Cost is an accounting construction. Because participation in society is more complex than giving or receiving. You’re impacted and you have an impact—whoever you are. Cost and contribution selectively stylize participation. A distorting lens for urgent and complex questions of equity/justice.

Did a quick Q&A about the imminent closure of my hometown newspaper for the @us.theconversation.com

Hypothesis: If money is a designed human construct, then we can design experiments that test various design elements to yield alternative outcomes.

pod praxis

Starting to think Trump doesn’t have a plan besides this and the BLM protest dynamic is resetting with ICE 10x more politically disastrous to defend than police departments were

Another reason it’s important to fight for state and local level jobs programs. Creating good employment starves the capacity for occupations even more.

"[N]aming is everything. What we name things is how we value them. We name them as valuable. And that naming, monetary and legal, is the driving force by which we get the labor and create these things."

All the Democratic leaders, pundits and strategists who have tried to bury BLM and distance themselves from "wokeness"... look where we are now. Look who was right. Politically, morally, strategically, look who was right.

It looks like Tim Walz is not playing. "I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard… these National Guard troops are our National Guard troops. Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight."

How can novels help us think about money … and maybe even save the planet?

New York's organized Left is united statewide around this agenda for 2026: • Tax the rich to fund universal childcare • Homes and healthcare all of us can afford • Pass #NY4All to stop cooperating with ICE If you're in New York, know that Governor Hochul is the main obstacle to passing all three.

Our first ad of 2026! Because politics stuck in 2006 won't meet the moment. It's time to stand up to ICE, white supremacists, and the billionaire oligarchy.

Will Beaman joins Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson to discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York City. moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...

Make grants, not loans ☮️ 🌼

If you consider yourself an ally of consumer financial protection, ask yourself if you want to live in a world where a story like this can just skip mention of the CFPB. We need to demmand that Congress impeach Vought and restore CFPB funding. #stopvought #savecfpb

NEW: Socialist tenant organizer Samantha Kattan hopes to succeed DSA-backed Assembly Member Claire Valdez, who's expected to run for Congress: www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Florida Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka has refiled a bill that, if passed, would: 1) make it easier for the the state to decertify public sector unions 2) increase fines for public sector strikes 3) eliminate the option of seeking voluntary union recognition from a public employer

February 8, 2025: CFPB Union NTEU 335 members protest after the new Administration locks us out of CFPB hq and orders us to cease work.

University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference The State of the Unions Keynotes: Sianne Ngai, Anna Kornbluh -How have unions+ labor itself, been the subject of - or been eliminated from - literary studies, literary texts, pop culture? call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/...

The lie of finite private money

Public design is too important a generational project for the left to cede to neoliberal technocrats. moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/29/t...

This is as good as a time to spread the word about substance of policy Frameworks that are being developed by some very smart people. Many neoliberal policy wonks promoted the myth that they had a monopoly on policy expertise.Policy design is too important to be left to modelers on corporate rolls.

Looking forward to hearing the same about toy guns

First Mamdani. Now Maduro. Can New York City handle this much communism in one city?

States need to reclaim agency and govern in coordination against this tyrannical administration moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...

Will and Scott find that the Graeberian framework on debt funnels political attention and action toward periodic acts of cancellation or refusal to the exclusion of other radical democratic alternatives. moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...

And not Netanyahu

I see they didn’t go with “Socially Necessary Graeber Time” as the title which is a shame. Still have a listen to accompany this piece!!! @moneyontheleft.bsky.social @videotroph.bsky.social

While Graeber’s work has been indispensable to left organization and advocacy since before Occupy, what’s needed now is a framework for mobilizing, rather than refusing to engage, the considerable fiscal agency already at hand at all levels of governance. moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...

✨MotL 86 is live!✨ moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g... In this episode, we discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of NY City. Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌

We’re kicking off the new year by discussing our recent writing about David Graeber. “What’s needed now,” we argue, “is a framework for mobilizing, rather than refusing to engage, the considerable fiscal agency already at hand at all levels of governance.”

Opinion | Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to govern as a Democratic socialist is a betrayal of the New Yorkers who didn’t vote for him but have thus far not moved to Florida out of spite.

Excited for historical discourse on Tammany Hall when centrists start deploying it to describe five municipal grocery stores

"I went straight to the CFPB and I was navigated there to their consumer education tab where I was able to find out how to deal with fraud and scams. It gave me all the information I needed to know...my rights" -- Morgan Smith, consumer. #stopvought #savecfpb www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Leftists shouldn't have clothes. If Rama wants to be warm, she should skin an animal and wear its hide.

Current law limits how much NYC may borrow by the valuation of its taxable real estate. But imagine a city debt limit based on additional forms of value: the daily mutual-aid work by millions; organizing infrastructure. Imagine having laws that recognize + valuate these forms of collective wealth!

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if i were to ever have the privilege of being sworn in to an office, i would choose a copy of Black Reconstruction

"Nine days before the election, Mamdani shared a stage with Hochul and the top legislative Democrats at a massive campaign rally in Forest Hills, Queens. [...] And then they walked on stage to a 10,000-strong crowd chanting 'tax the rich.'" bsky.app/profile/bdli...

MTV signs off the air in 2025 with the song they debuted with, The Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star" It's a sad day to see MTV officially ending its 44-year broadcast run.

Let’s do this.

The Challenge of Reporting on Trump (Parody) By Gideon Fairchild moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/30/t... @moneyontheleft.bsky.social

“Trump is immune to sustained negative press coverage, making it irresponsible to subject him to sustained negative press coverage.” 🤔

one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers

One of the interventions I'm trying to make here and throughout my work is that problems facing our media today exceed that of ownership concentration--as truly dire of a problem that is. We must confront the capitalist logics that permeate every aspect of our information and communication systems.

Loving this sign in Lima.