There is no mistaking where Oregonians stand: we do not want federal troops on our streets. Oregon is our home, not a war zone or a military target, and our communities remain vibrant and secure.

Has anyone connected recent debates over business entity anonymity/privacy of beneficiary owner debates with proposals for limited liability sole proprietorship entity statutory reform? Not my area but curious. @annmlipton.bsky.social ?

**loudly on cell phone at coffee shop** Ohhh, rap**tured**. No no it's fine we can make some last minute edits to the script, It'll still work

If I were this generation's most widely legal scholar I simply would not do public interviews where I reveal just how dumb my thinking is about really basic fundamental things

"But you could have an opinion on it. You have an opinion on all kinds of things, right?" I meant things like Star Wars! Not like, you know, the war crimes committed by my good family friend. Who has time for that!? Jesus this interview is such an amazing train wreck.

In light of the Court's decision to allow Slaughter's firing to stand pending review of Humphrey's, does anyone still think that the Fed would have been able to refuse to accept the trillion dollar coin if the President had deemed it necessary to prevent a constitutional crisis?

Executor? Humphrey, I've never even met her!

Thanks to Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social for doing a piece on SCOTUS - and including my thoughts on it! madness.ghost.io/leah-litman-...

"I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them...I can't stand my opponent"

The law, in its majestic equality, permits rich and poor alike to build institutions, fund professional networks, and promote the free exchange of ideas

There's only way to actually regain the narrative momentum and it's not Powell aploogia "There must also be an honest, independent, nonpartisan review of the entire institution, including monetary policy, regulation, communications, staffing & research" edition.cnn.com/2025/09/05/e...

Today, Eamon Coburn argues that the legal scholars and the labor movement must confront a fundamental challenge to organizing: the erosion of social norms against union-busting.

Literally the perfect guest. @levmenand.bsky.social is not only a leading historian and theorist of US banking regulation, he rote THE article on the meaning on "for cause" removal.

"Posthuman Copyright: AI, Copyright, and Legitimacy" is out! Delighted to share the draft of my job talk paper: ssrn.com/abstract=537... @umichlaw.bsky.social #IP #Copyright

“I go through the day now with gruesome images of emaciated children running through my mind...[at this time] ethical obligations far outweigh any ad hoc institutional policies, particularly those transparently aimed at stifling opposition to an ongoing genocide" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The irony: as @rohangrey.bsky.social's trillema points out, stablecoins need the public monetary system they're trying to enclose. They can't be stable, denominated in a public unit of account AND free from public collateral. Pick two.

The July 2025 episode of Economics for the People was devoted to cryptocurrency. Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social discusses how crypto and the recent legislations in the US Congress will affect working people & Jerry Epstein talks about the risks of crypto to the financial system.

Niche post, while reading ICJ oral submissions: no one, not even the US counsel, seems to mention the 'rules based international order' before the ICJ. It's 'international law' all down the line. Make of *that* what you will.

this morning I have been thinking about Orlando Letelier, the Chiliean economist assassinated by Pinochet's junta a month after he wrote the famous The Nation critique of the Chicago boys funding by the CIA, and Milton Friedman's overt support for their shock therapy.

Gotta say it's genuinely hilarious and poetic that the thing trumpland has seized in to attack fed independence is it's ability to fund its operating expenses with ex nihilo fiat mechanism as it's policy toolkit. Live by the black box infinity sign budget capacity, die by it.

This just sucks, but also was 100% predictable: apnews.com/article/immi...

This--that Signal would rather exit a market than undermine the core security and privacy technology that protects the people who use Signal--always still holds. We don't change our principles based on jurisdiction, legislative attack, or time of day...

I think Jackson understands her audience, and is writing to assure normal people that, no, you do not have to take a GOP-controlled Court protecting a GOP president seriously. This is grim, thankless work, but it's also the most important part of her job right now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...

Though honestly I wonder if this is going to become a thing - if you rep a seller and succeed in forcing a buyer to complete an acquisition, you'll have to fight for your fee? Institutionally, it doesn't seem to create great incentives for the corporate bar.

the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple: there is enough. there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe. once you accept that there's only one question: why don't we?

A mate helped me learn/install Proxmox and dammmnnn is it everything I've been missing in my home network setup. Between that, switching to ZFS, finally setting up PiHole & switching my dynamic IP updater from duckdns to inbuilt one of my domain registrar, it's a new world.

But then, I'm a card-carrying Old Legal Realist. The ridiculous formalism of today's Court is going to increase the numbers of my tribe, mark my words.

Very proud of my cousin Ollie voyagela.com/interview/da...

There's a lot of people for whom what today represents must be not only defeated but utterly destroyed, lest it become the start of something even larger. They are the enemy of everything good about this moment. They know it, we need not forget it either.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

wow i'm joyscrolling

"The people who hate this result the most are the Democratic establishment… poll after poll after poll showing Democratic voters fed up with their leaders in Washington…”

I'm working on a book about how this happened in Oregon. It took decades to accomplish, but a fairly small contingent of committed right wing activists eventually stole the OR GOP away from the moderates who'd historically controlled it. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/when-did-t...

"I had at that time, the wrong and false hope that once they realised I was, you know, just an Australian writer and not a threat to the US that they would let me in,” he said. “But then they took my phone away and began downloading it and searching it.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Idk I thought they marched pretty well all things considered youtu.be/OSWOHCCV4WM?...

I wrote about this plan in 2016, when it had already been part of the Nativist policy suite for a long time www.americanbanker.com/creditunions...

if i were a media guy lecturing other people about govt regulations standing in the way of abundance i would talk about the harms of copyright

"but did you even read it" rohangrey.net/files/Abunda...

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Completely agree. It's hard enough for the banks (especially below a certain size) to manage #1 and #3, even with #2 and Basel capital requirements. "Everything" does get destabilized somewhat regularly.

"The stablecoin trilemma" It is impossible to create a stablecoin that is simultaneously: 1) denominated in a govt unit of account 2) not reliant on govt collateral 3) stable in nominal value

I'm a big believer in students having the right to criticize faculty/courses (even while also thinking it's incredibly harmful to empower admin/tenure committed to weaponize anon course evals), but gotta say I do find "he doesn't seem to like teaching to the bar" to be an amusing criticism. Buddy,

“Oh I will just take a break until this blows over.” THIS is all there is unless and until people make something different.

If I'm reading this correctly, then Yarvin wants the role of führer to be awarded via a Wings of Voice-style competition www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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that's not how the Supreme Court rulings work in a nation driven by Parliamentary Supremacy lmao

It's so funny to hear anyone taking fedsoc mouthpieces seriously in 2025 when they try to distance from trump. "Oh are you mad one of your compatriots isn't as controllable as you wish? Wow I guess you're totally independent and very different and not at all part of a larger common cause, so smart"