#FollowTheMoney An ongoing 🧵 I started a while back and add to every now and then. Inspired by this initial piece by #GaryStevensonon, it is rag bag of somewhat eclectic thoughts and pieces, on how money flows towards the rich and away from others, and how this shapes everything. Today at 80 posts - let’s see how long it will get! https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112047945347154458

#Budget #UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”

This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

#FollowTheMoney

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney 🧵80/n #ZohranMamdani

3. Lastly, I am also super excited that the son of an anthropologist is now Mayor of New York! Of course it’s wrong to claim Mamdani for anthropology- he is own person, and his mother is brilliant too - but I want to just do this for now. Anthropology, as David Graeber said, is about possibilities, - this is what Mamdani is showing us all now, too. I see so much of anthro in what he is doing I will shamelessly share this 🧵

https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112144067417740154

#FollowTheMoney 🧵79/n

2. Melinda Cooper’s brilliant #Counterrevolution (posts 74-76 ⬆️ ) describes how #NewYork was the place that the neoliberal counterrevolution began - where fiscal policies redistributing money towards the rich, assets and property (Trump’s world!) were first tested and then taken elsewhere.

So exciting that New York is now the place where a different, socialist politicsl economy is emerging! Go New York! Let this spread everywhere from here, too!

#ZohranMamdani

#FollowTheMoney 🧵78/n #ZohranMamdani’s win has to be logged here - for three reasons!

1. This 🧵 all about the #oligarchy, the way it structures our world, and Mamdani taking it on directly, talking about it, making us all #SEEtheoligarchy is just 🔥

Mamdani condemns ‘oligarchy and authoritarianism’ in speech directly talking to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/nov/04/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-results-latest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney An ongoing 🧵 I started a while back and add to every now and then. Inspired by this initial piece by #GaryStevensonon, it is rag bag of somewhat eclectic thoughts and pieces, on how money flows towards the rich and away from others, and how this shapes everything. Today at 80 posts - let’s see how long it will get! https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112047945347154458

#FollowTheMoney 🧵80/n #ZohranMamdani

3. Lastly, I am also super excited that the son of an anthropologist is now Mayor of New York! Of course it’s wrong to claim Mamdani for anthropology- he is own person, and his mother is brilliant too - but I want to just do this for now. Anthropology, as David Graeber said, is about possibilities, - this is what Mamdani is showing us all now, too. I see so much of anthro in what he is doing I will shamelessly share this 🧵

https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112144067417740154

#FollowTheMoney 🧵79/n

2. Melinda Cooper’s brilliant #Counterrevolution (posts 74-76 ⬆️ ) describes how #NewYork was the place that the neoliberal counterrevolution began - where fiscal policies redistributing money towards the rich, assets and property (Trump’s world!) were first tested and then taken elsewhere.

So exciting that New York is now the place where a different, socialist politicsl economy is emerging! Go New York! Let this spread everywhere from here, too!

#ZohranMamdani

#FollowTheMoney 🧵78/n #ZohranMamdani’s win has to be logged here - for three reasons!

1. This 🧵 all about the #oligarchy, the way it structures our world, and Mamdani taking it on directly, talking about it, making us all #SEEtheoligarchy is just 🔥

Mamdani condemns ‘oligarchy and authoritarianism’ in speech directly talking to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/nov/04/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-results-latest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney requested access to an unredacted version of #X’s first #DigitalServicesAct risk report from the @EUCommission – a request that the EU executive denied.

After the request, the Commission updated its internal rules to generally presume such reports to be confidential.

The European #Ombudsman found this to be “unreasonable” and that it amounted to maladministration.

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/eu-watchdog-slams-commission-over-x?share=1mY%2B4H%2ByW2F6Ad9Pgd%2BTdoFEAsvMSz869pZOp7URYWEzHEAyIZHyhccNPphfWlM%3D

#FollowTheMoney requested access to an unredacted version of #X’s first #DigitalServicesAct risk report from the @EUCommission – a request that the EU executive denied.

After the request, the Commission updated its internal rules to generally presume such reports to be confidential.

The European #Ombudsman found this to be “unreasonable” and that it amounted to maladministration.

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/eu-watchdog-slams-commission-over-x?share=1mY%2B4H%2ByW2F6Ad9Pgd%2BTdoFEAsvMSz869pZOp7URYWEzHEAyIZHyhccNPphfWlM%3D

#FollowTheMoney 🧵77/n This piece really chimes with Melinda Cooper’s analysis ⬆️ (74-76) and many previous posts: it’s about how asset capitalism (and AI) is hollowing out the middle class, with a small number joining the elite, the rest working increasingly on close to minimum wages. Also speaks to my own recent experiences… and many others too, I imagine. Especially recent graduates. The whole university>white collar job>decent salary model is crumbling.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/03/the-guardian-view-on-britains-new-class-divide-the-professional-middle-is-being-hollowed-out?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney 🧵76/n i have just ordered the book - i really feel it’s so important to get a grounded, understanding of how this world that we bow all live in was created - and, as Melinda Cooper brings out so clearly: none of this was inevitable, it was all done, bit by bit, on purpose. This doesn’t make it any easier to undo necessarily but understanding all this is surely a first, key step.

Here also Katrina Forrster’s review in the LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/katrina-forrester/i-appreciate-depreciation

#FollowTheMoney 🧵76/n i have just ordered the book - i really feel it’s so important to get a grounded, understanding of how this world that we bow all live in was created - and, as Melinda Cooper brings out so clearly: none of this was inevitable, it was all done, bit by bit, on purpose. This doesn’t make it any easier to undo necessarily but understanding all this is surely a first, key step.

Here also Katrina Forrster’s review in the LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/katrina-forrester/i-appreciate-depreciation

#FollowTheMoney 🧵75/n what i particularly appreciated:
1. Disaggregating each decade - how assets became the key focus of economic over time
2. How this links to a conservative political project - the family the key unit for multiple reasons
3. How asset economics the material basis for far right populism
4. Brilliant focus on changing construction worker politics,property speculators (Trump) and homeownership - construction such a key sector in all this

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-dig/id1043245989?i=1000731213819

#FollowTheMoney 🧵74/n Just finished listening to this 2part #TheDig podcast interview with Melinda Cooper about her book “Counterrevolution. Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance”, and really cannot recommend it enough. A really excellent, grounded and stimulating account of the neoliberal “counterrevolution” as a deliberate project carried out over several decades by different political actors making fiscal choices that reshaped economy, values and politics

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-dig/id1043245989?i=1000729326228

#Remigratie"= #deportatie van vluchtelingen en anderen. Dat heeft #FollowTheMoney uitgezocht op basis van partijprogramma's en social media. Ze komen o.m. bij #Geuzenbond uit

https://archive.is/n1A43

#Remigratie"= #deportatie van vluchtelingen en anderen. Dat heeft #FollowTheMoney uitgezocht op basis van partijprogramma's en social media. Ze komen o.m. bij #Geuzenbond uit

https://archive.is/n1A43