The federal government is gunning people down in the streets, lying about what happened and then preventing any independent investigation of the killings

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Per his colleagues: The victim’s name was apparently Alex Pretti and he was an ICU nurse caring for severely injured veterans at the VA Hospital. He was acting as an observer, filming the raid. Any suggestion that he was there with violence on his mind is horrific gaslighting.

the extent to which this administration is out of control is really summed up by the fact that they immediately went with “this was an armed terrorist there to kill law enforcement” knowing that video from multiple angles completely disproving them was out there and would be seen by everyone

Today's shooting happened because no one in power did shit about Jonathan Ross killing Renee Good. There are zero consequences for murdering people if you work for ICE. And they know it. And it'll happen again soon.

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

Don't expect any justice or accountability.

Having seen two videos from two different angles, there's no other way to put this: they are brazenly lying. Through the looking glass now

Just seen the video from the woman in red who was filming from the other side and yep, looks like an execution

DHS on the fash site claiming the victim approached ICE "with a 9mm…handgun", i.e. holding it or pointing it at them, and what we saw in the video was them "attempt[ing] to disarm" him. Looks like plenty of members of the public recording at the time so we'll see if that was true

I have today written to the Chair of Labour’s National Executive Committee seeking permission to enter the selection process for a candidate for the forthcoming Gorton and Denton by-election. Read my letter here.👇🏻

Difficult to read here but the statement includes the following par: “There is a direct threat to everything Greater Manchester has always been about from a brand of politics which seeks to pit people against each other." Swap out GM for UK and you have the pitch to the country...

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

There's an anti-trans protest in manchester and it has: * Local Fascists who are usually at the anti-asylum hotel protests * "radical feminists" * A guy with an huge cross * A guy who keeps getting in trouble locally for shouting "Christ is king Fk Islam!" * LGB Alliance and Women's Rights Network.

Genuinely not sure how the States lasts another three years of this.

On the video that's going round I'm thinking I want to see another angle or two before I make a decision—could've been pulling a gun out of a belt—but it doesn't look good

It is striking how massively paranoid, almost doomsday-cultish the Trumpian Right are to the point of making pivotal life choices on the basis of it

Sadly looking at current output its message has not aged well

How can it be that a white supremacist on a mission to foment a far right revolution is allowed to do business here basically in open contempt of our legal system

Ban these things yesterday Also: "After initially reporting the video to TikTok,Dilara was told by the tech firm that no violations had been found after a review. However, after being contacted by the BBC,TikTok later removed the video" We need to start punishing social firms who fail to moderate

In case you missed it: My suggestion that Farage was whispering to Trump behind the scenes while Trump was going after Greenland has been essentially confirmed. As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.

Fair play to Phil for ripping it out of He Who Shall Not Be Named #totp

Wait... that's Curtis Steigers? #totp

How can they cut her off in full flow like that #totp

Miming might've been a better idea #totp

Not so nice being on the receiving end eh Peter #totp

Am I having an episode #totp

Apparently the right legs are a different length to the left #totp

YES #totp

"And now, live from 1976" #totp

The lyrics #totp

Astronaut: "Wait... it's all Hanson?" #totp

Poundland Hanson #totp

"I've lugged this Roland all the way here and I'm going to play the hell out this two-note harmonica riff" #totp

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Excellent 👍

Muting "Trump": Pro: could help my sanity Con: could leave me badly uniformed of impending disaster

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha responds to Orban:

If you guessed that a foolish strategy of trying make the entire internet child-friendly would lead to an inevitable spiral into online authoritarianism: you guessed right

Everyone's dunking on him but, despite the risks and chances, I wish him every success. As things stand, if Starmer stays, Trumpism wins. Very little to lose

Often you'll read galaxybrain takes about this kind of stuff along the lines of "they're operating on a different level and you idiot liberals don't get it". But really, this is simply breaking any rules they want and rubbing it in opponents' faces that there's nothing that they can do about it

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Please fix this nice and slowly

I still don't know why the now explicit white supremacy of someone in direct control of so much of our daily lives in the UK isn't a bigger story

How the fuck can Google get away with suddenly pulling support for POP connections in Gmail *without any notice*, telling us it's going away basically now & only letting us know in a message at the top of Gmail *today*? Who knows how many thousands of people have relied on this for years

Starmer maybe rightly doesn’t take bait each time but he needs an outrider - a semi-licensed “off message” attack dog - to make Haw-Haw Farage pay for sucking up to the guy who denigrates British war dead.

Denmark sent thousands of troops to Greenland because of hysteric libs on Bluesky