Lenore Palladino
@lenorepalladino.bsky.social
economist, lawyer, organizer, mamma
Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy, UMass Amherst
https://www.lenorepalladino.com
my book: Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy, out 12/5/24
Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy, UMass Amherst
https://www.lenorepalladino.com
my book: Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy, out 12/5/24
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One day, these will be the incredibly dark moments we read about in the history books.
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
One day, these will be the incredibly dark moments we read about in the history books.
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this is great framing
!["OpenAI executives have said they plan to raise substantial debt to help pay for these contracts, but so far the financial burden has fallen to its counterparties and their lenders.
'That’s been kind of the strategy,” said a senior OpenAI executive. 'How does [OpenAI] leverage other people’s balance sheets?'"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gdj5pzurklijmlknynlpaora/bafkreiazfu3mzrxs2kq34wfonpbak5ik6vryrfksxpnrx32ehxx45wnz6m@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
this is great framing
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“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
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The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
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👀 If the NYC pension boards adopt the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social recommendations and move BlackRock's $42B mandate to other asset managers, it could be one of the most consequential climate-related actions ever taken by a pension fund in the US or anywhere in the world.
Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
👀 If the NYC pension boards adopt the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social recommendations and move BlackRock's $42B mandate to other asset managers, it could be one of the most consequential climate-related actions ever taken by a pension fund in the US or anywhere in the world.
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Outgoing NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is recommending that the city's 3 largest pensions drop Blackrock & two other large asset managers due to their failures to address the risks to portfolio value from rising GHG emissions. If those pensions agree, this will be a very big deal.
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Outgoing NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is recommending that the city's 3 largest pensions drop Blackrock & two other large asset managers due to their failures to address the risks to portfolio value from rising GHG emissions. If those pensions agree, this will be a very big deal.
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Inbox: The independent union at Blue Bottle Coffee, @bbiunion.bsky.social, is on strike. “As of today, we have gone out on the picket line to combat Blue Bottle's bad faith bargaining and ensure fair wages and protections for baristas.”
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Inbox: The independent union at Blue Bottle Coffee, @bbiunion.bsky.social, is on strike. “As of today, we have gone out on the picket line to combat Blue Bottle's bad faith bargaining and ensure fair wages and protections for baristas.”
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The disclosure is the latest detail to emerge as the court reviews whether to hold Trump administration officials in contempt for ignoring a judge’s oral order. Accountability needs to come swiftly Kristi Noem knowingly broke the law, and the consequences should reflect that.
Noem made decision not to turn around deportation flights bound for El Salvador after judge's order, DOJ says
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem made the final decision to allow a group of deportees to be handed over to El Salvador after a judge said their flights must be returned to the U.S., the DOJ said.
www.cbsnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The disclosure is the latest detail to emerge as the court reviews whether to hold Trump administration officials in contempt for ignoring a judge’s oral order. Accountability needs to come swiftly Kristi Noem knowingly broke the law, and the consequences should reflect that.
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Congrats to Brazil’s democracy
....that smile says it all bsky.app/profile/miam...
....that smile says it all bsky.app/profile/miam...
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Congrats to Brazil’s democracy
....that smile says it all bsky.app/profile/miam...
....that smile says it all bsky.app/profile/miam...
binders full of organizers!*
just a truly fantastic feeling to read over this list, so many amazing people
empirereportnewyork.com/mayor-elect-...
just a truly fantastic feeling to read over this list, so many amazing people
empirereportnewyork.com/mayor-elect-...
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani Announces Transition Committee Appointments to Advance His Affordability Agenda
New York's front page for political news. Latest NY politics news, reports, and columnists
empirereportnewyork.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
binders full of organizers!*
just a truly fantastic feeling to read over this list, so many amazing people
empirereportnewyork.com/mayor-elect-...
just a truly fantastic feeling to read over this list, so many amazing people
empirereportnewyork.com/mayor-elect-...
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This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
🔥
this was always the obvious outcome
this was always the obvious outcome
Looks like a slap on the wrist settlement for RealPage.
So much for the New Right’s populist antitrust enforcement, Part MCXXVII
www.wsj.com/business/jus...
So much for the New Right’s populist antitrust enforcement, Part MCXXVII
www.wsj.com/business/jus...
Justice Department to Settle Lawsuit Over Apartment Rental Pricing
The case had alleged that RealPage’s software allowed landlords to unfairly coordinate prices.
www.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🔥
this was always the obvious outcome
this was always the obvious outcome
every family get-together except it's not doing it together, it's me doing it for all of them
New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I:
@chriscolin3000.bsky.social invented Admin Night, a strategy to turn the drudgery of completing dreaded administrative tasks into a party.
"We’re social beings. We’re meant to update our password apps together!"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
@chriscolin3000.bsky.social invented Admin Night, a strategy to turn the drudgery of completing dreaded administrative tasks into a party.
"We’re social beings. We’re meant to update our password apps together!"
