I reiterate

Mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=zydS...

So, THIS is happening "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment. (tk u @robin.berjon.com)

A huge congrats to two of our editorial board members, @lookheron.bsky.social and Aziz Rana, on being named 2025 Freedom Scholars 🎉🥳

After last year’s US election, people liked to point out that almost every OECD country saw the party in power during the post-covid inflation lose office in the next election. With one big exception: Mexico. There may be a reason for that. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

New from 404 Media: a CIA contractor used classified CIA systems as "his own personal Google," according to a court record we reviewed. The details are staggering: sold classified info to a foreign client accused of embezzlement. Sold info to U.S. lobbying firm www.404media.co/contractor-u...

Revisiting this one

The group of more than 40 conservative organizations met for the first time on Wednesday. The initiative is aimed at celebrations of the nation's founding next summer.

Oh great now normie lib comedy is transgressive.

This is excellent, and effectively understated

At the end of class today I talked with students about why some of their profs might be cautious about sharing slides. They were shocked—they hadn’t heard about all the firings and suspensions for “wokeness”. I kind of couldn’t believe it, but I guess goes to show we should be talking about it

Moral economy alert. cc @sanjukta.bsky.social

Congrats to our editorial board members Aziz Rana and Luke Herrine on being named 2025 Freedom Scholars 🥳🥳

Insanely honored to be associated with these brilliant folks. Still not totally sure this is real.

Secretary of Education is endorsing mass purges of anybody who expresses left-wing views on campuses in the name of promoting "free exchange of ideas." x.com/EDSecMcMahon...

DC is increasingly the politics of "fuck me? no fuck you!" and then consultants pay themselves to look busy in their second homes

Secretary of Education is endorsing mass purges of anybody who expresses left-wing views on campuses in the name of promoting "free exchange of ideas." x.com/EDSecMcMahon...

A second mass shooting of a homeless encampment in Minneapolis. Five more people died. Meanwhile, congress is working on passing the ability to jail homeless people for up to 30 days or charge them $500. It bans camping on public property. abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...

We’re living through the Alan Colmes-ification of American liberal media

Cory Zukatis IS a white man, but not the white man in the photo above. We do not yet have a picture of him. People are also wrongly sharing the below pic of Galvin Fortenberry (a gun violence victim who died last month) and claiming it's a photo of Cory Zukatis. bsky.app/profile/tesl...

The man in the photo below is NOT the Cory Zukatis who was found hanging in a tree yesterday. The coroner confirmed it to me. The deceased is from Brandon, MS. The Facebook page where this photo comes from belongs to a Florida man with the same name.

Updated second link: blackzonemagazine.com/not-one-but-...

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Everything else aside, is she not filming herself committing a clear traffic violation? I don't understand how people think of the appropriateness of using a phone while driving nowadays

Do we think we'll see a turn in NYT editorial policy now that they realize they can't insulate themselves and/or now that see he might be a problem for them? Or will they say "nah, the repression of the left is worth it"?

I really really hope this can be the future of politics and political communication. This is what de-escalation and ending political violence looks like

not gonna read that Klein article, but does he actually get Shapiro to commit to anything the right-wing should do to de-escalate?

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

I've heard stories of farmers who planned to vote for Trump who liked what the USDA was doing under Biden on the justification that Trump would realize that things were going well at the USDA and keep the same folks on staff

Helpful provocation from Gabe Winant, who still hasn't migrated from X. Nice of him to write it out like this. I don't think it all hangs together. Might have to respond lpeproject.org/blog/marxism...

The use of Chevron deference to allow bank deregulation by the OCC is commonly invoked as a reason to be skeptical of the value of such deference. But, reading the cases, the bigger shift seems to have been in abandoning/forgetting the original purpose of the Banking Act.

Time to go hard on pro-immigration politics. But meanwhile let's add some labor protections and some regulation of agricultural marketing to spread incomes down the supply chain

Saving this for future footnotes

Currently editing my piece on student debt law and politics, just wrote this one on meatpacking market regulation, the one before this was about consumer protection history and theory at the FTC and CFPB. Me, when asked about scholarly agenda: uh, as with Gaul, it is divided into three parts

This is a balm, honestly.

Tenants rights advocate Chelsea Kirk brings our analysis of the failures of supply side housing incentives up to date: "Far from delivering affordability, efforts to accelerate private development...fuel speculation, inflate land values, and displace tenants" www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/loo...

Read all about it! scholarship.law.unc.edu/nclr/vol103/...

This is why Musk has the resources to push fascism across the globe. “Oh, that’s just speech. We pay him for doing important stuff like making us money by getting military contracts” on.ft.com/3VhmCOz

Some more abundance discourse, in which Trevor Jackson lowkey ices Klein and Thompson www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

the thing this stuff seems most like is rap in the 90s, where it's an art/media scene about cash/power and they kill each other sometimes about it and it fits into the logic of the performance, except now it's Audience Participation

Growing up (an Eagles fan) being socialized to hate the Cowboys, I never considered I was being radicalized against America

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

At ProMarket, @lookheron.bsky.social explains how the FTC’s investigation into gender-affirming care exemplifies its embrace of the culture wars.

extremely interesting indicator of where we are in postmodern syncretism that the guys making Kirk out to be a hero of the Christian faith will simply not comment on a Hindu proposing that he is now in the afterlife of Norse Paganism.