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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley.substack.com

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."

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Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis

Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.

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September 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM

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holden m. accountable

@noahs.bsky.social

THE MEME IS REAL

September 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM

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southpaw

@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

Isaac Chotiner interviews Cass Sunstein. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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In terms of human rights, I've always found it a little bit puzzling, given what you write, and given who your wife is, that you two were so close to Henry Kissinger. Of all the pre-Trump political figures in America, he is the one I think of as in some ways the opposite of liberal, given his behavior toward the rest of the world.
I'll tell you a story. I wrote a book a few years ago on Star Wars. We invited Dr.
Kissinger to my Star Wars book party, and he said, "You wrote a book about Star Wars? Why'd you write a book about Star Wars?" He was puzzled and courteous, but really confused. And then he came to the book party, which was quite generous. He was a busy person.
But, despite his busyness, he came to the book party.
Yeah, and then I gave a talk on Star Wars, and he came up to me afterward and he said, "Oh, I see why you wrote a book on Star Wars. There's a lot there.
It's, like, about families and it's about governments and freedom." The amount of curiosity and generosity that he showed was incomparable. I don't know anyone who showed that level of curiosity and generosity. And we really got into Star Wars. He just wanted to think about it. I know there are strong views about his career, and I'm hardly an expert on his career.

But your wife is one of the great human-rights experts in the world. I asked you about him being anti-liberal, and your response was that he was very nice to you about your book.
About Star Wars.
It is certainly a touching story. But that's not totally an answer to the question.
Yeah. Well, I don't know. What he would think of this book I'd love to know.
But no second thoughts about being friends with him or anything?
I feel generally very grateful for friendship, and he was, when I knew him, a person of immense kindness.
Those who think of him as someone who was something horrible or worse, 1 don't know what to say about that.

But you could have an opinion on it.
You have an opinion on all kinds of things, right?
Well, on him and his role in
government, that's not something I've particularly studied, so I don't know. I know some people who think he was a horrible historic figure. They would say,
"Would you be friends with Genghis Khan? Would you be friends with Stalin?" And I wouldn't be friends with Stalin, so I concede that.
Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides.
Yeah. And I get those who think you shouldn't be friends with someone who did terrible things. I hear that. I can just say that he was, as a very large number of people would say, though many fewer would say it publicly, an extraordinarily generous friend.
Professor, thank you so much for doing this.
Great, thanks. If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn't complain, because it could dwarf everything else. *

September 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM

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Luke Herrine

@lookheron.bsky.social

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CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!

LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.

lawandpoliticaleconomy.org

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Association of Law & Political Economy

Call for Papers: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference

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July 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM

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Illan wall

@illanwall.bsky.social

The Transnational Association of Legal Scholars has reopened its Academy - this is a week-long, intensive, online training for a selected 16 grad students. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/14/c...

CfP: TALS Academy in Advanced Legal Research

Applications close 23 August 2025; Workshop 8-12 December 2025. The Transnational Association of Legal Scholars (TALS) is a group of legal

criticallegalthinking.com

July 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM

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Ntina Tzouvala

@ntinatzouvala.bsky.social

Comrades! Friends! Nemeses! The CfP for the annual meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies is open until next Friday, 11th of July. Send us your abstracts on all things law, political economy and modern authoritarianism.

The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.

July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM

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Trish Greenhalgh

@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · Jun 21

The BBC & Telegraph are trailing Wes Streeting’s technophile health plans, including genomic mapping at birth.
Is this really gonna transform the NHS into a prevention service within 10 yrs, as Wes claims? For v rare genetic conditions, praps. But for the real burden of disease?

Thoughts, #medsky?

June 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM

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The Shovel

@theshovel.bsky.social

The Fair Work Commission’s decision to increase the minimum wage from $24.10 to $24.94 an hour could have the unintended consequence of providing workers with the necessary money to buy food and water, business leaders have cautioned.

Minimum Wage Hike Could Lift People out of Poverty, Business Groups Warn — The Shovel

“How can corporations be expected to run their businesses if they are forced to pay their workers enough to live off? It’s not sustainable"

theshovel.com.au

June 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM

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Jeremy Corbyn

@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social

The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees.

They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires.

If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.

May 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM

James Gilchrist Stewart

@jgstewart.bsky.social

@osmanfaruqi.bsky.social - what TV show did you “recommend” at the cancelling culture talk on Friday?

May 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM

James Gilchrist Stewart

@jgstewart.bsky.social

Thoroughly enjoying Bill Shorten’s live sighs and eye-rolls.

May 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM

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Haymarket Books

@haymarketbooks.org

Karl Marx was right.

Karl Marx Was Right: A Reading List

Karl Marx was right about the cruelty and irrationality of the capitalist system, and the economic and political crises inherent to its profit-above-all model. Marx's writing has helped i...

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April 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM

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Autimn Hodgfall

@timhodgson.bsky.social

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

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April 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM

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Greg Jericho

@grogsgamut.bsky.social

Want to talk about tax? Ok here's a starting point

Let's go. All things on the table.

Chart showing that in 2023-24 Australians paid $5,103m in HECS/HELP while gas companies paid $1,144m in PRRT

March 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM

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John Bull

@garius.bsky.social

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.

But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. 1/28

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July 30, 2024 at 7:50 AM

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The Australia Institute

@australiainstitute.org.au

If someone on an income better than 80% of Australians is unable to save for a median-priced house, then something is very, very wrong. But that's exactly the situation we're in.

@grogsgamut.bsky.social column is a sobering read for anyone trying to buy a home. #auspol

Gone are the days when a ‘good job’ gets you a house – and now we have the data to prove it | Greg Jericho

Remember Joe Hockey’s claim 10 years ago? We put it to the test and guess what: even after a decade of saving, you still wouldn’t have enough for a deposit

www.theguardian.com

March 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM

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Rob Knox

@pashukanist.bsky.social

Part of capitalism's necessary viciousness is that it is a system that it is simultaneously a system that happens behind the backs of its participants, but creates social forms which continualy attributes conscious responsibility to those same participants.

March 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM

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Queer Judgments Project

@queerjudgments.bsky.social

Next month, UNSW Law and UNSW Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law will be hosting a book launch for Queer Judgments. It will take place in person on Tuesday 15th April at 4pm. Please share and join us if you’re around!

Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/queer-judg...

#LawSky #AcademicSky 🌈🎓

Queer Judgments Book Launch

Co-hosted by UNSW Law & Justice and the UNSW Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law

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March 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM

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Grace Blakeley

@graceblakeley.substack.com

Why capitalism and democracy don’t mix…

Me on @oxfamgb.bsky.social Equals Podcast

February 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM

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Corinne Blalock

@corinneblalock.bsky.social

Folks from across the LPE landscape are coming together to create an LPE Association (democratic, membership-based, dues-paying), which will launch at the first ever NATIONAL LPE CONFERENCE!!

Save the date Sept 11-13!!

law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau...

Inaugural Law and Political Economy Association Conference - School of Law - University of Richmond

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February 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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Haymarket Books

@haymarketbooks.org

If you missed tonight’s town hall with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social on resisting the shock and awe politics of the far right and their billionaire enthusiasts, you can watch the video here: