I realized today that there's been a dark and moody theme running through my photography since the start of the pandemic. It isn't all my work, but it has been a constant addition and is different than what I did before.
#Photography #seascape #LandscapePhotography #LakeSuperior #Minnesota
Welp. You asked.
Via Brian Tyler Cohen (who has the news vid):
And there it is. The #Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies.
Her bosses halted her work.
As the #EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking #water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
#News #Science #Chemistry #Safety #Environment #Minnesota #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
Via Democracy Docket:
NEW: #Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signs a package of pro-voter bills into law — including the Minnesota Voting Rights Act — to protect ballot access after the 8th Circuit gutted private enforcement of the federal Voting Rights Act in the state.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/minnesota-governor-signs-pro-voting-package/
NYT:
The newspaper in #Minneapolis is expanding its statewide coverage and changing its name to The #Minnesota Star Tribune. The expansion is a rare big bet in the newspaper industry. #NewsMedia
NEW: In a win for voters, a federal judge rejects a right-wing lawsuit seeking to block a #Minnesota law that establishes criminal penalties for knowingly spreading election disinformation or engaging in voter intimidation. The law will remain in place. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/minnesota-law-prohibiting-election-disinformation-and-voter-intimidation-upheld-by-federal-judge/
Here in #Minnesota, our weather forecasts work because NOAA and Environment Canada have agreements to share data from the weather services' sensor networks back and forth across the line.
Yet again, USA:
End this. Hold Elon Musk personally accountable. And #ImpeachTrump and remove him.
QT Tim Marchman
@timmarchman.bsky.social
2025 February 5
NOAA workers ordered to stop all communications with foreign nationals.
https://www.wired.com/story/noaa-employees-foreign-nationals/
https://bsky.app/profile/timmarchman.bsky.social/post/3lhhueqltd22z
Keep 'em coming
Via Kyle Griffin:
#Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed a preemptive lawsuit against #Trump — seeking to block the administration from acting against Minnesota in the way it's taking on Maine under a federal push to ban transgender athletes from girls and women's sports.
Anyone on here #trans and from #Minnesota with experience changing the gender marker and name on their birth certificate? 
#PBS sued #Trump on Friday to block an #ExecutiveOrder that would cut federal #funding for public television & radio, arguing that it was #unconstitutional.
The lawsuit, filed in DC by PBS & a public TV station in #Minnesota, says that Trump’s EO violates laws that “forbid the President from serving as the arbiter of the #content of PBS’s programming, including by attempting to defund PBS.”
#law #democracy #Constitution #FreePress #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/business/media/pbs-trump-lawsuit-funding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=BD8357FA-8CA8-4C37-B249-5CDD44A19A77
So the assassin in Minnesota was a wearing a police uniform and had a police car. Think about it...
#minnesota #killings #lawmakers #usa #politics
"Two people familiar with the matter identified the suspect being sought as 57-year-old Vance Boelter. The people could not publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity." 1/...
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-d7983e1e4f1a7573a487cab1a98cd172
Via Rupar:
holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.
Via Kyle Griffin:
Reuters: ACTING U.S. ATTORNEY FOR DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA SAYS VANCE BOELTER HAD A LIST OF MORE THAN 45 #MINNESOTA STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS IN HIS CAR
Sunset in northern Minnesota near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
🚨 Another day, another…
“2 #Minnesota lawmakers shot in 'targeted' incident: Officials
They took place in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, officials said.” #GunViolence
https://thereport.be/article/?app=breaking&u=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.link%2FcR1gLSW
BTW really loving the updates from #Minnesota. they showed out to #NoKings even though Indivisible cancelled the event.
this is important.
a mostly white, suburban crowd decided they didn’t need permission to protest fascism. minnesotans decided the moment was more important than the fear of fascist #MAGA #terrorism.
to those of you who carp about the comforts of the hegemonic majority: if not the hegemons, who?
this is what a point of sociological inflection looks like.
#Minnesota Senator #JohnHoffman & State Representative #MelissaHortman, along with their spouses, have been shot by men dressed as #police officers who showed up at their homes in Brooklyn Park & Champlin, according to law enforcement sources & local media.
The first shooting happened just after 2AM on Saturday at the Champlin home of State Senator John Hoffman, a #Democrat who has served in the Minnesota Senate since 2013.
#criminal #law #PoliticalViolence
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2025/06/minnesota-hoffman-hortman-shooting/
“Law enforcement found a hit list in the #Minnesota suspect’s car that contained nearly 70 names, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter told CNN.
The names included abortion providers, pro-abortion rights advocates, and lawmakers in Minnesota and other states, the official added. Law enforcement also found a Father’s Day card addressed to the suspect in a bag full of ammunition, the official said.”
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minnesota-shootings-manhunt-06-14-25?cid=ios_app
Nobody in print wants to suggest the possibility the shooter could actually BE a cop.....
Just got home from the protest at the Minnesota State Capitol. It was somber, it was passionate, it was angry, and it was peaceful. So fuck the bastards trying to scare us out of demonstrating and protesting. #NoKings #Minnesota
Vance Boelter taken into custody in lawmaker shootings in #Minnesota, sources say
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Unexpected twist in Minnesota. They now have the assassins wife who was traveling with a gun, cash and passports.
In a shocking update, Jenny Boelter, wife of fugitive suspect Vance Boelter, was detained during a traffic stop Saturday morning just hours after the deadly shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers. Police found a firearm, ammunition, large sums of cash, and multiple passports in the vehicle. Three of her relatives were also inside.
Suspect in #Minnesota lawmaker #shootings #captured after manhunt, police say #VanceBoelter, the man accused of #shooting 2 #Democratic lawmakers & their spouses, was captured late Sunday in Sibley County after a sprawling manhunt involving more than 100 officers. State Rep #MelissaHortman & her husband, Mark, were shot & killed in their home, while #JohnHoffman & his wife, Yvette, survived.
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-8ce70a94c9eb90688baaa1a71faef6cc
Sen #TinaSmith (D-MN) on Monday confronted Sen #MikeLee (R-Utah) over of series of comments he made blaming #Democrats for the fatal #shooting of a #Minnesota state lawmaker & her spouse.
Shortly after the #Senate began its Monday evening vote, Smith was seen walking into a conference room where #Republicans were about to hold a meeting to discuss the text the Finance Cmte had just unveiled for the party’s massive tax bill.
#PoliticalViolence #MelissaHortman #ethics
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5353746-tina-smith-mike-lee-shooting-minnesota/
#Trump asked if he’ll call Governor #TimWalz in wake of #Minnesota #shootings
Normally in the wake of a serious shooting or crime the #president of the #UnitedStates calls the governor to make sure they have all they need in terms of #LawEnforcement resources, #medical, #security, #trauma response etc.
#POS #immoral #DerelictionOfDuty #law #USpol #MelissaHortman #JohnHoffman
This is how Trump responded:
