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Patrick Loftus

@patrickloftus.bsky.social
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MA in #Degrowth, economics, ecology, & policy via ICTA-UAB. Studying #MMT and ecological economics at Torrens University via @modernmoneylab.bsky.social Cofounder: www.modernmoneylab.org / PivotAll He/him. Opinions my own.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Okay THANK YOU to Gus at @mainebeacon.bsky.social and my @moneyontheleft.bsky.social colleagues @publicporpoise.bsky.social and @robbhawkes.bsky.social. And thank you also to @mmlusa.bsky.social. This was a great conversation and I hope you'll listen and share with loved and hated ones alike! ✨
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Maine Beacon @mainebeacon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Money on the Left Collective joins the Beacon podcast to rethink how we talk about money and public spending. They dig into public banking, why money doesn’t have to be treated as a scarce resource, and how states like Maine could use public finance to invest in public needs. Listen now!
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What if we rethought money through public banking? - Maine Beacon
The Money on the Left Collective joins the Beacon podcast to rethink how we talk about money and public spending. Will Beaman, Tyler Suksawat and Rob Hawkes of the collective join MPA legislative stra...
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Patrick Loftus @patrickloftus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Is this as bad as it sounds? For the AI industry, that is... www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1...
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A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn’t, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft’s navigation system.
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Modern Money Lab U.S. @mmlusa.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Hey #Maine! If you're in the #Portland area, join us @ SPACE on July 12 to watch "Finding the Money" and discuss how to fight the oligarchy + make life better and more affordable for the working class. events.humanitix.com/finding-the-...
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Finding the Money: Film Screening + Discussion @ SPACE
Join other locals for a screening and discussion of "Finding the Money", a film about how our public money system can promote social and economic justice.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners. Decide. Who are you?
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Modern Money Lab U.S. @mmlusa.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
In 1966, Dr. #MartinLutherKing Jr. along with Bayard Rustin and A. Phillip Randolph, unveiled the "Freedom Budget for All Americans".
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Patrick Loftus @patrickloftus.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I'm attending Graham for Maine's event, “Join the Movement! New Volunteer Orientation Zoom” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/grahamformai...
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Join the Movement! New Volunteer Orientation Zoom · Graham for Maine
We're very excited to welcome you into the campaign and get you plugged in to take back Maine and our country for the working class. You only need to attend ONE of these orientations. Can't wait to se...
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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Patrick Loftus @patrickloftus.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Anyone who ever trusted mega-corporations to do the right thing was wrong. That should be clear to all by now. Profit will always be their priority. Everything else comes last. Their ideology is a death cult. If we don't regulate these monsters into planetary boundaries we lose everything.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19/08/2025
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Under the Trump administration, groceries are less affordable, housing is harder to build, cures for cancer are farther away, and good news on our economy has been as hard to find as the Epstein list.”
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
“During the course of the 26-day sit-in, the Black Panther Party played a leading support role in providing food for the demonstrators. Over and over again, the disabled protesters credited the BPP with literally sustaining their struggle, “keeping us alive body and soul,” as one person put it.”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens
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Patrick Loftus @patrickloftus.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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Breaking: Trump begins federal takeover of DC, orders forced displacement of unhoused people
Just hours ago, Trump federalized the national guard and D.C. police and reiterated his plan to remove homeless people living in D.C. Click here to read our statement on the anti-homeless order and wa...
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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 07/08/2025
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
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Patrick Loftus @patrickloftus.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Every governor should be doing this.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
In 2016 this guy went to a law office with the goal of killing his wife’s lawyer. He hacked a woman to death with a machete and bludgeoned two other people to death (including a man he falsely thought was that lawyer), then set fire to the building to cover his tracks. Anyway, Trump just freed him.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
As of today the federal minimum wage has now been $7.25 for 16 years.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 23/07/2025
New from our co-founder @nicolefroio.bsky.social: nonprofit newsrooms struggle to cover Israel-Palestine without losing funding.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/07/2025
more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Trump today: "I'm surprised he [Jerome Powell] was appointed. I'm surprised frankly that Biden put him in." Trump in November 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honour to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve."
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
hey, you ever re-read the Declaration of Independence? some fascinating stuff in there www.theverge.com/policy/69730...
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Some patriotic reflections on Independence Day
Look at me. I’m the originalist, now.
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Patrick Loftus @patrickloftus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
We should all realize by now that federal budget deficits are not the problem. The national debt is not a "bill that future generations need to pay." The federal government has Constitutional authority to create unlimited $$ to pay its bills. The real problem is fascism.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
They’re literally advertising it.
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CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs
Ford chief predicts AI will replace “literally half of all white-collar workers.”
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 03/07/2025
@americanair.bsky.social @americanairsupport.bsky.social wants the One Big Brutal Bill Act to pass quickly. Their customer service line: 800-433-7300 #biguglybill
American Airlines: "Move swiftly and pass the bill"
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This can be an effective approach and the genocidaires know it. The White House is now in full attack mode against @franceskalbs.bsky.social and she needs our collective support more than ever.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/07/2025
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The poverty line is like $16K a year. You think someone making 17K a year can afford health care? Also, half of all the Medicaid recipients in your state are kids. So..."fuck those kids," I guess?
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is a perfect example of selling the brownie, not the recipe. If you want people to come to your cause, you need to be attractive. And, no, I'm not talking about Mamdani's flawless smile. (Though his dentist needs to start advertising that stat.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RScO...
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Who Said Public Transit Can't Be Free?
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Screenshot from The Onion of a skeleton in a suit sitting behind a desk

