Antonia MarreroNov 8
“Public investment, viewed as deficit spending from the standpoint of the cautious investor, was in fact surplus creation for the public as a whole. From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 8
“Party leaders mistake coordination 4 power, conditional support 4 risk, & coalition itself 4 debt. These are the political implications of austerity thinking. It recasts the party’s health as a matter of personal thrift: save your endorsements, save your reputation, spend only on the safe bet.”
Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 8
“Where austerity politics hoard recognition, coalition politics extend it; where machine politics imagines scarce political capital, the coalition practices renewable credit.” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“The dialectical tradition sharpens opposition 2 achieve transformation; the dialogic tradition sustains tension as a productive reversibility that enables coordination. Read dialogically, the gestures of Hochul & Harris are…both hedge & partnership. Our task is to set up the board 4 partnership.”
Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“Holding both readings in view is not an equivocation. It is a maneuver that widens the field of action so that the #debt reading can be reconstructed as credit—from backward-looking guilt to forward-looking capacity.” HT Will Beamon CC @debtcollective.bsky.social moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“Reading money as credit rather than debt reorients obligation from forced detention in the past to newly visible capacities & responsibilities that organize repair in the present.” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social CC @astra.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“4 many white supporters anxious about their position & identity…the campaign offered…redemption & innocence through post-racial politics… #Obama ‘s operation prototyped a digital organizing hub…small-$ giving alongside small-labor contributions…staging the campaign as a collective production…”
Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“@ the same time,the politics of white innocence & colorblind redemption that brought many into the Obama camp broke down w the destruction of its longest standing symbol: homeownership.” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social CC @stucknation.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“When BLM organizers disrupted campaign events, @sanders.senate.gov operation was reluctant 2 move beyond a colorblind, class-reductionist posture. Some Sanders supporters questioned why he was being critiqued at all when Clinton’s “tough on crime” record was so much worse for BLM’s priorities.”
Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“Hillary Clinton tweeted in Feb 2016. “They’re intersectional, reinforcing, & we’ve got to take them all on.” Sensing this was not working, Barack Obama told the Congressional Black Caucus gala in Sep 2016 that it would be a “personal insult” if Black voters failed 2 turn out 4 Clinton.” Will Beamon
Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“Biden2020 campaign reactivated the language of democratic renewal, promising to “restore the soul of America” & inviting citizens to see themselves as participants in collective repair. Yet…once in office, the administration treated accountability as disloyalty.” Will Beamon CC @jjfreyd.bsky.social
Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“Biden’s refusal 2hold 47 accountable4 Jan6 & his enthusiastic support 4the genocide in Palestine against cries &pleas from Democratic voters collapsed whatever high ground that administration had in2 a loyalty cult w/out a following.” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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#DarkBrandon stylized the gap btween the real Biden& the1 voters needed—an ironicfantasy of competence &backbone…It wasn’t a cult ofpersonality but a collective experiment in franchising charisma—a conditional line of credit…misread as unconditional devotion.” Will Beamon CC @andykindler.bsky.social

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“…this brings us 2 the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social moment, in the eye of a national authoritarian takeover. Where other @democrats.org leaders mistook provisional star power 4 personal greatness, #MayorCardamom has treated it as a platform for shared authorship.” moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“Participation comes w responsibilities leaders must meet, &when they do, the channel widens.Read this way, the campaign has begun 2map a different circuit from Trumpism’s pageants of loyalty& punishment.” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social CC @matthewremski.bsky.social moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“…finance franchise is polyvocal &contested. Every contribution, canvass shift, or meme drive carries a small piece of public capacity, rehearsed in advance of formal institutions…these unofficial circuits move through commitment & follow-through.” Will Beamon CC @bernardharcourt.bsky.social #Praxis

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
#BlueBonds refers 2ordinary municipal bonds, framed politically as credit 2coordinate public life despite Trump’s attempts 2sabotage it…A progressive city comptroller could invest public pensions in BlueBonds, undoing the early neoliberal gesture that tied them2 WallStreet.” Will Beamon CC @wbai.org

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“The same public that sustains campaigns w/ recurring small dollars is well-positioned 2 sustain bond drives that keep services running when federal support is sabotaged.” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social #BlueBonds CC @sanders.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @bradlander.bsky.social @vancebnyc.bsky.social
Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
#BlueBonds …transform sporadic enthusiasm in2 lasting commitment,turning habits of coalition politics in2enduring instruments of public credit…it tells the story of how communities fund their own continuities” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social @marklevinenyc.bsky.social @governor.ny.gov @democracynow.org

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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Show threadAntonia MarreroNov 9
“Just as central banks maintain swap lines 2 stabilize currencies without forcing them into uniformity, coalitions can establish all kinds of reciprocal arrangements between campaigns, unions, schools, clinics, & local governments.” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social CC @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social

The Paradox of Political Thrif...
The Paradox of Political Thrift

By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…

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