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Reclaiming the Public Interest: Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson What chance do local governments have in fighting authoritarian austerity, especially when they are left to rely on feckless legislators at the state and fede…

CITIES SHOULD SELL MUNICIPAL BONDS TO THEIR OWN PUBLIC BANKS

Vachhrajani contextualizes the sudden 2026 demise of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act & its replacement by arbitrary budget caps & centralized control.

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Last month in Florida: New organizing and union election results (Feb. 2026) Catch up on new union organizing, feat. restaurant workers at Tampa International Airport, union staff, supervisory public employees on the Treasure Coast and more.

At the same time, we continue to see new organizing in Florida and union members voting in favor of recertifying their unions, as is now required under state law for most public sector unions with a dues-paying membership of below 60% open.substack.com/pub/caringcl...

For over 20 years, India’s rural jobs program provided a legal right to work for over 265 million people–the majority of them women–serving as a vital lifeline against poverty & a global model for social security. Tragically, however, that lifeline is being cut.

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Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

This is how we do it.

I'm still optimistic overall, but this is a real risk. To the extent the far right has a path after Trump, it involves a fifth column of far right sympathizers close to Democratic Party leadership keeping the left out of power while the GOP is slowly reformed into an "America First" nazi party.

Increasingly concerned about a fifth column of nazi-curious Democrats (Newsom, Platner, Krishnamoorthi) expanding rapidly as Trump sunsets and more of these people rebrand as Democrats.

If Newsom is the nominee he will facilitate this while the GOP is taken over by MTG and Tucker Carlson.

Socially necessary Graeber time

We had an incredible conversation with Khush Vachhrajani this month. Khush not only details the current dismantling of India's rural job guarantee program, but also connects the ongoing fight for the jobs program to a broader politics of money. Please have a listen.

Pre-Code Movies on TCM in March 2026 TCM Programmers: What America needs right now is, like, 50 fucking George Brent movies in a two-week period.

A ton of great pre-Codes await you on TCM this month, including all we need from life: a day of Joan Blondell movies! pre-code.com/pre-code-mov...

Consumer Protection Workers Survived DOGE Attacks through Quick Mobilization Federal workers and unions have proven to be a bulwark defending the rule of law and vital public services during President Trump’s second term. Our union at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau…

If everything had gone according to plan, Russ Vought would have fired every CFPB worker within his first week. Fortunately for the rule of law and every American cheated by the financial sector, very little went according to plan because of union power. ✊️

Reclaiming the Public Interest: Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson What chance do local governments have in fighting authoritarian austerity, especially when they are left to rely on feckless legislators at the state and fede…

"What chance do local governments have in fighting authoritarian austerity, especially when they are left to rely on feckless legislators at the state and federal levels who refuse to push back?"

The economic paradigm isn't working, but the proposals to change it are ruled out by the centrists. Finnish parties are focused on the debt brake, except for the Left Alliance.

A paradigm runs so deep that the majority perpetuates it's ideology by arguing through its logic.

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"The scarcity story – that there is only enough for some of us – is what makes the politics of hate viable"

If you like this topical thread by @robbhawkes.bsky.social, you'll love his piece showing how the Green Party is actually quite well-suited to advance key aspects of the proposal for "Democratic Public Finance" by @moneyontheleft.bsky.social.

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Huge congratulations to @greenparty.org.uk and to Hannah Spencer MP on a truly historic result in Gorton and Denton 🎉

As we build on momentum, all of us on the British left must now avoid falling into a very familiar trap. 🧵 1/

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

Wow!

H/t Kristin Thompson

Sometimes I think about how not very long ago I didn’t know Pete Hegseth existed.

A World Where All Is Free? That’s Elon Musk’s Theory of ‘Sustainable Abundance.’

I'm glad to hear that Musk is now a fully-automated luxury post-money communist because it helps reveal what a bullshit stance that is.

Reclaiming the Public Interest: Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson What chance do local governments have in fighting authoritarian austerity, especially when they are left to rely on feckless legislators at the state and fede…

Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks

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…

Where we're going, we don't need loans.

#ShareGoodNewsToo: UAW's first union at a foreign-owned auto company in the South (VW) ratifies its first-ever contract.

On UAW's unionization campaign at VW, here's a great "how we did it" piece by @chactivist.bsky.social.

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Making Digital Public Spaces w/ MUSICat This month Money on the Left is joined by the folks behind the MUSICat project, an online music streaming service for public libraries designed to share heterogenous local music…

Launched by the Madison Public Library in 2014, MUSICat has since been adopted by public libraries, including in Pittsburgh, Nashville, Fort Worth, New Orleans, Edmonton and elsewhere.

Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud

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Teaching Economics with Benjamin Wilson We are joined again by Benjamin Wilson to discuss what it is like to teach Economics from a heterodox Modern Monetary Theory perspective in 2023. Wilson is associate professor and recently-minted c…

Teaching Economics with Benjamin Wilson

Money Beyond Sovereignty (Essay) In her recent interview with the Money on the Left podcast, Lua Yuille offers a helpful critique of how Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is often characterized by proponents as a value-neutral lens tha…

Money Beyond Sovereignty

characteristically good work from Serwer. again saying: we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

Florida bill could allow college, university staff to carry guns on campus State lawmakers plan to expand the school guardian program based on Florida State shooting.

Please God no.

Florida uses emergency rule to cut patients off AIDS medication The state filed the changes the day before a legal hearing with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

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