Katherine Locke
@katherinelocke.bsky.social
Author, writer, reader, cat owner, horse owner. Mostly made of rage and salt. Red Sea pedestrian. They/them.
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
It was the very bad scenario. But we got good margins so possibly very good of the very bad scenario? It's extremely rare so vet is doing more research.
My horse had an unexpected minor surgery yesterday to remove a growth that has been sent off for histopathology. The possibilities range from meh to manageable to very bad. I was not really expecting that and it's been a gut punch. Please send good thoughts her way.
February 6, 2026 at 6:53 PM
It was the very bad scenario. But we got good margins so possibly very good of the very bad scenario? It's extremely rare so vet is doing more research.
Was looking very cute for her stitches check tonight
February 6, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Was looking very cute for her stitches check tonight
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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
My horse had an unexpected minor surgery yesterday to remove a growth that has been sent off for histopathology. The possibilities range from meh to manageable to very bad. I was not really expecting that and it's been a gut punch. Please send good thoughts her way.
February 4, 2026 at 12:39 PM
My horse had an unexpected minor surgery yesterday to remove a growth that has been sent off for histopathology. The possibilities range from meh to manageable to very bad. I was not really expecting that and it's been a gut punch. Please send good thoughts her way.
I truly hate autoDMs when you follow someone. It's an instant unfollow and block for me.
February 3, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I truly hate autoDMs when you follow someone. It's an instant unfollow and block for me.
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Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering.
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
This hasn’t received nearly enough attention:
Republicans just passed a law to pack Utah’s Supreme Court after it ruled against their congressional gerrymander.
Cox could appoint two more justices before the court hears the GOP’s latest appeal to preserve their gerrymander
Republicans just passed a law to pack Utah’s Supreme Court after it ruled against their congressional gerrymander.
Cox could appoint two more justices before the court hears the GOP’s latest appeal to preserve their gerrymander
Utah governor signs bill adding justices to state Supreme Court as redistricting appeal looms
Once the new seats are filled, Gov. Spencer Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices.
www.nbcnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering.
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
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a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX.
we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home.
delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.
we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home.
delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.
February 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM
a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX.
we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home.
delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.
we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home.
delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.
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Liam Conejo Ramos is on an airplane on his way home to Minnesota. How wonderful.
kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
5-year-old and father detained by ICE will return to Minnesota Sunday morning
5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father have boarded a flight back to Minnesota, nearly two weeks after being detained by ICE.
kstp.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Liam Conejo Ramos is on an airplane on his way home to Minnesota. How wonderful.
kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
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In 2018, both Kamala Harris and Mazie Hirono asked Trump officials if they’d send their own kids to these camps. The officials refused to directly answer: www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/p...
January 29, 2026 at 4:21 PM
In 2018, both Kamala Harris and Mazie Hirono asked Trump officials if they’d send their own kids to these camps. The officials refused to directly answer: www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/p...
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just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas
January 28, 2026 at 4:28 PM
just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas
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Let's be clear about what he's actually saying:
"We're going to dox American citizens who have not committed any actual crimes because they got in our way."
"We're going to dox American citizens who have not committed any actual crimes because they got in our way."
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Let's be clear about what he's actually saying:
"We're going to dox American citizens who have not committed any actual crimes because they got in our way."
"We're going to dox American citizens who have not committed any actual crimes because they got in our way."
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Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody on January 14.
His fundraiser sits at $5,138 the cost to bring him home for burial is $4,750.
I imagine his family needs more breathing room to grieve.
I’ll match the first $200 in donations.
Leave receipts below 👇
www.facebook.com/story.php?st...
His fundraiser sits at $5,138 the cost to bring him home for burial is $4,750.
I imagine his family needs more breathing room to grieve.
I’ll match the first $200 in donations.
Leave receipts below 👇
www.facebook.com/story.php?st...
January 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody on January 14.
His fundraiser sits at $5,138 the cost to bring him home for burial is $4,750.
I imagine his family needs more breathing room to grieve.
I’ll match the first $200 in donations.
Leave receipts below 👇
www.facebook.com/story.php?st...
His fundraiser sits at $5,138 the cost to bring him home for burial is $4,750.
I imagine his family needs more breathing room to grieve.
I’ll match the first $200 in donations.
Leave receipts below 👇
www.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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A little blip on self care and how / where I get so much reading done. open.substack.com/pub/ericsmit...
Crying on the Treadmill at the Gym
Or, A Treadmill Dashboard Confessional
open.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:57 PM
A little blip on self care and how / where I get so much reading done. open.substack.com/pub/ericsmit...
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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“I don’t mean slip away unnoticed never to be heard from again. I mean get up in the middle of the sermon and walk out and slam the door behind you and never look back. Find a community of faith that is following the way of Jesus against the violence of empire.”
“… if your pastor gets into the sacred pulpit and defends or excuses or lukewarmly hem haws around the brutalization we are experiencing in Minnesota right now … then you should leave.” baptistnews.com/article/what...
What your pastor says this Sunday matters very much – Baptist News Global
“Find a community of faith that is following the way of Jesus against the violence of empire," says Cody Sanders.
baptistnews.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:24 PM
“I don’t mean slip away unnoticed never to be heard from again. I mean get up in the middle of the sermon and walk out and slam the door behind you and never look back. Find a community of faith that is following the way of Jesus against the violence of empire.”
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I’m not going to click on the story and you don’t have to either (you don’t gain anything by horrors and desensitization)
but be unsurprised once again by the NRA.
Love and compassion are the only way forever.
but be unsurprised once again by the NRA.
Love and compassion are the only way forever.
I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
January 25, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I’m not going to click on the story and you don’t have to either (you don’t gain anything by horrors and desensitization)
but be unsurprised once again by the NRA.
Love and compassion are the only way forever.
but be unsurprised once again by the NRA.
Love and compassion are the only way forever.
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Heyo, Chicago pals: Quick note that the executive vice president of the Bob Loquercio Auto Group is vociferously defending the murder of Alex Pretti.
The auto group has 16 locations in and around Chicago, listed below. Please take your business elsewhere.
www.blautogroup.com/locations/in...
The auto group has 16 locations in and around Chicago, listed below. Please take your business elsewhere.
www.blautogroup.com/locations/in...
January 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Heyo, Chicago pals: Quick note that the executive vice president of the Bob Loquercio Auto Group is vociferously defending the murder of Alex Pretti.
The auto group has 16 locations in and around Chicago, listed below. Please take your business elsewhere.
www.blautogroup.com/locations/in...
The auto group has 16 locations in and around Chicago, listed below. Please take your business elsewhere.
www.blautogroup.com/locations/in...
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M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:55 PM
M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"
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Destroying things can be quick and easy.
Rebuilding them will be a long hard slog.
Rebuilding them will be a long hard slog.
Good piece that gets at an often underdiscussed issue -- of how much work in rebuilding state capacity (or denazification of remaining state capacity) will be necessary post-Trump
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Left Needs Bureaucrats - Dissent Magazine
After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.
dissentmagazine.org
January 25, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Destroying things can be quick and easy.
Rebuilding them will be a long hard slog.
Rebuilding them will be a long hard slog.
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Great feedback, team. Keep it up.
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino said well-organized protesters in Minnseota make the ICE operation harder.
"They've got some excellent communications," Bovino said.
"They've got some excellent communications," Bovino said.
Live: Minnesota officials subpoenaed in federal probe of state’s response to ICE surge
The federal investigation marks an escalation in tensions between federal and state officials.
bit.ly
January 20, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Great feedback, team. Keep it up.
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@erikjbrown.bsky.social has a new book out today, and it looks so cool!
🕵️🏼♀️ it's time for me to assume an identity... For THEME.
Hi! I'M USA Today Bestselling author @erikjbrown.bsky.social and my new YA thriller BETTER THE DEVIL is out TODAY!
Cat tax included.
Hi! I'M USA Today Bestselling author @erikjbrown.bsky.social and my new YA thriller BETTER THE DEVIL is out TODAY!
Cat tax included.
January 20, 2026 at 5:27 PM
@erikjbrown.bsky.social has a new book out today, and it looks so cool!
🕵️🏼♀️ it's time for me to assume an identity... For THEME.
Hi! I'M USA Today Bestselling author @erikjbrown.bsky.social and my new YA thriller BETTER THE DEVIL is out TODAY!
Cat tax included.
Hi! I'M USA Today Bestselling author @erikjbrown.bsky.social and my new YA thriller BETTER THE DEVIL is out TODAY!
Cat tax included.
January 20, 2026 at 2:47 PM
🕵️🏼♀️ it's time for me to assume an identity... For THEME.
Hi! I'M USA Today Bestselling author @erikjbrown.bsky.social and my new YA thriller BETTER THE DEVIL is out TODAY!
Cat tax included.
Hi! I'M USA Today Bestselling author @erikjbrown.bsky.social and my new YA thriller BETTER THE DEVIL is out TODAY!
Cat tax included.