Kayt Sukel
@kaytsukel.bsky.social
Freelancer. Ghostwriter. Author THE ART OF RISK (NatGeo, 2016) and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON SEX (S&S, 2013). Thwarted explorer. Nerd. Dog Mom. "A bucket full of f'in sunshine."
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Elites are saying Alex Pretti was murdered. But have they considered whether that message is appealing to voters? And have they confronted the fact that many people have not been murdered?
Today in the @washingtonpost.com by Megan McArdle
Today in the @washingtonpost.com by Megan McArdle
January 26, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Elites are saying Alex Pretti was murdered. But have they considered whether that message is appealing to voters? And have they confronted the fact that many people have not been murdered?
Today in the @washingtonpost.com by Megan McArdle
Today in the @washingtonpost.com by Megan McArdle
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Crazy how Trump's lawyers have never seen anything Trump has ever said or done.
Judge Menendez asks about Trump's quote: "Your day of retribution is here." She asks what she's supposed to do with that.
Mayers says he hasn't seen that Truth Social post.
Mayers says he hasn't seen that Truth Social post.
January 26, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Crazy how Trump's lawyers have never seen anything Trump has ever said or done.
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I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.
Tho I will say, in his defense, he's not the first person to be confused by how quickly the romance authors & readers can whip up finely tuned logistics out of nothing. 😂
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.
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ugh why is everybody calling my masked armed death squads who kidnap kindergartners the gestapo
January 26, 2026 at 3:39 PM
ugh why is everybody calling my masked armed death squads who kidnap kindergartners the gestapo
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It feels appropriate that the best reporting from The Atlantic and The New York Times has been by seasoned war reporters who understand the stakes and, by extension, the need to protect sources or sensitive information.
January 26, 2026 at 1:09 PM
It feels appropriate that the best reporting from The Atlantic and The New York Times has been by seasoned war reporters who understand the stakes and, by extension, the need to protect sources or sensitive information.
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Should be noted that the fabulous woman in question is a rage baker, with a long history of doing cakes like this when something has pissed her off. Genuinely one of my favorite people.
My sister in Seattle made this cake for Minnesota. She says the flavor is "chocolate, caramel, rage."
Phone number on the left is the Senate/House switchboard. Call it.
Phone number on the left is the Senate/House switchboard. Call it.
January 26, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Should be noted that the fabulous woman in question is a rage baker, with a long history of doing cakes like this when something has pissed her off. Genuinely one of my favorite people.
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part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 12:14 AM
part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
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"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
January 25, 2026 at 11:01 PM
"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
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I've said this a thousand times at this point, but it's just neighbors helping neighbors! That's it! We don't like it when members of our community are in danger, so we work together to offer them food and comfort and safety, as best we can
It's how we get through winter and how we get through this
It's how we get through winter and how we get through this
January 25, 2026 at 11:55 PM
I've said this a thousand times at this point, but it's just neighbors helping neighbors! That's it! We don't like it when members of our community are in danger, so we work together to offer them food and comfort and safety, as best we can
It's how we get through winter and how we get through this
It's how we get through winter and how we get through this
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So moving! Tears in my eyes.
The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up,
"Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"
"Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"
January 25, 2026 at 11:24 PM
So moving! Tears in my eyes.
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Filming ICE is an act of journalism. Cell phone footage is vital source material for reporters who can’t be everywhere at once.
Shooting, killing and other targeting of those documenting news is an attack on press freedom and all else that's good in the world.
Shooting, killing and other targeting of those documenting news is an attack on press freedom and all else that's good in the world.
Videos show federal agents killing Minneapolis man
Some details of federal government’s account of the shooting aren’t supported by footage captured by bystanders.
www.startribune.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Filming ICE is an act of journalism. Cell phone footage is vital source material for reporters who can’t be everywhere at once.
Shooting, killing and other targeting of those documenting news is an attack on press freedom and all else that's good in the world.
Shooting, killing and other targeting of those documenting news is an attack on press freedom and all else that's good in the world.
I’m sure this has nothing to do with the SS-lite DHS social media channels.
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 25, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I’m sure this has nothing to do with the SS-lite DHS social media channels.
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Strength in numbers. Strength in community. Keep helping your neighbors.
