The world is suddenly not zero-sum only when it serves billionaires, “Pareto optimality,” or “trickle down” neoliberalism.

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.

The country isn’t big enough for both 5 year olds apparently

I can’t even begin to imagine how they argue against this plain historical fact

I miss when we were all Keynesians now

Ross (Steve Urkel voice) “Did I” Douthat??!

"What is to be done? What can be done?"

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.

I'm an AOC 2028 early booster but primarying this moron would be the most cathartic thing in the world

project 2028??? i'll kill you

The "reaction to wokeness" was 50 fucking years in the making, it's not a reaction it's a project

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.”

To our recent followers: if you are new to MotL & not sure what we're all about, then we recommend starting here.👇

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!

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!

✨ 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

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...

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...

Accounting Identities or Accounting Analogies?

Carl Schmitt particles are off the chart here

"When misogyny becomes a political identity, women’s safety cannot be separated from the ideological climate that licenses contempt."

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.

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

Fuck Schumer

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

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

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...

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.

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.

The fucking NERVE and projection to talk about a “Carney Doctrine” right now

“Local police are in collusion with far left agitators” is the kind of shit you say when your authoritarian regime is doing great

From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis

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...

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.

If the GOP was literally controlling the Democratic Party it’s hard to think of what would even be different

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

Years of practice genuflecting to unreformable police really prepared them for this moment

Why is every media outlet calling it a "Nobel prize snub" like there was a case to be made for it

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.

“women’s safety is not only about what happens to women, it is also about what a society believes women are for”

Graeber’s Utopia of Refusal moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...

"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."

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.'"

"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."

📣 New @moneyontheleft.bsky.social 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...

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!

New from @shikhaislate.bsky.social in @moneyontheleft.bsky.social !!!!

✨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! 👩‍💻 🙌

Once again sharing this with you, @governorwalz.mn.gov @ltgovflanagan.mn.gov 👇🏻