Reposted by Kate JacksonJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 7hThe death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 853323887
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 12hI know JD Vance has claimed a monopoly on being the “oracle” of Appalachia. But let me tell you, we have lots of actually-from-Appalachia students at U Cincinnati Law School. And the takeaway *they* got was “do the right thing” and “lift up the people behind you.” Not “don’t be an entitled loser.” 212920
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 17hKvetching about peer review: The business model was always sketchy. For-profit publishers receive free content from academics. This content is peer-reviewed for free by other academics. They sell the product (at v high prices) back to the Universities that pay the academics. 262
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In corporate-law-land, there’s a lot of chatter about the SEC’s proposal to rescind rule 14a-8 - a rule that facilitated shareholder petitions to change company governance This is the latest in a trend to eviscerate shareholder rights. See eg TX’s new corp law, controlling shareholder rights etc 1113
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I guess this is next gen negotiated rule making: White-House-facilitated cartels of collusion www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...pbs.orgWATCH: Trump announces accord signed by top AI companies to 'self-police' developmentMany of the executives gathered in Washington have called for a slowdown in the development of the technology after several hgh-profile incidents where AI agents have gone rogue. 165
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There’s a weird political theology going on with AI The insiders know the business case for their project is iffy at best. Their only hope is to be “saved” via IPO The ideology likewise captures the rapture: just get to AGI and we’ll be saved In the interim we all suffer the apocalyptic horsemen 281
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026After WWII, the allies concentrated on the “four Ds” - denazification, democratization, demilitarization, and decartelization. We need to account for the last bit when we make our reconstruction plans. And we need to aim it straight at the broligarchs. 0153
Reposted by Kate JacksonSarang Shah @sarangshah.com · 29/09/2026Always read the incomparable @katejackson.bsky.social! 131
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Some important color on the internecine lawprof fight about what it takes to teach law. I see, from time to time, arguments that "academics" make bad law profs because they've never practiced, or haven't practiced enough, and that all it takes to be a lawprof is experience. 132
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Revolving-door corruption in the administrative state was bad. It’s not good that civil servants regulate their future clients and employers But at least it had a door. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...bloomberg.comPeter Thiel’s Network Is Quietly Shaping Trump’s GovernmentThe tech magnate has many links to the new Trump administration and the cost-slashing effort led by Elon Musk. 093
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One thing about being a business law professor with a PhD in political theory during These Times (tm) is that once you realize that Silicon Valley has become a vanguardist (fascist) political project, you see its fingerprints *everywhere.* From dual class shareholding to repealing 14a-8, from 5332120
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One thing that makes me so🤬🤯😱😤 about higher ed’s headlong rush into AI is that the AI people want to dismantle higher ed — along with the rest of the “cathedral” (journalists, bureaucrats) as they undertake their “great struggle” to undo liberal democratic states 2327
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The stories told by the well-planned visual symmetry 052
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There’s a nip in the air and so it’s officially time to start knitting f*ck ICE accessories. This year I may expand into dog sweaters and scarves. 0274
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A plea for universities to stop acting like student-and-taxpayer subsidized vo-tech for for-profit industries 1304
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When I was in grad school, a friend and I used to stand outside Carnegie hall with signs asking for free tickets. More times than not it worked (dates get stood up pretty frequently). This seems better. 3186
Reposted by Kate JacksonMiranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My latest @msnowreports.bsky.social piece on Vance/Oz’s claim of widespread fraudulent marketplace enrollment. Some brokers are to blame but regulation not disenrollment is the cure, and using absence of filed claims as evidence of fraud shows no understanding of insurance www.ms.now/opinion/vanc...ms.nowOpinion | You should be skeptical of JD Vance’s claims about Obamacare fraudThe vice president's anti-fraud task force may strip health coverage from people who did nothing wrong. 1732496
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.wsj.com/health/healt...wsj.comAmericans Are About to Lose Access to Cheap Gray-Market Prescriptions From CanadaMillions who use online pharmacies from Canada and other countries could get cut off in October. 133
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m so glad Trump gave us the opportunity to become the “constitutive other” for the rest of the world 0101
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’m halfway through The Nerd Reich and I am having a hard time seeing this “whistleblower” as someone who’s *not* a resident of Jonestown www.thenerdreich.comthenerdreich.comThe Nerd Reich | Silicon Valley Tech ExtremismSilicon Valley tech billionaire politics: authoritarianism, fascism, plutocracy, weirdness 023
Reposted by Kate JacksonHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026While waiting for Trump to enter the signing of the US-Denmark-Greenland agreement at the UN, they chose “Send in the Clowns” as the background music. Yes, it’s real. 35643561471
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026What’s also a bit puzzling about this is that the incentive to do fraud would be held not by “phantom” citizens but by the insurance companies that are accepting government money in the name of phantom citizens, and so why don’t they just start asking blue cross some questions Nm 2389
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026See, all the corruption with the tech companies and the trumps is easier to understand if you remember de Mesquita’s Selectorate theory of authoritarian politics 130
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My dad finished reading de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age while sitting in a nursing home with my mom and I suppose that's how you do it. 020
Reposted by Kate JacksonChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public. 141285545
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026One thing that’s cool: when I catch up with my old PhD school buddies, we all find out we’re working on the same questions — just through a half dozen different disciplines. One thing that’s not cool: we are all no more than 2 degrees of separation from “Nazis are relevant” 0262
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think by “nationalized” he means tech should rule the nation 0151
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Kennedy center threats are yet another example of this personalist regime replacing rule by law into rule by mafioso deal: gimme what I want or I will destroy you or someone you love. prospect.org/2025/11/10/t...prospect.orgRule by Deal - The American ProspectDonald Trump engages in ad hoc agreements with individual companies and governments to expand his power. Some observers have described these actions as a new “economic nationalism”—but that term fails... 1142
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My AI-enabled legal research approach: Pretend it spits about a research memo written by a summer intern. Pretend that summer intern has no background in the area and that the method they used to select "relevant" cases is only slightly better than picking randomly from a deskbook or hornbook. 120
Reposted by Kate JacksonJoey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I also signed this letter. It's dismaying but I'll just put it plainly: Chancellor Frenk, the leader of my university, is pretty obviously speaking out of both sides of his mouth, aiming to send two very different messages to two very different audiences. And neither one of the messages is true. 16519
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You can tell how fundamentally illiberal this cr@p is by considering it in light of John Locke by way of Jefferson: “The earth belongs in usufruct to the living” 250
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Can someone ‘splain to me. Effective altruists will say to you that you should sacrifice 300 people now to save 1000 people in the future but somehow don’t bake into their calculations the disutility that ensues after that 300 start wielding their pitchforks 030
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In Covington, KY, you can buy a gallon for $4.60 or feed your kid for $.70 less. Signs helpfully placed on each corner of the street for ease of comparison. 0121
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Can confirm that Westlaw AI cannot tell what’s dicta and what’s not What a not-fun experiment 4172
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Today was the day! I got to meet a bluesky friend in meatspace! @crockeroncourts.bsky.social came to Cincinnati to give us a brilliant lecture about how to understand the Constitution: through the remedies actually available to enforce and interpret it. The best! 161
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The admin wants to stop collecting demographic information (like racial identity) on the census. This must be understood in light of the fact that big tech *does* have access to it. Thus, the social legibility required to govern effectively is taken from public authorities and given to oligarchs.npr.orgTrump officials propose sweeping changes to the census that would reshape voting mapsA Trump census proposal would stop asking about race and exclude millions of U.S. residents from a count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state." 24316
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So if I’m following correctly, our executive branch is staffed entirely by (1) a group of very weird tech ideologues and (2) a group of very weird nationalist evangelicals and (3) amoral, self-interested grifters 5303
Reposted by Kate JacksonKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The family of a 37-year-old woman who died while pregnant filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and others, alleging state law prevented her from getting a potentially life-saving abortion.ms.nowFamily of Texas woman who died after being denied an abortion sues Paxton, medical providers“The basic principle here is you cannot take away someone’s life, as a state, and not be held liable for doing so,” a lawyer for the family said. 6937691090
Reposted by Kate JacksonSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 16/09/2026Big lawsuit filed by the family of Tierra Walker, who died of preeclampsia at 20 weeks pregnant after being denied abortion care. Argues Texas' abortion bans violate the state constitution's right to life and should be struck down. More soon on @autonomynews.co abortioninamerica.org/wp-content/u... 1530166
Reposted by Kate JacksonBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026the fact that the Trump admin keeps deporting people in violation of court orders suggests that it requires a stronger incentive to abide by court orders and judges *have options* for punishing noncompliance and compelling the admin to follow the law use them! ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...ballsandstrikes.orgThe Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court OrdersJudges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them. 524382
Reposted by Kate JacksonPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparationsinquirer.comA Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in GermantownGreen Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners. 223125312870
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It’s so weird how no one likes an industry: 1. With a business model based on legal, social and economic disruption 2. Who conspicuously spies on you 3. Who sells your personal information to spammers who want to steal your money 4. Who steal your creative work 2121
Reposted by Kate JacksonCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark. 5614240
Reposted by Kate JacksonDaniel Johnson @danieljohnson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.wired.com/story/a-trump-a...wired.comThe Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think TankThe US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal funding based on population sizes. 123
Reposted by Kate JacksonDavid Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'm still not sure I would advise voters to cast mail ballots if they have an alternative. The Court may have done the right thing today, but we don't know whether the executive branch will follow the law. 6378
Reposted by Kate JacksonCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026(WSJ) - American oil executives warned for months that the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz was bound to cause a fuel crisis. Now, they say it is here. @wsj.com $CVX www.wsj.com/business/ene... 35847381802
Reposted by Kate JacksonAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is a big deal and it deserves a lot more attention. A federal whistleblower is sounding the alarm about a nationwide DHS operation called the “Unlawful Voter Initiative.” According to the disclosure, hundreds of employees at U.S. Citizenship and 13663382985
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026See, the reason why MQD doesn’t apply is because doing election procedures via the post office is one of the several sacred mysterious god-powers embedded within the spiritual penumbra of the holy vesting clause 2160