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In addition to resisting the dismantlement of the federal bureaucracy with all of our might, now is a critical time to begin imagining & designing new, post-neoliberal public infrastructures for the post-Trump era.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

It's very frustrating to see critics of MMT continue to ignore the contributions of @moneyontheleft. Critics need not agree with the MotL approach, of course. Yet to simply omit our work from the scholarly dialog--to wish it out of existence--amounts to incompetence, cowardice, or both.

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

"Money is a public system. It’s a public utility. It’s inexhaustible. You can always afford to do whatever you can mobilize your community to do."

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨 Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

submitted 68 days ago • 78 comments

“On the left, we don’t know how to appeal to people’s deep passions. We think we’re very smart and very critical. But where’s the radical imaginary by which people will be passionately absorbed?”

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

every episode of American Vandal is a work of synthesis that should be required listening for academics of all stripes. but this one is a doozy: Dr. Cottom and Dr. Grotke go so hard on what education under attack has to learn from the history of HBCUs and has to fear from ponzi private equity

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

If we can reclassify banknotes as assets rather than liabilities, then imagine what else we can do. Yes, the magic money tree is inexhaustible. The lesson here, however, is that you can mess with money’s fundamental structures & values in radical & even pro-social ways.

submitted 92 days ago • 8 comments

Mark Twain on Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England 2 or 3 centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for annually, not oftener, if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians… 1/5

submitted 93 days ago • 4 comments

This graph replies to the claim Democrats should be less pro trans rights. Gallup shows that of 22 issues motivating voters' ballots, transgender rights was last. But support for equal rights is eroding. That should be actively resisted, not run from. Don't let the right set the terms of the debate.

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

Folks are talking about creating more inclusive culture on the left—and I approve! But culture needs to be grounded in infrastructure and real relationships, not just social media (which incentivizes individualism/sensationalism). This is why I’m always going on about organization and organizing…

submitted 105 days ago • 10 comments

Economist @mazzucatom.bsky.social: "By not admitting the public side of the value creation process (the public money behind many innovations), we have ended up socializing risks while privatizing reward." evonomics.com/economic-myt...

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments