Whoops, got beat to it.

A guy named James Donald Vance Jr was indicted for threatening to kill ... JD Vance.

Someone dressed as ICE has shot two different state legislators and their spouses in Minnesota. Names haven't been released and suspect is still at large.
https://www.fox9.com/news/brooklyn-p...onating-police


Edit: Names are released. Sen. John Hoffman and Rep Melissa Hortman

I think it's very telling that you had this stuff going on nearly daily when Obama was president, and they always hid behind the first amendment. I think people like Ted Nugent would have been behind bars if you had someone try and emulate that in today's environment.

Rep. Hortman is dead. 4 others are injured.

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Worth noting that the MN House and Senate are basically evenly split.

Little more: He was not dressed as ICE but a regular police, in a police-like SUV with lights. He hit the Senator and his wife, and while police responded to that, they also went and checked on Rep. Hortman. The suspect was there, returned fire and ran. This whole thing is crazy.

trump may have well pulled the trigger himself.

That detail was the one that really had me scratching my head.

It's only a matter of time until a real cop is killed because of the way ICE is running around with masks and no identifying name tags.

If the shooting suspect being identified on social media is accurately named, then it appears that he runs a security service and that might explain the access to what appeared to be a patrol car.

Worth noting that the two legislators shot were among only a handful of (D) who joined with (R)s to pass a budget bill that strips state-funded healthcare from illegals immigrants.

(Hortman was the only (D) member of the house to do so)

Over 70 names on his list. "The names included abortion providers, pro-abortion rights advocates, and lawmakers in Minnesota and other states, the official added."

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Nothing about this makes sense so far frankly, which is why I'm not inclined to draw any firm conclusions at this point.

Based on some of the stuff I've seen that the suspect appears to be connected to, there's a path that might connect the seemingly different dots but to travel it sort of requires a route like little Billy took to get the mail in the old Family Circus cartoons.

It is most likely going to follow the pattern most of these do. He is paramilitary, police wannabe, weird politics, and had some kind of break in his personal life. Snapped, and is going on spree.

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Yeah I've learned there isn't any point in trying to find rationality in a senseless act.

Seems like a pretty run of the mill right wing evangelical with Fox News brain. Unless there is some weird connection we don't know about, I don't think this one is hard to figure out. Its a political assassination to flip the MN House.

And a Walz political appointee, who wife appears to have interned for Walz about a decade ago.

trump has to pardon him, right? Like it's a requirement now.

In jon world, only one side of the political spectrum is allowed to exist. Those on the opposite side are silly for ever considering any sort of equal share.

I'm tired of the "Trump pardon" thing. He is going to be up on state charges. Trump couldn't pardon him if he wanted to.

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Solidly Democrat area, those seats won't be flipping. She did vote to stop allowing health care for illegal immigrants (children still covered) but she did that as the leader of the house as part of a compromise to pass the budget.

Apparently he didn't think well of Walz as Walz was on Vance Luther Boelter's hit list

Damn the military parade looks more like a small town Memorial Day parade. The bleachers in he shot I saw are almost entirely empty.

I told my wife it looks like a Kid Rock concert. I knew the crowd was small, but I wasn't ready for how small.

Should have held the parade in Florida or some Midwest MAGA farm if he wanted an audience.

lol

Rolling through Constitution Ave #Army250 pic.twitter.com/wo4zwdQVMJ

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Giving "having a bake sale to buy a bomber" vibes

Two really funny things were them continuing to cut to aerial shots showing how pathetic the turnout was and all the sponsors. Hegseth needed to get up and say sponsored by Carl's Jr to complete the humiliation ritual.

Looks like Trump has effectively nationalized US Steel.

Good thing the communists didn't win the election.

Looks like there was a mass shooting attempt in Salt Lake City yesterday. Details are fuzzy but it sounds like a security guard shot the suspect when he pulled out his rifle but also hit an innocent bystander.

Two terrorist attacks in a day.

