@matthewtbodie.bsky.social was quoted by @marketwatch.com regarding a strike that began last week of Starbucks Workers United union that’s demanding better pay and improved staffing. The union said the strike began with 65 stores across more than 42 cities. z.umn.edu/avww

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Getting these vibes www.bbc.com/news/busines...

Literally

The Trump Administration’s disregard of the law and bad-faith interpretations of its doctrines have been particularly radicalizing for lawyers—especially those who have believed in the rule of law as a higher principle above politics.

Maths... If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars. If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars. Tax the rich.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

$TSLA stockholders voting to incentivize Elon Musk into causing a black swan when he needs little incentive to do things that tend to tilt the world that way

Tender Is the Right Careless Donald thought he was the last tycoon,and his party was the biggest Gatsby gaffe since the Redford Flick. Now his only GOP critic is MTG, who's more Daisy Duke than Daisy Buchanan, but soon Pete won't be one drinking like F. Scott Fitzgerald. by Maureen Dowd

A ULP strike is an unfair labor practice strike—it’s a protest against the dozens of violations of federal law that the union and workers have alleged and the NLRB has ruled to be true.

i keep bitching about this but i ran a version of this on Friday without being patronizing or sounding like a boomer but now the NYT version is the one that keeps getting shared

Identity theft

Dems need to run in every district. Our gerrymander gives Rs very thin margins. And maybe getting thinner. We have A LOT of districts.

Oh — the situation has escalated. Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in. "Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...

Will post more later but to have a productive debate about this, we need to disentangle 2 issues imo: 1) is antitrust (& c.) useful as part of a larger transformative project? 2) is the economy inherently coordinated, and that coordination subject to a variety greater than "competition v monopoly"?

The obstacle: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”

Most likely don’t have this on the Election Day radar, but felony disenfranchisement is on the ballot next week in Virginia, an unusually harsh state for denying voting rights to people with criminal records. Major reform may be coming there, and Tuesday is pivotal. Here’s what you need to know:

[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?

Dems’ dilemma:

This quote really has the potential to reframe how average Americans view the concept of “farmer.”

This is the most important labor action of the 21st Century. It deserves a lot more attention than it’s getting.

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Today, @jamesftierney.bsky.social argues that the government's recent $8.9 billion equity investment in Intel represents a new model of American state capitalism: one that entrenches corporate power while foreclosing more democratic and effective alternatives.

Subbing in for @arimelber.bsky.social on @thebeat.msnbc.com tonight! Join us on @msnbc.com!

@minnesotareformer.com on a medical company trying to force changes in contracts on MN doctors it employs. Violates MN's recent ban on non-competes that @emmagreenman.bsky.social championed. cc @charlottegarden.bsky.social @evanpstarr.bsky.social minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/17/n...

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

This is not morally or legally different than lining up two dozen men and shooting them in the face.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

If any junior scholars want to chat about the supportive environment that @umnlawschool.bsky.social has built, I'm more than happy to do so. Incredible institution. Great mentorship from a faculty that reads your work. Great city with a phenomenal food scene, fantastic parks, and a ton to do.

Minnesota Law is looking to hire a visiting assistant professor — more details here: hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

From Harvard & UConn researchers on the June 14th No Kings Day protests. (report came out in August) THIS is why MAGA is so spooked by the upcoming (Oct 18th) peaceful protests. New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...

Anyone else find it weird that Zoom calls cloud recordings “meeting assets”?

Watched “Mountainhead” last night and had mixed reactions. I found it a weird and somewhat sterile exercise in tech bro satire, but I found a lot of the dialogue to be a decent approximation of how they actually seem to talk. So maybe insufferability is the point? Wondering what other folks thought.

So why are 60 votes needed in the Senate when it’s a budget bill? Is it because they used up their one-shot 50 votes bill on the BBB?

“Is it that the Chief Justice doesn’t accept that the Court is losing credibility on a daily basis; that he thinks the Court doesn’t need that credibility in order to fulfill its intended role in our constitutional system; or that he doesn’t care?” Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:

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