A group of current employees and two new partners completed the purchase on Thursday afternoon.

Rob Hawkes argues that Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) & Galsworthy’s The Man of Property (1906) foreground, interrogate and enact questions of trust, both in their engagements with & departures from literary realism/naturalism & in their preoccupations with the value & power of money.

"Why can commercial banks legally create money but not local councils or NHS trusts?" 🤔

"[I]t’s strange to us the idea of abolishing all the debts feels like less of a heavy lift than reclassifying the debts as assets or then repurposing debt .... as obligations that have coordinative capacities." moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...

"[W]e need to expand the public’s financial toolkit beyond traditional loans to include grants."

"[W]hatever it is that you consider baseline or everyday communism has an institutional scaffold." moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...

Trump starving sanctuary cities of funds? A powerful fiscal counter-strategy stands ready for deployment: a bond drive for democracy. moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...

Countering scholars in the environmental humanities who embrace only modest gestures of care, Levine argues that large-scale, practical environmental activism should be integral to humanists’ work. moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...

Write about repo operations without a poetics of sublimity challenge

Decouple design from technocracy and reclaim it for democracy. It’s insane that Americans worship the “framers” of the Constitution but design is not in our political vocabulary. In fact on the left you’re accused of idealism or naïveté, as if design is downstream from strategy and not its terrain.

Just insane. The details aren't clear yet, but it would seem that, even aside from the racism and malice, the labor implications for the US are off the wall

With a blue bond drive states could have full employment caring economies and starve ICE and DHS of their already meager workforce

Wouldn’t it be great for states to actually DO things and employ people against the Trump admin’s wishes, rather than try to out-austerity the only level of government that has an established culture of spending more than it gets back in tax revenue?

Kudos to @insidehighered.com for giving @bakerdphd.bsky.social a column. I couldn’t be more excited for what’s she’s choosing to do with it. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

New transcript!

“How can we empower local governments and universities to prioritise ecosocial justice and sustainability by redesigning money creation, underscoring their roles as allocators of public credit?”

Just a heads up for new followers: I totally understand, and accept, that online culture is mostly one of commentary. But personally I'm interested in posts showing things that individuals and organizations are doing—and in upcoming actions that people are inviting others to join. 🙏

lots of political space to convert those “not sures” into somewhat supports and those “somewhat supports” into strongly supports on eliminating ICE. also, with a funding battle coming up, plenty of political space to say “no government funding unless we claw back last year’s new ICE funding”

I find this photo of a dozing MLK particularly mesmerizing, he was so young

We've been calling the "stalking horse" idea "duck rabbit" problems, but it's the same thing. moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/13/b...

wow this blew up relative to me being nobody, so please read and share @moneyontheleft.bsky.social 's proposal for a national bond drive to fight fascism (what we call Blue Bonds) that follows the same stalking horse political logic: moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...

If something circulate with multiple meanings (spoiler: that’s how language works) then the relevant question is whether the board is set up for that to go our way

This stalking horse idea is key and the left has trouble with it because it treats polyvalence as evidence of capture as a foregone conclusion rather than a (potentially favorable) terrain to fight on

This is a really well-argued piece about the politics of guaranteed employment in India & what it means that the government is now terminating the program. Curiously, the conservative governmental position here aligns with those on the left who support "public works" but not a Job Guarantee.

Trump's "mastermind" Vought is stymied once again in his yearlong crusade to protect corporations and screw over consumers by shutting down the CFPB. Despite his best efforts to bankrupt the CFPB, today he officially complied w/ a court order to keep it funded. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69624...

11 months after Elon tweeted “CFPB RIP.” Aging about as well as his promises of Tesla robotaxis and colonizing Mars.

Floridians! Mail-in ballots have to be requested every year now. It's not too early to check your voter registration. Or to encourage you neighbors and friends to check as well! 🔄

It's excellent.

It's important to know who's doing the work. So know that when it comes to putting together @handsoffnyc.bsky.social: If there's one person most responsible among the many for organizing Hands Off NYC, it is @haelinchoi.bsky.social 👏

One of the great developments within DSA is the resurgence of what many of us call a "mass politics"-based orientation. Among other things, this orientation is what led NYC-DSA to support Z's run for mayor and has recently led DSA Nat to join with other orgs in the broad united front for democracy.

"Power is influence created through interdependence." - Marshall Ganz

This episode of @mattseybold.bsky.social's American Vandal pod couldn't be more urgent. It features an inspiring UIC roundtable about labor organizing in higher ed. Plus, the very act of broadcasting the convo opens possibilities for learning & cooperating across campuses. Highly recommend!

We love to see it.

Turns out, the politics of employment is never a zero-sum game.

NYC in 2026: Left + Labor = clairevaldezforcongress.com

Did you know that Queens could generate not just one or two but ✨THREE✨ reps in Congress who'd fight to abolish ICE and BlockTheBombs.org? In addition to AOC in NY-14 and hopefully Claire Valdez in NY-07, the Left could have an ally via chuckforqueens.com in NY-06. That's why I'm supporting Chuck.

misconception that universities are privileged places; the few elite schools represented in elite media, sure, but 20 million people are in college+working+indebted while doing so; over 25% of UAW are academic workers, many in poverty and job insecurity; universities are healthcare; janitors, clerks

“Wokeness is hard to define because it’s an incoherent concept” yeah no shit because columnists like you are distorting and projecting it onto Black communities It’s like saying “I believe in equality but that Jim Crow dance oh man”

New tone

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Should be a great event!

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

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