#publicgoods — Public Fediverse posts

Pushed Over the Brink: The Escalating Assault on Ontario’s Hospitals
- bssproj
https://socialistproject.ca/2026/08/pushed-over-the-brink/
#PublicGoods #Healthcare

Pushed Over the Brink: The Escalating Assault on Ontario’s Hospitals
- bssproj
https://socialistproject.ca/2026/08/pushed-over-the-brink/
#PublicGoods #Healthcare

Pushed Over the Brink: The Escalating Assault on Ontario’s Hospitals
- bssproj
https://socialistproject.ca/2026/08/pushed-over-the-brink/
#PublicGoods #Healthcare

Pushed Over the Brink: The Escalating Assault on Ontario’s Hospitals
- bssproj
https://socialistproject.ca/2026/08/pushed-over-the-brink/
#PublicGoods #Healthcare

Billionaires Didn’t Build Space: NASA, Public Money, and Workers Made It Possible

This segment dismantles the SpaceX mythology and explains why space exploration must serve the commons, not billionaire extraction.

Billionaires Didn’t Build Space: NASA, Public Money, and Workers Made It Possible

This segment dismantles the SpaceX mythology and explains why space exploration must serve the commons, not billionaire extraction.

@codinghorror @cdarwin

With no transit system, and hardly any other #publicGoods.

@codinghorror @cdarwin

With no transit system, and hardly any other #publicGoods.

@codinghorror @cdarwin

With no transit system, and hardly any other #publicGoods.

@codinghorror @cdarwin

With no transit system, and hardly any other #publicGoods.

@codinghorror @cdarwin

With no transit system, and hardly any other #publicGoods.

#TheGuardian : "#Burnham ally to unveil ambitious plan to reverse decades of #privatisation"

"The Productive State essay argues that people are facing a “privatisation premium” – essentially a regressive hidden #tax embedded in everyday bills that transfers #wealth from households to #investors. The government is then forced to subsidise inflated costs with #welfare transfers such as housing benefit or support with #energyBills."

#publicServices #publicGoods

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/21/burnham-ally-to-unveil-ambitious-plan-to-reverse-decades-of-privatisation

#TheGuardian : "#Burnham ally to unveil ambitious plan to reverse decades of #privatisation"

"The Productive State essay argues that people are facing a “privatisation premium” – essentially a regressive hidden #tax embedded in everyday bills that transfers #wealth from households to #investors. The government is then forced to subsidise inflated costs with #welfare transfers such as housing benefit or support with #energyBills."

#publicServices #publicGoods

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/21/burnham-ally-to-unveil-ambitious-plan-to-reverse-decades-of-privatisation

#TheGuardian : "#Burnham ally to unveil ambitious plan to reverse decades of #privatisation"

"The Productive State essay argues that people are facing a “privatisation premium” – essentially a regressive hidden #tax embedded in everyday bills that transfers #wealth from households to #investors. The government is then forced to subsidise inflated costs with #welfare transfers such as housing benefit or support with #energyBills."

#publicServices #publicGoods

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/21/burnham-ally-to-unveil-ambitious-plan-to-reverse-decades-of-privatisation

#TheGuardian : "#Burnham ally to unveil ambitious plan to reverse decades of #privatisation"

"The Productive State essay argues that people are facing a “privatisation premium” – essentially a regressive hidden #tax embedded in everyday bills that transfers #wealth from households to #investors. The government is then forced to subsidise inflated costs with #welfare transfers such as housing benefit or support with #energyBills."

#publicServices #publicGoods

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/21/burnham-ally-to-unveil-ambitious-plan-to-reverse-decades-of-privatisation

#TheGuardian : "#Burnham ally to unveil ambitious plan to reverse decades of #privatisation"

"The Productive State essay argues that people are facing a “privatisation premium” – essentially a regressive hidden #tax embedded in everyday bills that transfers #wealth from households to #investors. The government is then forced to subsidise inflated costs with #welfare transfers such as housing benefit or support with #energyBills."

#publicServices #publicGoods

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/21/burnham-ally-to-unveil-ambitious-plan-to-reverse-decades-of-privatisation

@shinmera
This same approach & ‘costing’ apply to public health and also public libraries. Invisible when working well, costly failures when not.

