Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Marcy Kaptur has been in this seat since 1983 and has definitely never hid who she is. She’s been a problem for literal decades. She hasn’t had a meaningful primary in AT LEAST a decade (Kucinich), so unless someone very high profile and well funded takes her on, voters can’t do much 000
Reposted by Kate FortLeonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."law.berkeley.eduArtificial Intelligence PolicyEffective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […] 231900796
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 14/08/2026MSU Law Public Defense Clinic is hiring! careers.msu.edu/jobs/fellow-...careers.msu.eduFellow-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United StatesPosition Summary MSU College of Law is accepting applications for a one-year fellowship in the Public Defender Clinic. The fellowship is open to talented and dedicated individuals with at least two ye... 020
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 07/06/2026It’s always good to see exactly how much worse it can get 030
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Listen we love our Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and our local elementary children have tours there amongst our 50,000 students 010
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 07/05/2026My students are having exam nightmares. Me? I dreamt that Adam Unikowski’s Fourth Amendment Supreme Court case involved the ICWA term “continued custody” and no one told me and we didn’t do any briefing on it and I only learned about it from a Lawfare podcast 130
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 01/04/2026My little conspiracy theory has always been that Neil had a Native girlfriend in college who absolutely broke his heart by leaving him and telling him he could never understand her and he’s been trying to prove otherwise ever since 1171
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Happy to report my essay in the Yale Law Journal Forum has been published yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-ch...yalelawjournal.orgThe Challenge of Indian Welfare Act Enforcement in the Modern Age of Child Dependency | Yale Law JournalThe Indian Child Welfare Act is an incredibly important piece of federal legislation, but achieving its stated goals to protect and preserve Native families is... 0112
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 10/03/2026The amount of made up (hallucinated) quotes from real cases in briefs lately has been a lot. And I’m someone who has a pretty limited practice and has seen it and have been texting with friends who are seeing it. GenAI isn’t it for *actual* legal work, I am sorry 010
Reposted by Kate FortBen Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is 303216767673
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Under “neutrality” policies, universities are failing to take sides to *protect democracy* and they will ultimately regret it. There is no freedom in academia under fascism 020
Reposted by Kate FortDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/02/2026The UMN leadership - ultimately my bosses - has failed this test, as they have failed every test except, perhaps catering to the needs of power. Gift link.startribune.comOpinion | At the University of Minnesota, neutrality has become censorship"In theory, neutrality policies protect free debate by allowing the community to disagree on controversial matters. But in practice, these policies are easily weaponized to achieve the opposite — cens... 416463
Reposted by Kate FortArizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’” 16687693799
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 29/01/2026This is an incredible interview. I will be thinking about it and Tsurkov’s resilience for a long time 010
Reposted by Kate FortAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 261120183987
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Listen @peters.senate.gov you said your phones were full, so here’s a heads up on what I’ll be calling about next. Time to forecheck, bud cc @slotkin.senate.gov 020
Reposted by Kate FortGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 24/01/2026It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE. 61888102162
Reposted by Kate FortDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage. 13856007218638
Reposted by Kate FortMinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour. 2151648220295
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 14/01/2026This is something that for some reason has been hitting me hard recently. To endorse state violence, use state violence, say we should capitulate to state violence is just cowardly. From the actual agents to those saying to just submit to state power—cowards all 000
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Scrooged holds up and also (obviously) shows a rich person as bad AND corrupting of the people around him 020
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Some people have parasocial relationships and other people have been reading @kentremendous.bsky.social since Fire Joe Morgan and can’t stop laughing and crying at A Man on the Inside 000
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 11/12/2025It’s a starlight tour, and it’s horrific www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...theguardian.comLeft to freeze, Darrell Night exposed Canada police’s deadly ‘starlight tours’Cree man, now dead at 56, helped reveal practice in which Saskatoon police drove Indigenous people out of city and abandoned them in sub-zero temperatures 030
Reposted by Kate FortMike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/12/2025This is a really cool fundraising idea by @boltsmag.org and @russ41.bsky.social! I love creative ideas like this. (Also go follow Bolts. I already was or I would have joined in the effort here). 512136
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 06/12/2025USPS lost my gorgeous halibut in the mail and I will still never shop Amazon again if this happens (it’s pretty rare as it is but STILL). 010
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Literally no one wants you to keep your “teaching obligations” ffs. Certainly no women students benefit from your largesse here. God I have hated Larry Summers for 20+ years and Harvard for letting him have access to students. Way to go everyone www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...thecrimson.comSummers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal | News | The Harvard CrimsonFormer Harvard President Lawerence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a statement... 020
Reposted by Kate FortChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/11/2025In what amounts to Mark Wolf’s resignation letter from the federal bench in Massachusetts forget more than 40 years—he was already a senior judge, so it creates no vacancy—he says he “intend[s] to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... 10688220
Reposted by Kate FortAiyana Ishmael @aiyanaish.bsky.social · 03/11/2025I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about. 311134653980
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Watching this happen both writ large and locally, and listening to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ‘s words about Black women paying the price for radicalizing white women sits heavy with me tonight. 010
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Had a beautiful afternoon at the Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe Community College working with manoomin. @michiganstateu.bsky.social 030
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 19/10/2025On the @michiganstateu.bsky.social bus tour for the next three days. First stop was Up North Arts Cadillac where we supported arts and living wages for artists. #bustour 000
Reposted by Kate FortKatherine Dailey @kdailey.bsky.social · 18/10/2025The Capitol lawn is now full of signs, flags, and cheering protestors. 243
Reposted by Kate FortTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing. 4448371052
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 13/10/2025I need to get off here because between the BREAKING posts with no link/proof and the “no one is covering it” posts when they demonstrably are, I’m going nuts. Everyone is getting worse at the internet and the internet is getting worse 0436
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 13/10/2025FWIW I didn’t see this at DTW this morning. Just the usual RealID one 010
Reposted by Kate FortNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2025If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry. 406196324546
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 21/09/2025This isn’t nothing in these days for a Hilton property 020
Reposted by Kate FortFCC Commissioner Anna Gomez @agomezfcc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025When corporations surrender in the face of that pressure, they endanger not just themselves, but the right to free expression for everyone in this country. The duty to defend the First Amendment does not rest with government, but with all of us. 36019
Reposted by Kate FortQuinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries could hold a press conference right now and announce that they will not fund a government that is engaged in an organized and unconstitutional effort to silence any criticism. 113934
Reposted by Kate FortElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025"Yes, Yes, to Ta-Nehisi Coates, you listen."vanityfair.comCharlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost CauseBy ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy. 33951211
Reposted by Kate FortKimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend. 12761561910
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 07/09/2025This is my position as well. You want my vote? You need to salt the earth this administration walked on 010