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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S)

@sanjukta.bsky.social

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Interested in the idea and practice and law of economic coordination. I work as a law professor at a public university.

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 8d

Hello! Here is my essay (still a draft) for a symposium held in the spring at the university of chicago. (Please note that the title of the symposium was set by the law review; I chose my essay title.) Comments are welcome.

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New essay: law & the self-coordinating market idea

Essay for the University of Chicago Law Review Symposium, held in April 2025, on “Law & Economics vs. Law & Political Economy: A Debate” (draft) Law & the scm idea uchi l re…

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1h

I'm shopping for a juicer and a product description mentioned that it can handle pine needles.

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1h

I just learned that people juice pine needles.

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 1d

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 5h

I think what's different is that previous iterations of this didn't have this super strong idea behind them, that it's "progressive" to back the developers *without criteria*. Remarkable achievement really

Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 5h

To some degree this is the circle of life and to some degree it is an intensification that could be difficult to come back from

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 5h

We've come full circle to where you have to go to exurban strip malls in america to find (human) places with "character" since most city centers have become developer dominated cookie cutter up-market & have priced out any interesting businesses and establishments

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 10h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 13h

At the eponymous Sanjukta Blog, @sanjukta.bsky.social has a new draft essay, Law & the Self-Coordinating Market Idea.

New essay: law & the self-coordinating market idea

Essay for the University of Chicago Law Review Symposium, held in April 2025, on “Law & Economics vs. Law & Political Economy: A Debate” (draft) Law & the scm idea uchi l re…

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

H/t @morganfahey.bsky.social

Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite stories- looking forward to this!

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 14d

Rachel Ayers highlights six of the many fine retellings of the fairy ballad Tam Lin. I was honoured to publish @pameladean.bsky.social's extraordinary Tam Lin in the Fairy Tale Series (Tor Books), and I'm delighted to see it listed as one of the greats. It truly is. reactormag.com/a-knight-to-...

A Knight to Remember: Six Retellings of the Story of Tam Lin - Reactor

A gripping tale about a woman determined to hold on to what she wants.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow I missed that part - that also seems crazy.

Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

This is like a plot device from your standard 2000s office comedy

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.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

The pope is not himself a billionaire. That's a fundamental difference from ... people who are, actually, billionaires.

Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoy all of the recent popes.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Karina Patrício @kpatricio.bsky.social · 1d

The recently announced US Treasury swap line to Argentina tells a larger story – one of structural external imbalance and the enduring geopolitics of the dollar system.
My commentary explores what this decision reveals and why transparency and accountability over its terms are urgently needed.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption.

My full statement:

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering adam friedland interviewing ritchie torres - "come on man, just be a human being here." At the simplest (and realest) level that's all it comes down to.

Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 1d

They 100% chose tdidn't book Kerry because he actually has a soul on this.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

Living in a midsize midwestern city, salem massachusetts, or the inland empire

Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly this possible world lives so close by that I can almost feel it, especially when the veil is thin

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure everyone thinks of slightly different life paths from time to time particularly around mid life. The month of October always reminds me that a very cognizable life path for me was definitely: a clock in/clock out white collar job with much of spare time devoted to being a Spooky Adult

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

"cuba has the lowest level in the world of acetaminaphen use and it has the lowest rate of autism"

Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

People missing RFK boosting the Republic of Cuba here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 1d

I share these observations here so that my students don't have to listen to them.