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People and planet are real, finance is delusion.
#mmt #metacrisis #meaningcrisis

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Bob Gorman @bobgorman8791.bsky.social · Jan 18
Chris Hedges: How Fascism Came youtu.be/qyZbhavRvi4?...
Chris Hedges: How Fascism Came
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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FACT CHECK: Medicare for All Would Save the U.S. Trillions; Public Option Would Leave Millions Uninsured, Not Garner Savings www.citizen.org/news/fact-ch...
FACT CHECK: Medicare for All Would Save the U.S. Trillions; Public Option Would Leave Millions Uninsured, Not Garner Savings - Public Citizen
Medicare for All opponents repeatedly claim that Medicare for All is “too expensive” by presenting misleading numbers without the proper…
www.citizen.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Crypto giants moved billions linked to money launderers, drug traffickers and North Korean hackers

"Authorities alleged that they authorized transactions bound for “'terrorists, cybercriminals and child abusers.'"
Via @icij.org

www.icij.org/investigatio...
When President Donald Trump pardoned Changpeng “CZ” Zhao in October, the White House press secretary painted the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange as the victim of a political witch hunt. “The Biden administration’s war on crypto is over,” declared Karoline Leavitt. Zhao and his company, Binance, had both pleaded guilty in November 2023 to operating without basic safeguards to prevent money laundering. Authorities alleged that they authorized transactions bound for “terrorists, cybercriminals and child abusers.”
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
bobgorman8791.bsky.social
US Senate Floor Proceedings

Live Discussion, Tuesday, November, 18, 2025 - Epstein Legislation

www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Floor Schedule Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025 Convene at 3:00 p.m. Previous Meeting
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Reposted by Bob Gorman
leahmcelrath.bsky.social
MARY K. BRUCE is swinging for the fences today!!!

(I’m serious about the need to show her and ABC News support, btw. Trump will likely go after her job and possibly ABC News license for this.)
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?

TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)
Via @ushouseofreps.bsky.social
youtube.com/live/JB6RwmV...
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)
YouTube video by US House Clerk
youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Weasel of the House Mike Johnson

“Speaker Johnson Addresses Epstein Files Vote”

Via @ms.now
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
bobgorman8791.bsky.social
Now: Lawmakers Take Questions Ahead of Epstein Vote

Via @ms.now
bobgorman8791.bsky.social Bob Gorman @bobgorman8791.bsky.social · 2d
The future of politics in the US, hopefully, yes: @rokhanna.bsky.social, Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Green, et al.
Thank you
🙏
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The future of politics in the US, hopefully, yes: @rokhanna.bsky.social, Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Green, et al.
Thank you
🙏
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Goldman CEO David Solomon warns ‘there will be a reckoning’ around the $38 trillion national debt

finance.yahoo.com/news/goldman...

Via @yahoofinance.com

(GS assets under management are $3.3T. I wonder if its AUM will continue to grow if US national debt stops growing?)
Goldman CEO David Solomon warns ‘there will be a reckoning’ around the $38 trillion national debt
On the debt growing from $7 trillion to $38 trillion in just five years, Solomon said "it doesn't seem like we have the ability to pull it back."
finance.yahoo.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
bobgorman8791.bsky.social
4 horsemen of the apocalypse updated for the 21st century

Finance
Insurance
Real Estate
Technology

Corrupted 80% of Congress, 2/3 of the Supreme Court, and the office of President

To indenture 340+ million humans and control all the resources of the United States.
Finance Insurance Real Estate Technology
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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lalegault.bsky.social
This clip will be forever burned into my brain. When @sanders.senate.gov told them they would be killing 51,000 people with their vote and they did it anyway. It was like watching him beg for mercy at a public execution.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
For those who might not know to what I’m referring, Bill Kristol has been on a bit of a journey:
Bill Kristol @BillKristol My inner social democrat enjoyed Mamdani quoting Eugene Debs last night. I recall my even-more-suppressed inner social democrat being pleased in 1990 when Debs was inducted during the first Bush administration into the Labor Department's Hall of Honor. Hall of Honor Inductee: Eugene V. Debs From dol.gov 6:57 AM • 11/5/25 • 396K Views Bill Kristol @BillKristol 1/20/24 I think capitalism far superior to socialism, and free markets with a welfare state and some regulation far superior to a government-run economy with limited room for freedom. But if capitalists side with authoritarians--better social democracy than corporatist authoritarianism. Bill Kristol @BillKristol Thank you for coming to my inner social democrat TED talk, provoked by reading a couple of articles about Davos. 7:40 AM • 1/20/24 • 105K Views
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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the perlstein piece you link is such a rosetta stone to the moment, cant recommend it enough

thebaffler.com/salvos/the-l...
The Long Con | Rick Perlstein
Mitt Romney lies to be loved.
thebaffler.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Can a synthesis between @doynefarmer.bsky.social’s microeconomics approach to agent-based modeling and your macroeconomics approach using Minsky to agent-based modeling be possible @professorstevekeen.bsky.social?

