More and more of us turn to food banks
More and more of us are turning to food banks to afford to live, and food banks are appealing for help.
As to the mark of slavery (and our treatment of Native Americans, which he is as damning of) that…
Democracy in America As to the mark of slavery (and our treatment of Native Americans, which he is as damning of) that remains in our nation, you cannot spend any time in the US as a neutral…
Sanctions: CCP § 177.5 Sanctions For Violating A Court Order To Attend A Deposition Was Stricken As A Matter Of Law
The Reason Was That The Sanctions Order Was Made Payable To Defendants, Rather Than Properly To The Court. Code of Civil Procedure section 177.5 does allow a court to sanction no more than $1,500 for…
Appealability, Prevailing Party, Section 1717: Although Defendants’ Appeal Of An Order Denying Attorney’s Fees After A Voluntary Dismissal Was Accepted, The Request For Prevailing Party Fees Was Premature
That Was The Case Because Plaintiff And Defendants Were Still In Arbitration. This next case had a little bit of everything: appealability, prevailing party, Civil Code section 1717, and prematurity…
Videos about fairness and insurance
We mentioned that in a previous post, a couple of days after coming back from Japan, we had a Filming Day in Quebec City, with Olivier and Marie-Pier. The paper Governing Fairness in Insurance…
The “Not Chronically Ill” Claim Is Ableist Bullshit
I have been angry about this for days.
How cushy did those Boomers have it compared to Gen Z, really?
How cushy did those Boomers have it compared to Gen Z, really? Posted by Ed Folsom, October 20, 2026. Everywhere I look lately, it seems there’s another news story complaining about high costs and a…
“It is an important moment for us, when Jesus calls out to the Father, ‘My God, my God, Why have you…
synjectivism:These Catholic sisters want to start a new order with a difficult mission: helping survivors of clergy abuse“It is an important moment for us, when Jesus calls out to the Father,…
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Adult Social Care: Residents, Families, Staff and the Costs of Not Listening
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Readers’ questions: response piece
I recently wrote a blog for the Manchester University Press ‘Race, Empire and Resistance’ series, in response to some brilliant questions by readers of Sexual Violence in Racial…
Historic Transit Data Through 2025
Although 2025 transit ridership was the highest than in any year since 2019, it was also lower than any pre-pandemic year going back to 1998. The National Transit Database’s historic time…
The Network Is Not the Owner: Co-ops, Peer-to-Peer and Who We're Ready to Be
I should declare a bias before I start. I grew up in regional Austria surrounded by agricultural co-operatives. The Lagerhaus sold the seed, the fertiliser and the diesel. The dairy co-op collected…
court finds "dupe" label probative of intent to confuse and likely confusion
Sol De Janeiro USA, INC. v. MCoBeauty Pty Ltd, 2026 WL 2937438, No. 24-cv-8862 (ER) (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 30, 2026) Sol sued MCo, its competitor in the market for cosmetics, for false advertising, trade…
Book Marketing in American Publishing Has a Privileged Nature
I had just finished a YA author’s latest audiobook, and I was letting it play out to the acknowledgments, because I’m one of those nosy people who wants to know everything about a person—including…
CA6: State officer’s arrest for violation of federal MJ law likely wouldn’t violate 4A
Dicta: While Ohio law is silent on whether a state officer could make an arrest for violation of federal marijuana law, it likely wouldn’t violate the Fourth Amendment. United States v. Whitlow 134…
Black Wealth Fell 25%, but the Gap Goes Beyond the Latest Drop
Black median family wealth fell about 25% between 2022 and 2025, after inflation. That decline deserves attention. But the charts show a larger problem: a wide racial wealth gap that has lasted for…
The Dunning-Kruger effect in accessibility
Why your confidence in accessibility could be a sign of how little you know
The years Americans outlive driving
California requires drivers 70 and older to renew in person every 5 years, with a vision exam, on the premise that age makes a driver more dangerous. To check just how much more dangerous senior…
Housing is Health Care
Protecting Your Investment talks about maintenance and preventing issues like Legionella in the water system. Water Shut Off Valves, Construction Costs and Housing Affordability says in part: I would…
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia is a fascinating and necessary text written…
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia is a fascinating and necessary text written by scholar Sabrina Strings that is accessible to read. It tracks the connection between the rise…
Preliminary 2023–24 school arrest estimates, published as release 2026.1
Our Bayesian estimates of school-based arrest rates now cover 2023–24 and New York City, in a preliminary update not yet vetted like our white paper's 2025.1 release, which stays available, unchanged.
