Kate Jackson

@katejackson.bsky.social

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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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Ryan Thoreson @ryanthoreson.bsky.social · 8h

The US Supreme Court has left marriage alone, but its decision to let Trump's discriminatory passport policy take effect is a devastating step backwards that jeopardizes trans and intersex people's human rights. www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

US Supreme Court Allows Discriminatory Passport Rule

The United States Supreme Court last week allowed the implementation of a discriminatory Trump administration policy requiring new passports to reflect an individual’s sex assigned at birth.

www.hrw.org

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 8h

How the Great Kahn, Supreme Progenitor, Holy-Martial Emperor, Interpreter of the Heavenly Law, and Initiator of the Good Fortune Might Mean Good Fortune for *You*

How Elon Musk’s Tesla Pay Award Can Earn More Money For You

Most people will never see anything near $1 billion, let alone $1 trillion, over their working lifetimes. Still, taking a few lessons from Elon Musk can help anyone make a little more scratch.

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Reposted by Kate Jackson

IndivisibleLasVegas ❌👑 @indivisiblelasvegas.org · 8h

Calling on every Indivisible member across the country and those who demand new leadership for the Democratic party to call your Dem senator. Chuck has go to go.
@indivisible.org

indivisible.org/resource/cal...

CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 11h

Can't get the government to promise to bail out AI? Well, entangle AI in Wall Street so much that the government will be forced to bail out both to preserve...the financial system itself.

Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 12h

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 12h

Today, @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social explains how Trump's capricious tariffs and attacks on the IRS are the latest iteration of a long anti-tax, anti-democratic tradition.

The Long Anti-Tax Tradition of American Oligarchy

Throughout U.S. history, oligarchs have fettered the tax power of the state to ensure that the government would be too feeble to rein in their power. The Trump Administration'

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 12h

This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14h

And either way, working a con on your own base isn't great for public support. Thus, the identity of the heads offered to the electoral axe.

And people are still losing their health insurance.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14h

So maybe "save health insurance" was always a cover story to drum up public pressure, giving Dems space to negotiate behind the scenes to save the power of the purse and make Vought et al think twice before wielding the chainsaw.

I don't know if that's right or it's the "bargaining" stage of grief.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, the trillion dollar paycheck? That's fine. But woe to he who reads Goethe while riding public transit or she who graduates law school magna cum laude

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14h

one thing I don't understand about our culture is that we (1) don't get jealous of billionaire businessmen who are better at business-ing than us, but (2) we do get sh*tty with formally educated people who are better at formally-educating themselves than the rest of us.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 15h

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 15h

If you didn't know that Big Tech hates higher ed, are you aware of the fact that PowerPoint is retiring the "reuse slide" feature starting in January?!

screenshot of message in MS powerpoint stating that "reuse slides will be retired starting on Jan 1, 2026"

Reposted by Reece Jones, Kate Jackson, Dunlap , and 1 more Reece Jones, Kate Jackson, Dunlap, David Lay Williams

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 15h

I feel silly publicizing a book in these times BUT my book describes how constitutional structures allowed the accumulation of generational wealth + rights for settlers and white people. These are the same advantages MAGA is trying to preserve today. Pre-order page:

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 15h

I can see why evidence of actually reading actual books might shame others during this age of AI, turning them into catty little turds

Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 18h

Oh fuck off

Reposted by Steve Peers, Kate Jackson

Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 15h

Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.

1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.

Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 15h

So it was all a job preservation strategy.

Funny about “shedding light on who’s responsible for more expensive healthcare” - I certainly blame dems more than I once did. I imagine others will too.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 15h

I mean nothing screams oligarchy (or feudalism?) thank being able to “cherry pick” your own revenue obligations

Changes like these are not widely publicized by the Treasury, but are closely followed by tax planners for the country’s biggest corporations — who are applauding the new guidelines. In notes to clients, advisers at KPMG celebrated the new “array of choices” available for investors seeking to avoid the corporate alternative minimum tax. They noted that the Treasury’s moves provided “significant flexibility” for clients to trim their bills, allowing them to “cherry-pick” the rules that best suit their needs.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 15h

In the event you were wondering whether it was important to provide opposition, trump’s IRS is gutting the alternative minimum corporate tax law via “unlegislated tax cuts” that help eg crytpo, private equity, real estate investors, and MNCs, stealing $222bn from revenue

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by R. M. Wilson, Henry Jones, Kate Jackson , and 1 more R. M. Wilson, Henry Jones, Kate Jackson, Steven H. Seggie

Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 18h

Oh fuck off

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, *I* blame them, so….

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Rumors of Democratic spinal growth have been greatly exaggerated

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

TESLA’S HEAD OF CYBERTRUCK PROGRAM SIDDHANT AWASTHI IS LEAVING THE COMPANY - ELECTREK #TESLA $TSLA #Cybertruck

Reposted by Kate Jackson, Timothy D. McBride

Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 1d

Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

www.change.org/p/boycott-co...

Sign the Petition

Boycott Contributions to Senate Democrats Until Chuck Schumer Steps Down

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

See, guys, the way the senate works is that we get people riled up enough to vote for us and then collect a paycheck til we have to rule you up again.

Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 1d

Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

If that was the case they ought to be screaming it for all to hear, right?

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

What a beautiful funeral oration for the Democratic Party

Rachel Rothschild @profrrothschild.bsky.social · 1d

The water filled my lungs, I screamed so loud
But no one heard a thing
Rain came pouring down
When I was drowning, that's when I could finally breathe
And by morning
Gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean

Reposted by Kate Jackson, Nathan P. Kalmoe

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 1d

The logic in the last two paragraphs is wrong. Because Democrats made Biden's ACA credits the reason for the shutdown & then caved without getting those extended, they're going to take the blame, along with Rs, for the higher premiums.

OrdinaryBrotha @ordinarybrotha.bsky.social · 1d

Now for some levity and logic based in facts.

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