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Kevin H Bell

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FOIA Lawyer at Free Information Group, PLLC Kevin {at} freeinformationgroup.com Signal: KevinHBell.552 Ask me about suing the government!

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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 15h
Did Eric Adams write this copy
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today the Free Information Group, PLLC, celebrates our first anniversary! In our first year of suing the government we've opened or appeared in 17 lawsuits against the Trump Administration and one noteworthy case against DC.
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today the Free Information Group, PLLC, celebrates our first anniversary! In our first year of suing the government we've opened or appeared in 17 lawsuits against the Trump Administration and one noteworthy case against DC.
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I prefer the original in aesthetic and content
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
" This new patient is friendly, but I enter the room at an inconvenient moment. He’s on the phone planning his sister’s funeral. She died this morning, he says. Cancer. He tells me that his aunt died last week too—also from cancer—so they have a lot of funeral planning to do. "
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ricardo welcomed us home with love and affection
Cat biting the shit out of my hand
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good morning from traffic back to DFW after a third flight delay/cancellation yesterday stranded us
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shot - Chaser Please I just want to go home
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not that they need more but I guarantee this is going to be grounds to deny FOIA requests on security and employee privacy grounds
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 21/09/2026
Immigration agents are actively sabotaging FOIA requests to withhold records immigrants need to fight deportation, a new whistleblower complaint reveals. This story and more in The Classifieds.
freedom.press
Whistleblower exposes FOIA sabotage at immigration agency
Plus: The Agriculture Department arbitrarily threatens to close a year-old FOIA request for SNAP data within four days
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The D.C. District Court ECF clerk has a real passion for graphic design
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In law school OCI I asked a biglaw interviewer what it was like at his firm and he said as an associate he pulled an all-nighter so hard he slept through 9/11 after
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you've seen this gem today, notice the index in the corner (25-2791). It means this came from FOIA litigation filed by one of our clients, @democracydefendersfund.org !! Give them a follow.
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I enforced OGE rules professionally and it is flat illegal for a civil servant to even buy coffee for another of the same title who has a slightly smaller base salary because they started a year apart
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I enforced OGE rules professionally and it is flat illegal for a civil servant to even buy coffee for another of the same title who has a slightly smaller base salary because they started a year apart
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On top of everything else, he's the only elected to really grasp that public records transparency is an ASSET!!
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Matt the Dad Dude @undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online · 08/09/2026
Tony Pizza Mentioned!!
Tony Pizza Reddit post : 

г/relationship_advice
u/Adorable_Physics4431 • 3h
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my boyfriend wont stop calling me "tony pizza"
1, (F21) and my boyfriend (M21) currently live together and have been together about 4 months. To explain why we are living together at the 4 month mark, we started out as roommates but then started dating. I have to say my bf has never been good at pet names.
Some early ones were "little stubbster" and "sour meat". One of my nicknames for him, in comparison, is,
"little bird". Anyway about two weeks ago he starts calling me tony pizza. This doesn't even make sense and he uses it more often than my actual name. He is obsessed. It honestly bothers me that he can't even bother to find a somewhat nice nickname for me. I have had a couple of conversations with him about it but he says he just can't think of anything better. What do i do? Is this going to become a bigger problem or should i even address it? i hate being tony pizza.
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My parents own a toy store in Texas and report they "have someone sitting in a bag chair outside right now because we *might* have needohs today. 🤦‍♀️."
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
made some progress, got an order to at least get us a partial index. Learned in argument about investigative techniques and technology that the AUSA has never seen The Wire when the judge asked "what do you mean this is a secret technique, they do that in The Wire". AUSA has promised to watch it
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Going to court tomorrow to demand the FBI at least admit whether or not they HAVE a tape of Tom Homan accepting $50,000 in a paper bag from Cava, so we can get to the part where we demand its release.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wow, the Trump EPA is proposing a change to the definition of “discharge of a pollutant” that would exempt moving boats and ships from National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program requirements. Let the dumping begin*! *Let’s not. Please comment in the Federal Register.
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EPA Moves to Redefine “Discharge of a Pollutant” - Eos
The EPA is proposing a change to the definition of “discharge of a pollutant” that would exempt moving boats and ships from pollution regulations.
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I have seen some rough FOIA staffing situations but the FLRA IG's "we only have 0.03 FOIA staff" is, wow! not good! my sympathies to that poor 3% of an employee
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Among hundreds of daily acts of naked corruption, bulldozing a millionaire's private access road into Yosemite's Sequoia groves is uniquely disgusting www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
notus.org
Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Wreck of the Cantor Fitzgerald Howard Lutnick is more Gordon Gekko than Gordon Lightfoot, and he's shipwrecked US-Canada relations while his boss Sundowns. If you could read my mind, you'd know I'd like the Gales of November 2026 to sink them to the bottom of "Lake America." by Maureen Dowd
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The University of Iowa "Center for Intellectual Freedom" just sent an invitation to every faculty member to a lecture by Professor Todd J. Zywicki on constitutional law
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
LAW TIP: do not do this!
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The budget drafters at EPA may be the staff most vulnerable to AI displacement. Tens of thousands of words to say exactly nothing about what these investments actually do.
Looking to the future, the widespread adoption of AI tools and platforms within EPA will yield
significant achievements. By improving financial data quality, accessibility, and governance, EPA
is creating a foundation where AI can thrive and provide essential data to support mission needs.
AI platforms have the potential to greatly improve the precision and speed of environmental
assessments, leading to more effective resource allocation. The development and refinement of AI
use cases with high operational impact will contribute to innovative solutions for pressing
environmental challenges. As AI capacity continues to expand across the Agency, a culture of
innovation and technological advancement will flourish.
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My 2015 local Acrobat install works better than any modern subscription. Rolling back my printer drivers to their 2014 factory is the only way to make it work with W11. The entire last decade of updates is just broken adware
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This renaming is weak shit, a true alpha president would redefine the 12" foot to his own foot size
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dear FOIA Officer, I know it's been a while since my request but the eclipse tonight got me thinking of how you always black out public records-
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
He's escaped to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism :(
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Do we know for certain JD Vance didn’t meet Dolly Parton within the last 72 hours?
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Shit I thought I had good seats but this guy has us all beat
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Woke 2 shall include a legislative ban on air force flyovers for sports bullshit
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
FOIA expert here: no clue what Sarah is talking about but she's about to find out Twitter DMs are public records
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Seung Min Kim @seungminkim1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.'
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 19/08/2026
This conduct by ICE is unconscionable. ICE should know they cannot enter private property without a judicial warrant. Instead of complying with the law, ICE agents chose to threaten violence against a law firm because of whom they represent. We intend to investigate this incident.
sacbee.com
Armed men claiming to be ICE agents tried to enter Sacramento immigration law firm
Multiple employees said the men identified themselves as federal immigration agents who said they wanted to tour the office for beds.
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Watching S1-4 of distressed government employees dealing with irrational xenophobic leadership until they finally break was a great leadup to the launch of my firm after I quit last year
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Another easy heuristic is any time you see the clause "since 2007" you can assume it is Bad
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
That's Berthwright Citizenship
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If someone with an outstanding FOIA request relating to this is in need of counsel to get the records 🫡
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Received a solicitation in the post today
WE ESPECIALLY NEED KNICK KNACKS
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Visited the historic Tanger Outlet Mall memorial to the horrors of slavery today. Great time for the whole family, and oh those deals!
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
NEW: ICE attorneys have been detailed to work as prosecutors in DC Superior Court.
turtlediaries.net
"Sacrificial Lambs": The ICE Attorneys Working as DC Prosecutors
ICE lawyers are now working in DC Superior Court
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
All my life I wanted to do two things: help organize labor and sue the government. Today I got to do both
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Incredibly proud to represent the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, to sue TSA for records of their secret privatization plan www.afge.org/publication/...
afge.org
AFGE Sues TSA for Hiding Records on Secret Airport Screening Privatization Program
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the exclusive union representative of 47,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) at 400 airports across the country, filed suit today in the...
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Breaking: Trump administration repeals Biden-era subsidies for electric slide
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Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Senator Javits threw some real heaters in the 1974 FOIA amendment floor debate
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