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Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
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A group of current employees and two new partners completed the purchase on Thursday afternoon.
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Creative Loafing Tampa Bay has been sold, and is locally-owned for the first time since 2009
A vintage Creative Loafing Tampa Bay stand in April 2020. For the first time in 18 years, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay is locally-owned. On Thursday
https://www.cltampa.com/news/creative-loafing-tampa-bay-has-been-sold-and-is-locally-owned-for-the-first-time-since-2009/
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Money on the Left
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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.
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The Descent of Money w/ Rob Hawkes
The Descent of Money: Literature, Inheritance, and Trust in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) and John Galsworthy’s The Man of Property (1906) Rob Hawkes’ paper argues t…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2022/12/08/the-descent-of-money-w-rob-hawkes/
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Money on the Left
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"Why can commercial banks legally create money but not local councils or NHS trusts?" 🤔
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Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance
by Rob Hawkes The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensio…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/20/zack-polanskis-bold-politics-requires-an-even-bolder-economic-vision-the-case-for-democratic-public-finance/
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Money on the Left
about 2 hours ago
"[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."
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Money on the Left
about 2 hours ago
"[W]e need to expand the public’s financial toolkit beyond traditional loans to include grants."
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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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Money on the Left
about 11 hours ago
"[W]hatever it is that you consider baseline or everyday communism has an institutional scaffold."
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Money on the Left
about 11 hours ago
Trump starving sanctuary cities of funds? A powerful fiscal counter-strategy stands ready for deployment: a bond drive for democracy.
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Money on the Left
about 11 hours ago
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.
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Write about repo operations without a poetics of sublimity challenge
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The Fed Is Quietly Bailing Out Wall Street
The Federal Reserve has quietly delivered nearly half a trillion dollars to Wall Street with few strings attached over the past few months. These cash infusions could signal instability in the broader...
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/federal-reserve-wall-street-bail-out
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Will Beaman
1 day ago
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.
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Amanda Katz
1 day ago
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
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Will Beaman
2 days ago
With a blue bond drive states could have full employment caring economies and starve ICE and DHS of their already meager workforce
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Will Beaman
2 days ago
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?
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Matt Seybold
2 days ago
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.
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New transcript!
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
“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?”
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Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance
by Rob Hawkes The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensio…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/20/zack-polanskis-bold-politics-requires-an-even-bolder-economic-vision-the-case-for-democratic-public-finance/
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Bright D Limm 임대중
3 days ago
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. 🙏
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Yvonne Lam
3 days ago
@andrewwyld.bsky.social
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jamelle
3 days ago
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”
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤
3 days ago
I find this photo of a dozing MLK particularly mesmerizing, he was so young
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Will Beaman
3 days ago
We've been calling the "stalking horse" idea "duck rabbit" problems, but it's the same thing.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/13/b...
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Blue Bonds: Duck or Rabbit?
Chronicle of a Summer by Will Beaman We are living through a strange reversal of the monetary story many of us have spent the last decade telling. Modern Monetary Theory helped a broader public see…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/13/blue-bonds-duck-or-rabbit/
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Will Beaman
3 days ago
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...
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Blue Bonds: A Fiscal Strategy for Overcoming Trump 2.0
By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective The Trump Administration has plunged the United States into a constitutional crisis. The President’s destructive executive orders and Elon Musk’s…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/blue-bonds-a-fiscal-strategy-for-overcoming-trump-2-0/
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Will Beaman
3 days ago
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
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Will Beaman
3 days ago
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
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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.
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Tyler Creighton
6 days ago
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.
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Tyler Creighton
6 days ago
11 months after Elon tweeted “CFPB RIP.” Aging about as well as his promises of Tesla robotaxis and colonizing Mars.
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Mj
3 days ago
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! 🔄
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It's excellent.
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DIE MY LOVE | Official Trailer | Now Streaming | With Jennifer Lawrence & Robert Pattinson
YouTube video by MUBI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzXHW6Qe70
3 days ago
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Bright D Limm 임대중
4 days ago
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
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Bright D Limm 임대중
4 days ago
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.
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Prisonculture
4 days ago
"Power is influence created through interdependence." - Marshall Ganz
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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!
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Theory At The Bargaining Table (Vandal Live at UIC)
with Dominique Baker & Anna Kornbluh
https://theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/theory-at-the-bargaining-table-vandal
4 days ago
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Money on the Left
4 days ago
Turns out, the politics of employment is never a zero-sum game.
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The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration
Government data show the Trump administration’s policies reducing the number of foreign-born workers did not help U.S.-born workers in 2025.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2026/01/11/the-us-born-unemployment-rate-rose-after-trump-reduced-immigration/
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Bright D Limm 임대중
4 days ago
NYC in 2026: Left + Labor =
clairevaldezforcongress.com
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Bright D Limm 임대중
4 days ago
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.
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Anna Kornbluh
4 days ago
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
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Will Beaman
5 days ago
“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”
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Consumer Bureau Leader Requests $145 Million for Agency He Wants to Eliminate
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/us/politics/cfpb-vought-funds.html
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NY Times Pitchbot
5 days ago
New tone
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Aaron Rupar
6 days ago
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.
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jamelle
6 days ago
rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks
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Will Beaman
6 days ago
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.
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Victor Pickard
6 days ago
Did a quick Q&A about the imminent closure of my hometown newspaper for the
@us.theconversation.com
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Why the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s closure exposes a growing threat to democracy
When reputable local news outlets close, fewer people vote and get involved in local politics, and misinformation, corruption and polarization increase.
https://theconversation.com/why-the-pittsburgh-post-gazettes-closure-exposes-a-growing-threat-to-democracy-272992
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Money on the Left
6 days ago
Hypothesis: If money is a designed human construct, then we can design experiments that test various design elements to yield alternative outcomes.
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Assignment Prompt: A Classroom Currency Experiment
Adapted from a prompt by Professor Benjamin Wilson (SUNY Cortland, Spring 2025), this assignment encourages students to perceive money and the labor it mobilizes as social forms that we can collect…
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/06/16/assignment-prompt-a-classroom-currency-experiment/
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Matt Seybold
6 days ago
pod praxis
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Theory At The Bargaining Table (Vandal Live at UIC)
with Dominique Baker & Anna Kornbluh
https://theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/theory-at-the-bargaining-table-vandal
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Will Beaman
7 days ago
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
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