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Democratic Public Finance 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” (DPF). According to this paradigm, money is public cred…

"In this moment, deferral is really not an option."

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 g…

“[W]e need to expand the public’s financial toolkit beyond traditional loans to include grants.”

For all the talk about how the Left is about purity tests and cancel culture, it’s Meet the Press who is stuck on this question

Trump treating Mamdani with more respect than he would be treating Cuomo right now is so funny

Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests, known as FKUs, on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.

Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned

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Ears tired? Hate listening to podcasts?

Well, now you can *read* our latest episode outlining the stakes & principles of Democratic Public Finance.

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Missouri GOP Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers Read more here.

Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.

It's 2026 and Marjorie Taylor Green is the Monday cohost of Hill TV's 'Rising' with Ryan Grim

Two Queens, natives with opposing views, to meet at White House today

I read this as “Two Queens with opposing views” and it’s because of how you’re all posting

I got that exact response from a few students to Tongues Untied.

Especially ironic since “I am complete and no longer need to contend with these themes” is the exact posture that the film critiques…

Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.

My god.

After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.

The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.

Which means this is not an isolated case.

Trump's Lynching America

this is absolutely fascinating and worth a read:

What social movements can learn from the ‘innovator’s dilemma’ Considering how we can encourage new and creative strategies for making change.

With news of Chi Ossé challenging Hakeem Jeffries this year, you may be wondering—

• Why are Zohran + AOC against the idea?
• Why is this even being debated in NYC-DSA?

If you read this piece by Paul Engler, you'll get why. But here's my TLDR take.🧵
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😭😭 the feeling is mutual, the conversations have been great

@greenbackbetter.bsky.social is where i first learned about Bakhtin and Carnivalesque so you can all thank him for how it is present in almost all of my political and social commentary

Mikhail Bakhtin Pt. 1 - Carnival Laughter & Grotesque Realism Podcast Episode · Money on the Left · 03/23/2023 · 1h 49m

She meant to say…
Trump is
*picaresque,*
but #grotesque
is the word.

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Democratic Public Finance Podcast Episode · Money on the Left · 11/01/2025 · 1h 51m

“…this desire for a sovereign…a Dirty Harry type figure who's…lawless & ruthless & hypocritical…YOU’RE going 2be protected (as a follower) from…being held accountable…think how Gavin Newsom…has read this moment…emerging out of nowhere as something more like a franchise…”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social

@racheledini.bsky.social

Let’s go all the way through the looking-glass:

Employment should be designed in the image of education as a public good.

Education should never be designed in the image of employment as a scarce private privilege.

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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

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“…in the context of Brat
Summer…& Dark Brandon before…the coalition will come up w charisma 4 you even if you don't have it….genres that are rehearsed…that signal & extend the charisma…the authority…on the condition…that they don't betray the coalition…” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social
#MayorCardamom

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

A smear campaign that has hijacked the information environment that higher ed leaders are immersed in.

Not sure about society more broadly than that—I think people still want to attend college. And for education in general, right wing electoral gains are reversing locally as people wake up.

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And I also think "defund" reads differently in an environment of austerity rather than an environment of full employment and care work. Abolition need not be about absence, to paraphrase Ruth Wilson Gilmore.