#costBenefit #publicHealth #publicLibraries #invisibility #failure #precautionaryPrinciple #publicGoods

@shinmera
This same approach & ‘costing’ apply to public health and also public libraries. Invisible when working well, costly failures when not.

#costBenefit #publicHealth #publicLibraries #invisibility #failure #precautionaryPrinciple #publicGoods

@shinmera
This same approach & ‘costing’ apply to public health and also public libraries. Invisible when working well, costly failures when not.

#costBenefit #publicHealth #publicLibraries #invisibility #failure #precautionaryPrinciple #publicGoods

@shinmera
This same approach & ‘costing’ apply to public health and also public libraries. Invisible when working well, costly failures when not.

#costBenefit #publicHealth #publicLibraries #invisibility #failure #precautionaryPrinciple #publicGoods

@shinmera
This same approach & ‘costing’ apply to public health and also public libraries. Invisible when working well, costly failures when not.

#costBenefit #publicHealth #publicLibraries #invisibility #failure #precautionaryPrinciple #publicGoods

Trying to share a post from Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/left-foot-forward.bsky.social/post/3mjkc3tqhbk2v

#PrivatizationFail #PublicGoods #PublicOwnership

Trying to share a post from Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/left-foot-forward.bsky.social/post/3mjkc3tqhbk2v

#PrivatizationFail #PublicGoods #PublicOwnership

How Privatization Has Broken U.S. Healthcare and High-Speed Rail—and Who Pays the Price

Two 60 Minutes reports expose a deeper truth: privatization is draining U.S. healthcare and infrastructure, leaving Americans to pay more for less while corporations profit.

How Privatization Has Broken U.S. Healthcare and High-Speed Rail—and Who Pays the Price

Two 60 Minutes reports expose a deeper truth: privatization is draining U.S. healthcare and infrastructure, leaving Americans to pay more for less while corporations profit.

How Privatization Has Broken U.S. Healthcare and High-Speed Rail—and Who Pays the Price

Two 60 Minutes reports expose a deeper truth: privatization is draining U.S. healthcare and infrastructure, leaving Americans to pay more for less while corporations profit.

How Privatization Has Broken U.S. Healthcare and High-Speed Rail—and Who Pays the Price

Two 60 Minutes reports expose a deeper truth: privatization is draining U.S. healthcare and infrastructure, leaving Americans to pay more for less while corporations profit.

Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment

https://murica.website/2026/03/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/

Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment

https://murica.website/2026/03/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/

Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment

https://murica.website/2026/03/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/

Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment

https://murica.website/2026/03/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/

Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment

https://murica.website/2026/03/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/

Washington $100M Police Grant Yet To Hire Officers

https://newsfactsnetwork.com/local-news/washington-100m-police-grant-yet-to-hire-officers/

> Olympia, Washington — Washington’s new $100 million police hiring grant program has not yet resulted in any officers being hired, despite being championed by Gov. Bob Ferguson as a response to the state’s last-place ranking in per-capita police staffing.

Yet even further proof that our federalized public tax dollars must not ever, certainly never routinely, be used to bribe community police squads. Defunding is not ridiculous; it's a critical necessity. Local public funding for local #publicGoods Get the corrupted feds OUT of neighborhoods.

Washington $100M Police Grant Yet To Hire Officers

https://newsfactsnetwork.com/local-news/washington-100m-police-grant-yet-to-hire-officers/

> Olympia, Washington — Washington’s new $100 million police hiring grant program has not yet resulted in any officers being hired, despite being championed by Gov. Bob Ferguson as a response to the state’s last-place ranking in per-capita police staffing.

Yet even further proof that our federalized public tax dollars must not ever, certainly never routinely, be used to bribe community police squads. Defunding is not ridiculous; it's a critical necessity. Local public funding for local #publicGoods Get the corrupted feds OUT of neighborhoods.

Washington $100M Police Grant Yet To Hire Officers

https://newsfactsnetwork.com/local-news/washington-100m-police-grant-yet-to-hire-officers/

> Olympia, Washington — Washington’s new $100 million police hiring grant program has not yet resulted in any officers being hired, despite being championed by Gov. Bob Ferguson as a response to the state’s last-place ranking in per-capita police staffing.

Yet even further proof that our federalized public tax dollars must not ever, certainly never routinely, be used to bribe community police squads. Defunding is not ridiculous; it's a critical necessity. Local public funding for local #publicGoods Get the corrupted feds OUT of neighborhoods.

