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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 10h

We can build the nia from the ground up with loops and collaboration across municipalities counties and states.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 12h

States + localities need not wait for Dems to retake control of the federal govt in order to generate substantial more credit + revenue. But the best part of the Loop: it would weaken markets' power to block "unprofitable" public investments by bypassing markets entirely. bsky.app/profile/mone...

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 12h

Saule Omarova's proposed National Investment Authority—basically a national public option for financing public-interest projects—is excellent but depends on federal action. @moneyontheleft.bsky.social's Loop, however, shows how states can create fiscal capacity even without federal currency power.

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g @g--0.bsky.social · 16h

love that the French are also trying this strategy of sending intentionally dumb media guys into a shark pit of educated students

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 16h

I think this might actually be Jean-Pierre Léaud's grandson

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 16h

The French New Wave energy is off the charts

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 16h

Oops. Not the most informed, we Greenbackers.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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tatiana 🌈 @caterwaul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

State Senator Gutierrez unafraid to name the monster after an immigration rights lawyer spoke on how ICE sexually violates detainees at a local hearing on a proposed detention center

Gutierrez says "i want to be very clear. Donald Trump is complicit"

"in the raping of these women be the disappearing of these people," Gutierrez continues

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also we still need to talk parasociality! Check ya dm’s when you have time!

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sorry I don’t mean to be pedantic or annoying—I’m just riffing and I think we’re saying the same thing!!

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gift because it doesn’t mean displacing something else to have more schools, as zero sum budgeting might make it appear

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To add to your addition… We might need more schools, more infrastructure, etc. The paradox is that the “more” comes from inside the seemingly scarce world, not from some elsewhere. Not to be all theological up in here but it’s what the medieval scholastics called “the gift.”

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A point about scarcity… if some social product exists to be seemingly “used up” in a zero sum way, then its production is ongoing. Everything is produced rather than given, the rate/scale of its production can be dilated over time.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But if it just means "this candidate is very discerning about what is a bad faith trap" then sure, that's a skill and it's commendable

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think "message discipline" circulates while meaning a few different things. If it's code for "civil rights are a distraction from kitchen table issues"—which it seems to be for both Pod Save America and the Jacobin set—then I'm not crazy about that.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The right to exit is politically important and paradoxically has to be provisioned. What options await you when you exit? How does your exit affect others? These are the questions we cannot “exit” and they are essential for relative exits to be possible.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Employment is an infrastructure of recognition, participation and accountability but it is not the only one. I also believe housing should be decommodified. But if UBI is the full vision you have to have some theory of who makes the life that it purchases piecemeal in the neoliberal marketplace.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The frontier demonstrates more than any example I can think of that there is no “external” position that is totally innocent. Exit happens within dependence and has to be provisioned too.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But *none* of that means that social obligation itself is coercion, or that UBI supplies an adequate institutional theory of freedom. And the frontier imaginary is especially revealing because it historically depended on tons of public mediations and labors that it didn’t acknowledge.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I *agree* that employers should not have the authority to decide the social value of everyone’s contributions. I also agree that people need the material capacity to rest, play, care for themselves, and be “unproductive” as employers define it.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

After the midterms I might become an Angie Nixon 2028 guy

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

When Bernie released his proposal to regulate AI, I was glad to see many recognize that public ownership stakes would problematically tie the public's success to the industry's success. We must now understand, as @moneyontheleft.bsky.social does, that this criticism applies also to taxing the rich.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

Whether it's mortgage-backed securities or AI, Wall Street's investments must not + need not be something NYC's public depends on. That is why taxing the rich will never ultimately be enough. We can and must redesign public finance so that the public no longer depends on private markets or wealth.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A public option for work does the same

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If I voluntarily become a nurse, I have subsequently acquired obligations to patients that cannot be reduced moment-by-moment to whether I feel like continuing to help them. If I voluntarily have sex, I can withdraw consent and make it stop. So this is a category error.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Comparing social obligation to compulsory sex only works if you assume in advance that social obligation is inherently a violation. That's exactly the individualist premise I'm rejecting. It's pretty offensive, honestly. I know you're being serious, but wow.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And finally the broader point is that a UBI can redistribute claims on the world as it exists now. Changing the world—building something new—requires institutions that can organize collective obligation. Employment doesn't exhaust this, and I'm not even against UBI, but obligations matter.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also, saying "feeling needed is fine" trivializes the experience of exclusion and invisibility by locating it in the imagination of the person who is excluded and invisible.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Working for someone else” is a remarkably impoverished name for having obligations to other people, to society, and so on.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Petition to call American supporters of the UK Green Party “Greenbackers”

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

It's true that money buys power. But from an organizing perspective, it's much more useful to think of the opposite: Wealth isn't a precondition to power; it's a consequence of the power relations that determine who gets money. Reorganizing the rules of those relations is the many's main power.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

“we can fantasize about raping people on livestream but if anyone thinks anything bad should happen to us as a result we will try to get them fired” sums up the state of right wing “intellectualism” pretty well

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's always money when organized power needs money

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Props to @anandwrites.bsky.social When was the last time an elected Democrat spoke like this on TV? About LGBT people OR cities.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A defeated political formation does not have a right to govern in order to make the system look balanced from its perspective.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reconstruction after Trump cannot be held up by the Democratic Party prioritizing the GOP's viability as an opposition party. And likewise progressive Dems cannot prioritize keeping their governing arrangements and promises to centrist Dems intact.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Progressive Dems will need to move in coalition with the moderate bloc at times, but as long as the moderate bloc is structurally important Trump will not be held accountable. The relative viability and indispensability of the moderate bloc at this time is the whole problem.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The language and tone here is uncannily like how Jack Harlow was being pushed on everyone

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This was written before his term started and is explicitly prescriptive about what he should do, not celebrating him or what he has done since then. It also lays out a very comprehensive “Democratic Public Finance” framework, hence why we are still sharing it. Thanks for reading!

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Public finance interoperability for democracies

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That is an anti-fascist international economic policy

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A leftist or progressive US government could create a federal job guarantee with public credit creation circuits, and formalize ongoing balance of payments support for other countries pursuing the same but who are currently bullied by dollar-denominated costs into administering austerity.

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