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Everyone should demand this from their legislatures.

Every decision made that impacts people overseas, not only reflects the moral commitments (or lack thereof) of the government you live under--but is also a snapshot of how the government will treat you.

The New York Times front page.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

A Democratic legislator was assassinated; right-wing influencers coughed out disinformation • Minnesota Reformer Right-wing influencers marred Hortman’s death and smeared Walz on a pile of lies.

A Democratic legislator was assassinated; right-wing influencers coughed out disinformation minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/14/a...

Tim Snyder: Today no kings, tomorrow freedom. There is a better America out there. There is a better America underneath. There is a better America that we can see. There is a better America that we can make. History is in our hands.

So important. This is America.

Freedom, equality, democracy, human rights are not and never have been dictated by polling approval.

Holding a sign in front of the Capitol "Killing our speaker won't silence us."

Proud of Minnesotans

A lot of people are cringe and the most "edgy" political thing they've encountered is Hamilton and you're just going to have to live with that and be glad they're not at home OD'ing on white nationalist propaganda. They will be cringe and you can be like, jesus christ that's cringe. It's all fine.

The Real Costs of Trump’s Parade Political stunts are bad for the military—and everyone else.

"Contrary to popular belief, the military does not usually conduct parades for the public.…When the troops do parade, it's usually—as in 1991 or 1946—to celebrate a victory in a major war and to honor those who fought and won it. Whatever this event is really for, there is no victory to celebrate."

Stephen Miller should shut his fucking mouth unless he's owning up for his part. He fuels the violence.

Inland Rep. Norma Torres says she was hospitalized after ‘chemical agents’ used on Congress members The Pomona Democrat says it occurred Saturday, June 7, during a visit to the Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A.

The political assassination of Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, the political prosecution of a federal judge in Wisconsin, political violence against Democratic mayors and Congresspeople in New Jersey, the state violence against Congresspeople in Los Angeles are all part of the same phenomenon.

I’m frequently asked: what’s the point of peaceful protests like #NoKings? It’s a chance to show civic strength and consolidate people power. They create collective identity and build capacity for social change. Done right, they can expand participation and mobilize support for longer term efforts.

The business owners create the incentive for people to come. If we were serious, we would focus on them, but no, we're just going to punish poor people looking for a better life. Disgusting.

The GOP knows what needs to be done but the benefit from not doing it.

This is what rule by the confidently ignorant looks like; sabotage stuff you don't understand and then discover it was actually doing vital work well at trivial cost

One side screaming dehumanizing language and the other side continuously trying to do a bipartisan with the people screaming at them seems to be getting a lot of people killed.

As we resist Trump’s tyranny, we gain solidarity. 

As we gain solidarity, we feel more courageous — and we weaken Trump and his regime. 

Today's protests are about standing up to Trump, but they're also about standing with each other. 

Be safe. Be peaceful. Be strong.

not just the headline, NOWHERE in the story does it say they were Democrats.

What the ACTUAL FUCK, @cnn.com

Which centrist columnists will publish the first “both sides need to tone down the rhetoric or more Democratic leaders will be shot” opinion piece?

this statement was made just yesterday

This is an insightful and important thread, and connects things we've seen as DC residents over the decades.

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

This feeling has naturally trickled down to much of the discourse and news around Trump’s second presidency, which feels (and generally is) direr, angrier, more intractable. The distortions are everywhere: People mainlining fascistic AI slop are occupying an alternate reality. But even those of us who understand the complexity of the protests are forced to live in our own bifurcated reality, one where, even as the internet shows us fresh horrors every hour, life outside these feeds may be continuing in ways that feel familiar and boring. We are living through the regime of a budding authoritarian—the emergency is here, now—yet our cities are not yet on fire in the way that many shock jocks say they are. The only way out of this mess begins with resisting the distortions. In many cases, the first step is to state things plainly. Los Angeles is not a lawless, postapocalyptic war zone. The right to protest is constitutionally protected, and protests have the potential to become violent—consider how Trump is attempting to use the force of the state to silence dissent against his administration. There are thousands more peaceful demonstrations scheduled nationally this weekend. The tools that promised to empower us, connect us, and bring us closer to the truth are instead doing the opposite. A meaningful percentage of American citizens appears to have dissociated from reality. In fact, many of them seem to like it that way.

wrote about the brokenness of our media systems (what's new?!), the people who think LA is a war zone because that's what they want to believe, & the strangeness of living in an emergency but also having to refute the lies being told about our cities as hellscapes www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Tanks, Rallies, And A Nation On Edge A remarkable split-screen day in Trump's America

Trump has found an enemy. And it is us. Today will be a remarkable image of what that means.

Saturday newsletter: Tanks, Rallies, And A Nation On Edge open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Rep. Melissa Hortman killed, Sen. John Hoffman shot in 'targeted' shootings: Sources Two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses were shot by someone impersonating a police officer, sources confirmed to FOX 9. Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed.

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...

One of the major fears @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and I have been sharing on Democracy-ish is criminals impersonating law enforcement to terrorize fellow Americans since masked agents are wreaking havoc against everyone.

It's happening.

Now a Democratic representative and her husband are dead.

Arson at the home of a Jewish governor in Pennsylvania. The detention under false pretenses of a Latino U.S. senator who attempted to ensure due process for immigrants in California. The shootings of elected officials in Minnesota. Liberal democracy in America is once again literally under attack.

RFK Jr. Is as Bad as We All Imagined If it walks like a quack, talks like a quack, and quacks like a quack. . .

Things could get very ugly very quickly. And folks like Senator Cassidy, who allowed this to happen, have a unique responsibility to try and stop it—if that’s even possible at this juncture.