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“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

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Important result from CDC research team: H5N1 flu virus from a dairy farm worker transmitted by direct contact in ferrets with 100% efficiency (6/6 animals infected) and by droplets/aerosols in ferrets, physically separated, with 50% efficiency (3/6 animals infected). wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

#NoKings

submitted 29 minutes ago • 19 comments

Obama and Biden both failed to do anything about right wing extremists and the big change we need is someone willing to use the state to confront and dismantle their networks, including using state force. For this to be successful it won’t look very “liberal.”

submitted 1 hour ago • 26 comments

I think that the MSM is terrified of being targeted by the Right. It shows in their coverage. They aren't scared of the Lefts and that too shows in their coverage.

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RELEVANT TODAY Support for political violence is much higher among Republicans, followed by White Evangelicals (PRRI 2023) MORE 👉 prri.org/research/thr...

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It's hard to understate how important Representative & former Speaker Hortman was to Minnesota politics - she was probably the most prominent woman politician & integral to the recent budget deal. She was also incredibly kind and a real person - Kiernan sold her girl scout cookies. It's horrifying.

submitted 1 hour ago • 21 comments

toxic positivity

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The fascists in charge will refuse to call this a political assassination, will refuse to identify it as coming from their movement, and will refuse to de-escalate. There’s only one way they’re going, and it’s to ratchet things up.

submitted 1 hour ago • 7 comments

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.

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In the 1970s there was a Christian Nationalist org in Oregon called the Posse Comitatus whose members impersonated police officers. They menaced judges and other public officials who they thought had committed "treason" against the Constitution. A close associate became chair of the OR GOP in 1978.

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

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.”

submitted 1 hour ago • 19 comments

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

submitted 1 hour ago • 51 comments

If we’re keeping count that’s - - one governors mansion set on fire - one successful political assassination - one attempted political assassination -four elected officials arrested/charged/roughed up by the cops -one threat to arrest a sitting governor/liberate his state w/boots on the ground

submitted 1 hour ago • 11 comments

If you are cursed with a Republican Representative, write to them and tell them to have public hearings. Tired: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Inspired: Egging them on to go for bigger, better mistakes

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Two phrases that need to be retired: “We are better than this.” (We’re not.) The U.S. president is “the leader of the free world.” (He’s not.)

submitted 3 hours ago • 222 comments

🧵THREAD: Far right groups, including White Supremacists and violent extremists, have taken notice of the #NoKings protests planned for tomorrow (June 14th), and have responded with extremist rhetoric and calls for violent disruption of protests. 🚨Follow this thread for intel and updates⬇️

submitted 20 hours ago • 56 comments

No one is in danger from undocumented immigrants. EVERYONE is endangered by the fascist Right in this country and that means the GOP.

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

submitted 1 hour ago • 83 comments

"Call 911 if you see a cop" is real product of the moment, isn't it?

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

This is untenable. Not even public safety officers know who is actually a cop or an assassin anymore.

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

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.

submitted 2 hours ago • 30 comments

They showed their entire ass long ago. A black man was elected president twice. That was the final oft unspoken excuse.

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Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

submitted 1 hour ago • 288 comments

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...

submitted 1 hour ago • 12 comments

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?

submitted 1 hour ago • 65 comments

Bastards. And watch as not one of the GQP will express contrition for the actions of the murderer, and it's highly probable what they believed is due to their stochastic terrorism.

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@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

The face of politics may be vibes, but effective politics, politics that actually gets what it wants, is vibes backed by planning & logistics

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

THE SHEER STORYTELLING AND NARRATIVE STYLE THAT'S INVOLVED Bless that idiosyncratic legend forever.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SCREAMING ABOUT. ANY PSYCHO CAN GO COSPLAY A COP RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF WHAT THE BROWNSHIRTS IN ICE ARE DOING, WITH TACIT APPROVAL FROM THIS ADMINISTRATION. SICKENING AND TERRIFYING.

submitted 2 hours ago • 30 comments

Me as a kid reading Dune: I don’t get why their whole society is built around the eradication of A.I., seems like they’re wasting a lot of tech Me as an adult: oh that’s why

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

Not even pretending to be about some putatively universal notion of security, as opposed to a cult of personality for one guy.

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Fox 9 Minneapolis reports that two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses were shot by someone impersonating a police officer. Their conditions are not known. www.fox9.com/news/melissa...

submitted 3 hours ago • 277 comments

If you attend a No Kings protest tomorrow in Texas, Washington, or New York, and you are arrested, please call or text 432.279.0411 with your name, location, and the phrase 1A911.

submitted 20 hours ago • 18 comments

Trump wants you to believe that this is about Iran signing a nuclear deal - one he tore up in 2018! - but Israel just killed Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator who was telling US television just two weeks ago that Iran was open to a deal.

submitted 23 hours ago • 83 comments

'Room to Dream' by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

The MAGAt split will be here, and also in the America Firster Nativists vs. the warmongering evangelicals re: Israel. Bannon and Tucker are loudly saying "fuck a war." Get the popcorn.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

here’s the fun part: both can be, and probably are, true

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

I strongly oppose Israel’s attacks against Iran and Iran’s attacks against Israel. Both endanger civilians and risk all-out war. If you’re like my opponents and only condemning one side, I hope you find a spine and some moral clarity.

submitted 21 hours ago • 680 comments

Gavin Newsom to Stephen Miller: "You just pulled National Guard I placed at the border who were stopping fentanyl smuggling. Now they’re twiddling their thumbs in LA."

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

And with that, the MAGAt movement further splinters. Good.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments