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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 …

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"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

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“Stay with Gaza even after the war ends.”

Palestinian journalist Saleh Al-Jaafarawi sends a heartfelt message of thanks to everyone who supported, stood by, and protested for Gaza and the Palestinian cause.

the usual useful list:

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Tremendous thanks to Cory Doctorow for helping us get the word out about Blue Bonds, MotL's fiscal strategy for mobilizing sub-federal debt financing to defeat authoritarian sabotage & extortion.

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What makes LLMs work as a business is precisely that all this text is decommodified, free. As they themselves say, they'd have to shut down if they had to pay for their trainging data. Yet all that data is the product of human labor. This cutting edge of capitalism rests on a substrate of communism.

When we look at the useful stuff that LLMs give us, we should not think, how cool is this technology. We should think, what an amazing range of useful work people are willing to share online, freely, without any monetary compensation. Which the machine is just summarizing for us.

Here’s my policy as President: you show up on our shores, you’re good to go. let’s make something of this life. let’s create something beautiful together. I’m coming over for dinner. I brought a great bottle of wine & some records. Do you like jazz?

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

MK, consider joining NYC-DSA? we would be lucky to have you as a member!

On Mourning and Statehood: A Response to Joshua Leifer - Dissent Magazine How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not.

This is structurally similar to the critique of Zionism as “a machine for the conversion of grief into power.” This is why you see ethnonationalist regimes instantly exploit martyrs to erode norms and increase their power. Victims “on their side” aren’t tragedies—they are fuel.

YouTube video by Porque Puedo Shut the fuck up Friday.

shut the fuck up Friday came early this week

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Work With Us - Climate and Community Institute Job opportunities at the Climate and Community Institute

‼️ Join my team ‼️ @cplusc.bsky.social is hiring a Housing Policy Manager to help advance progressive housing and climate solutions alongside some of the best tenant unions, labor unions, policymakers, and researchers in the field.

Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

Is it possible to NOT have a paywall? The 51st shows us how it's done...with a warning that it's not as easy as it looks

"Before their launch they ran one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns in worker-owned news history, raising over $276k from over 3.4k contributors"
@lexroman.com on @51st.news decision to be paywall free
Read more from @maddiepoore.bsky.social!
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the issue is the President currently has an unchallenged ability to assassinate at will for political gain, the token libertarian feigning concern here is so weak

yo this guy is cooking

City of Atlanta opening grocery store to clear up downtown food desert The Azalea Fresh Market opens on Friday.

The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today.

The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.

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Zohran Mamdani Is Winning the Battle. Here’s How He Can Win the War. Winning in November isn’t enough. A Mayor Mamdani will need a mass movement behind him to overcome an establishment that wants to crush him.

How can we get the 💲 for Zohran’s agenda?

1️⃣ Mass recruitment post-election
2️⃣ Mass trainings to form locally targeted strategies
3️⃣ Move the bad reps, get 💰

@ericblanc.bsky.social, Emily Lemmerman, and Wen Zhuang propose "Movement for an Affordable New York (MANY)."
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Opinion | Why Markets Aren’t Freaking Out Over Trump’s Attack on the Fed And why that’s a big mistake.

My new Politico Op Ed is live! Will send it out to my email list after I pick up lunch.

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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

NEWS: I'm running for U.S. Congress in Michigan's Seventh District, AKA the center of the universe. If you're in the area, come to our kickoff rally on Tuesday evening. If you aren't, follow our rollout here over the next week!

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:

"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

Zohran’s #ZcavengerHunt was a Rehearsal by the Money on the Left Editorial Collective What yesterday’s New York City #ZcavengerHunt made visible is a coalition rehearsing public works before even winning the general election. It was not …

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How can a scavenger hunt be a form of insurgent fiscal policy?

This weekend's #ZcavengerHunt ran on endogenous credit, not tax dollars, creating circuits of care & coordination. It’s a rehearsal for how we provision public life from the ground up.

Read more here!

Just an occupying force going around vandalizing my neighborhood to remove speech they don't like.

This is thuggish and counterproductive to any law enforcement goal they may pretend to have. It just highlights that unprofessional goons are occupying DC.

Can Democratic Socialists Seize the Moment? Democratic Socialists met in Chicago to sort out their differences and figure out how to take advantage of Zohran Mamdani's rising star.

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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.