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Kyle Morgan

@profkmorgan.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Political Science (Public Law, Public Opinion, Criminal Justice, and Experiments) writing lately on privacy and surveillance. But please talk to me about surfing, dogs, trash pandas, and the outdoors. Statements are my own.

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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 2h
Many people have been talking about this, but we need to be shouting it from the rooftops. I don't think folks truly realize the scope of surveillance being conducted by these cameras of everyone who walks past them in parks, rec centers (yep inside), public spaces, and related places.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 2h
Got to see the back end of the Flock system, including how "affiliated cameras" are integrated into the network and visible to police. Calling them ALPR's is so misleading, these systems are akin to Minority Report surveillance. They are so much more than passive recording of vehicles passing them.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 04/10/2026
the man in the drunk castle
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still too high. They should be at Congress levels of disapproval.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If I hear one more "I saw on tiktok" or 'Someone told me about this huge child trafficking arrest a town over" I am going to break. I miss when my criminal law class could be subtitled "dumb ways 'my friend's' hide their weed"
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The proliferation of police body cam [TikTok/YouTube/etc], the Qannon BS/pop culture trope that industrial scale child trafficking is basically happening everywhere all of the time, and every fucking cop show saying "based on real events" has absolutely cooked students' brains.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Flock's language on their website says that their ALPR's "don't" rather than "can't" or "won't", it is only a matter of time until they decide to add it to cut out the competitors.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Student paper talking about my Constitution Day talk on Popular Constitutionalism and opposition to ALPR cameras. But maybe the best thing is they included my qualification on a call to action: "'Don’t buy hacksaws,' Morgan said." patriotnewsonline.com/news/2026/09...
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FMU Constitution Day program examines ALPR use and privacy in Florence
More than 50 Francis Marion University students and faculty gathered Sept. 17 in Harris Auditorium at the School of Business and Education for a Constitution Day presentation examining the privacy, se...
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yes but think about how many new admin positions this will create! Won't someone think of the job creation? (/s)
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My students genuinely don't believe me when I say Congress was at one point functional.
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
my buddy who lived in italy as a kid mentioned what the ninja turtles are called in italian and i asked how they made it work with the song and,
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Constitution Day talk this year about ALPR's and why we don't need the court to tell us they are unconstitutional, we can do that ourselves.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Every day we call their conception "free speech" even sarcastically is a day they are winning this fight.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Malicious compliance can be fun.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New from 404 Media: Georgia State has rescinded a job offer given to Samuel Tunick, the activist who allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before DHS could search it. Tunick says the case is "textbook political repression". Now can't study or work at the university www.404media.co/university-r...
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University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer ...
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.postandcourier.com/pee-dee/news... Happy I got to participate in this and call attention to the misinformation from the City Manager and Chief of Police. Even in the deep south, almost everyone hates these damn cameras!
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Florence residents voice concerns about use of Flock cameras
Florence residents voiced concerns to city officials about the city’s use of Flock cameras during a public forum with City Manager Scotty Davis and Police Chief Angela Greene.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Red States: We're cutting the humanities at our public universities to spend more money on right-wing indoctrination Blue States: We're cutting the same programs, but to spend more money on AI and the business school.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What did you say? I can't hear anymore.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Spent a few days this week visiting family, I think I heard about Mamdani's grocery stores twice an hour. You would think there was nothing else happening in the world right now.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My family has discovered AI videos on YouTube. I don't know if this is better or worse than Fox News 24/7.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I actually have an idea on how to do this! When I was at a survey center we never actually implemented it unfortunately.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
And I thought his foray into surfing was the most embarrassing thing he did. This is somehow worse.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I'd love to get just one free book, but to be asked to review and then the "thank you" is to give the publisher money is just wild. Not mad at the journal, and agreed to review at all, but when I thought about it I had to laugh.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Getting a 30% off coupon for a book from the journal's publisher as a "thank you for being a reviewer" sums up so much of what is wrong with academic publishing.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Shark week is to shark scientists, as Fox and Friends is to social scientists.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Never change but also never stop learning roomie!
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Falklands 2: World Cup Boogaloo
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is where I think those "you just have to redesign your courses" folks are totally missing the mark. AI slop has made it so we have to throw out parts of otherwise valuable assignments, and that doesn't improve anything. You can't redesign around an existential threat like this.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There is going to be a really interesting book about toxic masculinity and these geriatric baby boomers. Assuming we all live long enough to see it.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The goal scoring robot needs to conserve energy.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
200% unfounded conspiracy: FIFA is worried about investigations and is trying to get Trump to quash them.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NPR:
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Lucy Pulls Football from Charlie Brown
ALT: Lucy Pulls Football from Charlie Brown
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"...We should thus be attentive to this type of behavior by the courts and to these criticisms as we continue to grapple with the role of the judiciary more than fifty years after Bickel coined this “central obsession.”
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"...Further, if the democratic process is weakened, this raises questions about the extent to which voters can influence elected branches and the broader political process..."
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
constitutionalstudies-ojs-utexas.tdl.org/cs/article/v... The court is engaged in a different form of Counter-majoritarian behavior though its decisions "If courts engage in behavior that harms access to and participation in the democratic process, this weakens or even eliminates those remedies..."
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Legislative Attitudes Toward Judicial Review and Reconceptualizing the Counter-Majoritarian Dilemma | Constitutional Studies
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The self censorship is so routine anymore. It's disheartening to discuss with peers the consciousness and unconscious ways many of us across the country, but especially the south are doing this.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Justice for Dan and Jordan over at @knowledgefight.bsky.social !
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I can't decide which is worse; normalizing the surveillance state or Prego pasta sauce.
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Leila Brillson @leilza.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
That boot must taste amazing
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Where is your IR theory now?
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
wpde.com/news/local/f... Things are going well here in SC. We have our own Schitt's creek here.
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Florence residents link foul odor to sewage spilling from manhole into Jeffries Creek
Residents in Florence say a sewage overflow into Jeffries Creek may be responsible for a foul odor lingering in the area for months.Videos shared on social medi
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
If we get more than a strongly worded press release I'll eat my hat.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Given we keep coming back to lawns in my environmental law course this semester, I'm adding a section for next time about lawn laws. Calling this part of the syllabus: "Why you should take your lawn out back and shoot it, put it in your car, and bury it under Giants stadium, but you legally can't"
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Imagine being this useless at your job, the administration is launching illegal wars and you're over there trying to shame them for lying. Absolutely useless, each and every one of them.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
For fucks sake, we're governed by a bunch of 13 year old boys.
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
3 grad students in a trench coat?
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Kyle Morgan @profkmorgan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Hey hey hey, the Bar association said stop being mean to the Justices and the Court. They don't want to destroy the planet, they just want businesses to have freedom (to destroy the planet).
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
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a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy !
Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!
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