Luke Herrine
@lookheron.bsky.social
Asst Prof, Alabama Law. Formerly: LPE Blog, Debt Collective.
Consumer law, consumer finance, market governance, law and political economy
Consumer law, consumer finance, market governance, law and political economy
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Conlaw folks, approx what percentage of experts do you think are convinced that OPM or OI actually supports:
1 unitary executive
2 non-delegation
3 individual 2A?
1 unitary executive
2 non-delegation
3 individual 2A?
February 17, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Conlaw folks, approx what percentage of experts do you think are convinced that OPM or OI actually supports:
1 unitary executive
2 non-delegation
3 individual 2A?
1 unitary executive
2 non-delegation
3 individual 2A?
We're believe in FREEDOM down here in Alabama.
The legislation followed recent civil unrest and sought to penalize individuals who refused orders to stay 25 feet from active scenes.
#alpolitics
#alpolitics
State Sen. April Weaver introduces bill to criminalize “interference with a first responder”
The legislation followed recent civil unrest and sought to penalize individuals who refused orders to stay 25 feet from active scenes.
buff.ly
February 17, 2026 at 2:49 PM
We're believe in FREEDOM down here in Alabama.
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President Trump’s so-called Department of War is threatening to cut ties with Anthropic because it won’t help the Pentagon conduct mass surveillance on Americans.
It warned Anthropic it will “pay a price” if it continues to demand its products have safeguards. trib.al/rDDI5h3
It warned Anthropic it will “pay a price” if it continues to demand its products have safeguards. trib.al/rDDI5h3
February 17, 2026 at 2:41 PM
President Trump’s so-called Department of War is threatening to cut ties with Anthropic because it won’t help the Pentagon conduct mass surveillance on Americans.
It warned Anthropic it will “pay a price” if it continues to demand its products have safeguards. trib.al/rDDI5h3
It warned Anthropic it will “pay a price” if it continues to demand its products have safeguards. trib.al/rDDI5h3
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I have a new @lpeproject.bsky.social essay out that offers a framework for teasing apart three discrete and cascading layers of “media capture” that produce censorship, exclusion, and democratic failure in our information and communication systems. lpeproject.org/blog/the-ame...
The American Media Polycrisis: Cascading Layers of Capture
In countries facing democratic backsliding, attention often centers on state capture of the press. Recent U.S. media failures, however, demand a wider lens. Authoritarian encroachment here rests on…
lpeproject.org
February 17, 2026 at 1:04 PM
I have a new @lpeproject.bsky.social essay out that offers a framework for teasing apart three discrete and cascading layers of “media capture” that produce censorship, exclusion, and democratic failure in our information and communication systems. lpeproject.org/blog/the-ame...
Conlaw folks, approx what percentage of experts do you think are convinced that OPM or OI actually supports:
1 unitary executive
2 non-delegation
3 individual 2A?
1 unitary executive
2 non-delegation
3 individual 2A?
February 17, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Conlaw folks, approx what percentage of experts do you think are convinced that OPM or OI actually supports:
1 unitary executive
2 non-delegation
3 individual 2A?
1 unitary executive
2 non-delegation
3 individual 2A?
What if I told you the same people organizing for student debt cancellation also organize for medical debt and K-12 debt cancellation and for free public goods to replace all of them, & we were using every tool to take advantage of a brief window in which student debt cancellation became possible.
February 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM
What if I told you the same people organizing for student debt cancellation also organize for medical debt and K-12 debt cancellation and for free public goods to replace all of them, & we were using every tool to take advantage of a brief window in which student debt cancellation became possible.
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"Measured Labor Productivity Per Wage Unit Rises"
February 16, 2026 at 11:35 AM
"Measured Labor Productivity Per Wage Unit Rises"
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If Team Abundance is looking for rules and regulations that get in the way of all kinds of useful and life-improving work, they could start with patents and copyrights.
I keep hearing about "abundance." Anyone who claims to have an "abundance agenda" who doesn't talk about government-granted patent and copyright monopolies is a liar or a fool. These are deliberate policies designed to create scarcity cepr.net/publications...
My Abundance Agenda
A pragmatic plan for abundance: cutting monopolies, downsizing finance, reforming governance, and broadening opportunity for real shared prosperity.
cepr.net
February 16, 2026 at 12:50 PM
If Team Abundance is looking for rules and regulations that get in the way of all kinds of useful and life-improving work, they could start with patents and copyrights.
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Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
February 16, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
Violation! Practicing intellectual history without a license!
The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.
February 14, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Violation! Practicing intellectual history without a license!
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This looks like a bluff to me. Apple should call him on it.
Ferguson surely knows he's at the outer edges of the law here (as with the trans healthcare crackdown). He's an almost pure opportunist. He wants to intimidate without having to litigate so that Trump will appoint him to the bench.
