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Brian Boland

@btb.bsky.social

Former tech exec turned advocate for economic justice. Anti-Milton Friedman, pro-progressive economics à la Stiglitz, Raworth, and Graeber. Passionate about justice, rethinking capital's role, and aligning finances with values.

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Latest posts by btb.bsky.social on Bluesky

To me this is the logical conclusion of neoliberalism

10.10.2025 17:20 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or in this case that it is someone else...

10.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

10.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump and Netanyahu hold press conference to announce plan to ‘end Gaza conflict’ – live Hamas still must agree to proposal; Trump hosted phone call between US, Israel and Qatar during which Netanyahu ‘expressed deep regret’ for attacking Doha

The devil is always in the details. This detail is a little devil. This "board of peace" will likely sell off Gaza assets to wealthy developers for cheap. Or something else that doesn't benefit Palestinians.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

29.09.2025 18:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh please. Nikita is such a hype mercenary. No substance there

13.09.2025 06:20 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you want to know one source for where the drive to violence is coming from, look no further than Jesse Watters. He might as well give the next shooter a gun.

11.09.2025 00:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We must act now to shift the country away from the elites of both parties who are oppressing and extracting from Americans. The solutions aren't the status quo or the rhetoric of violence. Instead, we must shift wealth towards the people and build a wellbeing economy. More violence if we don't.

10.09.2025 21:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In "End Times", Peter Turchin speaks of the rise of political violence when you have gross wealth inequality, an immiserated public and fighting between the elites and counter elites. Historically this leads to a disintegration of societies. We are deep in this cycle in America.

10.09.2025 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How would a Joshquake compare?

08.09.2025 06:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The core economy isn't working. It's clear that shareholder capitalism has failed and we need to usher in a new global model. There are clear options with a Wellbeing economy or doughnut economics.

24.08.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Unrealized cap gains is hardly a shakedown. Wealthy people have teams who spend time valueing their assets for insurance so they know what the value is there. We need to tax assets like we do labor - or we only grow the wealth inequality that is already out of control

24.08.2025 03:36 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"philosopher"

19.08.2025 21:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tell me you are a Michigan fan without saying you are a Michigan fan

15.08.2025 23:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ND would like their 2012 season wins back

15.08.2025 19:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley) The Labour Party is now owned by lobbyists 🤑 graceblakeley.substack.com/p/labour-has-sold-out

Much like the Democratic party in the United States, political parties around the world are selling out to private capital. @graceblakeley.substack.com highlights the UK Labour party selling out the working class.

substack.com/@graceblakel...

13.08.2025 22:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The many issues with the current Labour government laid out clearly by @graceblakeley.substack.com

13.08.2025 15:28 — 👍 65    🔁 37    💬 3    📌 2

Really clear chart showing what I think many people feel - climate disasters are accelerating while we fail to act decisively

07.08.2025 01:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A very clear and concerning chart - especially when we are increasing investment into fossil fuel

06.08.2025 23:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I thought all of these once in a thousand year weather events were just coincidence

06.08.2025 23:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very true

31.07.2025 01:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EX GREEN BERET: “In my entire career, I never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate & unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving civilian population until I was in Gaza at the hands of IDF & US contractors… without question, war crimes.”

26.07.2025 04:10 — 👍 5109    🔁 2128    💬 96    📌 113

Would love to test. Also would love to know what perspective you are bringing to a stand alone client

26.07.2025 03:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With the changing of federal funding of EV charging networks, does this leave Tesla in a position to dominate charging across the US?

17.07.2025 15:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This--that Signal would rather exit a market than undermine the core security and privacy technology that protects the people who use Signal--always still holds. We don't change our principles based on jurisdiction, legislative attack, or time of day...

11.07.2025 08:42 — 👍 811    🔁 114    💬 15    📌 11
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Ok. Fine. I finally accept that we are living in a simulation.

04.07.2025 05:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Equity-Washing: KKR, Ownership Works and The Polished New Face of Corporate Greed "Equity-Washing" is a predatory PR strategy, not a revolution in worker empowerment. Private equity giants like KKR use the language of "shared ownership" as a cynical ploy to boost their reputation a...

"Equity-washing" is the story private equity tells to align a worker's loyalty with an investor's short-term profit motive. It offers the feeling of ownership to motivate the workforce. A bonus for workers, while the temporary owners keep the long-term wealth.

www.delta-fund.org/post/equity-...

01.07.2025 15:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

So now in the United States you might be safer in jail than out in the public?

01.07.2025 01:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Need to keep up this trend

25.06.2025 03:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is very very good. Replace the legacy party!

25.06.2025 02:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Desantis says it's ok to run over protesters...

15.06.2025 23:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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