We need a global moratorium on data centers until AI can actually demonstrate it’s useful! It is clearly creating so many new costs and known environmental destruction. Stop saying it’s inevitable and let’s start meaningful assessment.

We also mention my talk, originally delivered at MIMA, ‘How Can Novels Help Us Think About Money… and Maybe Even Save the Planet?’ moneyontheleft.org/2024/02/26/h...

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.

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?'

“The Public Grant-Making Bank represents a critical mechanism for fiscal insurgency… a profound political act that challenges the hegemonic conception of money as a fundamentally capitalist tool.” This is excellent. Immediate resistance, in unlikely places, that clears ground to build anew.

“The first pillar of this model involves restructuring finance as direct grants, rather than as loans … On this logic, 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.”

MotL 84 is live! 🔊 ✨Democratic Public Finance✨ moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d... Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance." Please listen 🎧 & share 🙌 ! *Transcript forthcoming

"[A] job guarantee is the ultimate disenshittifier of work."

i'm going to use this! instead of appreciation we often get more do more with less from higher ed leadership.

I was taught that each campaign has 3 phases: preparation, execution, evaluation. Two decades in, I'm now convinced there's a 4th phase: appreciation. Appreciation is essential because hard work done, if left unappreciated, can poison its doer. That's why I make time to write personal thank-you's.

Excellent piece by Nancy Pelosi on Mamdani’s budget challenges in Jacobin this week.

Or better yet moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/d...

Now that the election is done, I thought it would be nice to share this clip from the field launch back in January. What eventually became a field op with 104,000 people started with about 200. For me, it's a reminder that most great things start small—and that what makes them big is organization.

Big thx to @mattseybold.bsky.social for giving us permission to re-publish this urgent piece on the @moneyontheleft.bsky.social website. It's time for big ideas & transformative projects!

Let’s goooooooo!!!!!

Democratic Public Finance redefines politics as the process of coordinating our abundant human and material resources within ecological limits, rather than as an austere and exploitative competition for scarce funds. moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...

Had a great time speaking with @modernmoneylab.org.uk about complementary currencies with my MOTL colleague @robbhawkes.bsky.social!! Some of our slides below 💛🫡

And here’s how to fund it 👇 bsky.app/profile/mone...

"Contrary to economic orthodoxy, [Democratic Public Finance] redefines politics as the process of coordinating our abundant human and material resources within ecological limits, rather than exploitative competition for scarce funds."

I've been reading Money on the Left's interview with Caroline Levine very slowly, but I liked this quote: bsky.app/profile/mone...

I wish the left would reclaim labor more sharply by de-linking it from capital and the profit motive. Paid labor is not a necessary evil to be automated away, it is also care and participation, inclusion and recognition.

This is a short intro to our project, which speaks to many of the topics you’ve been addressing on your @boldpolitics.bsky.social podcast - it’s time to tell new stories about money and ecosocial justice!

Yes! 🙌

Money is not a thing. It neither stores dead labor nor conserves mass, energy or value. Money does not conform to logics of object permanence. True fiscal disobedience creates new credit forms that take care of people now, rather than merely withholding tax dollars as if they were gold ingots.

The pinnacle of neoliberal ideology is to approach Trump like he’s a landlord who owns the state but won’t do repairs. Just put the rent in a separate account. It is easier to imagine a rebellious tax strike than rebellious spending to take care of people now www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"[M]ultiple crediting operations can drive a planned, gradual expansion of the public sector, a revaluation of different kinds of work, a mobilization of human capacities, and a pedagogical process."

"The core of [Neoliberal Public Finance] is a legal hierarchy that prioritizes private financial institutions over public bodies, especially at the state and municipal levels."

bumping this as it came up in our Branch Meeting today: there are alternative funding & governance systems for #UKHE being pitched and developed. This blogpost offers a thoughtful discussion. What others are there out there, #SaveHE gang? Government pretends that there is no alternative, but...

Open fiscal sabotage. It’s not *if* Democrats will issue bonds and repeal balanced budget amendments to stay alive; it’s *when*. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Healthcare, childcare, care for elders and disabled people. Guaranteed jobs, incomes, homes. Mass transit. Green energy. We were taught we can't afford to provide these to everyone. But somehow we've known that's false. Let us now unlearn the old neoliberal ways by learning how to provide for all.

Come check her talk out at suny Cortland this evening! www.cortland.edu/cicc for details

In New York, 2026 will be a year in which cities lead the way. The new mayors of NYC, Albany, and Syracuse will wield their governing power to fight fascism at the federal level and neoliberal austerity at the state. Zohran will do this in NYC. In Syracuse, it will be Sharon Owens.

How does capitalism ensure plenty of funds for AI but not enough for good wages, affordable housing, or childcare? One way: let most new money be created by private banks—which, of course, lend only for profit. @moneyontheleft.bsky.social invites us to contest this element and its entire paradigm.

So proud to finally publish MotL’s public finance strategy for Mamdani’s NYC. This is a collective labor of love months in the making. Now is the time to democratize finance at every level of government, no exceptions.

Want to see what blue bonds or other sub national credit creation might look like… issue credit and experiment with a tax circuit and mobilize real resources.

A framework like this (compelling!) needs to be used to account for billions in funds illegally impounded by Vought when Trump for lifesaving global health as well

It’s time to go on offense and to push limits for prosperity not simply resisting or being appalled by fascism

Tremendous thanks to Cory Doctorow for helping us get the word out about Blue Bonds, MotL's fiscal strategy for mobilizing sub-federal debt financing to defeat authoritarian sabotage & extortion. pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/f...

Yes! pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/f...

Food, Money & Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient & Equitable Communities of Work By Benjamin C. Wilson, Taylor Reid & Max Sussman

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 3: Earl Manigault When he stepped onto the court, the world watched. No one dunked harder or jumped higher. But the GOAT never made it pro. There are countless NYC stories like his. Brilliant talents lost to drugs or crime. It doesn’t have to be this way.

✨MotL 93 is live!✨ We speak with @carolinelevine.bsky.social about her important book: The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis. moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t... *Transcript forthcoming!

This essay introduces a critical theory of mediation developed by the Money on the Left Editorial Collective (MotL) and demonstrates the value of the collective's thinking for current debates in media theory. read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...

The "Blue Bonds" concept was developed by people at @moneyontheleft.bsky.social. As its name suggests, MotL is a great resource for Leftists who want to identify, and unlearn, orthodox assumptions about money that unnecessarily constrain public spending. moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/13/b...

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

Continued escalation from Trump this morning. I need to hear a forceful response to this from Gov. Kotek, assuring Oregonians we will not tolerate this level of illegal intimidation. To service-members: remember you do not have to follow an unlawful order such as implied below.

This is very good.