Geoff Coventry

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

(Published Oct. 2025)

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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a penguin is putting a coin into a piggy bank with the word pengu on the bottom ALT: a penguin is putting a coin into a piggy bank with the word pengu on the bottom

"If money is the ongoing process of issuing and deleting credits, it cannot be solely understood as an inert quantity that reflects past accomplishments. Money cannot be something we need to hoard to create a livable future."

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Thought-provoking critique

Women in the Federal Arts Project with Lauren Arrington We speak with Lauren Arrington about her forthcoming book on women artists in the Federal Arts Project. The Great Depression rendered 140,000 women and girls across the United States homeless. In 1…

We speak with Lauren Arrington about her forthcoming book on women artists in the Federal Arts Project.

FIFA Graft Prize

Frappes américaines dans les Caraïbes : la famille du pêcheur colombien tué porte plainte contre Washington

La famille d’un pêcheur colombien tué lors d’un bombardement des forces armées américaines contre de supposés narcotrafiquants dans les Caraïbes a porté plainte contre les États-Unis devant la Commission interaméricaine des droits de l’homme (CIDH)

Abstract for the article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-025-00779-4

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"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today

Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive

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External to what?

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

Ah yes, a useful exhibit for a successful Pigouvian Tax, and why their use as revenue generators is misplaced.

Ours went up 34% this year.

Health care isn't a "market"

Remember death panels?

Wait until you see #DeathChecks

We have two scholarship opportunities relating to our Graduate Economics of Sustainability program (MMT and ecological economics).
1) Up to 10 Global South Scholarships every trimester covering 90% of tuition fees leading to the 4-subject Graduate Certificate, for February, June or September start.

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”

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No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

YouTube video by MS NOW Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust

Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.

And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.

Public options for essentials, strategic price interventions, investment in housing and childcare — this is antifascist economics. It tackles the material conditions that make authoritarianism appealing.
In making life livable, democracy defends itself.

This looks promising

Spread the word...ICE you're next

It's gonna take some fighters and time to walk back this level of corruption of the democratic process

Headline news, if we had public media

Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States:

- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats

Those are just factual statements.

Levy on the Hill

Would make a great band name

Interesting comparison

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

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Where's the solidarity in the press corps in support of their female colleagues who have to deal with this every day?

If only the entire press corps would walk out when he speaks to reporters like this. Women, women reporters.
He’s disgusting.

Today Mike Johnson 1) railed against this bill 2) made up stuff about why this bill is bad 3) criticized the Dems and GOPers who forced a vote on this bill and 4) voted for this bill.

This is after he spent 5 months trying to prevent this bill from getting a vote.

“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”