Cait
@caitesq.bsky.social
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@caitesq.bsky.social
· Aug 23
Apologies to my followers who are not here for the beansposting
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People are reading this way wrong. Schumer detached DHS from the other five bills in return for a two week CR on the DHS bill. Now Democrats can make demands on DHS spending without having to shut down agencies covered in the other five bills. They have way more leverage to get real concessions.
People just going out here saying the literal opposite of what happened. Thune caved! Thune did! This is a cave by Thune and Senate Republicans, any possible way you cut it.
January 30, 2026 at 3:34 AM
People are reading this way wrong. Schumer detached DHS from the other five bills in return for a two week CR on the DHS bill. Now Democrats can make demands on DHS spending without having to shut down agencies covered in the other five bills. They have way more leverage to get real concessions.
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"The children’s mother called the school early Thursday to tell them she’d been detained and asked school leaders to bring the kids to her at the Whipple Federal Building ... because there were no family members ... to care for them.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody
The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...
www.mprnews.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:45 AM
"The children’s mother called the school early Thursday to tell them she’d been detained and asked school leaders to bring the kids to her at the Whipple Federal Building ... because there were no family members ... to care for them.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.
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The main thing that these 21 (not 19, sorry typo) new members have in common? Most of them have publicly expressed or belong to groups that have publicly expressed a belief in the debunked claim that vaccines can cause autism.
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January 28, 2026 at 9:59 PM
The main thing that these 21 (not 19, sorry typo) new members have in common? Most of them have publicly expressed or belong to groups that have publicly expressed a belief in the debunked claim that vaccines can cause autism.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/28/k...
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This is really interesting--I guess there's no reason people would necessarily know this. I've done a little bit of press (a dozen interviews total, maybe), and every journalist I've worked with has been incredibly scrupulous about boundaries. 1/
the presence of a journalist does not mean the identity of every person the journalist encounters suddenly becomes a public fact. what I am discovering is that an alarming number of people appear to believe in this kind of miasmatic journalism. real journalists work by very strict disclosure rules
dude, I think you‘ve done some good but you’re not winning the argument by basically calling people immature for not wanting to be fully public like you. I also don’t know the right way to persuade on this one but your way ain’t working right now
January 30, 2026 at 5:13 AM
This is really interesting--I guess there's no reason people would necessarily know this. I've done a little bit of press (a dozen interviews total, maybe), and every journalist I've worked with has been incredibly scrupulous about boundaries. 1/
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Nah. They won.
January 30, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Nah. They won.
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Q: So you're not pulling back in Minnesota?
TRUMP: No no. Not at all.
TRUMP: No no. Not at all.
January 30, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Q: So you're not pulling back in Minnesota?
TRUMP: No no. Not at all.
TRUMP: No no. Not at all.
Got the kid to an elementary school dance just in time to hear the opening bars of “Golden.” Cue literal screams from every girl in the gym
January 30, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Got the kid to an elementary school dance just in time to hear the opening bars of “Golden.” Cue literal screams from every girl in the gym
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Trump: i’m at war with minnesota like i was with venezuela bsky.app/profile/leba...
This is so unhinged
January 29, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Trump: i’m at war with minnesota like i was with venezuela bsky.app/profile/leba...
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A whole new gen-AI issue: I have many students who basically only speak Spanish, & we heavily use Google Translate to communicate. It mostly works ok. The problem is that everything they hand in gets flagged as 100% AI generated, & I can't tell if they generated the whole thing, or just translated.
January 29, 2026 at 10:54 PM
A whole new gen-AI issue: I have many students who basically only speak Spanish, & we heavily use Google Translate to communicate. It mostly works ok. The problem is that everything they hand in gets flagged as 100% AI generated, & I can't tell if they generated the whole thing, or just translated.
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I certainly would not have been able to write my story about all the bravery I witnessed in Minneapolis without the access I was given! bsky.app/profile/whst...
I would really appreciate if journalists who have done ridealongs would speak up about how important they are to helping Minneapolis. As I’ve said many times, opsec fears are the greatest threat to the networks we’ve built. But the reason we’re out here is to show the world what’s happening.
Ridiculous. @chrislhayes.bsky.social did a ride-along that was played on @ms.now last night - the piece threatened nothing and was good 'publicity' for the cause. Hopefully they'll come around for you, Will. Thanks for what you're doing for our city & state.
January 29, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I certainly would not have been able to write my story about all the bravery I witnessed in Minneapolis without the access I was given! bsky.app/profile/whst...