Washington $100M Police Grant Yet To Hire Officers

https://newsfactsnetwork.com/local-news/washington-100m-police-grant-yet-to-hire-officers/

> Olympia, Washington — Washington’s new $100 million police hiring grant program has not yet resulted in any officers being hired, despite being championed by Gov. Bob Ferguson as a response to the state’s last-place ranking in per-capita police staffing.

Yet even further proof that our federalized public tax dollars must not ever, certainly never routinely, be used to bribe community police squads. Defunding is not ridiculous; it's a critical necessity. Local public funding for local #publicGoods Get the corrupted feds OUT of neighborhoods.

Washington $100M Police Grant Yet To Hire Officers

https://newsfactsnetwork.com/local-news/washington-100m-police-grant-yet-to-hire-officers/

> Olympia, Washington — Washington’s new $100 million police hiring grant program has not yet resulted in any officers being hired, despite being championed by Gov. Bob Ferguson as a response to the state’s last-place ranking in per-capita police staffing.

Yet even further proof that our federalized public tax dollars must not ever, certainly never routinely, be used to bribe community police squads. Defunding is not ridiculous; it's a critical necessity. Local public funding for local #publicGoods Get the corrupted feds OUT of neighborhoods.

Hallo @dfg_public :
Gibt es bei den durch die DFG bereitgestellten Förder-Geldern * Vorgaben/Beschränkungen in Bezug auf Patente/Produkte/Wissen/... die daraus hervorgehen? Wie lauten diese?
Z.B. muss zu x Prozent gemeinnützig und frei verfügbar (#openaccess) sein. Ganz im Sinne von #publicmoney = #publicgoods.

Kontext: "Darüber hinaus könnten staatlich geförderte Forschungsgruppen #Patente beantragen, um auszuschließen, dass diese in die Hände von Privaten fallen, die um der Profite willen vielen den Zugang hierzu unmöglich machen. Und schließlich sollte gerade bei genetischen und anderen Gemeingütern kein #Patentschutz vergeben werden."
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/pistor-der-kapitalismus-lasst-sich-durch-das-recht-transformieren/

*
"2024 verfügte die #DFG über einen Förderungsetat von rund 3,9 Milliarden Euro, aus dem 30.940 Projekte unterstützt wurden. Bei dem Förderungsetat handelt es sich um Steuergelder, die (...) vom Bund / den Ländern getragen werden." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Forschungsgemeinschaft

@surplusmagazin @KAPistor

#kapitalismus #forschung #wissenschaft

Hallo @dfg_public :
Gibt es bei den durch die DFG bereitgestellten Förder-Geldern * Vorgaben/Beschränkungen in Bezug auf Patente/Produkte/Wissen/... die daraus hervorgehen? Wie lauten diese?
Z.B. muss zu x Prozent gemeinnützig und frei verfügbar (#openaccess) sein. Ganz im Sinne von #publicmoney = #publicgoods.

Kontext: "Darüber hinaus könnten staatlich geförderte Forschungsgruppen #Patente beantragen, um auszuschließen, dass diese in die Hände von Privaten fallen, die um der Profite willen vielen den Zugang hierzu unmöglich machen. Und schließlich sollte gerade bei genetischen und anderen Gemeingütern kein #Patentschutz vergeben werden."
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/pistor-der-kapitalismus-lasst-sich-durch-das-recht-transformieren/

*
"2024 verfügte die #DFG über einen Förderungsetat von rund 3,9 Milliarden Euro, aus dem 30.940 Projekte unterstützt wurden. Bei dem Förderungsetat handelt es sich um Steuergelder, die (...) vom Bund / den Ländern getragen werden." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Forschungsgemeinschaft

@surplusmagazin @KAPistor

#kapitalismus #forschung #wissenschaft

Hallo @dfg_public :
Gibt es bei den durch die DFG bereitgestellten Förder-Geldern * Vorgaben/Beschränkungen in Bezug auf Patente/Produkte/Wissen/... die daraus hervorgehen? Wie lauten diese?
Z.B. muss zu x Prozent gemeinnützig und frei verfügbar (#openaccess) sein. Ganz im Sinne von #publicmoney = #publicgoods.

Kontext: "Darüber hinaus könnten staatlich geförderte Forschungsgruppen #Patente beantragen, um auszuschließen, dass diese in die Hände von Privaten fallen, die um der Profite willen vielen den Zugang hierzu unmöglich machen. Und schließlich sollte gerade bei genetischen und anderen Gemeingütern kein #Patentschutz vergeben werden."
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/pistor-der-kapitalismus-lasst-sich-durch-das-recht-transformieren/

*
"2024 verfügte die #DFG über einen Förderungsetat von rund 3,9 Milliarden Euro, aus dem 30.940 Projekte unterstützt wurden. Bei dem Förderungsetat handelt es sich um Steuergelder, die (...) vom Bund / den Ländern getragen werden." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Forschungsgemeinschaft

@surplusmagazin @KAPistor

#kapitalismus #forschung #wissenschaft

Hallo @dfg_public :
Gibt es bei den durch die DFG bereitgestellten Förder-Geldern * Vorgaben/Beschränkungen in Bezug auf Patente/Produkte/Wissen/... die daraus hervorgehen? Wie lauten diese?
Z.B. muss zu x Prozent gemeinnützig und frei verfügbar (#openaccess) sein. Ganz im Sinne von #publicmoney = #publicgoods.

Kontext: "Darüber hinaus könnten staatlich geförderte Forschungsgruppen #Patente beantragen, um auszuschließen, dass diese in die Hände von Privaten fallen, die um der Profite willen vielen den Zugang hierzu unmöglich machen. Und schließlich sollte gerade bei genetischen und anderen Gemeingütern kein #Patentschutz vergeben werden."
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/pistor-der-kapitalismus-lasst-sich-durch-das-recht-transformieren/

*
"2024 verfügte die #DFG über einen Förderungsetat von rund 3,9 Milliarden Euro, aus dem 30.940 Projekte unterstützt wurden. Bei dem Förderungsetat handelt es sich um Steuergelder, die (...) vom Bund / den Ländern getragen werden." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Forschungsgemeinschaft

@surplusmagazin @KAPistor

#kapitalismus #forschung #wissenschaft

Hallo @dfg_public :
Gibt es bei den durch die DFG bereitgestellten Förder-Geldern * Vorgaben/Beschränkungen in Bezug auf Patente/Produkte/Wissen/... die daraus hervorgehen? Wie lauten diese?
Z.B. muss zu x Prozent gemeinnützig und frei verfügbar (#openaccess) sein. Ganz im Sinne von #publicmoney = #publicgoods.

Kontext: "Darüber hinaus könnten staatlich geförderte Forschungsgruppen #Patente beantragen, um auszuschließen, dass diese in die Hände von Privaten fallen, die um der Profite willen vielen den Zugang hierzu unmöglich machen. Und schließlich sollte gerade bei genetischen und anderen Gemeingütern kein #Patentschutz vergeben werden."
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/pistor-der-kapitalismus-lasst-sich-durch-das-recht-transformieren/

*
"2024 verfügte die #DFG über einen Förderungsetat von rund 3,9 Milliarden Euro, aus dem 30.940 Projekte unterstützt wurden. Bei dem Förderungsetat handelt es sich um Steuergelder, die (...) vom Bund / den Ländern getragen werden." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Forschungsgemeinschaft

@surplusmagazin @KAPistor

#kapitalismus #forschung #wissenschaft

Pl help. Where's the social/economic history on this?
Ok. Like, when #JosephBazalgette famously built public sewers in London. Great public network. But where's the story of all the private connections into that?? Retrofitting backyard pits can't have been a small thing. How did everyone afford it, or not? What secured compliance?
Book recommendations etc all welcome. It's not about London. It's about compliance with public health.
#sewage #foul #history #PublicGoods #PublicHealth #compliance

Pl help. Where's the social/economic history on this?
Ok. Like, when #JosephBazalgette famously built public sewers in London. Great public network. But where's the story of all the private connections into that?? Retrofitting backyard pits can't have been a small thing. How did everyone afford it, or not? What secured compliance?
Book recommendations etc all welcome. It's not about London. It's about compliance with public health.
#sewage #foul #history #PublicGoods #PublicHealth #compliance

Pl help. Where's the social/economic history on this?
Ok. Like, when #JosephBazalgette famously built public sewers in London. Great public network. But where's the story of all the private connections into that?? Retrofitting backyard pits can't have been a small thing. How did everyone afford it, or not? What secured compliance?
Book recommendations etc all welcome. It's not about London. It's about compliance with public health.
#sewage #foul #history #PublicGoods #PublicHealth #compliance

Pl help. Where's the social/economic history on this?
Ok. Like, when #JosephBazalgette famously built public sewers in London. Great public network. But where's the story of all the private connections into that?? Retrofitting backyard pits can't have been a small thing. How did everyone afford it, or not? What secured compliance?
Book recommendations etc all welcome. It's not about London. It's about compliance with public health.
#sewage #foul #history #PublicGoods #PublicHealth #compliance

Pl help. Where's the social/economic history on this?
Ok. Like, when #JosephBazalgette famously built public sewers in London. Great public network. But where's the story of all the private connections into that?? Retrofitting backyard pits can't have been a small thing. How did everyone afford it, or not? What secured compliance?
Book recommendations etc all welcome. It's not about London. It's about compliance with public health.
#sewage #foul #history #PublicGoods #PublicHealth #compliance

"...[F]or those of us who have the luxury of not being in the trenches, it’s a good time to start talking about what a specifically socialist approach to municipal government might look like, especially when it comes to technology.

Fortunately, we have a historical precedent to help us think through this question. As Eric Blanc has argued, the experience of Milwaukee’s “sewer socialists” in the early twentieth century holds lessons for our current moment. Significantly, sewer socialism is a tradition that Mamdani himself has cited as inspiration. “Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery,” he said in an interview earlier this year.

The basic insight of sewer socialism is bringing people into your politics by improving their lives in obvious ways. “You win someone’s trust through an outcome” is how Mamdani puts it. The sewer socialists of Milwaukee made the case that municipal ownership of systems like sanitation, water, and power could deliver services more efficiently and more equitably than private ownership. They solved practical problems for their constituents while constructing working examples of a postcapitalist political economy in miniature.

The same method can be applied to the internet. Call it “digital sewer socialism.” Socialist elected officials in New York, Seattle, and beyond can craft policy interventions that increase the quality of life for residents by addressing the difficulties that arise in their relationship with technology. These interventions can be carried out in such a way that, by modeling socialist principles, they win wider support for socialist ideas."

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/digital-sewer-socialism-public-ownership

#USA #Socialism #SewerSocialism #DigitalSewerSocialism #PublicGoods #PublicInfrastructure

"...[F]or those of us who have the luxury of not being in the trenches, it’s a good time to start talking about what a specifically socialist approach to municipal government might look like, especially when it comes to technology.

Fortunately, we have a historical precedent to help us think through this question. As Eric Blanc has argued, the experience of Milwaukee’s “sewer socialists” in the early twentieth century holds lessons for our current moment. Significantly, sewer socialism is a tradition that Mamdani himself has cited as inspiration. “Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery,” he said in an interview earlier this year.

The basic insight of sewer socialism is bringing people into your politics by improving their lives in obvious ways. “You win someone’s trust through an outcome” is how Mamdani puts it. The sewer socialists of Milwaukee made the case that municipal ownership of systems like sanitation, water, and power could deliver services more efficiently and more equitably than private ownership. They solved practical problems for their constituents while constructing working examples of a postcapitalist political economy in miniature.

The same method can be applied to the internet. Call it “digital sewer socialism.” Socialist elected officials in New York, Seattle, and beyond can craft policy interventions that increase the quality of life for residents by addressing the difficulties that arise in their relationship with technology. These interventions can be carried out in such a way that, by modeling socialist principles, they win wider support for socialist ideas."

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/digital-sewer-socialism-public-ownership

#USA #Socialism #SewerSocialism #DigitalSewerSocialism #PublicGoods #PublicInfrastructure

"...[F]or those of us who have the luxury of not being in the trenches, it’s a good time to start talking about what a specifically socialist approach to municipal government might look like, especially when it comes to technology.

Fortunately, we have a historical precedent to help us think through this question. As Eric Blanc has argued, the experience of Milwaukee’s “sewer socialists” in the early twentieth century holds lessons for our current moment. Significantly, sewer socialism is a tradition that Mamdani himself has cited as inspiration. “Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery,” he said in an interview earlier this year.

The basic insight of sewer socialism is bringing people into your politics by improving their lives in obvious ways. “You win someone’s trust through an outcome” is how Mamdani puts it. The sewer socialists of Milwaukee made the case that municipal ownership of systems like sanitation, water, and power could deliver services more efficiently and more equitably than private ownership. They solved practical problems for their constituents while constructing working examples of a postcapitalist political economy in miniature.

The same method can be applied to the internet. Call it “digital sewer socialism.” Socialist elected officials in New York, Seattle, and beyond can craft policy interventions that increase the quality of life for residents by addressing the difficulties that arise in their relationship with technology. These interventions can be carried out in such a way that, by modeling socialist principles, they win wider support for socialist ideas."

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/digital-sewer-socialism-public-ownership

#USA #Socialism #SewerSocialism #DigitalSewerSocialism #PublicGoods #PublicInfrastructure

"...[F]or those of us who have the luxury of not being in the trenches, it’s a good time to start talking about what a specifically socialist approach to municipal government might look like, especially when it comes to technology.

Fortunately, we have a historical precedent to help us think through this question. As Eric Blanc has argued, the experience of Milwaukee’s “sewer socialists” in the early twentieth century holds lessons for our current moment. Significantly, sewer socialism is a tradition that Mamdani himself has cited as inspiration. “Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery,” he said in an interview earlier this year.

The basic insight of sewer socialism is bringing people into your politics by improving their lives in obvious ways. “You win someone’s trust through an outcome” is how Mamdani puts it. The sewer socialists of Milwaukee made the case that municipal ownership of systems like sanitation, water, and power could deliver services more efficiently and more equitably than private ownership. They solved practical problems for their constituents while constructing working examples of a postcapitalist political economy in miniature.

The same method can be applied to the internet. Call it “digital sewer socialism.” Socialist elected officials in New York, Seattle, and beyond can craft policy interventions that increase the quality of life for residents by addressing the difficulties that arise in their relationship with technology. These interventions can be carried out in such a way that, by modeling socialist principles, they win wider support for socialist ideas."

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/digital-sewer-socialism-public-ownership

#USA #Socialism #SewerSocialism #DigitalSewerSocialism #PublicGoods #PublicInfrastructure

"...[F]or those of us who have the luxury of not being in the trenches, it’s a good time to start talking about what a specifically socialist approach to municipal government might look like, especially when it comes to technology.

Fortunately, we have a historical precedent to help us think through this question. As Eric Blanc has argued, the experience of Milwaukee’s “sewer socialists” in the early twentieth century holds lessons for our current moment. Significantly, sewer socialism is a tradition that Mamdani himself has cited as inspiration. “Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery,” he said in an interview earlier this year.

The basic insight of sewer socialism is bringing people into your politics by improving their lives in obvious ways. “You win someone’s trust through an outcome” is how Mamdani puts it. The sewer socialists of Milwaukee made the case that municipal ownership of systems like sanitation, water, and power could deliver services more efficiently and more equitably than private ownership. They solved practical problems for their constituents while constructing working examples of a postcapitalist political economy in miniature.

The same method can be applied to the internet. Call it “digital sewer socialism.” Socialist elected officials in New York, Seattle, and beyond can craft policy interventions that increase the quality of life for residents by addressing the difficulties that arise in their relationship with technology. These interventions can be carried out in such a way that, by modeling socialist principles, they win wider support for socialist ideas."

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/digital-sewer-socialism-public-ownership

#USA #Socialism #SewerSocialism #DigitalSewerSocialism #PublicGoods #PublicInfrastructure

PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance

https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube

#HackerNews #PeerTube #DigitalPublicGood #PublicGoods #Alliance #OpenSource #VideoSharing

PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance

https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube

#HackerNews #PeerTube #DigitalPublicGood #PublicGoods #Alliance #OpenSource #VideoSharing

PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance

https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube

#HackerNews #PeerTube #DigitalPublicGood #PublicGoods #Alliance #OpenSource #VideoSharing

PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance

https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube

#HackerNews #PeerTube #DigitalPublicGood #PublicGoods #Alliance #OpenSource #VideoSharing

PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance

https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube

#HackerNews #PeerTube #DigitalPublicGood #PublicGoods #Alliance #OpenSource #VideoSharing

"If politics is the art of negotiating differences–and, ideally, supporting and multiplying them–under a common rule, then the work before us is to renovate the “common”: the infrastructures through which we meet, rely on, and matter to one another. This political labor prioritizes building over branding, reciprocity over performance, and the ethical experience of reciprocally caring for one another over the satisfactions of solipsistic online expression, newspaper columns, or podcasts.

