Dalié Jiménez
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Dalié Jiménez
@dalie.bsky.social
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🇨🇺🇺🇸 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 Cats, bikes, kdramas - she/ella
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Thank you for this important work, and for sharing it! I'll have to add it to my seminar syllabus.
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So grateful for this and @dalie.bsky.social important work on debt. Our research has similar findings – that people are increasingly overwhelmed with ever more debt types, just to get by. In our paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., we show how the constant juggling directly impacts health.
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Well but he’s not Joe Biden
The media's complete lack of curiosity over our nearly 80 year old President's health when he has permanent bruising on his right hand, swollen ankles, facial drooping, disappeared for days from public view twice in the last 2 months and just had an unexplained MRI is notable
These fees don’t meaningfully scale with the amount at stake, someone sued for a $600 debt faces the same cost as someone sued for $6,000. Our paper shows how these “pay-to-plead” barriers drive defaults and entrench inequality. Download here:
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Pay to Plead: Finding Unfairness and Abusive Practices in California Debt Collection Cases
<div> In this Article, we report on one of the largest in-depth studies of debt collection lawsuits ever attempted. We collect, normalize, and analyze a data s
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We show who sues, who gets sued, and how court design choices amplify inequality. The title of the paper comes from the fact that in California, defendants must pay $225–$435 just to file an answer in a debt collection case (having to pay to plead their case). 2/3
Pay to Plead: Finding Unfairness and Abusive Practices in California Debt Collection Cases
<div> In this Article, we report on one of the largest in-depth studies of debt collection lawsuits ever attempted. We collect, normalize, and analyze a data s
papers.ssrn.com
Pay to Plead, @claireraba.bsky.social and my article on California debt collection is available! Drawing on more than $2M debt collection cases covering 80% of CA's population from 2009-2020, we draw a detailed picture of how mass debt lawsuits operate as a regressive system of wealth transfer. 1/3
Pay to Plead: Finding Unfairness and Abusive Practices in California Debt Collection Cases
<div> In this Article, we report on one of the largest in-depth studies of debt collection lawsuits ever attempted. We collect, normalize, and analyze a data s
papers.ssrn.com
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We’re not living beyond our means. We’re surviving beyond our wages.

My article for the November issue of @newrepublic.com looks at the consumer debt crisis—a story that the news media has struggled to adequately cover.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
The Invisible Economic Crisis
With consumer debt at record levels, the United States is sleepwalking toward disaster.
newrepublic.com
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Portable air filters clean indoor air from smoke, dust, pet dander, viruses, and more. They are cheap & simple to make — I’ve built several — and nearly silent to run. *There is no downside.* Should be in every workplace, community space, school, daycare, medical facility, & home.
In our short existence, The Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation has issued 58 grants providing healthier indoor air to 30,000 ppl.

The Foundation aims to substantially increase these benefits to under-resourced schools over the next several months.

Please consider helping us: givebutter.com/buildabox2025
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but also rather than a public consciousness, also very very bad
I think the theory that there is now a consumer class consciousness rather than a working class consciousness is basically descriptively correct, and also that this is very, very, very bad.
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Thoughts with everyone in Jamaica and Haiti as they face potentially the most catastrophic category 5 hurricane in history with ‘unprecedented’ torrential rainfall & winds of 145 mph
important read.
An understated reason figures like Newsom are so dangerous is because what really advances the most violently reactionary parts of the American state aren't just the openly far-right rulers, it's their successors entrenching what they did. Newsom types aren't an end to fascism but its completion. 🧵
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He will go down in American History as the worst Chief Justice, who took rights away, as opposed to expanding them. A complete failure...
The Roberts Court is anti-democratic.

Say it loudly and frequently so they know we see them.
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I just want every person to consider this in its distilled form.

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The President of the United States is unilaterally levying a tax on every citizen because he didn't like a commercial.
President Trump said that he is raising tariffs on Canadian imports, citing a TV ad in the U.S. that features President Reagan criticizing tariffs. https://wapo.st/431CadI
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We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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At what point when you’re paying troops with your own private money do they not just become mercenaries
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I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
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Test run for 2026. Here's what I wrote in the NY Times about the federal government potentially interfering with the 2026 elections and what we need to do about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
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Guess which race of federal worker these government shutdowns harms disproportionately.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 5d
Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay.
It's supposed to be payday for many federal workers. Instead, they're getting nothing
Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay.
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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We have a choice:

👉Deploying National Guard to D.C.: over $1.8 million per day

👉👉Deploying National Guard & Marines to LA: over $2.2 million per day

👉👉👉Deploying 20,000 National Guardsmen for one year: projected to cost $9.9 million per day

Voting in midterms 🗳️: Priceless and you #savedemocracy