Kate Jackson
@katejackson.bsky.social
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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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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November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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.
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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
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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...
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Just did this with @adamschiff.com & @padilla.senate.gov. Call your Senators and tell them that if they oppose those caving, they need to demand that @schumer.senate.gov steps down!
Schiff: SF: 415-393-0707; SD 619-231-9712; 310-914-7300
Padilla: DC 202-224-3553; SD (619) 239-3884
Schiff: SF: 415-393-0707; SD 619-231-9712; 310-914-7300
Padilla: DC 202-224-3553; SD (619) 239-3884
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...
@indivisible.org
indivisible.org/resource/cal...
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Just did this with @adamschiff.com & @padilla.senate.gov. Call your Senators and tell them that if they oppose those caving, they need to demand that @schumer.senate.gov steps down!
Schiff: SF: 415-393-0707; SD 619-231-9712; 310-914-7300
Padilla: DC 202-224-3553; SD (619) 239-3884
Schiff: SF: 415-393-0707; SD 619-231-9712; 310-914-7300
Padilla: DC 202-224-3553; SD (619) 239-3884
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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.
www.barrons.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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*
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.
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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.
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.
I don't know if that's right or it's the "bargaining" stage of grief.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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.
I don't know if that's right or it's the "bargaining" stage of grief.
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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:
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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:
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.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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.
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I just shared Daniel's newsletter. Now read this thread to see what's really going on behind the theater on the end of the shutdown.
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.
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.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I just shared Daniel's newsletter. Now read this thread to see what's really going on behind the theater on the end of the shutdown.
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?!
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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?!
I can see why evidence of actually reading actual books might shame others during this age of AI, turning them into catty little turds
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I can see why evidence of actually reading actual books might shame others during this age of AI, turning them into catty little turds
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
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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
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TESLA’S HEAD OF CYBERTRUCK PROGRAM SIDDHANT AWASTHI IS LEAVING THE COMPANY - ELECTREK #TESLA $TSLA #Cybertruck
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
TESLA’S HEAD OF CYBERTRUCK PROGRAM SIDDHANT AWASTHI IS LEAVING THE COMPANY - ELECTREK #TESLA $TSLA #Cybertruck
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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.
Rumors of Democratic spinal growth have been greatly exaggerated
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Rumors of Democratic spinal growth have been greatly exaggerated
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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.
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.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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.
What a beautiful funeral oration for the Democratic Party
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
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
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
What a beautiful funeral oration for the Democratic Party
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I can't help but feel a little like they held out for exactly long enough to get our votes in that watershed election, then tossed us right under the bus because they're done with us until the next election, when they will do something similarly egregious, over and over and over again while we die.
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I can't help but feel a little like they held out for exactly long enough to get our votes in that watershed election, then tossed us right under the bus because they're done with us until the next election, when they will do something similarly egregious, over and over and over again while we die.
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Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
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We knew that No Kings and last week's electoral statement by progressives scared the Right. Now, we know they scared Democratic centrists even more.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
We knew that No Kings and last week's electoral statement by progressives scared the Right. Now, we know they scared Democratic centrists even more.
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Ro Khanna calls for Schumer‘ ouster
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Ro Khanna calls for Schumer‘ ouster
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Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.