Kate Baxter-Kauf
@kbaxterk.bsky.social
Class action & privacy lawyer at Lockridge Grindal Nauen. Abortion, debate access, & Central HS / St. Paul neighborhood volunteer. Lover of books, the West Wing & Feminist T-Shirt Friday. she/hers
I have this on the fridge at my St. Paul house and it works for my vision of the city.
📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
Be nice or leave. Kindness is the entry fee for interaction. This asserts the moral right to self-preservation, ethically excluding anyone who refuses the social contract of reciprocal altruism.
Be nice or leave. Kindness is the entry fee for interaction. This asserts the moral right to self-preservation, ethically excluding anyone who refuses the social contract of reciprocal altruism.
November 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I have this on the fridge at my St. Paul house and it works for my vision of the city.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
This year, the fiction so far that has taken up space in my chest such that I think about it & contemplate characters: Martyr! (Akbar), Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance (Espach), The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver), James & Erasure (Everett), A Place for Us (Mirza), Nothing to See Here (Wilson).
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This year, the fiction so far that has taken up space in my chest such that I think about it & contemplate characters: Martyr! (Akbar), Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance (Espach), The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver), James & Erasure (Everett), A Place for Us (Mirza), Nothing to See Here (Wilson).
Do you even live in the twin cities if you didn’t go see the lights?
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Do you even live in the twin cities if you didn’t go see the lights?
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I don't have a high opinion of SCOTUS.
But this outcome was clear-as Mark & I explained on MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...
People SHOULD worry about SCOTUS & educate people about what SCOTUS is doing & might do.
They shouldn't whip ppl into frenzies on cases that aren't going anywhere.
But this outcome was clear-as Mark & I explained on MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...
People SHOULD worry about SCOTUS & educate people about what SCOTUS is doing & might do.
They shouldn't whip ppl into frenzies on cases that aren't going anywhere.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I don't have a high opinion of SCOTUS.
But this outcome was clear-as Mark & I explained on MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...
People SHOULD worry about SCOTUS & educate people about what SCOTUS is doing & might do.
They shouldn't whip ppl into frenzies on cases that aren't going anywhere.
But this outcome was clear-as Mark & I explained on MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...
People SHOULD worry about SCOTUS & educate people about what SCOTUS is doing & might do.
They shouldn't whip ppl into frenzies on cases that aren't going anywhere.
Okay, Virginia, now I'd like a state class action device, please.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Okay, Virginia, now I'd like a state class action device, please.
I think every single person voting for Mike Hilborn (GOP guy) for Mayor of St. Paul is on Nextdoor.
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I think every single person voting for Mike Hilborn (GOP guy) for Mayor of St. Paul is on Nextdoor.
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I agree with this post and I voted for Carter and yes on both questions 1 and 2.
This quote resonated with me:
the city doesn't have enough tools to take on the skeezy businessmen that actively suck capital out of our neighborhoods and let the city rot.
I am disappointed that Her committed
This quote resonated with me:
the city doesn't have enough tools to take on the skeezy businessmen that actively suck capital out of our neighborhoods and let the city rot.
I am disappointed that Her committed
OK. I don't know why I did this, but I wrote up my run down of what I see as the condition of Saint Paul and then why I choose to support Mayor Carter
leaflet.pub/ab326e22-655...
leaflet.pub/ab326e22-655...
Thoughts on the Saint Paul Mayoral Race
I originally wrote this to get some thoughts down and then thought, why the hell does anyone care what I think? And I don't know if anyone cares about my thoughts but I wrote them anyway.
leaflet.pub
November 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I agree with this post and I voted for Carter and yes on both questions 1 and 2.
This quote resonated with me:
the city doesn't have enough tools to take on the skeezy businessmen that actively suck capital out of our neighborhoods and let the city rot.
I am disappointed that Her committed
This quote resonated with me:
the city doesn't have enough tools to take on the skeezy businessmen that actively suck capital out of our neighborhoods and let the city rot.
I am disappointed that Her committed
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Tressie cooked here:
"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."
