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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If Budweiser was trying to identify individual alcoholics and send them personalized "Chuck, you haven't had a drink in a while, here's a free case on us" ads we would rightfully call for them to be drawn and quartered

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is fucking absurd how much y’all want boys to have an unobstructed successful future and treat girls like fucking cannon fodder every last high school girl out there is more valuable to the world than a boy or man who has committed sexual assault

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is great and also I always learn something.

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Chris Meyer @chrisjohnmeyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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!

Second Facebook post giving donation advice

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ron Schultz works for and got rich off work at a plaintiffs’ side law firm!!!!! How can he not understand the value of consumer protection lawsuits?????? (He’s a hack. That’s the answer.)

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 23/09/2026

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.

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Minnesota ACLU sues Detroit Lakes Public Schools over rainbow ban

Two students are challenging the school board’s ban that targets “safe space” stickers found in some classrooms.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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?

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marymoriarty.bsky.social @marymoriarty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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.

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Halloween Rex @katyrex.meatjacker.social · 21/09/2026

people because you are talking about something related to that, say that! If you mean people who are read and treated like women by the public, regardless of their gender identity, that's a thing too! We're not just replacing one word with another to be pedantic assholes and then calling it a day.

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Halloween Rex @katyrex.meatjacker.social · 21/09/2026

We're not replacing the word "women" with "femmes." "Femme" doesn't mean people who were assigned female at birth, or who have uteruses, or who identify as women. It has a meaning that isn't just replacing another word. If you mean gender marginalized people, say that. If you mean menstruating

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Halloween Rex @katyrex.meatjacker.social · 21/09/2026

See this is the whole thing I have with thinking about WHY we have updated language. We didn't change the language around learning and/or cognitive disabilities/delays for funsies. We did it because comparing ignorance/shittiness to real diagnoses is fucked up and wrong. I see this with gender too-

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do you know of particularly good articles or books that set out this view/criticism of long term-ism?

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Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Along with Harold and the Purple Crayon, Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, and Hippos Go Berserk!

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is Baxter's favorite children's book and I mail it to everyone I know who has a baby.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Look they’re not wrong about the history.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

That bill is an antitrust nightmare.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Witchy Wy-oman-ing Pretty Maines all in a Row (Iowa) Can't Tell you Why Take it Tennessee-asy TequiLouisiana Sunrise

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

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.

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megl.bsky.social @megl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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.

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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.)

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It was truly spectacular- highly recommend the dairy building apple pie sundae. Best annual flavor in a really long time.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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. 🎡🩵

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's also really helpful for visitors - I know when I ride transit in other cities that those maps are INVALUABLE. People don't always know the right website or app to use!

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I really really liked how indignant they all were. Also they sounded just fantastic.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Look, I can sing the chorus to don’t take the girl by myself on my own time. Natalie Maines would never.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tim McGraw, you gotta sing the chorus, buddy.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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

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reed eliot 🤌 🤌 @reedeliot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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."

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johhnypbrclops.bsky.social @johhnypbrclops.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You are right that I love this!!!!!

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Pete Nikolai @neatpickleye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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.

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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’d mentioned late last night that we used to have more options for housing. In searching for more info to share, I found this great article from 2019 that’s an enjoyable and informative read.

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Affordable housing was once a staple of our downtowns. Here’s what happened

Residential hotels and rooming houses in Minneapolis and St. Paul offered alternatives to houses and apartments.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

On the Belfast loyalist main drag there's a gigantic poster under 10000+ UK flags claiming Ulster hero James Buchanan! JAMES BUCHANAN, the US president whose aggressively pro-slavery policies and animosity towards abolitionists and racism accelerated the start of the Civil War! It's WILD.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

+1. I send so many thoughts back for that.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm glad the whole response was super negative.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I've been to two of his shows (the one you mention plus a festival headlining) and am taking my daughter and her boyfriend tonight and yep, it's real young, and a great time.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Trying to score compassion and competency points by monitoring encampments sweeps from a fancy city hall command center like she's in the White House situation room is pretty gross!

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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.

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