Sam Feldman

New paper surveys thousands of residents in six cities (Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris) and finds that centrists/moderates are the most anti-housing development www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Well, I think I've found my new least favorite PAC. At least they're not very good at targeting their fundraising emails.

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

I’m not sure the Panopticon is still a relevant metaphor. The point there was that a concealed machinery of surveillance could make everyone behave AS IF surveilled, even though the watchers could only observe a few people at once. We seem to have effectively superceded that technical limitation.

If the elections go as predicted in a couple weeks, I expect a narrative will form that Republicans lost a lot of seats through terrible campaign decisions like this ad and the Ramaswamy mess. That won't be true, but it might have the side benefit of ending the careers of some really awful people.

Think about how bad things have to be for this paragraph to get written www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/21/s...

This is a much easier problem to fix than federal court forum-shopping. New York law already channels certain lawsuits challenging state policies or regulations into Albany courts. It would be easy to similarly provide that lawsuits challenging NYC rules must be brought in Manhattan courts.

This is a lovely piece of writing. thewalrus.ca/wild-buffalo...

This overdetention happened because NY treats the state prison agency as the only entity capable of calculating felony release dates. That leads to "mistakes" like this, where people are held in city jails past their sentences. But is it really a mistake if the system isn't designed to prevent it?

If you’re an NYC DSA member who wants to keep building on our successes of the last few years, please vote for me and my slatemates this week!

Interesting longue durée analysis on the success of the AfD in Saxon Anhalt by an historian of East Germany. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

this is an excellent short piece - maybe the best I've seen on what Trump is doing to relations with allies. Western Europe is not, obviously, a geographic neighbor of the US, but it is stuck plumb in the middle of Trumpist's Near Abroad of the Imagination.

Fascinating Sotomayor + Gorsuch statement yesterday respecting the denial of cert in a case in which a man was arrested and convicted of being present in the US after illegal reentry, put on supervised release and ordered not to leave the state, then arrested and convicted AGAIN of the same offense.

A new piece from me, a provocation really: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This massive infusion of money is unlikely to buy control of Congress for the Republicans, but it should be enough to buy the docile loyalty of every Republican officeholder even as Elon descends further into radioactive unpopularity.

An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.

Congratulations on Shawn Fains United UAW slate which won big. Fain was reelected with 67.o8% so far docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

My work. Judge Walowski is seeking retention following a wave of reversals by the appellate court. In one case, the court reversed a conviction because Walowski forced a defense attorney to proceed to trial as he recovered from a bout with food poisoning bad enough to call for hospitalization.

I feel like you could make kind of a productive analogy between AI agents where they save the user time by wasting everybody else's time and the American approach to vehicle safety where occupant safety is prioritized at the expense of everybody else's. Prosocial? Never heard of her.

October is a big month not only for SCOTUS but for state supreme courts too. Today the Mass. SJC hears a case involving a defendant who was detained by ICE in the middle of his state criminal trial. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

There's a lot of sorta sanitized 'School House Rock' to Marbury v. Madison, which the legal academy and jurists themselves have adopted One of the myths of Marbury was that it _contemporaneously_ had a wide & noticed impact, when in fact it was buried and overlooked for ~80+ years

Arizona Court of Appeals reverses sentencing of defendant where the state presented an AI video of the deceased addressing the court, and lawyers everywhere breathe a sigh of relief Here is the opinion - coa1.azcourts.gov/Portals/1/Op... apnews.com/article/ariz...

Legal: Fed cts shouldn't strike down Acts of Congress absent clear constitutional constraints. Biden judge tries to prove clear constraint. Political: Rubio gonna be mad! Rubio rec'd judge to Biden (and Trump 1.0) bc judge's uncle was a big $$ Rubio donor! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Boom! DoorDash rescinds their backing for GOP bill they backed after DC Council set up a 20-cent delivery fee to fund support for delivery workers, apologizes, affirms DC home rule Still not fighting for their workers from being abducted or assassinated by ICE yet though

This thread is great!

today in depressing takes, like "the war with iran probably isn't going to end"

At first, when a 29-year-old Chantz Rivera posted about his walk across the United States, comments clowned him, calling him a "mad man." Four months later, he's tantalizingly close to San Francisco, and everyone's rooting for him.

I'm a fan of efficient writing but this is in fact too much to fit into one sentence.