Dalié Jiménez
@dalie.bsky.social
🇨🇺🇺🇸 Lawprof at UCI Law
All things debt & credit with social science methods: consumer law, bankruptcy, access to justice.
Co-Dir @UC-SLLI.bsky.social
Co-PI @DebtCollectionLab.bsky.social
Cats, bikes, kdramas - she/ella
All things debt & credit with social science methods: consumer law, bankruptcy, access to justice.
Co-Dir @UC-SLLI.bsky.social
Co-PI @DebtCollectionLab.bsky.social
Cats, bikes, kdramas - she/ella
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Is ICE getting paid with SNAP money?
There is no doubt at all that the Trump Administration spent the emergency USDA SNAP fund and they may have even spent the regular SNAP funds.
In this article they claim USDA would have to dig in couches for something that isn’t there.
Where is the SNAP money?
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
In this article they claim USDA would have to dig in couches for something that isn’t there.
Where is the SNAP money?
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
Full SNAP benefits start to go out even as the Trump administration appeals
A federal judge ordered the government to fully fund food aid by Friday. The Trump administration's appeal was denied, so it's asking appealed, saying it's up to Congress to fund SNAP.
www.npr.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Is ICE getting paid with SNAP money?
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The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)
This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
www.propublica.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)
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Taking on Trump on Student Debt—and Winning
For months, the Trump administration has illegally blocked people from accessing student debt relief they are entitled to. The AFT took President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon to court for their student loan lawlessness—and won! In
For months, the Trump administration has illegally blocked people from accessing student debt relief they are entitled to. The AFT took President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon to court for their student loan lawlessness—and won! In
Taking on Trump on Student Debt—and Winning
For months, the Trump administration has illegally blocked people from accessing student debt relief they are entitled to. The AFT took President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon to court for their student loan lawlessness—and won! In this episode of Union Talk, AFT President Randi Weingarten discusses what this court victory means for borrowers, how people can access relief, and the union's continued fight to get people debt relief and make college affordable for all. Weingarten is joined by Protect Borrowers Legal Director Winston Berkman-Breen to review the impact of the case. She is also joined by two AFT members who were caught in the Trump administration's web of confusion and chaos on student debt: Corey Mason, a teacher in Connecticut, who finally got her debt forgiven after fighting for it with her union, and Stephanie Solis, a nurse in Ohio, who is still fighting for the relief she's entitled to.
uniontalk.libsyn.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Taking on Trump on Student Debt—and Winning
For months, the Trump administration has illegally blocked people from accessing student debt relief they are entitled to. The AFT took President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon to court for their student loan lawlessness—and won! In
For months, the Trump administration has illegally blocked people from accessing student debt relief they are entitled to. The AFT took President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon to court for their student loan lawlessness—and won! In
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He’s saying taxpayers will step in and backstop their companies when the AI bubble bursts — as we have done so many times before.
Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.
Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
He’s saying taxpayers will step in and backstop their companies when the AI bubble bursts — as we have done so many times before.
Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.
Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.
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So grateful for this and @dalie.bsky.social important work on debt. Our research has similar findings – that people are increasingly overwhelmed with ever more debt types, just to get by. In our paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., we show how the constant juggling directly impacts health.
October 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
So grateful for this and @dalie.bsky.social important work on debt. Our research has similar findings – that people are increasingly overwhelmed with ever more debt types, just to get by. In our paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti..., we show how the constant juggling directly impacts health.
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Well but he’s not Joe Biden
The media's complete lack of curiosity over our nearly 80 year old President's health when he has permanent bruising on his right hand, swollen ankles, facial drooping, disappeared for days from public view twice in the last 2 months and just had an unexplained MRI is notable
October 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Well but he’s not Joe Biden
Pay to Plead, @claireraba.bsky.social and my article on California debt collection is available! Drawing on more than $2M debt collection cases covering 80% of CA's population from 2009-2020, we draw a detailed picture of how mass debt lawsuits operate as a regressive system of wealth transfer. 1/3
Pay to Plead: Finding Unfairness and Abusive Practices in California Debt Collection Cases
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In this Article, we report on one of the largest in-depth studies of debt collection lawsuits ever attempted. We collect, normalize, and analyze a data s
papers.ssrn.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Pay to Plead, @claireraba.bsky.social and my article on California debt collection is available! Drawing on more than $2M debt collection cases covering 80% of CA's population from 2009-2020, we draw a detailed picture of how mass debt lawsuits operate as a regressive system of wealth transfer. 1/3
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Big tech firms are shutting down programs aimed at supporting women in STEM careers. Signaling once again that the spine of corporate America is as hollow as its pockets are deep.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...
