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Bright D Limm ģėģ¤
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Good news: the million-vote
#mamdate
we got Zohran is getting Hochul to start reconsidering her stance against taxing the rich. It's time to turn up the volume. The
#TaxTheRich
campaign launches tomorrow (Sun, Nov 16) @ 12pm in Union Sq. Let's aim for 1,000 people.
actionnetwork.org/events/tax-t...
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Money on the Left
about 2 hours ago
"A grant is still debt; only, it is a qualitative obligation to improve social and environmental conditions, rather than a quantitative obligation to repay a financial sum."
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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 gā¦
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/11/beyond-loans-the-public-grant-making-bank/
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Will Beaman
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Money on the Left
about 5 hours ago
During our discussion, our cohosts outline the approach to DPF presented in our recent long-form publication, āDemocratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdaniās New York City.ā
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Money on the Left
about 5 hours ago
What makes debt illegitimate?
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Odious Debt with Edward Jones Corredera
Money on the Left speaks with Edward Jones Corredera, author of Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2024).Ā What are fallen tyā¦
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/02/01/odious-debt-with-edward-jones-corredera/
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 6 hours ago
We just raised $1 million dollars for our transition to City Hall. The groundwork to make this city a fairer and more affordable place is happening because of you.
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jamelle
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i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
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Opinion | JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/opinion/vance-fuentes-carlson.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k8.F-rD.pLmL8bDJHtfQ&smid=url-share
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Money on the Left
about 6 hours ago
Nobody likes a bottleneck
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The Case for Fiscal Insurgency
by Will Beaman A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, Neā¦
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/09/18/the-case-for-fiscal-insurgency/
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Will Beaman
about 6 hours ago
Project 2029 ā Woke 2.0 ā
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Will Beaman
about 20 hours ago
The queer accounting practice of seeing assets instead of costs
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Scifi Reader
about 18 hours ago
Great insights! "The Ministry for the Future" explores MMT brilliantly. As Frank says, āWe have to make the future.ā How do you think MMT could reshape our world? šŖš #MMT #Scifi
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Rob Hawkes
about 10 hours ago
Cc
@wherecreditsdue.bsky.social
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
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Rob Hawkes
about 10 hours ago
Big thanks to
@katefoxwriter75.bsky.social
, whose blog is where I first learned about Nick Walkerās work and whose wonderful podcast Neurotypicals Donāt Juggle Chainsaws (co-hosted with Nic King) introduced me to Amy Pearson and Kieran Roseās research š
neurotypicalsdontjugglechainsaws.co.uk
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Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws
https://neurotypicalsdontjugglechainsaws.co.uk/
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Rob Hawkes
about 10 hours ago
Iām looking forward to exploring affinities between the neurodiversity & public money paradigms - via
@dr-nicky.bsky.social
on neuroqueering and
@dramypearson.bsky.social
&
@kieranrose.bsky.social
on masking - in this upcoming talk. Who knew heterodox economics and neuroqueer theory were connected?
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Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
2 days ago
Florida's Board of Education just adopted The Heritage Foundation's Phoenix Declaration
www.cltampa.com/news/florida...
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Florida's Board of Education just adopted The Heritage Foundation's Phoenix Declaration
Florida became the first state to adopt The Phoenix Declaration, a product of The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that formulated the Project 2025 plan for Donald Trumpās second term.
https://www.cltampa.com/news/florida-board-of-education-heritage-foundation-phoenix-declaration/
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Toby Higbie
1 day ago
Universities spend gazillions on EdTech software that doesnāt serve faculty or student interests and often doesnāt work well. But what if we got off that path and leveraged internal resources to produce non-profit systems? Hereās a proposal to leverage the CUNY systems platforms.
