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Jeremy Bearer-Friend

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Associate Professor of Law at GW 🌈 I write on tax, race, and democracy: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1538104

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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · Dec 15

With my reparations work, I often get the same questions over and over. A law prof’s first impulse is already what I got asked at the bar and before that in the Uber. That’s why my new Roosevelt report has an FAQ section. Why should publicly-traded corporations have to pay reparations? Answer here:

Financing Reparative Policies: How a Tax Paid in Stock Could Raise a Trillion Dollars Within a Year - Roosevelt Institute

In a new analysis, Jeremy Bearer-Friend argues that an innovative approach to tax law offers an opportunity to finally fund reparations for slavery.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 13h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 10

WATCH: Tonight on public television across the nation, the premiere of the new documentary “Becoming Thurgood.” It’s so good. Check your PBS and public television schedules. It is part of #HBCUWeek on PBS.

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · Sep 9

Contributor: You look Latino. You speak Spanish. You work hard. That's now probable cause.

The Constitution is a living promise, meant to protect the people when power overreached. On Monday, the justices decided it doesn't apply to everyone.

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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · Sep 7

“Sir, this is a Denny’s.”

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Sep 6

NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE!

It looks like tens of thousands have joined.

This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏

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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · Sep 4

Views from jog this morning before class. If you get the chance to teach at Deep Springs College, take it!

Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · Aug 16

Yes. Please!

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Aug 13

A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments -- in times of relative calm -- become normalized in American political culture.

More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · Aug 11

DC statehood obviously needs to be a standard Democratic campaign promise until it happens.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 4

CAVALLO: “.. Tariffs are already driving up prices — especially for furniture and household goods.”

www.pricinglab.org/files/Tracki...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Aug 5

Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.

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Thinky Parts @thinkyparts.bsky.social · Aug 5

“But the fact that agents felt comfortable apprehending a man on church property — and were willing, Lopez says, to raise a weapon at her even after she identified herself as a pastor — left her shaken.”

yonat.bsky.social @yonat.bsky.social · Aug 4

When church is no longer a refuge. Great reporting by @jackjenkins.me religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

'This is domestic terror': Shaken by ICE raids, pastors rethink ministries

(RNS) — The fear of raids has pushed some congregations back to pandemic-era worship strategies.

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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · Jul 22

Like essentially all of consumer capitalism is based on selling things to people and then trying to steal it back. This is why you should never buy smart anything if there are viable alternatives available unless you're prepared to lose it

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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · Jul 21

The impulse to deploy US military on US civilians on US soil was always the wrong choice and I’m relieved this is being corrected.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jul 21

The 700 active-duty Marines deployed to Los Angeles last month will withdraw from the city, the Pentagon said, as the Trump administration continues to scale back its military deployment there following protests of federal immigration raids.

700 active-duty Marines will withdraw from Los Angeles, Pentagon says

President Donald Trump had ordered about 4,000 California National Guard troops and 700 active-duty Marines to Los Angeles in June.

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Francine Lipman @narfnampil.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · Jul 15

I presented my poll tax research at my former law firm today. All of the work was historical but it raised a very contemporary question: are there taxes today that target harm on vulnerable groups? Tax lawyers are the ones who best know the Internal Revenue Code and it is up to us to answer this Q.

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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · Jul 14

Terrific new @jotwell.bsky.social review by Prof. Anita Krishnakuma @georgetownlaw.bsky.social available here lex.jotwell.com/is-textualis...

Is Textualism Akin to Letting Judges Look Over a Crowd and Pick Out their Friends? - Lex

James J. Brudney & Lawrence Baum, Does Textualism Constrain Supreme Court Justices?, available at SSRN (Feb. 3, 2025).Anita KrishnakumarTextualist jurists and scholars have long contended that their p...

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · Jul 1

CALL Your Reps.
202 224 3121.
NO to slashing funds for PP and other healthcare and giving.
NO to tax cuts for billionaires.
The Republicans have lost their damn minds.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jun 29

UPDATE: Senate Republicans made Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill even worse.

Now, this bill rips health care coverage away from 17 MILLION people—that’s an additional 1 MILLION people.

Health care cuts now total over $1 TRILLION.

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Jeremy Bearer-Friend @bearerfriend.bsky.social · Jun 28

Reminder that if Senators vote on a 900+ page bill that was released less than 24 hours ago... most haven't even read it. And they don't want you to read it, either.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Jun 18

NEWS: A one-page insert buried in the Senate Finance Committee's text of the budget bill would make many domestic oil and gas drillers exempt from the corporate minimum tax. It was written by Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and will mostly benefit Oklahoma companies.
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