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We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

KRISTI NOEM ON THURSDAY: “We must use deadly force to liberate states from politicians we don’t agree with and their burdensome leadership.” POLITICAL ASSASSIN IN MINNESOTA ON SATURDAY: “Cool! Good idea!”

You can draw a straight line between reckless rhetoric like the comments from the Speaker of the House earlier this week and the horrific political violence that just occurred in Minnesota.

Well past time for big city mayors to call for the arrest of anyone who claims to be law enforcement but wears a mask and/or won’t identify themselves

don't let the Far Right media underplay this, or even lie about what happened. what happened in Minnesota this morning was straight-up right-wing terrorism. #Assassination

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

Men impersonating police shooting Democratic lawmakers. Men impersonating ICE kidnapping women & children. Immigration “officers” storming a church.“The whole country is our property.” When is enough enough?

I am fully comfortably saying that Republicans are culpable for the murder of a State Senator and attempted murder of a US senator at this point.

It’s not just that they normalize political violence. They also accuse the left of engaging in mostly imaginary violence, which gives unhinged right-wingers justification to “retaliate.”

Hello from the No Kings protest in Philadelphia. The park is already pretty filled up, and it doesn’t actually start for another 30 minutes.

To those who still somehow say you’re overreacting to say we are far past the point of historic crisis, go back to summer 2024 and say that in less than a year the president of the United States would be deploying the literal Marines on American soil to deal with and intimidate his political enemies

Two important things to note: 1) the most significant violence we’ve seen this year was not against ICE or Trump or members of his administration, but against Democrats 2) when ICE scoffs at people asking for warrants or for identification, THIS IS WHY THEY ASK www.fox9.com/news/melissa...

you ever think about how in 2009 DHS released a report about the growing threat of violent domestic terrorism from the right and then Republicans got so mad about it the DHS secretary resigned?

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

Wiggle Cat on #Caturday

Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings

Essential reading (by @jasonstanley.bsky.social) for every American. The media, aided by a handful of reactionary academics and compliant university administrations, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🔥this country is so cool for 15 years of my life, i heard on national broadcasts how assad "gassed his own people" meanwhile american cops use chemical weapons on you anytime you protest something and that's just absolutely normal; no describing that as "gassing their own people" here

Why doesn’t Trump hire Americans?

AOC: "They have released chaos in LA by violently raiding & ripping apart peaceful public spaces, and now they are tackling & arresting US sitting members of Congress, while going on the record & lying about what happened.

The donors don't want their workforce deported. But you'll be subject to deportation if you quit your job or join a union or try to bargain for better wages or complain about sexual harassment.

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

The coin-operated presidency. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5481...

FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large theonion.com/fbi-war...

I don’t really have words to explain how it feels to see Kristi Noem standing on a street in East LA that looks like the street I grew up on in East LA with an invading military force trying to kidnap people who look like the neighbors I grew up with. It stays with you, spiritually.

The journalistic shortcomings of this story aside, we are far more likely to witness law enforcement-instigated violence than protester violence tomorrow

I know it's been said but I keep getting re-infuriated about RFK Jr doing his thing, like we had this vaccines thing *settled*, they rule and they were working and all we had to do was NOT put the worst possible person in charge of the country's public health apparatus.

"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.' But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women." www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

i don’t need my law degree to tell you that telling a police officer to “honor your oath bitch” is protected first amendment speech this dude needs to sue expeditiously

The conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark are untenable. With serious security lapses, numerous reports of mistreatment by staff of detainees, complaints of persistent food shortages, and a troubling lack of transparency from facility administrators…

#Newark Delaney Hall "We’ve now confirmed that GEO Group is rushing to empty the building within 24 hours, launching mass transfers to detention centers across the country. This isn’t a safety measure—it’s a public relations maneuver." AS Demand release not transfer.

All, here's the latest from @abc7.bsky.social - ICE has knowingly detained Javier Ramirez, a US citizen born in San Bernardino. abc7.com/live-updates...