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Patrick Loftus

@patrickloftus.bsky.social

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

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Patrick Loftus@patrickloftus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Super grateful to @mainedsa.org for hosting me / @mmlusa.bsky.social & friends to talk about public money, public banking, and public housing as strategies for making life better in Maine (and across the US). Join us on 10/29! actionnetwork.org/events/publi...

Public Housing and Public Banking: Solutions and Implementation

Our last session in the public housing and public banking series is about the solutions and how we'd start getting there. We'll make the case for two things. First, a state public bank that lends to...

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Will Beaman@greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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! ✨

Maine Beacon@mainebeacon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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!

Maine Beacon@mainebeacon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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!

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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Modern Money Lab U.S.@mmlusa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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-...

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 · 9mo ago

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?

Ida Bae Wells@nhannahjones.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Patrick Loftus@patrickloftus.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

David Sacerdote@davidsacerdote.bsky.social · last yr.

It sure looks like every last major tech firm is abandoning past commitments to end their use of fossil fuels. Particularly concerning given how we know that fossil fuel burning power plants are being built NOW with the explicit aim of powering data centers www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/04/i...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last yr.

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.”

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · last yr.

“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.”

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · last yr.

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine.bsky.social · last yr.

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country. I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · last yr.

The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

The Flytrap@theflytrapmedia.com · last yr.

New from our co-founder @nicolefroio.bsky.social: nonprofit newsrooms struggle to cover Israel-Palestine without losing funding.

Prism@prismreports.org · last yr.

“What we have seen is a lot of funders who appear to be very aligned with us, progressive on everything but Palestine, who won’t have conversations with us.” Journalists & nonprofit newsrooms detail how Palestine coverage is scaring off nonprofit news funders, @nicolefroio.bsky.social reports.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.

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

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last yr.

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · last yr.

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."

Patrick Loftus@patrickloftus.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Astra Taylor@astra.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick). Senate passed it 51-50. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...