Christian Reilly
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Co-host of The MMT Podcast
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Check out this week’s 1000 episode all about MMT and be even more pissed off about the govt shutdown pod.link/1707027844 @mmtpodcast.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Check out this week’s 1000 episode all about MMT and be even more pissed off about the govt shutdown pod.link/1707027844 @mmtpodcast.bsky.social
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This week's 1000 guest is @mmtpodcast.bsky.social ! Christian Reilly is a musical comedian, and upon discovering #MMT, needed to make it part of his creative output. What is Modern Monetary Theory? Basically, we were all lied to about money, this clears it up. pod.link/1707027844
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This week's 1000 guest is @mmtpodcast.bsky.social ! Christian Reilly is a musical comedian, and upon discovering #MMT, needed to make it part of his creative output. What is Modern Monetary Theory? Basically, we were all lied to about money, this clears it up. pod.link/1707027844
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🚨SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT
We are delighted to announce Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, economist Stephanie Kelton and author Gabor Maté will join our founder Jeremy Corbyn at our first annual conference.
🎟️Join us in London on 20 & 21 September 2025 for #PJPconf25: bit.ly/PJPconf25
We are delighted to announce Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, economist Stephanie Kelton and author Gabor Maté will join our founder Jeremy Corbyn at our first annual conference.
🎟️Join us in London on 20 & 21 September 2025 for #PJPconf25: bit.ly/PJPconf25
April 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🚨SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT
We are delighted to announce Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, economist Stephanie Kelton and author Gabor Maté will join our founder Jeremy Corbyn at our first annual conference.
🎟️Join us in London on 20 & 21 September 2025 for #PJPconf25: bit.ly/PJPconf25
We are delighted to announce Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, economist Stephanie Kelton and author Gabor Maté will join our founder Jeremy Corbyn at our first annual conference.
🎟️Join us in London on 20 & 21 September 2025 for #PJPconf25: bit.ly/PJPconf25
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@mmtpodcast.bsky.social your intro to MMT at the start of the latest episode was excellent. Such a good distillation. 👏
March 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
@mmtpodcast.bsky.social your intro to MMT at the start of the latest episode was excellent. Such a good distillation. 👏
Serious Q: what should ultra-rich donors who want to shift the Overton window to the left* do with their money instead of giving it to the Democrats?
DNC is hiring the same people who just blew the last election.
“Ken Martin is promoting from within...taking a stay-the-course approach to staffing despite the party’s losses in November…selections reflect the DNC’s post-election preference for experienced operatives over shaking up the party"
“Ken Martin is promoting from within...taking a stay-the-course approach to staffing despite the party’s losses in November…selections reflect the DNC’s post-election preference for experienced operatives over shaking up the party"
March 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Serious Q: what should ultra-rich donors who want to shift the Overton window to the left* do with their money instead of giving it to the Democrats?
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In this News Brief, "Media Continues Painting Musk's Far Right Coup as Good Faith 'Cost-Cutting Effort,'" we detail how NYT, WaPo, CNN and others continue to treat Musk's 'DOGE' committee as an aw shucks effort to "reduce waste" and "find savings" in our government.
News Brief: Media Continues Painting Musk's Far Right Coup as Good Faith
In this News Brief we detail how The New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN take a pathological liar with a clear ideological agenda at his word he's worried about
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February 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In this News Brief, "Media Continues Painting Musk's Far Right Coup as Good Faith 'Cost-Cutting Effort,'" we detail how NYT, WaPo, CNN and others continue to treat Musk's 'DOGE' committee as an aw shucks effort to "reduce waste" and "find savings" in our government.
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Notes on the Crises
Until Further Notice, Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025
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February 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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ICYMI I covered Marko Elez's strange sojourn out of, & back into, government & why the 19 state Attorney General lawsuit lowers the stakes of Elez's movements (at least as far as we can tell right now). Speaking of, the lawsuit cites Notes on the Crises!
www.crisesnotes.com/day-eleven-o...
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Day Eleven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Marko Elez’s Resignation, Return and Irrelevance
Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025
Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 & Part 6
If you are ...
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February 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
ICYMI I covered Marko Elez's strange sojourn out of, & back into, government & why the 19 state Attorney General lawsuit lowers the stakes of Elez's movements (at least as far as we can tell right now). Speaking of, the lawsuit cites Notes on the Crises!
www.crisesnotes.com/day-eleven-o...
www.crisesnotes.com/day-eleven-o...
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The reality is MAGA and Musk are now Too Big To Fail. Certainly a Nazi cannot be this close to power, but he also did a clear-as-day Nazi salute on live tv so the defense is going for manslaughter. “Ok fine he is a Nazi but only as a gag” becomes the compromise take to manage cognitive dissonance
January 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The reality is MAGA and Musk are now Too Big To Fail. Certainly a Nazi cannot be this close to power, but he also did a clear-as-day Nazi salute on live tv so the defense is going for manslaughter. “Ok fine he is a Nazi but only as a gag” becomes the compromise take to manage cognitive dissonance
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A marker of our uniquely cowardly times, the rise of Placebo Populism. a responsibility-evasion tactic popular with everyone from Joe Scarborough to Mark Zuckerberg to justify MAGA-lite. No one wants to own the evil shit they support so they launder their position as the alleged Voice of The People
January 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A marker of our uniquely cowardly times, the rise of Placebo Populism. a responsibility-evasion tactic popular with everyone from Joe Scarborough to Mark Zuckerberg to justify MAGA-lite. No one wants to own the evil shit they support so they launder their position as the alleged Voice of The People
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House votes 263-156 to pass the Laken Riley Act—which will enable Trump’s ICE to put migrants in detention without due process & empower states to block visa programs & federal immigration policy.
46 Democrats voted with Republicans.
12 Senate Democrats did the same.
Will be first bill Trump signs.
46 Democrats voted with Republicans.
12 Senate Democrats did the same.
Will be first bill Trump signs.
January 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
House votes 263-156 to pass the Laken Riley Act—which will enable Trump’s ICE to put migrants in detention without due process & empower states to block visa programs & federal immigration policy.
46 Democrats voted with Republicans.
12 Senate Democrats did the same.
Will be first bill Trump signs.
46 Democrats voted with Republicans.
12 Senate Democrats did the same.
Will be first bill Trump signs.
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Are people allowed to use their brains and connect dots or is it important everyone write each media story like they just woke up in a new scene in Memento and the overt Nazi guy is just worried about “finding savings” in govt spending
January 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Are people allowed to use their brains and connect dots or is it important everyone write each media story like they just woke up in a new scene in Memento and the overt Nazi guy is just worried about “finding savings” in govt spending
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Pardoning Jan 6 rioters was key because now when the courts invariably throw out 70% of Trump’s power grabs and he tweets an angry rant naming the judge there’s open season to enact extrajudicial violence on said judge and, for all intents and purposes, no mechanism to curb this intimidation regime
January 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Pardoning Jan 6 rioters was key because now when the courts invariably throw out 70% of Trump’s power grabs and he tweets an angry rant naming the judge there’s open season to enact extrajudicial violence on said judge and, for all intents and purposes, no mechanism to curb this intimidation regime
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Now that the Trump admin has tried to gut the bulk of the liberal state in under 48 hours and Musk did a sieg heil on live TV can our media stop acting like DOGE is concerned with “cutting govt waste” and insisting Dems should try and “work with Elon”. idk maybe we can start using some context clues
January 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Now that the Trump admin has tried to gut the bulk of the liberal state in under 48 hours and Musk did a sieg heil on live TV can our media stop acting like DOGE is concerned with “cutting govt waste” and insisting Dems should try and “work with Elon”. idk maybe we can start using some context clues
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You read this and it’s clear, on a basic editorial level, NYT doesn’t consider Palestinians fully human. Every Palestinian is presumed a cartoon terrorist, every Israeli a smol civilian. If you’re Arab, show trials by occupying armies and “admin detention” magically turn a hostage into a “prisoner”
What’s behind the uneven exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners?
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
You read this and it’s clear, on a basic editorial level, NYT doesn’t consider Palestinians fully human. Every Palestinian is presumed a cartoon terrorist, every Israeli a smol civilian. If you’re Arab, show trials by occupying armies and “admin detention” magically turn a hostage into a “prisoner”
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When you’re doing “populism”
Other executive actions under consideration include measures to weaken the power of federal employee unions by stripping workers of collective bargaining rights they’ve had for four decades, according to people familiar with the plans.
Trump aides prep executive orders aimed at federal workforce
Congressional Republicans are also gearing up to enact major changes for government workers, including cuts to employee benefits
www.washingtonpost.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
When you’re doing “populism”
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wait you’re telling me rightwing populism is a contradiction in terms??
January 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
wait you’re telling me rightwing populism is a contradiction in terms??
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Oh man he’s on the brink of a revelation
January 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Oh man he’s on the brink of a revelation
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“Why would Musk do a Nazi salute?” Well aside from the fact he agrees with a lot of Nazi ideology he’s a heartless troll who knows he can get away with it then giggle about it with his gamer friends later. Because he knows he’s Too Big To Fail. Because he knows the ADL, media, etc will brush it off.
January 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
“Why would Musk do a Nazi salute?” Well aside from the fact he agrees with a lot of Nazi ideology he’s a heartless troll who knows he can get away with it then giggle about it with his gamer friends later. Because he knows he’s Too Big To Fail. Because he knows the ADL, media, etc will brush it off.
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this is why I’m not a fan of the “bend the knee,” “obey in advance” framing. In a subtle, but dangerous way it separates Trump from the 1%, it implies they are compelled to team up with him for survival or minor venal rewards. It flattens class, when all of this is very much about class solidarity
a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever
January 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this is why I’m not a fan of the “bend the knee,” “obey in advance” framing. In a subtle, but dangerous way it separates Trump from the 1%, it implies they are compelled to team up with him for survival or minor venal rewards. It flattens class, when all of this is very much about class solidarity
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From the archives.
Hey Media, We Don’t Need Another Glossy Profile on That Nazi Dork
The balance between covering hate and promoting it is a difficult one, and one that we shouldn’t dismiss out of hand. But after a week of wall-to-wall coverage, most of which one could imagine the Naz...
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January 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
From the archives.
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