I must read this!

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The choice of “impact” to describe the neoliberal fixation on metricizing what used to be called “prestige” so it can be preserved is very telling.

Zohran’s #ZcavengerHunt was a Rehearsal

“The assumption that only billionaires or suburban taxpayers can provision democracy has become so entrenched that it is easier to imagine acquiescing to authoritarianism than bypassing this veto.” Hard, but accurate diagnosis of ideological stagnation of establishment Dems & even some Social Dems

This is very good.

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

The translation between neoliberal and fascist rhetorics gets lost in the binary question of which one he is.

Trumpism works by staging continuity and rupture with neoliberalism at once. He’s not beholden to special interests because his private wealth makes him unaccountable generally. And by supporting him, you can be unbeholden (unaccountable) too. It works bc it circulates as neoliberalism AND fascism

Don't be a bottleneck!

How the Zetro Card Can Save NYC (Really)

universities ARE healthcare! Skeleton Crews at Academic Medical Centers the dangerous results of bare bones funding a HALLOWEEN HELU event! Weds Oct 29 higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/23/o...

7 Minutes Against the CFA Franc

another cool podcast @moneyontheleft.bsky.social Superstructure is a MMT podcast for critical theory, media culture & aesthetics that are committed to unconditional inclusion and intersectional politics.

Aretha Franklin week continued in pop transcription class today and the kids were INTO IT. My goal is to identify some specific Aretha-isms in terms of melody, harmony, time and timbre, and put into words at least some of what makes her sound so excellent.

Check out some of our classic Superstructure episodes, especially if you haven't had the pleasure.

Yes, but this is only half of the story. The full ideological matrix here is that voters both adore Trump's transgressive mendacity as a power flex & simultaneously "do not believe anything he says."

"[Trump's] sabotage of institutions works not only through brute force, but through the learned helplessness that neoliberal governance has drilled into liberals and even leftists for decades."

Money on the Left speaks with Pavlina Tcherneva, Professor of Economics at Bard College and leading scholar of–-and advocate for—Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).

Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism should be of interest to readers of economics, law, and public policy, as well as those in international and development studies or anyone seeking to explore progressive alternatives in this period of multiple crises. moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/01/l...

Women in the Federal Arts Project with Lauren Arrington

When is bankruptcy moral?

Attack of the Doges

"...so many continue to bow before private money’s veto even as it is unmasked as blackmail and collusion. The task is to cultivate and extend the democratic reflex wherever it appears, multiplying its legibility, and provisioning the health of our democracy..."

National Dems SHOULD be weighing in on local races and vice versa. Why be stingy? Is coalition scarce? The issue with the “bend the knee” stuff is it’s part of a neoliberal (and now Trumpian) dynamic that prevents co-governance and coalition politics from working at all.

Don't be a bottleneck

One of the most exciting things about Mamdani is the proliferation of *qualified endorsements* between liberals and progressives, rather than the usual withholding. Coalitions need working channels of translation and qualified endorsement between factions. Leave the loyalty stuff to MAGA.

I try to maintain healthy skepticism about the metrics, but stuff like this boggles my mind. I know I'm still making a niche academic humanities podcast, because I live that everyday. But, y'know, maybe the academic humanities aren't as niche as we've been lead to believe.

Less being-toward-death, more death-toward-being

If blue states and cities had a peacetime bond drive to outlast this administration, that “debt” could be purchased by a progressive administration too. Same with complementary currencies of all kind. Whether it’s money or debt is politics, not economics.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Man Brooklyn College is a gem. Imagine if NYC invested in CUNY fr fr?

By the way this is same dynamic that keeps the radical left committed to sound finance and obviously rigged “tax the rich” policy showdowns instead of applying MMT, complementary currencies, bond drives, etc. moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/28/i...

It is actually the same as Trump—better to maximize relative power over a shattered population than to govern in coalition. Trump can do this to the whole country because Dems have been doing this to their base for decades.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

"That is all that endogenous money really is: the courage to issue it, met by a public capacity that has already rehearsed its legitimacy."

Wide spread understanding of money as a public utility not a finite zero sum fight with billionaires.

"Over 70% of Americans Jews oppose Trump's weaponizing of anti Semitism by attacking and defunding universities, according to a new poll" www.latimes.com/california/s...

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This episode presents Part 1 of the workshop. The first panel is titled “What is Public Money?” (Delman Coates, Scott Ferguson & Benjamin Wilson.) The second asks: “What is the Uni Currency Proposal?” (Scott Ferguson & Benjamin Wilson).

"This is not fiscal realism. It is self-inflicted austerity, the result of imagining sabotage itself as an inescapable condition of democratic life."

Don't be a bottleneck.

That is all that endogenous money really is: the courage to issue it, met by a public capacity that has already rehearsed its legitimacy. moneyontheleft.org/2025/09/18/t...