Hilary Escajeda
@hilaryescajeda.bsky.social
Associate Professor MC School of Law. Research focus: AI, tax policy, future of work, and dinosaur fossil taxation. Articles: http://ssrn.com/author=1537904
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships to colleges across the state, with many would-be freshmen finding out only weeks before their move-in date. Nick Judin reports:
‘Soul-Crushing’: 170 Foster Students Denied Scholarships at Last Minute Across Mississippi
The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships weeks before classes begin due to lack of funding.
mississippifreepress.org
So under this Supreme Court's treatment of U.S. law and presidential power, Joe Biden couldn't forgove my student loans, but perhaps Donald Trump can forgive his own tax debt. Wild.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
national security requires letting the largely-unregulated gas center turbines powering Elon Musk's fifth-placed AI software disproportionately funnel toxic chemicals into minority neighborhoods
Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters
Trump's DOJ says citizens should no longer be able to enforce environmental laws.
arstechnica.com
WSJ: “.. OpenAI might now wait until next year to go public, people with knowledge of the plans said .. “.. Some of OpenAI’s largest investors have privately expressed concerns in recent months about the startup’s high cash burn relative to its growth ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
“.. health insurance costs are growing at their fastest rate in almost two decades ..” $XLV
Guy Berger@econberger.bsky.social · 5d ago3/ I didn't include it in the prior chart, but health insurance costs are growing at their fastest rate in almost two decades - that's probably at least a partial explanation for acceleration non-wage benefit costs.
Law review submissions season. Some observations 1. Be respectful of editors and authors. Communicate promptly. Accept/reject authors respectfully and as soon as is practicable.
If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.
Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 5d agoBecause the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.
People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...
There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill It
Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.
newrepublic.com
I wrote about the hotass mess that hundreds of recent law grads in Washington are going through for no good reason! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Wi-Fi Fiasco Transforms Washington Bar Exam Into an Even Bigger Waste of Time Than Usual
Yet another reason to move beyond the legal profession’s annual hazing ritual.
ballsandstrikes.org
We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis
A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.
theatlantic.com
🧵 I got a tour of Denver’s Sports Castle before it gets redeveloped. Here are 3 cool things I saw: The rooftop! Up with the parapets and finials!
SOME of us have been on COLUM Bus for awhile, friends. Mississippi is 37% Black, Cindy-Hyde Smith makes Susan Collins look like a statesman, and you can anger-give in a very small media market.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 6d agoColom is good people, a smart and decent man running against a complete MAGA buffoon. First black DA ever in his district. It’s a longshot’s longshot, but if any Democrat could win a Senate race in Mississippi, it’s him.
This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
If you're a law student and you miss the first Civil Procedure lecture, this is what happens to you years later
Kash Patel’s Ambitious Defamation Lawsuit Foiled By Basic Civil Procedure Doctrine
The litigious FBI director’s case against a blogger who called him a “blatantly incompetent chud” is no match for International Shoe.
ballsandstrikes.org
Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.
“.. The powerful artificial intelligence models from OpenAI that went rogue and mounted an unprecedented, autonomous cyberattack earlier this month spent more than four days loose on the internet orchestrating the hack ..” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
NEW: OpenAI’s unhinged AI models hacked at least FOUR “publicly available services”—not just Hugging Face, as was initially disclosed. @dell.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff report: www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
wired.com
"On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."
There's a National Blood Supply Crisis Happening Right Now
Red Cross officials are pleading with Americans to donate blood, especially if they have O-positive blood.
gizmodo.com
"The jurisdiction is evaluating next steps, including whether testing can resume tomorrow or whether affected applicants will instead be offered an opportunity to sit for a future administration." Oh. My. God. WTF? How can they not have enough wifi capacity to administer THE BAR EXAM?
Ms. Rosenberg@msrosenberg.bsky.social · last wk.Update on bar exam tech problems from NCBE www.ncbex.org/news-resourc...
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.
Exclusive | Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy
Program that held down premiums won’t be renewed for 2027, resulting in higher costs for some seniors.
wsj.com
The American Red Cross has less than a one-day national supply of O-positive blood, the most commonly transfused blood type, and has begun limiting distributions of the blood to hospitals, it said. wapo.st/3TpmkaM
What’s driving the American Red Cross’s second-ever national blood crisis?
The American Red Cross said extreme heat, poor air quality and the spread of foodborne illnesses contributed to a lower donor turnout this summer.
wapo.st
Mississippi Blood Services issues urgent call for donations
Mississippi Blood Services issues urgent call for donations
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi Blood Services (MBS) urged residents to donate blood and platelets as the local blood supply has reached critically low levels. Officials said eligible don…
wjtv.com
The Red Cross has issued a national blood crisis, with blood donations at a four-year low. Marylanders – especially those with type O blood – please consider becoming a blood donor to ensure hospitals have the blood they need for patients whose lives depend on transfusions: rcblood.org/donate
rcblood.org
I know some people who worked at/with the IRS until last year. The universal message I have received is that it's worse than you think.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · last wk."“You can’t get rid of 30 percent of your staff and expect to be functional,” says Traci DiMartini, the former IRS human capital officer who was one of the first high-ranking officials DOGE pushed out last year. “Things are starting to break.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actua...
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