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Any successful and impactful democratic movement is going to have to hold these criminal authoritarians accountable and also carry out an extensive investigation and reformation of our law enforcement. It feels overwhelming but literally none of this will change without it.

So many twin cities’ residents accepting without question the narrative from the police and bootlicking their heroism without a detailed timeline of events is really something.

A lawmaker and her husband were murdered. A senator and his wife nearly killed. The suspect had a hit list. And what did we do? We blamed each other. We justified. We spun. Political violence isn’t coming—it’s here. And we’re normalizing it. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/political-...

Thank you, Madam Speaker.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

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.

Photo from The Hill's Al Weaver (from Xitter) catches Tina Smith confronting Mike Lee.

The reactions to the Minnesota shooting have been unhinged and insane. There is no room for violence…. It only gets worse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=POY9...

“I find it unconscionable that someone could step up to serve, voluntarily, in our military and be willing to sacrifice their life for our country only to have their families torn apart.” This article first appeared @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

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?

This could be us 🫶

Grateful to the men and women in law enforcement who worked around the clock, leaving their families behind on Father’s Day, to apprehend the assassin. Our emergency management team is the best in the business.

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.

One major difference between atheism and Christianity, atheist don’t run around saying all the other atheists aren’t true atheists.

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.

I get upset when I hear the Civil Rights movement characterized as “nonviolent”. It was violent. People were injured. Killed. There *was* violence. It just wasn’t perpetrated by the resistors.

Seeing lots of people expressing concern over the second-degree murder charge in Minnesota. This is the highest available charge- the Minnesota statute is unusual and there is nothing odd at play here.

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I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

. When you've spend hours looking for your little black kitten... . . . and then... 💙 🐾 💙

When you hate broccoli and it hates you right back…

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.”

No Kings!

The rightwing Christian assassin of Melissa Hortman and her husband is also a dog-killer like self-proclaimed Christian Kristi Noem. The cruelty they inflict in service of their god, without any remorse — on even the helpless innocent — should worry us all.

www.jalopnik.com/1882775/airl... “an investigation revealed that the country's major airlines sold the flight records of domestic travelers to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for only $11,025 on the grounds that the agency doesn't reveal where this data came from.”

And without scandals and corruption in his administration.

its interesting how you never hear about the evil psychos who dress up as cops to help out their communities 🤔

Love this. Ayanna Pressley and Elizabeth Warren look stunning while they deliver an important message. #Pride

Deserves the Pulitzer!

Last night in Riverside, CA, what 6 months ago would’ve been on every new channel, was only on local news. A man drove his vehicle into protesters. At least one woman screamed that her sister had been ran over. /

No kings. I am so proud of how Minnesota showed up yesterday, despite the horrible tragedy that happened in our state. Together, we can do this.

In West Chester, PA a man impersonating a police officer is arrested. He had a mass of ammo on him.

Protecting buildings EMBARRASSING

ICE throws gas at protesters who immediately cone it then use boards to help fan the gas back at ICE.

The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.

Melissa Hortman just days before her tragic assasination

You’ll notice that the American state media are no longer concerned about age seeing as the orange felon is now nearly 80 years old and all they’ve been doing is normalizing his birthday dictator march. They have completely failed all of us as well as our democracy.

Walz: "This cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences. Now is the time for us to recommit to the core values of this country ... Talk to a neighbor rather than arguing. Debate an issue. Shake hands. Find common ground. This is who Melissa Hortman was."

I think one measure of who is bringing the violence to protests is how many reporters have been injured by protesters and how many have been injured from police.

We got him. Providing an update on the manhunt momentarily. m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT-...

Nothing to see here: just cops on horseback, bicycles, foot, and vehicles harassing a small group of peaceful protesters in a Charleston, South Carolina neighborhood.

John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman were hit by a combined 17 bullets from the Minnesota assassin, and both survived and are now recovering. Yvette shielded their daughter. www.startribune.com/john-hoffman...

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there who don’t refer to taking care of their own children as “babysitting.”