Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Starbucks unions are practicing picketing as the company abuses its workers and denies them a fair contract. This is your reminder to not cross a picket line and support workers! NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.

Thrilled to be giving a talk on The Limits of the ADA’s Duty to Accommodate @oneillinstitute.bsky.social (@georgetownlaw.bsky.social) & the Georgetown Program in Disability Studies tomorrow (Sep. 25) at 5 pm. If you’re around, please join us. Details below 👇

Bothsiderism in its final form

New from me: Why everyone should care about Trump's unlawful attacks on law firms. newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/trumps-war...

It’s a wrap on COSELL 2025 (Colloquium on Scholarship on Employment & Labor Law) hosted by Seton Hall Law. Photos are from the panels on work in digital spaces & work law under the Trump admin. Thank you to 70+ scholars from around the country for sharing your work! See you next year in Berkeley!

My wonderful colleague Tim Glynn and I were thrilled to present the Miller Award for a senior work law scholar to Catherine Fisk (@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social) & the Zimmer Award for a junior work law scholar to @nelsonryanh.bsky.social (South Texas Law) at the 2025 COSELL at Seton Hall Law🏅🏆

A impressive team of nonprofit law experts (+me), have banded together to comment on the new proposed rules from the Education Dept. on public service loan forgiveness. The rule purports to give ED authority to strip PSLF eligibility from any employer that acts with an "illegal purpose." 🧵 1/13

Just putting this out there in case people don’t know of the case: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankin_...

Kavanaugh, J., concurring. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...

This is a perfect excuse to watch “A Perfect Candidate” and read “When the Clock Broke” by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Apocalypse Now, famously a movie about how war is awesome and always turns out well

I know this is useless to even point out but: if Mexico bombed a boat off the shore of the U.S. and killed a bunch of American citizens on the stated case — without providing a real criminal case in a court or anywhere else and after having lied about everything for 8 months — that those Americans…

This is gibberish. Trying it as a Mad Libs makes just as much sense. Trump may try to declare a [noun] crisis to claim “[imposing adjective] powers” over [noun] and override [collective noun]

let's goooooooo, this is step 1 on the road to state-owned pro sports teams which generate money for local governments and can't threaten to move whenever they want money for a ballpark. we will figure out whether head coach is an elected position or government appointee at a later date

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️

This is important. The first 24 hours of press coverage fumbled the ball. But the US just murdered 11 people in international waters. Analogies to the US’s (highly suspect, morally and legally) targeted killings of suspect terrorists don’t work. This crossed their own lines, and they know it.

"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“a university, non-profit, or media outlet that engages in union-busting in 2025 is making a strategic mistake, prioritizing limited short-term benefits over the big picture.” www.acslaw.org/expertforum/...

There’s a lot of pressure on more mainstream brands to chase the extra money from high-income folks. Price differentiation to the nth degree. That’s happening at Southwest Airlines—it explains how their new seat pricing policies can be deeply unpopular and still financially beneficial.

TIL

When you consider that businesses are run by dictators—that a firm is not a democracy—it makes sense why a series of rich guys at the top of the capitalist world think government can be run without following any laws.

Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.

The Supreme Court made possible the administration's threats to send Mr Abrego Garcia to Uganda -- because the Court blocked the lower court decisions that had restricted the gov'ts ability to send noncitizens to far-flung places they've never been & where they could face violence, torture, & death.

If you had told me 30 years ago that Michael Luttig and Bill Kristol would have a clearer understanding about what's going on than a lot of Democratic leaders, I'd have wondered whether you tried the brown acid.

Still nothing! Please correct me if you see something.

So a federal appellate court has essentially stopped the federal labor agency from enforcing federal law in Texas and Louisiana and it’s not even on the landing page of the NYT?

me, April 2024 www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-troub...

1. We have normalized having a toddler in the White House who uses random " marks ("HOTTEST"?). How is any of the below normal? How are we okay with this? 2. We have a president who doesn't want us to cover, in our museums "how bad Slavery was". Was it not bad? Imagine if Reagan had said this? FFS

A few thoughts on the 5th Cir. decision enjoining the NLRB from proceeding with ULP charges against SpaceX & 2 other employers. (Opinion linked from this story: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...)

I’m not surprised, given the Supreme Court’s failure to deal with the alternative holdings in Jarkesy. But this is bad bad news for federal labor rights.

Not until “More Everything Forever” by @adambecker.bsky.social did I appreciate the extent to which tech giants like Bezos and Andreessen aren’t just soft on sustainability but actually in favor of burning as much energy as possible, regardless of the climate and environmental damage.

RIP Terence Stamp If you’ve never seen THE LIMEY, correct that immediately

I wrote about a certain kind of Gen Xer (white, middle class, believes themselves to be CEO-shaped) who’s disappointed that they invested in neoliberalism and it didn’t work out. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/o...

We had actual an actual assassination of a Democratic legislator in Minnesota two months ago & it’s completely disappeared from the National Conversation™️. This happens <all> the time over & over again 👇

it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

Trump is starting to get the late-stage Sumner Redstone look

Remember the quiet lawlessness?

Remember the quiet lawlessness?

“We have committed our professional lives to learning and free inquiry, working together with students to advance truth for the collective benefit of society. Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up so easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.”

New blog post! The funny Avaco stockholder voting agreement case, just decided in Delaware: www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/08/word...

Trump has halted or dropped enforcement actions against 160+ corporations, including: -42 consumer protection cases at CFPB -20 foreign bribery cases at DOJ -6 employment discrimination cases at EEOC -7 crypto cases at SEC It's a new golden age for corporate criminals.

We need a deep dive long read on the current moral exhaustion, the sense of torpor and powerlessness, the idea that there must be some societal response to injustice or lol nothing matters.

The stuff that, 15 years ago, would have been a screaming 72-point all-caps headline — and now appears in the sixth paragraph, almost as an aside www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Time for the Big 10 Alliance