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"Here is how bad things are: We look at the last 48 hours and feel relief. But at any other point in American history, the events of this weekend would be understood as a sign that the country was falling apart." www.thebulwark.com/p/it-was-wor...

submitted 7 hours ago • 18 comments

"We have a debt to pay for Cynthia and eight others who we lost, to make sure that their death is not in vain." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/generat...

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

The accused assassin allegedly used data brokers to track down the Democratic lawmakers he murdered. Congress doesn't need any more proof that selling data to anyone with a credit card is deadly. Every American's safety is at risk until Congress cracks down on data brokers.

submitted 7 hours ago • 49 comments

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

submitted 8 hours ago • 437 comments

this is something that I don't think is directly being reckoned with, at least not that I have seen.

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

The leading explanatory factor for so many of Trump's actions remains that he is an operative of Putin. This photo from their presser after a no-translator meeting in Helsinki says it all. Only a visible leash is missing.

submitted 13 hours ago • 63 comments

This is the plan for all government services.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

"For the second time in an hour, a cop points his stick toward me. 'Get the fuck out of here.'" @stephenrodrick.bsky.social was on the ground at the protests in California, as Trump's shameful military-style birthday party went on in D.C. Read his dispatch ⤵️

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

UPDATE: Following the Ninth Circuit administrative stay in the California National Guard case, CA filed its opposition to a stay pending appeal on Sunday — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... — and DOJ replied today — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... — with arguments set for Tuesday.

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

WE HAVE QUESTIONS… This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they? ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants. How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?

submitted 12 hours ago • 2250 comments

Someone broke into reporters’ email accounts at the Washington Post. Story here: www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

I sure hope MN officials are involved in Boelter's interrogation, b/c I'm pretty sure FBI HQ isn't interested in how he was radicalized, and the country needs to know, to be prepared for more.

submitted 15 hours ago • 146 comments

holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.

submitted 15 hours ago • 837 comments

"Let me exercise my role as G7 chair" -- Carney steps in to stop Trump from taking more questions

submitted 15 hours ago • 1012 comments

A lot of folks warned that pardoning the J6 criminals would create a permission structure for more political violence. They were right. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

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submitted 16 hours ago • 27 comments

Hey, I wonder where in the USA these cheap smartphones are being made?

submitted 17 hours ago • 171 comments

Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts? Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 2016 comments

The existence of this poll signals a collapse of the political system. What that means is that authority relations among the offices of government across the country are undergoing a rapid transformation toward top-down authoritarianism. Whether the autocrat should obey courts is now a live question

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

“.. ‘I was thinking about our country, and what’s happening, and just turning it over in my mind.’ .. And then: ‘I wrote it, and I said, ‘That’s true.’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/b...

submitted 17 hours ago • 208 comments

INDOPACOM:

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

REP. RANDY FINE: Nuking Gaza would be a terrible idea. The fallout would drift into Israel. It would kill the hostages. CNN: But you're not worried about killing women & children in Gaza? FINE: War is a messy thing... Palestinianism in Gaza is on level of evil that we saw in Japan & Germany in WW2

submitted 17 hours ago • 517 comments

I don't think anybody's quite gotten to the full Mike Lee story. He rarely talks in hallways, now posts conspiratorial stuff regularly, went from 2016 warning against Trump to working with members of his team ahead of 1/6/21. Lately a cheerleader for nixing NATO, Fed, impeaching judges, etc.

submitted 19 hours ago • 76 comments

America now has the foreign policy of a personalist dictator. New piece from me in @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 comments

What is being shown on Faux News needs to be called out for the violence it perpetuates. I watched less than 3 min just now, and they were showing people being arrested and what looks like utter chaos when talking about the NoKings marches. That is the stuff that gets politicians killed.

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“Honored as [M4L] 2023 Legislator of the Year & a speaker at their 2022 summit, May’s arrest highlights a … familiar contradiction: an organization that accuses the queer community of “grooming” children has repeatedly been linked to … individuals directly involved in child-related sex offenses.”

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

To be clear: a guy named Arturo Gamboa pulled out a rifle and charged the crowd, and Arthur Folasa Ah Loo was accidentally shot by volunteers trying to bring down Gamboa. Gamboa has been booked on murder charges. There were also multiple MAGA truck attacks on protesters yesterday.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Sound engineers pointing out in the comments that the applause is from an indoor audience on an outdoor event💀

submitted 1 day ago • 577 comments

The US Army marched through Washington DC yesterday to commemorate its 250th year. Many officials were in attendance, including Secretary Pete Hegseth. To show his support for the Army, he wore a camo tie. Personally, I think there was a more sophisticated choice 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

A court document reveals that police officers witnessed the shooting of the husband of Minnesota Representative Melissa Hortman.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Trump realizes people are turning on him, which means he will get more desperate, aggressive, extreme, and violent. These are all actions of a weak regime and weak man.

submitted 1 day ago • 152 comments

I'm going to get ahead of some uninformed outrage. The second-degree murder charges against Vance Boelter are all that can be brought against him right now. Prosecutors can charge him with first-degree premeditated murder, but that requires a grand jury indictment, not just a criminal complaint.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Guess we’re going to add another case study to the “how to not use AirPower” book

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Yeah honestly I'm mad I didn't think of it first. It was right the fuck there. A tank top, with an actual tank on it, and it has the word arms, and it shows off your arms. It's up on there now, for those so inclined 🫡 wideawakes.army

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

@amyklobuchar.com You should be calling for the expulsion of Mike Lee. Anything less is tacit approval. No Kings should give you courage.

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KSTP News is saying the assassin is in custody - arrested in Sibley County. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

next level pattern matching IG salve.studios

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This video from outside Thursday’s mayoral debate was shared with me by people who witnessed it. A Cuomo supporter directed this threatening gesture at a person wearing Jews for Zohran merch and carrying a sign that said “Jewish immigrant artist for Zohran.” The target confirmed the events as well.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments