Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

My favorite comment on the FT story

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

Mamdani’s win is a warning for media: Better get some leftist contributors or you simply won’t be able to cover/understand what is happening around America.

In an effort to improve efficiency as associate dean, I am thinking of starting to respond to emails like SDNY judges do letter rulings — handwriting the decision on a printout of the email

What up fam, coming at you from the full faculty meeting on Microsoft Teams today,

as i've been saying for weeks, he has broken 50% and this is going to be important his ability to control the narrative after tonight

How do we feel these days about the case of the Speluncean Explorers?

I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.

I want to see Mamdani win in NYC tomorrow for a lot of reasons, but one of them is absolutely to watch Bill Ackman crash out

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

November’s traditional album: Cap’n Jazz’s Analphabetapolothogy web.archive.org/web/20081210...

Timely (grim) new NBER working paper: Households screened out of SNAP "suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores." www.nber.org/papers/w34434

"Expanded access to legal cannabis has not worsened respiratory health overall"

The right has correctly identified the professional-managerial class as the class with the most revolutionary potential in the current period and have directed all their energies to destroy it before it becomes aware of itself and its own power

u shaped AND inverse u shaped!!!!! holy regional heterogeneity batman

Tag yourself, I’m the nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyer slash hipster trust fund socialist

"Why don't people support welfare programs?" Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness. White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

Had a lovely time in Phoenix this weekend for Judge Mary Schroeder’s 50th anniversary on the bench.

Tag yourself, I’m the nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyer slash hipster trust fund socialist

If both you and your partner make $95,000/year or more, you are in the top 10% of earners. A really underappreciated issue in American politics is that there are many rich people who do not wish to acknowledge that they are, in fact, rich.

Look, this is what any attention-seeking news outlet would do if they were honest and not captured by ref-working

If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven) projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...

I found the article referenced (which the author could have cited directly but didn't). Teachers biggest concern with AI use is student over reliance on it. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Every time I try to explain to a normie why politicized hiring is bad for universities or government, will use Belichick as an example

My hypothesis: Not a single person at this party has actually read Great Gatsby. Of, for 1% that have, it was in high school, and they never thought about it. It is *not* a happy-ending book. Or one flattering to dressed-up Mar-a-Lago type crowds. Or to greedy rich desperate for social approval

It's a Chicago holiday

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

My neighborhood at Halloween runs this interesting regulatory arbitrage on the dram shop rule, where houses give out candy to kids and shots to parents

Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness

I guess someone heard from Tylenol’s lawyers.

Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social (It’s also our kid’s birthday)

Brian Straw is one of ours. He's a longtime reader/listener/Michigan twitter-sky interaction. He listens to our podcasts with his 11yo. He serves his local community as a village trustee. They're trying to jail him for it. www.oakpark.com/2025/10/29/o...

Back on my Martha Ann Alito BS with this flag A neighbor asked my wife what it symbolized, and the look on her face soured as my wife explained “Irish republican … socialist”

New Substack Post 📬📬📬 So why did the witch eat the children? Maybe she didn't. Maybe she - like the most women accused of witchcraft - was accused and condemned because she lived on the social margins and did not enjoy the protection of a husband or father. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...?

🌋 Local photographer @jillkbriggs has several images of koa'e kea/white-tailed #tropicbirds soaring mysteriously & majestically around active vents & #lava fountains of #KīlaueaVolcano. You can see more of her images & other photographers at the Volcano Art Center in #HVNP. #JillBriggs #Birdtober

What happens when farmland becomes just another financial asset? Our latest digest shares recent work by Project co-creator(!) @jessicashoemaker.bsky.social and @jamesftierney.bsky.social on the possibilities and limitations of regulatory responses.

There is both hope and horror in this but I will take the hope. h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

"Costumes optional" means that costumes are permitted. Counsel has a chance to do something legendary is what I am saying.

Back on my Martha Ann Alito BS with this flag A neighbor asked my wife what it symbolized, and the look on her face soured as my wife explained “Irish republican … socialist”

If Isaac Chotiner ever said to me “I’m just still trying to understand,” I’d jump out the nearest window.

Prof. Shoemaker published (with former Nebraska Law professor @jamesftierney.bsky.social) "Absentee Ownership and the Berle-Means Firm," in the peer-reviewed Journal of European Economic History. Read more ›› buff.ly/YwyAuoa #NELaw

Check out my latest for @lpeblog.bsky.social: I trace the rise of a new form of politicized regulatory relief emanating from the White House, how it departs from centralized regulatory review at OIRA, and what it means for the political economy of the modern presidency lpeproject.org/blog/the-ris...

#rstats bskyr is updated on CRAN with lots of fixes and new features. Major additions are detailed vignettes support for direct messaging. Full list: christophertkenny.com/bskyr/news/

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor. And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

I gasped when I read this panel of the Investigators: Class Action at bedtime tonight.