Kat Rohn
@rohnkat.bsky.social
They/She 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Minnesotan 🩵💙
All views are my own.
Minnesotan 🩵💙
All views are my own.
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“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
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Feel free to share this with anyone this week or any time.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Feel free to share this with anyone this week or any time.
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A long-duration fluffy snowfall event will drop snow Friday night through Saturday across southern Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and the Chicago area.
Next snow event Friday night through Saturday from MSP southward
A long-duration fluffy snowfall event will drop snow Friday night through Saturday across southern Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the Chicago area.
www.mprnews.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A long-duration fluffy snowfall event will drop snow Friday night through Saturday across southern Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and the Chicago area.
Due to a whole cascading clusterfuck of familial circumstances, I became the emergency turkey chef this year.
While I love cooking, I have both never done *this* before, and am cooking in someone else’s kitchen with less prep time than I would like - so we’ll see how this goes!
Roasting away…
While I love cooking, I have both never done *this* before, and am cooking in someone else’s kitchen with less prep time than I would like - so we’ll see how this goes!
Roasting away…
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Due to a whole cascading clusterfuck of familial circumstances, I became the emergency turkey chef this year.
While I love cooking, I have both never done *this* before, and am cooking in someone else’s kitchen with less prep time than I would like - so we’ll see how this goes!
Roasting away…
While I love cooking, I have both never done *this* before, and am cooking in someone else’s kitchen with less prep time than I would like - so we’ll see how this goes!
Roasting away…
I will be making a donation to Indigenous Roots here in St Paul today.
There are so many important organizations doing great work that deserve support as well.
indigenous-roots.org/donate
There are so many important organizations doing great work that deserve support as well.
indigenous-roots.org/donate
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I will be making a donation to Indigenous Roots here in St Paul today.
There are so many important organizations doing great work that deserve support as well.
indigenous-roots.org/donate
There are so many important organizations doing great work that deserve support as well.
indigenous-roots.org/donate
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This is a very sweet (if very Christian-centric) trans-led mutual aid project that connects anonymous gift givers with unhoused or in-foster care trans kids.
www.transanta.com/about
www.transanta.com/about
About — Transanta
www.transanta.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is a very sweet (if very Christian-centric) trans-led mutual aid project that connects anonymous gift givers with unhoused or in-foster care trans kids.
www.transanta.com/about
www.transanta.com/about
This is beautiful!
I hope you can all take some time to watch “A History of Powderhorn Lake” by Drag Story Hour MN.
youtu.be/38swHHjGzCo
youtu.be/38swHHjGzCo
A History of Powderhorn Lake
YouTube video by DragStoryHourMN
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is beautiful!
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Sending love to the folks in St. Paul and everyone who is fighting back against ICE. Chicago is with you.
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Sending love to the folks in St. Paul and everyone who is fighting back against ICE. Chicago is with you.
"We aren’t superheroes, and we cannot individually stop all suffering...staying focused on the ways I can lessen suffering that are within my actual control provides grounding and some peace. It’s the best I’ve got...that and remaining committed to “doing” rather than “thinking about doing.”"
A lot of people need to read this.
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
prisonculture.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"We aren’t superheroes, and we cannot individually stop all suffering...staying focused on the ways I can lessen suffering that are within my actual control provides grounding and some peace. It’s the best I’ve got...that and remaining committed to “doing” rather than “thinking about doing.”"
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Minneapolis has a new queer heavy music festival.
At A Queer Ritual, Bonds Are Built on Blood and Benefit Shows - Racket
With a two-day festival, the queer-focused heavy music series broadens the scope of its brutal catharsis.
racketmn.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Minneapolis has a new queer heavy music festival.
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For the second time in the past week, federal authorities sowed chaos and fear in St. Paul without any warning to state or city government.
Minnesotans want answers.
Minnesotans want answers.
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
For the second time in the past week, federal authorities sowed chaos and fear in St. Paul without any warning to state or city government.
Minnesotans want answers.
Minnesotans want answers.
🧵
I am furious and devastated that ICE was once again present in Saint Paul and that federal agents continue to jeopardize the safety and well-being of our residents. The destruction this White House has caused our city in just a matter of days is unconscionable.
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
🧵
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Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
Be safe, Minnesota friends - especially if you are planning travel tomorrow. ❄️
A powerful snowstorm is expected to hit Minnesota on Tuesday, bringing up to 6 inches of snow and strong winds to the Twin Cities and heftier amounts to the north.
Winter storm poised to drop up to 6 inches of snow, wind gusts in Twin Cities, more to the north
A winter storm warning is in effect for parts of Minnesota from late Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning, and travel is not advised.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Be safe, Minnesota friends - especially if you are planning travel tomorrow. ❄️
“Drafts of a report to Congress obtained by NPR show Hegseth invoking that clause — accusing Scouting America of fostering "gender confusion” [arguing] the Scouts have strayed from their mission to "cultivate masculine values."”