‘Their history is just erased’: Google drops a key program for boosting women in tech | CNN Business
Google is offloading a key career resource program for supporting women in tech, another sign the search giant is unwinding its diversity programs following political pressure over diversity, equity a...
www.cnn.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Big tech firms are shutting down programs aimed at supporting women in STEM careers. Signaling once again that the spine of corporate America is as hollow as its pockets are deep.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...
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We’re not living beyond our means. We’re surviving beyond our wages.
My article for the November issue of @newrepublic.com looks at the consumer debt crisis—a story that the news media has struggled to adequately cover.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
My article for the November issue of @newrepublic.com looks at the consumer debt crisis—a story that the news media has struggled to adequately cover.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
The Invisible Economic Crisis
With consumer debt at record levels, the United States is sleepwalking toward disaster.
newrepublic.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We’re not living beyond our means. We’re surviving beyond our wages.
My article for the November issue of @newrepublic.com looks at the consumer debt crisis—a story that the news media has struggled to adequately cover.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
My article for the November issue of @newrepublic.com looks at the consumer debt crisis—a story that the news media has struggled to adequately cover.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
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Portable air filters clean indoor air from smoke, dust, pet dander, viruses, and more. They are cheap & simple to make — I’ve built several — and nearly silent to run. *There is no downside.* Should be in every workplace, community space, school, daycare, medical facility, & home.
In our short existence, The Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation has issued 58 grants providing healthier indoor air to 30,000 ppl.
The Foundation aims to substantially increase these benefits to under-resourced schools over the next several months.
Please consider helping us: givebutter.com/buildabox2025
The Foundation aims to substantially increase these benefits to under-resourced schools over the next several months.
Please consider helping us: givebutter.com/buildabox2025
Build a Box Campaign
Help Us Bring Clean Air to More Classrooms
givebutter.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Portable air filters clean indoor air from smoke, dust, pet dander, viruses, and more. They are cheap & simple to make — I’ve built several — and nearly silent to run. *There is no downside.* Should be in every workplace, community space, school, daycare, medical facility, & home.
but also rather than a public consciousness, also very very bad
I think the theory that there is now a consumer class consciousness rather than a working class consciousness is basically descriptively correct, and also that this is very, very, very bad.
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
but also rather than a public consciousness, also very very bad
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Thoughts with everyone in Jamaica and Haiti as they face potentially the most catastrophic category 5 hurricane in history with ‘unprecedented’ torrential rainfall & winds of 145 mph
October 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Thoughts with everyone in Jamaica and Haiti as they face potentially the most catastrophic category 5 hurricane in history with ‘unprecedented’ torrential rainfall & winds of 145 mph
important read.
An understated reason figures like Newsom are so dangerous is because what really advances the most violently reactionary parts of the American state aren't just the openly far-right rulers, it's their successors entrenching what they did. Newsom types aren't an end to fascism but its completion. 🧵
October 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
important read.
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He will go down in American History as the worst Chief Justice, who took rights away, as opposed to expanding them. A complete failure...
The Roberts Court is anti-democratic.
Say it loudly and frequently so they know we see them.
Say it loudly and frequently so they know we see them.
October 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
He will go down in American History as the worst Chief Justice, who took rights away, as opposed to expanding them. A complete failure...
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I just want every person to consider this in its distilled form.
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The President of the United States is unilaterally levying a tax on every citizen because he didn't like a commercial.
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The President of the United States is unilaterally levying a tax on every citizen because he didn't like a commercial.
President Trump said that he is raising tariffs on Canadian imports, citing a TV ad in the U.S. that features President Reagan criticizing tariffs. https://wapo.st/431CadI
October 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I just want every person to consider this in its distilled form.
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The President of the United States is unilaterally levying a tax on every citizen because he didn't like a commercial.
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The President of the United States is unilaterally levying a tax on every citizen because he didn't like a commercial.
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We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
October 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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At what point when you’re paying troops with your own private money do they not just become mercenaries
October 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
At what point when you’re paying troops with your own private money do they not just become mercenaries
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I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?
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Test run for 2026. Here's what I wrote in the NY Times about the federal government potentially interfering with the 2026 elections and what we need to do about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
October 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Test run for 2026. Here's what I wrote in the NY Times about the federal government potentially interfering with the 2026 elections and what we need to do about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
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Guess which race of federal worker these government shutdowns harms disproportionately.
Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay.
It's supposed to be payday for many federal workers. Instead, they're getting nothing
Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay.
n.pr
October 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Guess which race of federal worker these government shutdowns harms disproportionately.
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
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My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!