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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 43m

When Justice Powell was nominated to the Supreme Court, Philip Morris (his long time client) threw a party for him in which they gave him judges robes emblazoned with their logo

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 1h

alternatives to market-based housing, and Joanne Grell an organizer at Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA), a membership-driven tenant organizing project in the Bronx. You absolutely will not want to miss it, don't forget to REGISTER!!

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 1h

ONE WEEK from today, we have a 🔥🔥 event on what it means to Make NYC Housing affordable with someone of the people leading the charge! Cea Weaver who led the charge on Housing Justice for All & advising the Mamdani campaign, Gianpaolo Baiocchi at the forefront of...

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Making NYC Affordable: Housing

Please join LPE NYC for the first session in our series on what it really means to make NYC affordable, October 15, 6-8pm at New York Communities for Change (470 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn, NY) This…

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AAUP @aaup.org · 23h

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 25d

David Garland's Law and Order Leviathan sets out a powerful theory of the relation between political economy and crime control and a realistic framework for pursuing progressive change.

Out now. Learn more and explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment by David Garland

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 17h

🚨🚨 LPE NYC student groups!

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 17h

the talk at VT law last week was really invigorating, feel like doing some more but not traveling. if you’re at a local NYC law school and want me and maybe peter (if i can convince him) to come talk, hit up the pod email fivefourpod AT gmail

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 17h

the talk at VT law last week was really invigorating, feel like doing some more but not traveling. if you’re at a local NYC law school and want me and maybe peter (if i can convince him) to come talk, hit up the pod email fivefourpod AT gmail

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 19h

hot take: LSA making you submit your paper/panel proposal 8 months before the conference is stupid

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Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about an under-appreciated aspect of AAUP v. Rubio. It is the first case of the Trump Era to explicitly identify and reject the primary and most pernicious form of speech suppression employed by this Administration: Chill.

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/aaup...

Balkinization: AAUP v. Rubio and the Big Chill

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 23h

tuckered out

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Drop Site confirmed this morning that our journalist Alex Colston has been released from Israeli detention. Alex has been imprisoned since Thursday as one of 462 participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Alex was covering for Drop Site. He was among 131 deported to Jordan today.

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 1d

I’m back up in @lpeblog.bsky.social today

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as an antagonist to @beaubaumann.bsky.social in this generative post about thinking bigger in our rebuilding ambitions

lpeproject.org/blog/rebuild...

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d

This piece by @beaubaumann.bsky.social is really good and focusing on all the right questions. lpeproject.org/blog/rebuild...

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 3d

This is horrifying.

To give context to ICE's spending spree on weapons & tactical gear, I pulled data on their FY 2023 spending for relevant product categories.

‼️ In the last week, ICE spent well OVER TWICE AS MUCH on weapons, armor, & accessories ($74.6M) as they did in all of FY 2023 ($29.2M).

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LPE NYC @lpenyc.bsky.social · 6d

Then on October 23rd at CUNY Law, the first session of LPE NYC Night School will look at the question of how things got so unaffordable and unequal in the first place with Gregory Louis and Mason Williams, moderated by @llchristyll.bsky.social

lpeproject.org/events/nyc-s...

How NYC Became So Unequal

Ever wonder why CUNY is no longer free? Confused why the subway fare keeps rising while service declines? Join LPE NYC on October 23 at 6:30pm for a conversation between Professors Gregory Louis and…

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ACLU of New Mexico @aclunm.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The City of Las Cruces just passed a crucial measure today that affirms and strengthens the city's commitment to protecting immigrant communities from discrimination and harassment.

This is an important act of leadership during these times of unprecedented threats to immigrant families.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

Bari Weiss Takes Her Grift Mainstream

Journalism's biggest fraud takes the reins at CBS

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 2d

tfw you use your tiny hedgehog as a pillow

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 2d

it may be hacky to comment on, but seriously, law review articles are too damn long. trying to read two articles today and they are 71 and 89 pages 😭

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 3d

respectability politics is total bullshit, and yet the FBI director should not be allowed to call journalists “ass clowns” for critiquing him

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

BREAKING: Despite US President Trump’s call for Israel to cease its attacks on Gaza, at least 41 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since dawn, medical sources told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/1zszvd

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 6d

OK let me do a little thread.

Contrary to popular belief, state funding for public colleges did NOT go down overall during the neoliberal era. That widely repeated result seems mostly be be an artifact of unusually low post-2008 levels.

But...

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graph of per-FTE student funding, 1980-2024. cycles around $10,500 until a big dip in 2008 and then a gradual recovery back to previous levels starting in 2012

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 5d

Still time to register for Monday's @aaup.org webinar on the state-backed threat to independent higher education accreditation www.aaup.org/event/politi...

Politicizing Accreditation in the South and Beyond

This webinar will explore the historic importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional norms and standards for public higher education and examine the threats a politicize...

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