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“Drafts of a report to Congress obtained by NPR show Hegseth invoking that clause — accusing Scouting America of fostering "gender confusion” [arguing] the Scouts have strayed from their mission to "cultivate masculine values."”
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
If messaging out of Minnesota’s GOP to Congresspeople is any indication, our state is going to spend 2026 drowning in messages targeting Somali community, immigrants, and trans folks.
These aren’t “distractions” they’re active attempts to scapegoat anyone seen as “other.”
We must stand together.
These aren’t “distractions” they’re active attempts to scapegoat anyone seen as “other.”
We must stand together.
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
If messaging out of Minnesota’s GOP to Congresspeople is any indication, our state is going to spend 2026 drowning in messages targeting Somali community, immigrants, and trans folks.
These aren’t “distractions” they’re active attempts to scapegoat anyone seen as “other.”
We must stand together.
These aren’t “distractions” they’re active attempts to scapegoat anyone seen as “other.”
We must stand together.
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The first real wintry storm will impact much of Minnesota Tuesday into Wednesday morning. Travel impacts will be widespread across northern and central Minnesota with lesser impacts south of the Twin Cities.
Winter storm warning: Travel issues Tuesday into Wednesday morning
The season’s first widespread wintry storm hits Minnesota Tuesday into Wednesday morning. Snow will be heaviest north of the Twin Cities across central and northern Minnesota.
www.mprnews.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The first real wintry storm will impact much of Minnesota Tuesday into Wednesday morning. Travel impacts will be widespread across northern and central Minnesota with lesser impacts south of the Twin Cities.
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Minnesota has always been a welcoming place for immigrants and it will continue to be 💜
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Minnesota has always been a welcoming place for immigrants and it will continue to be 💜
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UPDATE: Another judge just dinged DOJ in another trans care subpoena case, with Judge Joun finding that DOJ missed a deadline, and, accordingly, their motion to alter the judgment in the Boston Children's Hospital case was "untimely." And, because DOJ also appealed, Joun has no further jurisdiction.
![Judge Myong J. Joun: ELECTRONIC ORDER entered re 35
Motion to Alter Judgment.
On September 9, 2025, I entered an order granting Boston Children Hospital's ("BCH") Motion to Quash. [Doc. No. 33 4 1. On October 7, 2025, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed a Motion to Alter (the "Motion"). [Doc. No. 35 A]. On November 7, 2025, the DOJ filed a Notice of Appeal of my September 9 Order. [Doc. No. 46 4 ]. That appeal has been assigned USCA Case Number 25-2092.
[Doc. No. 48 ]. The parties have completed briefing of the merits of the Motion, however, after DOJ filed its Notice of Appeal, BCH filed a Notice indicating that this court no longer has jurisdiction to decide the Motion. [See Doc. No. 50
"The filing of a notice of appeal is an event of jurisdictional significance — it confers jurisdiction on the court of appeals and divests the district court of its control over those aspects of the case involved in the appeal." Griggs v. Provident Consumer Disc. Co., 459 U.S. 56, 58 (1982). However, "in order to prevent unnecessary appellate review, the district court was given express authority to entertain a timely motion to alter or amend the judgment under Rule 59, even after a notice of appeal had been filed." Id.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifq6fozblxq5uz7vczjqf7rlnysombau2eo65u4s4yizeim57t5xm@jpeg)
![As such, Rule 4(A)(iv) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure provides that "[ilf a party files in the district court" a motion "to alter or amend the judgment under Rule 59" and
"does so within the time allowed by those rules--the time to file an appeal runs for all parties from the entry of the order disposing of the last such remaining motion." Fed. Rule App. Proc. 4(A)(iv). Rule 59(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides that "[a] motion to alter or amend a judgment must be filed no later than 28 days after the entry of the judgment." Here, DOJ filed the Motion around
10:30 P.M. on October 7, 2025, or the 28th day following the entry of the judgment on September 9. However, an electronic filing made on the last day is timely if filed by midnight in the court's time zone, "[unless a different time is set by a... local rule." Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(a)(4). Our district's local rules state that, "[a]ll electronic transmissions of documents must be completed prior to 6:00 p.m. to be considered timely filed that day." L.R. 5.4(d). Accordingly, to have timely filed a Motion to Alter in this district, DOJ was required to file its Motion by 6:00 P.M. on October 7, 2025, but did not do so until about 10:30 P.M. [Doc. No. 44 4 at 4]. Contrary to DOJ's suggestion that our local rules may not apply to a "miscellaneous proceeding to quash an administrative subpoena," [Doc. No. 44 A n.2], the local rules clarify that they "apply to all proceedings in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts." L.R. 1.2(a). As such, the Motion is untimely. See, e.g., Sneade v. Rojas, 11-cv-40061, 2014 WL 949635, at *2 n.2 (D. Mass. Mar. 10, 2014) ("[T]he motion to impound was filed after the 6:00 p.m. deadline and therefore, is deemed filed the next business day, i.e., it was untimely");
Romero v. McCormick & Schmick Rest. Corp., No. 18-cv-10324, 2020 WL 1430530, at *1 (D. Mass. Mar. 24, 2020) ....](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiajuyjmijndvebfdxnxd6vcregnwlvrlab7vfohli53ul44n7hm4q@jpeg)
!["District courts enjoy broad latitude in administering local rules." Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Precision Valley Aviation, Inc., 26 F.3d 220, 224 (1st Cir. 1994). DOJ asks that I exercise such discretion here to find that the four-hour delay be deemed timely because BCH does not identify any prejudice from the late filing, and other courts in this district have excused similar delays. See, e.g., Soo v. Bone Biologics Corp., No. 19-cv-11520, 2021 WL 1391458, at *4 (D. Mass. Apr. 13, 2021) (excusing four-hour delay in filing an amended complaint and citing cases). However, DOJ has not pointed to any case finding such a motion timely where a subsequent notice of appeal has also been filed, divesting the court of its jurisdiction. "To deviate from a local rule, the district court (1) must have a sound reason for doing so, and (2) must ensure that no party's substantial rights are unfairly jeopardized." Belanger v. BNY Mellon Asset Mgmt., LLC, No. 15-cv-10198, 2017 WL 1160570, at *6 (D. Mass. Mar. 28, 2017) (cleaned up).
