A. Catherine Conner
@kittyconner.bsky.social
Indianapolis | Suburban Chicago
Midwest is best. I'm sure your hometown is super nice though.
Swimming Pools
& Ginger Ale
& Novels
Midwest is best. I'm sure your hometown is super nice though.
Swimming Pools
& Ginger Ale
& Novels
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This is very confusing, @nytimes.com. How can both of these things be true at the same time?
January 29, 2026 at 6:10 PM
This is very confusing, @nytimes.com. How can both of these things be true at the same time?
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recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.
January 29, 2026 at 9:48 AM
recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.
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Submitting this as a Bright Idea at my place of work
A nursing scholarship for immigrants or POCs in Pretti's name would be a really beautiful thing
January 27, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Submitting this as a Bright Idea at my place of work
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Having tried it, I dont care for a low trust society, and would prefer a high trust one. Please look into this soonest
January 27, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Having tried it, I dont care for a low trust society, and would prefer a high trust one. Please look into this soonest
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my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 PM
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
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Trump is not doing this and the media is lying to you because they want to take him to the dance and kiss
January 27, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Trump is not doing this and the media is lying to you because they want to take him to the dance and kiss
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It turns out the Moral Majority of the U.S.A. is on the left
January 27, 2026 at 1:35 PM
It turns out the Moral Majority of the U.S.A. is on the left
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CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 8:01 PM
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
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Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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It’s the Minnesota Patriots vs GOP fascism. That is the frame.
Standing up for your neighbor is the real “All-American.”
Standing up for your neighbor is the real “All-American.”
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
It’s the Minnesota Patriots vs GOP fascism. That is the frame.
Standing up for your neighbor is the real “All-American.”
Standing up for your neighbor is the real “All-American.”
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ICE and DHS are out of control and making our communities less safe.
I will not support funding for DHS without clear accountability and stronger controls over the agency.
It is time for the Senate to do its job and rein in this lawlessness.
I will not support funding for DHS without clear accountability and stronger controls over the agency.
It is time for the Senate to do its job and rein in this lawlessness.
January 24, 2026 at 10:39 PM
ICE and DHS are out of control and making our communities less safe.
I will not support funding for DHS without clear accountability and stronger controls over the agency.
It is time for the Senate to do its job and rein in this lawlessness.
I will not support funding for DHS without clear accountability and stronger controls over the agency.
It is time for the Senate to do its job and rein in this lawlessness.
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ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
January 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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I would like Democrats to understand that doing literally anything is not the escalation they think it is. Doing something is DE-ESCALATION. Doing nothing is ESCALATION because it will cause people to take matters into their own hands.
once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street
January 24, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I would like Democrats to understand that doing literally anything is not the escalation they think it is. Doing something is DE-ESCALATION. Doing nothing is ESCALATION because it will cause people to take matters into their own hands.
This is where we are as a country.
Don't post too aggressively because there's a very real concern for harm.
Bill of Rights who? I don't know them.
Don't post too aggressively because there's a very real concern for harm.
Bill of Rights who? I don't know them.
Do not say anything here you don't want read back to you in court.
oh boy everybody focus, deep breath. Courage. No fedposting.
January 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This is where we are as a country.
Don't post too aggressively because there's a very real concern for harm.
Bill of Rights who? I don't know them.
Don't post too aggressively because there's a very real concern for harm.
Bill of Rights who? I don't know them.
Also drives home how cowardly the GOVERNING class is.
Ahem, Senators @schumer.senate.gov and @klobuchar.senate.gov.
What are you doing for Americans?
Especially you, Senator Klobuchar. You ARE a Midwestern mom. Why the heck aren't YOU out leading those courageous frozen protesters today?
Ahem, Senators @schumer.senate.gov and @klobuchar.senate.gov.
What are you doing for Americans?
Especially you, Senator Klobuchar. You ARE a Midwestern mom. Why the heck aren't YOU out leading those courageous frozen protesters today?
Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
January 23, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Also drives home how cowardly the GOVERNING class is.
Ahem, Senators @schumer.senate.gov and @klobuchar.senate.gov.
What are you doing for Americans?
Especially you, Senator Klobuchar. You ARE a Midwestern mom. Why the heck aren't YOU out leading those courageous frozen protesters today?
Ahem, Senators @schumer.senate.gov and @klobuchar.senate.gov.
What are you doing for Americans?
Especially you, Senator Klobuchar. You ARE a Midwestern mom. Why the heck aren't YOU out leading those courageous frozen protesters today?
