Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
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There's been a good amount of coverage of this, but I don't think the average person knows how big of a deal this is.
If you have a retirement account or 401k, you will likely end up supporting SpaceX's stock whether you like it or not.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/t...
It's happening 🚨
House GOP representatives are about to introduce a bill that would completely eliminate subsidized student loans.
They are trying to make it impossible to go to college unless you can afford to pay for it upfront.
Gets to many of my concerns with this proposal.
We don’t need a public stake in a multi-trillion dollar toxic asset. Public investment/ownership has to come with serious conditions — and that’s not the version of this paradigm that Trump and the tech companies are warming up to.
Kicking off with a key point: College should be FREE and FREE-ing
Rare personal post, seizing the moment to correct the record. Today I'm officially 21 yrs wed to my favorite most special human Jeff Mangum. For some reason the Internet/Wikipedia says we got hitched in Jan 2008, but it was June 9 2005. (Don't believe what you read online & always wear a lampshade.)
Very yikes
I like @gregcasar.bsky.social's proposal a lot, FWIW
Tax AI to Create Jobs
prospect.org/2026/05/28/t...
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College for All Jubilee School: Divesting the University from State Violence
With Debt Collective co-founder Hannah Appel of UCLA
Join us to learn about the UC Move Your Money campaign, and much much more. Find us here
debtcollective.org/event/colleg...
We face potential unemployment on par with the Great Depression. We need a mass employment program to get through it. AI can pay for it.
prospect.org
College should not only be free, it should be free-ing. In other words, higher education should not incarcerate anyone with either a debt sentence or a prison sentence. And yet…
White supremacist "identitarian" Martin Sellner has almost single-handedly popularized the term "remigration" and was a hero of the Christchurch killer.
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"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," Andry Hernandez Romero told me. "But in my heart, I'm American."
He is the gay makeup artist Trump sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador.
Andry is in Spain now, rebuilding his life and haunted by his experience.
www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
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This great event is starting NOW. Tune in.
College for All Jubilee School: Divesting the University from State Violence
With Debt Collective co-founder Hannah Appel of UCLA
Join us to learn about the UC Move Your Money campaign, and much much more. Find us here
debtcollective.org/event/colleg...
The Venezuelan makeup artist who became the face of a controversial deportation case discusses life after release, lingering trauma, and the men whose stories he believes the world has forgotten.
College should not only be free, it should be free-ing. In other words, higher education should not incarcerate anyone with either a debt sentence or a prison sentence. And yet…
This is so utterly insane I’m at a loss. But it makes sense if you want to turn the entire US intelligence apparatus into a tool for domestic persecution and domination.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
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There are two big drawbacks to Bernie Sanders' plan to take stakes in AI companies to create a sovereign wealth fund:
1. We don't need a sovereign wealth fund.
2. You are going to make normal people view themselves as investors in AI companies, which is bad.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-ai-fund...
Greg Bovino at the far-right Remigration summit in Portugal: "Martin Sellner, you've invited me here today. Your ideas, we've talked a lot on that and those ideas mirror each other. We've never talked before face to face until yesterday and we're on the same sheet of music almost immediately".
