Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
@profciara.bsky.social
Law professor & book author of Corporatocracy, Political Brands & Corporate Citizen; Brennan Center fellow; board of CREW; campaign finance expert. Podcaster of Democracy & Destiny. I’m a lawyer not your lawyer. https://soundcloud.com/profciara #beans
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👋Hello, to my new followers!
So glad we’re all here together. I’m a law professor who works on the intersection of corporate law and election law. I write about corruption. If you have a podcast I’d love to talk about my new book 📖 Corporatocracy. 🥰https://nyupress.org/9781479828326/corporatocracy/
So glad we’re all here together. I’m a law professor who works on the intersection of corporate law and election law. I write about corruption. If you have a podcast I’d love to talk about my new book 📖 Corporatocracy. 🥰https://nyupress.org/9781479828326/corporatocracy/
I learned about this 👇🏾 when I was 18 and I was interning at a title insurance company. I sat through a presentation about what mortgage interest rates mean and I was flummoxed that most people pay twice the sticker price or more for their home after compounded interest. #compound #interest
Every U.S. consumer, please pretty please educate yourself about compounding interest. 💵💳🚙
“Hear me out, 15-year car loans.. Americans pay $300 less each month on a $50,000 car but over the 15 years we make an extra $20,000 each.”
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Every U.S. consumer, please pretty please educate yourself about compounding interest. 💵💳🚙
“Hear me out, 15-year car loans.. Americans pay $300 less each month on a $50,000 car but over the 15 years we make an extra $20,000 each.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Every U.S. consumer, please pretty please educate yourself about compounding interest. 💵💳🚙
Dude. First Amendment much? ⚖️👇🏾
4 UC Berkeley undergrads who put up a cardboard insect to protest Turning P*int USA’s sold out campus event are being charged with FELONY VANDALISM.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.
www.dailycal.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Dude. First Amendment much? ⚖️👇🏾
There were already 50 year mortgages in places like San Francisco. It means the house “buyers” never actually own the house. You’re just renting from the bank instead from a landlord. Think twice before you do this to yourself. In some markets there is little choice. But in many walk away. 🏠💸
The proposal was met with a mixed reception from critics.
Trump Admin Says It’s Working On 50-Year Mortgages—Here’s What Buyers Could Pay
The proposal was met with a mixed reception from critics.
www.forbes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
There were already 50 year mortgages in places like San Francisco. It means the house “buyers” never actually own the house. You’re just renting from the bank instead from a landlord. Think twice before you do this to yourself. In some markets there is little choice. But in many walk away. 🏠💸
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NEW: Jan 6 riot defendant arrested outside a Burger King in Cicero, Illinois.
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
High-profile Jan. 6 defendant facing charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting woman
John Banuelos' case was unique among Capitol riot prosecutions because he was the only defendant accused of pulling and firing a gun while on Capitol grounds.
www.cbsnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
NEW: Jan 6 riot defendant arrested outside a Burger King in Cicero, Illinois.
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
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Oh wow. Who could've ever seen this coming?
"Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies"
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
"Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies"
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies
abcnews.go.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Oh wow. Who could've ever seen this coming?
"Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies"
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
"Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies"
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
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Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
If you want more of my labradoodle’s adventures, he has a recurring feature in my podcast Democracy & Destiny. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... #dogsky #podsky #beans 🐕🐾🎧
Democracy & Destiny
Education Podcast · Updated Weekly · This is the new podcast by Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you want more of my labradoodle’s adventures, he has a recurring feature in my podcast Democracy & Destiny. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... #dogsky #podsky #beans 🐕🐾🎧
Science is hard. 🧭🤦🏽♀️
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Science is hard. 🧭🤦🏽♀️
He loved the attention from the law students. He’s a huge flirt. 😍🐕
As the saying goes, ‘Labradoodles love the law’
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
He loved the attention from the law students. He’s a huge flirt. 😍🐕
Buffett is 95.
With enough money for health care one can live a long long time.....
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Buffett is 95.
Upside of no money, you have no incentive to wish your wealthy father would just kick the bucket already. 😉💸
Buffett’s children are now ages 72, 70 and 67.
Warren Buffett Says He Will ‘Step Up’ Pace Of Fortune Disbursements To His Children’s Foundations
Buffett’s children are now ages 72, 70 and 67.
www.forbes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Upside of no money, you have no incentive to wish your wealthy father would just kick the bucket already. 😉💸
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Gorgeous! Here's my tiny little thing!
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Gorgeous! Here's my tiny little thing!
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He stayed up all night preparing his talking points and demands equal time.
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
He stayed up all night preparing his talking points and demands equal time.
I brought my 100 pound chocolate labradoodle to campus to help with stress. Here he in my office by my The Art of Justice poster that I got when I was sworn into the NYS bar and my Pay 2 Play poster from John Wellington Ennis’s documentary in which I have a cameo. ⚖️🎞️🐕
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I brought my 100 pound chocolate labradoodle to campus to help with stress. Here he in my office by my The Art of Justice poster that I got when I was sworn into the NYS bar and my Pay 2 Play poster from John Wellington Ennis’s documentary in which I have a cameo. ⚖️🎞️🐕
Friendly reminder a president has no power to pardon state crimes. That power is held by a state’s governor. 📜⚖️
a poster that says " we the people " on it
ALT: a poster that says " we the people " on it
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Friendly reminder a president has no power to pardon state crimes. That power is held by a state’s governor. 📜⚖️
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For coming from a party that loves to crow about supporting small business, Trump’s cuts to the ACA are the biggest attack on small business people imaginable
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
For coming from a party that loves to crow about supporting small business, Trump’s cuts to the ACA are the biggest attack on small business people imaginable
Two possibilities neither one is good:
1. He has awful lawyers around him who mistakenly told him he can pardon state crimes (spoiler he can’t) or
2. He is trying to unconstitutionally pardon criminal codefendants in the Georgia criminal case.
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1. He has awful lawyers around him who mistakenly told him he can pardon state crimes (spoiler he can’t) or
2. He is trying to unconstitutionally pardon criminal codefendants in the Georgia criminal case.
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Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Two possibilities neither one is good:
1. He has awful lawyers around him who mistakenly told him he can pardon state crimes (spoiler he can’t) or
2. He is trying to unconstitutionally pardon criminal codefendants in the Georgia criminal case.
⚖️‼️
1. He has awful lawyers around him who mistakenly told him he can pardon state crimes (spoiler he can’t) or
2. He is trying to unconstitutionally pardon criminal codefendants in the Georgia criminal case.
⚖️‼️
Reposted by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
Weird that Schumer & Mamdani are from the same place. Maybe the difference is Schumer is 74 and Mamdani is 40 years younger and has his whole life in front of him.
a man in a colorful jacket says things that make you go hmmm
ALT: a man in a colorful jacket says things that make you go hmmm
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Weird that Schumer & Mamdani are from the same place. Maybe the difference is Schumer is 74 and Mamdani is 40 years younger and has his whole life in front of him.