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Dalié Jiménez
@dalie.bsky.social
🇨🇺🇺🇸 Lawprof at UCI Law
All things debt & credit with social science methods: consumer law, bankruptcy, access to justice.
Co-Dir @UC-SLLI.bsky.social
Co-PI @DebtCollectionLab.bsky.social
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Trump rolling back consumer protections don't help.

How Companies Profit by Annoying the Hell Out of You
Report reveals that sneaky fees, excessive paperwork, spam calls, & other annoyances cost #Americans $165 billion annually in wasted time & money.

newrepublic.com/article/2063...
How Companies Profit by Annoying the Hell Out of You
A new report reveals that sneaky fees, excessive paperwork, spam calls, and other annoyances cost Americans $165 billion annually in wasted time and money.
newrepublic.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Attempting to shut down the #CFPB has “cost American families $19 Billion”

Thank you @warren.senate.gov for defending the CFPB and protecting people not predatory profits.
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Our grandchildren are going to ask what we did to stop this.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.
February 10, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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My team @propublica.org is hiring.

We're looking for a data reporter itching to do ambitious, impactful investigations that uncover abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust. Maybe that's you? grnh.se/iunysgl96us
Data Reporter
Remote, United States
grnh.se
February 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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@reprashida.govpeeps.us and @algreen.house.gov stand in solidarity with NTEU 335 CFPB Union members before a HFSC hearing on housing affordability today. #savecfpb #stopvought
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:

www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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“$90 billion for junk fees, $19 billion for medical waiting times, $2 billion for governmental wait times,” and far more.
“The annoyance economy saps American families of $165 billion a year, they estimated. And that’s an undercount.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
America’s Annoyance Economy Is Growing
The government should protect consumers instead of annoying them.
www.theatlantic.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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“Countries can turn the clock back. Greece restored its democracy in 1975, after seven years of rule by the colonels. India lived under…emergency for 21 months in the 1970s — with widespread violations of civil liberties — until the Congress Party was decisively defeated”
www.ft.com/content/b491...
A post-Trump restoration is still possible
His presidency may eventually be seen as an aberration rather than a permanent shift
www.ft.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Disagree on the fire the lawyer. Yeah they'll be mad, but the publicity will make a lot harder to try to take them away.
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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The little boy he gave his Grammy to was the boy who was abducted by ICE

TEARS IN MY EYES BRO 😭😭😭
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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After watching Bad Bunny’s halftime show I’m so proud to be an American. Puerto Rico represents! Beautiful Spanish language, people of color filling my TV screen. This is what makes America great and it’s what I will always fight for.

#BadBunny
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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February 9, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.
February 7, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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If anyone is selling you the opportunity to make money, *you* are how *they* make money and the 'secret' they have is convincing people like you to pay them.

There will be a lot of smoke & mirrors to make it look like you have agency, but the product is your gullibility.
February 8, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.
January 12, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins.
DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?
January 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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Seven Dem senators voted to confirm a Trump judicial nominee today, and I really do not think I'm asking for much when I say that Democrats should not be doing favors for a president whose masked thugs murdered a woman in the streets 24 hours ago www.senate.gov/legislative/...
January 8, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Senators Durbin, Hassan, Kaine, King, Klobuchar, Shaheen, and Welch voted to confirm a man to a lifetime judicial appointment days after the president who nominated him invaded a foreign country without even giving notice to Congress and the day after federal agents killed a person in the U.S.
BREAKING: The Senate confirmed the first lifetime judge of 2026. Seven Democrats inexplicably voted to confirm Alexander Van Hook to the Western District of Louisiana.

If all Dems/Independents voted no, given absent Republicans, the vote would've failed. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/with-democ...
With Democratic Support, Senate Confirms Trump’s Tenth Louisiana District Court Judge
Amidst all that is happening, why are Senate Democrats still supporting Trump’s judges?
nominationnotes.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.
January 8, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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This is 100% true for whatever value of "the video". My guide to avoiding traumatizing media and how to do it more psychologically safely if you absolutely *must* watch it: synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html
January 8, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
I’m eating lunch, I’m having a panic attack, I’m charging my phone, and then I’m going back out to try and keep my neighborhood safe.
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM