We're thrilled that Founding Director Alvaro Bedoya has been confirmed to the FTC. See below for a statement from Alvaro.

It is the honor of my life to be nominated to serve on the FTC. When my family landed at JFK in 1987 with 4 suitcases and a grad student stipend, this was not what we expected. Thank you Joe Biden and Lina Khan, thank you Sima, my love, mom, dad, Pablo, our families. Vamos.

My two-year old, whispering to herself: “My shoes are on backwards. But I love going backwards.”

If you care about immigrants, if you aren't intimidated by tech, and if you want to push back on abusive surveillance, then THIS is one of the best jobs you could possibly find Immigrant Defense Project: idealist.org/en/nonprofit-j…

i see your academic theory and raise you a single lived experience

Happy Labor Day!

“It includes universal access to preschool for 3 and 4 year-olds by 2030, expanding college and career opportunities in high school, establishing a minimum starting salary of $60,000 for teachers by 2023 + shows a high understanding of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future” /2

Great (and entirely unsurprising) to see Dr. John B. King, Jr. lay out a bold, comprehensive and equity-focused vision for Maryland schools. /1

1,000 students and staff are in quarantine in Montgomery County Public Schools.

This is what people in apartments off of Twinbrook Parkway in Rockville woke up to. The man who gave me this video lives on the third level and says he woke up to people screaming then saw this ⬇️ 7News DC

Caitlynn Peetz Dan Schere The GoFundMe for Melkin Daniel Cedillo's funeral expenses and family is here. These things are hard to write about. But the community has rallied and already reached the $20,000 goal. gofundme.com/f/aydanos-con-…

A teenager died in the flooding from Ida not a 10 minute drive from our home.

By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court just allowed Texas to enforce a law that prohibits abortions after six weeks, with no exception for rape or incest. Roe v. Wade is, functionally, overturned. Justice Sotomayor all but says it. s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentclo…

The flooding event that took place this morning in Rockville was horrific. These increasingly extreme precipitation events that we are experiencing in Montgomery County are yet another indication that climate change is here, right now.

These are amazing scholars, but astonishing that only one woman (the incredible Danielle Citron) and one person of color (my wonderful colleague Paul Ohm) on list. No women of color. 🚫👩🏽‍🏫 1/

She’s also one of the most impressive interlocutors. I used clips of her questioning Kirstjen Nielsen about family separations to teach my students how to question witnesses at an oversight hearing.

Praying for New Orleans