The ones I was with had voted early, and were out canvassing. The kids were under 18.

That said, a lot of people are sufficiently disconnected from the news that they didn’t get how much worse Trump would be this time.

He wasn’t going to stop with two. Had a list of ~70 people he wanted dead for either being Democrats or providing medical care to women. Thr guy’s plan didn’t involve getting away; just a lot more dead people.

They’re deployed in the hope of producing a massacre that can be blamed on the victims. I do not recommend counting on their leadership ordering a surrender

The movement is getting larger and louder each cycle. Protests like this dont bring down the government directly, but are demonstration that a movement has support

From what I could tell, only few were outside the US. This was largely Americans, in the US, objecting to Republicanism

Lots of kids joined their parents at the one I was at. These were by design peaceful events. Cops and haters did things at a few, but that was it

They’re trained and equipped in a way that you are not. I do not expect this to succeed unless you’ve already convinced them that they want to surrender.

I dont think that has been well studied.

The assassin also appears to have had use of a police car. Decent chance its a cop from another agency or jurisdiction.

Its not impossible, and situations like this tend to be ones where the facts aren’t certain until afterwards

Not sure what the evidence is, but the police gave a press conference saying so

There is no need; the point is to create a riot so as to provide an excuse for a broader crackdown

They’re worried that people might get organized enough to vote them out

I don’t treat his words has having any specific meaning; more indicating that his attention is on a topic

IRA = US Inflation Reduction Act, a major piece of climate legislation

They’re taking on the attitudes of the Trump administration which just announced:

We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.

After which they pushed Senator Padilla out of the room for saying his name and trying to ask a question and then handcuffed him.

It’s a gift link. People with Javascript turned on dont hit the paywall

It was only ever about states rights to enforce slavery.

It was a partial phase-out of sale of new gas powered cars, taking effect in steps over a decade. 20% of new cars could still be plug-in hybrids, which burn gasoline when the battery runs out. No ban on cars people already own or restriction on used cars.