Kate Baxter-Kauf

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Ramsey County, we have a problem. His name is Bob Fletcher.

David Roth on the Ohio gubernatorial race defector.com/vivek-ramasw...

Great @jamellebouie.net piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

Can I buy like a whole state worth of policy debate teams?? Cause that's what I'd do. . . . also a real Frank Stella painting or a Calder mobile.

There is no difference between “attorney” and “lawyer” in American parlance and anyone who tells you there is is lying and engaged in motivated reasoning.

Katie Zacharia's CURRENT LINKEDIN lists her as having been the GENERAL COUNSEL of a California Nonprofit from January 2024 to March 2025!!! This isn't just 2011 or on podcasts.

I know I'm a broken record on this, but one part of what is going on is that people have literally no idea what the US immigration system actually is; effectively, that there are no pathways into the country legally for someone who wants to wait in line.

they really could have went to a bottom tier high school speech team and found a more qualified press secretary than katie zacharia

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

They do not care that Ilhan is a citizen. They do not care that the vast majority of Somali Americans are citizens. They do not care that any of us are citizens, either. Our rights and dignity do not matter to these people. So we have to make it matter All of us. Together.

I need there to be more contemporary mobile artists.

This is great and also I always learn something.

Donation advice for the close Minnesota State Senate races. You don’t need to donate to the ones who already hit their spending cap! The ones below are the ones that could really use your help. If you’re going to, do it soon so they can put the money to use!

That the death penalty is morally indefensible is the thing I am most sure I am right about. This specific story and experience is horrifying; the entire machinery of death should be abandoned immediately.

On behalf of two students in the district, the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota is suing the district and four school board members over the ban.

Why do Minnesota highways not have moose and trees etched in the side? Oklahoma City had buffalo and plains grasses. 🦬

I mean yes, but any law congress would pass now would most likely erode the only privacy and consumer protections we have now through preemption of state laws. Can we please try in January instead?

The person who sat in the car received a longer sentence than the shooters. Just using a tool passed by the legislature to adjust his sentence. The bigger context is that we have received over 400 applicants and only petitioned for 4.

One thing I need to make clear is that Kansas, both the state and the university, has been invoking John Brown and abolitionism for years, maybe decades. He’s painted on the interior of our state capitol. The hype videos are merely repurposing a heritage that already exists.

That understates it. It recalls Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War, identifying Missouri as the immoral villian that needed to be vanquished. No punches are pulled.

Election 2026: MN Attorney General. naomikritzer.com/2026/09/09/e...

Happy lawyer back to school day! Time to litigate until Thanksgiving. ⚖️

worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

Folk went to work for Trump *after* Trump gave a speech in 2015 chock full of antisemitic stereotypes and *after* Trump enacted an unconstitutional travel ban for Muslims.

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Ed Markey is a champion for consumer protection and the right to a jury trial and his victory is absolutely fantastic. (Also never throw your trans friends under the bus, GOOD LORD.)

The whole state fair has a real “if the whole world is going to cost one million dollars i might as well spend it at the fair” vibe. 🎡🩵

Tim McGraw, you gotta sing the chorus, buddy.

Your mom and aunt just dropped their only daughter/niece off at college and are ready to cry through the Chicks 🐣💖🎶

I agree completely with this It's incredibly infantilizing! Like you don't believe women are capable of moral bankruptcy. Functionally, how is that different from misogyny? Feminism is not "women are all good." Feminism is "women are entire human people."

I'm an attorney who lives in Hennepin County. You shouldn't vote for Anders Folk unless you want a Republican Hennepin Co Attorney. You're allowed to be a single-issue voter in this race. Vote for the person who will prosecute ICE. Vote for Frazier.

You know, I don’t like calling moderate DFLers republicans. But Anders Folk IS a Republican. He is only running as a DFLer because a GOP candidate can’t win the Hennepin County Attorney race.

Matt Little will face off against Republican state Sen. Eric Pratt this fall in the race to represent Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District.

Choosing to go forward with this violence against the wishes and best practice understanding of every other portion of local government and every field expert is shameful and the Mayor should be ashamed.

Based on the overwhelming consensus that I’ve heard in both public feedback and private conversations from government officials, service providers, encampment residents, and public health experts, I do not believe we are prepared to responsibly close the encampments beginning tomorrow.

So the thing about working through a plane flight back from Dublin is that it's 1PM CT and I've been working for 7 hours.

Oooof.

My question tangentially related to the Mayor Her stuff: the announcement about closing encampments came after the April investigation started. Is there a relationship between them and what is it? No one I know is pro the closure but my understanding is the SPPD may be.