DOJ has not provided any "sound reason" for its late filing or for deviating from the local rules.
Carpenter v. Rivera, 10-cv-40233, 2014 WL 4928963, at *2 n.2 (D. Mass. Sept. 30, 2014)
("Accordingly, even if the Court had the power to extend the deadline, I would not find that Plaintiff has established cause for doing so."). Because the Motion was untimely and the notice of appeal has not been tolled, jurisdiction is now vested with the First Circuit Court of Appeals. As such, I do not have jurisdiction to rule on the merits of the Motion to Alter. See Malek v. Feigenbaum, 116 F.4th 118, 127-128 (2d Cir. 2024) (finding appeal untimely where Rule 59(e) motion was filed late and did not toll the deadline for appeal). The Motion to Alter, [Doc. No. 35 4 ], is thus DENIED.
(SKY) (Entered: 11/24/2025)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreihzoo745gjwg3eszwqelpb4c7zwr2jmjxh6hgvrvejqa76myhufgu@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
UPDATE: Another judge just dinged DOJ in another trans care subpoena case, with Judge Joun finding that DOJ missed a deadline, and, accordingly, their motion to alter the judgment in the Boston Children's Hospital case was "untimely." And, because DOJ also appealed, Joun has no further jurisdiction.
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Mean, vindictive, and incompetent. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding prosecutor was unlawfully appointed
Lindsey Halligan was appointed after President Donald Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute the former FBI director and New York attorney general.
www.nbcnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Mean, vindictive, and incompetent. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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I have been saying I wanted to write about this, so I am glad that I was able to just spend two solid days working on this story, basically without interruption. I haven’t had much of that since January, but it’s important, and I hope folks who appreciate it subscribe if they don’t already!
NEW: Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas.
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Multiple judges call out DOJ's methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas
A trio of public rulings, including one on Friday, all side with providers. Two rulings also raised sharp questions about DOJ's moves in recent months.
www.lawdork.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I have been saying I wanted to write about this, so I am glad that I was able to just spend two solid days working on this story, basically without interruption. I haven’t had much of that since January, but it’s important, and I hope folks who appreciate it subscribe if they don’t already!
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The sharp decline in US teenagers’ aspiration to get married and have kids…
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The sharp decline in US teenagers’ aspiration to get married and have kids…
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
I spent most of the day talking with folks about how to talk about trans rights, and then we went and had conversations on doors in very light blue district. And it went...great!
Change is possible. And all of us have the power to nudge it along. Get in the work, wherever it is for you.
Change is possible. And all of us have the power to nudge it along. Get in the work, wherever it is for you.
November 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I spent most of the day talking with folks about how to talk about trans rights, and then we went and had conversations on doors in very light blue district. And it went...great!
Change is possible. And all of us have the power to nudge it along. Get in the work, wherever it is for you.
Change is possible. And all of us have the power to nudge it along. Get in the work, wherever it is for you.
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my take on mtg’s retirement as a former veteran hill reporter:
this is a big deal & indicative of a political realignment & any snarky users here trying to talk you out of it are simply genuinely wrong!
this is a big deal & indicative of a political realignment & any snarky users here trying to talk you out of it are simply genuinely wrong!
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
my take on mtg’s retirement as a former veteran hill reporter:
this is a big deal & indicative of a political realignment & any snarky users here trying to talk you out of it are simply genuinely wrong!
this is a big deal & indicative of a political realignment & any snarky users here trying to talk you out of it are simply genuinely wrong!