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Denny Carter
2 days ago
Jamelle was cooking. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
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Will Beaman
1 day ago
The shift from: āThe Democratic Party needs white anti-woke podcasters who vote blueā to āWe straight white male influencers who are wokeā is fascinating lol
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re: shame Cc:@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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Gersh Drops āSuccessionā Actress Dasha Nekrasova After Podcast With White Nationalist Nick Fuentes
"Succession" actress Dasha Nekrasova has been fired by her talent agency, Gersh, after a podcast featured white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/dasha-nekrasova-fired-gersh-agency-nick-fuentes-podcast-1236582402/
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Listen to my son's beautiful cover of the Tortoise track TNT.
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TNT, by Elllie
track by Elllie
https://elllie.bandcamp.com/track/tnt
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Miriam Posner
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Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of Californiaās Funding
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Will Beaman
2 days ago
Hitler in his bunker
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Rob Hawkes
2 days ago
Wait, whatās that you say? MIMA Talks About Trust has whetted your appetite for conversation about trust and money? Well, youāre in luck because I had an equally enjoyable chat with
@videotroph.bsky.social
and
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
for
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
back in July!
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This emergent genre of left commentaryāwhich presupposes that Mamdani must wiggle out a budget solely from projected revenuesāis like shooting a top tier runner in the leg at the start of a marathon. You donāt win by accepting a bunch of strictures promulgated by your adversaries.
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Mamdani's First Budget | Andrew Perry
Image and reality of New York Cityās finances
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/budget-nyc/
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Bright D Limm ģėģ¤
2 days ago
I'll be beating this drum constantly between now and April: Zohran must play nice with the governor to advance his agenda. But our task, at the grassroots, is to use Hochul's fear of losing re-election to push her incessantly and publicly. Well done on climate, Third Act š
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Bright D Limm ģėģ¤
2 days ago
If we taxed lies, the rich would quickly become poor. On a related note: the
#TaxTheRich
campaign launches this weekend, friends. Get ready to plug in. If we're mutuals and you're not yet in the loop about the TTR campaign but want to plug in now, DM me š
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Money on the Left
2 days ago
In this special episode, Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson and Will Beaman to discuss his new article ā(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust.ā
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(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust
In this special episode, Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson and Will Beaman to discuss his new article ā(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust,ā which was recentlyā¦
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/04/unconditional-openness-towards-a-neochartalist-theory-of-money-and-trust-2/
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Bright D Limm ģėģ¤
2 days ago
ā Step 1: Win election with a million-vote
#mamdate
. š Step 2: Launch
#TaxTheRich
.
@psc-cuny.org
is a member of People's Majority, the alliance of orgs that will co-govern with the Mamdani administration. Join the TTR launch this Sunday in Union Square:
actionnetwork.org/events/tax-t...
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Benjamin Wilson
2 days ago
We need a global moratorium on data centers until AI can actually demonstrate itās useful! It is clearly creating so many new costs and known environmental destruction. Stop saying itās inevitable and letās start meaningful assessment.
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The reckless AI rollout is not only *not* automating away millions of jobs a la the ridiculous fantasy that AI means total automation; it's also undercutting the actual hiring process for real jobs by making inquiry letters unreliable indicators of merit.
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The AI Shift: Is hiring becoming less meritocratic?
Use of LLMs encourage more applications but they change the commitment signal of employers and employees
https://www.ft.com/content/e5b7c3bd-925e-4907-a8fd-96b8e33353a5
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Trump says heās asking Justice Department to investigate Epsteinās ties to slew of high-profile figures | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday he will ask Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Jeffrey Epsteinās ties to many other high-profile figures, in an extraordinary step that comes just days after ...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/politics/trump-epstein-doj-investigate-enemies
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
We've got an exclusive Epstein files leak! š„ Click hereš
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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 gā¦
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/11/beyond-loans-the-public-grant-making-bank/
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Will Beaman
2 days ago
Lol
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Anna Kornbluh
3 days ago
go go go! 90%! go! go some more!
www.centredaily.com/news/local/e...
