Trump himself governs via working toward the Fuhrer. Just feeling it out, seeing what vibes

It’s darkly funny that Roberts tried to slowly lay the foundation to obscure this total remaking of the balance of powers but in the end he did it via an a sweeping shadow docket order with almost no reasoning amidst an attempted fascist takeover

Thanks, dawg

I wrote about the Prairieland trial, the first to pilot the White House’s theory that antifa is a vector for terrorism. The case is a dangerous escalation in the admin's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history... lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

You should read everything Zohra Ahmed writes, but also & especially this post abt the criminalization of leftist solidarity by the Trump Admin through the use of material support laws & RICO (laws that are admittedly pernicious in most contexts but esp here) lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

That looks like a consumer protection problem now. There's gotta be a plaintiffs' firm already assembling the case, right?

Wild. One of those cases in which the outcome says more about the court than the legal principles at play. (Thanks for the correction on court, @kendraserra.bsky.social!)

Just a meme shared on Lebanese social media And yes this is a real story. Israel is targeting Lebanese Shias and explicitly warning Christians and Druze not to shelter them

Great post from two true experts

Coinbase is the latest crypto company to receive approval from the Trump administration to obtain a (limited) bank charter.

Some interesting historical nuggets in here for the LPE Congress crowd. 👀👀

My latest piece on our Black Farmers being Sabotaged by this racist AF White House. "They don't want Black people to participate in these programs. This is an administration that wants a white-only America." - John Boyd, Jr. #blackwallstreet #econsky #blackfarmers bejr.news/f/black-farm...

I say again: we need a politics of cooling the mark out gwern.net/doc/crime/19...

This, alongside the assassination attempt of Hamas negotiators in Doha, on the sovereign soil of a neutral country which was given the explicit role of meditation, demonstrates Israel's basic non-compliance with the most fundamental norms of international relations.

An agreement is impossible under such circumstances and this is one of the major reasons there'll be no "end" to the war even if Trump cuts bait.

This is the sort of gangsterism that even Genghis Khan found to be offensive, it breaks a taboo that predates the very idea of true international law.

That was not an edifying argument, but I have to say I was moved by the radicalism of birthright citizenship each time its logic was affirmed against another purportedly horrid hypothetical. YES, even children of sworn enemies shall be welcomed as citizens.

The bill also removes all independent decision-making power from the Faculty Senate.

So what are folks predictions re upholding a core element of post-Reconstruction democracy in the US? I think it's very likely conservatives will get their shit together on this one. Maybe 7-2 or 8-1.

Boston U's AAUP uncovers a campaign of censorship on campus. A series. dailyfreepress.com/03/30/21/219...

After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.

It’s a fascinating moment. China continues to refuse the crown

Aka economists come up with another reason to dismiss surrounding disciplines and modes of inquiry without reading them

Re-reading this class of sociology and coming to think that "cooling the mark out" is a good way to think of the general social problem of how to deal with the right-wing constructions of social reality. It's not just misinfo--it's building identities around being the righteously non-scammed

Celebrate with me 🥳🎊⭐️! I've turned in the last set of chapter proofs before my book goes into typesetting. Here’s the cover, which I love.

Holy cow what an episode.

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Hypothesis: increased public investment higher ed is most likely when it's pushed for by a broad developmentalist coalition--including, centrally, capitalists who see research and educated students as in their interest. As Trump's cuts are more deeply felt, this coalition becomes more likely

I have followed @attackerman.bsky.social's hard-hitting War on Terror journalism for almost 2 decades. But the tenderness of this piece of reporting on Gaza's hospitals is both beautiful and heart-breaking.

Oop

Very helpful context on the Meta/Youtube verdict. I think it underplays the possibility of common law development of distinctions, but that’s not a deeply held view

Somebody teach Mill some human capital theory, quick!

This is the good stuff labornotes.org/2026/03/57-l...

The opinion in the order dismissing X's antitrust case against boycotting advertisers is interesting bc it relies on authorities about antitrust harm requiring harm to consumers rather than competitors but its reasoning does not focus on consumers at all... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies" is a line that swipes aside forced regime change all over the world, mostly in non-communist countries, with "open" often meaning US corporate investment. And to swipe that aside is to ignore, e.g., how Iran became an Islamist state.

Interesting post, with some nice side swipes at the inscrutable logic of the movie itself williamhogeland.substack.com/p/sinners-an...

Luckily if the Republic collapses it would be able to draw on an experienced drafter of constitutions unilaterally imposed by an occupying authority

Do different agency heads control their own fiefdoms and simply obey laws at different rates? Do they make strategic or ideological calculations? Is it all gut instinct from the boss?

This type of thing--more than "public law" judicial review of legislation/regulation--is worth taking seriously in a left case for (limited) juristocracy. Judges and juries interpreting broad standards for fault have pushed regulatory processes forward and filled in their gaps over and over.

A persistent problem with this Supreme Court is that they just aren't great lawyers in any technical field. Even if they were disposed to have proper respect for precedent in copyright, they do not understand it. 4/

This eyewitness account of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire always brings me to tears (read the whole thing trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html)

Got my delivery of the mag yall have been hating on!

This has been a LONG time in works: my paper on how dollar hegemony is a form of international law-making power. It includes a long methodological/theoretical section on why strong versions of the 'law constitutes political economy' aren't convincing papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Hell yes. But you're gonna need more taxes (at the state level)

Analysis of effect of AI on expertise…from 1988