Kendra Albert
@kendraserra.bsky.social
They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. Proud Philly resident. More at kendraalbert.com
"Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." - Ursula K. LeGuin
"Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." - Ursula K. LeGuin
Pinned
Look I can’t help that one of my hobbies is “reading PDFs”
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I have yet to see someone clearly answer why a state AI policy moratorium would not imperil basic state regulation of insurance underwriting and pricing
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I have yet to see someone clearly answer why a state AI policy moratorium would not imperil basic state regulation of insurance underwriting and pricing
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November 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Border Patrol tracking cars across the country, using pretext to stop and search people. Incredible reporting from the AP. apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Border Patrol tracking cars across the country, using pretext to stop and search people. Incredible reporting from the AP. apnews.com/article/immi...
Trans day of just trying to tackle my to-do list.
(But yes, rest in power to those we lost and who were taken from us.)
(But yes, rest in power to those we lost and who were taken from us.)
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Trans day of just trying to tackle my to-do list.
(But yes, rest in power to those we lost and who were taken from us.)
(But yes, rest in power to those we lost and who were taken from us.)
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Delighted to co-author this piece urging the de-silo-ing of anti-trafficking work, & genuine solidarity with grassroots movements.
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Delighted to co-author this piece urging the de-silo-ing of anti-trafficking work, & genuine solidarity with grassroots movements.
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NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.
A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.
www.autonomynews.co
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
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In an hour we will be doing our latest FOIA Forum, a live-streamed event where we show you how to pry records from the government. Today will all be about Flock, and how researchers and others found cops tapping the nationwide network for ICE, etc. Stream link here: www.404media.co/our-new-foia...
Our New FOIA Forum! 11/19, 1PM ET
Come learn how researchers and others learned what cops were using Flock's nationwide network of cameras for, including searches for ICE.
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
In an hour we will be doing our latest FOIA Forum, a live-streamed event where we show you how to pry records from the government. Today will all be about Flock, and how researchers and others found cops tapping the nationwide network for ICE, etc. Stream link here: www.404media.co/our-new-foia...
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My last freelance piece of the year published yesterday in @boltsmag.org, taking a look at how Illinois' name change law still disproportionately impacts trans people with criminal histories. boltsmag.org/illinois-nam...
In Illinois, Trans People With Criminal Records Still Face Hurdles to Changing Their Names - Bolts
Illinois earlier this year removed obstacles that some trans residents face when changing their name, with legislators lifting more of the restrictions faced by people with criminal convictions. The ...
boltsmag.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My last freelance piece of the year published yesterday in @boltsmag.org, taking a look at how Illinois' name change law still disproportionately impacts trans people with criminal histories. boltsmag.org/illinois-nam...
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This is the way
I was reading one of the cases about Trump canceling funds for anything related to "DEI" and I'm happy to announce a federal judge lowkey appears to be joining Team Don't Listen to the Supreme Court
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Judges Are Finding Ways to Deal With the Supreme Court’s Disastrous Shadow Docket
The White House wants to keep its cases out of skeptical federal district courts. Judges are finding ways to reel them back in.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This is the way
It was a pleasure to play a small part in helping Benn with this video!
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It was a pleasure to play a small part in helping Benn with this video!
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In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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If you thought women ruined the workplace, wait until you see what us enbies are doing. Flex hours, pay equality, plants on the desk, diverse hires, accessible desk spaces ... Real "9 to 5" shit, just like Dolly Parton taught us.
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
If you thought women ruined the workplace, wait until you see what us enbies are doing. Flex hours, pay equality, plants on the desk, diverse hires, accessible desk spaces ... Real "9 to 5" shit, just like Dolly Parton taught us.
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
This story is one of the most upsetting things I have read recently! That’s a high bar!
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AI’s massive power demands—and Trump’s done a lot to make it easier for them. Heidy Khlaaf, the head AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, tells us why that’s dangerous.
