Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026But that's a bad thought piece. So you rationalize it. "Actually, Twitter isn't so bad now. I don't see Elon's posts in my feed automatically anymore. What's that? Can you still use Grok to remove the clothes of underage people? Yeah probably but I mean I don't *use that feature*." 000 0
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026Look, you left Twitter and figured you’d be able to rebuild your followers on Bluesky or Mastodon, and it didn’t materialize. You don’t get the engagement you did there, here. You waited. You thought maybe with some time you’d be an Important Person here, too. You still aren’t. So you went back. 104 4
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026@jonas_trostle I’m with you for pictures, and bears are constantly begging me for high fives, but boy when I see them in person most of that falls away in favor of a kind of instinctual disquieting in the abdomen and strong impulse to back away slowly. 000 0
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026Maybe the obvious answer is obvious, but what do these people that jump into animal enclosures at the zoo want? 103 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026I continue to think making *the box you will use* a quasi-anthropic mascot for Cologuard is one of those boardroom ideas that I just can’t fathom 1) pitching and 2) getting approved. 004 4
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026I’m going to just start calling balks in everyday life. What the hell, no one can refute it. 002 2
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026Tax breaks shouldn’t be purchasable — full stop. news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-…news.bloombergtax.comWeek in Insights: Tax Break Requirements Shouldn’t Be BuyableFor decades, California has tried to ensure that a valuable affordable housing tax break serves a public purpose. 004 4
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026Sen. Kelly’s Make AI Work for Americans Act makes some odd choices. “The bill puts a price on ‘computational processing,’ then defines a unit of that processing as 10 kilobytes of binary data.” […]esq.socialOriginal post on esq.social 004 4
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026We can still win this, Schlittler just has to have 24 strikeouts nbd. 002 2
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026Really takes a hard turn at the end there. 103 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026Why do these announcers keep referring to Cole as a former ace? 003 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026The commercials during baseball just keep getting weirder. 002 2
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026Chatted with Peyton Rhodes at Bloomberg for her piece about challenges to the NYC pied-à-terre tax. I compared it favorably against Rhode Island’s similar levy in terms of its likelihood to survive […]esq.socialOriginal post on esq.social 005 5
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026Oh there’s gonna be gambling insurance soon isn’t there. 115 5
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026The US nearing a deal to secure potash is some serious 19th century nonsense. This should be an announcement made by William Seward. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-rep…news.bloombergtax.comTrump Says Potash Deal With Belarus in Works Amid Canada FightPresident Donald Trump said the US is working with Belarus to secure more supplies of potash amid a trade fight with Canada, a major supplier of the critical ingredient used in fertilizers. 002 2
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026“A network of roughly 200 registered agents has emerged over the past 25 years, pulling out-of-state drivers into Montana’s lenient vehicle rules.” news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-rep…news.bloombergtax.comUtah Takes Montana License Plate Fight to 80,000 Vehicle OwnersUtah and California are among at least 10 states targeting residents who register their vehicles through Montana shell companies to evade sales taxes and fees at home. 004 4
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026I’d like to see a Venn diagram of the 30% of folks that think everything is going well and people that eat vegetables and prefer to do so without the fear of their insides melting out of their body. 004 4
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026MA rolling stock tax, or: how to create a reverse carbon tax in one easy step. news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-… 004 4
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026When it comes to property tax policy, accurate assessments is a necessary but not sufficient condition. A property can be accurately assessed and still price a resident out of their home. Philly looks poised to become a case study of that interplay in action […]esq.socialOriginal post on esq.social 013 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026Why is it when level-headed folks mention the horrors of the Third Reich, they often feel it necessary to throw in the USSR? It feels like a “bad people on both sides” kind of reflexive impulse. Do we have a current, burgeoning Stalinist problem in this country? 103 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026FRTracker could always tell you a rule related to 40 CFR part 52, it can now tell you the rule addresses § 52.2120. frtracker.app/amendments 000 0
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026I hope researchers working in these areas are as proud as we in the general public are thankful for their efforts. These are my favorite kinds of stories. When the rest of the news offers nothing uplifting, I seek them out […]esq.socialOriginal post on esq.social 006 6
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026First-rate reporting by David at FOIAball, as per usual. www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athletics-…foiaball.comThe oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrageXX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail. 004 4
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026Heads up law journals: don’t need any more of the “no” emails. Looking for “yes” now. tyvm 102 2
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026For those that aren't aware, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has been a legitimate lens into the goings-on in Treasury even as late as this month. www.tigta.gov/reports/listtigta.govAll Reports | U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration OIG 001 1
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026I'll caveat all of that with a general observation that none of the above is to suggest I believe those resorting to blue books and pencils, etc. are *wrong* -- just that there is definitely another side to consider. 000 0
