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scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera

"They’re all nice people, very nice." - said a friend of the suspected Minn shooter about him and his family this is how people generally react to being confronted with the fact that they know a fascist

Best image of the day:

The LAPD and the LASD are known gang organizations with openly racist and abusive practices, tattoo markers, rites of initiation, etc. If you thought prison/police abolition was a stretch, *this* is what we were talking about.

Shit I was at this one www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Woody was right

actual dark ages nonsense (and yes I know the dark ages aren't real, that's the joke)

A good energy

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

You don't want to go back to the 1880s or the 1970s, folks

A hit list was found in shooting suspect's car with nearly 70 different targets, including abortion providers and lawmakers, official tells CNN.

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

And Rufo saying *THIS WEEK* that they needed to use unmarked vans to take progressive leaders off the streets normalizes the violent unaccountability. This is exactly what he’s been trying to incite.

When Stephen Miller gave the orders to ICE to conceal identity, Miller helped get these elected officials shot. He’s complicit in these attacks. Impeach, remove, prosecute, imprison.

the small blue dot in a sea of red that I grew up in is having it's own No Kings protest, nice to see

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...

exactly this -- the assassination of the leader of a state opposition party is exactly the sort of thing you'd find as a watershed, no going back moment in a history book

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

yup -- it is very bad for a state that has nuclear material to suddenly collapse, this was a huge danger when he USSR fell -- how to account for all the material? will somebody just press launch in a "use it or lose it" moment?

Governor Tim Walz is holding a press conference at 9:30 CT/10:30 ET on the Minnesota Democratic lawmakers who were shot

I have always, always, always wanted to meet a King or Queen so I can say, for example, "Hello, Mr. Windsor." In the fantasy somebody corrects me, "it's Your Majesty blablabla," and I get to say "oh I know what you want me to call him but I'm from the US, not doing that is kind of our whole deal."

people are shot and might die, so I'm embarrassed my thoughts go here, but: this is a make or break moment for Walz as a Presidential potential if he doesn't treat this as a political assassination that endangers our whole system of government, what else will he let slide? kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

yup -- if these folks are killed or incapacitated, it might change control of the state legislature