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sanjukta paul
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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. Preparing for our tryst with destiny. Homo "sapien"
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Honestly, these tweets are written as if someone is *trying* to sound like a villain
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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#EconSky The third highest enrollment in economics courses in 1909-10 was for a course taught by the Harvard Law School professor Bruce Wyman covering commercial and industrial law. Business content and easy grading ("a snapper problem") the key to his popularity www.irwincollier.com/harvard-fina...
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Not that important, but: after a long time of checking in briefly once in a while, i finally neglected to reactivate my twitter account before it was permanently deleted - and that felt fine.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: I finally have written up the extraordinary fact that the @federalreserve.gov has created an entire page specifically devoted to my FOIA requests entitled "Historical Board Documents". Also, my birthday sale is still underway!

www.crisesnotes.com/the-federal-...
The Federal Reserve Has Created an Entire Page Dedicated to My Successful FOIA Requests
Tomorrow is my 34th Birthday and as such this month's "Birthday" sale is still ongoing. Take advantage today! Birthday Sale! Longtime Notes on the Crises readers will remember that I hav...
www.crisesnotes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Posting my own @lake-michigan.live updates now
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Why have only 27 legislators called for this boy's release?

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Palestinian-US teen held by Israel for nine months without charge due in court
Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, from Florida, was detained by Israeli soldiers while on holiday in the occupied West Bank.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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A student admitted to grad school at UNB is stranded in Gaza because the Canadian government won't issue a study permit without biometrics that in turn cannot be produced without a travel visa to leave Gaza.

The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Ok this slaps
I have discovered a Carnatic classical / metalcore fusion band, a mashup of interests that I share with precisely no one offline
Project MishraM - Kanakana ft. @Kmac2021 [PROGRESSIVE METAL / CARNATIC / DJENT]
YouTube video by Project MishraM
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I can't believe I didn't fully contemplate this before, but it's amazing/insane that that the whole obscure & largely unhelpful concept of antitrust standing was solidified greatly in an antitrust case with a labor union plaintiff - something the Court seemed unable to metabolize, as a basic matter.
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Something I wonder about sometimes is why some unions (e.g., construction/building unions) don't incorporate their own "local" "firms". Slightly challenging legally but not impossible (see eg Maine Lobstering union)
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I worry a lot about politicians' now seemingly ubiquitous rhetorical focus on affordability being used to undermine important regulations
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Anecdotally from RICO settlement talks, treble damages make it much harder for parties to reach an agreement, and I’m sure it’s encouraged companies to challenge many more cases than they otherwise would (probably leading to more judicially-made law)
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Current* conditions near Sister Bay, WI:
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I think treble damages in antitrust have subtly contributed to the narrowing of scope for enforcement, and have ended up leaving exposure in the wrong places. It's also inconsistent with a more expansive view of competition law that's about shaping economic activity more than punishing bad actors
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Totally agree. Part of the answer to why this happens is that non-profit housing developers, who tend to play a big role in housing coalitions, are themselves often anti-labor.
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My opinion is that you need a relatively big tent for progressive housing politics but that tent needs to include labor. I get why many of the building trades are kind of on the edge of the coalition (tho not true of the fantastic painters!)--but only in the same sense that big developers also are!
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Dr Fadhel Kaboub argues that Africa can no longer afford to trade raw minerals for finished products: “Governments must invest in processing infrastructure. Refining, precursor production, and battery assembly should happen near the mines -not overseas”
www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/env...
How Africa plans to keep its green wealth at home
The device you are holding, built from African minerals, represents more than technology. It symbolises a choice: whether Africa rises up the value chain or remains stuck at the bottom.
www.standardmedia.co.ke
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"Monopoly" for the Populists was about the monopolization (concentration) of a *publicly allocated, privately exercised* privilege. (No need to argue about whether it was about "public power" or "private power")
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.

#vastearlyamerica #arthistory

journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
journalpanorama.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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It’s crazy to have SIX dedicated security lines at LaGuardia airport just for Clear & give them priority at the THREE general boarding lanes. This is a tax-payer funded airport that seems to be trying to force people to give their biometric info over to a private company or get squeezed & squeezed.
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM