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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the things in retrospect that might have been better is if we could have kept Lan. Didn’t work in Dallas for some reason and man did we need some extra height

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Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest.

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Ok so she’s just enjoying an entirely different cocktail 😂 cheers

Did she take the star anise?!

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Anders @derzquist.net · 02/10/2026

This is a personal attack on Beth and me

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What really frustrates me about current St Paul politics is that I both think there were legit critiques of Melvin Carter and also that most people ranked Kaohly Her based on a vague belief that Carter had a secret "Fix Everything For Cheap" button he just refused to press.

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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

thinking about this again today

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Ben Krimmel @benkrimmel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"We don't have to go through the whole Deshaun Watson thing blah blah blah sexual assault." - Al Michaels.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

East of Eden on Netflix is very good. However, haven’t read the book, thought I wanted to before watching this, now I think I shan’t be doing that.

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doing some more scanning tonight, here are a few more photos that i thought were pretty neat

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Lastly, there was no reckoning whatsoever with what standards of professional behavior and professional understanding from a chief executive should be. The report, IMO, gives far too much credit to the Mayor's stated (juvenile) intentions.

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I do not understand how the firm drew the line between inappropriate and offensive and harassment. The only policy they cite is on offensive behavior, which includes harassment!

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The investigation IMO does a horrible job in handling power imbalance. It doesn't seem to enter into the conclusions at all. Putting the burden of drawing boundaries entirely on subordinates misunderstands how power operates. This is something that would be so obvious if this was a man!

Also you can be friends with people without doing this inappropriate shit. I manage to maintain friendships without photoshopping their faces onto sexualized images or plastering my face on their walls.

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The amount of times that "friend" comes up in a defense of the Mayor's actions is absolutely bonkers. This is a job. These are your colleagues or your subordinates. Wanting them to be your friend does not resolve the power imbalance or make inappropriate actions okay.

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Asking a subordinate to meet you at a bar on a Saturday and then demanding that they choose whether or not to be your friend, and whether or not to keep their job, is not normal behavior.

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This same pattern of "not recalling" and then later forcefully denying is also present in the allegations about discussing breasts with the deputy. For some reason the summary credits the follow up statements as somewhat credible.

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Also notable is that in the first interview, the Mayor essentially says she did this ("may have"), and then in follow-up interviews -- at the request of the Mayor, not the investigators -- she hardens her stance and ultimately states that she did not do this.

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The standard here should not be that you can touch colleagues upper legs so long as they never tell you it's not fine to do that. That's not a reasonable interpretation of expectations of professional behavior.

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Mayor Her reviewed her on-its-face inappropriate communications and concluded they were not inappropriate. Ok!

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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Following the Rose Avenue (note: not Rose Street) incident in which SPPD officers were accused of working with ICE, the Mayor brought egg rolls to SPPD to "recognize how hard their work is." This reads to me as an apology for the investigation and seems to undermine an ongoing accountability process

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i'm finally reading the time magazine interview with trump because i hate myself and it's really jarring to see a media outlet genuinely just transcribe what he's saying without filtering it through any lens to try and make it normal. he's completely out of his mind.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 01/10/2026

Complaints have limited legal value outside their case, but the one suing for the murder of Renee Good is an important cultural document. It tracks a grand opera of horror and hate that culminated in the death of a woman at the hands of her government. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CASE 0:26-cv-04231-LMP-DJF Doc. 1 Filed 10/01/26 Page 1 of 149
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA
BRENT GANGER, as Trustee for the Next of
Kin of RENEE NICOLE MACKLIN GOOD,
Deceased, and REBECCA GOOD,
Plaintiffs,
v.
JONATHAN ROSS, individually; STEPHEN
MILLER, individually; KRISTI NOEM,
individually; COREY R. LEWANDOWSKI,
individually; THOMAS D. HOMAN,
individually; TODD LYONS, individually;
GREGORY BOVINO, individually; and JOHN
DOE FEDERAL AGENTS 1–10, individually,
Defendants.
Case No. ________________
COMPLAINT
INTRODUCTION
1.
On the morning of January 7, 2026, Renee Nicole Macklin Good (“Renee”),
a thirty-seven-year-old United States citizen, poet, and mother of three, dropped her six
year-old son off at school, drove home through her own south Minneapolis neighborhood,
and stopped her car in the middle of Portland Avenue. Federal immigration agents were
operating there. They were masked, as was their practice throughout Operation Metro
Surge. Renee honked her horn to warn her neighbors. Her partner got out and began to
film. Renee stayed behind the wheel. She was not the target of any investigation, and she
was breaking no law that any federal officer had authority to enforce. Numerous vehicles,

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mayor Her needs to resign today. Full stop.

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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ok now this one worries me cause he’s actually doing it

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions".

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sharing my comments from today’s meeting of the City Council, related to the hiring of outside counsel to represent Mayor Her in the lawsuit brought by Chief Henry. The full audio of the meeting is available here: stpaul.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=....

On April 1st of this year, the City was notified by Chief Henry’s attorney that the Mayor was being accused of engaging in illegal conduct toward City employees, and that litigation was reasonably foreseeable.

Today, one day shy of six months later, the City finally saw fit to discuss the matter in a closed door session with this City Council.

In the six months during which the Council and the public have been kept entirely in the dark by the administration, an external law firm has already been engaged at tax payers expense to investigate the allegations of repeated sexual harassment and other inappropriate workplace conduct by the Mayor.

Neither the Council or the public has been informed of the total cost of that investigation. Neither the Council or the public has seen the report.

While vague media reports have circulated that the report will be made public soon, we’re left with the allegations in the Chief’s 73-page complaint and the investigation summary prepared by an employee of the Mayor herself that finds that the Mayor engaged in “offensive and inappropriate behavior,” “created an uncomfortable work environment” for City employees, and “sent inappropriate text messages” to at least two City employees.

Today, the Council is effectively being asked to write a blank check with taxpayers’ money to a law firm that, frankly, is a law firm that I take great issue with—just minutes, literally minutes, after this body was provided for the first time was provided with any sort of update related to this matter.

This is no way to run a city. The lack of transparency, the refusal to provide the Council with the information necessary to fulfill our duties as a co-equal branch of government, and the lack of respect for the residents of the City is unacceptable. And yet, as the Council President explained, we effectively have no choice in this matter. If we choose not to retain outside counsel today, then we are opening up the City to additional liability and the risk that the Mayor herself could sue the City for refusing to hire outside counsel.

We are in a horrible position and we have very few options. I am incredibly frustrated by the vote that we are being asked to take today. I am incredibly frustrated by the timeline on which we are being asked to take it and the fact that we will be spending unknown sums of money, significant sums of money, defending against claims we know nothing about—despite the fact that our money has already been used to investigate those very claims.

So while I will vote yes for this resolution today, I want to be very clear about the legal limitations that require, from my perspective, that vote—and the immense frustration and disappointment at being asked to take this vote today.

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There was an hour long closed door meeting before hand on the subject and in the public meeting it was clarified that council is pissed about having to vote yes by state law.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"

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Allie Myren @amyren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is this how people felt during the 2000s? Was the creation and progression of systemic risk this obvious?

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everything’s fine

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Allie Myren @amyren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The free market, folks. Please clap.

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Allie Myren @amyren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

… into which we are pouring a mighty dose of panic, bad passes, and bad shots

Allie Myren @amyren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I keep thinking about this and it both feels right and also doesn’t really seem to quite fit with the data. We stayed beating teams comfortably even when they knew. It’s too simplistic to say we’re just not hitting shots, but I do think our low %s are creating huge floor spacing probs…