I've written about this (in an article still looking for a home). In short, immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, pay substantial taxes. But they may well stop paying if paying taxes means potential deportation. And it may discourage taxpayers here legally, too. 1/

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...

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mom's on an international 5 month cruise and i'm not sure she's current on politics so i periodically text her with instructions on what to email her congresscritters

that sense of relief when your insurer texts you that your necessary-for-quality-of-life medication has been approved for another 3 months

I have very few firm opinions on AI except for the sense that it's a particularly bleak view of human creativity that posits all we can do is a variation on what has been done before.

look i too have concerns about the state of our democracy but signals based on pam bondi's professional judgment are not among them

... were they gender reveal balloons

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New Orleans? This is carnivale

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

hey i never heard of this one consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-ale...

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okay, but it's "think"

Is the dog a soccer player

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines. apnews.com/article/mode...

BRING IT BACK

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

why is SBF filing pro se motions 🤧

So I think everyone knows what Chuck E. Cheese is but for non-parents who don't know what LifeTouch is, it's the company that for decades has had a near-monopoly on school pictures.

and after all outside counsel did for big tech (rewrite delaware's law. that's what they did for big tech)

I'm hearing that Big Tech is already doing the same thing with outside counsel — either tell them to do more for the same amount of money or accept a lower fee

"[T]his Court has no faith that the Government would comply with an order to hold a bond hearing." It is difficult to overstate how insane of a situation it is that a judge makes such a statement in a court order, and that this statement is absolutely reasonable.

i'm just a lawyer, not an investment adviser, so i don't know what the market reaction to the jobs report is likely to be. on the one hand it means a slowing economy. otoh, a nearly certain interest rate cut best guess is that thing where luxury and discount skyrocket, middle market plummets

excited to share that I am *officially running* to represent Massachusetts state employees on the MA public pension board! I'm running because public pensions are *ours* and should serve the interests of state workers and our communities I'm endorsed by @massteacher.bsky.social www.mapension.com

Paramount ups its bid, in a way. It now will reimburse Warner for the term fee it has to pay to Netflix, and pay an ongoing ticking fee if the merger doesn't close by Jan 2027 www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

we've seen three different "don't panic" messages coming from three different parts of the administration, so ... i'm going with yes.

Elderly Americans depend heavily on care work, and our entire care work sector depends heavily on the skills and labor of immigrants. When elderly Americans cannot get proper care, they are at risk of harm and even death. Regardless of their preferences about politicians or immigration policy.

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That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”

I missed this. This is like when faculty and student journalists sued the Trump Admin rather than universities. www.law360.com/securities/a...

Rep. Ogles requests “that the Energy and Commerce Committee launch a formal congressional inquiry into the National Football League and NBC” concerning the halftime show, which he thinks was indecent and sexual and gay and whatnot.

i gotta tell you i am really confused right now

jobs report gonna be awesome then right?

AAAH AAAAhhhh AAAAHHHHHHHHH www.reuters.com/investigatio...

It is. The Jewish Musuem in Prague has a collection of children's drawings from the Terezin ghetto. It was the worst thing I've seen in my life.

Very excited that @gelbach.bsky.social & I will be publishing "Bruen's Tenth Amendment Problem" in the @uchilrev.bsky.social! Our central arg is that Bruen's erasure of unexercised powers violates the 10th Am's preservation of existing State power. Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My latest article, "In Praise of Generative AI," is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review! In it, I present accounts from the Worst People You Will Ever Meet In Law in which they praise generative AI and all the extra terrible behavior it enables: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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"Although the judge noted numerous irregularities on Ice’s court documents, she ultimately sided with the agency." Irish man has a work permit, US business, American wife, almost finished Green card application, and has paid a bond to be released. ICE, implausibly, claims he agreed to be deported.

New England can still win if Mike Pence has the courage

Exact copies can be transformative, politician edition

i keep saying, the solution is to require that all LLM answers be presented in valley girl speak

every new word in this sentence is a surprise