Kevin De Liban

Care about AI justice? If you don’t already know about Clarence Okoh and the NOTICE Coalition, you should read this essay and find out!

Tired of trite “human-in-the-loop references?” We at @techtonicjustice.bsky.social, @upturn.org, and @nhelp.bsky.social partnered with CDT to blow up the concept + discuss what meaningful human oversight of AI use would really look like. Check it out!

Specialize in comms with a focus on digital organizing? Come work with me and our growing team at TechTonic Justice. You’ll be our sixth team member.

On this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social: @micahloewinger.bsky.social asking @beccalew.bsky.social about some of silicon valley's technocratic right-wing roots; Buckley and George Gilder to Marc Andreesen, Futurism to Fascism.

You might already know it, but i guarantee you know somebody who doesn't.

We just dropped a new guide to help slow down thoughtless AI adoption in nonprofit and government services. Read, share, and tell us how it might be better.

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), without it, people with disabilities would not have equal access in all areas of public life. In 2025, the fight for accessibility is disrupted by the invisible hand of AI decisions. This is why TechTonic Justice was born.

5 questions for Danielle Citron

Read this interview with a personal hero, Professor @daniellecitron.bsky.social: "we have essentially presumed that data collection is a good...We have long ignored this important inclination that collection itself is endangering our privacy and civil liberties" www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Sun rising over hour 57 of our SIXTY hour Protect Medicaid Vigil. It’s been an honor & privilege to pull this event together with our incredible team & partners. I am exhausted, emboldened and so damn proud of the power we are showing as we hold those who cut Medicaid accountable.

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company Arkansas Lawyer on Medicaid Work Requirements: “Widespread Disaster & Chaos” | Amanpour and Company

What Arkansas teaches us about Medicaid cuts coming to the rest of the nation. @kevindeliban.bsky.social of @techtonicjustice.bsky.social explains

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Bureaucratic hurdles are by design (& likely won’t pay for the infrastructure needed to build them).

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I’m busy enough without needing the new “hobby” of compulsively reloading my timeline to see the latest word from 8 different reporters about whether Medicaid might survive because some arcane Senate procedure keeps Republican leadership from buying off the vote of one Alaskan senator.

Opinion | We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.

Unlike Rep senators + reps lying on national media outlets, I actually dealt with Medicaid work requirements as a legal aid attorney when they caused mass chaos in 2018 in Arkansas. I wrote about it in this recent NYT OpEd. Any chance a major network would have me on to shed light + tell truth?

I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Highly recommend this piece by @kevindeliban.bsky.social and Trevor Hawkins.

Urgent! The Senate is voting now (Sat. afternoon) on a huge bill to cut Medicaid + SNAP + to stop states from protecting their residents against the harms that AI inflicts.

Call your Republican senators—tell them to vote against the reconciliation bill. Contact info:

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The right-wing extremists on the Supreme Court just ruled to kill women today. That's what's going to happen. Elections matter.

CDT’s Elizabeth Laird in @npr.org on the Trump administration’s attempts to amass individuals’ sensitive information from databases at the State levels. www.npr.org/2025/06/...

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If you want to fund work defending Medicaid, donating to @littlelobbyists.com's (c)4 is the highest ROI I know of

We're flying more families in this week. If (and only if) you can afford to help pay to get more disabled kids into the offices of Senators:
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Come work with me at TechTonic Justice!

Opinion | We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.

This past Sunday, my colleague Trevor + I published this OpEd in the NYTimes about imminent cuts to Medicaid. Up to 14 million people will lose insurance bc of penalties that punish working ppl, parents, + disabled ppl for not jumping through more hoops made of red tape. AI will make the cuts worse.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

The weaponization of Waymo How protestors turned torched Waymos into icons of the anti-ICE demonstrations

I spent some time at the site where protestors incinerated five Waymos—all lined up neatly in a row in downtown LA—and spoke to journalists, eyewitnesses and activists who were there.

This is how protestors weaponized Waymos and Lime scooters, and turned them into icons of the anti-ICE uprising

Hear me talk about AI, its impact on low-income people, and how it’s fueling the authoritarian moment. Today (Tuesday) at 12:30 pacific!

This should be an urgent warning to the federal government.

Work requirements kicks Americans off their insurance. It makes it harder, not easier to have healthcare coverage.

Don't take it from me. Take it from Arkansas. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

Thanks for sharing our OpEd, Amanda! Hope it breaks through.

Opinion | We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.

When Arkansas implemented work reporting requirements for just 5 months in 2018, over 18,000 people lost health care coverage and it cost the state over $24M. Work reporting requirements don't work.
Read from @kevindeliban.bsky.social & Trevor Hawkins in @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

Opinion | We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.

Read this OpEd from two of the finest people I know, @kevindeliban.bsky.social and Trevor Hawkins, who remind us that Arkansas was living today's national politics ten years ago, with deadly impacts. Also that the people of Arkansas fought back, and won.

Thank you so much, Virginia! Hugs!

Check out our OpEd in the NY Times about the disastrous cuts to Medicaid Republicans are costuming as red-tape Medicaid work requirement penalties. Up to 14 million people will lose insurance. Hospitals + clinics end up with uncompensated care. State caseworkers will be overwhelmed. Chaos everywhere

Thank you for sharing our piece, Jill!