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Jake Levitan

@jlev.bsky.social

Berkeley Law ‘26, interested in the (critique of) law and political economy/ecology. Incoming fellow at the Center for Protest Law & Litigation. More active at the other place: https://x.com/jklev_

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Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3w ago

Another extraordinary essay by Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social - on moral stupidity (“These people act morally stupidly…because what they know, if inhabited fully, would cost them their world”) & the “tragic reality” of the Palestinian intellectual’s position www.equator.org/articles/mor...

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR

Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.

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Sara Yasin@sarayasin.bsky.social · 6d ago

I hope you read this vital, powerful writing from @reproutopia.bsky.social in today's edition of The Key: "This is what it looks like when a society has settled the question of who counts as rapeable – which is to say, who counts as human." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide

The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.

thekeymagazine.com

Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · last mo.

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

theguardian.com

Citations Needed@citationspod.bsky.social · last mo.

In this News Brief, "Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support," we talk to @dylangyauchl.bsky.social about her recent report on the obscene amounts of money going into pushing Abundance and the PR hurdles the latest neoliberalism rebrand is facing.

News Brief: Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support

In this news brief, we catch up with Dylan Gyauch-Lewis, senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project, to discuss Abundance's PR problems, why this latest neoliberalism rebrand isn't catching on an

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Jack Copley@jackcopley.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm pleased the articles from our Special Issue on Political Marxism & Open Marxism are published! This piece - written with @alexismoraitis.bsky.social, @harveymurenow.bsky.social, Teddy Paikin & Sam Salour - traces the historical emergence of PM/OM and maps their intersections. shorturl.at/WJWnx

Historical specificity and social form: Political Marxism and Open Marxism in conversation - Jack Copley, Alexis Moraitis, Javier M. Zacares, Teddy Paikin, Sam Salour, 2026

This is the introductory article to the special issue on the convergences and divergences in Political and Open Marxism. It traces the historical and intellectu...

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Niko Bowie@nikobowie.bsky.social · last mo.

Maybe he's overconfident Dems won't have the courage to actually check the Court, but the Court's most conservative justice is emphatically on board with Congress stripping his power to issue any more ridiculous interpretations of the Constitution.

Thomas's concurrence in the TPS case: It makes no difference that the Miot respondents alleged a violation of the Constitution. As Justice Scalia put it, "What could possibly be the basis for" doubting Congress's authority to bar judicial review of constitutional claims? Webster, 486 U. S., at 612 (dissenting opinion). "The very text of the Constitution refutes th[e] principle" that "all con- stitutional violations must be remediable in the courts." Ibid. In some cases, a question of constitutional law is "tex- tually committed" to adjudication solely by another branch. Nixon v. United States, 506 U. S. 224, 228 (1993); see, e.g., Art. I, §2, cl. 2 (setting the qualifications for House Mem- bers); §3, cl. 3 (setting qualifications for Senators); §5, cl. 1 (establishing that "[elach House shall be the Judge of the ...Qualifications of its own Members," not any court). In other contexts, the "lack of judicially discoverable and man- ageable standards" has been taken to show that a claim of a constitutional violation cannot be addressed on the merits by federal courts. Nixon, 506 U. S., at 228. Other familiar principles likewise bar judicial review of' constitutional claims. An obvious one is sovereign immun- ity, "a monument to the principle that some constitutional claims can go unheard." Webster, 486 U. S., at 613 (Scalia, J., dissenting). Because of sovereign immunity, no one can sue the Federal Government for damages without a waiver, even if he brings a constitutional claim and even if damages are his only possible remedy. Likewise, "courts cannot ex- amine" "the President's actions on subjects within his 'con- clusive and preclusive constitutional authority," regardless of whether he violates the Constitution in exercising that authority. Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593, 609 (2024). The Constitution thus does not require that courts be able to hear all constitutional claims. Thomas's concurrence, continued: Congress barred all judicial review of TPS termination decisions, including constitutional claims. Since nothing in the Constitution prohibits Congress from doing so, courts are obliged to simply "givle] effect to [§1254a's] ordinary meaning." Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr, 589 U.S. 221, 244 (2020) (THOMAS, J., dissenting)
Common Wealth@cmmonwealth.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 The fracking boom has transformed the US onshore oil and gas industry — but not in the way proponents promised. Our new briefing explores these shifting frontiers of fossil capital. 🖊️ @arneness.bsky.social www.common-wealth.org/publications...

New Frontiers of Fossil Capital: Oil and Gas Labor, Global Energy Markets, and Decarbonization after Fracking

For a decarbonization policy framework to be effective, it must face the tenacity of fossil capital head-on.

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Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

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Jake Levitan@jlev.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last ever law school classes are Talha Syed’s seminar, with Barbara Fields joining today and Syed critiquing/reconstructing value theory on Friday. Law school isn’t all bad! (Still gotta study for Admin, Fed Courts, and Immigration exams though… 😵‍💫)

Charmaine Chua@charmainechua.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...

The Warehouse, in Plain Sight

That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

placesjournal.org

Thea Riofrancos@triofrancos.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're staring down a brutally hot summer and energy and food shocks and cost of living crisis that climate change intensifies. There's endless money for war. But voters want policies that address the real threats to their security. At @cplusc.bsky.social, our new agenda has the solutions🧵

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