This looks promising

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It's gonna take some fighters and time to walk back this level of corruption of the democratic process

Headline news, if we had public media

Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States: - Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party - Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children - Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats Those are just factual statements.

Levy on the Hill Would make a great band name

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Where's the solidarity in the press corps in support of their female colleagues who have to deal with this every day?

If only the entire press corps would walk out when he speaks to reporters like this. Women, women reporters. He’s disgusting.

Today Mike Johnson 1) railed against this bill 2) made up stuff about why this bill is bad 3) criticized the Dems and GOPers who forced a vote on this bill and 4) voted for this bill. This is after he spent 5 months trying to prevent this bill from getting a vote.

“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”

Trump will not just be four years of bad management. The culture of these organizations will be fucked for a long time. The pressure to retaliate and clean house will be strong, and no-one wants to work in a war zone.

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

9/🧵 What does this mean for Democratic strategy? All those debates about choosing between identity politics and economic populism? False premise. Young working-class voters with low racial resentment aren't choosing. They're ready for Medicare for All AND Black Lives Matter. Lean into the tide.

Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.

We know this because he told us. The reality is the government was shut down the first day Trump entered office. We just didn't talk about it that way. The only real leverage Dems had is on appropriations. Schumer screwed that up in February/March for FY 26. It imperiled his political support.

Some thoughts on the CR/minibus. 1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins. Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.

“Reading money as credit rather than debt reorients obligation from forced detention in the past to newly visible capacities & responsibilities that organize repair in the present.” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social CC @astra.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...

“Public investment, viewed as deficit spending from the standpoint of the cautious investor, was in fact surplus creation for the public as a whole. From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...

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

Fadhel Kaboub exposes the tranquilizing drugs that reproduce the colonial traps in less than two minutes at the ChangeNow Summit in Paris (April 2025). Take a listen: youtu.be/0N6GZL87cn4

"but the episode alarmed civil rights groups"... No, it alarms the vast majority of people, NYT

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

✨ New Essay! ✨ @mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.

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!

Sovereignty is selfish & exclusionary

No shit

NEW PIECE: I finally unveil the deep segregationist Georgia relationships of Fed Chair Bill Martin I dug up over the course of researching my (now set aside) book on the Federal Reserve: Picking Losers. Its a labyrinthine story so grab a coffee & Subscribe www.crisesnotes.com/bombshell-19...

"...a single bitcoin purchase can take around 500,000x more energy than a credit card purchase..."

Finally getting to this one. These distinctions do matter, and the sooner the media catches up, the better.

My latest from @hyperallergic.com is on Trump’s proposed triumphal arch—& why looking at the structure’s history symbolizing imperialism & subjugation + its reception (Napoleon, Hitler) is important. NB: the ecclesiastical architectural firm pitching this structure. hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-...

#NoKings Arvada, Colorado

✨New Essay!✨ In this wide-ranging piece, @greenbackbetter.bsky.social reads “political capital” as coordinative credit, rather than backward-looking debt. From here, he outlines a new “finance franchise” in which publics extend polyvocal capacities to political leaders. Please read👩‍💻 & share! 🙌

My latest for @moneyontheleft.bsky.social ✨✨✨ From paradoxes of political thrift to theorizing a new “Finance Franchise,” based not on legal sovereignty but on rehearsed public capacities. Please read and share if you like it! 🙏

🚨 NEW “Nobody’s Girl: The Voice of Virginia Giuffre” A survivor’s words — shared ahead of her memoir’s release. Long thread 🧵 ⬇️

"[Democratic Public Finance] ... asserts that money is an unlimited and disputable public good which can always be reorganized to serve people and the environment."

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"using tariff money" Apparently they think they've found foreign issuers of the US currency...

This passage nearly broke me.

I wrote this during Occupy, a few years after separation from my Army service. While the conditions are different now, this feels relevant still. Share this with friends and family in the military, because we need them to choose which side they are on. Time is precious folks.

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

"...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..."

Wooop! With the last ratifications in last night 🇲🇦🇸🇱, a landmark treaty to protect nature in 2/3rds of the world’s oceans can now enter into force. If you need a refresh on what it means and took to get here, @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and I have you covered. www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does...

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Think how much you pay in taxes. Now think about this: The ultra-wealthy pay between 0% and 0.6% of their wealth in individual income tax – around 0.6% in a country like the United States and 0.1% in a country like France. We wrote about it in @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

"JPMorgan’s anti-money-laundering specialists subsequently acknowledged that such {large cash} withdrawals should have alerted the bank to the possibility that Epstein was committing crimes." FUCKERS