Do you think they bonded over how they both have like an uncountable number of Zs in their names?

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

But why on the Death Star though?

The UK mansion tax is a modest step in the right direction. That's refreshing. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewleahey/2025/11/26/uk-mansion-tax-the-beginning-of-a-british-wealth-tax-regime/

Still working on this piece, but fielding ideas for potential placement. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The peculiar little niche I occupy means I get the weirdest spam/scam emails. Everything from story pitches to vanity textbook publishers and podcast guest hosts. Now I've started getting (I think) scam literary agent offers.

My favorite part about Trump loving Bloodsport (1988) is remembering the entire "based on a true" story was made up by a guy who bought a Halloween costume army uniform, said he was in the Marines, claimed he won the Medal of Honor, and was champion of a made up underground fighting tournament.

Urban Institute TPC tracking tariffs across types of consumer goods (among other things). https://taxpolicycenter.org/features/tracking-trump-tariffs

Putting The Force Awakens beneath Revenge of the Sith is haunting.

Surely the answer is more data centers, more tax breaks for data centers, more rate breaks for data centers. More data centers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/power-shutoffs-surge-electric-bills/

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

I don't have occasion to write out an envelope all that often. But when I do, I imagine all the systems in place to catch The Zodiac spool up. Somewhere in the bowels of a government building a little red bulb begins blinking on a giant wall-sized map. He's in New Jersey.

This is one of the coolest tax projects I've ever seen.

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

Obviously consumers feel the bulk of the economic incidence of tariffs, full stop. But who does he /think/ he is referring to here? Who is stocking up? Importers? Domestic importers?

The list of things I'd rather do than read RFK Jr. poetry includes completely unscientific medical procedures he would probably approve of. Bone marrow transplants from prairie dogs and blood transfusions from Mr. Bob.

They. Never. Do. Tax. Them. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/22/rich-fleeing-manhattan-false-narrative-price-demand-up/87385511007/

Don’t expect the inflationary impact of tariffs to go away the moment they’re repealed. https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/week-in-insights-lower-tariffs-may-not-yet-mean-lower-prices

I suspect this is true - the humanities will go back to being a status marker. Rich kids and the elect get to study Homer, but the middle class must settle for adjunct-taught mega-lectures before STEM classes. A grim destination, but right now that is the road the voters keep choosing.

How about conduit curbing so that you don’t have to have overhead wires but also don’t have to trench for underground conduit? Is that anything? Can that be done?

Why do none of the 2025 Form 990 series downloads work on the IRS website? https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/form-990-series-downloads

"Parents won't get key grade data before next ice cream decision as child throws report card into open sewer." https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/fed-wont-get-key-inflation-data-before-next-rate-decision-as-bls-cancels-october-cpi-release.html

My kid blogged. She’s cool. https://www.mfriends.org/october-2025-palmyra-cove/

Wanna know exactly what NIL tax fraud looks like? We've got months of emails exposing how UCLA steered donors to a willing charity while earmarking the funds for football.

"A lipstick factory that takes as inputs the energy generated by burning mangroves and the subcutaneous fat of young civet cats."

Staring into this ad like a protester that is about to throw soup on the Mona Lisa.

Imagine the depictions of madness Blake or Eliot could have turned out, had they endured the psychic-fracturing drone of leaf blowers in the suburbs.

Saw the much-later aftermath of this senseless and horrible crime on Market Street in front of Drexel's library this morning. Thinking of Meaza Brown. https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/philadelphia-accident-today-market-street-drexel/

The day Nico Iamaleava's NIL contract dispute broke, UCLA got $60,000 from donors. But the school didn't have them send the money to its collective, Bruins for Life. Instead, it had them give it to a local charity for at-risk youth. Which is run by the founder of Bruins for Life.

This is wild. Committing tax fraud just to go 3-9 and fire your coach 🤦‍♂️ Awesome reporting by @foiaball.com

Crazy story by David Covucci over at FOIAball detailing efforts by UCLA to funnel NIL payments through a 501c3. https://www.foiaball.com/p/ucla-nil-collective-bruins-for-life-charity-donations-shelter-37

I just learned that HeinOnline is now inserting "AI" summaries at the start of law review articles when I download the PDFs. Um, what the heck? I don't want this.

One way to feel immediately old is to talk about the State Farm test and realize no one in the class has ever heard of, much less seen, one of those automatic seatbelts from the 70s and 80s.

Putting a stake in the ground for "silicon valley socialism" right now. https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/openais-tax-subsidy-efforts-amount-to-silicon-valley-socialism

Higgins seems like a guy whose script just says: "::Be on the wrong side of history::" https://www.the-sun.com/news/15509655/

I wonder how many lives have been saved by weird second order effects like the fact that everyone with a smart phone has a pretty decent flashlight in an emergency.

in case you missed it - this feels very relevant in light of the emails between Larry Summers & Jeffrey Epstein. In the emails, Summers is seeking advice on how to seduce a woman he describes as a mentee type. Unknown who she is or where she was working or studying. He was at Harvard.

"When her professor emailed her feedback on an AI-written paper, she refused to open it. She still hasn’t. “It’s wasting his time because he’s editing a fucking machine,” Gwen said. “Whatever he has to say is meaningless to me anyway, because it’s not my writing.”"

The Supreme Court made up the "major questions doctrine," under which the Court gets extra powers when things are a Big Deal and what's a Big Deal is up to the Justices. Why not make up a new "signature policies" rule where a president can put things beyond the court's reach, like a franchise tag.

Sometimes when people refer to themselves as "yours truly" I'm not really confident in their devotion to just me.

Hey look at me with a faculty bio page and whatnot. https://drexel.edu/law/faculty/fulltime_fac/andrew-leahey/

Yeah, that's all of it. That'd be the top news today. TRENDING: Government Shutdown | Charlie Kirk | Campus Radicals

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

Hey look, it's me again! Writing about doing the talky talky in the front of the room thing. https://drexel.edu/law/academics/undergraduate-law-program/blog/2025/November/real-time-relevance-in-law210-public-law-with-andrew-leahey/

Just scores of Gmail and Yahoo Mail inboxes filled with subject lines like "re:re:re:RE:re: The moral and legal repugnancy we're up to."

Are these people really selling the *mirror* on Facebook Marketplace?

The president pardoned alleged co-conspirators for crimes related to the 2020 election. This emphasizes the importance of state prosecutions after failed presidential auto-coups in our constitutional system, which I argued here in the Wisconsin Law Review: repository.law.wisc.edu/s/uwlaw/item...