Amy Kapczynski
@akapczynski.bsky.social
Law prof at Yale, LPE Associate Justice, all things political economy, but not yr grandpas version.
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Apparently, it is negotiable!
Health care isn’t negotiable.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Apparently, it is negotiable!
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Conference update! 📬📬
We are thrilled by the outpouring of proposals we received for the inaugural ALPE conference. Those of you who submitted proposals should have received a final decision via email on October 20th. If you did not get an email, check your spam folders, and feel free to reach out!
We are thrilled by the outpouring of proposals we received for the inaugural ALPE conference. Those of you who submitted proposals should have received a final decision via email on October 20th. If you did not get an email, check your spam folders, and feel free to reach out!
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Conference update! 📬📬
We are thrilled by the outpouring of proposals we received for the inaugural ALPE conference. Those of you who submitted proposals should have received a final decision via email on October 20th. If you did not get an email, check your spam folders, and feel free to reach out!
We are thrilled by the outpouring of proposals we received for the inaugural ALPE conference. Those of you who submitted proposals should have received a final decision via email on October 20th. If you did not get an email, check your spam folders, and feel free to reach out!
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A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them.
That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...
That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them.
That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...
That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...
Good for everyone to understand a little more about the “Campus Reform” grift. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...
HOSANG: How a talented Yale alum helped a right wing grift site mischaracterize our AAUP meeting
Much of the article mirrored the News’ story and included quotations invented, mischaracterized or taken out of context, as well as false claims.
yaledailynews.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Good for everyone to understand a little more about the “Campus Reform” grift. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...
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Today, Rana Jaleel & Risa Lieberwitz of the @aaup.org explain how the Trump administration has used Title VI to pressure universities to undermine free speech and entrench inequality, and how universities have largely crumbled in the face of this pressure.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-cor...
lpeproject.org/blog/the-cor...
The Corruption of Civil Rights and the Capitulation of Higher Ed
By weaponizing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the Trump administration is using antidiscrimination law to protect privilege and entrench inequality. Yet rather than uniting to resist these sham…
lpeproject.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Today, Rana Jaleel & Risa Lieberwitz of the @aaup.org explain how the Trump administration has used Title VI to pressure universities to undermine free speech and entrench inequality, and how universities have largely crumbled in the face of this pressure.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-cor...
lpeproject.org/blog/the-cor...
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From me in @lpeblog.bsky.social today:
The lesson of the US investment in Intel is "public capital without accountability. The result is not sovereign wealth but corporate capture—an arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the state’s ability to direct economic development."
The lesson of the US investment in Intel is "public capital without accountability. The result is not sovereign wealth but corporate capture—an arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the state’s ability to direct economic development."
Today, @jamesftierney.bsky.social argues that the government's recent $8.9 billion equity investment in Intel represents a new model of American state capitalism: one that entrenches corporate power while foreclosing more democratic and effective alternatives.
Intel and the New State Capitalism
While some have cast the U.S. government’s $8.9 billion equity stake in Intel as the first step on the road to socialism, upon closer examination it looks more like a distinctive form of American…
lpeproject.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
From me in @lpeblog.bsky.social today:
The lesson of the US investment in Intel is "public capital without accountability. The result is not sovereign wealth but corporate capture—an arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the state’s ability to direct economic development."
The lesson of the US investment in Intel is "public capital without accountability. The result is not sovereign wealth but corporate capture—an arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the state’s ability to direct economic development."
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W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it.
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
www.aaup.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it.
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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Amazing sign being held by a small child
October 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Amazing sign being held by a small child
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Are people allowed to peacefully protest their government in America? The GOP is doing everything they can to suppress turnout on Saturday.
Welcome to No Kings Eve. Trump is sounding and behaving kingly, and Republicans are at DEFCON 1 on the desperation meter. You can tell by their hallucinatory talking points, which are untethered from both reality and the Constitution. New from me at @msnbc.com:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Republicans' attacks on 'No Kings' protests reek of desperation
The GOP’s fictional portrait is part of a strategy to stop the resistance before it flexes its growing power
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October 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Are people allowed to peacefully protest their government in America? The GOP is doing everything they can to suppress turnout on Saturday.
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Proud to join this group of 39 Brown University alumni who are law professors in urging the university to reject the Trump-Vance presidency's enforced loyalty "compact": drive.google.com/file/d/1COIp...
October 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Proud to join this group of 39 Brown University alumni who are law professors in urging the university to reject the Trump-Vance presidency's enforced loyalty "compact": drive.google.com/file/d/1COIp...
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Wow - California's public insulin will be on the market in Jan! Big milestone for public pharma efforts. Could help millions of diabetics, esp if they can build a more public supply chain too. We describe why public pharma is important in this paper ... www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In shot across Big Pharma's bow, California will sell its own insulin
Delivery of the state-branded drug makes good on a longstanding promise by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
www.politico.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Wow - California's public insulin will be on the market in Jan! Big milestone for public pharma efforts. Could help millions of diabetics, esp if they can build a more public supply chain too. We describe why public pharma is important in this paper ... www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education
October 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education
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Excited about the first @lpenyc.bsky.social Night School event of the new academic year, now at @cuny.edu Law — with @masonbwilliams.bsky.social and Gregory Louis in conversation with @llchristyll.bsky.social!!
RSVP below!
RSVP below!
How NYC Became So Unequal
Ever wonder why CUNY is no longer free? Confused why the subway fare keeps rising while service declines? Join LPE NYC on October 23 at 6:30pm for a conversation between Professors Gregory Louis and…
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October 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Excited about the first @lpenyc.bsky.social Night School event of the new academic year, now at @cuny.edu Law — with @masonbwilliams.bsky.social and Gregory Louis in conversation with @llchristyll.bsky.social!!
RSVP below!
RSVP below!
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“One of them, Albert “Skip” Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...
Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“One of them, Albert “Skip” Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...
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Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.
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"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
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The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
The key thing now is "that the government does not actually have the capacity to successfully negotiate a bespoke 'deal' with every university in the country. All universities have to do now is do nothing—no accepting the compact, no counter-offers, nothing." Great analysis by @fishkin.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The key thing now is "that the government does not actually have the capacity to successfully negotiate a bespoke 'deal' with every university in the country. All universities have to do now is do nothing—no accepting the compact, no counter-offers, nothing." Great analysis by @fishkin.bsky.social
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"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
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NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd
University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...
actionnetwork.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd
"I am purposefully “belittling” a “conservative idea.” Or maybe I am not. I’m not really sure what the legal threshold of “belittling” is, and while I have a pretty good idea which ideas should be considered “conservative” ... I am pretty sure McMahon does not."
"Academic freedom policies came from faculties, not the government. Governments are the enemies of academic freedom, not their protectors." Brilliant piece by @sivav.bsky.social about the Trump administrations' latest effort to censor universities newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"I am purposefully “belittling” a “conservative idea.” Or maybe I am not. I’m not really sure what the legal threshold of “belittling” is, and while I have a pretty good idea which ideas should be considered “conservative” ... I am pretty sure McMahon does not."