When Trump blessed Tucker's interview with Nick Fuentes, he was acknowledging that the white nationalist constituency inside the MAGA coalition has grown too big to marginalize. On the pod, @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social is brilliant on this and what it means for Vance: newrepublic.com/article/2033...

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

The Arctic is warming at a rate up to four times faster than the planet as a whole and has lost a third of its sea ice volume in just two decades: buff.ly/rFu7XgR There is a no time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #GreenNewDeal

Do you know who is paying for Trump’s ballroom? Amazon Google Apple Meta And a bunch of other companies that coincidentally have business in front of the Trump Administration right now. So are these companies getting special favors in return? I’m pressing for answers.

2016. One year before his turkey dinner with Epstein at Maralardo in 2017.👀

Paul Samuelson: The balanced budget myth is “necessary” because it acts as Old Time Religion to keep the Little People in their place: youtu.be/4_pasHodJ-8?...

Time for some Canadian banking history.

Postmodern Money Theory!

We discuss democratic possibilities for public finance with Saule Omarova, the Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law at Cornell University and President Biden’s original nominee for Comptroller of the Currency.

"[W]e hardly need to start from scratch. The existing landscape is already rich with institutions that currently implement grants, demonstrating that non-loan-based provisioning is a deeply established practice."

“DPF 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.” On the list #RBE

Excellent video - watch! Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.

Always an air of surreality around fiscal discussions when this stuff isn’t on the table.

Because Clinton's Telecommunication Act of 1996 sold off the free press. Corporations are happy with a Trump-fascist admin.

SCOOP: In text messages sent in 2017, Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. He seemingly represents himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.

This is like a send-up of Jacobin-style Marxism that is all about publicly "owning" some shares of private companies. Socialize the profits, double down on the corporation itself as a profit-seeking entity.

The left needs to overcome its debilitating fear of debt. Debt is obligation & no society can function without it. The true question is: How is debt politically constructed? Our latest piece opens up this question in a new &, I think, rather unprecedented way. Hopefully, this is just a start.

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?'

pedophilia is the president's worst issue

Honestly, we could have used a lot more cancel culture.

Still working our way through approx. 23,000 pages of Epstein related documents released by House Oversight Cmte. In another email.. this one from Feb. 2017.. Epstein references Trump ==>

Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."

It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn

2015 Trump was fined for money laundering. Why wasn’t this headline news for weeks & weeks? www.fincen.gov/news/news-re...

Every single time! Epstein will write: "porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no" and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying: "You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

Trump has been fined for money laundering. Why in the world this isn’t talked about is beyond me: www.fincen.gov/news/news-re...

What's DPF? moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...

Actually our government creates the dollars everyone else uses to buy treasury bonds. Bonds are just an interest bearing savings account at The Fed. Our government pays interest to bond holders by creating dollars out of thin air. You know, like how we pay for wars. bsky.app/profile/shar...

This month, we discuss Money on the Left's paradigm for Democratic Public Finance & unpack its value for left politics. Check it out.

2 great flavors

*This* is how the left should be talking about Mamdani's fiscal prospects & challenges. Rather than reify private market prices while fetishizing liberal budget-balancing, Weber challenges the political composition of pricing in the first place. Bravo!

If you're wanting to be mad at someone other than setting Democrats today, this is an absolutely infuriating video about the ongoing theft of the federal government by Elon musk. (And just generally speaking the complete failure of public-private partnerships) youtube.com/watch?v=EU6a...

The sparky, disorderly, collaborative flow of progress. We've come a long way in understanding the deep physical structure of everything, but humans realising things is always a messy business. Wonderfully clear short presentation by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7D...

Elliot’s Astor: Fall blooming native that our bees love:

Painted Bunting pair ❤️

Venture capitalists want to eat the world. The playbook: identify a target, flood it with capital, capture the system, cash out. Today, their target is American democracy—and they're betting big on Trump. My conversation with @catherinebracy.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_W...

Meet Rockbridge, the secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future. It roots its action in a “controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.” It’s method: a venture capital approach to politics. gift link: wapo.st/3Jsvgrl

Billy Saas and Scott Ferguson are joined by Will Beaman to discuss Money on the Left’s framework for what we call “Democratic Public Finance” moneyontheleft.org/2025/11/01/d...

Thanks so much to @robbhawkes.bsky.social & @robynollett.bsky.social for inviting me to participate (remotely) in their inaugural event. We had a quite meaningful post-film dialog that was also a lot of fun.

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.

Remember that one time at band camp when Trump deliberately destroyed priceless art deco friezes that the Met had asked to be preserved because he couldn’t be bothered and had them destroyed instead? news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

"Implementing the proposed strategies–reframing the budget, mobilizing people through lower-level forms of credit, creating public financial infrastructure, and challenging the deep legal structures of austerity–is a long-term struggle... moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/d...