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Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.
January 21, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.
This is me speaking stuff into existence: @weratedogs.com and @musicologyduck.bsky.social in an interview double feature on This American Life (The episode is tentatively titled—in my head obviously—Good Dogs/Good Ducks) and Good Hang with Amy Poehler.
Together. Why? Mostly same positive vibes.
Together. Why? Mostly same positive vibes.
Have seen many variations of this & broadly agree—but the part that struck me in the moment wasn’t “this is a microcosm for how America sucks” — it was “this is a microcosm for trying to behave democratically & respectfully of one another in a complex, evolving situation with things we can't know.”
i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
January 21, 2026 at 12:21 AM
This is me speaking stuff into existence: @weratedogs.com and @musicologyduck.bsky.social in an interview double feature on This American Life (The episode is tentatively titled—in my head obviously—Good Dogs/Good Ducks) and Good Hang with Amy Poehler.
Together. Why? Mostly same positive vibes.
Together. Why? Mostly same positive vibes.
Do this.
So you can find things like -- a local company providing $127,000 for pepper spray to ICE.
The street view is of an utterly inconsequential building in the middle of not much.
(Plus all of the other random unexamined crap they apparently provide to the govt. Who are these people?)
So you can find things like -- a local company providing $127,000 for pepper spray to ICE.
The street view is of an utterly inconsequential building in the middle of not much.
(Plus all of the other random unexamined crap they apparently provide to the govt. Who are these people?)
Great piece. I’ll add to Andrea’s ideas for action this one: go to USA spending dot gov and look up active ICE contractors who do business in your state. Then organize boycotts and protests of those businesses.
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
January 20, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Do this.
So you can find things like -- a local company providing $127,000 for pepper spray to ICE.
The street view is of an utterly inconsequential building in the middle of not much.
(Plus all of the other random unexamined crap they apparently provide to the govt. Who are these people?)
So you can find things like -- a local company providing $127,000 for pepper spray to ICE.
The street view is of an utterly inconsequential building in the middle of not much.
(Plus all of the other random unexamined crap they apparently provide to the govt. Who are these people?)
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"We will fight for, the Cream and Crimson."
If you were a kid in Bloomington in the 70s and 80s, this was the ad on TV that meant the game was about to start. It makes me feel a lot, tbh, to listen to it. Especially the laugh at the end.
If you were a kid in Bloomington in the 70s and 80s, this was the ad on TV that meant the game was about to start. It makes me feel a lot, tbh, to listen to it. Especially the laugh at the end.
Indiana Farm Bureau Presents An IU Basketball Tradition
YouTube video by Indiana University Athletics
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:27 AM
"We will fight for, the Cream and Crimson."
If you were a kid in Bloomington in the 70s and 80s, this was the ad on TV that meant the game was about to start. It makes me feel a lot, tbh, to listen to it. Especially the laugh at the end.
If you were a kid in Bloomington in the 70s and 80s, this was the ad on TV that meant the game was about to start. It makes me feel a lot, tbh, to listen to it. Especially the laugh at the end.
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The "centrist" deficit hawks are all in hibernation until the next time a Democrat becomes President, I see.
January 18, 2026 at 3:38 PM
The "centrist" deficit hawks are all in hibernation until the next time a Democrat becomes President, I see.
Hey, it is something! We're not getting solutions from any other lawmaker.
Silly seeming, to be sure. And probably unworkable in person. But at least the public has a chance at IDing specific bad actors after the next tragedy, even with face coverings.
The govt sure isn't going to do it for us.
Silly seeming, to be sure. And probably unworkable in person. But at least the public has a chance at IDing specific bad actors after the next tragedy, even with face coverings.
The govt sure isn't going to do it for us.
A major population center is literally under siege and this guy wants to put bar codes on the death squads
I am introducing the Quick Recognition (QR) Act, which requires ICE and CBP officers to wear uniforms featuring QR codes. When scanned, the code would generate a digital ID displaying the officer’s name, badge number, and law enforcement agency.
ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
January 14, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Hey, it is something! We're not getting solutions from any other lawmaker.
Silly seeming, to be sure. And probably unworkable in person. But at least the public has a chance at IDing specific bad actors after the next tragedy, even with face coverings.
The govt sure isn't going to do it for us.
Silly seeming, to be sure. And probably unworkable in person. But at least the public has a chance at IDing specific bad actors after the next tragedy, even with face coverings.
The govt sure isn't going to do it for us.