Kevin H Bell
@kevinok.bsky.social
FOIA Lawyer at Free Information Group, PLLC
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Ask me about suing the government!
Kevin {at} freeinformationgroup.com
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Ask me about suing the government!
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Kevin H Bell
@kevinok.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Today was my last day as a federal employee, but tomorrow I and my new partner, Ginger Quintero-McCall, open a new law practice, the Free Information Group. We are both FOIA lawyers, and we are very good at suing the government. 1/
Elon told us to find more productive work in the private sector, so we did
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Thousands of EPA employees are furloughed. Some of those who remain are busy loosening pollution regulations, a key priority of the Trump admin.
Great reporting from @mollytaft.com
Great reporting from @mollytaft.com
The EPA Is in Chaos
“We learn who is furloughed when we send an email to someone and get the out-of-office message,” one employee tells WIRED.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Thousands of EPA employees are furloughed. Some of those who remain are busy loosening pollution regulations, a key priority of the Trump admin.
Great reporting from @mollytaft.com
Great reporting from @mollytaft.com
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Has anybody found any of the DOJ quarterly reports detailing the "progress" of the weaponization working group?
The reports are supposed to be provided to the WH once a quarter. I just filed a FOIA for them but feel one or two must be floating around.
The reports are supposed to be provided to the WH once a quarter. I just filed a FOIA for them but feel one or two must be floating around.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Has anybody found any of the DOJ quarterly reports detailing the "progress" of the weaponization working group?
The reports are supposed to be provided to the WH once a quarter. I just filed a FOIA for them but feel one or two must be floating around.
The reports are supposed to be provided to the WH once a quarter. I just filed a FOIA for them but feel one or two must be floating around.
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“ICE loves to demand our papers but it seems they don’t like it as much when we demand theirs,” said Ginger Quintero-McCall, one of FPF's lawyers in our latest FOIA lawsuit against the immigration agency.
FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy
FOIA lawsuit targets ICE’s efforts to stop congressional oversight of detention facilities
freedom.press
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“ICE loves to demand our papers but it seems they don’t like it as much when we demand theirs,” said Ginger Quintero-McCall, one of FPF's lawyers in our latest FOIA lawsuit against the immigration agency.
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New @dcogc board member @kevinok.bsky.social has filed an important case on behalf of @freedom.press efforts to get ICE to respond to public records requests via #foia.
If ICE is too busy stalking daycare pickups to read their emails from Congress, they should really be thanking Lauren for FOIAing them
Our attorney @kevinok.bsky.social is spot on: “ICE will find hiding from FOIA harder than simply pulling on their balaclavas, which tend to be frowned on in court.”
Read more about our latest FOIA lawsuit, in which we are represented by Free Information Group, here:
Read more about our latest FOIA lawsuit, in which we are represented by Free Information Group, here:
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
New @dcogc board member @kevinok.bsky.social has filed an important case on behalf of @freedom.press efforts to get ICE to respond to public records requests via #foia.
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ICE is tearing apart families, placing people in secretive detention centers beyond the reach of congressional oversight, that's why @freedom.press is suing the agency to obtain emails it received Congress.
"ICE is the most lawless agency in government," FPF attorney @kevinok.bsky.social says.
"ICE is the most lawless agency in government," FPF attorney @kevinok.bsky.social says.
FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy
FOIA lawsuit targets ICE’s efforts to stop congressional oversight of detention facilities
freedom.press
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
ICE is tearing apart families, placing people in secretive detention centers beyond the reach of congressional oversight, that's why @freedom.press is suing the agency to obtain emails it received Congress.
"ICE is the most lawless agency in government," FPF attorney @kevinok.bsky.social says.
"ICE is the most lawless agency in government," FPF attorney @kevinok.bsky.social says.
If ICE is too busy stalking daycare pickups to read their emails from Congress, they should really be thanking Lauren for FOIAing them
Our attorney @kevinok.bsky.social is spot on: “ICE will find hiding from FOIA harder than simply pulling on their balaclavas, which tend to be frowned on in court.”
Read more about our latest FOIA lawsuit, in which we are represented by Free Information Group, here:
Read more about our latest FOIA lawsuit, in which we are represented by Free Information Group, here:
FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy
FOIA lawsuit targets ICE’s efforts to stop congressional oversight of detention facilities
freedom.press
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If ICE is too busy stalking daycare pickups to read their emails from Congress, they should really be thanking Lauren for FOIAing them
Suing the government is so back
“ICE loves to demand our papers but it seems they don’t like it as much when we demand theirs,” said Ginger Quintero-McCall, one of our attorneys in our most recent FOIA lawsuit against ICE.
