A political assassination just happened on American soil. Be angry. Grieve. But don’t get distracted. The real fight is at the ballot box — not just in the streets. Read why winning first is the only path to real change. #NoKings #VoteToWin #Minnesota www.jackhopkinsnow.com
Gloves are off!!!!
THEY CHEATED THE CHEAT THEY'RE CHEATERS Ask fElon.
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Notice it is Democrats being handcuffed (Padilla) and shot. The violence comes from one side.
And reject the false outrage by the "King" and his enablers. They are the cause.
Only we can save ourselves.
Assassin was a Walz appointee.
The Republicans told us who they were and people still voted for it.
Who is going to want to run with this happening?
In her memory, we shall march.
Minnesota had a huge turnout today. We won’t forget or retreat.
My thoughts exactly!!!
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Right! BACK AT IT, #AMERICA! ONE THIRD of 2024 Voters Backed #Trump and #MAGAGOP! "The TWO THIRDS" - Are Still In Charge! - @75 Million #HarrisWalz Voters! - @4 Million Others Voters! - @89 Million Non-Voters! - @96 Million New Voters! MORE THAN ENOUGH To #VOTE RID OF Trump and MAGAGOP! 🇺🇸🗽
Vitriol from Lardass, poisoning in action.
The next time people can vote nationally is in 1.5 years. What has already been destroyed by Trump/MAGA will take years to undo and rebuild. Will there be any chance of recovery after 1.5 more years?
Hmmm? Ballot box?... I doubt. General strike, yes!
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The real fight happens BEFORE the ballot box! Does ANY GOP look like they’re afraid of losing their jobs? They’re getting ready to take the majority of their constituents healthcare away and DON’T CARE.
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At the same time the tragic loss of a human lives. Their family members.💔Not just a political assassination, a woman& her husband gunned down with the same regard for life as for Kristi Noem’s pet dog & goat.
Yes! It IS a Political Assassination - thank you for using a term the the mass Media refuses to
Heartbreakingly tragic
So TRUE!
💔 We went downtown Nashville today. I was so pleased with the number of people who showed up! A little 2 minute rain shower did not stop us. 💙🇺🇸
I fear this isn't going to be the first political assassination. In fact, I'm surprised it took this long. There must be a radical change & soon or there won't be a ballot box. I'm watching in horror as I witness your slide into authoritarianism. Just an opinion from a Canadian perspective.
I only hope the order given is NOT to shoot the suspect on sight...I want him to tell the country every step of his "drift" if it is one...Could also be a "job". The world must know his goal.
We're not getting ballots
Trump Regime is responsible for the real assassination. 🤬
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Were children in the home?
Song of the Day 6/14/25 NO KINGS DAY!!! A Farewell to Kings by Rush I cannot stress this enough: this is an ABSOLUTE MUST LISTEN. Neil’s lyrics are painfully significant today. And as always, the song kicks serious ass!!! ❤️❤️❤️RUSH 🇨🇦 💙💙💙DEMOCRACY 🇺🇸 FUCK Trump Regime/ICE! youtu.be/qf0qVVbMckU?...
Utterly despicable!!! Our side: Peaceful Protests. Their side: Political Assassinations!!! TRUMP REGIME HAS MORE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS!!! www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
The ballot boxes are rigged.
You're assuming there will be elections 🙄
#MinnesotaStrong
They died for keeping the ballot, as have many of our ancestors. We must keep going.
#FUCKTRUMP #FUCKMAGA
Will voting in 2026 make a difference? open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
Yes!!!!!
Very well stated! VOTE BLUE, and don't believe fake polls created to placate the unhinged one because the underboss is almost as bad as the wannabe king, and he's a-waitin'.
Trump owns this!
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We will not let the orange slob felon traitor coward lowlife get away with your murders
"VOTE! 🥳" is absolutely the wrong fucking message right now.
Exactly. What planet do these people live on? Is this their first time on earth? 1. We will not survive another year. 2. There will be no fair elections. Wtf America. WAKE UP
Absolutly terrible, these extremist people think they have a right to control every part of everyone's life, even to the point of murder. We have a very unbalanced sick society, with unbalanced leaders.
If an immigrant is automatically a “violent escapee from a mental institution bent on destroying America”, then every Republican can be a murderer today…
I’m sorry. But I refuse to be more upset about Legislators being gunned down than children.
This is the suspect. I can only imagine what will be discovered when they do a deep dive into how he was radicalized. A PhD. who worked in the food industry.
You are assuming there will be another election. The GOP is acting as if there won't be.
I'm in Minneapolis. Dems have been working so hard to keep MN blue. We get dems elected and someone just walks in and shoots them. I'm devastated and deflated. Our protests were canceled and tRump wins again.
Most Minnesota protests are still going strong. Can't stop won't stop! www.youtube.com/live/mtbEfhy...
Just in St Paul.
Absolutely. This tragedy belongs to Trump and his minions. Miller, Mike Johnson, any GOP who has demonized and called for the elimination of the other party in order to get their way. There is a way to stop this. A few Republicans must not vote for anything put forth by their party. Will they?
Exactly... Disgusting but don't lose focus Stop DEATH budget 💪Peaceful protesting 💪 Taco is crossing his fingers for violence....don't give him the opportunity Have fun with NO Kings day. Because Monday... We are back to calling senators to 🛑 STOP 🛑 this DEATH budget 💪Peaceful protesting 💪
Horrific & despicable
You mean well but telling ppl not to get distracted is not helpful. Let’s fight for humanity with actual humanity.
It should be the ballot only with no bullets at all. That's what the ballot is for. That's the whole point of it.
no, time to create a party that would have protected the country from this, from trump. NOT LEAVE HIM ON THIS LOOSE, NOT THE PARTY OF NO CONSEQUENCES. just sickening how everything is an opportunity to harvest a vote, no accountability, no shame
Don’t let her die in vain, drag Trump to justice
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The real way to true change is stop voting for the broken two party system and start voting 3rd party
This is already a war. It’s been one since the moment this guy got away with declaring it on tv
I am going to the No Kings Protest in my town today with the lawmaker, her family and all of Minnesota in my heart. We protest today for them! We protest today so that this doesn’t happen again, in a democracy!
WHEN the GOP is relieved of leadership, one of the first pieces of legislation to hit the desk in the Oval should be a domestic terrorism statute with real teeth. RUN ON THIS Because we the real people want this level of accountability. And we are long past the need for it 🙈🙉🙊
But, just voting is not enough. We, in my view, have ample reasons to question the strength of our votes, and whether they actually count or not. We are here as a result of voting, no?
"Ballot box", counted by Big balls... Sorry, there will be no (free and fare) elections.
It was deliberate, made to disbalance MN Senate and House.
Thank God they have a suspect www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Okay. Going out to the streets but will just post this first, because this IS where we are at.
Republicans are shaping this narrative. Pam Bondi cannot be trusted. Republicans are saying this is a Democratic false flag operation. This needs to be taken seriously.
Yes!!!
Someone got a picture of the man can yall repost the picture please 🙏.
Unless you have official confirmation that this is the perp maybe don't. Reddit ended up harassing some poor innocent family and indirectly caused the death of a police officer because someone posted the wrong picture in their effort to help catch the Boston Marathon bombers.
Agreed 👍 I understand thank you.
Should you remove the post then? If you understand?
Well now that they are showing him wearing a prosthetic face, probably not. It is him. Seen the photos on tv.
Congrats to the millions who voted for Harris, shame to the millions who voted for fascism, and contempt for the millions who didn't bother to vote. Boycott the fortune 500 as much as possible; the votes cast with the $ in your pocket are better counted than the ones cast at the poll, but still vote
And you better believe that they would gladly do this to all of us. It is a cult of insanity.
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The insurrectionists cannot and will not risk an election. Be prepared.
As if we will ever have a fair election again in this country.
Appointed to a workforce board. Doubt Walz even knew who this guy was. He was involved in private security groups which hardly screams lefty.
I'm just now hearing about this. It should be all over the news and it isn't. Fricking bullshit. Thank goodness for Bluesky
?? It’s been all over the news all day. Even international media is reporting.
I was protesting, and I have our local news app, and nothing popped up about until right after I posted that. I should have said it wasn't on our local news. 😬
That’s weird. It was on ours, but we’re in Minnesota.
I'm in Nebraska. It could have been on, and I just didn't know cause I was protesting. But they have been a little slow lately with national news
What ballot box? You're assuming there will be some kind of fair election.
Minnesotan here who was one of 10,000+who showed up.#Unafraid
They laughed when one of theirs attacked Paul Pelosi. This is on all of them.
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Will happen a lot more now....
Trumps fault
I don't know that we should wait that long.
Senior Dems are standing by, ready to work across the aisle with Republicans on solutions to issues like immigration, Israel aid, tax cuts, and entitlement reform.
They announced her death at the No Kings I was at...after a moment of silence we sang the Anthem in a gentle rain surrounded by throngs of flags, some in the distress mode. Felt like the beginning of a rebellion.
Our failure in this perfectly logical solution is our collective faith and assumption that the election process hasn’t already been compromised
Yeah ,about that.... open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
She didn’t…
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You sure?
Political assassinations in Minnesota have put all the No Kings Indivisible protesting under a much more menacing light. What should progressives do? erichensal.substack.com/p/make-it-th...
With fascism ballot is out of use
trump and elon rigged the ballot box. Harris won. Spread the word. Fight.
Contest every race on the ballot, in every district, in every state
It can work by voting. It worked for us in WI in the last state Supreme Court justice race. Look at all money Elon Musk poured into that race. The progressive candidate still won that election by working hard to get people to the polls even though WI was a pretty gerrymandered state.
I agree the fight must continue but grieving is not a distraction. People are hurting here. One of our leaders was murdered in cold blood and we all know who caused this. The truth is, anyone who speaks out against this fascist dictatorship is subject to sanctioned assassination.
Please read the headline. It didn't suggest grieving was a distraction. It says "Grieve." (and...don't get distracted)
I get that and…it’s just hard to not be distracted with a killer on the loose. I will continue to fight but there’s a hole in my heart right now.
You mean the ballot box MAGA knows how to fix in their favor? I still can't believe 🍊💩 won all the swing states.
So basically, if police show up at your door, call the police?
This happened while the praise r and the Army have a parade Disgusting
This is on Trump
We cannot vote our way out of this. We might be able to General Strike UNTIL we can vote our way out of this.
Please bear with me: A General Strike to "bring the admin to its knees” sort of thing sounds bold...but it’s a slogan, not a strategy. No structure...no coordination..no mass buy-in = no impact. Power shifts through planning..turnout..and organizing. 1/4
If we want real change, we have to build the machinery first. How many calls for a “general strike” have we seen since Trump returned to power? A dozen? More? Every time, same result: nothing happens. No mass action. No system. Just slogans echoing in a vacuum. 2/4
If it doesn’t move people to act, it’s just noise. Why don’t they take off? Because a real strike requires infrastructure, not inspiration alone. You need networks, trust, risk-sharing, leadership. Most people can’t afford to miss work without a plan. 3/4
That’s not cowardice...it’s reality. Strategy beats slogans. Every time. I want something along the lines of a "quick fix" as much as anyone else. I just don't see something legitimate that qualifies as something like that. (I'm not suggesting you see a General Strike as a "quick fix") 4/4
1/4 There *must* be mass buy-in for any change to occur, and even the most well-run general strike isn't going to make the regime say "gosh, okay, I give up" if it is a single day event. It requires sustained pressure on multiple parts of the system for anything meaningful to occur...
2/4..like digging up information on complicit lawmakers and begin targeting their financial well-being on a personal level. Coordinated boycotts, stock dumps, putting pressure on the places they do business. Constant peaceful civil disobedience [such as current protests] to stretch LEO resources...
3/4 ... thin and keep agencies scrambling. Disruptive activities around any ice raids as safely as possible, etc. This is a massive system, and while pressure in one spot can cause a massive rupture, it can be repaired. Corroding multiple seams over a period of days or weeks makes repair...
4/4... less likely, as this administration will eat each other when things go wrong. None of them are suited to power or leadership in any capacity, so things can fall apart - but it takes pressure at every angle so that they're all stressed out and exhausted. It would take massive coordination.
And that's exactly why we are where we are today. We live in an open air prison. There's no hope for escape, precisely because the infrastructure is missing, and that is by design.
Escape? What's this "escape" you're talking about? That's nonsense. We need to return the US to law-abiding behavior all the way up the ladder, and that's what's being discussed here.
DO NOT FORGET Mike Johnson's "tar and feather" rhetoric!
Heartbreaking 💔😭 deport the racists 🙏⚖️
Not good.... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassi...
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eight years of peaceful resistance and "voting" - now? military deployed against the people, and lawmakers being assassinated. might be time for a new strategy.
I really read an article about how Musk and Thiel have recently bought into a data company that is taking all of our data for surveillance. That same company went online 3 days before the election. Starlink messed with the voting machines..could it be true?
Sure, except the assholes will do everything they can to keep us from voting or corrupt it. Any better ideas?
#GeneralStrike
