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James Fallows Tierney

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Associate dean for academic affairs and Associate professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Tech). I study financial markets regulation & law of capitalism. But this β‰  IIT. DSA Fund board 🌹🀝, Rstats, NLP, Phish dad, etc. Semper ubi sub ubi.

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Good Place:

Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

Good Place: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

13.10.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1825    πŸ” 512    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 20

I wrote fancy words about how SCOTUS, by writing no opinions, had left no precedents to bind it when a Dem retakes the White House β€” and then Justice Barrett just blurted it out.

12.10.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 140    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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This is your periodic reminder that you can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents.

12.10.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5
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Ten-Day Interval

open.spotify.com/track/5A2vl9...

12.10.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you’re that unsure about resolution of an issue, you shouldn’t decide it on the shadow docket anyway, unless there’s an exigent need. And if there’s an accident need, you should say what it is and why the resolution is appropriate. ACB is making the 6 look worse, not better, w/ these appearances.

12.10.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 111    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

11.10.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1495    πŸ” 615    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 82
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What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

11.10.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 444    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 26

This guy was a law school classmate. He was an unrepentant bigot then and continues to be today.

12.10.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

12.10.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 17764    πŸ” 4123    πŸ’¬ 357    πŸ“Œ 119

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

12.10.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2451    πŸ” 717    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 24

I really feel like millennials especially resent the copyright theft part of these AI data centers because of this.

08.10.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

11.10.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 11548    πŸ” 3455    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 82

β€œCan you explain this gap in your resume?”

Me thinking quickly on my feet to explain the period when I worked for ICE: β€œI was selling drugs… ,uh, to children.”

12.10.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2307    πŸ” 354    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 3
America’s brain drain

America’s brain drain

No words

30.05.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2190    πŸ” 859    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 167

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

11.10.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 160    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

10.10.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 6622    πŸ” 1346    πŸ’¬ 290    πŸ“Œ 54

My first thought was β€œwow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

11.10.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8153    πŸ” 2707    πŸ’¬ 186    πŸ“Œ 206

I mean I don’t want to hand it to <waves around> anyone but I take your point!

11.10.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man wearing glasses and a white shirt says " i think i misspoke when i said " no problem " ALT: a man wearing glasses and a white shirt says " i think i misspoke when i said " no problem "
11.10.2025 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Because I teach corporate laws and bylaws are relevant OBVIOUSLY, people

11.10.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

100% would take that cle

11.10.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I do appreciate that my work spam folder is a mix of CLE solicitations and a variety of statements from Chairman Bob Avakian (?)

11.10.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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a young boy in a blue shirt is typing on a laptop computer . Alt: a young boy in a blue shirt, "brent rambo," is typing on a laptop computer and then looks toward the camera and gives a thumbs up
11.10.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All of life is an effort at improving the R^2

10.10.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like this is a scene in A FISH CALLED WANDA

10.10.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ownership of US corporate equities by institutional investors + some top %ile of households (by wealth)

10.10.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And I think my friend @ofsevit.bsky.social was on at least twice?

10.10.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, Tom, RIP.

If it helps fill out the character vignette I went to a Car Talk live taping when I was 14

10.10.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I would probably rather be governed by any randomly chosen set of citizens of the People’s Republic of Cambridge than almost any other polity in the country, but that’s just me

10.10.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Was! Former!

10.10.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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