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party
You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
every family get-together except it's not doing it together, it's me doing it for all of them
ditto, just read this great essay by @iliasalami.bsky.social, this quote pulled it all together ⬇️
"the new state capitalism resonates with a much older phenomenon, the chartered "company-states” which acted as vanguards of global capitalism and European imperialism in the 17th & 18th centuries"
"the new state capitalism resonates with a much older phenomenon, the chartered "company-states” which acted as vanguards of global capitalism and European imperialism in the 17th & 18th centuries"
Essential essay by @iliasalami.bsky.social on new configurations of state ownership + state investment funds being deployed in the race for military, AI, and energy supply chain dominance. The trend rhymes with earlier eras of Great Power conflict but updated for a networked global economy.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
ditto, just read this great essay by @iliasalami.bsky.social, this quote pulled it all together ⬇️
"the new state capitalism resonates with a much older phenomenon, the chartered "company-states” which acted as vanguards of global capitalism and European imperialism in the 17th & 18th centuries"
"the new state capitalism resonates with a much older phenomenon, the chartered "company-states” which acted as vanguards of global capitalism and European imperialism in the 17th & 18th centuries"
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Ongoing demolition in Bitcoin
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Ongoing demolition in Bitcoin
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The more they dehumanize their targets, the more dangerous they become.
ICE agents in Queens, New York break down a bedroom door and point guns at a mother & her four US citizen children
They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!”
This is tyranny
These kids are traumatized
It was warrantless and no ID was shown.
They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!”
This is tyranny
These kids are traumatized
It was warrantless and no ID was shown.
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The more they dehumanize their targets, the more dangerous they become.
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The boys at UChicago smirking right now because they proved once again, they're breaking new ground and Harvard follows after the fact.
stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...
stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...
UChicago Lost Money on Crypto, Then Froze Research When Federal Funding Was Cut
While Stanford responded to the federal funding research freeze by halting administrative hiring and protecting research, the University of Chicago panicked.
On January 28, hours after the Trump admi...
stanfordreview.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The boys at UChicago smirking right now because they proved once again, they're breaking new ground and Harvard follows after the fact.
stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...
stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...
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My guys at the Harvard Management Company absolutely never miss
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My guys at the Harvard Management Company absolutely never miss
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A woman deported from Maryland after fleeing Sierra Leone 30 years ago says she reported to an ICE check-in and was flown to Ghana in shackles. In a country her family said she had no ties to, video shows her being dragged. www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcwashington.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A woman deported from Maryland after fleeing Sierra Leone 30 years ago says she reported to an ICE check-in and was flown to Ghana in shackles. In a country her family said she had no ties to, video shows her being dragged. www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...
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Most of the substantive parts of this crypto 'bipartisan market structure' bill coming out of Senate Ag are bracketed - as in no current language, all TBD.
In other words, Booker and Boozman are playing legislative Madlibs with Senate Banking.
www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
In other words, Booker and Boozman are playing legislative Madlibs with Senate Banking.
www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.booker.senate.gov
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Most of the substantive parts of this crypto 'bipartisan market structure' bill coming out of Senate Ag are bracketed - as in no current language, all TBD.
In other words, Booker and Boozman are playing legislative Madlibs with Senate Banking.
www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
In other words, Booker and Boozman are playing legislative Madlibs with Senate Banking.
www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Wow, this is a great summary of COP30! All the COPs, come to think of it. 🤔
Wow. People are way too chill around an active & uncontained fire in the building they're standing in.
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Wow, this is a great summary of COP30! All the COPs, come to think of it. 🤔
great clear piece by @ddayen.bsky.social about data centers & private credit's magical mashup
in case you're like wait what is private credit again, I give you my piece: The Risks of Unregulated "Private: Credit Funds:
peri.umass.edu/publication/...
in case you're like wait what is private credit again, I give you my piece: The Risks of Unregulated "Private: Credit Funds:
peri.umass.edu/publication/...
And yes this is attached to the rest of the financial system. Maybe deliberately so! prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
great clear piece by @ddayen.bsky.social about data centers & private credit's magical mashup
in case you're like wait what is private credit again, I give you my piece: The Risks of Unregulated "Private: Credit Funds:
peri.umass.edu/publication/...
in case you're like wait what is private credit again, I give you my piece: The Risks of Unregulated "Private: Credit Funds:
peri.umass.edu/publication/...
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Out here in York, PA where @sbworkersunited.org strikers are BLOCKADING the largest Starbucks distribution center in the country to demand a fair contract!!
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Out here in York, PA where @sbworkersunited.org strikers are BLOCKADING the largest Starbucks distribution center in the country to demand a fair contract!!
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Lol
*BLUE OWL CALLS OFF MERGER OF ITS TWO PRIVATE-CREDIT FUNDS: CNBC
*BLUE OWL CALLS OFF MERGER OF ITS TWO PRIVATE-CREDIT FUNDS: CNBC
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Lol
*BLUE OWL CALLS OFF MERGER OF ITS TWO PRIVATE-CREDIT FUNDS: CNBC
*BLUE OWL CALLS OFF MERGER OF ITS TWO PRIVATE-CREDIT FUNDS: CNBC
everything's going great ⬇️⬇️⬇️
And yes this is attached to the rest of the financial system. Maybe deliberately so! prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
everything's going great ⬇️⬇️⬇️