Joey Fishkin
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Law prof @ UCLA. I study equality and oligarchy. Most recent book @
https://anti-oligarchy.com
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@durlauf.bsky.social
interviewed me for his terrific Inequality Podcast, which highlights different scholars' work on inequality. It was a fun conversation—and if you'd like an introduction to my work, this is a great place to look (or listen). Discusses both bottlenecks and oligarchy!
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The Inequality Podcast - Stone Center
https://stonecenter.uchicago.edu/whats-new/the-inequality-podcast/?exposed_post=6243
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Don Moynihan
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We are governed by idiots, dependent on idiot boxes to function: "A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? The focus on gender risked “contributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.”"
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Oona Hathaway
3 days ago
Even if it is a "mistake," it can still be a war crime. A person who acts recklessly in causing disproportionate civilian deaths can be found to have acted “wilfully” and thus responsible for a war crime. Read "'Mistakes' in War":
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www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-school-us-strikes-naval-base.html
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Brandon Friedman
3 days ago
Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
4 days ago
When you goad people into believing that what a college student, without institutional, financial or social capital, writes on poster is bigger threat than what a regime cabinet member says from lectern, you've hacked being anti-semitic & using it as cover to silence valid dissent.
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Carl Quintanilla
4 days ago
Telling courts that refunds would be "automatic" and "assured" was the government's way of avoiding emergency relief.
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Marty Lederman
5 days ago
If I'm reading this correctly, the CIT judge in this post-Learning Resources claim for a tariff refund just purported to issue universal relief on the ground that he's the only judge who'd adjudicate such claims, ... [1].
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cit.19346/gov.uscourts.cit.19346.21.0_2.pdf
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Matthew Gertz
11 days ago
imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.
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That is a blockbuster footnote. It would be hard to be on the receiving end of that footnote and then look in the mirror and go to work the next morning.
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Kyle Cheney
13 days ago
"SLOPPINESS": The Trump administration claimed that a man detained by ICE had a criminal convictions for marijuana possession in 2009. The judge pointed out that the man was 4 years old at the time.
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The DOJ's lawsuit against UCLA heavily recycles prior claims from a private lawsuit against UCLA (the Frankel case), a campus antisemitism report, and the federal government's own prior civil rights complaint against UCLA—lots of sources there. So what, if anything, did DOJ learn or do differently?
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Well, the DOJ has done it: they have filed a lawsuit against the University of California over antisemitism. The complaint contains some falsehoods. But as someone who teaches and writes about Title VII, I'm equally struck by what the complaint doesn't say. A few thoughts— 🧵
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Justice Department Sues University of California Over Antisemitism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/us/justice-department-ucla-lawsuit.html
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Josh Marshall
14 days ago
So I think it's fair to say that only a tiny, tiny percentage of the US population was tied up with Epstein. But weirdly maybe 70% of the people in the field of evolutionary psychology.
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Kim Weeden
17 days ago
Good news: after 390 years of manels, single-gender events are officially forbidden at Harvard. Oh. Never mind. Single-gender events are fine as long as all participants are men and occur "accidentally".
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Justice Gorsuch's opinion this morning about how everybody else is wrong—which runs more than twice the length of the entire majority/plurality opinion he joined in full—raises profound questions about topics such as... how any justice manages to sustain a coalition that includes Gorsuch
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Dave Levitan
19 days ago
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
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Jess Calarco
20 days ago
My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.
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David Roberts
20 days ago
I don't know what to do but just keep repeating it so I don't go insane: the rise & eventual total domination of RW media is the single most significant political development of my lifetime and the entirely of the US political & media elite resolutely refuse to discuss or even acknowledge it.
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Brian Cook
22 days ago
Reconstructing American constitutional democracy will require an anti-oligarchy constitution.
@fishkin.bsky.social
anti-oligarchy.com
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵
24 days ago
My sense is most people aren't tracking how many of these suits the regime is just giving up on.
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gelbach
24 days ago
Excellent job
@veenadubal.bsky.social
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@aaup.org
Don’t let up
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This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
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Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-13/trump-drops-appeal-of-court-order-blocking-uc-ucla-settlement
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AkivaMCohen
28 days ago
The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill
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Arin Arcady
about 1 month ago
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
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This is an especially great post from
@joshtpm.bsky.social
. Newspapers need a better business model than "find a billionaire to subsidize me"—for many reasons, not least (as Josh argues) because they tend to give up. "Find a billionaire buyer" turns out to be the darkness in which democracies die.