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it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds
January 29, 2026 at 10:27 PM
it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds
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The New Democrats & the Progressive Caucus just put out a joint statement with a list of demands for immigration enforcement reforms... 2 things on this:
1-the New Dems are to the left of Schumer on this
2-nothing about clawing back the $175 billion in OBBBA funding for ICE
1-the New Dems are to the left of Schumer on this
2-nothing about clawing back the $175 billion in OBBBA funding for ICE
January 29, 2026 at 10:33 PM
The New Democrats & the Progressive Caucus just put out a joint statement with a list of demands for immigration enforcement reforms... 2 things on this:
1-the New Dems are to the left of Schumer on this
2-nothing about clawing back the $175 billion in OBBBA funding for ICE
1-the New Dems are to the left of Schumer on this
2-nothing about clawing back the $175 billion in OBBBA funding for ICE
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cover of The Economist this week
January 29, 2026 at 7:48 PM
cover of The Economist this week
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January 29, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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Big smackdown of the minibus on the Senate floor: It fails 45-55, w/ 8 GOP nos and all Dems opposed
R nos
Budd
Johnson
Lee
Moody
Paul
Rick Scott
Tuberville
Thune was also a no, but that's for procedural purposes of being able to bring bill up again quickly if there's a deal
R nos
Budd
Johnson
Lee
Moody
Paul
Rick Scott
Tuberville
Thune was also a no, but that's for procedural purposes of being able to bring bill up again quickly if there's a deal
January 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Big smackdown of the minibus on the Senate floor: It fails 45-55, w/ 8 GOP nos and all Dems opposed
R nos
Budd
Johnson
Lee
Moody
Paul
Rick Scott
Tuberville
Thune was also a no, but that's for procedural purposes of being able to bring bill up again quickly if there's a deal
R nos
Budd
Johnson
Lee
Moody
Paul
Rick Scott
Tuberville
Thune was also a no, but that's for procedural purposes of being able to bring bill up again quickly if there's a deal
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ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 4:58 PM
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
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my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.
January 29, 2026 at 8:32 PM
my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.
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Call your US senators and tell them not to vote for ANY funding bill that won't free five-year-old Liam Ramos and other kidnapped people from the ICE concentration camps.
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I will be putting in notice Friday morning with DHS to return to Dilley to check on Liam again and the many other children and families there. Liam did not look well. My staff and I are very concerned about him.
January 29, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Call your US senators and tell them not to vote for ANY funding bill that won't free five-year-old Liam Ramos and other kidnapped people from the ICE concentration camps.
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Also, CA11 refuses to hold that it was now clearly established, so the result will be exactly the same the next time.
Of course maybe there are other remedies than 1983. I don’t know. But the refusal to rule on violations is a big QI problem.
Of course maybe there are other remedies than 1983. I don’t know. But the refusal to rule on violations is a big QI problem.
11th Cir., 2-1, holds that it was not clearly established that it would violate a person's right to bodily integrity for sheriff's deputy to drive drunk at night without lights, hit the person's car, and then flee leaving person to die.
QI for deputy.
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
QI for deputy.
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
![Though these situations may be factually distinct, we cannot cast them aside in our “obvious clarity” analysis. Where precedent injects such uncertainty, it does not follow logically that the complained of offense “so obviously violates th[e] [C]onstitution.” Mercado v. City of Orlando, 407 F.3d 1152, 1159 (11th Cir. 2005). Indeed, when caselaw indicates that a certain type of conduct does not rise to the level of a constitutional violation, officials cannot possibly be on notice that the conduct is a constitutional violation—and certainly not with obvious clarity. See Hope, 536 U.S. at 741; al-Kidd, 563 U.S. at 741. The existence of this caselaw casting doubt on the “obvious clarity” of Moss’s claimed right—and, indeed, disclaiming such a right altogether—necessarily means that the right was not clearly established at the time of the violation. To be sure, similar out-of-circuit cases have reached the opposite conclusion. For example, as the district court noted in its order, in Browder v. City of Albuquerque, the Tenth Circuit concluded that a police officer’s misuse of a squad car resulting in a fatal collision could give rise to a claim under the Fourteenth Amendment. 787 F.3d 1076, 1083 (10th Cir. 2015).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreidebqwemly2zfgozo4wrt56vrpcdotmda42nxhtve6vdvv256uso4@jpeg)
January 29, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Also, CA11 refuses to hold that it was now clearly established, so the result will be exactly the same the next time.
Of course maybe there are other remedies than 1983. I don’t know. But the refusal to rule on violations is a big QI problem.
Of course maybe there are other remedies than 1983. I don’t know. But the refusal to rule on violations is a big QI problem.
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i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla
January 29, 2026 at 4:50 PM
i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla
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The winds have been carving some amazing formations into the snow along the highway. For size reference, these drifts are at least as tall as me.
January 28, 2026 at 5:19 PM
The winds have been carving some amazing formations into the snow along the highway. For size reference, these drifts are at least as tall as me.
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A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 3:58 PM
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
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Hey baby. Is that a Musa Paradisiaca in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? ;)
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January 20, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Hey baby. Is that a Musa Paradisiaca in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? ;)
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Let's be clear about what's happening: Trump gaslit voters about his abortion stance during the campaign because winning meant staying out of prison.
His administration is now pushing off abortion pill restrictions until after the midterms to try keep the House and prevent Trump being impeached
His administration is now pushing off abortion pill restrictions until after the midterms to try keep the House and prevent Trump being impeached
NEW: FDA asks judge to pause a lawsuit seeking to end telehealth prescriptions of abortion pill mifepristone until agency completes its unnecessary “review” of the drug.
This is NOT Trump admin defending abortion access—it’s buying time until after midterms
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This is NOT Trump admin defending abortion access—it’s buying time until after midterms
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January 29, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Let's be clear about what's happening: Trump gaslit voters about his abortion stance during the campaign because winning meant staying out of prison.
His administration is now pushing off abortion pill restrictions until after the midterms to try keep the House and prevent Trump being impeached
His administration is now pushing off abortion pill restrictions until after the midterms to try keep the House and prevent Trump being impeached
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Revealing a more nuanced understanding of administrative warrants than many stateside.
“This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips. It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt”
'This is a militia that kills': Olympics rattled by ICE security detail as mayor declares 'they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt' | Fortune
Why is Donald Trump sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Italy for the Winter Games?
fortune.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Revealing a more nuanced understanding of administrative warrants than many stateside.