Always always always always read @rtraister.bsky.social -- and especially on Graham Platner, women, and what comes next. nymag.com/intelligence...

if you see somebody using "cancel" unironically to talk about people facing consequences in 2026... you CLOSE THAT TAB! You don't pause, you don't start to typity-type. You CLOSE THAT TAB!

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.

The students of the Yale College Council have made an outstanding statement calling on the university not to cut a deal with the federal government at the expense of their rights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwX1...

Exxon.

The only resolved question from this 1982 Ms Magazine cover is that Simon Says is not that fun

One of my hot takes: if the AI economic transformation pans out, a robust humanities education will be a tremendous competitive advantage. The capabilities and risks of LLMs are dramatically different depending on the user's critical thinking, reading, and writing skills.

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

celebrate whistleblowers and accountable government! 👇

This World Whistleblower Day, Whistleblower Partners honors those who courageously report wrongdoing and help promote accountability, integrity, and transparency. We thank #whistleblowers for protecting the public interest and strengthening trust in our institutions.

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

ugh-scotus guts individual liability under RLUIPA (&basically says all spending clause statutes don't provide for individual liability) so tally today: victims of human rights violations & beneficiaries of public benefits programs can't sue. oil companies can. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Sotomayor, dissenting, cuts to the chase: "Today’s decision marks yet another low point in this Court’s esteem for its precedents." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I'd like to shout out prison litigators, who perform the vital yet thankless task of protecting constitutional rights behind bars. They are in the trenches fighting to secure basic decency and safety for a deeply vulnerable population whom most would rather ignore. It's courageous and heroic work.

Translation is an art in itself.

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

the feeling I get is that the people who want to move fast and break things don’t realize that actually that will mean the things are then broken

Zero (0) of Epstein's victims had the ability to self-fund litigation against Epstein or anyone like him. The only way they had any chance is through contingency fee representation. Everyone in Big Law knows that, they sneer at it anyway because they know it's morally superior to their work.

Reading this, can only think of the whistleblowers who came forward to discuss why they felt forced out of the company due to sexual harassment and a generally sexist culture. Definitely noticed there wasn't a single woman quoted about this sudden generational wealth www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/t...

" About 30% of SpaceX’s free float is now set to be owned by passive investors after just 15 days of trading, according to Intropic, a provider of index-rebalancing forecasts. That figure would be roughly 4% under previous slower-inclusion rules." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"I just have alarm bells going off in my head," says former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staffer @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social. Interview: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“It doesn’t feel like anybody is watching out for retail investors or the common person anymore,” [Ian Yarbrough] said. “It feels like the system is rigged against us.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/t...

Massachusetts sued UnitedHealthcare, alleging a $100 million Medicaid risk adjustment fraud scheme that inflated state payments. Our latest post explains the complaint and what it could mean for #whistleblowers in managed care:

The Tax Court called the crypto industry for its BS today, ruling that staking rewards are taxable as ordinary income upon receipt. This is beautiful. There are still two pending cases in district courts, but this makes life much harder for crypto bros' lawyers. You love to see it.

Today I ‘interviewed’ Facebook whistleblower on stage at Hay…& she couldn’t say a word. Facebook took legal action to prevent her speaking. What pathetic, pointless vindictiveness. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We’re proud to announce that all our DC attorneys have again been recognized by Super Lawyers in 2026. Mike Ronickher was selected to the 2026 Super Lawyers list, & Chris McLamb & Max Voldman were selected to the 2026 Rising Stars list for their outstanding work on behalf of whistleblowers.

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

A thing I just had occasion to email someone: These days, state of incorporation is branding. Delaware brands as "I am respectable and will respect the law." Texas brands as "I only answer to Republican law." Nevada brands as "LOL what is law?"

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Given the continued national love of wordle, it’s a crime that Jotto, the much harder, two-person, on paper version, has been forgotten

DOJ announced last week a new “Focus” initiative meant to corral the increasingly large number of #FalseClaimsAct cases coming from data-mining #whistleblowers. Max Voldman explains how DOJ is trying to strike the right balance to encourage thoughtful data-miners while discouraging #AI slop:

I don’t know if the future regulator we will need to recover from this moment is the CFTC, SEC, or some third as yet unimagined agency. But there’s no way our democracy survives without aggressive financial crime regulation and anyone who thinks otherwise is deluding themselves

We looked into Polymarket's presence in Panama, obtained its government paperwork and visited its headquarters in Panama City. There was no sign of Polymarket. Nobody had heard of Polymarket there. www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...

When I say I’m never someone’s first call, this post is what I mean

This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.

SF next?? Cmon y’all. Maybe we can have nice things

Re-upping for tax day: “Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society” according to Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. But time and money Americans spend on tax reporting is the price we pay for a dysfunctional government unwilling to invest in public interest capacity.

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

This is very true! And as the research on the issue shows and as the Hungarian example confirms, and the Polish one before that, the key to large turnout is long-term, grass-roots organizational labor that helps people understand how their single vote is a dignified part of a larger transformation.

My colleague @stjbs.bsky.social and I spent months working on this new @sfchronicle.com investigation into each of the 48 deaths in ICE custody since the start of 2025. Powerful work as well by our data viz colleague Nami Sumida and @santiagomejia.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

DOJ’s AssuredPartners settlement puts ACA Marketplace fraud squarely in the FCA conversation. Our latest post explains the allegations, why the case matters, and what it says about whistleblowers’ role in exposing healthcare fraud. #FalseClaimsAct #Whistleblower #HealthcareFraud

The Mamdani administration today announced its own click to cancel rule, to make sure that every subscription transaction in the city is as easy to end as it is to start. The FTC did this in 2023, it was challenged in court & Trump's FTC wouldn't defend it. NYC is doing it themselves.

We all knew this was coming and yet it's still somehow shocking

Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted.

Haven’t felt so seen since the Zoe Kravitz rant www.youtube.com/shorts/74Gr5...

all timer banger

Palantir discovered ontology in much the same way Columbus discovered America. That is to say:the broligarchs are thieves & barbarians. They plant their flags on others' work & say "look at our genius!" Now they're claiming to have "popularized" a well-known branch of philosophy 1,000s of yrs old.

this is HILARIOUS therepublicjournal.com/essays/ai-an...

i love the small print “because the regulators won’t let us :(“