I keep seeing video of a guy sneaking away with a shooting suspect's backpack because he saw a gun, preventing a possible mass shooting. I think that was in SLC. Not sure.

The Senator and wife that survived the assassin's attack took a combined 17 bullets. The mom shielded their daughter from the rain of bullets. Amazing.

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They caught the guy. I still haven't seen details other than he is in custody.

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There also a couple instances of people driving cars through the protests. But Florida said that's fine so I guess we can't count that.

I think it's pretty clear the Trump and the people in his administration are actively pushing for a Civil War.

He apparently went to 4 lawmakers homes but they weren't home. Pretty crazy stuff and meticulously planned.

Also found it odd that his wife was caught with passports, cash, and guns during a traffic stop. His brother and supposed co-worker at his security firm used to work for the FBI. Other than that, the gist seems to be he was a MAGA fanatic and Christian nationalist who had fallen on hard times.

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans | Trump administration | The Guardian

Sure I guess.

More ways for MAGA to spend their life savings propping up a billionaire, but the next time a dem is in office prices of everything will be a problem again.

reuters.com

There is no way these will be made in America.

Well, let's just say there won't be any tariffs paid on it.

Also...the phone doubles as the long awaited TrumpCare! Talk about burying the lede.

That sounds a lot like socialism...

No, I'm sure they are going to make a huge profit and provide little to no service. That is classic late-stage capitalism.

Saved MAGA $350 if they want to buy direct.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807130553740.html

An insane deep dive into DOGE.
nytimes.com

We talked about apartheid in Israel, but I guess it's headed here too..

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans | Trump administration | The Guardian

So what puts Israel in a position to pressure the US to do their bidding when they rely on us for most of their support?

The massive amounts of money they give to our politicians for the past few decades.

That, and certain groups religious and political leanings. Evangelicals believe Israel is the fulfillment of prophecy for one. Neo-cons that want Israel to help fulfill their dream of US domination over the region for another.

Yeah, that's a pretty big one. Most polls show Evangelicals have more support for Israel than Jewish people in the United States.

Probably because those evangelicals think of the Jews as just lacking a little push to Jesus or they'll be easier to convince to hand over Israel than Muslims would be.

This is a good summary.

American Evangelicals' Unique Support for Israel | Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Interesting, since Islam is closer to Christianity in its beliefs on Jesus than Judaism is.

No, it is this (from that article):

Somewhere in Pyongyang Kim Jong-Un is asking his underlings why they can't be more like Tammy Bruce.
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Thanks for fucking everything up, religion!

Allowing foreign governments to bribe our politicians deserves some credit too.

Kristi Neom was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. My guess is someone poured a bucket of water on her.

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Apparently an allergic reaction. To heroin, likely.

A well trained dog left something nearby as payback.

Phoughts and trayers

This is normal

US Army’s nerd force; Palantir, Meta, OpenAI tech bosses join Executive Innovation Corps, one sold knives in college - The Economic Times

Story was horrible already but this adds to it.

Redirect Notice

So much winning!

Mike Lindell Declares Victory After Crushing Trial Defeat

tldr Mike is declaring "Victory" because he was only ordered to pay $2.3 million in damages instead of the $26.7 million the claimant sought.

Start selling more of those pillows Mike!

He's apparently over $10 million in debt and his pillow company is mostly dead. Another guy that destroyed his own life for Trump and got nothing for it.

I wish there was some way to have him tested for mental illness, he so clearly is delusional. Sadly he's going to lose every last dollar to his name because of it

A fool and his money .. Something Something...

For every loser we know of that hitches their wagon to MAGA and loses the money, how many more are out that being quiet and making bank?

This is vile, cruel, and unnecessary. Kids are going to die from this.

Trump administration ends 988 suicide prevention service for LGBTQ+ youth : Shots - Health News : NPR

Trump complains we have "too many" non-working holidays. Just so happens he complains about that on Juneteenth. Coincidence? I think not. I wonder which holidays exactly he wants eliminated? I think we all know the answer.


