🚨 FANNIE MAE TO COUNT COMPLETED ZETROCARD AS ASSET FOR MORTGAGE

This is obviously true but as a criticism it calls more attention to the unjustness of a system where laws are not binding on certain actors than to the wrong act itself

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Mahmoud Khalil to be RELEASED from ICE detention

If you're looking for experts whose work is grounded in economic reality then this list is a great place to start

when you’re so racist you don’t let your workers have a day off for a holiday recognizing the end of slavery

Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

1. After the Skrmetti decision, the New York Times has published 6 articles dancing on the graves of trans youth and spreading disinformation on care. It was cited 7 times in the ruling. Read my latest on what will be a black stain on the NYT for a generation. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Probably the most disqualifying topic opined on in the mayor race is @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's free buses plan. "That will be so expensive" instantly reveals someone as completely clueless about policy and should never be taken seriously. The lost revenue is, MAXIMUM 1% of the FY2024 NYC budget

I would view being a delegate to a convention as a burden and a shame but I guess that's just me

if you're at LSA come out to the LPE happy hour with @lpec.bsky.social tonight at 5:30 at The Northman (233 East Riverwalk) !

CAP RENTS

Coming up this May 17: The second annual John Jay Economics Spring BBQ, with great bands and speakers. It's from 2pm-8pm at The People's Garden in Bushwick. If you're a friend of the department, or would like to become one, stop by!

have a new paper out about how the state intervenes to boost asset values by throwing people out of their homes

A reminder: the economics MA program at John Jay college, where I teach, is accepting applicants. We are one of the only MA programs in the country specializing in radical and heterodox economics. If you have any questions about it, feel free to reach out to me.

Admissions to the John Jay economics MA program are now open for fall 2025. johnjayeconomics.org/how-to-apply/

Happy Rent Guidelines Board Opening Day to all who celebrate

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

Free Mahmoud Khalil

we need a place where we can also be safe from this

It was also used to seize their passports—including US citizens like Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who fought it for years. I read her pamphlet on the McCarran Act in her archives at Wayne State, here’s a digitized version: digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/ob...

it was only a matter of time

This Thursday! Come out to John Jay and hear @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social talk about his excellent book Blue Collar Empire

surefire signs of a clear anti-oligarchy message

We can live in a democracy or we can live in a society where billionaires exist. We can't have both.

no more limited liability we need ultra enhanced liability--if you hold stock in a company and the CEO does something bad to the public we all get to sue you personally

make the subway baby mayor

The top two stories on Axios right now make kind of a funny juxtaposition. One is about how Johnson can’t avoid a shutdown without Democratic votes. Two is about how mad Dem reps are at their constituents for telling them to do something, when they’re in the minority and obviously can’t do anything.

"in South Dakota, despite an increase in the total assets held in trust in that state from $57.3bn to $355.2bn over the ten-year period between 2010 to 2020, not a penny of state tax revenue resulted"

This morning, we won a court order blocking Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from accessing Americans’ private data. Musk and his DOGE employees must destroy all records they've obtained. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: no one is above the law.

Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy

58 Democrats helped Republicans pass the Laken Riley Act, which will enable Trump's ICE to put migrants *accused* of shoplifting in detention, without due process. As in, with Trump's new call to detain 30,000 migrants in Guantanamo, these Democrats may help put them there:

My new essay comic, Antisemitism in a Time of Genocide, is now up at Le Monde Diplomatique in France. I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.

🔊Tough times call for solidarity! Please join us on Jan 30th, 12:10 ET, for Sticking Together in Tough Times with @deanspade.bsky.social We will talk mutual aid, resistance, & caring for each other in the face of political repression & inequality. Register now 👇 lpeproject.org/events/stick...

in the coming dark days, let us not forget that the only free & just system is completely open borders, no human an alien, all free to come & go as they will

After putting out a press schedule at midnight last night showing events in NYC for MLK Day, Mayor Eric Adams' office basically did a bait and switch 8 hours later by canceling the entire sked and updating it to say he's going to the inauguration

What are your best ideas for higher ed under a 2nd Trump admin? State/local policies that could be enacted? Things private schools could do? Where are potential areas of opportunity? Thinking of putting something together for Public Books. I’m all ears. Or email me at dennis dot m dot hogan @ gmail

today, my dear friend Greg Baltz published a very cool new piece about tenant union organizing, which you should all read immediately! lpeproject.org/blog/organiz...

A lot of wisdom in this post from @brankomilan.bsky.social. branko2f7.substack.com/p/how-the-ma...

Okay folks, here's where we are with the Laken Riley Act: enough Democrats have agreed to either vote for the bill or agree to move to debate that an initial filibuster will fail. But there will still be another opportunity for a filibuster after debate. So pressure on Senators can still matter.

New Yorkers never run from challenges in the built world

Wrote about Wemby playing chess alongside 107 excellent reflections on the horrible year we just left, assembled by @sashafrerejones.bsky.social n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/writ...

If you're at ICAPE this weekend make sure to check out this panel on LPE and heterodox econ with @zachale.bsky.social and @lucastosborne.bsky.social