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James Fallows Tierney

@jamesftierney.bsky.social

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Associate dean for academic affairs and Associate professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Tech). I study financial markets regulation & law of capitalism. But this ≠ IIT. DSA Fund board 🌹🤝, Rstats, NLP, Phish dad, etc. Semper ubi sub ubi.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 7h

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 3h

I mean I don’t want to hand it to <waves around> anyone but I take your point!

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 3h

a man wearing glasses and a white shirt says " i think i misspoke when i said " no problem "

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a white shirt says " i think i misspoke when i said " no problem "

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 3h

Because I teach corporate laws and bylaws are relevant OBVIOUSLY, people

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 3h

100% would take that cle

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 4h

I do appreciate that my work spam folder is a mix of CLE solicitations and a variety of statements from Chairman Bob Avakian (?)

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 5h

a young boy in a blue shirt is typing on a laptop computer .

Alt: a young boy in a blue shirt, "brent rambo," is typing on a laptop computer and then looks toward the camera and gives a thumbs up

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 6h

All of life is an effort at improving the R^2

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 1d

Probably should be fewer law professors as politicians, then!

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like this is a scene in A FISH CALLED WANDA

James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 17h

Ownership of US corporate equities by institutional investors + some top %ile of households (by wealth)

James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 1d

And I think my friend @ofsevit.bsky.social was on at least twice?

James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, Tom, RIP.

If it helps fill out the character vignette I went to a Car Talk live taping when I was 14

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 1d

I would probably rather be governed by any randomly chosen set of citizens of the People’s Republic of Cambridge than almost any other polity in the country, but that’s just me

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 1d

Was! Former!

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 1d

She is apparently among the worst bosses in Congress!

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 1d

Probably should be fewer law professors as politicians, then!

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

Jeeeeeeeeesus

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 1d

Would we not assume “rap battle” presumptively implies malice

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 2d

He was a childhood friend (before heel turn) and is dead to me now. Gone!

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 2d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 3d

There’s still time to publish it! Didn’t you see Money Stuff today?

James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 3d

I think the solution here is to become a curator of your own ssrn e-journal