Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

Fox poll: Georgia registered voters Jon Ossoff (D) 56% Mike Collins (R) 43%

More press coverage of my proposal with @polcz.bsky.social to tax AI, this time in @theatlantic.com! With Left, Right, and Center all converging around a version of this idea, it’s only a matter of time till it’s enacted. www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...

The public is entitled to a share of these companies, but not like this. This is just corruption. A bribe. A backroom quid prop quo deal. Taxes aren’t voluntary. And they aren’t case by case. Time to tax large AI firms with a payment made in stock.

Whoa. New NYT poll has dead heat in Texas Senate race. Talarico +27 among independents. This will push Dem groups to spend big there, now that it's clearly in play.

This business story misunderstands the business of Axon which is not about tools (tasers, cameras, drones), but data analytics systems and becoming the platform for data storage (think AWS not Amazon). It is one of the biggest stories in policing and the WSJ missed it. www.wsj.com/tech/the-tas...

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

And now Newsom on board, too. Left, Right, and Center all pushing for a public AI equity fund.

Inflation hits 3-year high, pressuring Fed to raise rates as election nears www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

This week on the Stanford Legal Podcast, @polcz.bsky.social and I discuss how large AI firms should pay a tax with stock, not just cash. Check it out! law.stanford.edu/stanford-leg...

One day after a Delta Air Lines flight aborted a landing at Logan Airport to avoid a potential crash, a second Delta flight pulled up abruptly before landing and performed a maneuver called a go-around Sunday because another aircraft was still clearing the runway, according to the FAA.

I was at the SCOTUS yesterday to hear decisions. When you can predict who wins before the justices announce the outcome just by knowing the identity of the parties & when 6-3 is the default setting,the system is broken.You could palpably feel the diminishment of the Court’s legitimacy & position.

In a stunning upset, democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier has defeated five-term Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the Democratic primary for New York's 13th congressional district. www.huffpost.com/entry/darial...

GM's latest automation push has spurred union pushback over a potentially existential issue for automakers and their workers.

Yesterday, the FBI raided our partners in Ohio, seizing laptops and even showing up at staffers’ homes. We’ve set up a democracy defense fund to support their work to fight back. movement.vote/ohio

Some good news in the world. Well done @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social !! www.politico.com/live-updates...

Trump benefits from a status quo allowing him to fabricate an audacious lie, prop it up with the machinery of the federal government, and count on media conventions to describe it merely as an untested claim “without evidence.” www.allrisenews.com/p/rising-thi...

UK plans to give established media more visibility on YouTube and TikTok

Many lessons to be taken from this new searchable database including: Todd Blanche's gross mismanagement of DOJ over this period Courts saying: 'presumption of regularity'/government good faith simply gone Courts: increasingly sanctioning DOJ attorneys⬇️ www.justsecurity.org/133928/immig... 1/🧵

The power of a good idea

oh look, a consequence www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

And now the AI Tax has been introduced in the United States Senate by @sanders.senate.gov. What a day. Full 38 page legislative text and bill summary below. www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...

My AI tax proposal with @polcz.bsky.social is starting to feel inevitable…

Despite a multimillion dollar renovation project which saw President Trump ordering workers to paint the base of the National Mall's Reflecting Pool blue, algae could be seen in the water on June 14, turning the water green.

it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+

Great coverage of AI Tax options, leading with @sanders.senate.gov' plan for an AI Equity Tax to make the public co-owners of AI, based on the "Sharing the Algorithm" Columbia Journal of Tax Law article I wrote with @bearerfriend.bsky.social nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...

Reminder that, if Thomas Paine’s tax proposal were in effect, Musk would face a 100 percent tax rate on any annual gains above $1 billion. Full detailed in my paper with @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

Good digest of our recent AI tax work if want to see all one place taxprofblog.aals.org/2026/06/09/b...

This effort to coopt Bernie’s AI tax is corruption, not taxation. A fundamental characteristic of a tax is its OBLIGATORY nature. But the the Altman & Trump version is that the stock contribution would be VOLUNTARY, ensuring some type of quid pro quo arrangement. apnews.com/article/sam-...

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.

New: we've obtained a DHS document outlining ICE's plan to give potentially more than a thousand local law enforcement agencies a facial recognition app that would query a database of hundreds of millions of images to verify someone’s immigration status www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...

I'm not just a tax professor. I also play one on TV. youtu.be/2mDEqasSUvI

This is so outrageous. Roberts Court said in Callais finding of intentional discrimination could invalidate gerrymandered maps. Lower court found Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black voters. SCOTUS still allowed map eliminating majority Black district to go through

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill to have the public take a 50% ownership stake in the country's biggest AI companies. The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would have the government tax AI companies, take 50% of the stock, and put it under public control.

Wow! @sanders.senate.gov sure liked our article on how to tax AI! He took my proposal with Prof @polcz.Bsky.social to the max (Bernie being Bernie…) but the core idea still here: the biggest AI companies should pay a tax with stock, not just cash. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...

“No fat troops” at the president’s birthday.

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

Becerra gains support in latest poll with Steyer and Hilton not far behind

Wisconsin’s supreme court race this spring saw roughly $4 million in TV ad spending, compared to $75 million spent in last year’s race. But the topline result was the same, with a liberal candidate scoring a large victory.

Hi! I’m Alexis, and I’m running for U.S. Congress to represent #MD06. I’m a technologist, finance nerd, former regulator, and queer mom of 2. I’m not afraid of holding bullies accountable & my experience makes me uniquely qualified to do just that in Congress.

If I were planning to do something really illegal, I’d want to be surrounded by an army first

NYT Exclusive: The contractor given a no-bid contract to repair the Reflecting Pool is being paid an inflated and excessive profit margin. The typical margin of federal construction contracts is 6-12%. But the firm fixing the pool submitted a bid that charged 20%.

Misogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed. n.pr/4tWJ12w

Erdogan ordered Turkey’s police to raid the opposition party’s HQ days after a kangaroo court ousted the opposition leader.

We cannot keep ignoring Turkey’s descent into authoritarianism. We must stand for the people's right to democracy for allies & adversaries alike.

BREAKING: The U.S. military saye it carried out "self-defense" strikes in southern Iran, including on missile launch sites and boats placing mines — even as Trump said online that negotiations were 'proceeding nicely.'

Senator Kim pepper sprayed by ICE. SENATOR KIM.

DISTURBING: Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...