and seattle is leading the way on public banking bsky.app/profile/publ...
🚨new paper🚨 from me and @gruberte.bsky.social. As part of our work on why/how we should take public control of the Powder River Basin for a managed decline of fossil fuel use. In this paper, we calculate how much it would cost to take over and tl:dr- basically zero dollars. 1/
Technology is not the only constraint on effective transition away from fossil fuels. Careful coordination of fossil phase-out and climate compatible …
Wall Street investment banker says, Seattle should definitely NOT try to create a public bank.
“I can’t fathom how that would actually work, if I can’t make money.”
He looked increasingly concerned as we mentioned the public banking movement across the US.
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Hey we don't have to live like this actually and if you have been mad about electricity prices then this was written just for you
This result is a BIG deal.
As many observed in the lead up, the Bains-Villegas match up was a contest for the soul of the Democratic Party, and the young progressive side won decidedly. I’m honored to have knocked doors for Randy and know he can prevail in November. LFG!
For years I've watched certain groups of guys go through waves of discourse on a semi regular basis about masculinity and never once get even close to this simple fact.
They have always been puzzled about the ideal form of a man to emulate, it's strange. "Is it Nick Offerman? What about Obama?" Like wild ass discussions that are more about attraction to specific aesthetic traits than about values and ideals.
I really need to emphasize that the US is essentially the only country that *doesn’t* own its minerals, to the point where people outside the US are sometimes like, wait, what??? when I explain that a lot of my work argues that we should.
Necessary, not sufficient!