open.substack.com/pub/profstev...
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Complexity theory to shift new economic paradigm is critical. Systemic determinants might include what Dr. Ashley Hodgson terms the manipulative “persuasive sector.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
“And the recognition that a system has to involve balancing forces, and that the style of the bounds on a forest actually do determine the style of growth. So we are in this habit of thinking of growth and bounds as being opposites. But they're only opposites if you force them into the same dimension. If you force the forest into, we're only thinking about square footage, then yes, bounds on the square footage of the forest stops growth in square footage. But the problem is, if we're thinking about our economic system and the creation of value between human beings, that is not inherently opposed to bounds on planetary usage or bounds on other things, bounds on exploitation, bounds on the way that persuasive sector, the advertising and propaganda is used, bounds can coexist with growth.” From The Jim Rutt Show: EP 296 Ashley Hodgson on Economic Mythology and System Change, Apr 15, 2025 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jim-rutt-show/id1470622572?i=1000703669841&r=1867 This material may be protected by copyright.
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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When I Was John Fetterman

“I was one of the senator’s most dedicated consultants—until I saw a side of him that made me sick,” writes
Leah Abrams

open.substack.com/pub/thenatio...
When I Was John Fetterman
I was one of the senator’s most dedicated campaign staff—until I saw a side of him that made me sick.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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rokhanna.bsky.social
Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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FACT CHECK: Medicare for All Would Save the U.S. Trillions...

Medicare for All Would Cover Everyone, Save Money and End Medical Debt

Via @publiccitizen.bsky.social

www.citizen.org/news/fact-ch...
FACT CHECK: Medicare for All Would Save the U.S. Trillions; Public Option Would Leave Millions Uninsured, Not Garner Savings - Public Citizen
Medicare for All opponents repeatedly claim that Medicare for All is “too expensive” by presenting misleading numbers without the proper…
www.citizen.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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patrioticmillionaires.org
Our President, Erica Payne, spoke with Fast Company, and shared our super simple message for the FAA during the shutdown:

“If you need a 10% reduction [in flights], you can get 100% of your reduction from the private planes.”
www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa...
These millionaires have a suggestion for the FAA: Cancel all private jet flights during the shutdown
Private jets make up one in six flights handled by the FAA, and taxpayers already foot the bill for their 'jet setting,' says Patriotic Millionaires.
www.fastcompany.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
bobgorman8791.bsky.social
Public safety and affordability are related. If democratic government focuses on increasing wealth for a relative few, rather eliminating precarity for all, civilization will always be susceptible to authoritarianism and look to an Übermensch for answers. What is your plan democrats?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d
Jeffries: "Now it's incumbent upon everyone in New York City, those that supported the next mayor and those that didn't, to make sure that he's as successful as he can possibly be on all the things, including, perhaps most importantly, affordability and public safety."
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Why are so many on food assistance?

Why does the ACA use insurance to fund healthcare?

Why do student loans fund education?

Why is expanding roads by one lane in each direction better than rail?

When democrats offer a plan based on superior answers to above questions and others, they will win.
Top picture shows two highway lanes of stand still traffic. In a caption bubble above one car a driver states: “Can’t wait for the road to be widened.” Bottom picture shows three highway lanes of stand still traffic. In a caption bubble above one car a driver states: “Finally!”
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Hedonistic wealth growth for one or a few should not be the goal of civilization. Instead, it should be to eliminate suffering for all. To achieve that an economics should be conceived to incentivize the growth of happiness based on virtuous, ethical-based wisdom, Eudaimonia.
November 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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This index implies stabilizing infinite growth of wealth, not growth in civilizational stability. Democracy is on the verge of suffocation by predatory capitalism, replaced with fascism.

Critical and Emerging Technologies Index

Via @belfercenter.bsky.social

www.belfercenter.org/critical-eme...
Critical and Emerging Technologies Index
Built with public and commercial data, this Index is a quantitative model presented through an interactive dashboard. It enables policymakers, strategists, and researchers to assess the national power...
www.belfercenter.org
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM