Is that guy shaking a fist bump?
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Is that guy shaking a fist bump?
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
In the words of Speaker Melissa Hortman, "We are the leaders we've been waiting for." Call a special session, Governor. I invite my colleagues across the aisle to stand with us for the kids of MN. And if they won't, they should have to look us all in the eye while they vote no.
I've waited my whole life for the adults to do something to stop this terror from ripping apart our children's lives. I've watched my own kids have to adjust to a normal that includes active shooter drills. I've watched tragedy after tragedy unfold on the evening news. No more.
"We are the leaders we've been waiting for." I strongly believe we should have a special session to ban assault weapons, binary triggers, and high capacity magazines. And we should institute a buy back program for people who have those weapons.
The military has drones and nuclear weapons. They’ve long had the advantage. Assault weapons are being used to slaughter children. I am not willing to sit back silently after people’s children were murdered in their church pew during the first week of school because Republicans may campaign on it.
I’m ready, we cannot do nothing. Standing strong with you all
Thank you for your moral clarity @erinmayequade.bsky.social. EVERYONE should be calling for a special session. For the sake of our kids.
More on that
Funny how it’s never *their* healthy kidneys they’re eager to sell
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
I don’t have it in me to do nothing
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
What civilian needs a gun that fires 116 rounds that quickly
(The shooter was not a minor)
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
Frey: "We need an assault weapons ban nationwide. We need to have a high capacity magazine ban. And if the federal govt and states aren't gonna act, give us the ability to protect our constituents. Give mayors & council members the ability to protect in Mpls 435,000 residents that call Mpls home."
How do we put our children on the bus this morning? How is it that we are constantly asked to do this?
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
Please support the veterans’ sit-in at Union Station in Washington DC. Here is a link to the GoFundMe: linktr.ee/Jolly_good_g...
Of all the photos posted by the Strib related to the shooting at Annunciation Church, this was the one that got me the most. Maybe because we cant see the (presumably) mom’s face, so it seems more universal? arc.stimg.co/startribunem...?
We are the only country on earth where children regularly get shot in school and people are shot in their place of worship. It *doesn’t* have to be this way. Gun violence in America is a policy choice and I’m ready to make a different one. Let’s end gun violence.
Strib, single anonymous source — so previous caveats apply — but possible kids were separated from the shooter who was outside the building.
Jfc
Hearing reports of the mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School this morning. I’m praying for the victims and their families, and for the parents who are waiting to hold their children l
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
It’s official. September 6th. From all across this nation. We march in D.C. Join us.
Repost for the evening crowd! We’ve had a great first day of support, and this train’s just getting started. If you want to send a message to cowardly Republicans and Dems alike, well, I’m all out of fucks to give. Let’s win this race and actually fight for our democracy and *everyone* in it.
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.” He was just taken into ICE custody.
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some National Guard units in Washington start carrying firearms as Trump threatens additional cities with deployments.
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
www.nydailynews.com/2008/05/02/s...
basically, there doesn’t need to be actual evidence that democratic politicians use this language to try to appeal to voters because “everyone knows” that democrats use this language. but “democrat” here does not mean anyone formally associated with the party, it means any person coded as such
To whoever screamed “LOOK! IT’S SENATOR WHAT’S HER FACE!” at the State Fair, I hope you have an incredible day 😂
I don't know how Pritzker will ultimately handle this. He may not know either. But he's establishing a line here: Federal troops and National Guard troops from other states are not welcome in Illinois.
This party can keep running toward the right if they want, but let’s see those right leaning Dems turn out over 1700 people to a rally on the first Friday of the State Fair in MN. That’s what @peggyflanagan.bsky.social and @warren.senate.gov did tonight.
This is beautifully written, thank you
“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”
The balkanized "future" of the internet has long been here--for decades the internet in Spain has looked very different from the internet in Canada. But I think this is one of the first times we're seeing a platform geo-blocking by *US State* and this way lies madness. bsky.social/about/blog/0...
I’m sorry, who’s condescending? Minneapolis is the electoral engine of the DFL and leftists are regularly condescended upon. Fateh is literally endorsed by moderates like John Hoffman and senators from burbs, St. Cloud & Rochester. Just another twisted victim narrative from status quo forces.
This is the exact sort of thing @taylorlorenz.bsky.social has been reporting on and warning us about for ages
Ok, House Democrats (and Republicans), time to check on that scrap of paper again. Did any of you put "Prosecute political enemies," "Illegally take ownership of a private company," or "Occupy liberal cities with the military"? I'm beginning to think none of you have a line in the sand.
Tbh bc I spent hours talking to folks on the phone and communicating my displeasure to folks in party leadership, but tldr it was the wrong thing to do and I’m pretty pissed
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Don’t take your anger at Frey out on volunteers. That’s something he would (and does) do.
One of the most offensive and tone deaf statements ever from the DFL party chair. He talks about broadening the coalition when he just kicked so many of us out of it by caving to the donors and insiders who have been pressuring him over the people who actually show up. dfl.org/cbrc_decision/
There it is.
“The leopards, whom I support, are eating my son’s face, which I do not support. Please send help, which I do not support, to me, who I do support.”
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
The U.S. vice president, praising an authoritarian Russia dictator who murders who own people, has opposition leaders killed and invades American allies.
The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.
NEWS: DNC Chair Ken Martin says TX State Rep. Nicole Collier was threatened with a FELONY charge for speaking on a press call with him, Cory Booker, and Gavin Newsom.
Former National Guard Vice Chief Major General Randy E. Manner says deploying the Guard to D.C. will ruin how the average American views the military.
US Chattel Slavery cannot be *overemphasized* That's the thing about world historical violence.
"Why Did Meta’s AI Policy Let Chatbots Have ‘Sensual’ Conversations With Kids?" Forget the AI apocalypse: chatbots are already wreaking havoc, writes @jacobsilverman.com for Zeteo. But it’s not too late for Congress to try and bring tech companies to heel. Read/share/subscribe:
Is it called healthcare? Cuz we just want fucking healthcare
"Republicans in Texas announced they will continue to unlawfully detain TX Rep. Nicole Collier until Wednesday morning in retaliation against Rep. Collier for breaking quorum - a lawful authority she exercised as a duly elected member of the Texas legislature"
Respectfully "Republicans in Texas say they will continue to detain TX Rep. Nicole Collier and keep her locked in the statehouse until Wednesday morning for refusing to be placed into DPS custody"
🚨URGENT CALL TO ACTION🚨 The crisis in DC is worsening. Countless people were abducted last night and this morning. If you’re in Ohio, West Virginia, or South Carolina, DC needs your support NOW. Visit freedcproject.org/occupation to contact your governor and demand he recall the National Guard.
Made a video (slightly longer version on available on TikTok) www.instagram.com/reel/DNio2Wu...
Maybe it’s because I’m a state legislator, but I’m worried about the under reaction here. She didn’t spend the night on the House floor. She’s being DETAINED AGAINST HER WILL BY REPUBLICANS UNTIL SHE FOLLOWS THEIR ORDERS. This is 🦇 💩
Tell me again how this administration is punishing schools for not stopping antisemitism... all while they seem to keep hiring out and out neo-Nazis.
A Las Vegas festival promised ways to cheat death. Two attendees left fighting for their lives. By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social
Update
Very bad sign when masked, unidentified agents of the security state are not just grabbing people off the street but openly identifying with the regime's politics
the degree to which these guys are just literal, straight up Nazis is both shocking and massively undercovered by the media
One year ago, ProPublica and @documented.net obtained 14+ hours of videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, intended to train the next conservative administration’s political appointees “to be ready on day one.” Check to see how Trump 2.0 is deploying this playbook:
Last month, we reported that the IRS was preparing a system that would share millions of taxpayers' data with ICE. Now we can confirm data was officially transferred ⤵️
New from 404 Media: ICE added a random person to group chat, exposed highly sensitive details about an active manhunt in real-time. The person says they were added weeks ago, thought they were scam texts until start seeing data lookups etc. Incredible security failure www.404media.co/ice-adds-ran...
The current situation in DC, according to Republicans -got beaten up by two teenagers, need to declare martial law -saw some black people on the way to the golf course, need to declare martial law -had a sandwich thrown at them, need to declare martial law Such a strong and virile party.
This should be a major story and it Isn’t even a blip. newrepublic.com/post/199027/...
Absolute perfection that you can’t tell if this is about segregation-era bathrooms or today’s anti-trans bathroom panic.
Anti-LGBTQ hate groups spent hundreds of millions of dollars to create create panic around the existence of trans people to undermine ALL civil rights protections. Stop doing their work for them.
It is illegal in Minnesota to discriminate against trans people. Period, full stop. That includes in bathrooms. Treating people’s ability to use public spaces as a “social issue” continues to bandy about trans people’s existence as a political issue and it is gross. And dangerous.
Not great!
Instead of forcibly “removing the homeless” from DC as Trump wants to do, we need to build millions of affordable housing units in America. Instead of giving tax breaks to Wall Street billionaires who are buying up housing & jacking up rent, we need to put a cap on rent prices.
same thing happened with LA. a lot of political observers seem to think we are in a perpetual November 2024.
I need to make an alt account that’s just “republicans being scared of cities”
Which BLS staffer is getting fired today?
Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…
Life of a Showgirl 🔐🧡🥵 #TS12
Well we broke the internet
Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
the onion is just out of control telling stories like this ... oh.
Beyond the immediate use of this to crack down on immigrants and people of color, I will bet you that they're going to target LGBTQ bars and drag events. With direct police powers, they'll have free reign to do whatever they want.
I continue to believe that the executive branch loudly proclaiming a mission is to "liberate" American cities from their elected governments is bad.
Ah, he's going to deploy the police in a strategic perimeter around the Epstein Files. Now I get it.