An emerging crack?

Has anybody written about how extensive military and government funding changed the politics/political subjectivity of scientists in the postwar US?

So many people have asked me over the years, what does "LPE in Practice" look like? I'm pretty sure this is it.

Just scandalized a corporate law colleague by informing him that the most prominent socialist left position on corporate finance is anti-shareholder and sent him @jwmason.bsky.social's and @lenorepalladino.bsky.social's work. We'll see what I've unleashed

An absolutely fascinating figure. Started his career as an economist at Wharton, was fired for his pacifist & pro-labor vies. Later became a homesteader & a local ski resort made his land go up 3,000x in value. He gave it away bc he thought he didn't earn it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_N...

Is this just "he was being nice to rich people, so we thought he had realized that you can't do any policies that even marginally burden them but now he's saying he hasn't realized that"??

Consumer protection underenforcement is a deep, deep problem

this great article by @debtcollective.bsky.social lays out really clearly what's been on my mind all day: everybody better get real familiar with municipal finance real quick www.inthered.org/p/zohran-won...

?? NYC budget crisis is an origin story for Harvey’s highly influential account of neoliberalism. There is plenty of work on post-1970s austerity in state budgets, the role of tax revolts, the role of right wing market-focused local policy sharing networks, etc etc

Wish I could put quotes from anonymous peer reviews in my bio.

But you'll vote for a Dem over any plausible R in today's environment even if they run way to your left, so that's an inapt thought exercise!

Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania. The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown. 🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

Congratulations to Kaohly Her, who was elected last night as the first woman and first Hmong American mayor of St. Paul, MN!! (This is a HUGE upset victory!)

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Wasn’t it a whole attack line during BLM that young people were just going to hook up?

Love to see voters riffing on campaign themes like it's after hours at the Vanguard

[Werner Herzog voice] Actually, the McRib never goes away. It is we who are here for a limited time.

Isn't this the exact opposite of his usual point about electoral strategy?

Centrist Dems know they're profoundly threatened by a furious base. They're already going hard on a "Biden went too far to the left" interpretation of where we are. The fact that media is increasingly owned by right-wing ideologues will make their messaging battle easier.

Some heartwarming news

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: Alabama Democrats Monday said that Gov. Kay Ivey Monday should call a special session of the Alabama Legislature to help feed more than 726,000 Alabamians who lost food assistance Saturday.

As @lpeblog.bsky.social says, I caught some strays in this one. Hope I'll have some time to respond over winter break, because we're entering productive territory here. I would agree that consumer protection is inherently limited & I know @sanjukta.bsky.social would agree that antitrust is...

Has there been good reporting on why Barr is the only dissenter to proposed stress test reforms? cc @dsquareddigest.bsky.social

Damn, didn't expect Mamdani to come up with such a quick way to get around Adams's attempts to frustrate his freeze-the-rent campaign

Another casualty of the enormous glass wall in front of Bama Law. What a travesty

It’s like a perfect inverse of anti price gouging laws

ICE is planning to offer private sector bounty hunters cash bonuses for quickly tracking down the home addresses of immigrants across the US, according to a DHS document I reviewed. ICE encourages potential contractors to use "all technology systems available.” theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...

I spoke with Richard Hooker Jr., who leads Teamsters Local 623 in Philly, about his run against Sean O'Brien for President of the Teamsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Its second report, released on Tuesday, found evidence of systematic mass killings at a maternity hospital, a former children’s hospital turned detention center, and the berm outside of El-Fasher. The maternity hospital was the city’s last operational hospital”

McConnell apparently also opposed Heritage's Vought-led turn toward even more nihilistic politics during the Obama Admin. There must be an interesting internal story of McConnell's management of Republican politics

woke Brooke Rollins

Diggin it so far. As one might expect, it's partway between Waxahatchee and the Ackleys

Grok, describe the outfit this man is wearing

These are "bangers"??????

True, but also many law review articles are modular and so different readers can simply skip to the parts that matter for their purposes.

OPINION by Jack Criss, air traffic controller: “After my shift, I don’t go home to rest. I clock into DoorDash, trying to make ends meet for my daughter and me.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

I'd buy that shirt even if it weren't supporting street vendors on the run

The problem is you don't want a platform where the only people who get engagement are "true posters" What was great about Twitter was there was plenty of room for easy informal interaction. Here the chronological timeline just buries stuff if you're not a huge account or getting immediate uptake

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

This is actually sublimely unsettling. It feels more like Mr Show or Tim and Eric than Lynch

“…almost certainly a restlessness would appear about then, owing to the (it seems) inevitable boredom of Men with the good: there would be secret societies practising dark cults, and 'orc-cults' among adolescents.” JRRT, Letter 338 (dated 6 June 1972)

LOL the LSA website is not letting me renew my membership. OK, guess I'm not going?

Applying everybody is 12 theory, seems like the best way to get around this would be to refer to "pec cancer" or, going in the other direction, "manboob cancer"

Learning now that my children will be ineligible to run from public office, because they call many female-identifying friends and relatives "aunt"

Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory. The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.