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Raúl Carrillo

@raulcarrillo.bsky.social
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law prof @ BC. focused on the future 💸 ⚖️ 🛰️ formerly Deputy Director @lpeproject.bsky.social Board of Directors, @a-lpe.bsky.social‬ www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/l…

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the euphemisms that come out of industry crack me up "Bankers describe the guarantees as 'balance-sheet efficient'." www.ft.com/content/7f11...
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Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300bn of AI exposure off balance sheets
Wall Street finds new way to turn tech giants’ credit strength into cheaper funding for AI build-out
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mapping the wild financial interrelationships within AI tech & finance is fascinating & also changing every day: great set of visuals ⬇️⬇️ their risk is our risk: not pictured is the next layers out, workers' money-pension funds, retirement accts, anyone w/ an index fund 💰 www.ft.com/content/8475...
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Joining the dots between big AI
In the loop?
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
and this is before the insane gas power plant buildout for data centers that we're about to see
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
great to see union leaders standing up against extractive data center construction: "Should we not dream of something more for ourselves? Of safe & sustainable union jobs that build infrastructure serving the many, not the few?" & hey I used to be a member of OPEIU! right @blmckean.bsky.social ?
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 14/09/2026
Alligator Alcatraz’ confined detained immigrants in cages the size of phone booths, according to a new report by the DHS inspector general.
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DHS watchdog: Immigrants held in outdoor cages the size of phone booths at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector general’s report.
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My paper on Musk, SpaceX, X Money, and the gap between communications and financial regulation is in the cycle! 🚀 ⚖️
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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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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My paper on Musk, SpaceX, X Money, and the gap between communications and financial regulation is in the cycle! 🚀 ⚖️
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
because also giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Chip stocks tumble as AI sell-off deepens
Nasdaq 100 briefly falls into correction territory ahead of raft of Big Tech earnings
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
i'm writing about the risks of data centers for public pension funds, so silver lining but not great from a eggs in one basket view "The arrangement will intensify concerns about circular financing, as the chip group underwrites more of the market for its chips" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Nvidia revealed as tenant for $50bn data centre that will use its chips
CEO Jensen Huang deploys balance sheet to backstop growth of AI computing market
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
X Money completed beta testing and fully launched today X is the 1st social media platform in the US to embed FDIC-insured accounts In a few days, I'll be submitting an article to law reviews re: SpaceX, X Money, and the regulation of communications conglomerates in finance money.x.com/en
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X Money — Every dollar works harder on X
One app. Everything money can do.
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Now on SSRN: my Article showing how the $250 billion video game industry, (the largest entertainment industry in the world) has rapidly developed unregulated monetary systems ✍️ ⚖️ 🎮 🤑
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
X Money completed beta testing and fully launched today X is the 1st social media platform in the US to embed FDIC-insured accounts In a few days, I'll be submitting an article to law reviews re: SpaceX, X Money, and the regulation of communications conglomerates in finance money.x.com/en
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X Money — Every dollar works harder on X
One app. Everything money can do.
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
At long last, my article, "Gaming Money," is out in the Columbia Law Review. Thanks so much to the many, many folks who helped along the way!! @columlrev.bsky.social columbialawreview.org/content/gami...
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GAMING MONEY - Columbia Law Review
Introduction Video games have never been more serious. The gaming industry generated approximately $224 billion in global revenue in 2024. Some experts project that figure will reach $300 billion by 2...
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
What is LPE? Is it a reaction to law and economics? Does it have a method? What is its normative north star? Amy Kapczynski, Corinne Blalock, Aslı Bâli, Sabeel Rahman, Angela Harris, and Yochai Benkler offer their best answers to these questions in two sentences or less.
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What is LPE? An ALPE Lightning Round
What is LPE? Is it a reaction to law and economics? Does it have a method? What is its normative north star? At this year's ALPE conference, Amy Kapczynski, Corinne Blalock, Aslı Bâli, Sabeel Rahman…
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
what a *great* time to open up 401(k)s to "private" financial assets! at my talk against this yesterday at an industry event, many ppl came up to us after & whispered sotto voce "I agree with you" even got one business card w/ "thank u for speaking truth to power" on the back 🤣
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
‘99 BABY!!!
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
!!!!!!!!!!! @(&(&&:&/&&/ !!!!!!!!!!!
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
*BIG WEMBY FREE THROW BREATH*
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🙌🙌🙌!!!!!!!!!! $&@$$:838&!37/$!!’n
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
i'm all anxious. but stepping back, i can't believe we're even here. way ahead of schedule. #GoSpursGo #PorVida #RaceForSeis 👽🦊🏰🏀
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Monica Iyer @monicavisalam.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
One more LSA post: anyone wanna find a good sports bar with me tomorrow night to watch the Spurs-Thunder game? ( @corinneblalock.bsky.social this is not NOT directed at you 😉)
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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
and @veenadubal.bsky.social !!!!
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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Really looking forward to our joint AMR at @lawandsociety.bsky.social ociety.bsky.social tomorrow with so many amazing scholars. Please come! @jiseonsong.bsky.social @libbyadler.bsky.social Jamelia Morgan @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social @swethaa.bsky.social and Kathy Abrams #LSA2026
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I just can’t believe Hartenstein pulled Castle’s hair. No foul called.
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
the final deadline to vote for me for the MA public pension board is coming up Friday! any MA state employee who is in the pension system can get their election code & pin by emailing Help+PRIM@yeselections.com & vote online also ⬇️☺️
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
If you're in Mass state govt, you have until Fri. @ 11:59 PM to vote for Lenore for the Pension Reserves Investment Management Board! Lenore is a 3rd-generation union member, attorney, AND professor of econ & public policy who is an EXPERT on PENSION FUNDS! Doesn't get any better. PRIMvotes.com
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Vote now
I voted and so can you
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Today, @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social and @azohra.bsky.social kick off a series on international law under the second Trump administration. The embrace of naked coercion, they argue, represents both a genuine departure from, and the culmination of the internal contradictions of, the post-WWII order.
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Something Old and Something New: International Law Under Trump 2.0
The United States’ turn toward naked coercion and transactional deal-making represents both a genuine departure from its commitment to the liberal international legal order and the culmination of that...
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I'm writing something about public pension funds & data centers & risk -- this total mess strengthens my goal to get elected to the MA PRIM Board! have a friend who works for MA state government? Pls send them to my website so that they can vote before May 22nd!! lenorepalladino.me
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Lenore Palladino, Ph.D.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database: www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...
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ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir
The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"According to local news outlet El Paso Matters, the three-gigawatt data center complex “would consume more electricity than all of El Paso Electric’s 460,000 customers combined." data centers will become defined as national security infrastructure borderlands the first to pay the price as always
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Congrats to Bench Ansfield 🎉! If you want to see what all the buzz is about, check out their interview with Andrew Anatasi on how arson became profitable for landlords, how residents organized to stop it, and what this tells us about the ongoing interplay between property and racial capitalism.
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The Business of Arson: An Interview with Bench Ansfield
An examination of the wave of landlord perpetrated arson in the Bronx during the 1970s presents an untold story of racial capitalism and financialization. Andrew Anastasi interviews Bench Ansfield…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
it is not judicial activism when it is going after what scalia called a “racial entitlement.” you know, voting rights.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Everybody, absolutely everybody, saw Callais coming. It’s the logical outgrowth of a successful effort to gut the Voting Rights Act that spans decades, predicated upon a myopic understanding of racial discrimination and an antebellum conception of federalism. That doesn’t make this any easier.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Today, @azohra.bsky.social explains how the recent conviction of Anti-ICE protestors represents a dangerous and increasingly common form of guilt by association that is antithetical to collective political action.
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Guilt by Solidarity
The conviction of Anti-ICE protestors on terrorism charges represents a dangerous new front in the Trump administration's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history: over the past…
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
it feels like it's mid-feb 2020 w/r/t the energy crisis in the U.S. we're watching what's happening with dread but also a sense of unreality.. ..with absolutely no idea about how hard we're about to get hit
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
At @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, Katie J. Wells, Maya Pinto, and Funda Ustek Spilda released a new report on how gig nursing platforms are lobbying states to deregulate healthcare.
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Uber For Nursing Part II - AI Now Institute
A seismic shift is rocking the healthcare industry. Uber’s business model—the “gigification” of labor—and lobbying practices have made their way to healthcare staffing.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Earlier this week, the University of Chicago announced a new minor in Law and Political Economy. Yes, really. And, yes, the good kind of political economy!
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UChicago Launches Interdisciplinary Economics Major Specialization, Law and Political Economy Minor
Beginning in the fall, undergraduates can pursue a new economics specialization in politics and policy and a new minor in law and political economy.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Are you a student interested in LPE? This your chance to join the movement: the Association of Law and Political Economy is now open to student members. Students will elect their own representative to the Board in the upcoming election, so please help spread the word.
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Association of Law and Political Economy Memberships - Membership Management Software
Become a member of Association of Law and Political Economy. Learn more about membership, join, or login to manage your membership via the member portal.
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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
nothing matters anymore but just to be clear: if the company is leaking these excerpts, it's really violating the securities laws, if that's still a thing anymore
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Today, a spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉
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Some of the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship
A selection of worthy additions to your “important PDFs” folder.
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
sigh, wrote about this w/ rhiana gunn-wright in 2021 but the care-sector unions, NDWA, caring across generations & like a million other groups have been making this point for so long feministgreennewdeal.com/wp-content/u...
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
no, we need to make all care jobs high-paid, unionized jobs with dignity & respect, and then men will absolutely *clamor* for them
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
this is my nightmare come to life "Carlyle will build a 2.5 to 3 gigawatt data centre on roughly 1,384 acres at Fort Bliss, a base in El Paso, Texas" add this to *everything else* happening at the border & the insane data center going up close by in New Mexico giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Carlyle and KKR to build two data centres for US Army at a cost of $2bn each
Army secretary says Iran war underscores need to adapt to AI’s growing role in modern warfare
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Apollo too, despite many earlier protestations of 'not us!' www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/a...
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Apollo gives investors only 45% of requested withdrawals from $15 billion private credit fund
The withdrawals show that Apollo didn't avoid the rush of investor redemptions plaguing rivals, driven by concern over private credit loans to software firms.
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
if you have seen the multiple news articles on private credit today and are still like, what's that again? I give you: outdated now that so much has happened peri.umass.edu/publication/...
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The Risks of Unregulated “Private” Credit Funds
Abstract The “private” financial industry—which contains financial instruments not traded on open exchanges and financial institutions that are underregulated—is no longer an ‘alternative’…
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Rep. Gabe Vasquez @repgabevasquez.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
My statement on sexual abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 18/03/2026
"My silence ends here." Read Dolores Huerta's statement about her decision to reveal that she was sexually assaulted by Cesar Chavez. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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Dolores Huerta: "My Silence Ends Here"
The labor movement icon speaks out after revealing that she was sexually assaulted by Cesar Chavez.
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We're about to see a new surveillance trap: "Plaid for AI" This will look like slick middleware that seamlessly hooks CRMs to Claude, gmail to GPT-5 etc, etc. UX will be great & founders well-meaning. Then the VCs ask: what else can we do with this sick tokenflow data? 1/
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