Scott Ferguson

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

No likey.

Contesting the End of India’s Job Guarantee

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Follow-up piece!👇

Six pin badges, six of them featuring the Where Credit’s Due logo (two trees in the shape of Middlesbrough’s iconic transporter bridge) and three with the Money on the Left logo

Our next workshop is at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough this Saturday morning and we have a few spaces left - come for the chat about inclusive monetary design, stay for the pin badges!

Book here: wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com/events

On Merger Policy and Labor By Sanjukta Paul What’s a merger? A merger is a specific method of expanding the scope of a particular form of economic coordination that has been authorized by law. There is nothing natural or nec…

Good time as any to ask @sanjukta.bsky.social: What's a merger?

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…

"[G]rounding municipal debt finance in a chartered public bank, regulated oversight, and direct access to central bank liquidity ... moves our model firmly into the light of the regulated banking system."

✨ MotL 88 is live! ✨

We speak with Khush Vachhrajani about the systemic dismantling of India's rural job guarantee program & the growing movement of workers, unions & activists who refuse to let it die.

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Please listen & share!

* Transcript forthcoming ...

Yet another destructive & self-undermining move.

Tyler & I wrote a follow-up piece, clarifying how our plan to mobilize public banks for municipal finance actually drives public credit away from, rather than deeper into, the anti-democratic & crisis-prone shadow banking sector.

Guess they didn't pay close enough attention in Sunday School.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

jfc

ICE is one of federal fascism's key fronts, but states can blunt this front by ending collaboration with detention centers. For those of us in New York:

1️⃣ Go to nydignitynotdetention.org to learn about the Dignity Not Detention Act;

2️⃣ Read @envfreefund.bsky.social's thread and help move the bill.

Dispatch: Letter Carriers Are Gearing Up for Another Contract Fight Members of the Letter Carriers (NALC) have kicked off their next contract fight. Negotiations began February 25, and their current agreement expires in May. On Sunday, February 22, letter carriers…

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going to keep saying: to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Gotta say: I really love this month's episode art by Zach Nosbisch.

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Look, the Dems are going to be in big trouble unless they keep peddling the same mealy mouthed neoliberal fecklessness that got us into this mess.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis backs a new bill targeting unions; those who support him won't be affected The measure was pushed by the Freedom Foundation, a right-wing think tank funded by billionaires, whose intention is to eliminate public sector unions.

SB 1296 is meant to undercut & disempower Florida’s teachers, staff, professors & other public employees. Vote NO on SB 1296.

For over 20 years, India’s national 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 model for social security. Tragically, that lifeline is now being cut.

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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. ✊️