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Federico Ortino

@federico-ortino.bsky.social
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Professor of International Economic Law, King's College London 🇮🇹 in Hackney, London www.kcl.ac.uk/people/federico-ortino

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨🚨 Social media venues such as #facebook and #instagram's algorithms have been designed by #meta to filter out 'social topic' such as #civilrights and #feminism. #Freespeech my ass. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How is this news? billionaire oil person says uk needs to drill more and tax less, though, of course, he‘s actually in Monaco. And he would do more in the uk if the state subsidised him more. Dear BBC, that‘s like me saying the uk‘s problem is underpaid law profs. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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UNHCR’s future is at risk – and so is its past - Refugee Law Initiative Blog
By Jane McAdam and Maja Janmyr Budget cuts are forcing the UN Refugee Agency to cull its archives, threatening the world’s memory of displacement and undermining future protection. When people think o...
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New update on #Swedish elections. At this stage 21.48 tonight nearly all the final remaining election districts have been counted (302 out of 314) and the mandates between the blocs are unchanged, 176 for the social/left/centre bloc and 173 for the right/liberal/populists.
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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Swedish elections in a week. New Swedish Radio poll indicates win for Left-Green-Center opposition. But Social Dems on historically low numbers. When Social Dems in Denmark copied right on immigration, got worst election result in 100 years. Swedish Social Dems doing same, could see similar results.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Here's Jason Arday's death - and the media's role in it - trending on social media, again. And yet it's *nowhere* in the mainstream media today. It's "fallen" out of the news cycle in the same way that Russian scientists "fall" out of windows. 🔗
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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“The faintly preposterous tax schemes of the past,” said Philip Laroma Jezzi, a tax law professor at the University of Florence, “have given way to something far simpler: Malta.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/b...
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Crocs Has a Trick for Dodging Taxes: a Tiny Office in Malta (Gift Article)
The Mediterranean archipelago is a hot destination for U.S. companies seeking to shield profits from income taxes.
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In Aug. 2025, we wrote “medical providers should prepare for new food-born outbreaks in a weakened food safety system…Americans as a whole can expect to live in a less healthy country, with less regulated food and medicine, reduced healthcare access and equity, and less resilient emergency response”
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Trump's second presidency begins: evaluating effects on the US health system
The first hundred days of the second Trump administration was unprecedented, with the administration taking remarkably aggressive, often questionably legal actions across health policy. This article u...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Trump just denied disaster aid to four blue states, after approving aid to six red states.
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Trump denies disaster aid to four blue states, after approving aid to six red states
A White House spokesperson said there is “no politicization to the president’s decisions on disaster relief.” There’s compelling evidence to the contrary.
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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE." www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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A Mexican father was shot and killed by an ICE officer. His son is demanding an independent probe
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo worked for 35 years from sunrise to sunset to send all three of his American citizen sons to college. He had also been working toward securing legal status in the U.S. after neg...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I'm so proud of Yassin. He made Bristol and Britain his home. He has contributed so much as a Green Party Cllr to his city and to the community in Lawrence Hill. Solidarity in the face of this Reform fuelled racist hate. Hope always wins!
Matt Goodwin complaining about Yassun Mohamad - the law mayor of Bristol. Saying that we shouldn't have former refugees running our cities.
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Diamond Ashiagbor @diamondashiagbor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Buckle up for another epic thread from the ever-insightful Emma Monk, debunking yet another fact-free right-wing story! This time, about climate crisis. This thread is also a great lesson in how to do science communication to reach us non scientists
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
More Brexit winning www.reuters.com/world/spain-...
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In Spain, elderly UK expats struggle for care post-Brexit
Daniel Northover left his home in Liverpool this month, which marks the 10th anniversary of Britain's Brexit ​referendum, to move in with his 80-year-old mother in Turre, a town of 4,500 people in And...
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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Debate in the Scottish Parliament on the future of Scottish universities "A society that cannot think critically about itself is a society that is poorer in every sense." www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
50 years ago I began work at Chatham House on the future of British foreign policy. Very much enjoyed this conversation with Olivia O’Sullivan who is now also running a Uk foreign policy project at Chatham House.
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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
£1bn ISDS claim (UK-China BIT) www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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China’s Jingye seeks compensation from UK over British Steel takeover
Sources say firm is asking for more than £1bn in row that could put pressure on two countries’ relationship
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.
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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A disgrace www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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World Cup 2026: Does referee case show Fifa has lost control of its tournament?
With referee Omar Artan denied entry to the United States and worries over staff and supporters being turned back, what does this tell us about the World Cup?
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Vongole @grahampeake.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
FIFA your call
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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Foreign investment screening: Council signs off on updated framework www.consilium.europa.eu/de/press/pre...
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Foreign investment screening: Council signs off on updated framework
The Council adopted new rules to reinforce EU foreign investment screening, improving coordination and safeguarding key technologies and infrastructure.
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Reform Candidate Sh*ts Himself On National TV Rob Kenyon’s Question Time appearance was an absolute abortion but despite that and his sexism, he could still win Makerfield regardless. I explain how and why, while absolutely ripping the piss out of him youtu.be/WAw3V2XZqqk
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Reform Candidate Sh*t Himself On National Television
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WitchyBitchy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @witchybitchy2112.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This is going to be the White House in 2028.
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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
History will not judge you kindly.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23/05/2026
Arsenal’s hold on the streets and the elites ft.trib.al/VFafVQO | opinion
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Arsenal’s hold on the streets and the elites
How the team achieved such cultural reach in an unsuccessful era
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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“This is the era of indifference" Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World’s Most Vulnerable Places www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...
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Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Are we making America healthy again yet?
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E.P.A. to End Some Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 13/05/2026
🔴 How Will Reform Rule Affect Local Climate Policy? Farage’s party has shown over the last year that it will attempt to block and reverse clean energy initiatives in its new councils. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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How Will Reform Rule Affect Local Climate Policy?
During the 2025 local elections, Reform UK campaigned for the introduction of a “DOGE for every local authority” – a special unit modelled on billionaire Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficien...
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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...
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Opinion | I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
'Singing, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the latest study to link taking an active interest in art and culture with improved health.' Study after study after study suggests funding the arts funds good health, not that policy reflects it. 1/2
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Arts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’
Research from UCL suggests visiting art galleries or museums, singing and painting can help improve health outcomes
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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
US Supreme Court in Common Cause v. Rucho (2019) held that partisan gerrymandering is merely a nonjusticiable political question (ie permissible). In Callais v Louisiana (2026), it essentially blessed racial gerrymandering (restricting only intentional discriminatory ones, very difficult to prove).
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
My inaugural lecture as Professor of South Asian Music & History will be held on 28th May at 6PM @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social "If there is a heaven on earth: life, death, and the spaces between in South Asian Music". Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
The ghazal is a short, lyrical genre of poetry that has been widely embraced from Syria to Sumatra as a privileged form of emotional, artistic, and devotional expression. It originated in Arabic but made its main home further east in the Persianate world — in Iran, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. With its lilting metres and musical rhymes, the ghazal lends itself irresistibly to being set to melody, and has long enjoyed a second life throughout India and Pakistan as a major song form set in the classical ragas.
 
Moving backwards and forwards between the Mughal empire (1526–1858) and contemporary examples from India and Pakistan, in this lecture I will address the live musical performance of Persian and Urdu ghazals in two different, but ultimately linked, spaces: the secular mehfil — the intimate gathering for listening to elite music and poetry — and the majlis-i samā' (“assembly for spiritual listening”) at the Sufi shrine. Building on work I published twenty years ago on the occupational liminality of professional musicians, I will argue that in both the mehfil and the majlis, music acts to create a liminal space-time, or barzakh, in which listeners believe the isthmus between heaven and earth, the dead and the living, momentarily becomes thin, creating a highly emotionally charged experience. 

