Luke Herrine

Interesting: UK discourse is like a decade behind the US on this

Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.

Gaza, south Lebanon, the West Bank, southwest Syria, this is the model that Israel wants across MENA: weak, permanently unstable, incapable of infrastructural reconstruction or administrative cohesion.

The Empire Strikes Backwards

open.spotify.com/track/4ZR22I...

It’s not just Trump, not just Netanyahu

That's about as clear as it gets on the motivation behind the attacks on higher ed.

Looks a lot like a 1A problem to me

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I'm psyching myself up. Just talked to somebody with some experience litigating MLM cases...

I feel like there should be a big shared doc where we can drop our ideas for projects that we know we'll never take on, so that students or scholars more inclined toward the idea could follow it through.

I'm like: I would send comments on a paper that argued X!

It's notable that, as @bridgetgillard.bsky.social shows, the MLM industry got started (a century ago!) with unregulated supplements (aka vitamins). Strains of magical thinking, entrepreneurship, and conservativism are longstanding

I am getting closer to convincing myself to write that review

This is a horseshoe theory I can get behind

The Biden Admin directed hundreds of billions to clean energy/manufacturing.

Did these investments shift public opinion?

We find that these projects are visible but not traceable: People notice nearby investments, but connect them to Governors, not Biden.

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Sure but my point is tech consolidation was not incumbents capturing regulators, it was insurgents charming them. And that could happen again. This time there is a substantial incumbent role

Is that your model of what happened in tech in the 2000s?

I’d bet hard against this one. Even if AI leads to disruption of business models, disruption will lead to reconsolidation absent governance mechanisms that stand in the way of

OCC releases proposed rule to implement payment stablecoin legislation The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today released a proposed rule to implement the Genius Act, including how

here we go

we'll see how Circle, Coinbase, and every other corporation actually at the table responds

what is banking?

bankingjournal.aba.com/2026/02/occ-...

A substantial part of the global far right media strategy is just describing consequences suffered by people who did heinous shit while leaving out the heinous shit that led to those consequences.

It's just the first panel of the goose meme over and over again

Obvious pickup here for the enterprising law review editor!

Some of the transcripts from this litigation are wild. They admit they just don’t know how to keep track of all the loans.

Still available for law reviews! Otherwise going to have to rework it for a peer reviewed sociology journal or something.

Amazing how long this has taken, but thank goodness for Eileen's perseverance.

Meanwhile, they're still figuring out how to sell the whole portfolio and somehow rid themselves of the responsibility over future loans. (good luck) Whee!

Race to the top, bay-beeeeee

Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ explores stablecoin for Gaza Proposal to launch cryptocurrency pegged to US dollar comes after cash supply was decimated during Israeli offensive

perhaps the most striking demonstration that permissioned stablecoin systems can enable mass surveillance. Please stop stressing the anonymity narrative

Total control of new monetary infrastructure will allow them to cut and freeze and choke with even more precision

www.ft.com/content/cf4f...

Really honored to have my new @harvardpress.bsky.social book be part of an @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium! I am deeply grateful to @lpeproject.bsky.social colleagues for the opportunity, and to my respondents @maggor.bsky.social, @abalasub.bsky.social & Amy Cohen for engaging with my work. 🙏

They’re literally saying the opposite! It’s not subtle!

Poor guy. Better luck next time

I hadn’t see that he was stymied. What makes you think that?

Here’s a good example of the institutional side of things. Meanwhile, if you’re interested in how law and politics can coincide in speech-protective forms, you don’t need to look further than Prof. Lakier’s work (linked below).

A nice piece. My treatment of public universities in this Roosevelt report is very much in the spirit of developing governance mechanisms to promote free speech beyond 1A doctrine in courts

rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

a group of men are sitting on a plane and one of them is screaming . ALT: a group of men are sitting on a plane and one of them is screaming .

This is the historiographic method involved