Governor Walz to Provide Public Safety Update YouTube video by Minnesota Department of Public Safety

We got him.

Providing an update on the manhunt momentarily.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT-...

Johnson aide advised against subpoena of star Jan. 6 witness over concerns about ‘sexual texts’ from lawmakers The move was intended in part to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent Cassidy Hutchinson.

Exclusive: An aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson advised Republican colleagues against subpoenaing former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson as part of their investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent her.

LeBron James Denies Son Receiving Preferential Treatment When Being Lifted Up To Dunk
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Most Texas school board candidates who support book bans lost their elections A majority of pro-book ban school board candidates lost in Texas, but education advocates are worried about other election results.

Most Texas school board candidates who support book bans lost their elections

*JOHN THUNE ELECTED TO BE SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER: FOX NEWS

*THUNE, CORNYN ADVANCE ONTO SECOND ROUND OF VOTING: PUNCHBOWL
*SEN. SCOTT DOES NOT ADVANCE TO NEXT ROUND OF VOTING: PUNCHBOWL

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

"We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere." #Media

Supreme Court rejects Mark Meadows’ request to move Georgia election subversion case to federal court | CNN Politics The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let Mark Meadows move his Georgia election subversion case to federal court, effectively barring the former chief of staff during Donald Trump’s first term from c...

Interesting development.

www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/p...

Alright, who made this? 🤣

NAZI GRAFFITI TAGGERS ARRESTED, HAVE TIES TO VENTURA COUNTY RELIGIOUS RIGHT | Left Coast Right Watch Two neo-Nazi graffiti taggers caught tagging a Jewish business in Ventura County are facing charges and hate crime enhancements

NEW from LCRW: @cvantifascists.bsky.social
covered the hearings of two neo-Nazis who got caught tagging a Jewish-owned business with anti-semitic graffiti in Thousand Oaks. They and their families have ties to TPUSA Faith's co-Chair and his church. leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/naz...

So if on X they were called tweets, what are they called on BlueSky? Clouds?

It does leave a vacancy in Congress. Dems held the seat up until 2015. They need to be smart about candidate recruitment.

Trump’s tariff proposals could cause prices to skyrocket on clothing, toys, furniture, household appliances, footwear and travel goods, according to a new report from the NRF

The NRF found that the impact of Trump’s tariffs would be “dramatic,” leading to double-digit percentage price spikes

Conspiracy theories are spreading about Trump’s win. They’re false. The misinformation that’s proliferating rests on faulty assumptions.

Conspiracy theories are spreading about Trump’s win. They’re false.

Column | Trump’s 2024 coalition looks a lot like his 2020 coalition The president-elect and his supporters are eager to present him as the choice of a diverse array of Americans.

For all of the assessments of Trump's coalition based on exit polls, here's what they also say: his voting base was older, wealthier and about equally White to what it was in 2020. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

American Promise - The For Our Freedom Amendment There's too much money in politics. American Promise has a solution. We are uniting Americans to win the For Our Freedom constitutional amendment.

americanpromise.net

tip for newbies: subscribe to this MAGA block list to preemptively block MAGAts on here :)

(sorry I forgot to include the link before)

Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won? It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer.

While pundits are blaming the Dems so can they pimp for their own political values as reasons for Trump's rise, Michael Tomasky @tnr.bsky.social just states the obvious. It's a shame most political commentators just would rather listen to the sound of their own voice. newrepublic.com/post/188197/...

Well this seems healthy …

Did the same Wednesday. My partner told me about BlueSky this afternoon. #GameChanged

It was a mixture of both for me. The right wing toxicity was bad, but the election conspiracies from the left were getting to me too. It’s dangerous to depart from reality.

Crisis calls from LGBTQ+ youth spiked by 700 percent after Election Day LGBTQ+ youth are afraid, confused, and anxious about the outcome of the election, the Trevor Project said. Here are some resources.

Crisis calls from LGBTQ+ youth spiked by 700 percent after Election Day said The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people: 19thnews.org/2024/11/elec...

Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it. The former Twitter continues its decline under Musk.

Twitter has lost nearly one-fifth of its daily active user base in the U.S. and a whopping one-third in the UK.  mashable.com/article/elon...

your school boards and community boards need you. they’ve been getting pummeled by qanon/antivax/transphobic conspiracy theorists.

I found you!

This is a major reason I left #X and came over where the sky is a bit bluer.

a man in a music band shirt is holding a skateboard and asking how do you do fellow kids . ALT: a man in a music band shirt is holding a skateboard and asking how do you do fellow kids .

how i feel joining a new app

Just moved over from #X - looking forward to less propaganda and hate. Hoping to be a thoughtful contributor.

Twitter, as we knew it, no longer exists. “X” is a cesspool of misinformation and propaganda.

I’ve been reluctant to put a lot of energy into a “Twitter alternative” because none of them have taken off.

But I hope we can regain that global conversation someplace again. Maybe this is the place.