The quotation that forms my title is half of a Persian couplet attributed to the famous Indian poet Amir Khusrau (1253–1325): "If there is a heaven on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here". It is said to refer to Kashmir, or to the city of Delhi, or any number of other beautiful places built upon the Islamic idea of paradise as a garden. In this lecture I will explore how the ghazal when sung in raga works upon the listening body to create a heightened, in-the-moment experience of dwelling with the beloved in the garden that never dies — and in so doing serves to underline the listener’s own sense of transience and mortality: of life in the face of death.
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
fucking morons
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Hart Publishing @hartpublishing.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Not long to go! 🌟 Submissions for the SIEL–Hart Prize open on 1st May. Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/45OhNSz #InternationalEconomicLaw @sielnet.bsky.social @federico-ortino.bsky.social @gregorycshaffer.bsky.social
Banner for the SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law, featuring the book covers of three previous prizewinners, and an announcement that submissions will open on 1st May 2026.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
It's a bit gusty out there, but on the plus side, the UK is currently running on 77% renewable electricity right now. 🎉🎉💨💨 Yay nature! (screenshot from grid.iamkate.com )
Electricity dashboard, showing 5.8% fossil fuels, 77% renewables, 16.9% other sources, 4.2% interconnectors
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Hart Publishing @hartpublishing.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
📅 The countdown continues! Submissions for the SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law open on 1st May. Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/45OhNSz #InternationalEconomicLaw @sielnet.bsky.social @federico-ortino.bsky.social @gregorycshaffer.bsky.social
Banner for the SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law, featuring the book covers of three previous prizewinners, and an announcement that submissions will open on 1st May 2026.
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Alexander Horne @legalmusings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Yesterday, there was a debate on treaty scrutiny in Westminster in the Lords. I am very grateful to constitutional expert @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social for highlighting my proposed Private Members’ Bill: the Treaty Ratification (Parliamentary Consent) Bill. It could not have found a better advocate.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
UK government releases list of 76 EU laws that it says UK will align with under food standards treaty with EU www.gov.uk/government/n...
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UK-EU SPS Agreement - Legislation in scope
To cut red tape and costs for importing and exporting with the EU, the UK will align with EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) legislation.
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Federico Ortino @federico-ortino.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months
No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Every time I try to fill in our department’s new “employability” form, the computer crashes when I select "No” for “would you like to incorporate more employability activities into your module?”
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a cartoon of batman screaming that 's not the answer i want
ALT: a cartoon of batman screaming that 's not the answer i want
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
She's such a superstar 🦸‍♀️🌟
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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Jesus. Netflix calls it quits, the Ellisons and Paramount will get all of Warner, including CNN. Bari Weiss's sphere of influence grows. And no matter what you think of CNN or news in general, it's a big legacy brand with a lot of reach, that will now shift rightwards pretty hard.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Really good piece. The falling graduate premium is a consequence more than a cause of low growth ‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
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‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question
The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
When Musk and Hegseth argue that a racially diverse nation is inherently weak, they're not returning us to some long-established American tradition from which we've recently strayed. They are, instead, parroting the exact same propaganda that Nazi Germany promoted against America during World War II.
For just one example, read this analysis the Nazis made of the American population in 1942, where they confidently concluded that America's diversity would be its undoing: "During a war, only a people can fight for its future, not a mere population that is racially, religiously, linguistically, ideologically, and governmentally disunified. Given all that has been said, the USA has no unified people, only a population."
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If the WSJ is noticing it must be true www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 06/02/2026
The tax law passed by Congress last year let Amazon pay just $2.8B in federal income taxes—down from more than $7B in each of the prior two years. All while its profits jumped 44.5% to $89.5B. This is the same company that announced 16k layoffs last month.
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Amazon Saved Billions Under Trump’s New Tax Law
Breaks for investment and research lowered the company’s payments to the U.S. government.
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