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
Can't mmm mmmm mmm mmm anymore because of woke
The U.S. government has released a new crash test dummy design that advocates believe will help make cars safer for women. Women are 73% more likely to be injured in a head-on crash than men. n.pr/48ne93H
Transportation Department endorses crash test dummy that more closely resembles women
The U.S. government has released a new crash test dummy design that advocates believe will help make cars safer for women. Women are 73% more likely to be injured in a head-on crash than men.
n.pr
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Can't mmm mmmm mmm mmm anymore because of woke
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Interestingly, (and as I expected) they haven't figured out how to move the student loan program yet.
Going to love SCOTUS's statutory interpretation on this one
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Going to love SCOTUS's statutory interpretation on this one
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department
The department will shift responsibility for several of its core functions to other federal agencies.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Interestingly, (and as I expected) they haven't figured out how to move the student loan program yet.
Going to love SCOTUS's statutory interpretation on this one
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Going to love SCOTUS's statutory interpretation on this one
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
...a well-known journalist who is the daughter of a well known Circuit Judge
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November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
...a well-known journalist who is the daughter of a well known Circuit Judge
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L...
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Don't miss Alyssa Battistoni's post about her excellent new book!!
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Don't miss Alyssa Battistoni's post about her excellent new book!!
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This is a fascinating and groundbreaking book revealing "fair and balanced" as a right- wing media strategy going back to the 50s.
The blurbs are in!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is a fascinating and groundbreaking book revealing "fair and balanced" as a right- wing media strategy going back to the 50s.
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Just a few years ago the economics profession completely marginalized @claudia-sahm.bsky.social for speaking out on this matter.
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Just a few years ago the economics profession completely marginalized @claudia-sahm.bsky.social for speaking out on this matter.
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
Seems to me this UVA letter has ample circumstantial evidence that conservative groups are coordinating their attacks on universities with people in the administration, including by advising boardmembers and AGs which rhetoric to use to justify caving to the admin.
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Seems to me this UVA letter has ample circumstantial evidence that conservative groups are coordinating their attacks on universities with people in the administration, including by advising boardmembers and AGs which rhetoric to use to justify caving to the admin.
This the tradition Gee left behind at Brown, the first school he presidented
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This the tradition Gee left behind at Brown, the first school he presidented
facts don't care about your feelings? we still doing that?
Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
facts don't care about your feelings? we still doing that?
Radicalization of Silicon Valley is also about consumer protection(!). Those who say that Biden should have been more conciliatory have to confront the nihilism about regulation these guys have convinced themselves of
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startup...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Radicalization of Silicon Valley is also about consumer protection(!). Those who say that Biden should have been more conciliatory have to confront the nihilism about regulation these guys have convinced themselves of
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Guess the author and the year
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Guess the author and the year
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
Big missed opportunity for this Garfield show not to use the phrase “snivel service reform”, which Conkling actually uttered
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Big missed opportunity for this Garfield show not to use the phrase “snivel service reform”, which Conkling actually uttered
Chomsky is known for replying to every email sent to him, but this looks like much more than that. The most distressing name in the files, IMO
In 2023, Chomsky told WSJ about his relationship with Epstein: “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.”
Epstein: you are of course welcome to use apt in new york with your new leisure time, or visit new Mexico again
Epstein: you are of course welcome to use apt in new york with your new leisure time, or visit new Mexico again
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Chomsky is known for replying to every email sent to him, but this looks like much more than that. The most distressing name in the files, IMO
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Today's new @publicenterprise.bsky.social report is a comprehensive analysis of the capital structure of the entire AI sector: data center real estate, GPU markets, private credit, you name it.
It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers!
publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers!
publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
Bubble or Nothing
Policymakers concerned about the deployment of clean energy and compute-focused infrastructure over the long term need a framework for managing the uncertainty in the AI sector's investment landscape—...
publicenterprise.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today's new @publicenterprise.bsky.social report is a comprehensive analysis of the capital structure of the entire AI sector: data center real estate, GPU markets, private credit, you name it.
It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers!
publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers!
publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
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Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared
Tremane Wood is currently on death row, despite his older brother admitting to killing victim Ronnie Wipf in 2002.
Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.
Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
Next week, he will have the chance to make his case for mercy.
Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death anyway.
His Brother Admitted To A Murder. He Is Set To Be Executed For It.
Next week, Tremane Wood will have the chance to make his case for mercy. Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death.
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared
These motherfuckers will forever learn the lesson of 10 years ago (which the left was pushing then) and refuse to pay attention to what's going on now
Republicans continue to hide the Jeffrey Epstein files.
But these extremists have zero interest in making healthcare affordable for everyday Americans.
Shameful.
But these extremists have zero interest in making healthcare affordable for everyday Americans.
Shameful.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
These motherfuckers will forever learn the lesson of 10 years ago (which the left was pushing then) and refuse to pay attention to what's going on now
I guess all that tradwife propaganda isn't working?
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I guess all that tradwife propaganda isn't working?
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excellent coinage
no more pennies? that's just non-cents
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
excellent coinage
Interestingly, they both end with a version of DON'T REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
Wow and I always thought the most damning citation of Larry Summers was the epigraph from *Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor* (2011)
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Interestingly, they both end with a version of DON'T REPEAT THIS INSIGHT