"I stand in solidarity with many of my friends & classmates who live in constant fear of being detained by ICE," testified our youth leader Joel.

Our youth members traveled to Albany today to demand that @governor.ny.gov & state lawmakers pass the New York for All and Dignity Not Detention Acts!

I will never not be in awe of young people speaking up in the halls of Albany—esp. those who are immigrants or children of immigrants.

Hochul's proposal would still allow local govt collusion with ICE.

Only #NY4All would stop collusion. Only #DND would divest NY from private detention facilities.

More NYC landlords threatening tenants with calls to ICE, lawyers say Attorneys told a City Council hearing that tenants need more protections.

It is illegal in New York to threaten to report someone’s immigration status. A new City Council bill is trying to give that law some teeth.

You Can And Will YouTube video by Lomalo - Topic

Now speak of spirit:

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People say teen girls are really mean, but I've gotten more genuine compliments from high school girls substituting the past two years than ever in my life. Maybe the people saying that are just creepy assholes.

a man in a red uniform with the words that 's actually the opposite of what you just said below him Alt: Man in a uniform saying, "That's actually the opposite of what you just said."

Students 2 weeks ago: "Rights are conditional & based on societal norms, therefore they're not absolute. I shouldn't impose on others."

This week: "The government should provide healthcare because it's a base human right necessary to survival."

I wish they spotted their own contradictions...

Did you hear about the affair that Abelard concluded?

He was going to send his family jewels to Heloise but they wound up in limbo.

a cartoon character standing next to a donkey that says you should be ashamed of yourself . Alt: Donkey from Shrek hollering, "You should be ashamed of yourself!"

Did you hear about the fight that Thomas Aquinas started?

He walked up to some Duns and said, "You want Summa this!?"

#Catholic #pun #SorryNotSorry

The political spectrum is not left versus right anymore. It is people who see what is happening versus people who do not pay attention.

@ctulocal1.bsky.social once again leads by example. CTU got the CPS school system to agree to, among other things to—

• Provide buses for students and educators to attend the big May Day rally

• Pledge not to retaliate against students or staff who participate in May Day. #ShareGoodNewsToo

Technocratic disenfranchisement works by hiding institutional coordination and public design and presenting money as a finished thing. By contrast, complementary currencies and credit forms should make people question what the dollar is, making it LOOK designed. That is a feature, not a bug.

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Then public utility notes or bills become the idiom through which those debates get hashed out. The monetary form is first legible because it is limited to a specific expense or settlement, then opens onto a broader struggle over what society should treat as basic, public, and guaranteed.

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“Public utilities” as the use case for a municipal currency or credit form does double and triple work. It is concrete and limited, yet it opens the category of "public utilities" to be expanded: not just water or power, but groceries, childcare, broadband, transit, care, housing support.

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A good move is to predicate new public credit forms on public utilities, or something similarly concrete. People already use specialized monetary forms tied to particular expenditures: Transit balances, tax credits, gift cards.

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Famous "duck rabbit" optical illusion

This opens a strategic horizon @moneyontheleft.bsky.social has often called “duck-rabbit.” Even if it is complementary currencies all the way down, a left monetary politics can introduce new instruments through familiar institutional idioms and concrete public purposes.

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Once bonds are made exchangeable for dollars, they stop looking only like loans and start looking more like another dollar asset category—closer to the difference between checking and savings than between “real money” and “debt.”

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Bonds belong in this picture too. We inherit a liberal economic imaginary that makes them look like loans, full stop. But from a design point of view, bonds are an asset form whose functions can be organized differently.

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The dollar is not one self-identical thing. Bank deposits, bonds, tax credits, prepaid balances, and other claims all move differently, settle different obligations, and come into being through different procedures.

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This matters strategically. If “complementary” names the ordinary condition of money rather than edge cases, then left politics can introduce new credit forms and job creation structures in the register of public design and institutional revision—rather than as something alien to daily life.

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Depression-era municipal scrip issued by the city of Detroit

The phrase “complementary currency” suggests a binary with official currency that is descriptively wrong. The dollar is already a hybrid of credit forms, created and retired through different institutions, tied to different obligations, and coordinated through public design.

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Antifascism starter pack: self and co-regulation. YouTube video by AntifascistDad

Antifascism has to respond and react. Self and co-regulation can limit reactivity. A good place to start but also come back to, and offer to others if they don't have it.

#antifascism #selfcare #anticapitalism #coregulation #audrelorde

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What Your Cat Understands About Donald Trump That Most Democrats Don't I offer these posts freely, but your support is necessary and appreciated.

“Every indictment…a fundraising event.

Every scandal…evidence of persecution.

He…engineered a fraud immune to the mechanism that ends all frauds.

Is that stupidity?

I’d say it’s a form of operational genius.

Repugnant, yes…

But a kind of genius nonetheless.”

@mizalisa.bsky.social

'The Undertow' If we let Trump and his contemptible administration get away with attacking sovereign nations to feed his narcissism and violent nature - and to manipulate markets for the profit of those on the insid...

Insider analysis from one brave enough to ignore the NDA that silenced his colleagues.

“…regarding the trajectory of 47’s life, is that his own demented nature and criminality have constantly failed upwards. As if evil has its own inertia”

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U.S. gold coin with Trump image gets approved by president's hand-picked panel The Commission of Fine Arts approved a 24-carat commemorative coin that features an image of President Donald Trump.

Actually the coin of the realm is incompetence, corruption and the debasing of Christianity www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Hey Jersey: Tomorrow night:
I’ll be doing Q & A after 7 pm show at the Clairidge.
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Oh, wow, way to go @lindseyboylan.bsky.social!!!!

I can't exactly say "God bless church missionary societies," because fuck the lot of them, but I *am* quite grateful for all those church missionary societies producing dictionaries of African languages that are all now in the public domain.

Bond ratings? How about go to hell

My latest..

I wrote about alternative evaluative frameworks for municipal finance that don't depend on whether private investors feel confident they can profit from the city.

Give it a read, share, etc. 💟

Is Spider-Man really a masked menace?

How municipalities should think around punitive credit rating agencies.