To beat Trumpism, we must name the breakdown of democracy that has already transpired over decades of neoliberal disinvestment from the commons and from care it supports. And for those in positions of power who oversaw the breakdown and whose careers and bank accounts benefited from it, they should take responsibility for the reality they’ve wrought.

Then let us treat politics not as civility training but as the work of caring for democracy: the deliberate construction of public, participatory systems of care that give our talk of community actual substance. That means Medicare for All–and a national community care worker system that keeps people from needing doctors and hospitals in the first place. It means universal childcare–and the well-paid neighborhood jobs and safe spaces to enable it. It means housing as a fundamental right–and the support teams that get and keep people stably housed.

It means regarding racial, gender, and religious differences not as inconveniences to be tolerated but as the very lifeblood of democracy and the wellspring of its essential creativity. It means moving resources from punishment to care and proving, block by block, that safety is a function of belonging and caregiving, not of policing or surveillance."

https://www.newglobalpolitics.org/neither-culture-wars-nor-big-tents-will-save-american-democracy/

#USA #Democracy #Democrats #DemocraticParty #PublicGoods #Universalism

"If politics is the art of negotiating differences–and, ideally, supporting and multiplying them–under a common rule, then the work before us is to renovate the “common”: the infrastructures through which we meet, rely on, and matter to one another. This political labor prioritizes building over branding, reciprocity over performance, and the ethical experience of reciprocally caring for one another over the satisfactions of solipsistic online expression, newspaper columns, or podcasts.

To beat Trumpism, we must name the breakdown of democracy that has already transpired over decades of neoliberal disinvestment from the commons and from care it supports. And for those in positions of power who oversaw the breakdown and whose careers and bank accounts benefited from it, they should take responsibility for the reality they’ve wrought.

Then let us treat politics not as civility training but as the work of caring for democracy: the deliberate construction of public, participatory systems of care that give our talk of community actual substance. That means Medicare for All–and a national community care worker system that keeps people from needing doctors and hospitals in the first place. It means universal childcare–and the well-paid neighborhood jobs and safe spaces to enable it. It means housing as a fundamental right–and the support teams that get and keep people stably housed.

It means regarding racial, gender, and religious differences not as inconveniences to be tolerated but as the very lifeblood of democracy and the wellspring of its essential creativity. It means moving resources from punishment to care and proving, block by block, that safety is a function of belonging and caregiving, not of policing or surveillance."

https://www.newglobalpolitics.org/neither-culture-wars-nor-big-tents-will-save-american-democracy/

#USA #Democracy #Democrats #DemocraticParty #PublicGoods #Universalism

"If politics is the art of negotiating differences–and, ideally, supporting and multiplying them–under a common rule, then the work before us is to renovate the “common”: the infrastructures through which we meet, rely on, and matter to one another. This political labor prioritizes building over branding, reciprocity over performance, and the ethical experience of reciprocally caring for one another over the satisfactions of solipsistic online expression, newspaper columns, or podcasts.

To beat Trumpism, we must name the breakdown of democracy that has already transpired over decades of neoliberal disinvestment from the commons and from care it supports. And for those in positions of power who oversaw the breakdown and whose careers and bank accounts benefited from it, they should take responsibility for the reality they’ve wrought.

Then let us treat politics not as civility training but as the work of caring for democracy: the deliberate construction of public, participatory systems of care that give our talk of community actual substance. That means Medicare for All–and a national community care worker system that keeps people from needing doctors and hospitals in the first place. It means universal childcare–and the well-paid neighborhood jobs and safe spaces to enable it. It means housing as a fundamental right–and the support teams that get and keep people stably housed.

It means regarding racial, gender, and religious differences not as inconveniences to be tolerated but as the very lifeblood of democracy and the wellspring of its essential creativity. It means moving resources from punishment to care and proving, block by block, that safety is a function of belonging and caregiving, not of policing or surveillance."

https://www.newglobalpolitics.org/neither-culture-wars-nor-big-tents-will-save-american-democracy/

#USA #Democracy #Democrats #DemocraticParty #PublicGoods #Universalism