Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

the shit all over the streets suuuuucks right now, but the degree to which it’s resulted in so many people in NYC openly admitting to hating dogs is really bumming me out

He's not taking it well you guys

NYC is gonna have collective mental breakdown if this actually happens

Am I overly cynical to assume this is why the tariff ruling dropped before the VRA one?

infinite things I need to be doing but can’t get up, dog too snug

So Marriott gave me an AI bot named Jolene southern accent and all that I can't get around when they overcharged me by $200 and I asked the bot and the told it told me it was human 10 times before finally admitting it was not. Fresh new hell.

Excellent piece. As a de Blasio alum, I can only wish we’d had an accessible, public-facing forum like @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social that unpacks the inner workings of city governance.

if you are leftist in NYC suddently trying to understand more about the city and state budget, this briefing is so helpful (and I think will be recorded and posted) fiscalpolicy.org/event/2026-b...

Have loved reading the NYC Policy Forum since it launched because we don't often get deep insights from past and present public sector workers and friends of the same on how to make local governments work. Highly recommend if you're into that kind of thing.

If you haven't read this fantastic piece by @jwmason.bsky.social on the complexities & the path forward for making housing affordable in NYC co-published by @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social & @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @phenomenalworld, really you should!! nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/the-real-c...

my new apartment though it has heat and is mercifully rent-stabilized is a lot smaller so way more things than I have space for but there is this very long hallway leading me to the either brilliant or terrible idea of “library hallway”

Stuart Schrader on what Trump’s urban occupations mean for police and the unions that represent them https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/02/14/authoritarianism-from-below-trump-city-takeovers-police/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-02-14_Schrader-policing-1

you guys, it’s the little things 🥰

Push back can work! This is great news!

I don’t think most people realize just how little the United States has traditionally spent on public media.

I have a new @lpeproject.bsky.social essay out that offers a framework for teasing apart three discrete and cascading layers of “media capture” that produce censorship, exclusion, and democratic failure in our information and communication systems. lpeproject.org/blog/the-ame...

Kafka on submitting to law reviews:

just submitted my first law review article through the portal and I have been informed that this small moment of triumph will be followed by weeks and weeks of constant rejection (whee!)

Hey NPR, it's not "contentious". It's illegal. Stop normalizing this.

There are worse tweets but honestly I can’t imagine a more embarrassing one

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

of all fucking years, did they really have to make the NBA All-Stars game: US-Stars vs. The World?!?! I don't feel like this is the time to be emphasizing who was born here!

An essential article 👇

I fear this is being treated as background noise rather than the 5 alarm emergency it is. Absolutely terrifying. Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

um, Obama definitely put children in detention camps, and I personally think it’s a problem if we kill people who are not American citizens (something that also happened under those administrations)

wait, I have to write an intro, an abstract, and a cover letter to submit a law review article?! I just don't have that many pithy descriptions of my project in me.

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

this feels like a Roger Bannister four minute mile moment for "reactionary centrism". a level of reactionary centrism doctors (of political science) assured us was impossible but that training, dedication, ingenuity, and the Indomitable human spirit were determined to overcome

Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Thank you for this amazing and important thread showing how together, price discrimination (see @katiejwells.bsky.social incredible research w/consumer report) and wage discrimination will squeeze us all dry

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The Atlantic is Atlanticking extremely hard this morning

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Abolish The Atlantic

A must-read: "If law is to function as anything other than a retrospective vocabulary for state violence, as a lens inverted to minimize and occlude the contours of such violence and its meanings, then it must be wielded deliberately..."

I mean we've seen a lot of racists in Trump's cabinet either bumble or attack when confronted with racist things they've said but this is truly next level.

Yale, Harvard, Stanford

I have a new piece out today in Phenomenal World, on the economics of a freeze in NYC regulated rents. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

My brother’s show reviewed in the NY Times. Super proud. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...

The NYC Policy Forum is a very exciting new project which I am thrilled to be part of.

"When ICE's ordinary operations require protection from law rather than obedience to it, abolition is not a radical slogan but a natural conclusion."

"Here, too, law and order are being produced, not by courts that rapidly retreat from confrontation under a presumption of regularity, or agencies that disclaim responsibility for their own violence, but by collective practice that emerges when formal guarantees prove selectively unreliable."

not to be all "all the publications I am involved with are doing really important things today" but also, it's true. JW Mason's piece up on the NYC Policy Forum today is an absolute must-read !! nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/the-real-c...

“When we refuse our boldest arguments, quieter ones prevail, leaving doctrine already in motion to grind on. In doing so, we do not merely misjudge the moment; we actively participate in the steady undoing of the ground that legal protection is said to provide”

a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

Hey, read this. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

real “we need to talk” vibes from Freddie