YBenkler

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  1. Oct 10

    This needs to be part of the basic LegReg curriculum. A full semester course in one table.

    (A lot of) constitutional law in a single chart. Apologies to process theory and evolving constitutionalism as the arc of history bends towards justice. I would have had to make the font too small.
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  2. Oct 9

    Should be written: Texas law is claimed to be different, although it is enforced by state judges, enacted by the legislature, and fines are collected by the police, because the legislature designated private individuals rather prosecutors to initiate the procedure.

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  3. Sep 13

    the newest member of the McConnell Court, speaking at the McConnell Center.... Kinda like Nixon's "I am not a crook"

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  4. Aug 16

    Taking flight, or fish out of water?

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  5. Aug 16

    So, 42 million Americans just got their core food subsidy raised by ~25%, and it's buried not only under headlines from Afghanistan and Haiti, but even masking debates and movie reviews. Seems more headline-worthy to me.

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  6. Jul 13

    How tragic that we lost Philippe Aigrain. A steadfast and thoughtful defender of the commons.

    Je viens d'apprendre le décès de Philippe Aigrain, dans sa maison à la montagne, près d'Argeles.. je suis si triste. Philippe avait été mon inspiration pour mes recherches sur les brevets sur les logiciels lorsque j'étais étudiant. 1/..
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  7. Jun 27

    WSJ rediscovers the new Poor Law. Threaten people with the whip of hunger and they are forced to accept any job on offer. These reduced unemployment rates simply identify states that force more people to accept jobs they refused when they had a choice!

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  8. Jun 17

    Warren Court was the exception in SCOTUS history. Dred Scott, Slaughterhouse Cases, In re Debs, E.C. Knight, Lochner, to the present. Yet two generations of liberal scholarship focused on legitimating the court's antimajoritarian power. A Realist revival seems in order.

    As of tomorrow, the Roberts Court has lasted longer than the Warren Court did.
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  9. Jun 16

    Valuable insights from and . At a minimum deplatforming contains some of the worst abuses. Still gets used more for copyright than hate (Figs 3+4), and obviously doesn't eliminate underlying profitability of selling hatred and outrage. But useful first aid.

    📜New preprint📜 Deplatforming the far-right: An analysis of and BitChute We show that deplatforming is effective in minimizing the reach of far-right channels like Alex Jones & cannot be compensated on alternative platforms🧵
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  10. Jun 15

    Wow.

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  11. May 22

    Is this intended as a metaphor for capitalism? Life expectancy, height/weight, cosmetics, and the discontents of modernity...?

    If you could triple your lifespan, and look young while doing it, would you? Would you still do it if it involved ingesting a tapeworm that rejiggers your fundamental physiology and slowly unravels the fabric of the society around you?
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  12. May 20

    An important first step toward public option banking as a critical piece of the infrastructure of justice.

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  13. May 20

    The GOP coalition depends on mobilizing alienated white *non-college* voters (58%) by stoking anti-elite, racist, and sexist animus. Attracting "the most talented people from around the world" is precisely the threat, and the trifecta is when "the most talented" is a Black woman.

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    May 19

    It’s intimidating, chilling & an embarrassment for an institution of higher learning. It targets a Black woman scholar for viewpoints expressed in her scholarship. Knight Chairs at Chapel Hill are brought to UNC w/tenure - the original offer made to . This is ugly.

    The UNC BoT decision to deny tenure to Nikole Hannah Jones is wildly intimidating to junior scholars working on topics of race without the protection of tenure. This is about the freedom to produce critical scholarship in an alleged democratic society.
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  15. May 16

    "Supporting Israel" can have one and only meaning in 2021: ousting the arsonist-in-chief who continues to occupy, by constitutional default not by winning elections, the PM's residence on the corner of Balfour street in Jerusalem instead of the dock of an Israeli courtroom.

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  16. May 16

    Hundreds of Palestinians are dying; Israel's population is in bomb shelters, scores injured, several killed from rockets; Israel's social fabric is tearing as right wing Jewish vigilantes and Palestinian citizens of Israel clash in anarchy All to keep one man out of prison.

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  17. May 16

    "Supporting Israel" as the Biden Admin has done is like "Standing with America" would have been if American con law allowed a declaration of war confirmed by the Senate to postpone transition, and Trump+McConnell declared war in the lame duck to prevent Biden from becoming POTUS.

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  18. May 16

    (c) escalated the inevitable outbursts by sending armed police onto the grounds of Al Aqsa to violently occupy the space 6. The intended result obtained: the conflagration. 7. It is achieving its intended effect: the nearly-impossible anti-Bibi coalition is falling apart.

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  19. May 16

    To avoid this, the govt (a) blocked use of the square in front of Damascus Gate, highly popular during Ramadan; (b) initiated eviction proceedings against Palestinians in East Jerusalem to coincide with "Jerusalem Day," when Israel celebrates the 1967 conquest of East Jerusalem;

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  20. May 16

    5. If new elections are called (as they must, given the impossibility of the coalition ousting Netanyahu), and continue to result in stalemate as the last 4 have, the caretaker is the outgoing PM, not Netanyahu, and the indictment will proceed to conclusion by default

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