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.
Cofounder: https://www.modernmoneylab.org/ / PivotAll
He/him. Opinions my own.
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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! ✨
@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! ✨
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...
mainebeacon.com
August 14, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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! ✨
@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! ✨
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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...
mainebeacon.com
August 14, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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!
Is this as bad as it sounds? For the AI industry, that is...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1...
A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn’t, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft’s navigation system.
www.technologyreview.com
August 2, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Is this as bad as it sounds? For the AI industry, that is...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1...
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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-...
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.
events.humanitix.com
June 12, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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-...
events.humanitix.com/finding-the-...
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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?
Decide. Who are you?
January 30, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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?
Decide. Who are you?
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In 1966, Dr. #MartinLutherKing Jr. along with Bayard Rustin and A. Phillip Randolph, unveiled the "Freedom Budget for All Americans".
January 19, 2026 at 5:12 PM
In 1966, Dr. #MartinLutherKing Jr. along with Bayard Rustin and A. Phillip Randolph, unveiled the "Freedom Budget for All Americans".
I'm attending Graham for Maine's event, “Join the Movement! New Volunteer Orientation Zoom” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/grahamformai...
Join the Movement! New Volunteer Orientation Zoom · Graham for Maine
We're very excited to welcome you into the campaign and get you plugged in to take back Maine and our country for the working class. You only need to attend ONE of these orientations. Can't wait to se...
www.mobilize.us
September 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I'm attending Graham for Maine's event, “Join the Movement! New Volunteer Orientation Zoom” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/grahamformai...
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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.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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.
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.
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...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/04/i...
September 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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.
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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.”
“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.”
August 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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.”
“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.”
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“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.”
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.
The 504 Protests and the Black Panther Party – Disability Social History Project
disabilityhistory.org
August 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
“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.”
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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
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.
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.
August 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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
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Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
August 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
Every governor should be doing this.
An initiative launched last year by Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has now erased $429 million in medical debt for 352,000 Arizonans. Elections matter.
www.abc15.com/news/state/m...
www.abc15.com/news/state/m...
Medical debt for over 350,000 Arizonans erased, Governor Hobbs announces
Gov. Katie Hobbs has announced that $429 million in medical debt has been erased so far for hundreds of thousands of Arizonans.
www.abc15.com
July 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Every governor should be doing this.
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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.
Anyway, Trump just freed him.
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S.
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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.
Anyway, Trump just freed him.
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As of today the federal minimum wage has now been $7.25 for 16 years.
July 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
As of today the federal minimum wage has now been $7.25 for 16 years.
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New from our co-founder @nicolefroio.bsky.social: nonprofit newsrooms struggle to cover Israel-Palestine without losing funding.
“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.
Journalists & nonprofit newsrooms detail how Palestine coverage is scaring off nonprofit news funders, @nicolefroio.bsky.social reports.
Palestine coverage scares off nonprofit news funders
Journalists and leaders of nonprofit newsrooms detail losing funding and crackdowns on coverage mentioning criticisms of Israel
prismreports.org
July 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New from our co-founder @nicolefroio.bsky.social: nonprofit newsrooms struggle to cover Israel-Palestine without losing funding.
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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
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'
July 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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
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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."
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."
July 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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."
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."
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hey, you ever re-read the Declaration of Independence? some fascinating stuff in there www.theverge.com/policy/69730...
Some patriotic reflections on Independence Day
Look at me. I’m the originalist, now.
www.theverge.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
hey, you ever re-read the Declaration of Independence? some fascinating stuff in there www.theverge.com/policy/69730...
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 $$ to pay its bills.
The real problem is fascism.
The real problem is fascism.
July 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
We should all realize by now that federal budget deficits are not the problem. The national debt is not a "bill that future generations need to pay." The federal government has Constitutional authority to create unlimited $$ to pay its bills.
The real problem is fascism.
The real problem is fascism.
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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.
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.
July 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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.
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.
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