to authorize their law enforcement to hold ICE accountable for unlawful use of force. They absolutely have the right. How much more terror do people have to experience at the hands of Trump's Gestapo?

"[M]ultiple crediting operations can drive a planned, gradual expansion of the public sector, a revaluation of different kinds of work, a mobilization of human capacities, and a pedagogical process."

Mamdani should issue Blue Bonds if for no other reason than making billionaires spin out when they realize democracy can go on without them moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...

In our non-DEI meritocracy, Larry Ellison's son bought CBS so that Bari Weiss could then put her sister on air.

"Make Blue states outdo each other. Blue Bonds should catalyse a 'race to the top,' wherein states support communities with ample public resources and amenities, while attracting new residents with the promise of a better life."

"The aim is insulation from crisis bargaining: threats of shutdown, impoundment and legislative slow-walking lose their leverage when public payments continue uninterrupted."

The Paradox of Political Thrift

"The psychological is not 'just as real' as the material. It is staged as material across institutions."

"The core of [Neoliberal Public Finance] is a legal hierarchy that prioritizes private financial institutions over public bodies, especially at the state and municipal levels."

Sometimes I’ll be thinking about public institutions creating money to coordinate production and activate latent public capacities, and then I remember capitalism. It’s like forgetting God exists. So embarrassing

Money is a public citation infrastructure. It's not a claim to sameness or commensurability per se, any more than a name or role is an essence. In fact it's because money—as a public good—is non-identical to the world it coordinates that it can reveal and support interdependence in expansive ways.

Everyone read Emma Holten s book "Deficit"

The Paradox of Political Thrift

"Public investment, viewed as deficit spending from the standpoint of the cautious investor, was in fact surplus creation for the public as a whole."

"[W]hen we allow the appearance of money scarcity to persist, current human capacities and biophysical resources can appear secondary to money’s availability, and potentially redundant."

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

👀 “For the present political moment, such a reading re-credits the recent historical archive, stages usable contradiction in the present, and opens a near-future move: a democratic bond drive built from today’s coalition habits.” moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/11/c...

I’ve appreciated all the articles in this exchange (except Ezra Klein’s), but I think this response to Táíwò’s essay fails to make an important distinction between Trumpian shamelessness and unaccountability—a desire rehearsed before Trump since the Tea Party—and an equally rehearsed desire…

"Words and the concepts they express have complex histories and any account of sovereignty must attend to the history of the term itself."

"Call the present moment of democratic weakness and collaboration a paradox of political thrift. The hoarding of endorsements—treated as a form of scarce political capital rather than a renewable public surplus—has steadily weakened the immune system of democratic politics."

"[E]ven within MMT, the picture is more complicated than is suggested by the T-account’s clean offsetting lines."

"[Democratic Public Finance] discloses previously invisible possibilities for communal well-being and denaturalizes the impoverished suppositions that legitimize fiscal obstruction by establishment liberals, conservatives, and right-wing demagogues alike."

Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!

Open fiscal sabotage. It’s not *if* Democrats will issue bonds and repeal balanced budget amendments to stay alive; it’s *when*. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples? HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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.

Also, since the Fascists have seized our national currency, we should create fiscal insurgencies everywhere bsky.app/profile/mone...

"If money is the ongoing process of issuing and deleting credits, it cannot be solely understood as an inert quantity that reflects past accomplishments. Money cannot be something we need to hoard to create a livable future. And it certainly cannot be scarce unless we make it so."

Healthcare, childcare, care for elders and disabled people. Guaranteed jobs, incomes, homes. Mass transit. Green energy. We were taught we can't afford to provide these to everyone. But somehow we've known that's false. Let us now unlearn the old neoliberal ways by learning how to provide for all.

how to make money serve the people

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Read @moneyontheleft.bsky.social's "applied primer" to heterodox economics as a flexible policy framework! We are used to hearing about Modern Monetary Theory as an inert list of axioms about federal finance, with limited relevance to anything else. This document pushes further. 1/

"[S]ave your endorsements, save your reputation, spend only on the safe bet. The result, as Keynes would have predicted, is contraction. Each act of withholding tightens the circle until only the most loyal remain, and loyalty replaces shared responsibility as an inflexible medium of governance."

"The dialogic course moves differently. It neither compresses contradiction into a single resolving line nor dissolves it into fragments. It holds tension so people who disagree can still act together."

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail. We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

"Don’t tell us another New York City is not possible — we are already winning it." - tenant organizer Dorca Reynoso

The whole rally was incredible - IMMACULATE vibe, wildly exciting. But I especially loved Chi Ossé’s speech, because it looked toward a future where we do the work after we win.

David Pakman is on this list of influencers who accept dark money to have their talking points written and sent to them by the DNC, which also has a veto over what they can say. www.wired.com/story/dark-m...

In New York, 2026 will be a year in which cities lead the way. The new mayors of NYC, Albany, and Syracuse will wield their governing power to fight fascism at the federal level and neoliberal austerity at the state. Zohran will do this in NYC. In Syracuse, it will be Sharon Owens.

This is the culmination of the last like 10 things I wrote so definitely read it please

Another tour-de-force piece by our own @greenbackbetter.bsky.social. Come for what Will calls the "paradox of political thrift" & the "new finance franchise." Stay for the incisive historical analysis of the past 20 years of U.S. political campaigns.

✨New Essay!✨ In this wide-ranging piece, @greenbackbetter.bsky.social reads “political capital” as coordinative credit, rather than backward-looking debt. From here, he outlines a new “finance franchise” in which publics extend polyvocal capacities to political leaders. Please read👩‍💻 & share! 🙌

My latest for @moneyontheleft.bsky.social ✨✨✨ From paradoxes of political thrift to theorizing a new “Finance Franchise,” based not on legal sovereignty but on rehearsed public capacities. Please read and share if you like it! 🙏

*Walks up to the bar* Beer no ice.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

It’s now routine for pundits to ask Mamdani, Pritzker etc. if they are afraid Trump will arrest them, kill them, etc. And somehow it doesn’t disrupt the horse race bit—they ask it like it’s a government shutdown or poll numbers.

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.

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.