Julia Rose Kraut
@juliarosekraut.bsky.social
JD/PhD | THREAT OF DISSENT: A HISTORY OF IDEOLOGICAL EXCLUSION AND DEPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674292352 | Posts are mine, not the views of my employer. ❤️ & Reposts are not endorsements.
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Hello! I'm a legal historian specializing in immigration & First Amendment law/history. Unfortunately, my research & writing on ideological exclusion/deportation (1798 to Trump 1.0) continues to be relevant. I post on current events, immigration, free speech, & history. Also post my 📸, 🎧🎵, 🎬 recs. 🗃️
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Please read this excellent piece by @qjurecic.bsky.social.
Numbers don't capture the chilling effect on free expression or those excluded or deported we will never hear about in the news.
Appreciate her reaching out to me to discuss how the past can inform the present. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social
Numbers don't capture the chilling effect on free expression or those excluded or deported we will never hear about in the news.
Appreciate her reaching out to me to discuss how the past can inform the present. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Please read this excellent piece by @qjurecic.bsky.social.
Numbers don't capture the chilling effect on free expression or those excluded or deported we will never hear about in the news.
Appreciate her reaching out to me to discuss how the past can inform the present. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social
Numbers don't capture the chilling effect on free expression or those excluded or deported we will never hear about in the news.
Appreciate her reaching out to me to discuss how the past can inform the present. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social
Please read this excellent piece by @qjurecic.bsky.social.
Numbers don't capture the chilling effect on free expression or those excluded or deported we will never hear about in the news.
Appreciate her reaching out to me to discuss how the past can inform the present. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social
Numbers don't capture the chilling effect on free expression or those excluded or deported we will never hear about in the news.
Appreciate her reaching out to me to discuss how the past can inform the present. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Please read this excellent piece by @qjurecic.bsky.social.
Numbers don't capture the chilling effect on free expression or those excluded or deported we will never hear about in the news.
Appreciate her reaching out to me to discuss how the past can inform the present. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social
Numbers don't capture the chilling effect on free expression or those excluded or deported we will never hear about in the news.
Appreciate her reaching out to me to discuss how the past can inform the present. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social
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Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
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Jeffries: "I'm not gonna respond to any comments from randos like Dr Oz who is woefully unqualified to be in whatever position he holds in the administration. He's a joke."
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Jeffries: "I'm not gonna respond to any comments from randos like Dr Oz who is woefully unqualified to be in whatever position he holds in the administration. He's a joke."
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November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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If Chuck Schumer was a stronger leader, he would have been able to convince most of these senators to hold the line.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
If Chuck Schumer was a stronger leader, he would have been able to convince most of these senators to hold the line.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
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This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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"Life During Wartime" (1979) - Talking Heads 🗃️🎶🎧
Performed live in concert in "Stop Making Sense" (1984) ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn62...
Performed live in concert in "Stop Making Sense" (1984) ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn62...
𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 - 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟒 - 𝟒𝐊 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 #talkingheads #stopmakingsense
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October 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"Life During Wartime" (1979) - Talking Heads 🗃️🎶🎧
Performed live in concert in "Stop Making Sense" (1984) ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn62...
Performed live in concert in "Stop Making Sense" (1984) ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn62...
"For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about." @caitlindickerson.bsky.social via @theatlantic.com ⬇️
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Hundreds of Thousands of Anonymous Deportees
Amid the president’s fast-moving deportation campaign, the stories of most people being swept up are missed.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about." @caitlindickerson.bsky.social via @theatlantic.com ⬇️
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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In what amounts to Mark Wolf’s resignation letter from the federal bench in Massachusetts forget more than 40 years—he was already a senior judge, so it creates no vacancy—he says he “intend[s] to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In what amounts to Mark Wolf’s resignation letter from the federal bench in Massachusetts forget more than 40 years—he was already a senior judge, so it creates no vacancy—he says he “intend[s] to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Yikes. USDA sent threatening letter to states telling them that if they sent out EBT money —which many states did during the window when a lower court said SNAP funds had to be released—they have to take it back (?)
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yikes. USDA sent threatening letter to states telling them that if they sent out EBT money —which many states did during the window when a lower court said SNAP funds had to be released—they have to take it back (?)
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds
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![Andrews: That is not the point that I’m making today. Let me make instead a different point, which is that I think that McCarthyism was actually, in many ways, quite masculine.
Think about loyalty oaths. The whole reason why university systems and schools and other institutions wanted to have loyalty oaths, which are sort of the banner phenomenon of McCarthyism, is because they said: We simply cannot have an ongoing atmosphere of suspicion and rumor and sort of witch hunting. We need to have some clarity. So we will have a loyalty oath, and everybody who takes it will be fine. And everybody who doesn’t take it, well, that’ll be a problem.
Douthat: [Chuckles.] They won’t be fine.
Andrews: They won’t be fine.
Douthat: They won’t participate in the argument.
Andrews: But at least it then will be done. Then it will be finished, and it will be all out in the open. And the criteria for deciding whether or not somebody is a communist will be known, and we will evaluate them in kind of a straightforward, objective way.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:23jbx3mbesh2ghfcecaxsk6p/bafkreieqzyjn4aqo5xmxpoq7xuohfqyygls3x3cu35udk3cp6iwimtnkmy@jpeg)
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For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM
Watch (or Rewatch) this classic 1930s film, a romantic comedy with a critique of capitalism & avarice, starring Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn: "Holiday" (1938) - Dir. George Cukor
Available free on YouTube ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEAF...
Watch (or Rewatch) this classic 1930s film, a romantic comedy with a critique of capitalism & avarice, starring Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn: "Holiday" (1938) - Dir. George Cukor
Available free on YouTube ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEAF...
Holiday (1938)
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM
Watch (or Rewatch) this classic 1930s film, a romantic comedy with a critique of capitalism & avarice, starring Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn: "Holiday" (1938) - Dir. George Cukor
Available free on YouTube ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEAF...
Watch (or Rewatch) this classic 1930s film, a romantic comedy with a critique of capitalism & avarice, starring Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn: "Holiday" (1938) - Dir. George Cukor
Available free on YouTube ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEAF...
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Times like these demonstrate why legal commentary and analysis shared on @bsky.app are so essential to understanding what's happening right now.
a man in a suit and tie talking on a phone
Alt: a man in a suit and tie talking on a phone. Jackie Childs from Seinfeld. Saying That's deplorable! Improbable! Unfathomable!
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November 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Times like these demonstrate why legal commentary and analysis shared on @bsky.app are so essential to understanding what's happening right now.
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Good longer read on Justice Jackson’s response to a very tricky situation tonight from @stevevladeck.bsky.social: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Good longer read on Justice Jackson’s response to a very tricky situation tonight from @stevevladeck.bsky.social: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Times like these demonstrate why legal commentary and analysis shared on @bsky.app are so essential to understanding what's happening right now.
a man in a suit and tie talking on a phone
Alt: a man in a suit and tie talking on a phone. Jackie Childs from Seinfeld. Saying That's deplorable! Improbable! Unfathomable!
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Times like these demonstrate why legal commentary and analysis shared on @bsky.app are so essential to understanding what's happening right now.
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This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
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November 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.
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#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.