In New York, 2026 will be a year in which cities lead the way.

The new mayors of NYC, Albany, and Syracuse will wield their governing power to fight fascism at the federal level and neoliberal austerity at the state.

Zohran will do this in NYC. In Syracuse, it will be Sharon Owens.

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.

This is exactly the kind of thing that I think the world needs more of. Our political/social/economic/tech systems should be by and for the people, not billionaires who exert control over our lives.

It’s now routine for pundits to ask Mamdani, Pritzker etc. if they are afraid Trump will arrest them, kill them, etc.

And somehow it doesn’t disrupt the horse race bit—they ask it like it’s a government shutdown or poll numbers.

These arguments have the vibe of a someone who never learned to see the care and support they take for granted as anything other than spontaneous free association, because it’s unpaid so it must be natural instead of “growth”

And then the nerve to say it’s exploitation to RECOGNIZE people.

Horrible.

A powerful fiscal counter-strategy stands ready for deployment: a bond drive for democracy.

This is a fascinating read. What a bold future

“Democratic Public Finance is the process of making collective capacities visible, organizing them democratically, and enabling us to care for each other”

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Teaching this under-appreciated gem again.

They’re calling it Woke 2.0 moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/d...

"What’s a Blue Bond? It’s a municipal or state bond, issued to replace the funds that Trump has illegally impounded. Blue states and cities can issue these bonds and use them to fund all the research, subsidies, programs and projects that Trump is trying to murder."

This episode examines how One Battle, which draws loose inspiration from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, deliberately removes specific historical markers to place the story in an ambiguous present of ongoing revolution and counter-revolution.

"The present text argues that a robust response to the ills of market ideology requires cultivating shared knowledge about the political constitution of money."

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We speak with Lauren Arrington about her forthcoming book on women artists in the Federal Arts Project.

"[W]hen we allow the appearance of money scarcity to persist, current human capacities and biophysical resources can appear secondary to money’s availability, and potentially redundant."

I’m so excited to share this document.

Hopefully Mamdani’s campaign inspired us enough to inspire them back 💙💛🧡

Genuinely crying at the idea of a politician who will represent me loudly advocating for my safety. trans people deserve this, we all do.

Yes. Tish James' prosecution also a story of—

1️⃣ Black women leading the way, time and time again, in protecting what few forms of democracy the US has had;

2️⃣ The struggle to block fascism and build instead a fuller, true democracy; and

3️⃣ The united front for democracy's leadership by the Left.

Throwback to this photo of Biden looking at the first quantum computer and integrating it into his Cold War boomer ideology as some kind of God

“DPF builds on MMT’s insights but pushes further: it sees money not just as a federal tool but as a design system embedded in law and governance at every level. It asks how public credit can be mobilized even within existing constraints…”

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“It asks how public credit can be mobilized even within existing constraints—and how those constraints themselves can be named, politicized, and changed.”

- @moneyontheleft.bsky.social