Sarang Shah
@sarangshah.com
now: lawyer + politics phd candidate @ UC Berkeley
soon: Columbia Law School fellow at Public Economic Law Project
Corp law + governance, political economy, democracy + money in politics, housing
past: physicist, tech writer, journalist
taoist in SF
soon: Columbia Law School fellow at Public Economic Law Project
Corp law + governance, political economy, democracy + money in politics, housing
past: physicist, tech writer, journalist
taoist in SF
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Sarang Shah
@sarangshah.com
· Jul 22
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
Who Wants #Stakeholder #Capitalism? Public & Elite Perceptions of the Role of #Business #Leaders in #Politics
By @eitanhersh.bsky.social & @sarangshah.com
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Who Wants #Stakeholder #Capitalism? Public & Elite Perceptions of the Role of #Business #Leaders in #Politics
By @eitanhersh.bsky.social & @sarangshah.com
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Pleased to share our new paper now out in Perspectives on Politics! Happy to discuss and looking forward to hearing thoughts and suggestions for further research.
I think I've finally arrived at a viable framework for the law and political economy of corporations suitable for the ruins of neoliberalism
January 8, 2026 at 4:45 AM
I think I've finally arrived at a viable framework for the law and political economy of corporations suitable for the ruins of neoliberalism
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It’s absolutely the right call and fucking surreal that our public schools have to close because of the threat posed by OUR OWN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. I am beyond livid.
This the right call.
Please check in with neighbors who may need support with childcare.
Please check in with neighbors who may need support with childcare.
January 8, 2026 at 3:05 AM
It’s absolutely the right call and fucking surreal that our public schools have to close because of the threat posed by OUR OWN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. I am beyond livid.
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Every damn Democratic congressperson should be physically standing together on the steps of the Capitol and demanding an end to this deadly abuse. Are they really unable to fight back against this despicable propaganda used to justify the killing by ICE and supported by Noem and Trump?
Kristi Noem accuses the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis of committing an act of "domestic terrorism"
January 8, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Every damn Democratic congressperson should be physically standing together on the steps of the Capitol and demanding an end to this deadly abuse. Are they really unable to fight back against this despicable propaganda used to justify the killing by ICE and supported by Noem and Trump?
He looks so unwell here
Rep. Steny Hoyer, who spent two decades as the number-two Democrat in the House, tells the Washington Post he will not seek reelection. Hoyer, 86, jokes of his retirement, "At this young age, it’s probably premature."
Rep. Steny Hoyer to retire, ending storied career in elected office
Maryland’s longest serving member of Congress won’t seek reelection after having spent two decades as the No. 2 House Democrat.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:26 AM
He looks so unwell here
Also no surprise that Roman Law, as received and interpreted through the Digests, Justinian Institutes, etc., has proven so versatile for so many years in structuring everything from domestic private rights of property and contract to the international law of commerce
Legitimately incredible how complex the ancient Roman economy was
January 8, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Also no surprise that Roman Law, as received and interpreted through the Digests, Justinian Institutes, etc., has proven so versatile for so many years in structuring everything from domestic private rights of property and contract to the international law of commerce
This is indeed how we should emotionally receive the violence the regime inflicts on our neighbors.
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 3:10 AM
This is indeed how we should emotionally receive the violence the regime inflicts on our neighbors.
For folks who have only read Leviathan, Hobbes's De Cive [On the Citizen] makes the point even more explicit, that all sovereign power derives from the people who have relinquished the natural right to self-preservation in favor of the protection afforded by the rule of law.
Funny how this fails even the desperately lacking Hobbesian test for whether a sovereign is upholding the social contract.
January 8, 2026 at 2:48 AM
For folks who have only read Leviathan, Hobbes's De Cive [On the Citizen] makes the point even more explicit, that all sovereign power derives from the people who have relinquished the natural right to self-preservation in favor of the protection afforded by the rule of law.
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The U.S. is basically a rogue state at this point www.state.gov/releases/202...
Withdrawal from Wasteful, Ineffective, or Harmful International Organizations - United States Department of State
Today, in furtherance of Executive Order 14199, President Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organizations identified as part of the Trump Administration’s revie...
www.state.gov
January 8, 2026 at 1:52 AM
The U.S. is basically a rogue state at this point www.state.gov/releases/202...
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The image of the blood-soaked airbag next to the glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals is going to stick with me for a very long time.
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
The image of the blood-soaked airbag next to the glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals is going to stick with me for a very long time.
Is it possible to squeeze California in there too?
January 8, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Is it possible to squeeze California in there too?
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it takes a lot to rouse the militant spirit of normie america and turn bourgeois liberals into de facto revolutionaries. but it’s not a hypothetical. it’s happened before in this country. and every time it does, the country is fundamentally and irrevocably changed by it.
January 8, 2026 at 1:45 AM
it takes a lot to rouse the militant spirit of normie america and turn bourgeois liberals into de facto revolutionaries. but it’s not a hypothetical. it’s happened before in this country. and every time it does, the country is fundamentally and irrevocably changed by it.