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The funny thing is we don't really have that many holidays compared to the rest of the world.

Yeah, workers hate paid days off. :rolleyes:

Assuming they lose a day of PTO for it, they do (or should). I don't know about all companies, but that's the way it was at the place I worked when we started getting it off.

There's an intelligent discussion to be had around days off, PTO, and how to handle a society where different people celebrate different things, but of course we're not going to have it here because a) it's pretty damn far down on the list, and b) when the White House acts like a holiday celebrating the end of slavery isn't worth celebrating, "holiday" is not the key term here.

I'm old enough to remember this:

Trump pledges to make Juneteenth federal holiday in bid for Black voters

Certainly not India

Spoilered for Size

I mean they've never liked MLK Day.

You know before he leaves office hes going to try for a Trump national holiday

To be honest, as long as I'm getting paid for the day, they can make it a weeklong holiday for him. I don't care.

He won't, the bootlickers in Congress will.

I mean why would you think that? Because they already tried to get him on Mt Rushmore? and rename the airport in perhaps the most Democratic Party strong, Washington DC after all? Surely he at least deserves his own National Holiday? I vote for Jan 6

Looks like the head of the WH Office of Personnel is a Russian spy. Sergio Gor is really Sergey Goryachev.

Coumo got beat bad after all the money and big party loyalist endorsements. Couldn't have happened to a bigger pos.

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The support Cuomo got from the party is why the Democrats are dead in the water. Just no interest in winning.

Supposedly, GOP is pushing for July 4 for the OBBBA. Ready for the GOP House & Senate to agree on something so we can all move on.

Below is the breakdown of the $ so far.

Breaking Down the One Big Beautiful Bill-2025-06-04

Cuomo should never have been the guy. I mean, lets' get Marion Barry back out there, or maybe Rod Blagojevic can run again. All these great examples of public leadership out there just fighting against corruption and for the people again!

I didn't follow the race much but it goes to show you what having a young, personable person running for office can do on the campaign compared to some decrepit old guy you have to hide. The guy seemed to be on every talk show, podcast, etc that you could find. He cleaned up in the demographics that Democrats struggle with (young men primarily).

The guy who wants government-run grocery stores won the Wall Street demo. Not sure anyone in this country knows what they want anymore.

But CNBC told me they were going to make all the Wall Street guys walk out onto ice on the East River...?

It's really popular among younger people and Democrats in general. It seems like his whole campaign was just picking issues that were popular with the base and going all-in on it. Helps he didn't have a bunch of corporate donors pushing back.

And when the party couldn't touch him on the issues, they went after him on Israel (which is just insane for a Mayoral race). But the party still hasn't figured out that Israel is quite unpopular with Democrats. Or that just being really racist doesn't do well with young Democrats anymore.

Regardless, they don't need $25 million to figure out what young men want. Nor a set of astroturfed podcasts. Just run young people who can speak well and take popular positions on issues. Not terribly complicated. Fuck, Obama did this in 2008 and they still haven't figured out why he won.

Trump said the price of eggs went down 400%. I told the kids I'm getting rid of all their stuff so I can store more eggs. I know they'll probably be a little bummed, but it will be worth it to get all that money.

Dude went to the Wharton school of business. I think he understands percentages better than us plebes.

What is it with the media and covering up for these old guys who clearly are in deep cognitive decline?

Trump says he authorized Iran to attack US bases, even set the time for the attack. Imagine Obama saying that.

He's the real Supreme Leader in Iran.

Is there a video of this? If he really used those words how is that not plastered everywhere?

Lots of bad news in this report for the dems

Behind Trump's 2024 Victory: Turnout, Voting Patterns and Demographics | Pew Research Center

dola- the obvious question for 2028 is what will turnout look like without Trump on the ballot.

Gonna be fun watching people in red states freak out when they can't get access to porn.

As long as they don't lose access to grindr.