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Live: Melissa and Mark Hortman lie in state at Minnesota Capitol Melissa and Mark Hortman, along with their golden retriever Gilbert, will lie in state at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul Friday from noon to 5 p.m.

DFL House Speaker Melissa Hortman, husband Mark, and faithful dog Gilbert lie in state at Minnesota capitol today. Live feed.

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"The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change and to counteract
We gotta take the power back"

~ Rage Against the Machine, 1990

In the words of Rage Against the Machine:

"The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change and to counteract
We gotta take the power 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.”

The #Smithsonian caved to bigotry. #Walmart, #McDonald’s, and even #Target caved. #Google caved. #Facebook caved. #ABCNews caved. #CBSNews caved. #TheWashingtonPost and #LATimes caved.

#Costco, #Apple, #Microsoft, #Wired, #RollingStone, and #NFL have not (yet).

I see my tribe.

The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening?

In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control.

Call it what it is.

Once again, Trump gets it backward.

What the actual what. Where are the smart people to stand up to this?

Well said.

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Not sure Trump knows how to spell AI much less prognosticate about it...

Witch hunt.

We need to organize a “could have been a buy-in but we’re leaving after we use the restrooms” at Target and McDonald’s.

We need to make sure working Americans find out who stole their money, killed off their rural towns, and ruined their American Dream. #TrickleDown #MAGAnomics

Jimmy Carter and the end of democratic capitalism The myth and reality of our 39th president

I’ve always admired President Carter. I remember his concern for everyday working people, his tarring by crude conservative populism, and the big-business takeover and inequality that accelerated with Reagan. He was a better president than you think:

robertreich.substack.com/p/jimmy-cart...

Cracked “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72” by Hunter S. Thompson. So far it's insightful, prescient, a bit quaint.

@crookedmedia.bsky.social should create a Starter Pack.

Okay, I’m here. What’s up?