Ferguson surely knows he's at the outer edges of the law here (as with the trans healthcare crackdown). He's an almost pure opportunist. He wants to intimidate without having to litigate so that Trump will appoint him to the bench.
"In a letter to chief executive Tim Cook, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson cited recent press coverage of a report from conservative media watchdog Media Research Center which claimed that Apple has promoted “leftist outlets” in its news feed."
www.ft.com/content/0c25...
www.ft.com/content/0c25...
Apple faces new tensions with Trump administration
US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show
www.ft.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
This looks like a bluff to me. Apple should call him on it.
Ferguson surely knows he's at the outer edges of the law here (as with the trans healthcare crackdown). He's an almost pure opportunist. He wants to intimidate without having to litigate so that Trump will appoint him to the bench.
Ferguson surely knows he's at the outer edges of the law here (as with the trans healthcare crackdown). He's an almost pure opportunist. He wants to intimidate without having to litigate so that Trump will appoint him to the bench.
Reposted by Luke Herrine
not to be all "all the publications I am involved with are doing really important things today" but also, it's true. JW Mason's piece up on the NYC Policy Forum today is an absolute must-read !!
nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/the-real-c...
nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/the-real-c...
The Real Cost of Affordable Housing | JW Mason
Understanding the debate over distressed buildings, multifamily rental incomes, and the rent freeze
nycpolicyforum.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:53 PM
not to be all "all the publications I am involved with are doing really important things today" but also, it's true. JW Mason's piece up on the NYC Policy Forum today is an absolute must-read !!
nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/the-real-c...
nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/the-real-c...
Isn't this a violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Shouldn't these doctors receive professional sanction?
From my reading, it seems impossible to have a miscarriage and not somehow run afoul of the law in abortion ban states
February 12, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Isn't this a violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Shouldn't these doctors receive professional sanction?
This looks like a bluff to me. Apple should call him on it.
Ferguson surely knows he's at the outer edges of the law here (as with the trans healthcare crackdown). He's an almost pure opportunist. He wants to intimidate without having to litigate so that Trump will appoint him to the bench.
Ferguson surely knows he's at the outer edges of the law here (as with the trans healthcare crackdown). He's an almost pure opportunist. He wants to intimidate without having to litigate so that Trump will appoint him to the bench.
"In a letter to chief executive Tim Cook, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson cited recent press coverage of a report from conservative media watchdog Media Research Center which claimed that Apple has promoted “leftist outlets” in its news feed."
www.ft.com/content/0c25...
www.ft.com/content/0c25...
Apple faces new tensions with Trump administration
US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show
www.ft.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
This looks like a bluff to me. Apple should call him on it.
Ferguson surely knows he's at the outer edges of the law here (as with the trans healthcare crackdown). He's an almost pure opportunist. He wants to intimidate without having to litigate so that Trump will appoint him to the bench.
Ferguson surely knows he's at the outer edges of the law here (as with the trans healthcare crackdown). He's an almost pure opportunist. He wants to intimidate without having to litigate so that Trump will appoint him to the bench.
Reposted by Luke Herrine
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
Google Handed ICE Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
theintercept.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:50 PM
jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
If I called this “A Gramscian Theory of Student Debt” would it place better or worse?
The first draft of my effort to theorize the political/coalitional characteristics of student debt is out for review.
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
February 11, 2026 at 12:39 PM
If I called this “A Gramscian Theory of Student Debt” would it place better or worse?
Reposted by Luke Herrine
The first draft of my effort to theorize the political/coalitional characteristics of student debt is out for review.
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
February 10, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The first draft of my effort to theorize the political/coalitional characteristics of student debt is out for review.
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
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There's something utterly exhausting about people who can't sense any moral or political difference between a critique of power and whining about their mentions. If you are complaining about "tankies" you are almost certainly doing the latter.
As someone who more or less agrees with a lot of left-liberal criticism of actually existing socialist foreign policy thinking in the US, I still find it silly that people on here like to pretend that Brett McGurk or Anthony Blinken have less influence than glup shitto who canvasses for PSL
February 10, 2026 at 7:46 PM
There's something utterly exhausting about people who can't sense any moral or political difference between a critique of power and whining about their mentions. If you are complaining about "tankies" you are almost certainly doing the latter.
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I've heard directly from hundreds of children at Dilley. One young girl who shared her story with me grew up in the United States and her stepfather is a U.S. citizen. She said that the guards are mean to her, she is afraid, and that she is worried she will die in detention.
February 10, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I've heard directly from hundreds of children at Dilley. One young girl who shared her story with me grew up in the United States and her stepfather is a U.S. citizen. She said that the guards are mean to her, she is afraid, and that she is worried she will die in detention.
The first draft of my effort to theorize the political/coalitional characteristics of student debt is out for review.
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
February 10, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The first draft of my effort to theorize the political/coalitional characteristics of student debt is out for review.
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions