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Anybody recording this?
April 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Key will be to include the development of new public monetary infrastructures designed to take care of people and environments, rather than to fuel inequality and ecocide. www.aaup.org/article/stop...
Stop Trying to Find the Money—Create It
Despite intensified controversy over university finance during the COVID-19 pandemic, dis­putes about budgeting and spending cuts in US higher education have remained remarkably out of touch with broa...
https://www.aaup.org/article/stop-trying-find-money—create-it#:~:text=Such%20is%20the%20thesis%20of,money%20and%20for%20what%20purpose%3F
February 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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This essay by @willbeaman.bsky.social is a good place to begin, for those who are interested in MotL's contributions to the debate. moneyontheleft.org/2021/03/23/m...
Money Beyond Sovereignty (Essay)
In her recent interview with the Money on the Left podcast, Lua Yuille offers a helpful critique of how Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is often characterized by proponents as a value-neutral lens tha…
moneyontheleft.org
January 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
4th year running that I can’t watch Knicks games as a NJ-resident / Xfinity cable customer, because Dolan tried playing hardball with Comcast, which dropped MSG. No over the air option. Blacked out on league pass. I’d have to pay an extra $30/mo for MSG’s awful streaming app. Enshittification!
December 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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Boxing is a labor story.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-intervi...
December 17, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Number of fed gov employees being the same now (335m population) as in 1950 (152m population) seems bananas and speaks volumes.
December 11, 2024 at 2:37 PM
I’m partial to these two docs who split off from the Rippetoe/Starting Strength crew and def lean away from Bro culture.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Barbell Medicine Podcast
Health & Fitness Podcast · 340 Episodes · Updated Daily
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December 9, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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It’s our urgent job to show that people don’t need to choose between caring about the fires and storms threatening their homes and their equally urgent need to economically survive.

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November 19, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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We all need to become eco-populists. That means championing policies that significantly lower daily costs while lowering emissions. Heat Pumps for All, alongside much more robust tenant rights; free and better public transit; price caps on green energy; make polluters pay for the transition.

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November 19, 2024 at 5:34 PM