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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 8h

Open fiscal sabotage.

It’s not *if* Democrats will issue bonds and repeal balanced budget amendments to stay alive; it’s *when*.

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Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 14h

In this episode of the Superstructure podcast, Scott Ferguson is joined by independent film scholar Jonathan Haynes to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another.

One Battle After Another

In this episode of the Superstructure podcast, Scott Ferguson is joined by independent film scholar Jonathan Haynes to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. T…

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Katie Cannon @katiecannon.bsky.social · 10h

Also, since the Fascists have seized our national currency, we should create fiscal insurgencies everywhere

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 14h

"If money is the ongoing process of issuing and deleting credits, it cannot be solely understood as an inert quantity that reflects past accomplishments. Money cannot be something we need to hoard to create a livable future. And it certainly cannot be scarce unless we make it so."

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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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 14h

"If money is the ongoing process of issuing and deleting credits, it cannot be solely understood as an inert quantity that reflects past accomplishments. Money cannot be something we need to hoard to create a livable future. And it certainly cannot be scarce unless we make it so."

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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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.bsky.social · 13h

Healthcare, childcare, care for elders and disabled people. Guaranteed jobs, incomes, homes. Mass transit. Green energy.

We were taught we can't afford to provide these to everyone. But somehow we've known that's false.

Let us now unlearn the old neoliberal ways by learning how to provide for all.

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 14h

"If money is the ongoing process of issuing and deleting credits, it cannot be solely understood as an inert quantity that reflects past accomplishments. Money cannot be something we need to hoard to create a livable future. And it certainly cannot be scarce unless we make it so."

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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⚡️ 지영 ⚡️ @jiyoung213.bsky.social · 16h

how to make money serve the people

Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 16h

And we make recommendations in these four areas:

Reframing Debt Issuance and Taxation

Mobilizing People Differently

Creating Public Banking and Payments Infrastructure

Challenging the deep structure of neoliberal finance in municipal, state & federal law

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 16h

Read the document. Download the PDF. Share it with the organizers, staffers, comrades and frenemies in your life.

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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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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 16h

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 16h

Read @moneyontheleft.bsky.social's "applied primer" to heterodox economics as a flexible policy framework!

We are used to hearing about Modern Monetary Theory as an inert list of axioms about federal finance, with limited relevance to anything else.

This document pushes further.

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 22h

"Mamdani has already displayed unparalleled political expertise in debunking myths about public spending. We build on this expertise, equipping the mayoralty with tools to openly and comprehensively challenge what we call Neoliberal Public Finance."

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 16h

And we make recommendations in these four areas:

Reframing Debt Issuance and Taxation

Mobilizing People Differently

Creating Public Banking and Payments Infrastructure

Challenging the deep structure of neoliberal finance in municipal, state & federal law

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 16h

When we connect familiar neoliberal chokepoints around the acquisition of public funds "How are you going to pay for it?" designed to stall progressive politics with Trump's fiscal shakedowns and open political sabotage, that's DPF.

When we stop justifying our very existence in $ terms, that's DPF

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 16h

When we point to unemployment, unpaid work, and cultural life as capacities to be activated rather than costs to "the taxpayer," that's DPF.

When we recognize human beings, education, childcare, recreation, as gifts and assets rather than costs, that's DPF.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 16h

Not only are there creative openings everywhere one looks for endogenous money to stabilize and expand state and local governments, universities and hospitals, and campaign infrastructures, but there are RHETORICAL openings everywhere too.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 16h

We present "Democratic Public Finance (DPF) as a broader political framework than MMT alone. Whereas MMT typically centers the federal government’s capacity to issue currency, DPF reframes all levels of collective life—federal, state, city—as potential sites of monetary transformation."

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 16h

Read @moneyontheleft.bsky.social's "applied primer" to heterodox economics as a flexible policy framework!

We are used to hearing about Modern Monetary Theory as an inert list of axioms about federal finance, with limited relevance to anything else.

This document pushes further.

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 22h

"Mamdani has already displayed unparalleled political expertise in debunking myths about public spending. We build on this expertise, equipping the mayoralty with tools to openly and comprehensively challenge what we call Neoliberal Public Finance."

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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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

"[S]ave your endorsements, save your reputation, spend only on the safe bet. The result, as Keynes would have predicted, is contraction. Each act of withholding tightens the circle until only the most loyal remain, and loyalty replaces shared responsibility as an inflexible medium of governance."

The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 22h

"The dialogic course moves differently. It neither compresses contradiction into a single resolving line nor dissolves it into fragments. It holds tension so people who disagree can still act together."

The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 1d

It was amazing. And I truly think the capacity to stay mobilized in completely unprecedented ways year round is already there, waiting. To the point that it’s scandalous how pessimistic one’s outlook is.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"Don’t tell us another New York City is not possible — we are already winning it." - tenant organizer Dorca Reynoso

tenant organizer Dorce Reynoso on stage at the podium

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 1d

The whole rally was incredible - IMMACULATE vibe, wildly exciting. But I especially loved Chi Ossé’s speech, because it looked toward a future where we do the work after we win.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 1d

But sure, it’s “the left” who has a creeping fascism problem. Specifically around Nick Fuentes (NYT fluff piece attached)

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 1d

David Pakman is on this list of influencers who accept dark money to have their talking points written and sent to them by the DNC, which also has a veto over what they can say.

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 1d

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