Aaron is a very, very good editor!
06.03.2026 20:15
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Aaron is a very, very good editor!
I think the arg is that increasing revenue from parking creates structural incentives to maintain the number of parking spaces by gov't Making it easier to find a space thru higher turnover may also = more driving - akin to adding more highway lanes
If you've ever wondered how a Kentucky judge could threaten to bankrupt Oakland for the crime of bankrupting a coal company, have we got the long read for you:
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/
FWIW here's the paper.
It builds on one of the most successful environmental legal campaigns of all time to argue for a fundamental change in how we conceptualize utilities!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Yes, it's been brutal - although it's my first cycle and I've written on something that is important but highly technical (state utility regulation) so I can understand why it might not get picked up. Reassuring to hear it's not just me!
(that last part is a reference to David Lynch's response to anti-trans attitudes, FYI)
At this point if you're defending Platner you're taking the position you'd rather have a Nazi than a post-menopausal woman in power and you know? If you believe that we are not part of the same political coalition.
Misogyny is a (the?) organizing principle of MAGA, fix your heart or die.
and so it's not that he thinks killing the Ayatollah will prompt uprisings etc he thinks that killing the Ayatollah *is* regime change and so all the bombing now is just wanton sadism-slash-revenge-cycle
It occurs to me that Trump, the ultimate personalist, may be conceptually incapable of recognizing that the Venezuela action wasn't regime change because he can't conceive of a political power structure outside The One Dude
Paint factory worker (and union leader!), electrical engineer (thanks Cooper Union)
I cannot bear the thought of harm coming to my beautiful children and I cannot bear a world in which other beautiful children are so disposable, where the ruins of an empire crush those already under its outstretched arms.
The thing about living in this country, in this time, is that it is intolerable to contemplate personally suffering the scale of blowback our leaders have unleashed and it is intolerable to contemplate moral universe in which there are no consequences for this evil.
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.
Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.
A tooth infection.
1/3
tucson.com/news/local/b...
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Which is to say it's not *just* a story of tech behemoths privatizing benefits and socializing costs *but also* about the failure of "market competition" and quasi-governmental nonprofits to protect customers following the deregulation of a public good (quelle surprise)
It's so important and also, as the article says, complicated. Not mentioned but also contributing are the facts that PJM (the Mid-Atlantic grid operator) bottlenecked new renewable generation for years and that ownership concentration in its capacity market has made market power "endemic"
*whispers* ALPE peer-reviewed law journal when???
I somehow thought they wouldn't be *this* blatant but I am just running at a football held by Lucy I guess.
this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying
Honestly might prefer if stuff I was working on felt less salient, as commentators debate the role that oil plays in Trump’s actions in Iran.
Law review editors, this paper is still looking for a home, and I will certainly update it to include this week’s events!
Pirates and highwaymen!
www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...
Wrote a dissertation about that century and muttered "James, Charles, Charles, James" under my breath to myself at least once a day.
The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war.
Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.
BUSD reached tentative agreement too. I suspect we owe a debt of gratitude to the SF teachers & families.
Solidarity to trans folks in Kansas. What is happening is horrifying, compounded by the silence from too many national Democrats.
I see the Epstein files are really triggering the ol' "anti-semitism is the socialism of fools" adage.
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
Apparently the cool kids are posting their law submissions under review & I'm joining in: While Trump et al. take an axe to environmental regulations, here's One Weird Trick to decarbonize our power grid at the state level and reclaim it as ours at the same time!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Bet you a 1GW gas plant in Wisconsin you're wrong.
If you woke up this morning and thought, "I want to read 4,700 words on the Neapolitan novels, motherhood, feminist ambivalence, and Larry Summers," then wow have I got the essay for you.
cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/disappeari...