Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“Volumes of shittier [everything]” is drowning us. 130 comments on a report rather than 20-30. 50 pages of pleadings rather than 10. Emails that are paragraphs long. All of it *just* close enough to correct to have to deal with it. AI is making access to justice MORE difficult, not less 000 0
Reposted by Kate FortTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too. 10708169 0
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 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Lawfare is missing a massive opportunity and that is just a Mike’s Movie Reviews weekly episode. Absolutely incredible. Ben bringing up the Kung Fu Panda was inspired 002 0
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 […] 231914802 0
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 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I had students complain about a “Prof. AI” last year. I don’t know if the prof knows they’ve been tagged that way but it confirmed some suspicions I had based on emails … 0140 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 30/07/2026THIS thank you!! Also, you know who I’ve randomly run into around town? Will. You know who I’ve never seen or met? The other two. This isn’t extremism—this is very local politics and one guy is doing the leg work and the other two aren’t 0120 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 07/06/2026It’s always good to see exactly how much worse it can get 030 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 17/05/2026as someone who has flown in and has many friends who fly in bush planes in Alaska, yeah. There are way more crashes than anyone in the lower 48 realize 010 0
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 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 09/05/2026HA! I didn’t realize you were the source of this one that’s flooding my feed. Well done!! 010 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 07/05/2026This was not as bad as the dream where RBG told me nothing I argued would make the Court care about the Indian Child Welfare Act, which, intellectually I knew was an uphill battle, but still seemed rude for her to use one of her passes back from beyond to tell me that. 020 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I can’t get past my belief that no one knows who Rahm is and if they do know who he is, they are definitely not voting for him 030 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 24/03/2026It should tell you something that as one of your constituents I was honestly surprised about this 130 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 17/03/2026FWIW last Wednesday I talked about what you did and the bravery it took to my clinic class in the context of clerkships. I’m very thankful you were able to do this on your timeline and that you ultimately shared it. Thank you 0272 0
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 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Hillsdale = obvious. UofM? I’m just enjoying that one. My best guess is it’s because of their former president 030 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I’d add “the trees [in Michigan] are the right height” 000 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 18/02/2026media.tenor.coma man with glasses and a mustache is being photographed by a woman holding a camera that says ko on itALT: a man with glasses and a mustache is being photographed by a woman holding a camera that says ko on it 000 0
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 303216707672 0
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 0
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 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 08/02/2026So I watched it again and I felt like he varied from trying to not trying and THAT was indeed disconcerting 000 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 07/02/2026He did!! He just didn’t sound the same to me. Maybe the Kermit of one’s childhood is the only Kermit 110 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Ok. There’s a lot going on but Kermit hasn’t sounded like Kermit since 1990 100 0
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.’” 16687633794 0
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 0
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... 261120153986 0
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 0
Reposted by Kate FortGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 24/01/2026It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE. 61888092162 0
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. 13856004918625 0
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. 2151651220289 0
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 0
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 0
Kate Fort @katefort.bsky.social · 24/12/2025This is perfect timing. Watched it last night with the teen who both loves movies and is very interested in politics. I was like, this is a classic you have to know 040 0
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 0