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Lenore Palladino
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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

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weisenthal.bsky.social
Ongoing demolition in Bitcoin
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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jessicacalarco.com
The more they dehumanize their targets, the more dangerous they become.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d
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.
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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mavill.bsky.social
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...
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
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mayasen.bsky.social
My guys at the Harvard Management Company absolutely never miss
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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katiejwells.bsky.social
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
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csfrayer.bsky.social
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...
www.booker.senate.gov
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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ilmi.bsky.social
Wow, this is a great summary of COP30! All the COPs, come to think of it. 🤔
iwanicki.bsky.social Tom Iwanicki @iwanicki.bsky.social · 4d
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
lenorepalladino.bsky.social
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/...
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 5d
And yes this is attached to the rest of the financial system. Maybe deliberately so! prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
WHILE THIS PILE MAY BE CENTERED IN PRIVATE CREDIT, private equity funds, real estate investment trusts, and other vehicles have pieces of it. A Moody’s report last month said that banks have at least $300 billion in loans to private credit. Blue Owl has BlackRock, Invesco, and PIMCO selling the bonds financing the Hyperion data center. Because this is the only thing moving in this economy, everyone on Wall Street wants some of the action, even those who are wary of it. Deutsche Bank, for example, is talking about reducing its exposure to data center risks, including by shorting AI stocks. But within that, the bank has acknowledged that some of its traders had “gone heavy” on financing for data centers. That puts the effort by Trump’s financial regulators to deregulate traditional banking, including the Federal Reserve slashing bank supervision, in a different light. It may be hard for a private credit firm to get bailed out by the government; for the banks, it’s easier. If banks soak up and carry over the debt from the Blue Owls of the world, they have better opportunities to have it effectively extinguished.
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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kimkelly.bsky.social
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
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peark.es
Lol

*BLUE OWL CALLS OFF MERGER OF ITS TWO PRIVATE-CREDIT FUNDS: CNBC
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
lenorepalladino.bsky.social
everything's going great ⬇️⬇️⬇️
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 5d
And yes this is attached to the rest of the financial system. Maybe deliberately so! prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
WHILE THIS PILE MAY BE CENTERED IN PRIVATE CREDIT, private equity funds, real estate investment trusts, and other vehicles have pieces of it. A Moody’s report last month said that banks have at least $300 billion in loans to private credit. Blue Owl has BlackRock, Invesco, and PIMCO selling the bonds financing the Hyperion data center. Because this is the only thing moving in this economy, everyone on Wall Street wants some of the action, even those who are wary of it. Deutsche Bank, for example, is talking about reducing its exposure to data center risks, including by shorting AI stocks. But within that, the bank has acknowledged that some of its traders had “gone heavy” on financing for data centers. That puts the effort by Trump’s financial regulators to deregulate traditional banking, including the Federal Reserve slashing bank supervision, in a different light. It may be hard for a private credit firm to get bailed out by the government; for the banks, it’s easier. If banks soak up and carry over the debt from the Blue Owls of the world, they have better opportunities to have it effectively extinguished.
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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murshedz.bsky.social
" A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about."

Sending a message to journalists in the room and all around the world ...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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brycecovert.bsky.social
This is, shall we say, quite relevant at the moment!
cohodes.bsky.social Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 14d
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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pmbigger.bsky.social
Another absolute banger in our war/climate/geopolitics series
transitionsec.bsky.social Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 6d
Our tech and energy systems being transformed. But how & in whose interests?

Read @iliasalami.bsky.social's Imperial State Capitalism to understand how the development of AI & the energy transition are being shaped by profiteering & geopolitical competition.
transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...
Imperial State Capitalism
A new geopolitics is shaping the development of AI and the energy transition.
transitionsecurity.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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weisenthal.bsky.social
Here's a classic one. Anthropic is going to spend $30 billion on Azure.

And with the deal, both Microsoft and Nvidia are both investing in Anthropic
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
Corrupt AF 🤮
tyleraking.com Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7d
The president has taken a financial stake in the sale of a major media empire to his political pals.
readsludge.com/2025/11/17/t...
SUMMARY Days after the Ellison family expressed interest in buying Warner Bros. Discovery, Trump bought up to $1 million in its debt. He is now reportedly pushing the deal to be approved.
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
lenorepalladino.bsky.social
private equity firms extract, they do not 'invest'

who do they extract from? workers, patients, children in childcare centers they buy..

disgusted by this and in no way surprised
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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claudia-sahm.bsky.social
Okay, so maybe I wasn't too mean to him ...
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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arindube.bsky.social
When states like Colorado passed policies requiring employers to disclose salary information in job postings, what happened?

It increased competition, and raised wages, without harming employment or changing skill requirements.

Improved functioning of markets, helped workers.
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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davekarpf.bsky.social
Me, before reading the excerpted passage: “I don’t see why anyone would read Olivia Nuzzi’s book. What a pointless exercise.”

Me, after reading the passage: “I must read this book. The hate-read theoretical has launched the hate-read possible.”
michaelcaley.bsky.social Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 7d
I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect

insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
"I would take a bullet for you,” the Politician said. He always said that. “Please don’t say that,” I said. I always said that. From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible. I did not like to think about it. About the armed man at his speech. Or the armed man who broke into his home. Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment.
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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peark.es
This is a fun story. What's happening is that a non-traded fund is being rolled into a publicly traded fund. On a NAV (third party marks on the underlying) basis, no losses. But the public vehicle (ticker ODBC) has a market price $2.83 below its $14.89 NAV, so the rolled-in fund gets marked down.
Blue Owl private credit fund merger leaves some investors facing 20% hit
Asset manager blocks redemptions from one of its first private debt vehicles targeting wealthy individuals
www.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
lenorepalladino.bsky.social
while we work for @publicgrids.org everywhere, we absolutely need utility shutoff moratoriums in every single state right now

Mass has a temp. one that will last until April, but low-income households have to file for it: www.nclc.org/resources/ma...
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
dennycarter.bsky.social Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 7d
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
February 5 Lawyer, National Security Division: Bondi signaled the Foreign Agents Registration Act would be enforced only in very limited circumstances after the Justice Department had done a lot over the last decade to give it teeth. At its core, FARA is a transparency statute, to let the American public know when foreign actors engage in political activities or try to influence U.S. discourse. If you're concerned about foreign money and influence in politics, it's a bad time to go dark.
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Trump will not just be four years of bad management. The culture of these organizations will be fucked for a long time. The pressure to retaliate and clean house will be strong, and no-one wants to work in a war zone.
Prosecutor, D.C. metro area: The D.C. office is hemorrhaging bodies, and they will probably get rid of two competent people for stating relevant facts that were on the record. I don’t think people will truly understand what’s happening to justice in America until it impacts them. Even my family: My parents voted for Trump. I don’t think they see it as a priority. I mean, they’re not going to be criminally indicted anytime soon. When I tell them what’s happening, I don’t think they really believe me. It would take a lot of restraint not to retaliate in the next administration. A lot of career people are helping the administration now. I have a list in my head, and if we get out of this, some of them I’m holding to account. A lot could be validly criminally probed. But the back-and-forth will not be good.
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
The Supreme Court takes up a major immigration case that asks whether the U.S. government can effectively prevent migrants from applying for asylum by blocking them at the border. I am very, very worried about this one. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...
Noem v. Al Otro Lado Issue: Whether an alien who is stopped on the Mexican side of the U.S.–Mexico border “arrives in the United States” within the meaning of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., which provides that an alien who “arrives in the United States” may apply for asylum and must be inspected by an immigration officer.
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM