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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 1d

RIGHT???? She didn’t even read the books! Betsy becomes a journalist! They engage with anti German sentiment in WW1 and child death and pandemics and post-reconstruction representations of race!!

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 2d

Salesforce is also currently being sued in multidistrict litigation for its conduct related to its record keeping and data breaches in credential attacks that siphoned sensitive data from Salesforce environments, compromising nearly a billion records from dozens of organizations using Saleforce.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Salesforce told ICE that its A.I. software could help the agency nearly triple its staff, according to internal documents, as President Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff, wearing a black suit, speaks to an audience. A headline reads: "Salesforce Pitched ICE on Services to Recruit More Staff, Documents Show." Photo by Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle, via Associated Press

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 2d

Salesforce is also currently being sued in multidistrict litigation for its conduct related to its record keeping and data breaches in credential attacks that siphoned sensitive data from Salesforce environments, compromising nearly a billion records from dozens of organizations using Saleforce.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Salesforce told ICE that its A.I. software could help the agency nearly triple its staff, according to internal documents, as President Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

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Jamie Long @jamiemlong.bsky.social · 2d

I’m excited to support my friend and an incredible advocate for taking care of people of all ages and abilities, Aisha Elmquist in HD40A!

Support her campaign and learn more here: secure.actblue.com/donate/aisha...

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 3d

A fitting day for a tour with my senior at the University of Kansas!

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 4d

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 5d

To follow up: today, at least SOME of my plaintiffs were determined to have Article III standing, and live to fight another day. So yay!!! www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/231...

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 6d

Also in every time, but especially in the age of chattel slavery, there were plenty of people in the dominant in-group who objected to these things. I spent a good bit of time on this point in the first Lawful Extremism paper:

www.middlebury.edu/institute/ct...

Every effort to minimize or absolve the significance of historical racism is grounded in the erasure of racism’s victims. Taney was a man of his time, but he was not the only man of his time, nor was he the only person, nor was he archetypical in any meaningful sense. It would be more accurate, but still grievously incomplete, to say he was a White person of his time, since most Black people from the same period strongly objected to the beliefs and opinions presented in the Scott decision.

As Douglass implies, Taney was also not the only White man of his time, nor was he an especially representative one. Millions of White men and women of the day opposed slavery and opposed the Dred Scott decision’s disenfranchisement of free Black people, even if relatively few of those people could be considered anti-racist in any modern sense.
The “man of his time” framing implies that it is not reasonable to expect someone of Taney’s era to display the necessary moral sophistication and fortitude to oppose the cultural norms under which he lived. But in fact, that is an entirely reasonable expectation, and Taney himself appeared to have displayed such sophistication many years earlier. As a young lawyer, Taney represented both free Black people and White emancipationists. During his arguments defending a radical abolitionist, Taney called slavery “a blot on our national character.” At the age of 41, he made the decision to free his own slaves. There is ample evidence that Taney, at one time, possessed enough moral discernment to understand that chattel slavery was wrong. Yet as he entered his 80s, he unambiguously aligned himself with enslavers.59

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 6d

This is what they're discussing, for what it's worth: www.chosun.com/english/worl...

Japan’s PM Race in Limbo After Coalition Collapse

Japans PM Race in Limbo After Coalition Collapse APEC nears as Japans PM selection stalls; Liberal Democratic Party in talks

www.chosun.com

Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 6d

My debaters are currently having an intense discussion about the status of Japan's coalition government and PM given recent news, in case you're curious whether your average high school policy debater is more serious than the current Republican Party.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, approximately 92% of the time I'm not even sure who the discourse characters ARE until someone here is mad at them. Would rather just get real news (and whatever Jamelle Bouie thinks).

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 9d

Bryan Stevenson is an American hero and this article is both concise and informative.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11d

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 9d

It's SO WEIRD. The house looks fine! Just totally normal!

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 11d

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 12d

And MEANWHILE my ACTUAL plaintiffs and classes harmed by corporate misconduct, fraud, and negligence have an increasingly harder time getting their actual day in court.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 12d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 18d

There's no place this is more true than Nebraska, btw, the very place he's arguing for.

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Black Hart of Saint Paul @blackhartstp.com · 18d

This Saturday is the last Loons home game of the season and we want to put it to good work.
Listening House is a fantastic resource for our unhoused neighbors in StP. Please think about making a special trip for some clothing donations. Or donate money!

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 20d

The one on Snelling and Jefferson that closed in St. Paul is just pure union busting.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 27d

Yeah, that's super gross.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 27d

I don't disagree with your read but I definitely thought he was referencing the gayness of it all.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 27d

I figured; thought everyone else might like to know. He was opposing counsel on an FHA class action I did awhile back and the accusations were not surprising.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 27d

Article on the current investigation, which is listed on the OLPR attorney site as pending: alabnews.com/disciplinary...

Disciplinary Action Sought Against Minnesota Attorney Christopher T. Kalla Following Assault Charges in Tenant Dispute - ALABnews

On Tuesday, September 17, 2024, the Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility filed a petition with the Minnesota Supreme Court seeking disciplinary action against attorney Christo...

alabnews.com

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 27d

Chris Kalla was publicly reprimanded in 2012 and given 2 years' probation for representing a plaintiff and a third-party defendant in the same lawsuit. He is also under investigation by OLPR for threatening a tenant and her lawyer AND had improper tenant contact. caselaw.findlaw.com/court/mn-sup...

IN RE: Petition for DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST Christopher Thomas KALLA (2012) | FindLaw

Case opinion for MN Supreme Court IN RE: Petition for DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST Christopher Thomas KALLA. Read the Court's full decision on FindLaw.

caselaw.findlaw.com

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slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 27d

shit ain’t over til it’s over

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 27d

The real key here is that the outrage stems from the Biden admin's (correct, IMO) decision to MILDLY regulate rampant fraud, corruption, and antitrust violations in tech companies. Tech CEOs responded with dramatically overhurt feelings, racism, backlash, & fascism. www.wired.com/story/silico...

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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