Julia Rose Kraut
@juliarosekraut.bsky.social
JD/PhD | THREAT OF DISSENT: A HISTORY OF IDEOLOGICAL EXCLUSION AND DEPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674292352 | Posts are mine, not the views of my employer. ❤️ & Reposts are not endorsements.
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Hello! I'm a legal historian specializing in immigration & First Amendment law/history. Unfortunately, my research & writing on ideological exclusion/deportation (1798 to Trump 1.0) continues to be relevant. I post on current events, immigration, free speech, & history. Also post my 📸, 🎧🎵, 🎬 recs. 🗃️
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Outstanding!
Run, don't walk to see this show on Broadway.
Run, don't walk to see this show on Broadway.
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Outstanding!
Run, don't walk to see this show on Broadway.
Run, don't walk to see this show on Broadway.
Outstanding!
Run, don't walk to see this show on Broadway.
Run, don't walk to see this show on Broadway.
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Outstanding!
Run, don't walk to see this show on Broadway.
Run, don't walk to see this show on Broadway.
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Tuesday afternoon before Thanksgiving ...
a cat wearing a blue shirt is sitting on a laptop computer
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November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Tuesday afternoon before Thanksgiving ...
Tuesday afternoon before Thanksgiving ...
a cat wearing a blue shirt is sitting on a laptop computer
Alt: a cat wearing a blue shirt is sitting on a laptop computer typing quickly
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November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Tuesday afternoon before Thanksgiving ...
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After 9/11, the U.S. built a huge surveillance infrastructure for counterterrorism. It was abused to target Muslim Americans, but the broad authorities were also used to go after protestors. Immigration enforcement is the new counterterrorism: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
After 9/11, the U.S. built a huge surveillance infrastructure for counterterrorism. It was abused to target Muslim Americans, but the broad authorities were also used to go after protestors. Immigration enforcement is the new counterterrorism: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
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Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social
Evacuation Day: Marking the End of the Revolutionary War
We know how to honor the image of soldiers charging forward, but we often forget to cheer the backs of troops as they peaceably depart.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social
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“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
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For those of us who teach journalism students about ethics, we've had some astonishingly clear lessons recently, including one from a former NYT reporter. Great stuff from @sulliview.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Three lessons in unethical media behavior
Plus: Some moments that made me proud to be a journalist
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November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
For those of us who teach journalism students about ethics, we've had some astonishingly clear lessons recently, including one from a former NYT reporter. Great stuff from @sulliview.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
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Fuckin finally
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Fuckin finally
Excellent Thanksgiving 🧵 right here ⬇️
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I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Excellent Thanksgiving 🧵 right here ⬇️
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On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
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As the letter notes, the U.S. has "long branded itself" as a leader on the values of freedom of speech and association "on the global stage". But now: 4/5
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
As the letter notes, the U.S. has "long branded itself" as a leader on the values of freedom of speech and association "on the global stage". But now: 4/5
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It's also grimly ironic given the State Department's attacks on foreign students and scholars for their speech and associations, as a recent letter from 59 former ambassadors & high-ranking State Dept officials to Sec Rubio & Dep Sec Landau powerfully expressed. 3/5 drive.google.com/file/d/1GIq2...
Letter to Rubio - 11.17.2025
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November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It's also grimly ironic given the State Department's attacks on foreign students and scholars for their speech and associations, as a recent letter from 59 former ambassadors & high-ranking State Dept officials to Sec Rubio & Dep Sec Landau powerfully expressed. 3/5 drive.google.com/file/d/1GIq2...
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The State Department's heightened focus on infringements on freedom of expression abroad in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices is ironic... 1/5 www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
State Department to identify DEI policies and mass migration as ‘human rights infringements’ | CNN Politics
The US State Department will require its diplomats describe enforcement of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, alleged facilitation of mass migration, and government funding that supports ...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The State Department's heightened focus on infringements on freedom of expression abroad in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices is ironic... 1/5 www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
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R.I.P. TrumpCare (2:12 pm, November 24, 2025 - 2:14 pm, November 24, 2025)
You will not be mourned.
You will not be mourned.
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
R.I.P. TrumpCare (2:12 pm, November 24, 2025 - 2:14 pm, November 24, 2025)
You will not be mourned.
You will not be mourned.
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Judge Currie rejects AG Bondi's attempt to bless the indictments after the fact:
"It would mean the Govt could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the AG gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law."
"It would mean the Govt could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the AG gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law."
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Judge Currie rejects AG Bondi's attempt to bless the indictments after the fact:
"It would mean the Govt could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the AG gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law."
"It would mean the Govt could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the AG gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law."
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NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Former ambassadors and senior State Department officials — including Steady State members — warn that the U.S. is targeting foreign students and scholars for their lawful speech, undermining free-expression principles and harming America’s global standing.
drive.google.com/file/d/1GIq2...
drive.google.com/file/d/1GIq2...
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Former ambassadors and senior State Department officials — including Steady State members — warn that the U.S. is targeting foreign students and scholars for their lawful speech, undermining free-expression principles and harming America’s global standing.
drive.google.com/file/d/1GIq2...
drive.google.com/file/d/1GIq2...
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“Suspicion of foreigners goes back to the earliest days of the republic…Kraut traces how different ideologies would be considered intolerably dangerous according to the dominant fears of a given era. ...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers inform a federal judge about the Washington Post's bombshell: The government's claim that Costa Rica will no longer accept Abrego has been exposed as a lie.
More evidence—"if any were needed"—of vindictive prosecution.
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More evidence—"if any were needed"—of vindictive prosecution.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers inform a federal judge about the Washington Post's bombshell: The government's claim that Costa Rica will no longer accept Abrego has been exposed as a lie.
More evidence—"if any were needed"—of vindictive prosecution.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
More evidence—"if any were needed"—of vindictive prosecution.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...