David M. P. Freund

The conference will emphasize strategic collaboration, unified action, and practical pathways for public bank adoption — building momentum for a nationwide transformation in how public money is managed and how local economies can thrive.

Incredible report from @aaup.org & @amnesty-usa.bsky.social on the vast bipartisan repression of campus speech on Palestine by administrators and the police: www.aclu.org/publications...

Ask someone a couple years ago if they saw this coming.

REPORTER: “Trump’s popularity is very low, diesel prices are very high, the war he started isn’t going well… is he using you as a scapegoat for his own problems?” ZELENSKY: 🙃🤐 (this is a YES)

In the early 90s, I considered doing this work as a documentarian and made a few shorts. Finally returning to it with this sprawling project. (And grateful for digital cinema cameras, because I learned to edit on a Steenbeck!) americanfreedomsfilm.net

i’m noticing that the Democrats gaining ground on Republicans in deep red states like Florida and Kansas are not the safe, middle of the road Dems, they’re the radicals who want things like health care and social safety nets instead of war and white supremacism.

#Imperialism needs African minerals, African markets, African #energy - That dependence can be a weapon if #Africa wields it as a bloc. New Macro N Cheese ep ft Fadhel Kaboub Sat 10/10 @ 8 am ET. Link to all eps: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/

This is a really important point

There was discussion in the 1940s-50s about whether push button technology made machines sentient. “A human pushes the button, but the machine executes the task. Is the machine alive?” It seems patently ridiculous now. Suggestions today that Ai might be sentient are no less ridiculous.

Incredible hype shot of a hedgehog

“Information literacy” feels like a tech-backed walled garden, where the tech industry controls the content generation and gets to delineate the correct hermeneutics for making sense of the content. Let’s subsidize real print books for students instead.

Wheels came off a bit ago. Just be careful, everyone, and take care of others.

Oh wow amazing what a hero

The democratization of higher ed was unimaginable without federal spending, selective credit policies (they help banks lend), and regulation.

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

Had to re-read this a couple of times.

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Serious question: who is turning to the NYT for news these days?

It's that time again!

You have to hand it to the Times. When it comes to local stuff they are just so good at trolling 90 percent of their own readers while making the other 10 percent happy. I like to imagine that the Real Estate people and the Vows people have a scoreboard, like Legolas and Gimli in Lord of the Rings.

OK, that's going to do it. Great call. Will there be t-shirts?

Who are they keeping behind the barrier? You can't make this stuff up.

She adds, "But Republicans have made it a big attack on you," which is a telling statement. Stated simply: We don't find it newsworthy either, but it's our job to use talking points from one side and parrot them back to the other side. If not, we'll be accused of bias. (Also, my boss is Bari Weiss)

Here's a 50 second intro to the U.S.: simultaneously a dangerous and destructive place (always has been) and a generative, even radical (in a good way) one.

We're TIRED of being called RACIST for saying RACIST SHIT ALL THE TIME!

The brilliance of folks who don't know that bank-issued money and Treasury-issued dollars are *not* the same thing. (Note: I wrote a book about the FHA.)

House Republicans failed to muster the necessary votes to back a proposed constitutional amendment that would set membership of SCOTUS at nine, although they did remind everyone that the number of justices is not enshrined in the Constitution and can be amended at any time by statute.

Here we go. This is how to build democratic capacity. Let the games begin!

Bari Weiss maybe the most prominent racist in all of American media. And unrepentant, enthusiastic anti- Muslim and anti-Arab bigot her whole adult life.

Incredible

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE

Ok then. Time to choose, folks.

Two of the G.O.A.T.s!!

Here is Johns Hopkins University's new Affirmative Action program... Yes, what a timely intervention to remedy the great inequalities of the modern world, a brave initiative to address the most urgent problems of our time [sarcasm].

In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...

How it's going