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"small protest, one of the smallest. My speeches are bigger, much biggly"

-turnip

Wow don't dox yourself man

Did the arrow taunt you specifically for a reason? Did you steal its tater casserole?

I'm proud of you.

I wondered if that was you! I knew you looked familiar!

are you a beautiful tree

I found Waldo!

The media doesn’t cover protests. Most local channels are owned by mega corps like Sinclair.

The problem is that information outlets are owned by bad actors.

I'm just glad there was a protest I didn't hear about after the fact. Or like the morning of.

According to various news reports, the suspect's car had a manifesto, a hit list of people to target (one report said the list had a bunch of politicians, another said the list had a bunch of pro-choice activists), and apparently the car also had a bunch of No Kings signs in it. I'm guessing they thought he was going to slip into a protest and try to hurt people?

Something important to know about the two people who were shot: until her death, Melissa Hortman was a member of the Minnesota State House of Representatives; and John Hoffman is a member of the Minnesota State Senate. Both were Democrats.

And up until they were shot, the Minnesota House had 134 Members: 66 Republicans vs 67 Democrats (with one seat empty to be filled later). And the Minnesota Senate had 67 members: 33 Republicans and 34 Democrats. If the assassinations had both been successful, both chambers would have been tied. As it is, they're only saying that Hoffman is "stable", but there are no further details.

I was there. The organizers were sending updates to anyone who RSVPed. I don't like the idea of RSVPing for something like this, but I did. They announced before the event that they had cancelled any elected officials who were planning to speak. They also said something like, "If you are told that the event is cancelled, that is just a rumor."

Several officials did speak and they were pretty epic, honestly. I don't know if they announced the cancellation as a red herring and had everyone speak as planned, or if the speakers I saw were the late replacements. IMO this was a much bigger crowd than the first Hands Off protest.

I know a bunch of people who went in st. Paul, and in Duluth there was definitely people out with signs. Can't cancel freedom yo!

I was gonna go but heard they were cancelled too because of the shootings this morning

We all knew about the stay home advisory. A lot of folk were only more determined to gather, and there was a general understanding that if there was an attack, it would throw gasoline on the movement as a whole. Crowd energy is weird.

Plus I spent three hours making my sign.

No, they know, but they're trapped by blackmail or greed.

Might be a bigger crowd than Trump's inauguration too