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About a year ago, I wrote this op-ed in @newrepublic.com about a pretty wild district court decision holding that the federal machine gun ban violates the Second Amendment. Today, the Tenth Circuit correctly reversed: www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f.... newrepublic.com/article/1853...
Listening to this Daily podcast @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social, I keep being struck by Americans’ inability to fully comprehend the scope of what’s going on. They can see how this affects the economy, but fail to see that it affects the politics. www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...
The year I worked for the CEA, 1995-96, I was asked to write a memo about the flat tax commission proposal. I included the part where they claimed it would double GDP growth rate. When I briefed him, Joe Stiglitz said, why didn’t they say triple?
Like Rudy’s makeup
To be a political reporter in 2025, you have to be gullible enough to believe that a convicted felon who launched a violent coup attempt is worried about crime. Or you just have to be willing to pretend you’re that gullible. Either way, we deserve better.
Nearly 600 economists, Nobel Laureates sign open letter supporting due process for Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve independence for the good of our economy and democracy. Great work from @tderyugina.bsky.social organizing such a quick response. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
For good reason!
Settlement term?
I dunno seems more lay opinion!
Highly recommend reading this (long) post by @fishkin.bsky.social about false claims regarding events at UCLA last year balkin.blogspot.com/2025/08/maki...
Not hearsay if offered to prove the speaker is alive H/t @bellinj.bsky.social
question for DC-area people: i have been working with an online biz startup service that doesn’t fit our needs anymore (we are growing and need a real person!) please DM me if you know a good local startup lawyer, ++ if they know digital media/services
I always just think about the time that he thought he owned somebody by bragging about how his website is thousands of lines of stata code
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
Already have a 100CLTV HELOC in that bruh
Reminds me to move my entire retirement fund out of US denominated instruments
Critical observation
Good for him
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
For the first time, [Nadler] said that when Congress returns later this month, he plans to join a growing number of Democratic lawmakers trying to use congressional authority to block the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Not a crazy worry
53 28th year since I became a professor, but I spent three of those years as a law student, so I’m only in my 13th consecutive year of professorhood
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who knew mulching in dc would have such an impact
"Support [for Mamdani] from the city’s larger unions can provide plentiful foot soldiers and phone banks for a campaign, but it can also give cause for concern that Mr. Mamdani may be beholden to the labor groups if elected." Who is concerned about that, exactly? 8/
They did ok on the headline/bsky post here
To roll back the fascist Republican takeover of the United States: 1. What would be the most effective allocation of a modest amount of money? and 2. What would be the most effective allocation of a modest amount of time?
This is a rousing appreciation of Studs Terkel for Labor Day. His book Working, as he wrote, is "above all (or beneath all), about daily humiliations. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us" (1/2)
Really can't go wrong with this
But as @jaketapper.bsky.social has pointed out, no one was talking enough about joe Biden’s age so
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Getting kind of stale
Department of Qui Tam
UPDATE: Judge Sooknanan wants another update at 10:45 p.m. ET to confirm that all members of the putative class of Guatemalan children are back in ORR custody. The presumption of irregularity at work!
300,000 Israelis on the streets of Tel Aviv tonight calling for an end to Netanyahu's forever war and the release of the hostages.
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
This is what happens when you obliterate the presumption of regularity. Endless homework assignments because the court can't trust the government to follow orders in good faith.
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
Fellow economists: Stand up for Fed Governor Lisa Cook and the principle of Federal Reserve independence. Sign this letter by Monday.
I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Gov. Lisa Cook. Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
“Sometimes they said things like ‘let me through, I’m trying to enter the library,’ which I assume they said for the benefit of those viewing the video online from places outside of UCLA, because a viewer of the video familiar with the geography of the campus could readily observe….” /1
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
A GOP senator’s task on the morning shows is to mislead the American people. They know this before they go on that that is what they will be doing.
