James Fallows Tierney
@jamesftierney.bsky.social
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 ≠ IIT. DSA Fund board 🌹🤝, Rstats, NLP, Phish dad, etc. Semper ubi sub ubi.
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Does man who spends 14 hours a day posting deserve one trillion dollars? Many posters say the matter is complicated.
Elon Musk wants a pay package worth $1 trillion.
But an emerging group of opponents argue the package is excessive, and some say Musk’s political and side ventures have put the company at risk.
But an emerging group of opponents argue the package is excessive, and some say Musk’s political and side ventures have put the company at risk.
Elon Musk’s ultimatum to Tesla: Make me a trillionaire or I may leave
A proposed pay package could make Tesla CEO Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, but it faces resistance from shareholders and critics who say it’s unearned.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Does man who spends 14 hours a day posting deserve one trillion dollars? Many posters say the matter is complicated.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
Folks I’m workshopping a joke which takes the last section of my weekly newsletter to students:
😂 Borrowed from “Dad Jokes to Make Your 8 Year Old Groan"
I was trying out a joke about retirement.
It did not work.
😂 Borrowed from “Dad Jokes to Make Your 8 Year Old Groan"
I was trying out a joke about retirement.
It did not work.
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Folks I’m workshopping a joke which takes the last section of my weekly newsletter to students:
😂 Borrowed from “Dad Jokes to Make Your 8 Year Old Groan"
I was trying out a joke about retirement.
It did not work.
😂 Borrowed from “Dad Jokes to Make Your 8 Year Old Groan"
I was trying out a joke about retirement.
It did not work.
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Oh god, home internet service disruption during a WFH day. Nightmare
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Oh god, home internet service disruption during a WFH day. Nightmare
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This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame:
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame:
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
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-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together.
-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.
-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.
-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together.
-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.
-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.
-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
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Fuck it, man, join DSA. Eat these losers alive or die.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Fuck it, man, join DSA. Eat these losers alive or die.
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Back in the 1950s, law schools apparently received inquiries (from potential applicants, I assume?) that sometimes included a lot of questions. Here, Dean Prosser of UC Berkeley imagines a reply.
jle.aals.org/home/vol10/i...
jle.aals.org/home/vol10/i...
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Back in the 1950s, law schools apparently received inquiries (from potential applicants, I assume?) that sometimes included a lot of questions. Here, Dean Prosser of UC Berkeley imagines a reply.
jle.aals.org/home/vol10/i...
jle.aals.org/home/vol10/i...
My son and his friends watching the Bears game: 6-7 Bruh!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My son and his friends watching the Bears game: 6-7 Bruh!!!!
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This may be a long shot but: Is anyone on here an expert the laws relating to Illinois non-profit corporations? I'm particularly interested in what information on such groups the public is entitled to.
I searched here and the results are pretty threadbare (no officers list, no documents, etc.):
I searched here and the results are pretty threadbare (no officers list, no documents, etc.):
apps.ilsos.gov
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This may be a long shot but: Is anyone on here an expert the laws relating to Illinois non-profit corporations? I'm particularly interested in what information on such groups the public is entitled to.
I searched here and the results are pretty threadbare (no officers list, no documents, etc.):
I searched here and the results are pretty threadbare (no officers list, no documents, etc.):
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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For #adlaw folks: Due to logistical issues from the federal gov't shutdown, ABA Admin Law has replaced its usual fall conference with a shorter but free online event on 11/21. Registration is required, but it's 6.5 hrs of free, quality CLE on admin law topics.
events.americanbar.org/event/a13a77...
events.americanbar.org/event/a13a77...
2025 Administrative Law Fall Conference
events.americanbar.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
For #adlaw folks: Due to logistical issues from the federal gov't shutdown, ABA Admin Law has replaced its usual fall conference with a shorter but free online event on 11/21. Registration is required, but it's 6.5 hrs of free, quality CLE on admin law topics.
events.americanbar.org/event/a13a77...
events.americanbar.org/event/a13a77...
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Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
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My 7yo son: “what’s cap’n jazz”
Me: “well first of all we have to get you to the rainbo club in wicker park”
Me: “well first of all we have to get you to the rainbo club in wicker park”
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
My 7yo son: “what’s cap’n jazz”
Me: “well first of all we have to get you to the rainbo club in wicker park”
Me: “well first of all we have to get you to the rainbo club in wicker park”
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This is also the case with the Austin Powers franchise. If made today, it would be a comedy about a spy who went into suspended animation in 1997.
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This is also the case with the Austin Powers franchise. If made today, it would be a comedy about a spy who went into suspended animation in 1997.
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One lesson of the Sandwich Guy Case is now more than ever when you are called to jury duty you should go
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
One lesson of the Sandwich Guy Case is now more than ever when you are called to jury duty you should go
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I read this and immediately thought “well that would actually be awesome because then Marty can go back to the 90s where he probably had a really awesome time as a teenager” and then I was like oh wait his PARENTS would have been teenagers in the 90s and then I just sat here for like 45 minutes
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I read this and immediately thought “well that would actually be awesome because then Marty can go back to the 90s where he probably had a really awesome time as a teenager” and then I was like oh wait his PARENTS would have been teenagers in the 90s and then I just sat here for like 45 minutes
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How do we feel these days about the case of the Speluncean Explorers?
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
How do we feel these days about the case of the Speluncean Explorers?
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In an effort to improve efficiency as associate dean, I am thinking of starting to respond to emails like SDNY judges do letter rulings — handwriting the decision on a printout of the email
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In an effort to improve efficiency as associate dean, I am thinking of starting to respond to emails like SDNY judges do letter rulings — handwriting the decision on a printout of the email
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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Every time I see a story premised on the presumably surprising idea of rotund, happy-looking whales holding their own against mean, scary-looking sharks, I feel compelled to remind people that orcas WEAR A DISGUISE. The orca is the ONE WHO KNOCKS.
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Every time I see a story premised on the presumably surprising idea of rotund, happy-looking whales holding their own against mean, scary-looking sharks, I feel compelled to remind people that orcas WEAR A DISGUISE. The orca is the ONE WHO KNOCKS.