3. Right now our biggest margin of safety is the fact that there are many thousands of us, and encouraging people to get involved just makes it harder for them to arrest, detain, harass, or murder us. There is strength in numbers. There is strength in united resolve.
January 25, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Strength in numbers. Strength in community. Keep helping your neighbors.
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pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim
Washpost foreign correspondents plead with Bezos to keep the overseas bureaus alive.
January 25, 2026 at 5:56 PM
pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim
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Things are so bad that the Minnesota prison system has had to launch a website specifically to combat DHS lies. The first major release from DOC officials suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the Border Patrol operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Things are so bad that the Minnesota prison system has had to launch a website specifically to combat DHS lies. The first major release from DOC officials suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the Border Patrol operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.
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Broken again by this post from the cute brunch spot a block from where ICE killed Alex
"We have a medic and eye wash stations on site"
"We have a medic and eye wash stations on site"
January 25, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Broken again by this post from the cute brunch spot a block from where ICE killed Alex
"We have a medic and eye wash stations on site"
"We have a medic and eye wash stations on site"
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Akiva points out one of the glimmers of hope here: this administration has utterly lost the presumption of regularity, at least among honest judges.
It may be that DoJ will never recover it, which, as a defense lawyer, I think is not a bad thing.
It may be that DoJ will never recover it, which, as a defense lawyer, I think is not a bad thing.
Understand that 370 days ago even bringing a motion like this would probably have been treated as sanctionably frivolous
Today it was granted ex parte
Today it was granted ex parte
A federal judge issues a restraining order against the feds, barring them from "destroying or altering evidence"
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Akiva points out one of the glimmers of hope here: this administration has utterly lost the presumption of regularity, at least among honest judges.
It may be that DoJ will never recover it, which, as a defense lawyer, I think is not a bad thing.
It may be that DoJ will never recover it, which, as a defense lawyer, I think is not a bad thing.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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Patel is lying about the law as it is traditionally understood, as it is written. He’s telling the truth about law under Trumpism: you only have a right if they deign to acknowledge it; you have no right to do anything they don’t want you to do.
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)
January 25, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Patel is lying about the law as it is traditionally understood, as it is written. He’s telling the truth about law under Trumpism: you only have a right if they deign to acknowledge it; you have no right to do anything they don’t want you to do.
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Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽
‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
apnews.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽
‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
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WHENEVER we act together people who themselves are unimaginative and politically impoverished claim some underground cabal. I've been accused of similar in my shared governance work and sexual harassment work. It's always just a Signal chat of do-gooders with silly pseudonyms.
It's the PTO moms and spreadsheet dads and other random-ass Minnesotans concerned for their neighbors. There is no one central organizing org, just a ton of people who give a shit. It's both beautiful that it's happening and laughable that anyone thinks there's some broader apparatus at work.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 1:50 PM
WHENEVER we act together people who themselves are unimaginative and politically impoverished claim some underground cabal. I've been accused of similar in my shared governance work and sexual harassment work. It's always just a Signal chat of do-gooders with silly pseudonyms.
If this is what they are doing in broad daylight, imagine what they are doing to detainees behind closed doors.
January 25, 2026 at 3:30 AM
If this is what they are doing in broad daylight, imagine what they are doing to detainees behind closed doors.
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Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
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The last line is getting all the quotes because it’s cute and funny, but the whole interview is 🔥.
The whole interview is worth it
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
The last line is getting all the quotes because it’s cute and funny, but the whole interview is 🔥.
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Who in their right mind believes statements from the Department of Homeland Security?
Who believes anything Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller or Trump might say about what has just happened in Minneapolis?
They no longer have any credibility. That should be clear by now.
They lie like they breathe.
Who believes anything Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller or Trump might say about what has just happened in Minneapolis?
They no longer have any credibility. That should be clear by now.
They lie like they breathe.
January 24, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Who in their right mind believes statements from the Department of Homeland Security?
Who believes anything Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller or Trump might say about what has just happened in Minneapolis?
They no longer have any credibility. That should be clear by now.
They lie like they breathe.
Who believes anything Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller or Trump might say about what has just happened in Minneapolis?
They no longer have any credibility. That should be clear by now.
They lie like they breathe.