Thank you to Ginger and @kevinok.bsky.social at Free Information Group making this suit possible.
Thank you to Ginger and @kevinok.bsky.social at Free Information Group making this suit possible.
FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy
FOIA lawsuit targets ICE’s efforts to stop congressional oversight of detention facilities
freedom.press
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Suing the government is so back
Federoo Departments and Agencies
What do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out!
What do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out!
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Federoo Departments and Agencies
What do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out!
What do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out!
I loved working at FERC but I cannot imagine how my sleepy little grid management agency is handling this surging buffoonery
Trump on AI: "They're building their own electric utility plant. They become a utility if you think about it. They're building the utility & electric right alongside - this is where they have their transformers - they're building the most expensive electric plants you've ever seen. Some by nuclear."
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I loved working at FERC but I cannot imagine how my sleepy little grid management agency is handling this surging buffoonery
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it was so sweet of the NY post to make a special commemorative issue
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
it was so sweet of the NY post to make a special commemorative issue
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Newsletter: Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, President Trump has offered a curious defense: he doesn’t even know the guy.
Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned
President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.
www.citationneeded.news
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Newsletter: Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, President Trump has offered a curious defense: he doesn’t even know the guy.
Just finished drafting my first FOIA Complaint in 3 years, get hype for suing the government
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Just finished drafting my first FOIA Complaint in 3 years, get hype for suing the government
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There it is www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...
New Weapons Testing Won’t Include Nuclear Explosions, Energy Secretary Says
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
There it is www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...
Mark Carney, my country cries out for freedom
Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"
November 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Mark Carney, my country cries out for freedom
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People: Churches should take care of poor people.
Churches: Okay.
People: No, not like that. Now we’re suing you.
episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/10/30/a...
Churches: Okay.
People: No, not like that. Now we’re suing you.
episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/10/30/a...
Arizona Episcopal church continues serving unhoused, low-income people despite lawsuit threats
[Episcopal News Service] For more than 25 years, Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Tucson, Arizona, has unconditionally served unhoused and low-income people in its community. The parish offers …
episcopalnewsservice.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
People: Churches should take care of poor people.
Churches: Okay.
People: No, not like that. Now we’re suing you.
episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/10/30/a...
Churches: Okay.
People: No, not like that. Now we’re suing you.
episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/10/30/a...
Greeting the trick or treaters
November 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Greeting the trick or treaters
As good a post as any to announce that I've joined the board of the DC Open Government Coalition!
Stay spooky👻 and don't get redacted ⬛⬛🅱️😱⬛⬛
Stay spooky👻 and don't get redacted ⬛⬛🅱️😱⬛⬛
🎃 No Tricks, Just Transparency
Don’t let government secrecy haunt you this Halloween. 👻
#FOIA #OpenGovernment #Transparency
Don’t let government secrecy haunt you this Halloween. 👻
#FOIA #OpenGovernment #Transparency
October 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
As good a post as any to announce that I've joined the board of the DC Open Government Coalition!
Stay spooky👻 and don't get redacted ⬛⬛🅱️😱⬛⬛
Stay spooky👻 and don't get redacted ⬛⬛🅱️😱⬛⬛
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I wrote this back in June, but I stand by the assessment of the significance of this election and the threat represented by this increasingly rancid and useless establishment. I know NYC politics is exhausting and stupid, but it's going to be a lot of this, everywhere. defector.com/andrew-cuomo...
Andrew Cuomo Is A Future Of The Democratic Party | Defector
There is a specific and lacerating shame that comes with talking about New York City politics in places where people who do not live in New York City can hear you. This is not just because the people ...
defector.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I wrote this back in June, but I stand by the assessment of the significance of this election and the threat represented by this increasingly rancid and useless establishment. I know NYC politics is exhausting and stupid, but it's going to be a lot of this, everywhere. defector.com/andrew-cuomo...
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California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
"they were able to live their lives in peace and transport but only because of the hard men of Gondor. It is time to ally with the Ring of Power"
October 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"they were able to live their lives in peace and transport but only because of the hard men of Gondor. It is time to ally with the Ring of Power"
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
April keeps demanding to break into federal facilities on our walks
October 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
April keeps demanding to break into federal facilities on our walks