@jmontgomerie
@jmontgomerie.bsky.social
Professor & Educator, feminist political economist, and full-time servant for 3 kids & 2 dogs. Researching money, debt & inequality (aka why we're all broke) and reforming how we money is taught (so we’re less broke). Neurodivergent thrifting queen
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@jmontgomerie.bsky.social
· Nov 23
For all educators, researchers & those passionate about progressive ideas & social justice
🎙 Podcast Series 🎧
Inequality: The Issue of Our Time—exploring the pressing challenges of inequality.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3Ri8vOAB3…
iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ine#Inequalityty
🎙 Podcast Series 🎧
Inequality: The Issue of Our Time—exploring the pressing challenges of inequality.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3Ri8vOAB3…
iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ine#Inequalityty
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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
April 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
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Hear no evil, hear all evil, hear some evil.
April 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Hear no evil, hear all evil, hear some evil.
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The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
April 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
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CDC was gutted today, entire departments wiped out, including much of the global HIV program. Career scientists and doctors lost their jobs overnight. This isn't just bureaucracy; people will die from preventable diseases, and public health will suffer for years. A massive step back for science.
April 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
CDC was gutted today, entire departments wiped out, including much of the global HIV program. Career scientists and doctors lost their jobs overnight. This isn't just bureaucracy; people will die from preventable diseases, and public health will suffer for years. A massive step back for science.
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March 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hi, we are an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible 👋🏻 With us, you select the independent bookshop you want to support (we have 3,000+ partners across the globe), and we share profits from your purchase with them.
We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.
We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.
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Elizabeth Chandler, a Quaker from DE, used her penmanship to advocate for abolitionism. Her poem “The Slave Ship,” gained national attention, exposing the horrors suffered by the captured and enslaved during the Slave Trade. 159 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD
March 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Elizabeth Chandler, a Quaker from DE, used her penmanship to advocate for abolitionism. Her poem “The Slave Ship,” gained national attention, exposing the horrors suffered by the captured and enslaved during the Slave Trade. 159 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD
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💰🔥 Trump’s Tariffs: What It Means for Canada
Trump’s tariffs deadline has passed—what’s next for Canadian businesses, trade, and local economies? From rising costs to cross-border sovereignty issues, the fallout could be massive.
More in this CBC report 👇
#TradeWars #Economy #CanadaUS #Tariffs
Trump’s tariffs deadline has passed—what’s next for Canadian businesses, trade, and local economies? From rising costs to cross-border sovereignty issues, the fallout could be massive.
More in this CBC report 👇
#TradeWars #Economy #CanadaUS #Tariffs
March 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
💰🔥 Trump’s Tariffs: What It Means for Canada
Trump’s tariffs deadline has passed—what’s next for Canadian businesses, trade, and local economies? From rising costs to cross-border sovereignty issues, the fallout could be massive.
More in this CBC report 👇
#TradeWars #Economy #CanadaUS #Tariffs
Trump’s tariffs deadline has passed—what’s next for Canadian businesses, trade, and local economies? From rising costs to cross-border sovereignty issues, the fallout could be massive.
More in this CBC report 👇
#TradeWars #Economy #CanadaUS #Tariffs
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We need some better language for pushing back against what the administration is doing. They’re not “ending DEI.”
No. They're firing women and people of color in the military.
They’re forbidding whole fields of research.
They’re erasing trans people from existence.
No. They're firing women and people of color in the military.
They’re forbidding whole fields of research.
They’re erasing trans people from existence.
March 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We need some better language for pushing back against what the administration is doing. They’re not “ending DEI.”
No. They're firing women and people of color in the military.
They’re forbidding whole fields of research.
They’re erasing trans people from existence.
No. They're firing women and people of color in the military.
They’re forbidding whole fields of research.
They’re erasing trans people from existence.
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"Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism."
UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…
moneyontheleft.org
March 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism."
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Remember the NAMES project, which commemorated all the people lost to AIDS?
I want a NAMES project for all the talented, qualified, patriotic organization leaders Americans are losing bc they aren't white, or aren't male, or aren't able-bodied.
We should know their names & remember what we lost.