"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
“working class” has become a powerful political totem of its own — a discursive sleight of hand used to separate out white voters’ concerns as more legitimate, more materially grounded, more important than other voters’ concerns."
Really good piece.
“working class” has become a powerful political totem of its own — a discursive sleight of hand used to separate out white voters’ concerns as more legitimate, more materially grounded, more important than other voters’ concerns."
Really good piece.
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Tressie cooked here:
"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."
"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."
I have no idea if this is a hot take but I’m here for it. And I pretty much always love every culture’s dumpling/hand pie/empanada. 🥟
I've said this before but the pizza roll is (genuinely) the American version of this, and an incredible embodiment of USA society and culture in the 1960s
snackstack.net/2023/03/30/p...
snackstack.net/2023/03/30/p...
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I have no idea if this is a hot take but I’m here for it. And I pretty much always love every culture’s dumpling/hand pie/empanada. 🥟
It is hard for be to express how stupid looking the bumblebee Steelers jerseys are, and that’s before you get to the ridiculous khaki pants. 💚💛 #gopackgo
October 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It is hard for be to express how stupid looking the bumblebee Steelers jerseys are, and that’s before you get to the ridiculous khaki pants. 💚💛 #gopackgo
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Community advocates are texting me with polite thank yous for my advocacy.
Friends are texting me shots of my own face aggressively zoomed in on different parts.
Friends are texting me shots of my own face aggressively zoomed in on different parts.
Be sure to read this Op-Ed from @tombasgen.bsky.social on how voting Yes on Administrative Citations will improve the lives of renters by giving the city an essential enforcement tool. He also corrects some of the misinformation circulating about the policy.
www.myvillager.com/viewpoint/ed...
www.myvillager.com/viewpoint/ed...
Vote ‘yes’ on Nov. 4: Administrative citations promise quicker fix to violations
I am a legislative aide in the Ward 3 office at City Hall. Every day constituents reach out to our office looking to share an opinion, an insight or often
www.myvillager.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Community advocates are texting me with polite thank yous for my advocacy.
Friends are texting me shots of my own face aggressively zoomed in on different parts.
Friends are texting me shots of my own face aggressively zoomed in on different parts.
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Very powerful Win at the Minnesota Supreme Court today in Jaycee Cooper versus USA powerlifting.
The law in Minnesota is clear: Transgender people have a right in Minnesota under the Minnesota human rights access to full inclusion and the Supreme Court has upheld that fact.
The law in Minnesota is clear: Transgender people have a right in Minnesota under the Minnesota human rights access to full inclusion and the Supreme Court has upheld that fact.
October 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Very powerful Win at the Minnesota Supreme Court today in Jaycee Cooper versus USA powerlifting.
The law in Minnesota is clear: Transgender people have a right in Minnesota under the Minnesota human rights access to full inclusion and the Supreme Court has upheld that fact.
The law in Minnesota is clear: Transgender people have a right in Minnesota under the Minnesota human rights access to full inclusion and the Supreme Court has upheld that fact.
I have infinite love for the Arboretum and this is but one reason why. 💜🍁⭐️
October 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I have infinite love for the Arboretum and this is but one reason why. 💜🍁⭐️
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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.
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...
October 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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.
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.
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...
October 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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.
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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...
Support her campaign and learn more here: secure.actblue.com/donate/aisha...
Donate to Aisha Elmquist
Show your support with a contribution.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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...
Support her campaign and learn more here: secure.actblue.com/donate/aisha...
A fitting day for a tour with my senior at the University of Kansas!
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A fitting day for a tour with my senior at the University of Kansas!
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“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
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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...
www.middlebury.edu/institute/ct...
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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...
www.middlebury.edu/institute/ct...
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.
October 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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.
Bryan Stevenson is an American hero and this article is both concise and informative.
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Bryan Stevenson is an American hero and this article is both concise and informative.
Want to feel better about the world today? If so, I suggest donating to a fantastic debate team at a great urban public school. ❤️🐳🖤 raise.snap.app/donate/st-pa...
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October 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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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.
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
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
October 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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.
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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!
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!
October 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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!
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!