Will Beaman

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just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

Here’s video of the incident

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago (RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

One Battle After Another In this episode of the Superstructure podcast, Scott Ferguson is joined by independent film scholar Jonathan Haynes to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. T…

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@videotroph.bsky.social is joined by Jonathan Haynes to discuss PTA’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. The conversation centers on the film’s contribution to popular political cinema under the authoritarian violence of the second Trump administration.

Don't miss it! 🙌

Check out the latest episode of Superstructure during which I wax rhapsodic about One Battle's allegorical use of mobile telephoto lenses.

Blue Bonds State debt is generative.

"Austerity can’t get us out of a collapsing economy. It is precisely when the private sector withers that the state must step in, providing the income that people need to do the purchasing that makes the private sector possible."

The Democratic base has been rehearsing enthusiasm for over a decade for a candidate who doesn’t suck, and every time the candidate who sucks thinks it’s proof they are amazing and takes the base for granted.

Newsom will meet the same fate as Kamala and Dark Brandon.

Triangulating with fascism is unspeakably disgusting, but what *annoys* me is the conventional wisdom that it’s a winning strategy.

if the democratic party starts stepping away trans people they might as well sign this country away to the far right forever

A frequently repeated line from a colleague who retired a few years ago after a long career at my university: "Remember, when they say they don't have the money to fund something, what they mean is they don't have the money *for you*."

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

“‘Anything we can actually do, we can afford.’ Taxation controls the distribution of wealth. At bottom, however, state spending never rests on private profit. This means that an impoverished public good such as the present higher-education system reflects an impoverished public imagination.”

What the hell, emailed this (and the original full piece referenced) to @governorwalz.mn.gov Maybe he'll read it

Tl;dr if states repeal their balanced budget rules, they can issue blue bonds to cover funds (illegally) clawed back by Trump & thus save their states

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This is the full piece I referenced in my post

From @moneyontheleft.bsky.social

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Blue Bonds State debt is generative.

"[T]his is 'the true Abundance agenda' — not the 'diet Reaganism' of deregulation and sacrifices to the market gods being peddled by the corporate wing of the Democratic Party."

-Cory Doctorow

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.

The Case for Fiscal Insurgency by Will Beaman A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, Ne…

The assumption that only billionaires or suburban taxpayers can provision democracy has become so entrenched that it is easier to imagine acquiescing to authoritarianism than bypassing this veto.

Zohran’s #ZcavengerHunt was a Rehearsal by the Money on the Left Editorial Collective What yesterday’s New York City #ZcavengerHunt made visible is a coalition rehearsing public works before even winning the general election. It was not …

"[Mamdani's #ZcavengerHunt] worked not as clicks or gimmicks, but rather as mapped routes, opened rooms, staffed corners, and kitchen windows that made movement legible and safe. In that register, play is not a nudge; play is public works."

We speak with Levine at length about moving beyond critical gestures of dissolution and toward an activist formalism that moves constructively between politics and aesthetics.

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The Metaphysics of Accounting with Paolo Quattrone Paolo Quattrone (@PaoloQuattrone) joins Money on the Left to discuss the metaphysics of accounting and the significance of accounting’s repressed history for political economy today. Prof…

The Metaphysics of Accounting with @paoloquattrone.bsky.social

Blue Bonds State debt is generative.

"This is a fundamental restructuring of public spending, a way out of neoliberalism’s violent allergy to the fiscal spending that expands the economy and lifts up the population."

-Doctorow

Jim Crow to Trump: Reconsidering the Psychological Wage by Will Beaman W.E.B. Du Bois’s “psychological wage” has long been treated as a metaphor. In Black Reconstruction, he describes how white workers, denied meaningful economic uplift, found compensat…

"Du Bois’s phrase does not merely point to a parallel between money and status. It stages something more robust and flexible than a metaphor: an analogy."

This is the correct “can we afford it” framing for everything.

We always do infinitely more to support each other than what shows up on balance sheets. If work is being done, the capacity is there to pay people for it by definition. And the distributive effects are pretty much always positive.

Cc @moneyontheleft.bsky.social

And also aesthetically:

note that the first image (national debt) is a clock. What is it counting towards? The apocalypse? The day we run out of society?

The savings calculator is NOT a coercive timer. It reflects necessary and essential costs (as savings for us!) on a timetable set by human need.

Compare

1. Debt from the perspective of bondholders, banks and government

2. Credit and savings from the perspective of the rest of us

…Even though these describe the same phenomena. Why should life as a cost to society (or to the gods??) supersede life as a gift? It’s a cruel accounting gimmick.

A Tale of Two Calculators

(Credit to @ericthor.com for making the Mamdani Savings Calculator)

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It’s still a good development! Just giving the full take 😂

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…because it is the same zero sum framing that is turned against poor people in general. If he called Flint, MI a public charge of California we would correctly identify that as racist.

Blue bonds starts from the non-zero sum premise that if we can do it materially, we can afford it with paper.

Lots to be excited about in this piece! Blue states coordinating and improvising ways out of learned helplessness is wonderful. I hope Blue Bonds are considered too!

From @moneyontheleft.bsky.social’s perspective, Newsom’s rhetoric about CA paying for the existence of red states is problematic… 1/