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026I don't think the art, science, or magic of writing is going away because AI can do a serviceable job of it. Owing to that, I reckon that it's my job to do the best I can to deliver graduates that can reduce their ideas to the written form with as much fidelity as possible. 100 1
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026States looking for a route forward after Maryland’s digital ad tax foundered, take heart. It’s doable just boring. news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-…news.bloombergtax.comMaryland’s Digital Ad Tax Defeat Is Teachable Moment for StatesOpinion: State taxes on digital advertising aren't necessarily unviable, but Maryland made a harder legal case for itself by seemingly designing a tax around the companies it wanted to pay instead of the activity it wanted to tax. 003 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026Whenever my vanity Google search alert fires off that I’m mentioned by another city council or state house in an anti-data center bill, my heart warms. 003 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026Interesting little finding: The eCFR is the public's authoritative lens into what fed regs say—including what they said on past dates. We found a case where that view lagged: for weeks after an amendment's effective date, eCFR rendering continued to show pre-amendment text […]esq.socialOriginal post on esq.social 003 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026If you haven’t given Wallflower a shot as a Bluesky/Mastodon reader (also RSS feeds, “Commonplace Book,” read it later, etc.) — consider doing so. Lots of quality of life improvements. I’ve been blowing through a backlog of articles with the custom podcast feed. thewallflower.app/aboutthewallflower.appWallflower — a quiet social readerRead Mastodon and Bluesky as a calm broadsheet. Keep what matters in Commonplace. 023 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026So many comments in notice-and-comment are form letters. I suspected as much, but going through them it is really striking. frtracker.app/comments/campaignsfrtracker.appComment Campaigns | Federal Regulatory TrackerDecomposing U.S. federal regulations into individual legal obligations and tracking their lifecycle from proposal through codification. Structured deontic analysis for legal research, policy analysis, and regulatory compliance. 003 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026Changes this week in the TOS/privacy policy landscape. tostracker.app/briefingtostracker.appThe Terms Have Changed — Issue 02One company gave a right back, one took two away, and one reversed itself on AI training. 002 2
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026Even in a country of 340 million people I find the odds incredibly improbable that one could be *this* devoted to *that* man. Her mere existence is like life springing from gravy or a shattered tea cup spontaneously reassembling itself. A miracle. I stand in horrified awe. 002 2
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026I can’t bring myself to flog things that make money, but I don’t feel bad pushing my free stuff at all. If you’re NJ-barred (or PA or NY with conditions), take Minimum Competence’s free CLE. cle.minimumcomp.com/courses/federal… 003 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026Apropos of nothing, a reminder that Randy Johnson was otherworldly from age 30-41. www.baseball-reference.com/players/… 002 2
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026I mean OK, like you wouldn’t curl up in a steamer trunk to make a trip with Eisenhower or Truman. Like you wouldn’t break your own legs to origami yourself into James Buchanan’s boot box. www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/politics/nat… 004 4
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026Latest Recent Rulemakings Reviewed is up. Where June tilted sharply toward finalization—finals up, proposals down—July ran in the opposite direction overall. Taken together, the regulatory pipeline emptying and refilling. www.yalejreg.com/nc/recent-rulemaki…yalejreg.com 002 2
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026Trump can rage post all he likes, his options for interfering with NY’s pied-à-terre tax are extremely limited. www.forbes.com/sites/andrewleahey/2… 003 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026Just got approval from NJ for Minimum Competence’s first CLE — which also opens it up to some PA and NY attorneys. 1 credit, totally free. Future offerings will be paid. Feedback welcome. cle.minimumcomp.com/courses/federal… 004 4
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026If doomsday cultists ever figure out they should be recruiting in DMV waiting lines, society is going to be in big trouble. 005 5
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026I don’t think it’s ever done intentionally, but every once in a while someone will say something like “I used to love those columns you used to write” and I realize anew its a masterful slam for someone that still writes one. 002 2
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026The car loan interest deduction is terrible policy. The end. news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-…news.bloombergtax.comWeek in Insights: Car Loan Interest Tax Break Rewards Higher DebtImagine two buyers walk into a car dealership. Buyer A saved for years and pays cash, while Buyer B finances most of the purchase and pays thousands in interest. Under proposed IRS rules, Buyer B would be able to deduct up to $10,000 in interest on their loan from their taxes, while Buyer A would receive no tax benefit. 004 4
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026The thing about the Claude AI text watermarking announcement is that you’ll still, ultimately, be taking the word of an AI company over a student/employee/actual human being/etc. 004 4
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026TFW you get Google Scholar alerts people are citing you but you’re just hoping to get the darn piece placed. 003 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026MIT OpenCourseWare added an AI training section to their TOS. tostracker.app/document/mit-opencou…tostracker.appMIT OpenCourseWare Terms of Service Changes - TOS TrackerCompare Terms of Service changes for MIT OpenCourseWare. View additions, deletions, and modifications between February 2026 and August 2026. 002 2
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026As an adult if I was running around shooting my mouth off about how tough or American or whatever I was, and my opponent said the equivalent to “okay, let’s fight then,” that would be the end of whatever I was doing. I’m all set. 🫡 Bye now! 003 3
Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026Early indications from FRTracker data are that commenter identity has little to no bearing on the likelihood of an agency making changes between a proposed and final rule. Variation between agencies outstrips any between commenter type. frtracker.app/blog/who-comments-on-… 002 2