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Penn State graduate students overwhelmingly vote in favor of unionizing
The election took place last month.
https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/article312855689.html
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Rob Hawkes
2 days ago
During this conversation we discuss my recent
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
article ā(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trustā
moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/21/u...
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(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust
Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2025)ISSN 2833-051X (Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and TrustBy Rob Hawkes Abstract This article argues ā¦
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/21/unconditional-openness-towards-a-neochartalist-theory-of-money-and-trust/
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Rob Hawkes
2 days ago
We also mention my talk, originally delivered at MIMA, āHow Can Novels Help Us Think About Money⦠and Maybe Even Save the Planet?ā
moneyontheleft.org/2024/02/26/h...
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How can novels help us think about money ⦠and maybe even save the planet? (Guest Lecture)
Can novels and, by extension, other works of art help us to think about money and trust in new ways? Could embracing alternative perspectives on trust and money help us to avoid climate catastropheā¦
https://moneyontheleft.org/2024/02/26/how-can-novels-help-us-think-about-money-and-maybe-even-save-the-planetguest-lecture/
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Rob Hawkes
2 days ago
⦠and F. Scott Fitzgeraldās
#TheGreatGatsby
, which
@videotroph.bsky.social
and I have written about for the forthcoming volume Inflationary Modernities
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
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Inflationary Modernities
This collection re-evaluates the assumption that inflation is primarily an economic phenomenon, offering perspectives from both the Global North & South.
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032089601
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Wonderful kickoff!
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Money on the Left
2 days ago
A classic from our archives.
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The New Postcolonial Economics with Fadhel Kaboub (New Art & Transcript!)
Money on the Left is proud to publish a remastered version of our third episode with Fadhel Kaboub, now with a new transcript and art. Kaboub is associate professor of economics at Denison and Presā¦
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/09/02/the-new-postcolonial-economics-with-fadhel-kaboub-new-art-transcript/
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Money on the Left
2 days ago
The inside on today's most despised racket!
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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 gā¦
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/11/beyond-loans-the-public-grant-making-bank/
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Money on the Left
2 days ago
Heterodox economist Jamee K. Moudud returns to Money on the Left to discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire? (Routledge, 2025).
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Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud
Heterodox economist Jamee K. Moudud returns to Money on the Left to discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire? (Routledge, 2025). The phrase āinsā¦
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/01/legal-political-foundations-of-capitalism-with-jamee-k-moudud/
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
3 days ago
Soon, we'll oversee a budget of more than $100 billion ā and every dollar will reflect our commitment to working New Yorkers and delivering universal childcare. Good thing some little New Yorkers gave me a counting lesson today!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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For far too many families, the cost of childcare is driving them out of the city they love. New Yorkers deserve to be able to afford to raise families here.
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It's accounting gimmicks all the way down--always & forever. The political question is not 'How do we truly get our books in order?' but instead 'How do we design a system that genuinely takes care of everyone?'
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
Conventional wisdom says fiscal policy & banking should live apart. We disagree. This artificial division undercuts democracy by artificially constraining economic power. Here, we introduce the Public Grant-Making Bank, which expands fiscal capacity where it's needed most.
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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 gā¦
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/11/beyond-loans-the-public-grant-making-bank/
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Money on the Left
3 days ago
We need a revised Public Banking Act that establishes a new class of financial institution: the Public Grant-Making Bank. A Public Grant-Making Bank actively tackles pressing social and ecological challenges where traditional, loan-based financing proves inadequate.
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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 gā¦
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/11/beyond-loans-the-public-grant-making-bank/
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Matt Seybold
3 days ago
Very few voices more compelling on the present state of higher education than
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
and
@annakornbluh.bsky.social
. If you happen to be in Chicago on December 4th, you can hear from both. And I will also be there.
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Philip Bump
4 days ago
"I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population" āĀ Larry Summers to Jeff Epstein
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Will Beaman
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