Julie Kidder
@juliekidder.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University | JD, Georgetown | law • narrative • race • gender
Wif and Mama | ☕️🐰🐰📚
Wif and Mama | ☕️🐰🐰📚
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It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
October 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
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#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
September 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
This semester feels different. @katemanne.bsky.social has the words
open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
Yes, It Is Our Job As Professors To Stop Our Students Using ChatGPT
Relying on stressed-out students to resist digital temptation is not refusing to play cop; it’s a cop-out.
open.substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This semester feels different. @katemanne.bsky.social has the words
open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
Let’s go #TeamRhetoric ! Get those proposals in so we can hang out in the wild and weird PNW ✌️
Hey rhetoricians and rhetoric-adjacent people, this weekend is the last call for submitting to RSA! Looking forward to seeing you all in Portland next year
rhetoricsociety.org/annual-meeti...
rhetoricsociety.org/annual-meeti...
RSA Conference 2026 - Rhetoric Society of America
In 2026, our theme will be “Rhetorical In/Dignities,” asking what it might mean to locate the histories and futures of rhetorical studies through in/dignities. For many of us the promise of rhetoric l...
rhetoricsociety.org
August 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Let’s go #TeamRhetoric ! Get those proposals in so we can hang out in the wild and weird PNW ✌️
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Today is August 1.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
August 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Today is August 1.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
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"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."
--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
August 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."
--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
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This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US
The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.
www.thenation.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
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Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
h/t @msnbc.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
h/t @msnbc.com
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1) overturn Roe ✔️
2) overturn Chevron ✔️
3) overturn Carolene Products (forthcoming)
2) overturn Chevron ✔️
3) overturn Carolene Products (forthcoming)
In a press release, HHS announces they're revoking some food labeling rules that have been in place since 1939, calling them "outdated and unnecessary." They were put in place to prevent adulteration, i.e. something being called "jam" or "ice cream" that mostly isn't: www.fda.gov/food/nutriti...
Standards of Identity for Food
Standards of Identity help protect consumers and ensure the characteristics, ingredients and production processes of specific foods are consistent.
www.fda.gov
July 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
1) overturn Roe ✔️
2) overturn Chevron ✔️
3) overturn Carolene Products (forthcoming)
2) overturn Chevron ✔️
3) overturn Carolene Products (forthcoming)
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The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.
MAGA voted for the Book of Revelations, and we’re getting it.
Trump announces on social media that the US has bombed Iran
June 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.
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Anybody need a Juneteenth book? May I recommend We Refuse by @kcarterjackson.bsky.social --it's a stunner.
June 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Anybody need a Juneteenth book? May I recommend We Refuse by @kcarterjackson.bsky.social --it's a stunner.
Love being back at the Law, Culture, and Humanities conference! And so excited to present this afternoon on the panel Narratives of Reproductive Rights after Dobbs. DC peeps come hear me talk about Exceptional Stories of Abortions in Hotung 1000 at 13:15 on the GULC campus
June 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Love being back at the Law, Culture, and Humanities conference! And so excited to present this afternoon on the panel Narratives of Reproductive Rights after Dobbs. DC peeps come hear me talk about Exceptional Stories of Abortions in Hotung 1000 at 13:15 on the GULC campus
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If you can get out of this country, you should. There's no going back to before Trump. Only decades of pain and misery awaits us in the US as we had into massive economic collapse and a generational decline in living standards and live expectancy.
www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/w...
www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/w...
Why I Am Leaving the USA - Dame Magazine
My family is fleeing the country. We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation. We are slowly but surely packing up and emptying out our house. Instead of ...
www.damemagazine.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If you can get out of this country, you should. There's no going back to before Trump. Only decades of pain and misery awaits us in the US as we had into massive economic collapse and a generational decline in living standards and live expectancy.
www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/w...
www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/w...
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Just some phenomenal protest art in Union Market, DC.
April 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Just some phenomenal protest art in Union Market, DC.
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
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Porn has colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social writes. We are still processing what it’s doing to us:
What Porn Taught a Generation of Women
It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.
bit.ly
April 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Porn has colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social writes. We are still processing what it’s doing to us:
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Yesterday's #4c25 session with @adahubrig.bsky.social, Jo Hsu, @jadeshiva.bsky.social, and Julie Kidder: queer / crip / race / life stories, survival techniques, resistance, awkward confessions, and glitter. I am grateful. Here's a link to our notes, scripts, and slides! bit.ly/cripcompany
April 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Yesterday's #4c25 session with @adahubrig.bsky.social, Jo Hsu, @jadeshiva.bsky.social, and Julie Kidder: queer / crip / race / life stories, survival techniques, resistance, awkward confessions, and glitter. I am grateful. Here's a link to our notes, scripts, and slides! bit.ly/cripcompany
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Absolutely terrifying. “Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.”
Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.
www.rollingstone.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Absolutely terrifying. “Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.”
Good morning Charm City! Ready to kick off the official start to #4c25 @ncte.org with @jsanofranchini.bsky.social address 🎉
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Good morning Charm City! Ready to kick off the official start to #4c25 @ncte.org with @jsanofranchini.bsky.social address 🎉
Heading out to #4c25 with the @cmu.edu #TeamRhetoric ✌️🚐 Catch me on Friday at 12:30 panel H.25 Keeping Crip Company
April 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Heading out to #4c25 with the @cmu.edu #TeamRhetoric ✌️🚐 Catch me on Friday at 12:30 panel H.25 Keeping Crip Company
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Hi everyone preparing for #4C25 !
Here’s the “Composing Access” website with all kinds of resources and downloadable media for making your presentation more accessible (including comics!)
u.osu.edu/composingacc...
Also includes links to this year’s access guide and a history of CCCC access work!
Here’s the “Composing Access” website with all kinds of resources and downloadable media for making your presentation more accessible (including comics!)
u.osu.edu/composingacc...
Also includes links to this year’s access guide and a history of CCCC access work!
Composing Access | An invitation to creating accessible events
u.osu.edu
April 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hi everyone preparing for #4C25 !
Here’s the “Composing Access” website with all kinds of resources and downloadable media for making your presentation more accessible (including comics!)
u.osu.edu/composingacc...
Also includes links to this year’s access guide and a history of CCCC access work!
Here’s the “Composing Access” website with all kinds of resources and downloadable media for making your presentation more accessible (including comics!)
u.osu.edu/composingacc...
Also includes links to this year’s access guide and a history of CCCC access work!
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move slowly and build things
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
move slowly and build things
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🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
docs.google.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.