I want a NAMES project for all the talented, qualified, patriotic organization leaders Americans are losing bc they aren't white, or aren't male, or aren't able-bodied.
We should know their names & remember what we lost.
March 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Remember the NAMES project, which commemorated all the people lost to AIDS?
I want a NAMES project for all the talented, qualified, patriotic organization leaders Americans are losing bc they aren't white, or aren't male, or aren't able-bodied.
We should know their names & remember what we lost.
I want a NAMES project for all the talented, qualified, patriotic organization leaders Americans are losing bc they aren't white, or aren't male, or aren't able-bodied.
We should know their names & remember what we lost.
The power of propaganda
“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.
March 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The power of propaganda
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At this rate, the broligarchs may actually reason themselves into the revelation that selfless, patriotic public service exists.
They're at Step 1 of ~100: The Discovery That Public Service Does Not Pay.
Next up: The Discovery That Civil Servants Do Valuable Work.
They're at Step 1 of ~100: The Discovery That Public Service Does Not Pay.
Next up: The Discovery That Civil Servants Do Valuable Work.
March 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
At this rate, the broligarchs may actually reason themselves into the revelation that selfless, patriotic public service exists.
They're at Step 1 of ~100: The Discovery That Public Service Does Not Pay.
Next up: The Discovery That Civil Servants Do Valuable Work.
They're at Step 1 of ~100: The Discovery That Public Service Does Not Pay.
Next up: The Discovery That Civil Servants Do Valuable Work.
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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but only if they pay me 5 million dollars for my instant-citizenship Gold Card.💰” -Comrade Krasnov
#GrifterInChief
#GrifterInChief
March 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but only if they pay me 5 million dollars for my instant-citizenship Gold Card.💰” -Comrade Krasnov
#GrifterInChief
#GrifterInChief
Trump supporters regret voting for him? Nope. Canadian MAGA fans rethinking their support? Also nope. Even when his trade wars kill jobs & bankrupt farms, they'll keep blaming everyone else. Don't wait for them to grow a conscience—just vote for the sane alternative.
#cdnpoli
#chaos
#tradewar
#cdnpoli
#chaos
#tradewar
March 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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The GOP keeps calling itself as a working-class party. But their budget plan calls for huge tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and slashing programs that help the working-class.
Don't fall for their rebrand.
Don't fall for their rebrand.
March 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The GOP keeps calling itself as a working-class party. But their budget plan calls for huge tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and slashing programs that help the working-class.
Don't fall for their rebrand.
Don't fall for their rebrand.
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Another plug for my new @bjsociology.bsky.social article with Narzanin Massoumi examining the appointment of corporate elites to the boards of charities.
No paywall btw! 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
No paywall btw! 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Elite Status‐Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society: An Analysis of Corporate Elite Appointments to Charity Boards
This article examines the relationship between economic elites and civil society by analysing the appointments of corporate elites to the boards of charitable companies in the UK. Whilst previous res...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Another plug for my new @bjsociology.bsky.social article with Narzanin Massoumi examining the appointment of corporate elites to the boards of charities.
No paywall btw! 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
No paywall btw! 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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“The American socioeconomic system has entered a period of chronic malaise, and Canadian business and the Canadian state have thrown in their lot with this declining superpower to an extent unparalleled in the past…”
- James Laxer, 1996
- James Laxer, 1996
March 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
“The American socioeconomic system has entered a period of chronic malaise, and Canadian business and the Canadian state have thrown in their lot with this declining superpower to an extent unparalleled in the past…”
- James Laxer, 1996
- James Laxer, 1996
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“No Other Land” won the Oscar for best documentary. The movie, directed by two Israelis and two Palestinians, chronicles the Israeli military’s efforts to demolish Palestinian homes in an area of the southern West Bank known as Masafer Yatta.
‘No Other Land,’ whose politics deterred distributors, wins best documentary.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“No Other Land” won the Oscar for best documentary. The movie, directed by two Israelis and two Palestinians, chronicles the Israeli military’s efforts to demolish Palestinian homes in an area of the southern West Bank known as Masafer Yatta.
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Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.
March 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.
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Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.