Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...
“They use solitary to remove people who are ‘contaminating’ the rest of the population or to isolate those who agree but don’t yet have the courage to speak up. Essentially, it’s a way to dismember a group that’s opposing them.“ @ccijustice.bsky.social
Thanks to the editors @inquest.bsky.social and collaborators @ccijustice.bsky.social
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The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up”
A robot in an old fashioned frock coat. In one hand, he holds a giant magnifying glass. On the other stands a child laborer - a coal miner from the 1910s, squinting at the camera. Terrifying energy beams streak out of the robot's eyes into the glass and at the child. The background is an extremely dark, very roughed-up US $100 bill.
What industry calls "personalized pricing" is really *surveillance* pricing: using digital tools' flexibility to change the price for each user, and using surveillance data to guess the worst price you'll accept:
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You should read everything Zohra Ahmed writes, but also & especially this post abt the criminalization of leftist solidarity by the Trump Admin through the use of material support laws & RICO (laws that are admittedly pernicious in most contexts but esp here)
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Less income tax = more sales tax = a more regressive tax system. This is a fact of life.
You cannot fix it by simply taxing only the income of rich people, because they are always in the best position to avoid it altogether. It will not work. Period.
Delighted to review @azizaahmed.bsky.social's terrific book "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of Aids" at JOTWELL: health.jotwell.com/public-healt...
I said it before, Habermas’s great talents was to produce critics like Nancy Fraser, Dena Goodman, and Michael Warner, who do not “extend” his ideas, but subject them to ruthless criticism, and to come up with better ways to grapple with their primary themes.
The U.S. runs the largest immigration detention system in the world. But what law actually protects people inside it? A Harvard Law Review article by @Das_Alina provides an alarming answer. 🧵
ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.
“Instead, they wanted to align themselves with men whose sole concerns are whether they’ve purchased enough Tomahawks to replace the one they just slammed into the roof of a school.” @joshuadiemert.bsky.social
happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social
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This is the AI the Department of Defense is using. It's called Maven, it's from Palantir, and it’s scary as hell.
It's dangerous for an innumerable number of reasons. I don't even know where to begin. From not prioritizing civilian casualties to assassinations and god knows what else, this is nuts.
Today, @jeenashahesq.bsky.social argues that Trump’s contradictory treatment of Hernández and Maduro reveals the consistency of U.S. foreign policy: the War on Drugs serves as a flexible tool for maintaining global capitalism’s necessary periphery.
“the single most consistent trend at UK universities over the past 15 years has been to ensure as few people (students and staff alike) have the material conditions necessary to depart from their prescribed roles, to do any type of meaningful political activity“
the opening paragraph of an article titled "Value Capture" by C. Thi Nguyen. The text reads, "ere is a story about how metrics can change people. A relative of mine had been planning a long European vacation with some old friends, John and Shelley. My relative had been looking forward to seeing the sights with her friends—touring museums, seeing operas, having long dinners. But, she says, the entire vacation was dominated by John and Shelley’s relationship with their Fitbits. John and Shelley would not go to the opera with her: not enough steps. They would cancel dinner dates because they had not met their daily step goals yet. My guess is that John and Shelley never consciously decided that step counts were more important than, say, art or friendship. The Fitbit just spoke more loudly in their internal deliberation, and there was no Artbit or Friendbit to compete. The clarity of those metrics just swamped quieter considerations."
A PSA for all my law professor friends: instead of scrolling through an article titled “The Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2025,” where impact and influence are reduced to citation counts, consider reading this excellent article on value capture.
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I found this report to be both startling and disturbing.
New article theorizing the “spatial burdens” of state institutions. Drawing on 125 interviews and over 400 hours of observations among court-involved people in the Bay Area, we show how space shapes poverty governance and institutional inequality.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants
“At the root of so many of our moral and political crises today is what Simone Weil, describing life under European fascism, called ‘the adoration of power in its most brutal form’.”
Our editors on the Iran war:
www.equator.org/articles/epi...
I keep circling back to that line from the Mishnah Sanhedrin, "whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world" and wondering what it means to live at the mercy of men who are equally indifferent to any individual life, to millions of lives, and to the world itself
Abstract which states: The problem of the Twentieth Century was the problem of the color line. That problem, however, never seriously preoccupied the Legal Realists. This may come as disappointment to many scholars today who see the Realists, particularly those who critiqued courts, free markets, and oligarchic power, as intellectual ancestors. Then again, the answer depends on who we count as a Realist. The great writer, activist, and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois saw his career unfold and unwind alongside the development of Legal Realism. Though he is better remembered as a political theorist and historian, his work also contained theorizing about law that tracked key Realist insights. But this Article shows that Du Bois wasn't simply another Legal Realist. He was an outstanding one, whose own Realism emerged not through colorblind critiques of classical legal thought, but through thinking, organizing, and propagandizing against race hierarchy. This Article traces how Du Bois's insights matured over the course of his career, including by examining works that receive little attention today, especially among legal scholars. From Du Bois's dissertation on the slave trade, to his studies of the South's political economy, to his collection of essays in Darkwater, where he developed an idea of whiteness as property. This long pattern of thought congealed most powerfully in the "dictatorship of property," an idea Du Bois developed in his famous Black Reconstruction. This memorable phrase and concept merged public and private, political and economic, and the traditionally separate domains of property and sovereignty. His profound legal-theoretical insights came through studying slavery and sharecropping; through responding to Lynch Law and race riots; through reacting to cases like Bailey v. Alabama, rather than Lochner v. New York; through historiographical battle with the Dunning School; and even through factional fights within the NAACP. After World War II, Du Bois would also…
Table of contents and opening paragraph of paper
🧵: my latest draft paper ‘The Legal Realism of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is still looking for a law review home 🤞🏽
Here are some brief highlights for anyone interested
is it so hard to see people are not waiting to be told what’s possible
Now on SSRN and looking for a good home - "The Case for Professional Disobedience"
Using healthcare professionals as a case study, the Article meets this perilous moment in U.S. history by thinking seriously about disobedience as a response to institutional failures
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