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Kate Jackson
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Associate Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽‍♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.

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Political science 37%
Law 28%

If the aim is to stop refugees from flooding the border…. A war, which tends to create refugees, seems pretty counterproductive.
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.

Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.

Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com

Reposted by James Goodwin

With less access to student loans, there will be less nurses.

Man, Trump sure is angry with the ladies this week.
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com

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“The idea that teenage girls are not only stumbling blocks for their male peers but also sources of temptation for adult men is the darkest and most dangerous point of convergence between purity culture and rape culture.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...
The Barely Legal Type: Purity Culture, Rape Culture, and America’s Lose-Lose Proposition for Girls
The very parts of American culture that claim to promote teen abstinence and sexual purity operate on a parallel logic to the rape culture that enables the darkest misogynistic violence against women.
www.liberalcurrents.com

Trump demands larry ellison fire CNN journalists in exchange corneegulatory merger approvals

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is a perfect time for a regime to insist that a reminder to “disobey illegal orders” is itself insurrection and treason.

At least if you *want* people to call you Nazis
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses, as hate symbols.

The fuck?

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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st

At least you found a real plaintiff. Unlike the Kochs in masterpiece cakeshop

So SCOTUS justices can now dissent based upon mere fact of the Kochs’ funding of litigation. Right? Right?!

Why yes, there *is* a lot of similarity between the world’s first (almost) trillionaire and Trump.

I’ve got an essay and paper explaining why

lpeproject.org/blog/a-popul...
Opinion | The World’s Most Shameless Public Figure Does It Again
www.nytimes.com
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com

I must have been dozing off the day in con law when we covered how the commerce clause includes executive orders
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."

www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com

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What an ai first administration looks like.
Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations.
www.theverge.com

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An antidote / reaction / some other word that is escaping me to executive function theft? See: hedgehoglibrarian.com/2023/08/14/e... by @hedgielib.bsky.social

This is actually high strategy wherein the revolutionary genius vanguard prophet delegitimizes his enemy simply by getting himself invited to speak there

Ok Massie, Margie and Ro: here’s your next discharge petition assignment

House Democrats Press for Vote to Bar Military Action in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
House Democrats Press for Vote to Bar Military Action in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com

This is Meelo. We also call him Meatloaf. He is very easy to please and snuggly.

MTG today: “let me tell you what a traitor is. A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves.”

Also today:

I can’t help but think that Trump was extra trumpy because he was hamming it up for his hero

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Trump SCOLDS reporter's questions to Saudi crown prince
YouTube video by Fox News
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Academia is a really racist and sexist place. Larry Summers, as the president of Harvard, epitomized that racism and sexism but he is not unique. That's why we needed DEI.

I don’t think Trump knows that most people don’t get a chance to negotiate their contracts
Trump: "THE ONLY HEALTHCARE I'LL SUPPORT OR APPROVE IS SENDING MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE PEOPLE W/ NOTHING GOING TO THE BIG, FAT, RICH INSURANCE COMPANIES, WHO HAVE RIPPED OFF AMERICA LONG ENOUGH. THE PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED TO NEGOTIATE & BUY THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, INSURANCE. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"

Reposted by Kate Jackson, Dunlap

NEW: For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.

read @telliotter.bsky.social:
Social Security Data Is Openly Being Shared With DHS to Target Immigrants
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
www.wired.com

I’m still confused why people think this man shared a special friend with Larry summers.
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
Trump: "THE ONLY HEALTHCARE I'LL SUPPORT OR APPROVE IS SENDING MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE PEOPLE W/ NOTHING GOING TO THE BIG, FAT, RICH INSURANCE COMPANIES, WHO HAVE RIPPED OFF AMERICA LONG ENOUGH. THE PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED TO NEGOTIATE & BUY THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, INSURANCE. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com