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Luke Herrine

@lookheron.bsky.social
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Asst Prof, Alabama Law. Formerly: LPE Blog, Debt Collective. Consumer law, consumer finance, market governance, law and political economy

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 10h
Some professional news nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/collective...
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 12h
[Zizek voice] The Turing Test is an impoverished version of Hegel's notion of mutual recognition. The true test is not whether LLMs are human but what sort of dialectical relationships with humans they produce.
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Brands paid ad companies money to prevent this type of ad placement from happening and the FTC declared it an antitrust violation (tho they likely wouldn’t win in court) and pushed those companies to agree to stop doing it.
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reminder that the FTC went after ad companies for collusive boycotts because they “censored” hate accounts by giving companies ways to avoid placing ads next to them. I wonder if we’ll see that here
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The head of WBHM--a local NPR affiliate in Alabama--just announced he's stepping down because Governor Ivey requires all state employees to refer to "Gulf of America" and "Lake America" and he's drawing the line at this erosion of editorial independence.
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The best show is Deadwood. Ted Lasso should not be on any list of good shows, let alone best shows. End transmission.
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Relatedly, open.spotify.com/track/6T0hbB...
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Dopamine
Goodnight, Texas · Wooden Machine · Song · 2026
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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How To Act
Goodnight, Texas · Wooden Machine · Song · 2026
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1976!
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For @lpeblog.bsky.social I wrote about why "bring your own power" is a false solution to the problem of datacenter energy demand and why municipalization (public ownership and control) of regional transmission organizations is necessary to protect ratepayers and accelerate decarbonization.
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The Neoliberal Grid is in Crisis
To protect customers from rising electricity prices, public officials are urging data center developers to supply their own power. But this approach risks privatizing the power grid…
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm not so sure. An inspiring reconstructive agenda would bring competent and creative folks (many of whom are currently underemployed and/or unsatisfactorily employed) rushing in.
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Sandeep @sandeepinbk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New draft paper from me up on ssrn: ‘THE LEGAL REALISM OF W.E.B. DU BOIS’ - tracing Du Bois’s underexamined legal thought, from his 1896 dissertation on the slave trade through to his and the NAACP’s 1947 Appeal to the World papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Legal Realism of W.E.B. Du Bois
The great writer, activist, and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois saw his career unfold alongside the development of Legal Realism, an intellectual movement whose rapid ri
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Association of Law and Political Economy @a-lpe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Friends! We are thrilled to announce the Call for Proposals for our next annual meeting in Boston, MA, June 9-10, 2027. Please consider submitting a panel, roundtable, or individual paper proposal! lawandpoliticaleconomy.org?page_id=63
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Conference - Association of Law & Political Economy
2027 Annual ALPE Meeting June 9-10, 2027, Boston, MA We are thrilled to announce the Call for Proposals for the Association of Law and Political Economy’s 2027 annual meeting. We will meet in Boston, ...
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Really good foundational stuff on the democratic politics of electricity for this moment and beyond from @meganwachspress.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-neo...
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The Neoliberal Grid is in Crisis – LPE Project
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1976!
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1995(!!!)
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Part of an ongoing attack on the ABA, apparently in retaliation for condemning Trump Admin's threats to the rule of law, to be clear
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From Wynnewood! Another W for Lower Merion Township bay-bee
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wait, I thought it was bad to send money out of our economy and into another country?
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not even a Weberian, let alone a Marxist, concept of class moralpsych.weebly.com/uploads/1/8/...
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Somebody's got knives out for her
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 18/09/2026
As Israel's financial strangulation of the Palestinian economy enters its third year, Palestinians are turning to each other — forgiving debts worth millions of shekels in a viral solidarity campaign that began with a schoolteacher's bounced check. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/pale... #Palestine #Israel
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obviously the answer to this is yes
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Just ask the market” Boom. Doctorate please
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Big announcement from the FTC today of a crackdown on Amway’s recruiting practices. Historically significant in part because of Amway’s longstanding role as repeller of regulation via connections with Republican Party. I’m genuinely surprised www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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FTC Takes Historic Action Against Multilevel Marketing Operator Amway for Unfair and Deceptive Business Practices
Amway Corp., one of the largest multilevel marketing companies in the U.S., and two of its affiliates—World Wide Group, L.L.C. (WWG) and Leadership Team Development Inc.
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Matthew Lawrence @mblawrence.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Delighted to have a post today in @lpeblog.bsky.social talking applied admin law, transsubstantivity, and drug scheduling. lpeproject.org/blog/doing-a...
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Law and Political Economy Blog - LPE Project
Our blog begins from the observation that democratic political processes have lost control over fundamental decisions about how resources are allocated in our society.
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seventeen new public bathrooms is amazing, but let's be honest, it's not enough. Don't miss @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social's excellent piece at @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social about what it would really take to meet the bathroom needs of New York City! nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/give-new-y...
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Give New Yorkers a Place to Go
New York City has long failed to provide enough public toilets. The Mamdani administration has the tools to change that.
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"far-left central casting"?
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
First step toward a party of expropriation, just sayin
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Has there been a good exploration of why UCC 2-207 has not been amended for clarity and to resolve interpretive disputes?
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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
we are hiring a us historian at stony brook! its a great job, please send around and apply apply.interfolio.com/192098
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nice to see the Sraffian tradition get a shout. Incredibly, Kamala Harris's dad wrote a great piece pointing to the deep conceptual problems in that tradition: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...
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Client Challenge
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I got an exciting offer this morning
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
new from me at FORCES OF PRODUCTION: The Carbon Web in this piece, I use EPA data on emissions by sector to play around with some rankings for sectoral urgency and importance in planning the economic project of decarbonization www.forcesofproduction.com/p/the-carbon...
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The Carbon Web
Mapping the Decarbonization Frontier
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Really important to see what they looked like. "The use of such restrictive spaces is highly unconventional and does not align with standards for humane treatment," said Trump's own IG office. www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...
4'3" x 4'3" torture cages
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Contract professors in NYC: have you updated your unilateral offer materials yet?
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Contract professors in NYC: have you updated your unilateral offer materials yet?
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The fact that Acme Markets remains a robust going concern amidst all this is a big point against the notion of trademark tarnishment
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Started rewatching A Beautiful Mind last night (hadn’t seen it since it came out when I was a baby). It’s terrible, but also somehow newly relevant in our time of mathbrained AI paranoia
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/09/2026
We are New York City and we always fucking will be.
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Yeti Blood Oath Exorcist @greatemuwarvet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This book has stuck with me for the last year and I’m glad to see it get this kind of sustained analysis.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I thought @bridgetgillard.bsky.social’s book on MLMs was great to think with on how right wing movement building is intertwined with grifting in the US. And I couldn’t help but think in terms of consumer protection. My (long) review: lpeproject.org/blog/big-lit...
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Big Little Lies
What the history of multilevel marketing can teach us about our political moment — and potential ways out of it.
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A sensible counterpoint to ADL, IHRA, et al's approach to anti-anti-semitism diasporaalliance.co/wp-content/u...
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Spread the news: the Association of Law and Political Economy (@a-lpe.bsky.social) invites proposals for its second annual meeting, to be held on June 9-10, 2027, in Boston, MA.
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CFP: Second Annual Association of Law and Political Economy Conference
The Association of Law and Political Economy invites proposals for its second annual meeting, to be held on June 9-10, 2027, in Boston, MA.
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
cc @madeleineebaker.bsky.social
As Read shows, this style of salesmanship and culture building owes a great deal to the Positive Thinking movement that has shaped so much of contemporary religious and spiritual culture and (as Madeleine Baker’s fascinating recent book explores) management theory. The basic idea that drives this movement—that the key to success is “manifesting” it into existence by force of will—grew out of the New Thought tradition of the late nineteenth century, whose early proponents included Phineas Quimby and Ralph Waldo Trine. It was popularized in the twentieth century by Napoleon Hill, whose Think and Grow Rich (1937) became a foundational text for the self-help industry, and came to be called “Positive Thinking” after Norman Vincent Peale published his bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking in 1952. Peale was, notably, the Trump family’s pastor: Donald Trump’s parents drove into Manhattan every Sunday to worship at Peale’s Marble Collegiate Church, and Peale officiated Trump’s first wedding. The tradition has since been repackaged in many guises—most recently as The Secret and the Prosperity Gospel.

Following Biggart’s suggestion that MLMs organize their sales forces like social movements, we can usefully understand Positive Thinking’s relationship to MLMs as akin to Marxism’s relationship to (radical) labor unions. It motivates effective organizing by giving both the lead organizers and the rank-and-file an understanding of why it makes sense for them to engage in a shared project and take the personal risks that they do, even as it draws on an account of social reality that can be used by people whether or not they are part of that project. Those who use this ideology to make sense of their work with MLMs will also use it to make sense of other social relationships. And those who accept the ideology because it is common in their community will find the MLM pitch more amenable.
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