geri katz

We'll see a lot of new voters this cycle - people who usually sit out midterms, maybe newly-enfrachised people with felonies on their records, or people who never vote but have finally had enough. I'm not a statistician, but I imagine those folks might not be captured by standard polls.

Kind of amazing that neither the Washington Post nor The New York Times have an article this morning on the House Democrats' report on new details about Trump's alleged rape history as revealed in the Epstein files, but People magazine does. #rape #TrumpRape

I need a good pollster to do the following questions: 1. Do you expect men in power will rape? Y/N 2. Is this: - acceptable - unacceptable but can be overlooked - unacceptable and needs to be addressed - I don’t know And then look at the numbers based on victim demographics (age, gender, race)

House Speaker Lisa Demuth declined to say Monday whether she would pardon convicted murderer Derek Chauvin if she’s elected governor.

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

There was a brand new allegation that the president raped a woman in the 1990s yesterday and it appears to not be on the NYT homepage at all right now

Voted early at the Mpls location on East Hennepin Ave yesterday. Quick, easy, with lots of friendly staff to help. They even had an old-timey voting booth on display for nostalgic types. VOTE EARLY. vote.minneapolismn.gov/voters/vote-...

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Beyond a new rape allegation, the @democrats-judiciary.house.gov report implicates current Attorney General Todd Blanche, stating he "may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump," referring to an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. Seems like news!

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Election officials in Alaska are asking a federal judge to "immediately" dismiss the Trump DOJ's lawsuit seeking to block the Senate results, claiming it has "no legal basis." "[T]he United States lacks authority to intervene in state elections at all, much less in support of a favored candidate."

A seal would never kiss my mayor. 😭

Donald Trump doesn't give a damn that Americans are getting squeezed by higher gas prices because he's cashing in. Since the start of the Iran war, Trump has made more than $35 million from oil and gas, nearly doubling his wealth from the industry.

Non-Jews telling Jews that they are doing their Jewish identities inauthentically if they have the "wrong" politics is in fact textbook antisemitism. But somehow I'm not holding my breath for the ADL to weigh in on this one, because it would require them to acknowledge many Jews support El-Sayed.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Election data point: affluent looking middle aged white guy at a big box suburban store told me he liked my Keith Ellison for AG t-shirt.

In this house we don’t pick and choose who gets to be human beings deserving of respect. We also don’t push right wing made up wedge issues for the opposition.

I am honestly unsure why Somalis, who come from a country where a chilly winter night dipped into the 60s, settled in Minnesota, where that's a nice night in July, but I feel really lucky that they did. They are fantastic neighbors and the rest of you should be jealous.

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

Oh. Huh. Interesting. www.startribune.com/anonymous-gr...

ICE is an ideologically-driven jobs program for men willing to engage in violence on behalf of their authoritarian employer and it would help to view them as a state-sponsored paramilitary militia. And that's probably something to keep in mind as the economy is being imploded.

The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

Sen. Wyden said Donald Trump is putting kids at risk of falling into "horrific cycles of trafficking" and the new ICE facility for unaccompanied children in Louisiana "will be another black box location for the Trump administration to disappear migrant children" www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...

SCOOP: Spokesperson for Sen. Ron Wyden told me he is investigating 2 for-profit companies running new ICE facility for unaccompanied children set to open in Louisiana. LaSalle Corrections and 'humanitarian response' firm Anovaeon LLC are facing Wyden's scrutiny. www.thequeenzone.com/scoop-top-se...

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Analysis | Between Jim Jordan and Vivek Ramaswamy, Republicans may have built an insurmountable lead among sex abusers in Ohio.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Trump says he ordered the Justice Department lawsuit over Alaska's US Senate race: 'I'm the one that said do it.'

Welcome to the labor movement! And it's nice to see that employers can still voluntarily recognize a union instead of union-busting.

Grantee partner @pregnancyjust.bsky.social just released a report on how pregnancy has been criminalized in the first three years since Roe was overturned. In an interview with @thenation.com, Pregnancy Justice SVP Dana Sussman breaks down the report's findings: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers Excerpt from Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East, by Matthew Cole www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

He'll always be Drum Eatenton to me. Rest well.

Vivek Ramaswamy seeks to take political advantage of the fact that his opponent was raped as a child. But to his credit, unlike many other Republican politicians, he was not personally the rapist in question.

What the Attorney General of the United States seems to not understand, but the people who matter do, is that Congress hasn’t given DOJ any authority to block states from certifying the election. This isn’t a thing. And we don’t have to pretend it’s a thing just because he says it’s a thing.

Even if this were viable as a concept (that there's an afterlife; that it allows conversations with others; that enslavers are going the same place as you), who cares? Oh, are you mad at me, Ben Franklin? Tough shit.

Minnesota county alleges federal administration illegally awarded teen pregnancy prevention funds to ill-equipped, Trump-linked contractor From @theimprintnews.bsky.social

Great OpEd, terrible photo. (Ask me why I dislike the handmaid cosplay.) www.startribune.com/trump-admin-...

Major corporations could shut down this authoritarian regime real quick if they wanted to. Make them want to. www.womenspress.com/minnesota-ac...

Apply to serve on the new hospital board! Hennepin County is accepting applications for the new Board of Directors, the board that will govern the hospital (HCMC). Apply at kpcompanies.com/careers. Nominations and referrals are welcome. Details: www.hennepind2.com/statements/2...

Trump heads to battleground state of ... Mississippi