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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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Reposted by Kate Jackson
This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it.

Spread this one far and wide.
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
www.bostonreview.net
February 3, 2026 at 4:31 PM
TLDR: To solve the housing crisis, cutting red tape won’t work. Sorry abundance. And taxing the public to build public housing is just us subsidizing billionaires again: this time, when they mess up the housing market.
February 3, 2026 at 2:20 PM
February 3, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Apparently, as Dr oz tells us we all have to work longer and harder to pay for billionaire tax cuts, we also have to build more houses to make up for billionaires making an already adequate housing supply unaffordable

www.frbsf.org/research-and...

Let them eat tastycakes
Housing Affordability and Housing Demand - San Francisco Fed
Understanding housing demand dynamics through two indicators, income growth and population growth, provides important insights into housing affordability. Research shows that average U.S. income growt...
www.frbsf.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:13 PM
MTG is using Mamdani’s colors as a zoom background. The irrational hopefulness in me is Seeing Signs.
February 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Literally is a romance novel. Based off Julia Quinn
February 3, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Women whose sexuality has to hide behind stupid cover art hidden in the back corner of Barnes & Nobles. Instead of being plastered over every ad ever made
February 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM
folks sneer at romantic fiction, but it’s just another fantasy that invites the reader to imagine themselves as a hero in a wonderful, emotional story that ends happily. Like a John Patterson book. It’s just “for women.”
February 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM
He’s still be pissed if Helen of Troy was cast as someone from Türkiye
February 3, 2026 at 1:10 PM
And what does movie casting have to do with university DEI programs anyway
February 3, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Of course he likely sneers at romantic fiction because of these features too
February 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM
2. Bridgetown is based off of romantic historical *fiction* by Julia Quinn and yes, one thing romantic fiction does is write a story that is broadly appealing, romantic, and fantastical.
February 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM
1. The Trojan war involved Trojans, believed to have lived in turkey, and so who knows what color their skin was in 1200 BC. it’s *also* racist to presume they were white.
BC.so
February 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Reposted by Kate Jackson
Why start in the colonial period? Because mechanisms of incentivizing certain migrant streams and disincentivizing others are pioneered in the colonial period, carried over & continued in the early republic. Some aspects of today's US immigration law like "public charge" is form the colonial era.
The Table of Contents is up for my book. For the nerds, the chapts are named for the central argument, not the time periods. The 1st is on the colonial period, 2nd Revo War era, 3rd is Founding, 4-6 on the 19th century. Pre-order here for a March 24 delivery: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
February 3, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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🚨🚨 Georgia State's Constitutional Law program is growing!🚨🚨

Thanks to a very exciting development, we're looking for someone to join the College of Law's public law faculty, including @espinsegall.bsky.social, @andrewwillinger.bsky.social, Neil Kinkopf, and me.

facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/6611
Associate or Full Professor of Constitutional Law
Georgia State University College of Law invites candidates to apply for a tenured professor position in constitutional law who will assume a leadership role in the Center for Constitutional Law, Pract...
facultycareers.gsu.edu
February 2, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Reposted by Kate Jackson
If you’re a tenured con law prof interested in election law, Ga State is looking for you to join @anthonymkreis.bsky.social, @andrewwillinger.bsky.social, Neil Kinkopf and me. Exciting new Con Law/Democracy Center opening soon! Here’s the Ad: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
https://me.here’s
February 2, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Making mine!
February 1, 2026 at 8:31 PM
What are the odds that Trump uses “I’m going to sue the government for billions” and use the proceeds of any “settlement” to (further) avoid spending clause restrictions
February 1, 2026 at 7:59 PM
It’s almost worse than “beautiful young woman brutally murdered in order to aid character development of jaded detective” - this trope is so well known it’s easy to disregard as drivel.
February 1, 2026 at 7:52 PM
The Pitt uses patients like plot devices to emphasize the heroism and humanity of the doctors. I cannot imagine a cop show version doing anything different for the cops.
February 1, 2026 at 7:52 PM
The redeeming element of the wire was that it treats folks who were policed like full throated human beings who deserved to be the heroes of their own stories.
February 1, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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I feel these days warrant that I share my earliest, and probably probable most important teaching moments on academic shared-governance.
In the 2013-14 academic year I was an assistant professor at the University of Florida, Levine College of Law. We were searching for a new Dean...
February 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Was the choice the best one? Could it have been better? Any true answer is unavailable to we mere mortals. Instead, we have only the inscrutable provisional answers provided by the people as they vote in the next election.
February 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM