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THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.
June 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.
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Jesus.
The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...
The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...
June 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Jesus.
The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...
The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...
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thread on what law enforcement officials had to say about the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman and the attempted assassination of Sen. John Hoffman
law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.
June 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
thread on what law enforcement officials had to say about the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman and the attempted assassination of Sen. John Hoffman
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assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.
Governor Waltz has now confirmed that Hortman and her husband were killed in the attack.
June 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.
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With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.
It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
June 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
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Any person in uniform wearing a mask and refusing to be properly and reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in Minnesota.
Shooters were dressed like law enforcement and this is exactly why I’m pissed about ice officers wearing masks, driving unmarked cars and not being identifiable when they terrorize communities
June 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Any person in uniform wearing a mask and refusing to be properly and reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in Minnesota.
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A Minnesota state representative and her husband were just shot and killed, and a state senator and his wife were shot and wounded in an "act of targeted political violence" and what is the violence-stoking so-called “president” focused on?
A fucking vanity parade.
A fucking vanity parade.
June 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A Minnesota state representative and her husband were just shot and killed, and a state senator and his wife were shot and wounded in an "act of targeted political violence" and what is the violence-stoking so-called “president” focused on?
A fucking vanity parade.
A fucking vanity parade.
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Hasan really thought it was going to be a debate on geopolitical issues, even opening with establishing what the definition of zionism is, before being asked to defend the idubbz Fortnite dance
May 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Hasan really thought it was going to be a debate on geopolitical issues, even opening with establishing what the definition of zionism is, before being asked to defend the idubbz Fortnite dance
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Ethan: “Hasan the issue at hand is your behavior.”
Hasan: “I thought the issue at hand was the genocide.”
Hasan: “I thought the issue at hand was the genocide.”
May 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Ethan: “Hasan the issue at hand is your behavior.”
Hasan: “I thought the issue at hand was the genocide.”
Hasan: “I thought the issue at hand was the genocide.”
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the hasan vs ethan debate
May 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
the hasan vs ethan debate
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Sam Seder confronts Ethan Klein on the dangers of conflating criticism of zionism with anti-Semitism
April 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Sam Seder confronts Ethan Klein on the dangers of conflating criticism of zionism with anti-Semitism
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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as next week
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
www.npr.org
February 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.
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Holding child protection hostage to attack LGBTQ+ kids.
Vile monstrous nazi shit
Vile monstrous nazi shit
NEW — I spoke to a staffer at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about DOJ's threat to pull funding if the org didn't comply with Trump's DEI executive order, and how org leadership rolled over.
"Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children," they said.
"Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children," they said.
Missing children’s org removes LGBTQIA+ materials per Trump DOJ demand
A staffer at NCMEC confirms the distressing effort to comply with Trump's executive order.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Holding child protection hostage to attack LGBTQ+ kids.
Vile monstrous nazi shit
Vile monstrous nazi shit
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it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol
January 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol