Will Beaman
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Will Beaman (he/him) on Zoom
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Yes I did a parenthetical citation, this is BlueSky
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Scott Ferguson
about 14 hours ago
The world is suddenly not zero-sum only when it serves billionaires, “Pareto optimality,” or “trickle down” neoliberalism.
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The Left has never reckoned with the full implications of functional finance and as a result we STILL talk about available jobs and resources as a finite or natural number rather than a provisioning process that can be dilated to any qualitative shape and size.
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The country isn’t big enough for both 5 year olds apparently
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about 15 hours ago
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I can’t even begin to imagine how they argue against this plain historical fact
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4 days ago
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I miss when we were all Keynesians now
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Jesse
4 days ago
Ross (Steve Urkel voice) “Did I” Douthat??!
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Money on the Left
5 days ago
"What is to be done? What can be done?"
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Pluralistic: Blue Bonds (04 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/fiscal-antifa/#post-trump
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Rob Hawkes
5 days ago
NB: The UK govt owns the Student Loans Company, via which it directly funds most home students’ university places. Framing graduates as indebted to this ‘company’ for the rest of their working lives is an accounting trick that both punishes the pursuit of education and undermines its public value.
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I'm an AOC 2028 early booster but primarying this moron would be the most cathartic thing in the world
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project 2028??? i'll kill you
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6 days ago
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The "reaction to wokeness" was 50 fucking years in the making, it's not a reaction it's a project
6 days ago
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There are very important movement critiques of extractive media forms unaccountable representation. But these can also be elevated to an epistemology that represses mediation: “Reality is here (where I am). Real politics is here (in my channels). Anything mediated, scaled or discursive is suspect.”
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Money on the Left
6 days ago
To our recent followers: if you are new to MotL & not sure what we're all about, then we recommend starting here.👇
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Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City
Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/democratic-public-finance-a-radical-vision-for-mamdanis-new-york-city/
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Tyler Creighton
7 days ago
Enjoyed my first ever long-form podcast conversation (I know, late to the game) with
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
about my union’s heroic efforts to keep the CFPB alive. Check it out!
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CFPB Union
7 days ago
In
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
's latest episode, one of our members discuses our ongoing struggle to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from defunding and closure at the hands of Russell Vought and Donald Trump. Check it out!
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Defending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Tyler Creighton
In this episode, we speak with Tyler Creighton about the ongoing struggle to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from defunding and closure at the hands of Russell Vought in the se…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/02/01/defending-the-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-with-tyler-creighton/
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Money on the Left
8 days ago
✨ MotL 87 is live! ✨ We speak with
@creightt.bsky.social
about
@nteu335.bsky.social
's ongoing struggle to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from defunding & closure by the Trump Administration.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/02/01/d...
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌 *Transcript forthcoming
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Rob Hawkes
9 days ago
Great to see the cover art for this forthcoming volume from
@edinburghup.bsky.social
- my essay on Thomas Pynchon’s 2013 novel Bleeding Edge is chapter 8 and I can’t wait to read the rest of the book when it’s published later this year!
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-dis-tru...
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Antonia Marrero
10 days ago
Ok that was very funny at first read but please note
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
ABD is a mensch & a genius: “When money is treated analogically, it becomes legible as infrastructure rather than destiny.” HT
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
#DemocraticPublicFinance
moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/29/t...
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Touch Grass, Touchscreens, and Public Design
By Will Beaman A small design story from May 2025 has been making the rounds on my newsfeed, about how car manufacturers are re-embracing physical buttons after years of migrating controls onto tou…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/29/touch-grass-touchscreens-and-public-design/
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Money on the Left
10 days ago
Accounting Identities or Accounting Analogies?
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Accounting Identities or Accounting Analogies?
by Will Beaman Most people’s first exposure to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) comes with a gentle promise: It is just accounting. The government’s deficit is the non-government sector’s surplus, by s…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/20/accounting-identities-or-accounting-analogies/
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Carl Schmitt particles are off the chart here
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10 days ago
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Money on the Left
10 days ago
"When misogyny becomes a political identity, women’s safety cannot be separated from the ideological climate that licenses contempt."
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Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Dr. Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/18/women-safety-and-moral-panic-from-private-protection-to-public-responsibility-in-india/
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Bright D Limm 임대중
10 days ago
Monetary design is something that we're used to thinking of as something done by technocrats, not regular people. But just as centuries ago, government rules were made by fiat and now they are decided by representatives, so too with the design of monetary systems can we democratize the whats + hows.
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Fifilaroach
11 days ago
Dems, do you expect Trump to stick to ANY deal? Now they have 2 weeks to kill more people. Schumer, you let us down. Call your senator now! This is the senate switchboard. Ask for your senator’s office. Leave a message. NO DEALS! (202) 224-3121. Reach Chuck here.
schumer.senate.gov
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Home | U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Chuck Schumer of New York
https://schumer.senate.gov
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Fuck Schumer
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11 days ago
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Antonia Marrero
11 days ago
I learned that
@jabaribrisport.bsky.social
used to be a math teacher! I’m giving the esteemed Senator an extra-credit assignment. Senator, please check out
#DemocraticPublicFinance
: HT
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
@videotroph.bsky.social
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
CC
@fucklawns.bsky.social
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Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City
Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/democratic-public-finance-a-radical-vision-for-mamdanis-new-york-city/
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Antonia Marrero
12 days ago
Brother Governor Antonio, Where’s your donate link? TBH I’ve had to delay urgent repairs for my ancient Honda but I’m donating to you ASAP.
#TTR
HT
@bdlimm.bsky.social
PS Please note:
#DemocraticPublicFinance
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
@videotroph.bsky.social
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Beyond Loans: The Public Grant-Making Bank
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Public banking has been gaining traction for years, driven by a growing recognition that our current financial system often fails to serve the public g…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/11/beyond-loans-the-public-grant-making-bank/
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I am once again asking for a national (international even) bond drive for democratic resiliency in our cities. Fund ICE Watch and mutual aid, and start a national call for fiscal agency against Trump’s shakedowns and impoundments.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b...
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A Municipal Debt Boom Is Driving Public Projects and Tax Breaks for Investors
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/business/economy/municipal-debt-market.html
12 days ago
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southpaw
15 days ago
Now that blood is on the street, we still won’t admit you’ve been right all decade long while we scolded and marginalized you. Instead, we’ll declare it’s just now become right to say such things.
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Money on the Left
15 days ago
We honor Graeber’s writings as indispensable for denaturalizing money and obligation and for catalyzing new forms of organizing. However, we also argue that some of Graeber’s basic assumptions about money and public provisioning limit what the left can imagine and accomplish.
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The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by Will Beaman & Scott Ferguson Note: David Graeber leaves behind a rich and complex body of work that remains influential for leftist thought and practice. Since his passing in 2020, however, …
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/29/the-utopia-of-refusal-david-graeber-debt-the-left-monetary-imagination/
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The fucking NERVE and projection to talk about a “Carney Doctrine” right now
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15 days ago
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“Local police are in collusion with far left agitators” is the kind of shit you say when your authoritarian regime is doing great
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Surly Bikes
16 days ago
From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis
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The rest of the world really needs to reflect on how it became so out of touch with Trump voters. Interview some voters in Pennsylvania, read Hillbilly Elegy, learn how to change a police officer’s diaper without causing shame or embarrassment
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | How the United Nations alienates half of America
Trump recently withdrew from more than a dozen international organizations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/21/trump-climate-international-organizations/
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All of this raises the question of when state and local governments, if they really want to protect themselves and their citizens, will entertain funding the resistance infrastructures people are currently building while they work full time jobs. It’s shadow public works.
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17 days ago
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If the GOP was literally controlling the Democratic Party it’s hard to think of what would even be different
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18 days ago
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Greg Sargent
18 days ago
The new NYT poll finds Trump 17 points underwater on immigration, and the nonwhite and young voters who went to Trump in 2024 have snapped back to Dems It's almost as if 2024 might not have represented a seismic cultural realignment on immigration after all, despite 1,000 NYT op eds to the contrary
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Years of practice genuflecting to unreformable police really prepared them for this moment
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18 days ago
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Why is every media outlet calling it a "Nobel prize snub" like there was a case to be made for it
20 days ago
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Andrea Pitzer
20 days ago
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
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Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss
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Money on the Left
21 days ago
“women’s safety is not only about what happens to women, it is also about what a society believes women are for”
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Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/18/women-safety-and-moral-panic-from-private-protection-to-public-responsibility-in-india/
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Money on the Left
21 days ago
Graeber’s Utopia of Refusal
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21 days ago
"A republic organized around public responsibilities would reverse this logic: it would treat women not as the units being measured but as co-authors of the measures themselves—what safety means, what harm counts, and what institutions are obligated to provide."
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Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/18/women-safety-and-moral-panic-from-private-protection-to-public-responsibility-in-india/
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Money on the Left
22 days ago
Check out our latest 👇 "Women’s safety is easier to politicize when women are not treated as people but as value—as a kind of gold standard for 'culture,' a deliberately narrow measure of womanhood that must be guarded, defended, and kept from 'contamination' or 'theft.'"
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Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/18/women-safety-and-moral-panic-from-private-protection-to-public-responsibility-in-india/
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Money on the Left
22 days ago
"When a political project succeeds in staging its own version of 'Indian tradition' as common sense, economic participation becomes a downstream promise in a world where women’s credibility has already been bargained away."
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Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/18/women-safety-and-moral-panic-from-private-protection-to-public-responsibility-in-india/
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📣 New
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essay from
@shikhaislate.bsky.social
provides a really smart critique of Hindutva rhetoric about women as a national resource to be protected and hoarded that is instructive here in the U.S. as well as there.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/18/w...
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Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/18/women-safety-and-moral-panic-from-private-protection-to-public-responsibility-in-india/
22 days ago
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Scott Ferguson
22 days ago
We just published an important new essay by
@shikhaislate.bsky.social
, who argues that the present Indian obsession with the public protection of women is masking a crisis of private terror, turning women into guarded property rather than genuine citizens with agency. Please read!
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New from
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22 days ago
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22 days ago
✨New Essay!✨
@shikhaislate.bsky.social
interrogates how the Indian state "protects" women through a conservative regime of control, while downplaying the injustices of routine domestic violence. True safety requires treating women as citizens, she argues, not cultural currency. Read & share! 👩💻 🙌
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Women, Safety, and Moral Panic: From Private Protection to Public Responsibility in India
By Shikha Chandarana For decades, women’s safety in India has been treated like a private problem with public consequences: a daughter warned to “come home early,” a student told to “stay alert,” a…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/18/women-safety-and-moral-panic-from-private-protection-to-public-responsibility-in-india/
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Anne
23 days ago
Once again sharing this with you,
@governorwalz.mn.gov
@ltgovflanagan.mn.gov
👇🏻
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