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THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

submitted 4 hours ago • 71 comments

The military parade for Trump’s birthday was supposed to be a media spectacle, but the news is overwhelmingly assassination of Minnesota lawmakers, Israel-Iran war, and No Kings protests. Which, ironically, are all things he, to varying degrees, caused.

submitted 6 hours ago • 16 comments

So when Israel obtained nuclear weapons it was presumably legitimate to bomb the facilities and kill children living near the scientists who worked on it? Why is it OK for Netanyahu to control such mass destruction when he has been deliberately destroying Gaza?

submitted 5 hours ago • 16 comments

“Keep Your Eyes on Gaza”: As international focus turns to Israel’s attacks on Iran, the Israeli military is intensifying its attacks in the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians and worsening the humanitarian crisis amid a weeks-long blockade. qudsnen.co/israel-opens...

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Israel kills aid-seekers in Gaza and issues new expulsion orders - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-kills-aid-seekers-gaza-issues-expulsion-orders

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

Everyone in Governor Newsom’s Press Office deserves a huge raise

submitted 19 hours ago • 92 comments

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

submitted 21 hours ago • 774 comments

“Two sources tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS the vehicle contained a weapon, ammunition, cash and passports. However, to our knowledge, no one has been arrested—just questioned.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 75 comments

Meanwhile, at a congressional hearing this week, Eugene Vindman quizzed Whiskey Pete Hegseth about whether he knew what Kaliningrad was. Whiskey Pete ... failed that quiz.

submitted 9 hours ago • 44 comments

The assassin 1) had ties to New Apostolic Reformation & 2) allegedly had hit list In 2022 I went to New Apostolic Reformation conference (where Trump Jr & Roger Stone spoke) A speaker projected this image, prophesying “Angel of death” would visit these Dem political opponents. It was a hit list

submitted 10 hours ago • 45 comments

The president of a meat-processing plant says there's "no playbook" on how to move forward after 76 workers were arrested.

submitted 7 hours ago • 37 comments

“We’re the hottest country in the world right now” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

The Huntington Park mother, a U.S. citizen, said she didn't know what to think when a half-dozen vehicles carrying heavily armed masked ICE agents and Sec. Noem swarmed the front of her home. For Full Story: ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

BREAKING: 60,000+ AMERICAN PATRIOTS showed up in San Diego today for the “No Kings” protest… A hell of a lot more than showed up at “his” $50 million birthday parade in D.C.. Nationwide = 11+ MILLION! 😎✨ 🇺🇸 Way to go San Diego! 🇺🇸

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

GOP SUCKS

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Former roommate of MN shooting suspect Vance Boelter says Boelter was a staunch supporter of Donal Trump www.kare11.com/article/news...

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

Earlier, federal agents shot a protester in the eye. Vincent is an ER nurse and said he came to the protest at the ICE facility in South Portland after a shift. Other protesters called an ambulance for him, but he had to walk several blocks to meet it, due to the munitions still flying.

submitted 16 hours ago • 53 comments

What a legacy and what a tragedy 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 143 comments

Dallas turned out with at least 10,000 marching for #NoKingsDay

submitted 23 hours ago • 669 comments

NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose. This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. DEFIANCE. 👏 #NoKings #50501Movement (📸 Daviss)

submitted 23 hours ago • 76 comments

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submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

My latest in the Financial Times on the events of LA last weekend. No, LA was not burning and is not burning. The protests against ICE and Trump’s deportation regime were real, but as The Nation described them, the violence mostly came from a “police riot.” 1/4

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

What I Saw in LA Wasn’t an Insurrection. It Was a Police Riot. Police officers began unloading flash bang after flash bang, rubber bullet after rubber bullet, into a peaceful crowd. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Happy 250th birthday to U.S. Army! 🇺🇸 The brave men and women of our Army are the real heroes we should be celebrating. Not a wannabe king who throws himself a $40 million birthday parade.

submitted 1 day ago • 138 comments

"Two recent international polls...show that many people in Western democracies understand what’s happening here, even if some Americans are slow to see it. Perhaps more instructive are the views of people in nations that have watched their own democracies erode, such as Hungary, Poland and Turkey."

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

In response to the shooting of two state elected officials, Democrats Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman in their respective homes, Gov. Walz:

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Minnesota legislators Senator John Hoffman and Rep. Melissa Hortman, along with their spouses, were shot by someone who was impersonating a police officer. The MAGA rhetoric is out of control, and that’s why things like this happen.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

It’s interesting how Israel doesn’t bomb Qatar which is the country protecting the terrorist Hamas leaders. Could very well be because they gifted the orange felon a $400M luxury jet bribe as well as millions of dollars in secret business dealings. A warmonger as well as a crook.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

This should be illegal. $5m to one candidate who keeps violating campaign finance laws about these exact sort of funding vehicles?