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Film Theory of the State: A classic mind bender from our archives.
21 – Film Theory of the State
In this episode, cohosts Natalie Smith, Will Beaman & Maxximilian Seijo reflect on some ill-fated responses to the right-wing insurrection at the Capitol, utilize feminist psychoanalysis to art…
moneyontheleft.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Film Theory of the State: A classic mind bender from our archives.
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Dear President Shitcoin,
The Unofficial Lives of Public Money
by Will Beaman Recent Money on the Left proposals for endogenous credit campaigns—like Unis or Blue Bonds—often run headlong into an unspoken but deeply rooted distinction between “official” and “u…
moneyontheleft.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Dear President Shitcoin,
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Coordination rights are fundamental to the process of building resilient communities and determine whether social provisioning systems are “collective” or “concentrated.”
Food, Money & Democracy
Money on the Left: History, Theory, PracticeVol. 1, No. 1 (2022)ISSN 2833-051X Food, Money & Democracy: Cultivating Collective Provisioning for Resilient & Equitable Communities of WorkBy B…
moneyontheleft.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Coordination rights are fundamental to the process of building resilient communities and determine whether social provisioning systems are “collective” or “concentrated.”
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We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis.
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/02/t...
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Heterodox economist Jamee K. Moudud returns to Money on the Left to discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire? (Routledge, 2025).
Legal & Political Foundations of Capitalism with Jamee K. Moudud
Heterodox economist Jamee K. Moudud returns to Money on the Left to discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire? (Routledge, 2025). The phrase “ins…
moneyontheleft.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Heterodox economist Jamee K. Moudud returns to Money on the Left to discuss his new book, Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire? (Routledge, 2025).
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🚨BREAKING: In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In a Win for Voters, Wisconsin Judge Withdraws Anti-Voting Order on Proof of Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
Senior Writer, Culture
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
He has to be the most hated person in the United States - ever !
Trump being booed by massive crowd at Washington Commanders game yesterday.
Trump being booed by massive crowd at Washington Commanders game yesterday.
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Trying to piece together footage from the last few months in any coherent way just feels like making a trailer for a horror movie starring the feds...and all things considered, that's probably about where we're at.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Trying to piece together footage from the last few months in any coherent way just feels like making a trailer for a horror movie starring the feds...and all things considered, that's probably about where we're at.
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More and more people are saying this!
Democratic leadership is incapable of fighting fascism or for the working class. Join @workingfamilies.org and @demsocialists.bsky.social.
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
More and more people are saying this!
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Real talk, friends: Schumer won't resign, and Dems will remain impotent federally through 2026. So what can we do?
Organize ever more people into the orgs waging primaries.
In NYC, the tip of the Left electoral spear is now NYC-DSA. But just about everywhere else in NY, Left primaries win via WFP.
Organize ever more people into the orgs waging primaries.
In NYC, the tip of the Left electoral spear is now NYC-DSA. But just about everywhere else in NY, Left primaries win via WFP.
Tonight, Senate Republicans — aided by eight Democrats — passed a funding bill that will raise healthcare premiums for millions of Americans and leave some families without health care at all.
Let's discuss.
Let's discuss.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Real talk, friends: Schumer won't resign, and Dems will remain impotent federally through 2026. So what can we do?
Organize ever more people into the orgs waging primaries.
In NYC, the tip of the Left electoral spear is now NYC-DSA. But just about everywhere else in NY, Left primaries win via WFP.
Organize ever more people into the orgs waging primaries.
In NYC, the tip of the Left electoral spear is now NYC-DSA. But just about everywhere else in NY, Left primaries win via WFP.
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Building organization entails attending not only to one's own base but to the broader organizational ecosystem as a whole.
• Who else is inhabiting the same ecosystem?
• What is each org's niche (role) within it?
• What essential niches are currently most undervalued (and thus most under-occupied)?
• Who else is inhabiting the same ecosystem?
• What is each org's niche (role) within it?
• What essential niches are currently most undervalued (and thus most under-occupied)?
December 28, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Building organization entails attending not only to one's own base but to the broader organizational ecosystem as a whole.
• Who else is inhabiting the same ecosystem?
• What is each org's niche (role) within it?
• What essential niches are currently most undervalued (and thus most under-occupied)?
• Who else is inhabiting the same ecosystem?
• What is each org's niche (role) within it?
• What essential niches are currently most undervalued (and thus most under-occupied)?
Looks fascinating. 😁
On Weds 26 November from 3.30-4.30pm GMT @robynollett.bsky.social and I will be sharing some of our latest research via MS Teams as part of @teessideuni.bsky.social’s English & Creative Writing Research Seminar series. Why not join us online?
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Looks fascinating. 😁
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“Mamdani could, in the span of a single term, dynamically change the entirety of U.S. higher education for the better.”
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production
Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“Mamdani could, in the span of a single term, dynamically change the entirety of U.S. higher education for the better.”
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The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.”
So I don’t know man.
So I don’t know man.
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.”
So I don’t know man.
So I don’t know man.
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Missed connection: you almost hit me with your car 🩷
June 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Missed connection: you almost hit me with your car 🩷
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony - Olivia Rodrigo singing The White Stripes, Tyler, the Creator doing OutKast, Elton John paying tribute to Brian Wilson. Highlight after highlight: Chappell Roan inducts Cyndi Lauper, David Letterman for Warren Zevon, Brandi Carlile sings “Black Hole Sun”…
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Beautiful.
Support our students. Fund our teachers. Nurture everyone.
Support our students. Fund our teachers. Nurture everyone.
Why I use the hashtag
#MayorCardamom
#EducatorsForZohran
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@stucknation.bsky.social
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@claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social
@wbai.org
#ArturoOFarrill
#AfroLatinJazzAlliance
#CasaBelongo
#MusicEducation
#LEAPnyc
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#MayorCardamom
#EducatorsForZohran
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@stucknation.bsky.social
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
@claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social
@wbai.org
#ArturoOFarrill
#AfroLatinJazzAlliance
#CasaBelongo
#MusicEducation
#LEAPnyc
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Why I use the hashtag #MayorCardamom
YouTube video by Antonia Marrero
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November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Beautiful.
Support our students. Fund our teachers. Nurture everyone.
Support our students. Fund our teachers. Nurture everyone.
2 great flavors
The enshittification of labor
Pavlina Tcherneva, getting her peanut butter in my chocolate.
doctorow.medium.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
2 great flavors
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“Public investment, viewed as deficit spending from the standpoint of the cautious investor, was in fact surplus creation for the public as a whole.
From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...
From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
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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…
moneyontheleft.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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It's not a bailout from taxpayer-citizens, it's a bailout from the system as a whole in order to preserve oligarchic rule
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It's not a bailout from taxpayer-citizens, it's a bailout from the system as a whole in order to preserve oligarchic rule
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This is an elite demand for something that ALL infrastructure needs for macroeconomic stabilization. The issue is not backstops, it's the antisocial and unaccountable nature of the company and the "too big to fail" logic only applying to them.
All infrastructure is too big to fail.
All infrastructure is too big to fail.
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
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OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This is an elite demand for something that ALL infrastructure needs for macroeconomic stabilization. The issue is not backstops, it's the antisocial and unaccountable nature of the company and the "too big to fail" logic only applying to them.
All infrastructure is too big to fail.
All infrastructure is too big to fail.
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Mamdani has already displayed unparalleled political expertise in debunking myths about public spending. We build on this expertise.
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 …
moneyontheleft.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Mamdani has already displayed unparalleled political expertise in debunking myths about public spending. We build on this expertise.
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Trump and Vought illegally shuttered the office Congress created to protect and assist veterans, military personnel and their families with their financial issues. Since federal courts paused the firings, they refused to staff work.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69624...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69624...
www.courtlistener.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Trump and Vought illegally shuttered the office Congress created to protect and assist veterans, military personnel and their families with their financial issues. Since federal courts paused the firings, they refused to staff work.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69624...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69624...