Out of the Shadows: Public Banking for Municipal Finance
06.03.2026 19:57
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The same gender system that is making trans people miserable is behind looksmaxxing and male loneliness. This is an issue that Dems could champion as part of a critique of Trumpism rather than sweep under the rug.
It’s certainly better than transphobia, but I wish I would hear politicians CELEBRATE trans people instead of downplay their existence.
Whether it’s 2 trans people or 200,000, they are being used as a proxy issue to discipline EVERYONE’S relation to gender, freedom, and public belonging.
"Establishing a public bank that regularly purchases municipal debt... would not only significantly expand a city’s fiscal capacity to support its communities and environs, but also reclaim regional public finance from a parasitical... bond market."
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Indeed I think it is not coincidental that so many aesthetic forms that thematize citation and intergenerational recognition emerge in the context of monetary underinvestment and deprivation.
Everyone is already part of the world, so the politics of job creation cannot be separated from the politics of citation, recognition, and reparations. These are not different struggles but linked questions of participation and repair.
A flyer for ‘Where Credit's Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice - Reimagining Public Credit and Building Intersectional Solidarity in Boro’. Workshop 2 at the Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough, on Saturday 7 March 2026, 10.30am-12.30pm. Flyer also reads: ‘Does Middlesbrough and do the people and places of Teesside deserve more credit? Could new ideas about money transform our town? Join us to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit's due.’ Alongside the flyer is a ‘bank note’ which reads ‘I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of 1 Dorman Dollar’ and some pin badges featuring the Where Credit’s Due and Money on the Left logos.
Two colourfully decorated ‘Dorman Dollar’ bank notes.
Who wants to make some money with us at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough this weekend?
@wherecreditsdue.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social
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Never felt so happy to be unfree.
A language and politics observation. If you change the name of a dept from dept of defense to dept of war, that dept and its secretary may become more likely to go to war. Sooo, after all this is over, maybe change dept of labor to dept of equality? Equality For All. The EFA, partner to the EPA.
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
In this episode, we speak with Khush Vachhrajani, writer and national coordinator at the Social Accountability Forum for Action and Research in India, about his recent article in The Wire, “How to Kill a Golden Goose: MGNREGA Repeal Reveals More than it Hides.”
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My latest brief for Roosevelt Institute: Let's remember that childcare is a labor issue- not only for working parents, but childcare workers who do this work for poverty wages. Collective bargaining and labor power can help us win what we all need on childcare: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible
No likey.
Contesting the End of India’s Job Guarantee
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Follow-up piece!👇
Six pin badges, six of them featuring the Where Credit’s Due logo (two trees in the shape of Middlesbrough’s iconic transporter bridge) and three with the Money on the Left logo
Our next workshop is at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough this Saturday morning and we have a few spaces left - come for the chat about inclusive monetary design, stay for the pin badges!
Book here: wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com/events
"[G]rounding municipal debt finance in a chartered public bank, regulated oversight, and direct access to central bank liquidity ... moves our model firmly into the light of the regulated banking system."
✨ MotL 88 is live! ✨
We speak with Khush Vachhrajani about the systemic dismantling of India's rural job guarantee program & the growing movement of workers, unions & activists who refuse to let it die.
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Please listen & share!
* Transcript forthcoming ...
Yet another destructive & self-undermining move.
Tyler & I wrote a follow-up piece, clarifying how our plan to mobilize public banks for municipal finance actually drives public credit away from, rather than deeper into, the anti-democratic & crisis-prone shadow banking sector.
Guess they didn't pay close enough attention in Sunday School.
ICE is one of federal fascism's key fronts, but states can blunt this front by ending collaboration with detention centers. For those of us in New York:
1️⃣ Go to nydignitynotdetention.org to learn about the Dignity Not Detention Act;
2️⃣ Read @envfreefund.bsky.social's thread and help move the bill.
Dispatch: Letter Carriers Are Gearing Up for Another Contract Fight www.labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...
going to keep saying: to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