It’s not true that there are no principled conservatives, and every time they appealed to principle it was merely a mask for “it’s bad if you do it, but good when we do it, and we’re eager to do it a lot more.” It’s just that principled conservatives all went NeverTrump, by Jan. 6 at the latest.
As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
Make all Americans equal under law. End agents' impunity. Abolish qualified immunity. Require agents pay for liability insurance.
Congrats again, everyone
The era of Broken Pencils Policing is upon us
Close friend of Don Dokken’s ancestor, Fick
Ed I’m venting less than usual so don’t argue This is why people hate EXPERTS
Every Democrat should be talking like this
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… The government is still coming for him, but for now at least, Abrego Garcia isn’t still in CECOT is he? It is a fact that a big reason why is because enough ordinary people like you cared enough and didn’t stop caring.
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social has the hardest job in show business
Amazon’s Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System (with @jeannefromer.bsky.social) is now published in the California Law Review.
Critics said they disagreed
Pierogis all around
On the one hand, you would think he would be an expert on embarrassment On the other hand, he is clearly incapable of it
Acting Viceroy as well
Governor? CDC Director? White House Intel liaison?
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
I wrote for the @nytimes.com about the administration’s abandonment of statistics and data in favor of information as an instrument of raw control
Wow, I can’t believe this guy fell for the distraction and gave a rousing and compelling argument against it instead of muttering about eggs
I took this picture myself at the CDC protest today. These are among the hundreds of bullet holes in CDC headquarters windows, visible from the street. I heard today that the admin has no urgent plan to fix these windows. Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
On this day in 1963, my mother and grandmother — and about 250,000 others — marched on Washington.
"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
I still can’t believe that Jared Polis, the democratic governor of *colorado* praised RFK for his antivaxx stances
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
Impeaching RFK Jr and Noem would be a no-brainer, but for the party's aversion to making news.
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
It’s all about safety you see
Indeed we are inspired by the speech and actions of Pritzker and Walz and O'Rourke and AOC, etc. and are disgusted by the strategy of current so-called leadership. Waiting for midterms and not addressing the fascism we face now is killing us.
Just added my signature to the letter. This is a no brainer. It’s wild we’re having a conversation about US central bank independence in 2025. But here we are. Please read and consider adding your signature.
Cc: the senate democratic leadership
Dumbest timeline imaginable.
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
Man when @chatterton.bsky.social finds out about this, he’s gonna Probably blame it on libs tbh
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
CDC director called Louisiana Senator Cassidy today before she was asked to resign by RFK. Louisiana folks need to be calling Cassidy's office and asking that he demand RFK to resign. Make RFK Jr a problem for Trump and he gets dumped overboard.
#firekennedy
"Covid vaccines are more dangerous than the entire scientific edifice claims and also this long list of sick and vulnerable people can still have one" is a hell of an argument
Very glad to have signed this important letter alongside many remarkable Economists
It’s quite a letter. I wish more people in a position to do so would speak this kind of truth. Much respect to Dr, Daskalakis— thank you for your service.
Wow
Tonight's quote from Arendt's Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship. Kudos to Demetre, with whom I was incredibly privileged to serve at HHS.
"We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary. I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us. Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources..."
We don’t need to accept this life for our kids. It’s our choice to subject children to this horror. Talking with @chrislhayes on @MSNBC and then with @andersoncooper on @CNN later on the path forward.
It's commonly said that public health is invisible; you only notice it when something goes wrong. Sadly, public health in the U.S. is about to get a whole lot more visible.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
And this makes it much worse. The CDC is losing a swath of outstanding, senior public servants. These are really terrific people who have served the public health with distinction across administrations. An enormous loss. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Not many people know this, but all of the major political changes and social movement successes of the twentieth century -- from the New Deal to the civil rights movement to the Great Society -- were achieved because Democratic voters lay perfectly still and never pushed their representatives to act
I assume they regard it as a distraction