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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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Judging by the number of ads for short term consumer debt products I’ve seen advertised on the basic cable I’m stuck watching during holiday travel — we desperately need the CFPB back

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d

Two significant new multistate lawsuits were filed in Oregon this week:

- New York is leading a group of states in suing over Russ Vought's efforts to destroy the CFPB by starving it of funding. The case is assigned to Judge Ann Aiken (Clinton).

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

5. In a reversal of the position the CFPB and Board of Governors have held for more
than a decade, Defendant Vought, and through him the CFPB, now take the position that the
Case 6:25-cv-02384-AA Document 1 Filed 12/22/25 Page 2 of 45
Page 3 - COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
Department of Justice
100 SW Market Street
Portland, OR 97201
9716731880 / Fax: 9716735000
Federal Reserve’s “combined earnings,” from which CFPB’s funding flows, are limited to the
Federal Reserve’s “profits” rather than its gross revenue. Thus, according to Defendant Vought,
when the Federal Reserve is not “profitable,” there is no money available for the Federal Reserve
to transfer to the CFPB. Defendant Vought has thus determined both that he (i) cannot legally
request funding from the Federal Reserve when its interest expenses exceed its interest income
and (ii) will not request funding from the Federal Reserve, because the Federal Reserve’s interest
expenses currently exceed its income. These two decisions (collectively, the “Challenged
Decisions”) make it all but certain that the CFPB will run out of funding completely in
January 2026.
6. Because the Challenged Decisions are contrary to Congressional mandates, they
violate the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) and the United States Constitution.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Tomar Pierson-Brown (Pitt) presented a very cool paper at Cincy earlier this year - navigating the transition from youth to “adult” healthcare structures

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

the growth in consumer financial products is belied by all the ads we see everywhere.

The increasing supply comes from same kind of securitization that drove the housing crisis. The demand - rising costs of living + stagnant wages

And now tariffs and AI will ensure increasing delinquencies

www.fitchratings.com

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

I guess if you’re pureblood Mayflower heritage your brother’s your uncle and his brother was his uncle and his brother was his uncle…

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa hallmark channel

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 1d

unironically a good idea

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Rosemary A. Joyce, Bonnie Honig , and 1 more Anna O. Law, Rosemary A. Joyce, Bonnie Honig, Kate Jackson

Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, if you or someone you know has published awesome work in disability studies (defined *broadly*), please let me know! I'm updating my "Disability: A Democratic Dilemma" course and would love to include some newer work (both academic and otherwise).

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Lesley A. Hall, Michael Jones‐Correa , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Lesley A. Hall, Michael Jones‐Correa, Catherine J. Frieman, Kate Jackson

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 1d

unironically a good idea

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

This is very bad.

Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent confidential draft agreements on voter data sharing to more than a dozen states, part of the Trump administration’s effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls, wit...

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

I guess the good news is that as this online ecosystem gets weirder and weirder, the larger the gap between Trump and the people will grow. Hard to claim to speak with vox populi when you appear completely unhinged to a majority of the population.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

His entire administration is staffed by content creators

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

One reason why Trump isn’t a true populist is because the relationship between ruler and ruled is still mediated - it’s just mediated by something different than party elites, experts and other gatekeepers.

It’s mediated by social media algorithms.

Algos that reward hate, conspiracy, and lies.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 3d

Didn’t he write the same thing during metoo

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

?????

Are the Epstein Files – including the fake ones – A New Form of McCarthyism?
By ALAN DERSHOWITZ

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 3d

UET in the wild

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

This is a standard process in any administration,” the State Department said in a statement, when asked about the recalls. “An ambassador is a personal representative of the president, and it is the president’s right to ensure that he has individuals in these countries who advance the America First agenda.”

Reposted by Jacob T. Levy, Kate Jackson, Manisha Sinha , and 1 more Jacob T. Levy, Kate Jackson, Manisha Sinha, David Darmofal

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

?????

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 6d

Going where 60 Minutes fears to tread . . .

Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 6d

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

m.youtube.com

Reposted by Samuel Moyn, Ann Bartow, Kate Jackson

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 6d

"Pulling the Supreme Court back from the cliff is something progressives should view as far preferable to the alternative—where it may not just be the Court that gets pushed over the edge and into oblivion, but our entire constitutional (and democratic) order."

Me in today's issue of "One First":

198. Progressive Judicial Institutionalism

There's important daylight between those who are critical of the present degree of judicial power in the United States in general and those who are critical of the current Supreme Court, specifically.

www.stevevladeck.com

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is a bogeyman for good reason, but I’d encourage folks to consider the possibility - far-fetched or course - that CBS’s corporate daddy might want some merger approvals soon from Pam bondi sorry I meant the FTC

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 6d

“if there be no power erected, or not great enough for our security, every man will and may lawfully rely on his own strength and art for caution against all other men”

Hobbes, Leviathan XVII

The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 6d

Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’ trib.al/wfmTdLL

Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’

President Donald Trump denied two disaster declaration requests from Colorado that would have allowed the state to receive federal assistance — a move the state’s members of Congress plan to …

trib.al

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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 6d

Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’ trib.al/wfmTdLL

Trump denies disaster declarations for Colorado fires, flooding: ‘We won’t stop fighting’

President Donald Trump denied two disaster declaration requests from Colorado that would have allowed the state to receive federal assistance — a move the state’s members of Congress plan to …

trib.al

Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 6d

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

m.youtube.com

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7d

At the time, it seemed there was a gender divide - more men did type 2 (anecdotal). Type 1 was associated with imposter syndrome.

Now, type 2s will get yet another productivity boost with AI citations.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7d

When I was a phd student in political theory, I learned there were two types of scholars.

First, the one that read and read and read and constructed an argument on the foundations of their bibliography

The second made arguments and filled in supportive notes after-the-fact. They produced more.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7d

Oh no!!!!

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7d

www.sciencedirect.com/topics/compu...

Ecological Fallacy - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7d

Isn’t this the “ecological fallacy” that I was taught in my stats class to avoid?

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 8d

If the only thing new about this supposed “post liberalism” is the embrace of state capitalism, cronyism and clientelism, then now is the time for corporate boards to remember their duties to the rule of law.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 9d

I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...