Alan Neff
@alanneff.bsky.social
Law, current events, and/or humor. Lapsed litigator. Tiresome empiricist. Not terminally online, but asymptotically approaching it. BLUESKY user #: 1,492,816. He/him. My recent writing can be found here:
https://www.justsecurity.org/author/alanneff/
https://www.justsecurity.org/author/alanneff/
Today's terror-report from Chicago, America's Insurrection Epicenter (Trump Organization's TM ®️ pending):
Kite surfers above Montrose Beach.
The horror. The horror...
Kite surfers above Montrose Beach.
The horror. The horror...
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Today's terror-report from Chicago, America's Insurrection Epicenter (Trump Organization's TM ®️ pending):
Kite surfers above Montrose Beach.
The horror. The horror...
Kite surfers above Montrose Beach.
The horror. The horror...
October 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Says it all. From @gelliottmorris.com.
June 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Says it all. From @gelliottmorris.com.
Like most other voter-cohorts, young ♂️s have swung to net disapproval of Trump. Why didn't anyone tell them before the election that 🍊 would hurt their lives and prospects?
Oh, wait. [Closes computer, bangs head.]
Links to original data here: youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/the-first-...
Oh, wait. [Closes computer, bangs head.]
Links to original data here: youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/the-first-...
May 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Like most other voter-cohorts, young ♂️s have swung to net disapproval of Trump. Why didn't anyone tell them before the election that 🍊 would hurt their lives and prospects?
Oh, wait. [Closes computer, bangs head.]
Links to original data here: youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/the-first-...
Oh, wait. [Closes computer, bangs head.]
Links to original data here: youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/the-first-...
1. Deregulate the banks. (Source: www.reuters.com/business/fin...
2. Re-popularize adjustable-rate mortgages.
3. MAKE AMERICA 2008 AGAIN!
Cc: @aaronsojourner.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social
2. Re-popularize adjustable-rate mortgages.
3. MAKE AMERICA 2008 AGAIN!
Cc: @aaronsojourner.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
1. Deregulate the banks. (Source: www.reuters.com/business/fin...
2. Re-popularize adjustable-rate mortgages.
3. MAKE AMERICA 2008 AGAIN!
Cc: @aaronsojourner.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social
2. Re-popularize adjustable-rate mortgages.
3. MAKE AMERICA 2008 AGAIN!
Cc: @aaronsojourner.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social
Got my measles re-vaccine yesterday. Zero side-effects, so far as I can tell. I did that because a recent article said that people vaccinated w/ dead-virus vaccine should re-up now, because the current vaccine uses live virus and is more effective.
Source: www.yalemedicine.org/news/should-...
Source: www.yalemedicine.org/news/should-...
April 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Got my measles re-vaccine yesterday. Zero side-effects, so far as I can tell. I did that because a recent article said that people vaccinated w/ dead-virus vaccine should re-up now, because the current vaccine uses live virus and is more effective.
Source: www.yalemedicine.org/news/should-...
Source: www.yalemedicine.org/news/should-...
Why believe anything the Trump administration says?
April 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Why believe anything the Trump administration says?
As Judge Wilkinson put it yesterday in his opinion in the Abrego-Garcia case for a unanimous panel of the 4th Circuit:
April 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
As Judge Wilkinson put it yesterday in his opinion in the Abrego-Garcia case for a unanimous panel of the 4th Circuit:
Came for the racism. Stayed for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Came for the racism. Stayed for the racism.
Chicago, right now, in the Loop, next to Picasso's horse, or whatever it is.
April 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Chicago, right now, in the Loop, next to Picasso's horse, or whatever it is.
As of right now, folks:
April 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
As of right now, folks:
Conicdentally, I wrote this a little while ago.
April 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Conicdentally, I wrote this a little while ago.
Me and your cartoonist, having brunch in BKLN.
March 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Me and your cartoonist, having brunch in BKLN.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social reminding us why Dr. King broadened his agenda for change.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
January 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social reminding us why Dr. King broadened his agenda for change.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
A family note: our older son is in the new Netflix limited series "American Primeval." It premieres tomorrow.
January 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A family note: our older son is in the new Netflix limited series "American Primeval." It premieres tomorrow.
From @mikepod.bsky.social, specifically his long Substack post found at open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...
January 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
From @mikepod.bsky.social, specifically his long Substack post found at open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...
The data show a widespread anti-incumbent trend in the most recent elections. Serious Q: what else besides the pandemic and inflation did these countries have in common?
Also, see this table from Paul Krugman re vibecession. (From Michigan Consumer Survey before and after election). Thoughts?
Also, see this table from Paul Krugman re vibecession. (From Michigan Consumer Survey before and after election). Thoughts?
January 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The data show a widespread anti-incumbent trend in the most recent elections. Serious Q: what else besides the pandemic and inflation did these countries have in common?
Also, see this table from Paul Krugman re vibecession. (From Michigan Consumer Survey before and after election). Thoughts?
Also, see this table from Paul Krugman re vibecession. (From Michigan Consumer Survey before and after election). Thoughts?
Ah, vibes.
@pkrugman.bsky.social: "The economy now isn’t significantly different from what it was just before the election; economic conditions were fairly stable in late 2019. Yet suddenly a plurality of respondents to the Michigan survey say that they’re better off than they were five years ago"
@pkrugman.bsky.social: "The economy now isn’t significantly different from what it was just before the election; economic conditions were fairly stable in late 2019. Yet suddenly a plurality of respondents to the Michigan survey say that they’re better off than they were five years ago"
December 31, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Ah, vibes.
@pkrugman.bsky.social: "The economy now isn’t significantly different from what it was just before the election; economic conditions were fairly stable in late 2019. Yet suddenly a plurality of respondents to the Michigan survey say that they’re better off than they were five years ago"
@pkrugman.bsky.social: "The economy now isn’t significantly different from what it was just before the election; economic conditions were fairly stable in late 2019. Yet suddenly a plurality of respondents to the Michigan survey say that they’re better off than they were five years ago"
Herre's a table from Parl reproduced in the Financial Times on incumbents governments. First time since Parl has been keeping track (~120 years) that all the incumbent governments they track lost vote-share.
December 30, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Herre's a table from Parl reproduced in the Financial Times on incumbents governments. First time since Parl has been keeping track (~120 years) that all the incumbent governments they track lost vote-share.
Catch-22
The Sotweed Factor (which I think is the Great American Novel)
Farewell My Lovely
Bonus listing: Small Gods
(This list might change completely in 24 hours.)
The Sotweed Factor (which I think is the Great American Novel)
Farewell My Lovely
Bonus listing: Small Gods
(This list might change completely in 24 hours.)
December 28, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Catch-22
The Sotweed Factor (which I think is the Great American Novel)
Farewell My Lovely
Bonus listing: Small Gods
(This list might change completely in 24 hours.)
The Sotweed Factor (which I think is the Great American Novel)
Farewell My Lovely
Bonus listing: Small Gods
(This list might change completely in 24 hours.)
Speaking of Big Things...I'm stuck on this comment on the US election outcome from @claudia-sahm.bsky.social, situated in the 2024 anti-incumbent trend.
December 26, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Speaking of Big Things...I'm stuck on this comment on the US election outcome from @claudia-sahm.bsky.social, situated in the 2024 anti-incumbent trend.
