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Alex Pretti was subdued. Then he was disarmed. Then he was executed. In that order.

Nor should Democratic campaigns stop pushing. The plan is obviously to table it until after the mids and then push through a law authorizing the fund before December 31st. Campaigns need to unmercifully hang this around the necks of every Republican until they swear on record to vote no.

Gemini won't do actual J6 violence. This is as close as it can get. But I think it would be an effective ad if the hockey stick violence was more true-to-life. Maybe AI has some uses?

Only because the sentencing judge applied unlawful factors to extend her original sentence. And because of that her sentence was due to be reduced anyway.

'Critical point' for consumer shortages flagged as 'emergency buffers fail simultaneously'

‘She really did suffer a lot to get her story out there. And so to have people embrace it would be amazing to her’: Virginia Giuffre’s ghostwriter Amy Wallace talks to @luciaoc.bsky.social

The Source reports on complaints that Oregon police are violating the state’s sanctuary protections:

So what I'm seeing from this data and the accompanying foot notes is that price induced demand reductions aren't anticipated until the end of this month. And permanent damage to supply infrastructure is only three months off. $10 gas may not be hyperbole after all.

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

No matter what happens in August, Democrats must come together (with the Republicans and Independents ready to join us!) to send Mike Rogers packing and ensure the US Senate will be a check on Trump.

Great reporting and needs to be more widely shared. Because the same calculations have been going on all across the country in agencies large and small in response to fed threats to community safety.

In all the learned analysis that went before, concluding that Iran would never employ a dirty bomb because of the damage it would do to their international standing, did anyone ever consider a scenario like this one?

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Biggest winner: Susie Wiles. Biggest loser: Mrs. Corey Lewandowski.

Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.

The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.

Every American needs a plan for when it's their turn.

The level of anger normal Minnesota people have at their elected representatives is palpable. It's not about party, but the perceived failure of local/state electeds to do anything of substance to protect residents who pay their taxes and get left facing off alone against masked, armed men.

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The Constitution bars Congress from funding “standing armies” for more than two years. Why the One Big Beautiful Bill violates this forgotten constitutional check and how Congress can enforce it now, from @scott-levy.bsky.social and Kevin McNellis: www.justsecurity.org/129908/congr...

The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response. Extract of my speech at Munich Security Conference ↓

She spent the whole morning performatively screaming at Congressmen, but this image of Bondi saying nothing and refusing to turn around will be the only real takeaway from her testimony today.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

Trump and the Republicans are trying to rig the election. That's not being a "doomer," that's acknowledging reality. Democrats need a coordinated, national response to these coordinated, national attacks. We need an "Elections Czar" My latest solution in @thenation.com

💰Money Quote "Elias is vital, but he’s not some kind of electoral fairy godmother who’s looking out for Democrats so they don’t have to worry and can sleep easily at night."

As a doctor, I am horrified by what I saw at the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. No medical protocols. No real medical care. No nurse on site when I visited. No beds. No real blankets. Extremely cold temperatures. Minimal food. These conditions are inhumane and unacceptable.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Right, a single video of a single protester frustratedly kicking an inanimate object was sufficient to muddy the narrative some. Imagine what would happen if protesters adopted violence more broadly? Would it benefit us? It’s the incredible restraint of our heroic observers that helps us win.

Also he insists that "Democrats are spending a fortune" to flip the district when in reality the GOP candidate raised about $2 million more in campaign funds than the Democrat who beat her

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

🚨 WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! 🚨 One of our volunteers, Noah, a veteran who has been doing work as a medic in MN, was arrested and is being held without bail. Please call his reps using the call script!

In the view of Pam Bondi, an ICE regional director who is a Southern Baptist minister is entitled to heavy protection on the grounds that protests against him infringe against his Southern Baptist religious views, but Catholics, Lutherans,

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

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The Senate just said NO to $10 BILLION in ICE funding—the same funding I said NO to in the House. This is an important step toward stopping the fear, violence, and intimidation in communities nationwide.

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

So we’ve got premeditation and motive

Ah damn guess they hadn't gotten to the "do not violate other countries' sovereignty and cause an international incident" training module yet

I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911! “I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

And now the MAGA right controls another part of the media ecosystem.

It would be truly awful if the patriotic observers, radio DJs, bus drivers, Uber drivers, and every able bodied person in Minneapolis were to all blast this all over town: suno.com/song/c085cb0...

The goal of nonviolent civil resistance is not to convince the regime they're wrong. The goal of nonviolent civil resistance is to convince the people to work together to make it impossible for the regime to sustain itself. We aren't nonviolent for the regime. We're nonviolent for each other.