Keith Bolek

Monopoly power enables corporate abuse of consumers. In the case of Live Nation, they're literally bragging about it.

Behind the Scenes of This War We're In Phase 2...Trump Just Doesn't Know It Yet

I wrote this 30 hours ago. It's gotten so, so much worse since then.

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Iran War Exposes America’s Unfixed Supply Chains - The American Prospect We have a trillion-dollar military without enough bombs to fight for more than a week, and none of the critical components needed to make more.

• 5 main military contractors strangle capacity
• trillion-dollar budgets for planes that can't fly
• only a 2-month supply of rare earths for military purposes
If we have a trillion-dollar military that can't supply itself, then we really only have a contractor enrichment factory.

Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound The seven-second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike.

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

They provide insightful thoughts about economic and social democracy being fundamental to constitutional democracy, the need to rein in our highest court, and how bankruptcy law can be reinterpreted to help working people

I strongly recommend reading all of the articles because the other contributors -- including Kate Andrias, Willy Forbath, Darin Dalmat, and Alvin Velazquez.

It is the second article of a series of four articles published on the blog of the Law and Political Economy Project. I strongly believe in the importance of solidifying the right to organize as a right protected by the Constitution as much as the freedom of speech.

Four Perspectives on Labor, Democracy, and the Constitution How might we recover a pro-labor vision of the Constitution, and what would such a vision look like today? Kate Andrias, Willy Forbath, Jennifer Abruzzo, Keith R. Bolek, Andrea Hoeschen, Darin Dalmat…

I am thankful for the opportunity of working with two leading labor lawyers, Jennifer Abruzzo and Andrea F. Hoeschen, on an article entitled "Why the Constitution Protects the Right to Organize."
lpeproject.org/blog/four-pe...

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Kristi Noem's "Open to Work" LinkedIn Profile

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

Awesome database published by my @propublica.org colleagues where you can look up financial disclosures of over 1,500 of Trump's appointees. #NICAR26 data nerds will appreciate this one! projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

5 U.S. Code § 3345 - Acting officer

Although, of course, Trump could try to do something illegal, I do not believe Trump could appoint Mullin as "acting" DHS Secretary under either the Federal Vacancies Reform Act or the DHS order of succession.

FVRA: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

DHS: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

If human rights are limited to certain groups, they are not really human rights, are they?

Spain’s PM: “If we truly believe in the freedom of Iranian women, the answer cannot be more violence. NO TO WAR.”

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the US 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, according to ICE. A tooth infection. He's death number nine.

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If you know Mark Warner, you know this is a pretty serious statement. He is EXTREMELY level-headed and doesn’t make hyperbolic statements. He is from a state with a bunch of military contractors too. If he is mad about this, then imagine how mad everyone else is.

The Supreme Court in 2022: Women do not have a right to make important decisions about their health

The Supreme Court in 2026: Parents obviously have a right to make important decisions about their children’s health

"Now, there’s a scramble by the admin & GOP sycophants to cobble together some Rube Goldberg contraption combining international law, domestic law, & executive authority that would somehow make this totally cool & legal, but there’s no way to make it work."

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BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

Paramount-Warner Would Create a Hollywood Jobs Apocalypse The deal comes complete with so much debt that it would almost certainly lead to mass job loss. That could prove to be an argument against the deal in court, too.

Perhaps the worst part of the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger is how bad a business deal it is. buff.ly/3gev6nN

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

WITKOFF: “Iran is enriching… up to 60%… probably a week away…”

RUBIO: “Iran is not enriching.”

WHICH IS IT, FELLAS?? 🤔🤷🏼

Hey Media — Are we really gonna let them lie us into another war? 🇺🇸

Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

Exclusive: Pro-Trump activists are circulating a draft executive order alleging Chinese interference in the 2020 election, proposing a national emergency to expand presidential power over voting, like banning mail ballots and voting machines.

'IT ENDS TODAY': A federal judge in NJ says the Trump admin has continued to violate court orders in immigration cases and says he's prepared to haul in DOJ and DHS officials under oath. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Many workers have missed shifts without jobs being destroyed making it challenging to measure labor impacts with conventional sources.

We use real-time daily data from Homebase to measure impacts. Thanks to UChicago and Homebase for making the data available.
#EconSky #NumbersDay

Clarence Thomas Has Lost the Plot The associate justice’s dissent in the tariffs case deserves some extra attention, because it his hopelessly uncoupled from law, history, and the Constitution.

The only Constitution that seems to matter to Thomas is the one that exists in his imagination. trib.al/5SYv13R