@mjgault.bsky.social has the story:
www.404media.co/power-compan...
@mjgault.bsky.social has the story:
www.404media.co/power-compan...
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This story is one of the most upsetting things I have read recently! That’s a high bar!
This letter is WILD.
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This letter is WILD.
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If you know any public interest organizations that do work around food insecurity etc. that might not be filing FOIAs on this issue, please encourage them to 1) file FOIAs and 2) start looking around for public interest law firms that do FOIA. Happy to share any responses I get (or don't get).
Just gonna submit a lil' FOIA to Rollins for "186,000" and see what comes up.
Brooke Rollins: "SNAP is a broken program. SNAP is full of corruption. We found 186,000 dead people."
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If you know any public interest organizations that do work around food insecurity etc. that might not be filing FOIAs on this issue, please encourage them to 1) file FOIAs and 2) start looking around for public interest law firms that do FOIA. Happy to share any responses I get (or don't get).
Well it certainly was a choice for @digiphile-team.bsky.social to launch its first bundle with a game where one of the creators was recently very publicly transphobic! And I wouldn't have known except for the Steam reviews being recently mixed.
Context: bsky.app/profile/deat...
Context: bsky.app/profile/deat...
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Well it certainly was a choice for @digiphile-team.bsky.social to launch its first bundle with a game where one of the creators was recently very publicly transphobic! And I wouldn't have known except for the Steam reviews being recently mixed.
Context: bsky.app/profile/deat...
Context: bsky.app/profile/deat...
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as a CSA victim, it’s a great day to be on an airplane with limited connectivity
if you’ve posted more than 10 times about Epstein maybe make a donation to RAINN or your local SA support center
if you’ve posted more than 10 times about Epstein maybe make a donation to RAINN or your local SA support center
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
as a CSA victim, it’s a great day to be on an airplane with limited connectivity
if you’ve posted more than 10 times about Epstein maybe make a donation to RAINN or your local SA support center
if you’ve posted more than 10 times about Epstein maybe make a donation to RAINN or your local SA support center
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The NYT just published an article largely hyping internet voting in Alaska.
I do not agree, and argue that the article has significant problems. Let’s look at a few of them 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
I do not agree, and argue that the article has significant problems. Let’s look at a few of them 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Will People Trust Voting by Phone? Alaska Is Going to Find Out.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The NYT just published an article largely hyping internet voting in Alaska.
I do not agree, and argue that the article has significant problems. Let’s look at a few of them 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
I do not agree, and argue that the article has significant problems. Let’s look at a few of them 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Live your life in such a way that if 20K pages of your files are released and someone builds a database of them, it doesn't crash because too many people want to search it simultaneously.
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Live your life in such a way that if 20K pages of your files are released and someone builds a database of them, it doesn't crash because too many people want to search it simultaneously.
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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THIS WEDNESDAY NOV 12TH 8:30AM ET: Feminist AI - Frameworks, Practices, Refusals
Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We have a great event coming up on Nov. 12 to discuss possibilities for and examples of Feminist AI —join us! bit.ly/DCFNOV2025
#DataAgainstFeminicide #FAIR @kanarinka.bsky.social @ladelentes.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social
#DataAgainstFeminicide #FAIR @kanarinka.bsky.social @ladelentes.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
THIS WEDNESDAY NOV 12TH 8:30AM ET: Feminist AI - Frameworks, Practices, Refusals
Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret. Editor says court cases against city continue #ksleg
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, expresses regret. Editor says court cases against city continue #ksleg
Just got the best ending, using this to re-up my overall recommendation for this game! Distract yourself from the horrors!
The Seance at Blake Manor is so good. I can’t even quibble with all the little flaws because the overall game is masterful.
Mild spoiler: also there is a v. cute queer femme couple.
Mild spoiler: also there is a v. cute queer femme couple.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Just got the best ending, using this to re-up my overall recommendation for this game! Distract yourself from the horrors!