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Kate Jackson
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Associate Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽‍♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 5h
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint
Exclusive: Petition says Colombia citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in US airstrike on 15 September
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Ann Bartow

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7h
“Politicians who later become congressional leaders trade stocks like everyone else ... until they ascend to power.

After ascension, their portfolios beat peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts.”

Reposted by Ann Bartow

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7h
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The female labor supply constraints of spousal jealousy.pdf
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7h
Today in Women are Ruining the Workplace

“Women with jealous husbands less likely to work, and a majority willing to take a pay cut of ~1/3 to be paired with female rather than male coworkers to assuage the jealously of husbands.“

Link to paper below

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7h
Recently from Rand Paul: “The Coast Guard reports that over 3/4 of the boats they stop have drugs… If you’re killing people, 1 out of 4 potentially being wrong is too many.”

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The Coast Guard reports that over 3/4 of the boats they stop have drugs. That’s a great job and an admirable record for accurate information. But it’s not so great if you’re droning them instead of arresting them. If you’re killing people, 1 out of 4 potentially being wrong is too many.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7h
A comparison:

King Leopold II was the “founder & sole owner of the Congo Free State,” policed by the Force Publique - parts of the Belgian army he commandeered for private use

Trump planning real estate deals in Gaza
Kushner negotiating deals w/ Russia over Ukraine
And now…oil deals in Venezuela

Reposted by James Goodwin, Kate Jackson

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7h
The threat comes as the federal government seeks to enforce a demand that states turn over data about SNAP recipients.
Trump administration threatens to withhold food assistance from 21 states
The threat comes as the federal government seeks to enforce a demand that states turn over data about SNAP recipients.
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Reposted by Mark D. White

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 9h
uchv.princeton.edu/fellowships-...

#lawsky academic job alert!
Law and Normative Thinking Fellowships
Practitioners, faculty members of any discipline, and independent scholars devote the full academic year to research, discussion, and scholarly collaboration on topics related to law and normative inq...
uchv.princeton.edu

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 13h
Also- one reason why the school voucher agenda is bad (in addition to its being a backdoor way to accomplish school re-segregation) is that a similar system is likely responsible for the skyrocketing cost of college (swap subsidized loans)

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 13h
“Hiding behind the push to temporarily slow rising tuition costs is a plan to abandon higher education as a public good in this country.”
The Dark Doppelganger of Affordable Higher Education
In the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the Trump administration included a brilliant bit of faux-populism: a five-year tuition freeze. The proposal creates the illusion that the…
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 13h
Like the world can be divided into those who know there was a man called piero sraffa and only about 10% of those stuck with it.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 13h
I’m so glad you folks are working on this! I took classes on labor theories of value and the sociology of money and economic history wasted too much of my life navel gazing smith and my mind broke after crying, long unheeded, for mercy. It is a topic only for those with brains of steel.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d
Didn’t Mitch McConnell say that about Trump tho

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d
I had no idea about this fact til I read this piece of historical fictional brain candy

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Sacred Hearts: A Novel - Kindle edition by Dunant, Sarah. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
Sacred Hearts: A Novel - Kindle edition by Dunant, Sarah. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while rea...
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d
Well, you see, murdering people on boats in the Caribbean is a core executive function and so the UCMJ and the ratification of the Geneva convention was unconstitutional

Reposted by Megan L. Ranney, Philip N. Cohen, Julia Lynch , and 3 more

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Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 1d
MEPS seems to be gone as of now. This is very bad. These are critical pieces of data about health care and they belong to the American public.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d
For the first amendment lochnerism nerds out there:

SCOTUS is hearing a case that argues that state regulators can’t seek information under routine consumer protection/fraud/licensure law administrative subpoenas if the target organization is “religious”

City of God beats City of Man once again
Supreme Court to hear First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Platkin | DLA Piper
Learn the key issues, potential impacts, and key considerations for the upcoming Supreme Court hearing of First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Platkin.
www.dlapiper.com

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus, Kate Jackson

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
www.nbcnews.com

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Kate Jackson

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
what this makes me think is that unions should push for fusion voting wherever possible www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party
We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d
The look on the reporters’ faces at the end is priceless

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele , and 17 more

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 2d
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
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"We advocate for you and your future, celebrate your innovations, and provide the one-on-one attention you deserve." -- University of Oklahoma Graduate College

www.ou.edu/gradcollege

Reposted by Kate Jackson

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 2d
"We advocate for you and your future, celebrate your innovations, and provide the one-on-one attention you deserve." -- University of Oklahoma Graduate College

www.ou.edu/gradcollege

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
THEY SUSPENDED A FREAKING GRAD STUDENT. A student.

At OU, some students deserve more rights than others.

Wonder which ones.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
If I had known “god said science is bad” would get me more credit than “go army beat navy” on the last impossible question on my advanced physics final at West Point, I might have accidentally become a nuclear engineer.

Reposted by Kate Jackson

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 2d
Remember when Pete Hegseth fired the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force?

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
In Pursuit of a ‘Warrior Ethos,’ Hegseth Targets Military’s Top Lawyers
www.nytimes.com

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
Strong floor, no ceiling

Reposted by Inderjeet Parmar, Gerald Friedman, Kate Jackson

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d
"If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder."
josepagliery.bsky.social Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 3d
Here are US military lawyers stating clearly that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's "kill everybody" orders are either (1) war crimes or (2) murder.

Either way, expect prosecutions in the future.

www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...