The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Really looking forward to this:

Rather extraordinary to be in the room when SEC Chair Atkins delivered these remarks to an audience of Delaware jurists & practitioners. www.sec.gov/newsroom/spe...

Join Sen. Jon Tester on October 14 in conversation with Ben Olinsky for the national debut of a bold new approach that rewrites the rules of money in politics to make Citizens United irrelevant. A panel discussion with Jeff Mangan, Sarah C. Haan, and Tom Moore will follow. https://ow.ly/FMqu50X75ae

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.

if the project of the roberts court is to create an imperial SCOTUS and an imperial presidency, it is worth noting that one of those institutions has access to actual force, and one of them doesn’t

I dunno, maybe the Supreme Court majority could have the decency to bestir themselves to write an actual, you know, opinion, with their names on it, explaining their endorsement of using race and ethnicity as part of a national policy of harassing and intimidating non-white Americans.

Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.” My latest in @thenation

#NJ #women's #voting #history statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

So great to sit down w/ the Bite-Sized Business Law Podcast, @csautter.bsky.social & Sergio Gramitto Ricci to talk about democracy & corporations. You can't understand what's going on in U.S. politics w/out understanding what happened to "corporate democracy." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

FYI If you haven't heard about Citizens United v. FEC, I talked about Citizens United on both episodes of my brand new podcast "Democracy & Destiny" which you can find here: soundcloud.com/profciara #lawsky #electionlaw #constitutionallaw #corporatocracy

Thankful for the shout out in a new Lex column in @financialtimes.com. The piece (by John Foley) links cumulative voting in corporate governance to ranked-choice voting in NYC's mayoral primary last week. on.ft.com/4l3UMjY

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

“I’m having a surreal day. Now I’ve got to go back to making sandwiches.” This may be the most wholesome story you read about the Pulitzers. alaskabeacon.com/2025/05/05/f...

The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13. I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.

Still no New York-founded law firm willing to go to court. Instead, the firms suing hail from Seattle, Boston, Houston and Chicago.

NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.

One of things that strikes me as teach Fred Korematsu’s case in constitutional law is how few students have heard of the internment of Japanese Americans. I’ll teach it forever. 🇺🇸⚖️

TODAY: Judge James Boasberg will hold a hearing on whether the Trump administration violated his court orders at 3 pm ET. ☎️ Call in to listen: 833-990-9400 Meeting ID: 049550816 Background:

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action. She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound. This is what bans do.

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

This is the most dystopian shit I’ve ever seen

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Life comes at you fast, Skadden.

This is great, about Paul Weiss, the beating heart of the Democratic establishment (Chuck Schumer's brother works there!), capitulating to Trump and letting everyone know that corporate money is ahead of any principle. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

we do have material constraints actually sustainable jet fuel is not a real thing

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

put the lady who runs the providence train station cafe in charge of any of my alma maters

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK By "Led By Donkeys"

Enjoyed chatting with Mike. We spoke about the role that corporate law has played in developing a toolkit of anti-democratic strategies that are now being deployed by corporate leaders like Trump and Musk in our politics...

Faith Stevelman has this new, important piece up about think tanks & #climate, "Think Tanks Awash in Dark Money":

Relying on the courts is FOOLISH. HERE, in the budget brawl, the Democrats have leverage. THEY DO NOT IN THE COURTS. Please for the love of god INTERNALIZE what I’ve been trying to tell you.