Global Talent Visa rejection patterns in 2026
Why strong careers still get Global Talent Visa rejections in 2026, and how to fix the evidence gaps assessors flag before you apply.
D.N.M.: Shared driveway outside of fence and gate was not curtilage
Defendant’s car was searched under the automobile exception in his driveway. There’s a fence and gate between the car on the driveway and the front door. All things considered under Dunn, this…
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Dark Forestry
And frankly, my optimism for a better fate falters: The organized labor revolution never came. Workers walk a razorwire between rising costs of living and companies with bottomless coffers for legal…
Counterfactual Kitsilano
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Who lives without a car in the Bay Area
~1 in 10 Bay Area households has no car, ~269,000 households across the 9 counties, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey microdata for 2020-24 . The share has barely changed…
Seeing the system
I’ve just published two explorers I’ve been playing around with: one for UK income tax bands , and one for young people out of work and learning (also known by that horrible term NEETs). They are…
strength and resistance in 'Salt of the Earth'
lessons on labor, feminism, and colonization
Anthropic Settlement: what’s happening
Frustrated by the lack of any useful information from the Anthropic settlement administrator, I sent the following email on October 9: I am a class member in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (claim #). You…
October 22: Film screening of Msit No’kmaq (All My Relations) documentary
The documentary I've been working on for the last few months about the fight to end the second-generation cut-off impacting First Nations families in Canada is screening at Amnesty International in…
How to Support Survivors, Challenge Rape Myths, and End Gender-Based Violence with Nicole Snell
Tune in to this episode on Spotify or YouTube. Be sure to subscribe! The goal is 1,000 subscribers on YouTube by the end of the year! Right now we're at 50 beautiful, amazing subscribers, so we…
My SNA VM column 79: “Cornell University and Rape Culture” (Oct 14, 2026), on why the recent lawsuit alleging an under-investigated gang rape is completely within Cornell’s history and character. I know because I graduated from there.
Intro: A media storm in recent weeks has been an alleged rape case at Cornell University, where a lawsuit by “Jane Doe” claims that two years ago her intoxicated group sex at a frat house turned into…
We made healthcare more accessible, but did we make it better?
A patient sends a message to their clinician instead of scheduling an appointment.No driving. No waiting room. No taking half a day off work.For someone managing a chronic illness, that's a…
It’s Not A Matter of “Which Voices”: All Voices Should Be Heard
...but to ensure that all voices are heard, we need to find out who’s doing the talking.Jennifer Binder-le Pape, perhaps best known in these pages as one of the plaintiffs in the Lower Merion FC…
West Midlands Police Data
On the 1st October this year, the Home Office released its latest figures about the police use of section 136 Mental Health Act 1983 and I’m trying hard to not exaggerate when I was it was…
The Impact of Dieselgate
ClientEarth, an international environmental law charity, hired me to develop a collection of data visualizations to show the impact of the ‘Dieselgate’ scandal, where EU carmakers…
Universal Basic _____ … Income or Services?
As we start getting into the activation work of After Capitalism, it will be necessary to make some choices. Over the last decade or so, I’ve used universal basic income a lot, primarily…
How nonprofits' and funders' rule-following tendencies have been weaponized against us
Hi everyone. Reminder: Wednesday October 21st at 10am Pacific Time, please join me and fellow rabble-rouser Aparna Rae for a fun and informal conversation where we bust some of the myths about…
Without Social Insurance, Food Safety Is Hard to Truly Implement
From formaldehyde cabbage and dichlorvos disinfection to liquid-soaked bayberries, the businesses behind food safety incidents are often the ones with the weakest social insurance compliance. As the…
When Cyberstalking Is Just an “Add-On” Charge (And Why That’s Changing)
If you scan the criminal dockets for cases involving cyberstalking, you will notice a persistent pattern. Cyberstalking is rarely the main course. More often than not, it’s just the side dish. It…
Philanthropies: Let’s Give More, Ask Less during this time of crisis for non-profits
It is high time for philanthropy to give more and ask less of our grantee and investee partners, against the backdrop of a crisis in the charitable non-profit sector.
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