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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.

It was a little different last week.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 15h

Today, Matthew Dimick argues that while antitrust may promise to tame corporate power, it leaves untouched the deeper logic of capitalism that compels production for profit’s sake.

The latest in our mini-series on Marxism and Antitrust.

Marx, Antitrust, and the Logic of Capital

Antitrust may promise to tame corporate power, but it leaves untouched the deeper logic of capitalism that compels production for profit's sake. In this sense, antitrust is not voluntarist enough…

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Sandeep @sandeepinbk.bsky.social · 15h

New from me in @michlawreview.bsky.social reviewing ‘New Deal Law & Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State’

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What's Left of the New Deal State? - Michigan Law Review

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State. By Anthony Gregory. Harvard University Press. 2024. Pp. 473. $45. Introduction A vast body of scholarship situates itself i...

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Sandeep @sandeepinbk.bsky.social · 15h

Appreciate it!

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 15h

I read this the other day. Really great stuff.

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Sandeep @sandeepinbk.bsky.social · 15h

New from me in @michlawreview.bsky.social reviewing ‘New Deal Law & Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State’

michiganlawreview.org/whats-left-o...

What's Left of the New Deal State? - Michigan Law Review

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State. By Anthony Gregory. Harvard University Press. 2024. Pp. 473. $45. Introduction A vast body of scholarship situates itself i...

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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 19h

Zohran Mamdani marching across the Brooklyn Bridge with supporters, including Tish James and Brad Lander, before delivering his closing campaign message in City Hall Park.

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Michigan Law Review @michlawreview.bsky.social · 16h

Curious about America’s security state origins? MLR Online’s latest is a book review of Anthony Gregory’s New Deal Law and Order. Professor Dhaliwal (@sandeepinbk.bsky.social) explores how FDR’s “war on crime” shaped criminal justice and state power. Read here: michiganlawreview.org/whats-left-o...

What's Left of the New Deal State? - Michigan Law Review

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State. By Anthony Gregory. Harvard University Press. 2024. Pp. 473. $45. Introduction A vast body of scholarship situates itself i...

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 2d

What's Left of the New Deal State? - Michigan Law Review buff.ly/MagIgp0

What's Left of the New Deal State? - Michigan Law Review

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State. By Anthony Gregory. Harvard University Press. 2024. Pp. 473. $45. Introduction A vast body of scholarship situates itself…

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 3d

It feels very appropriate that my article, A New Satanic Panic, 36 Yale J. L. & Feminism 102 (2025) has appeared on Westlaw on Halloween. Seems like a good time to do a thread on the piece!

SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Westlaw: www.westlaw.com/Document/Idc...

A New Satanic Panic

<p>A broad backlash to LGBTQ visibility and equality has emerged in recent years. Its conservative proponents have asserted that queer people are Satanic, calle

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 3d

I know so many people who are voting in NYC today (as opposed to any other day) to get the Halloween voting sticker. The real question is why isn't the left taking more advantage of this sticker motivation dynamic 🤔

A NYC I Voted sticker with a pigeon holding a trick-or-treating pumpkin in its beak, bats in the background, that says "Halloween Voter 2025"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

oh just straight up gutter racism!

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5d

"From the very moment the ceasefire went into effect, Israel has been killing, on average, about eight people per day. If that happens in the U.S., you would call it a mass shooting or a massacre. In Gaza, it doesn't even make headlines."

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5d

“Groundhog Day”: Israel Breaks Ceasefire to Attack Gaza, Killing 104 People Including 46 Children

“Groundhog Day”: Israel Breaks Ceasefire Again, Kills 104 People in Gaza Including 46 Children

Israel launched major airstrikes on Gaza, killing at least 104 people, including 46 children, in the deadliest attacks since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire was announced. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

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Sandeep @sandeepinbk.bsky.social · 5d

From Du Bois’s dissertation on the slave trade

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 6d

Today, Jerry Kang and @noahzatz.bsky.social argue that even as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle DEI in the name of “merit,” the civil rights law it distorts still harbors possibilities for resistance.

Can DEI Workers Strike Back?

Even as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle DEI in the name of “merit,” the law it distorts still harbors possibilities for resistance. Title VII prohibits retaliation against employees who…

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

New York is among the three states with the highest childcare costs — and it's driving working families out of our city.

Providing it as a universal right is good for our neighborhoods, our economy, and our future.

Map shows states with the highest—and lowest—child care costs

Massachusetts is the state with the highest child care costs, according to new data from the North Carolina law office DeMayo Law.

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Sandeep @sandeepinbk.bsky.social · 7d

Shoutout to whoever worked night and day trying to edit this one for clarity

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 12d

The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues.

The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

That includes any race-based scholarships and programs, including any promotion of external scholarships that consider race, and DEI trainings and workshops. Institutions were also told they should no longer prioritize “underrepresented groups” for admissions or hiring, and they must prohibit transgender students from playing on sports teams and using facilities designated for women and girls.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 12d

The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity.

"We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes.

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Attorney General James Launches Portal to Collect Photos and Videos of ICE Activity in New York

NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James is encouraging New Yorkers to submit videos or other documentation of federal immigration enforcement actions in New York following yesterday’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on Canal Street in New York City.

“Every New Yorker has the right to live without fear or intimidation,” said Attorney General James. “If you witnessed and documented ICE activity yesterday, I urge you to share that footage with my office. We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law. No one should be subject to unlawful questioning, detention, or intimidation.”

Attorney General James is asking New Yorkers to share photos or videos of federal government actions using the Office of the Attorney General’s new online portal.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 12d

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

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Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL
September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View
September 15, 2025 3
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View
September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View
October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View
October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View
October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View
October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View
October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 14d

From me in @lpeblog.bsky.social today:

The lesson of the US investment in Intel is "public capital without accountability. The result is not sovereign wealth but corporate capture—an arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the state’s ability to direct economic development."

LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 14d

Today, @jamesftierney.bsky.social argues that the government's recent $8.9 billion equity investment in Intel represents a new model of American state capitalism: one that entrenches corporate power while foreclosing more democratic and effective alternatives.

Intel and the New State Capitalism

While some have cast the U.S. government’s $8.9 billion equity stake in Intel as the first step on the road to socialism, upon closer examination it looks more like a distinctive form of American…

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 15d

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15d

BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.

Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire

Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.

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Jocelyn Simonson @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social · 19d

Today I wrote in @lpeblog.bsky.social with Amna Akbar & @sameer-ashar.bsky.social about how legal scholars & teachers might act in solidarity with movements in this moment, in the face of fascism: lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...

Movement Law Under Fascism

As fascist tendencies intensify across the United States, social movements continue to organize against the forces of state repression. Legal scholars must stand with these movements…

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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 19d

Appreciate thinking with @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social & Amna Akbar again, inspired by resistance movements confronting incipient fascism across terrains of struggle

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Movement Law Under Fascism

As fascist tendencies intensify across the United States, social movements continue to organize against the forces of state repression. Legal scholars must stand with these movements…

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