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‘Do You Speak Billionaire?’ and Other Stories From the Fall of the Washington Post
I think I can say with little fear of contradiction that I...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/do-you-speak-billionaire-and-other-stories-from-the-fall-of-the-washington-post
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
about 1 month ago
Law is shaped by politics which is shaped by law which is shaped by politics. No accident that the now-famous picture is literally attached to the order.
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This graph has been making the rounds and it should. It’s a horror movie in graph form. Will Americans see it, and if so, can we read it? Serious question.
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about 1 month ago
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
about 1 year ago
::taps mic:: beyond being an absolutely miserable illness, measles can cause immune amnesia. It wipes out your immune systems memory of how to fight every infection, every vaccine you've ever had.
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It’s part of democracy’s immune system to continually check whether you’ve become the tyranny you rebelled against. This judicial order quoting so much Declaration of Independence—well beyond the famous first line—is part of that. Even before the biblical photo caption at the end, quite an order!
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Andy Craig
about 1 month ago
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
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Joshfrai
about 1 month ago
Yes yes yes this whole thread. tl;dr means testing sucks and wastes tons of money and makes people's lives more miserable and government should stop being in the business of judging if someone is worthy and just help them because they're a human being.
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The Nexus Project
about 1 month ago
NEW: Today, we’re excited to announce the creation of the Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research (NCAR), which will work to improve the quality of research, data, and analysis available to advance the broader mission of confronting hate and promoting Jewish safety.
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Senior ADL antisemitism researcher leaves to lead competing effort at watchdog Nexus - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Aryeh Tuchman will direct a new Nexus research center focused on improving data, definitions and public understanding of antisemitism.
https://www.jta.org/2026/01/29/united-states/senior-adl-antisemitism-researcher-leaves-to-lead-competing-effort-at-watchdog-nexus
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Radley Balko
about 1 month ago
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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David Dayen
about 1 month ago
One problem is that Democrats look at already passed funding as untouchable, while Republicans look at it as something to chip away at forever. Case in point: the 2022 IRS surge funding in the Inflation Reduction Act. TIL the House cut another $11 billion from that last week! And Dems voted for it!
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Jay Willis
about 1 month ago
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
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Bari Weiss obviously has been given lots of room by her equally novice boss to do what she wants at CBS—for now. What she can't do is get all her professional journalists to keep her various moves a secret. Amazing final line of the NYT's report from her first all-hands meeting:
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Yikes. That is a lot of expertise to lose in a short time.
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Kim Lane Scheppele
about 1 month ago
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them."
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ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/ice-watchers-in-maine-say-they-were-threatened-by-federal-agents/
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Ken Klippenstein
about 1 month ago
I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911! “I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me:
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ICE Unloads
Immigration officers speak out: “Fuck this.”
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads
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Seth Cotlar
about 1 month ago
Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."
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Keyah 🦬
about 1 month ago
ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:
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Jake Grumbach
about 1 month ago
Bipartisan 2024 law bans TikTok unless Chinese company sells it because the content is too pro-Palestine Trump never enforces ban Trump issues executive order allowing sale of TikTok to his tech friends TikTok becomes arm of the regime
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Wow.
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Michelle Goldberg
about 1 month ago
Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.
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Olga Nesterova
about 1 month ago
Minnesota National Guard on why they’re giving out coffee and donuts: “It’s a demonstration of safety and security. We’re here to help.” 🥹
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Chris Murphy
about 1 month ago
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
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John Pfaff
about 1 month ago
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Adam Serwer
about 1 month ago
www.instagram.com/reel/DTvV13m...
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Crooked Media on Instagram: "“In a democracy, the fundamental civic unit is neighbor.” #AssemblyRequired #CrookedMedia #ICE"
17K likes, 77 comments - crookedmedia on January 20, 2026: "“In a democracy, the fundamental civic unit is neighbor.” #AssemblyRequired #CrookedMedia #ICE".
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Fixed it. Someone at the NYT needs to tell the NYT that the NYT has noticed that the Trump administration is "lying to our faces." This has enormous implications, not yet explored, for the editorial direction of the news division of the paper, especially the headline writers.
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Ryan LaRochelle
about 1 month ago
I've been reading Bill Cohen's public interviews and from the past few years as I wrap up the ms of my biography of him. Cohen, a moderate Republican, said in the aftermath of January 6 that "post-truth means pre-fascist, and I think we’re closer to a pre-fascist era than we are to a truthful one."
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