David M. P. Freund

The Age of Choice A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedom

Call me a skeptic! Interested if others have engaged this book, as I'm working on a project ("American Freedoms") that will likely challenge several of the core premises articulated here. Happy to discuss with interested parties. (And hoping that b-sky can be a site for these kind of exchanges.)

not a thinker

ooooooh!

every day

notice how strategically he says "we" and build that into your politics yesterday

Elon Musk says he's forming a new political party The "America Party" will pursue an agenda of grifting, racism, and ignoring crosswalks

Bless Hunter
www.unchartedblue.com/elon-musk-sa...

For a good introduction to the state-of-play, listen to this interview, check out the new Elgar COMPANION TO MODERN MONEY THEORY, and read Graeber, BULLSHIT JOBS. It's sobering stuff, but also at times reaffirming to know that people are working to affirm our humanity.

UMD Report Quantifies Impact of Federal Spending in State Smith School Grad Students Conduct Research for Comptroller’s Office

There are so many levels of denial revealed in this project. Breathtaking.

"Through this partnership with the University of Maryland, we are gaining the data and insight needed to assess the risks of federal dependency and to chart a more resilient economic path for Maryland's future,” she said.

Senate referee rejects key Medicaid cuts in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has rejected key Medicaid provisions in the Senate GOP megabill, a ruling that appears to strike a major blow to Republicans’ strategy for cutting …

Go figure. It's going to be a long summer; important to stay hydrated.
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Zohran Mamdani's Win Is the Beginning of the End of the Old Democratic Party Mamdani's NYC primary victory shows that the old tricks of the political establishment are dying out—and something new is being born.

These people, used to living on the margins of the political mainstream, have been catapulted into its center. This, I think, is not going to be a fluke. The stuck wheel of the Democratic Party is beginning to turn. — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

What It Took To Win Thoughts on Zohran Mamdani's Popular Front

"The problem with the polling and all the emphasis on data in contemporary politics is that it does not take into account that the electorate doesn’t really exist until election day, and the politician and his or her campaign are actively creating that electorate."

Agree. Feel that this turn as been "inevitable"--given the arc of progressive change in the U.S.--but also totally unpredictable (time-wise), again given that arc!

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

Moral Economies of Money | Stanford University Press For much of American history, large numbers of people claimed that money was a public good and asserted the right to shape money creation practices. If popular knowledge about money creation was once ...

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The Modern Money Network Bringing accurate and accessible monetary knowledge to the broader public.

modernmoneynetwork.org

findingmoneyfilm.com

Money Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn human civilization to the era of ‘virtual’ mo...

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Let's talk about "money in the real world"! The kind that is actually issued and circulated. Click below for a range of introductions. . . .

Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first stunning images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission – marking a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s ...

It is well worth taking a look at some of the first striking and beautiful Biomass images at ESA. I like the landscape in Gabon, but there are also rivers, volcanoes, and a glacier if they're more what you're looking for: www.esa.int/Applications...

The Uni Currency Project: Resource Page Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Below are links to our essays and interviews relate…

Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Here are links to our essays and interviews related to this project.

*sigh*

90% of Cuomo’s campaign was focused on Israel and calling Mamdani a threat to jewish people.

90% of Mamdani’s campaign was focused on how he is going to help all New Yorkers

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Noteworthy, I think, that the Democratic establishment are putting much more effort into stopping Mamdani than stopping Trump

noble effort; this team has been fearless

Six members of Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago are launching an indefinite hunger strike to demand an end to the Gaza genocide

History, shmistory. . . .

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Here's a primary source for the ages. (Bonus line: "real estate was our bread and butter.")

made of Lego pieces?