Under the 4th Amendment, cops are supposed to have probable cause, NOT search ppl's shit willy-nilly In Chatrie v. US, cops indiscriminately searched the phones of folks inside a circle w a diameter spanning 3 football fields, & developed suspicion along the way ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chatr...

I do think this a genuinely worrying aspect of this incident we know the kind of guy who commits political violence and up until now he has not looked like this, and there are a lot more guys like the latter than the former it’s a very bad sign for a society when someone like this picks up a gun

First Draft: 🇺🇸 The Land of Endless Political Violence “After the WH Correspondents’ Dinner attack, the same elites who tolerate mass shootings and bombing kids are outraged about political violence.” By @premthakker.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/the-land-o...

There's reason to suspect that part of the problem is that Congress is being cowed by getting death threats when they oppose Trump. Is that not political violence working?

It has the same vibe as Mangione’s: no one else is doing anything, and someone has to. He has well thought out moral underpinnings for why he’s doing it even if his conclusion about *what* he must do is wrong.

This is what the elites haven’t fully internalized as they consolidate power. The point of democracy is not some sort of ideological end in itself. The point of democracy is stability. If people lack any viable pathway to advance their own interests, they will turn to violence.

There is a notion that "productivity" is fungible — if AI makes people "more productive" then it will somehow result in more & better work. But individual productivity is only the limit on throughput of assembly lines. YOUR blocker is that your org uses the "garbage can model" to make decisions.

This coverage is nuts. There have been tons of attempted assassinations but the various Presidents didn't obsessively try to use it to their advantage. Now the press is fully in because they get to be dramatic because this one semi-involved them. Meanwhile they spent literally 5 minutes Hortman

We as a society are not yet without other means of protest, obstruction, or other peaceful paths to enact change. But it is supremely unhelpful to have a political opposition unwilling to openly discuss and work towards the primary peaceful, constitutional means of removing this admin from power.

You pursue and discuss impeachment most importantly because it’s justified and you are working for the day it will succeed but you ALSO do it to model that our political system is still THE APPROPRIATE PLACE to address our grievances even if it’s going to take some time.

All of this. There should be daily talk of impeachment— Dems should be screaming it from the hilltops. Advertising that there is a political solution tamps down violence— and it motivates the voting base.

This is useless news because it provides no details, and could easily just be the same proposal as every other time.

We murdered three more people in a boat today

This is a very common misconception in statistics: If 1% of a population has a disease and the tests have a 5% chance of giving a false positive, what's the probability of having the disease given that we tested positive? The answer is NOT 95%. It's actually way less. youtu.be/ZglB-Cn6-F8?...

This is something that ANDOR really reshaped in how I see Star Wars; it takes a central contradiction of the Universe, that the Empire isn't old enough to exist as the primordial force it's presented to us as, and turns it into a strength by recontextualizing it as an *ongoing* totalitarian project.

Don’t try to shoot anyone over it, which won’t help anything, but it remains absolutely true that Trump is an existential threat to America who should be removed from office as quickly as possible. He’s a sociopathic megalomaniac whose corruption and unfitness is unparalleled in history. Impeach

Disturbing: it seems the would-be assassin was radicalized by reading accurate descriptions of the president's deeds

Nixon has been outdone

I feel like some people are trying too hard to find some psychological problem with the guy, to avoid confronting the thought that relatively normal people may be starting to see violence as the only way out. Would be nice if the right people demonstrated that it isn't.

It is bad that Trump pardoned the people who tried to assassinate Congress on 1/6.

Oh.

He said members of Congress should be executed five months ago and that isn't even the most memorable instance since then of him calling for violence and/or celebrating the death of somebody he dislikes.

It would be nice if an act of political violence could still result in simple, uncomplicated condemnation rather than happening with the elephant in the room that the sitting president of the United States has repeatedly and eagerly tried to get his political opponents murdered.

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

Thinking back to that time in the fall of 2016 when candidate Donald Trump said that some "2nd Amendment people" might have to do something about Hillary Clinton. I remember being shocked and appalled that anyone would vote for someone who said that.

one way dems can help turn the temp down is by being a little clearer about how they aren’t letting these criminals go once they’re in power — and with more specificity than vague assurances of accountability. people need to know the law will still apply to the rich & powerful

He shouldn't have taken it into his own hands, but otherwise sounds like a patriot. Trump is a thief, a rapist, and a murderer. He deserves execution under our laws, as do most of his lieutenants.

Begging someone to mention that literally every gulf ally is shut in barring Saudi and UAE who are merely 50% shut in

Not even assassins respect Patel.

Im fucking howling at the steam reviews

For the “tone down the rhetoric” crowd, Trump literally posted Obama’s address and the next day a 1/6 guy armed to the teeth showed up casing the residence.

so cool how this guy got severe brain damage and it turned him MAGA

Trump murders staggering numbers of people. He wrecks lives and directs unspeakable violence. Who the fuck cares when .000002 percent of the violence he brings to world blows vaguely back in his direction? They don't even reap a miniscule fraction of what they sow.

i can't help but be embarrassed for these people even if they can't be embarrassed for themselves

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

This story is all kind of bonkers.(gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/w...

Same faces just feel like they need this wheel next to them

Just what we need: A deeper trauma bond between the press and the president.

I want to live in a country where: - the president isn‘t a fascist - the political media don’t collaborate with fascism - political violence and mass shootings aren’t a regular occurrence - there is a democratic method to depose the head of state if they’re a corrupt, demented pedo

I’m sorry, is he Naruto running

Security was caught sleeping.

my political cause is being shitty to any journalist who would attend the WHCA dinner

"And this is why I need to build the Trump Ballroom Bunker Complex"

They just thought he was an ICE agent doing his duty.

[Enter Rumor, painted full of tongues.]

Luke Russert on MSNOW saying that when the shots were fired he ran down the middle of the aisle in the room, right towards the president, thinking it would be safest near him. Yeah, man, I'm not sure you've really game planned how "rushing the president during a shooting" might end for you

Ah fuck, so maybe an attempted mass shooting rather than assassination attempt? That ruins it.

! Wolf Blitzer on CNN, saying he was a few feet away from a shooter at the White House Correspondents Dinner: "A guy with a very, very serious weapon starts shooting. I happened to be a few feet away from him."