Incidentally, my folks have recently begun questioning the inordinate pressure Desi parents have placed on their children to pursue STEM, get wealthy, and live conservative lifestyles given the spate of prominent bad desis lately...
January 8, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Incidentally, my folks have recently begun questioning the inordinate pressure Desi parents have placed on their children to pursue STEM, get wealthy, and live conservative lifestyles given the spate of prominent bad desis lately...
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I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
The DNC (or some appropriate centralized party institution) should have the ability to enforce "Democrats" and "Democratic Party" as a trademark
honestly such a shame that the DNC is mostly an hollow institution to move money around between PACs because Ken Martin does know ball and has built a good comms team
ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
January 8, 2026 at 2:08 AM
The DNC (or some appropriate centralized party institution) should have the ability to enforce "Democrats" and "Democratic Party" as a trademark
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Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.
Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.
January 7, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.
If every accusation is a confession, goddamn
Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"
January 8, 2026 at 12:44 AM
If every accusation is a confession, goddamn
I've been obsessed with this great book by Michael Wilrich called City of Courts that basically traces the history of the expansion of Chicago's court system, which was expanded so much that it basically became a giant, quick, efficient system of administration, a proto-admin state.
January 8, 2026 at 12:42 AM
I've been obsessed with this great book by Michael Wilrich called City of Courts that basically traces the history of the expansion of Chicago's court system, which was expanded so much that it basically became a giant, quick, efficient system of administration, a proto-admin state.
If this happens, I hope California and other states form a solidarity pact with Minnesota to challenge the federal government's illegal actions any way they can. Because if they succeed in picking on MN, CA, IL, NY, CO, and more are next.
Dr Oz threatens to pull Medicaid support for Minnesota: "Sticking to the narrative that's cold in Minnesota -- this is the tip of the iceberg"
January 8, 2026 at 12:39 AM
If this happens, I hope California and other states form a solidarity pact with Minnesota to challenge the federal government's illegal actions any way they can. Because if they succeed in picking on MN, CA, IL, NY, CO, and more are next.
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yep, i kind of think you can use supreme court reform as a vehicle through which to do a large, and necessary, expansion of the entire federal judiciary
"Expand the number and types of inferior judicial officers like magistrate judges and bankruptcy judges overseen by district courts, which are also tripled in size," more and more people are saying.
massively increase the number of immigration judges, make them real courts, and give as many people as possible clean in-out decisions within in 90 days is the 'install linux, problem solved' of immigration issues in that the solution is not really complicated, it's just really hard
January 8, 2026 at 12:36 AM
yep, i kind of think you can use supreme court reform as a vehicle through which to do a large, and necessary, expansion of the entire federal judiciary
So is ICE a roving gang of thugs now
I am outside Roosevelt now, my daughter goes there. Talked to staff, ICE was in a car pursuit of someone and they crashed and went up on school property. Teachers formed a circle around the person to protect them. Ice releases tear gas and took two people
We are getting reports of Border Patrol activity near Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis that happened during dismissal time today. Bystanders say officers shoved, tackled bystanders and handcuffed 2 school staff
January 7, 2026 at 11:34 PM
So is ICE a roving gang of thugs now
I trust Ellison on this one. He's also the only person to ever tell me point blank I should quit my job because I deserved and was capable of better.
Keith Ellison on Kristi Noem blatantly lying about the circumstances of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis: "It's just deeply heartbreaking to see a person responsible for safety and enforcement of American law make such a brazenly false statement. It is truly sad for our democracy."
January 7, 2026 at 11:33 PM
I trust Ellison on this one. He's also the only person to ever tell me point blank I should quit my job because I deserved and was capable of better.
Very disappointing www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment
Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Very disappointing www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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If the headline is "disputed shooting" rather than straightforwardly telling the public what happened this rewards the DHS for lying about these events
January 7, 2026 at 7:57 PM
If the headline is "disputed shooting" rather than straightforwardly telling the public what happened this rewards the DHS for lying about these events
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UPDATE — Solidarity protests and vigils will take place in Chicago tonight.
“We will not stop fighting until ICE is out of all our cities,” the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression wrote on its Instagram page.
thetriibe.com/2026/01/live...
“We will not stop fighting until ICE is out of all our cities,” the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression wrote on its Instagram page.
thetriibe.com/2026/01/live...
LIVE: ICE fatally shot woman in Minneapolis; Chicago will protest tonight in solidarity • The TRiiBE
Witnesses say the woman was a legal observer who was trying to drive away from agents when she was shot.
thetriibe.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
UPDATE — Solidarity protests and vigils will take place in Chicago tonight.
“We will not stop fighting until ICE is out of all our cities,” the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression wrote on its Instagram page.
thetriibe.com/2026/01/live...
“We will not stop fighting until ICE is out of all our cities,” the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression wrote on its Instagram page.
thetriibe.com/2026/01/live...
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they murdered Ms. Good.
"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
‘She was an amazing human being:’ Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:01 PM
they murdered Ms. Good.