Heidi Kitrosser
@heidikitrosser.bsky.social
Law professor focusing on constitutional law, especially free speech, the separation of powers, and government secrecy. Friend to all dogs and cats. Champion procrastinator.
*News* We are suing ICE and CBP to get FOIA records to find out whether the federal government used our tax dollars to manufacture favorable content about its own immigration operations. protectdemocracy.org/work/uncover...
Uncovering how public money funds government propaganda
Protect Democracy, represented by Loevy + Loevy, sues ICE and CBP to enforce FOIA requests, seeking documents detailing the departments’ collaboration with content creators.
protectdemocracy.org
Ronald Reagan's first FCC chair—in a sworn declaration submitted in the ABC case—on the FCC under Trump and Brendan Carr: “Never in its history has the agency ever acted so corruptly and unlawfully to intrude on broadcasters’ First Amendment rights.” techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...
I’m looking forward to hosting this fireside chat with FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez. law.umn.edu/events/path-...
A Path Forward for the First Amendment | University of Minnesota Law School
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been in the national spotlight this year for its attempts to use regulatory procedures that may weaken First Amendment protections for broadcasting news...
law.umn.edu
In 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."
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective 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 […]
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This is such a good and important essay. It captures not only this administration’s cruel and reckless wielding of bigotry, but its disdain for expertise and its hollowing out of US capabilities.
The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this.
The Drift@thedriftmag.com · yesterdayAndrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...
Something I've been thinking about a lot lately -- Litigation is one of part of what Seth Kreimer called the "ecology of transparency" in the U.S. Discovery, the presumptive openness of court records, etc. It's also a vehicle for sorting truth from falsehoods thru sanctions, evidentiary rules, 1/2
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan@jaketapper.bsky.social · 2d agoLaura Provinzino - district judge in the Don Lemon case (and a former federal prosecutor) - requiring the government to give her the grand jury materials for in camera review including the grand jury minutes. Seldom happens; it’s what exploded the Broadview 6 case in Chicago.
Strange things start to happen when the presumption of regularity crumbles.
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan@jaketapper.bsky.social · 2d agoLaura Provinzino - district judge in the Don Lemon case (and a former federal prosecutor) - requiring the government to give her the grand jury materials for in camera review including the grand jury minutes. Seldom happens; it’s what exploded the Broadview 6 case in Chicago.
A week later and they're now up to 164.65K posted (out of 496,606 that the site lists as received by the July 13th deadline). My comment is still not posted, for one! Also, their site reports that they've posted only 99 comments in the past 3 days. Link to docket in the quote posted thread.
Heidi Kitrosser@heidikitrosser.bsky.social · last wk.Update on that terrible OMB proposed rule to politicize science funding -- they've still not posted all comments. Shortly after comments closed, a month ago, they'd posted about 50K. Now they're at 71K, and posting more each day. They've still not posted my comment, for one. (Link to docket below)
Very good thread that addresses why the Natalie Harp story not only resonates politically, but why it gets at something important about Trump's current presidency.
Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · yesterdayPeople like Natalie Harp are why the second Trump term has been a total and complete disaster. He's a senile midwit who has surrounded himself with lickspittle extremists because no one else can stand working for him. Talking about Natalie Harp gets that message started to the normies.
ROSIE: “.. I'm back in the spotlight all thanks to President Ompa J. Loompa, who is watching us this evening from inside a catering cart. You know, I couldn't have done it without you, sweetie. You brought me back just like you did with fascism and the measles." $DIS
In case anyone wants edited-for-class versions of Trump v Slaughter & Trump v Cook, here's a link to a packet I just prepared for one class session of my upper division Presidential Power class. Obviously, YMMV in terms of my editing choices. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
Found it! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Complaint – #1 in AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC. v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-02902) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number ADCDC-12616961) filed by WABC TELEVISION (NEW YORK), LLC, WALT DISNEY COMPANY, AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC., KTRK TELEVISION...
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Heidi Kitrosser@heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 2d agoAnybody happen to have a link to the Disney / ABC complaint against the FCC? I've been tied up the past few hours and just now looking to read it but not seeing it linked in the news stories I've seen thus far. Thank you!!!
Anybody happen to have a link to the Disney / ABC complaint against the FCC? I've been tied up the past few hours and just now looking to read it but not seeing it linked in the news stories I've seen thus far. Thank you!!!
It's really tough to have economic growth when the population is shrinking. These people think that removing immigrants will open up opportunities for natives, when in reality what happens is you remove people who provide services to natives and consume goods from American firms. Disaster.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3d agoSome home-care agencies have shut down since July 27, when the Trump administration took legal status from 350k Haitian immigrants. Nursing homes, hotels, retailers, are scrambling to fill vacant positions and restaurants are scaling back operating hours. www.wsj.com/us-news/revo...
Pleased to announce that the audio version of my forthcoming book Power and Greed is in production. The voice actor is Parker Sawyers whose many roles include Barack Obama in the film Southside with You. www.bloomsbury.com/us/power-and...
Power and Greed
Since the second half of the 19th century, live entertainment in the United States has been governed by monopolies and powerful business cartels. Through power…
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One thing so terrifying about the current regime, that not even Confederate traitors, the Klan, or segregationists figured out how to do, is using federal instruments to seize capital from everyday Americans and redistribute it to white supremacists and insurrectionists
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 4d agoWhen asked by NBC if he’ll rule out approving payouts of taxpayer money to Jan 6 rioters … Todd Blanche says he won’t rule that out.
Max Ernst : When Reason Sleeps, Sirens Sing (Die Sirenen) 1960 Oil on canvas, 65 x 45 cm Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany
Some professional news: I’m starting at The American @prospect.org on Monday, where I’ll continue my reporting on ICE flights and third-country removals.
“As we try to keep everyone cool and calm at the rescue centre during the heatwave, I thought I'd repost a compilation of everyone's favourite clips of the dogs choosing their own toys!” #rescuedog #toys #joy IG: @fetcherdog Animal Shelter, Kent, England
WELKER: Can you pledge the DOJ will always act independently of the WH? BLANCHE: No, I'm not going to pledge that WELKER: So if the president asked you do to something that you feel crosses an ethical or legal line, would you do it? BLANCHE: He would never do that. He never has. He never will.
Immediately after Jan 6, Trump’s approval ratings tanked to the lowest point of his first term (to roughly where they are right now, in fact). It was only as time went on, and elite institutions signaled that maybe it hadn’t been such a big deal, that people stopped caring as immediately
Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 5d agoAs silly as the whole "the right has no cultural influence" argument is, the whole edifice is indeed a depressing look into the mind of a typical American swing voter
The billionaire bro in charge of Forest Service, Michael Boren, ordered underlings to deploy a fleet aircraft to put out a tiny fire near his megaranch Acre-size of fire: 7 Number of aircraft sent: 9 “it was easily accessible by ground,” said an official www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
Top Trump official asked for more aircraft to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch
Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more resources to contain a seven-acre blaze last month, officials said.
washingtonpost.com
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoNewly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is speaking at a Trump rally to endorse Bruce Blakeman
Q: The family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on the USS Lincoln TRUMP: No they're not Q: Has the deployment gone on too long? TRUMP: No no no. Not nearly long enough.
That's not a press secretary doing her job well. That's demeaning the press and calling the public insane for noticing the gaslighting.
the idea that "she pretends to be goebbels but when the cameras are off she's super nice to us"...
![Screenshot of a translation of this 4,000 letter, linked within the quote-skeeted article and reading as follows:
"Tell the Lady Zinu: Iddin-Sin sends the following message:
May the gods Samas, Marduk, and Ilabrat keep you forever in
good health for my sake.
From year to year, the clothes of the (young) gentlemen here
become better, but you let my clothes get worse from year to
year. Indeed, you persisted(?) in making my clothes poorer and
more scanty. At a time when in our house wool is used up like
bread, you have made me poor clothes. The son of Adad-iddinam,
whose father is only an assistant of my father, (has) two new sets
of clothes [break] while you fuss even about a single set of clothes
for me. In spite of the fact that you bore me and his mother only
adopted him, his mother loves him, while you, you do not love
me!"
Available at: https://lustria-online.com/threads/letters-from-mesopotamia.21099/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjklbsuepdppuppsfluytydl/bafkreigfdt7iykgm5s5e3t7nf3l2vssex5v3ihtg56lqrrgnhlceedh7mi)
