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Kate Fort

@katefort.bsky.social
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Clinical Law Prof at Michigan State. Author of American Indian Children and the Law. Born and raised in Michigan, Hollins (BA) and MSU (JD) alum. Views expressed are my own and not that of my employer

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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Marcy 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
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In 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."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective 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 […]
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
MSU Law Public Defense Clinic is hiring! careers.msu.edu/jobs/fellow-...
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Fellow-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position 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...
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It’s always good to see exactly how much worse it can get
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Listen we love our Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and our local elementary children have tours there amongst our 50,000 students
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
My 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
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
My 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
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy to report my essay in the Yale Law Journal Forum has been published yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-ch...
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The Challenge of Indian Welfare Act Enforcement in the Modern Age of Child Dependency | Yale Law Journal
The Indian Child Welfare Act is an incredibly important piece of federal legislation, but achieving its stated goals to protect and preserve Native families is...
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The 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
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I 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
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Under “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
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The 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.
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Opinion | 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...
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Highlighting 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.’”
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is an incredible interview. I will be thinking about it and Tsurkov’s resilience for a long time
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Last 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...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Listen @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
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 24/01/2026
It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex 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.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In 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.
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Shot/chaser
Two bluesky posts, one from a bespectacled dad explaining his school ICE patrols are what he has to do, not what he wants to do. The second is a post stating school patrols aren’t Soros funded shadow figures but a bespectacled engineer who didn’t know the names of 5 parents two weeks ago
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This 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
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Scrooged holds up and also (obviously) shows a rich person as bad AND corrupting of the people around him
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Some 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
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It’s a starlight tour, and it’s horrific www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...
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Left 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
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/12/2025
This 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).
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
USPS 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).
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Hey hey RFK How many kids did you kill today
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Hey Hey RFK how many kids did you kill today
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Literally 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...
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Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former 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...
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
THIS. SO MUCH THIS
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
In 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...
Others who have held positions of authority, including former federal judges and ambassadors, have been opposing this government's efforts to undermine the principled, impartial administration of justice and distort the free and fair functioning of American democracy. They have urged me to work with them. As much as I have treasured being a judge, I can now think of nothing more important than joining them, and doing everything in my power to combat today's existential threat to democracy and the rule of law.When I became a senior judge in 2013, my successor was appointed, so my resignation will not create a vacancy to be filled by the president. My colleagues on the United States District Court in Massachusetts and judges on the lower federal courts throughout the country are admirably deciding a variety of cases generated by Trump's many executive orders and other unprecedented actions.
However, the Supreme Court has repeatedly removed the temporary restraints imposed on those actions by lower courts in deciding emergency motions on its "shadow docket" with little, if any, explanation. I doubt that if I remained a judge I would fare any better than my colleagues.I resigned in order to speak out, support litigation, and work with other individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting the rule of law and American democracy. I also intend to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.
I cannot be confident that I will make a difference. I am reminded, however, of what Senator Robert F. Kennedy said in 1966 about ending apartheid in South Africa:
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." Enough of these ripples can become a tidal wave.
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Aiyana Ishmael @aiyanaish.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I 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.
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Watching 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.
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Had a beautiful afternoon at the Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe Community College working with manoomin. @michiganstateu.bsky.social
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
On 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
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Katherine Dailey @kdailey.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The Capitol lawn is now full of signs, flags, and cheering protestors.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
In 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.
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I 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
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
FWIW I didn’t see this at DTW this morning. Just the usual RealID one
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This. Whole. Thread.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
If 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.
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This isn’t nothing in these days for a Hilton property
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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez @agomezfcc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
When 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.
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Chuck 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.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"Yes, Yes, to Ta-Nehisi Coates, you listen."
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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The 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.
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Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This is my position as well. You want my vote? You need to salt the earth this administration walked on
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