Kate Fort

Fired? feels small for murder

that’s actually … not what “we” expect, so maybe stop with that formulation

Hey Hey RFK
how many kids did you kill today

I’m a little disturbed I read this and immediately wondered what @sepinwall.bsky.social and
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
did now and then discovered I was half right

wtf?

I was like there’s no way this isn’t Peter

Literally no one wants you to keep your “teaching obligations” ffs. Certainly no women students benefit from your largesse here. God I have hated Larry Summers for 20+ years and Harvard for letting him have access to students. Way to go everyone

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Not to be too negative about this, but to me this is the natural conclusion of moot court, a made up structure of made up problems that does very little at this point to help students understand actual appellate practice 😕There are other benefits for certain competitions (networking etc) but … yeah

The Baileys are just very glad their grandkids can come home for Thanksgiving. They told Chuck all about how the kids were not going to fly during the shutdown!

There is no universe where the Whip votes against the actual wishes of the Leader and stays Whip. What I can’t figure out is who Schumer thinks he’s trying to convince here

THIS. SO MUCH THIS

The first thing I thought was the imaginary couple has been telling him about their grandkids not being able to fly home for Thanksgiving

Others who have held positions of authority, including former federal judges and ambassadors, have been opposing this government's efforts to undermine the principled, impartial administration of justice and distort the free and fair functioning of American democracy. They have urged me to work with them. As much as I have treasured being a judge, I can now think of nothing more important than joining them, and doing everything in my power to combat today's existential threat to democracy and the rule of law.

When I became a senior judge in 2013, my successor was appointed, so my resignation will not create a vacancy to be filled by the president. My colleagues on the United States District Court in Massachusetts and judges on the lower federal courts throughout the country are admirably deciding a variety of cases generated by Trump's many executive orders and other unprecedented actions. However, the Supreme Court has repeatedly removed the temporary restraints imposed on those actions by lower courts in deciding emergency motions on its "shadow docket" with little, if any, explanation. I doubt that if I remained a judge I would fare any better than my colleagues.

I resigned in order to speak out, support litigation, and work with other individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting the rule of law and American democracy. I also intend to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves. I cannot be confident that I will make a difference. I am reminded, however, of what Senator Robert F. Kennedy said in 1966 about ending apartheid in South Africa: "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." Enough of these ripples can become a tidal wave.

In what amounts to Mark Wolf’s resignation letter from the federal bench in Massachusetts forget more than 40 years—he was already a senior judge, so it creates no vacancy—he says he “intend[s] to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is clearly because he wanders, right?

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Watching this happen both writ large and locally, and listening to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ‘s words about Black women paying the price for radicalizing white women sits heavy with me tonight.

Same, class of ‘99

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

Rock star

this is, frankly, insane

Had a beautiful afternoon at the Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe Community College working with manoomin. @michiganstateu.bsky.social

On the @michiganstateu.bsky.social bus tour for the next three days. First stop was Up North Arts Cadillac where we supported arts and living wages for artists. #bustour

The Capitol lawn is now full of signs, flags, and cheering protestors.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

As someone at the University of Michigan, can you address how the need for large AI data centers will affect our Great Lakes, or our energy bills in Michigan? Or is all that dismissed under #1?

www.wxyz.com/news/propose...

I know this isn’t the point but I’m utterly unsurprised this came from someone at UofM

I need to get off here because between the BREAKING posts with no link/proof and the “no one is covering it” posts when they demonstrably are, I’m going nuts. Everyone is getting worse at the internet and the internet is getting worse

FWIW
I didn’t see this at DTW this morning. Just the usual RealID one

I giggle every time he misses