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Out of the Shadows: Public Banking for Municipal Finance By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson In a recent essay, we advanced a proposal for sub-federal governments to sell municipal bonds to their own public banks. We took the city as our primary point…

"Our plan ... replaces the opaque and volatile shadows of private intermediation with a transparent, public-facing mechanism anchored in the enduring fiscal authority of the city government."

It’s nauseating to watch the cruelty. I really don’t understand why anyone would support it.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
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" @drjamesehansen.bsky.social said he'd been told by NOAA colleagues that their conditions are much worse than those in NASA.
A NOAA scientist cannot speak with a reporter unless there is a 'listener' on the line with him or her. It seems more like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union than the US."
2006

Israel 🇮🇱 is accused of spraying chemicals on farmland inside Syria 🇸🇾 & Lebanon 🇱🇧to destroy crops & plants.

Al Jazeera's Ayman Oghanna reports from Quneitra in southern Syria, where farmers say the damage is threatening their livelihoods.

#IsraelIsATerroristState

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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

Under DHS’ use-of-force policy, moves that cut off a person's breathing “must not be used as a means to control non-compliant subjects or persons resisting arrest.”

But videos we reviewed showed agents using these restraints to do just that.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

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…

Let's democratize public universities and give them the power to create money for their communities.

Masked federal agents removing crates of belongings from the ICE shooter's home

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers.

Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

Major shift to plant-based food could offset years of CO2 emissions A widespread dietary shift from meat to plant-based foods could offset years of harmful CO2 emissions, according to a study from NYU

A widespread dietary shift from meat to plant-based foods could offset years of harmful CO2 emissions, according to a study from NYU 🌎

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

(Published November)

Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin model—using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…

This is plausible

The Unspoken Exclusion: Animal Rights & Intersectionality Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi

“Treated like an animal” = our baseline for abuse. That alone should tell us everything about human supremacy.

“Both of them.”

The federal government creates its own dollars. It spends dollars into existence and taxes them out of existence. It literally doesn't need California tax dollars.

Palestine Protests Target Philly-Based 'Genocide Profiteer' Day & Zimmermann - UNICORN RIOT Philadelphia, PA — “Before long the entire city will know what this company does!” These were some of the last words spoken Tuesday morning by a protester with a megaphone and a kaffiyeh scarf after a...

“Before long the entire city will know what this company does!” said an activist outside of Day & Zimmermann, a “construction, engineering, staffing and ammunition manufacture” company that makes shells and machine gun rounds used by Israel to kill Palestinians.

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I think it's more of a spectrum than a binary. Voting still matters. Just not as much as it should. And mostly as a defense from things getting even worse.

This animation shows how temperatures have changed over the last 100 years for each February-April period. On each map, red shading indicates warmer than average conditions, and blue shading shows the opposite. Note the trend.

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).

Feed vs. Food: How Farming Animals Fuels Hunger Have you ever heard the claim that most animal feed is inedible to humans? The reality is farming animals fuels food scarcity and inequity.

#GlobalHunger #FoodInsecurity #OncomingGlobalFamine #SOS

Vegans often hear the claim that 86% of animal feed is inedible to humans

HOWEVER…

‘the research behind this figure shows the #opposite:
animal feed competes w food security.
Let’s break it down: …’
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Rep Jerry Nadler says 3 children who are U.S. citizens have been deported and their families have been denied access to attorneys. One of the children has a rare form of cancer and was deported without their medicine or access to their doctor. We must end this cruelty.

Crimes against humanity!
I am sickened to my core!
This must be stopped!

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

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A government deficit = A domestic private surplus

World reserve currency means our government must print enough dollars to keep both our domestic economy in dollar surplus as well as supply the world with dollars by running trade deficits

Everyone uses their dollars to buy a treasury bond

"It's the corruption, stupid."

I feel more like veganism is a moral baseline more than a high aspiration. It's really not that hard.

The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg ). The post reads: "Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that."

Keep the Congressional switchboard number handy these days: (202) 224-3121

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.