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton
Gripping Senate Desk Expected
To Seek 15th Term
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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
As an Iranian American, it feels like I need to help explain something: A friend recently expressed confusion as to why those in the Iranian diaspora (liked myself), who hate the regime, would be opposed to the attacks on Iran. I’ll try to explain my thoughts/feelings. 🧵
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 19/06/2025
Israel is a rogue state - don’t let it drag us into World War III
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Zohran is up. Keep going.
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Mamdani surges in new poll, leading Cuomo for first time in New York mayor's race
The former governor has topped every voter survey since entering the race, but the democratic socialist is gaining on him.
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Patrick Loftus @patrickloftus.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Yup. A reminder to all that two things can be true at the same time: 1) It is good that Gavin Newsom is doing the bare minimum in the face of fascist authoritarianism, and 2) he has done and said terrible things. Keep your standards high.
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Reminder California Governor Gavin Newsom *personally* cleared homeless people's camps and stole-destroyed their few belongings. He is not your social justice and pro-democracy warrior. He is a sucky and horrible opportunist with zero moral compass. www.mercedsunstar.com/opinion/arti...
Gavin Newsom personally clearing homeless encampment.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487
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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Marines do NOT “have to follow orders.” In fact they are obligated to disobey illegal orders. bsky.app/profile/char...
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Patrick Loftus @patrickloftus.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Image: Lucille Bluth meme from Arrested Development.

Text overlay: It's one baby, Michael. What could it cost, 1000 dollars?
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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We urgently need structural reforms to the international system - e.g.: 🔹 better terms of exchange for developing countries; 🔹 a global clearing union (in the spirit of Keynes 1943); 🔹 an international reserve currency; 🔹 major reforms of the governance of IMF and other post-war institutions 8/8
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Patrick Loftus @patrickloftus.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Wow. I feel like @michaelmezz.bsky.social should do a video on this.
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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
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Flock-o'-Lantern @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Anti-Endorsements are a top tier idea.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/06/2025
Any bias we currently have, AI will scale it. That's it. At BASELINE, Black applicants are denied mortgages at a rate 80% higher than white applicants. Outsourcing approvals to AI will WIDEN the gap, especially for Black women who get the worst deals in home loans. This is #TheDoubleTax.
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Patrick Loftus @patrickloftus.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This has been said in many ways, by many smart people, for many years now. But it bears repeating: There is no such thing as taxpayer money. It's all public money. The distinction and its implications matter more today than ever. medium.com/@Patrick_Lof...
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Stop Saying “Taxpayer Money”
It’s called public money. And the way we talk about public money shapes politics, federal policy and working-class lives.
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