I have a theory that people dislike the media because it’s something of a superego to public consciousness and people get tired of being told the right thing to do, even if they know it’s ultimately the right thing to do, especially if it’s painful and requires sacrifice. The id is more fun.

This is an inaccurate and frankly despicable thing to say.

There is not enough discussion of the EEOC's lawsuit against @nytimes.com for discriminating against a white man. Here's a gift link. Let's get into it.🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

BREAKING: SCOTUS grants the Callais plaintiffs' request to issue the judgment now, meaning the ruling goes into effect and back to the district court immediately. This was done over a strong dissent from Jackson — prompting Alito (w Thomas & Gorsuch) to author an opinion concurring with the grant.

The old saw is that SHs have three rights: vote, sell, and sue. All 3 are disappearing: states rush to eliminate litigation rights; all these are controlled companies; and now they're being forced into the indexes.

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

so excited to see my favorite franchise given the Hollywood treatment!!!

Norm Green has to be one of the biggest villains in all sports history.

@matthewtbodie.bsky.social co-authored, “Collegiate NIL Collectives: Context, Structure, and Future” in Harvard Law’s Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law. The article addresses changes in policies governing college athletes’ right to profit from their names, images, and likenesses. z.umn.edu/ba6p

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

I wonder if anyone is really surprised by the amount of self-dealing involved here. What I find surprising though is that there are sophisticated investors (VCs) all around and none of them said a word on behalf of their LPs. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/t...

Meta will begin keystroke logging US employees at work -- complete with mouse movements and periodic screenshots -- to train better AI agents. This comes after Boz posted about a future in which AI will "primarily do the work" at meta. It's a new era for tech labor. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

🚨🚨Revised paper 🚨🚨 The Balance of Power in Franchising w/@ulrichatz.org, Blake Eliason, @mikelipsitz.bsky.social, @pnorlander.bsky.social, & @stpinto.bsky.social. We built the 1st comprehensive panel dataset of franchise contract terms: 46,000 documents, 4,500 chains, 20+ provisions, 2009-2024. /1

Workers have a right to form & join unions and to bargain first contracts but the reality is it’s still too hard. Proud to stand with workers, NYC unions, @flyingwithsara.bsky.social, @sanders.senate.gov, Manny Pastreich, Henry Garrido @dc37nyc.bsky.social, @mayor.nyc.gov at the launch of Union Now.

So the Clean Power Plan was never implemented. Now, want to hear something funny? The targets in the Clean Power Plan -- for growth in clean energy, for retirements of dirty energy -- were exceeded. Before the deadline. *Without the reg being passed.*

The Enron Corpus—over 500,000 emails, calendar invites, etc. made sent by Enron employees—has been used repeatedly by machine learning models, especially in natural language processing. Workers deserve voice and ongoing control over the use and sale of their data.

So proud of Senator Tina Smith who is holding the Senate Floor right NOW to protect the Boundary Waters. Watch here www.youtube.com/live/omq2Jyg...

Pope Leo is answering the question, “What if the church followed the teachings in the Gospels, rather than the Diet of Worms?”

this is the most AV thing that has ever been AV’d

Gen X!! WYD!!

It seems like Apple is relocating employees of two other stores that it is closing, but requiring employees at the unionized store to apply for open positions. It could be that the CBA *allows* Apple to do this, but there's no way it *requires* Apple to do this.

NEW: Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, responds to Trump’s post attacking Pope Leo. Says he is “disheartened” and argues that Leo is “not a rival” but rather “the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel." www.usccb.org/news/2026/ar...

I feel like this is a recurring problem. Not sure there are clear answers either way: nymag.com/tags/shitty-...

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

Hi Chicago friends! I'm heading your way this week to talk about The Pain Brokers with the brilliant Myriam Gilles. Please join us if you're in the area--we'd love to say hi.

To what extent do Americans bear blame for this, even those who oppose these policies and voted against the people threatening them? If this were another country, I’d probably assign moral responsibility towards that country and its citizens as a whole.

A very important development. Doctors are recognizing they need to organize as workers, and they're winning victories. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

A Cockeysville dad’s final wish: See his astronaut son fly to the moon

After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

Putting out my periodic call: if you have a book coming out about finance, econ, politics, media or tech, send me a galley. DM me and I’ll give you my email for your PR people. We do author interviews for Slate Money’s Money Talks series and I’m always thinking about columns on these topics

Trump has golfed on about one out of every four days during his second term in office. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...

A family Scattergories game led to the revelation that yes, durian is a pizza topping.

We're seeking candidates for the position of Technology and Work Program Director to oversee, develop, and conduct research, policy analysis, and training related to rapid technological change in the workplace. Learn more & spread the word! laborcenter.berkeley.edu/job-opening-...

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No better feeling that organizing with your coworkers and WINNING 😌✌️ 🎈CONGRATULATIONS to Annapolis Harbour baristas in Maryland who won their union election tonight! They're joining over 10,000 of us who are demanding better from Starbucks! ✊

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

Inspired by ProPublica’s new database, I created a visualization of the nearly 400 LLCs that make up Trump’s business empire. That and more in this week’s newsletter. Read! Free! www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...

The most disgusting combination of self-enrichment and failed management in the history of the entertainment business. deadline.com/2026/03/davi...

That’s just maddening. @matthewtbodie.bsky.social and I wrote a book critiquing the law-and-econ arguments for the core features of shareholder primacy, and did so taking the standard precepts of economics and social choice theory as given.

These are NOT meaningful redlines. For example it only prohibits autonomous weapons “ in any case where law, regulation, or Department policy requires human control.” But the relevant safeguard against autonomous weapons is a DOD directive that Hegseth can change at will! openai.com/index/our-ag...

In which a bleary-eyed @kevintfrazier.bsky.social and I stay up late recording an emergency @scalinglaws.bsky.social episode trying to figure out what's going on between the Pentagon and Anthropic. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Well I guess it’s “Trump Buddies”

FT exclusive: Tens of thousands of internal emails and documents released by the US Department of Justice as part of the Epstein files paint for the first time a vivid picture of how Deutsche Bank rolled out the red carpet for the serial sexual abuser ft.trib.al/4obT91p

The President boasts of "no tax on tips", but this expires in 2028. He boasts of "no tax on overtime," but it is taxed, and the break expires in 2028. He boasts of "no tax on social security," but it is taxed, and his break expires in 2028. He also passed tax cuts for the rich. They're permanent.

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