5 h. ago A US senator’s X posts after the Minnesota shootings were horrific – and predictable | Austin Sarat

Mike Lee knows better than to turn tragedy into disinformation. But outrageousness has become the name of the gameNational tragedy used to bring national unity. If only momentarily, partisanship was put aside, and people of all political persuasions came together.No more. The nation received a startling reminder of that sad fact on Sunday when Republican senator Mike Lee went online to share his reaction to the weekend’s horrible shooting of two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses.Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, is the author or editor of more than 100 books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Police chief who helped arrest Minnesota shooting suspect describes moment they caught him: ‘We had made his world so small’

Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said finding the shooter was ‘personal’ as Representative Melissa Hortman was his friend

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23 h. ago Lawmakers on edge as statehouse security tightens after Minnesota shootings

Anxious lawmakers are convening under heightened security in Wisconsin’s state Capitol, one of the most publicly accessible statehouses in the country

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38 h. ago Minnesota shootings: Suspect Vance Boelter’s religious life in focus as investigators probe motive

Boelter, 57, is suspected of fatally shooting Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, then leading police on a two-day chase in Minnesota

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45 h. ago Minnesota shootings latest: Suspect Vance Boelter’s religious life in focus as investigators probe motive

Boelter, 57, is suspected of fatally shooting Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, then leading police on a two-day chase in Minnesota

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48 h. ago Minnesota shootings latest: Senators briefed on security measures amid ‘disturbing’ threats of violence against lawmakers ?

Vance Boelter is suspected of fatally shooting Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in the early hours of Saturday, shortly after attacking State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette

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51 h. ago Minnesota shootings latest: Trump refuses to call ‘whacked out’ Gov Tim Walz after murder of state lawmaker

Vance Boelter is suspected of fatally shooting Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in the early hours of Saturday, shortly after attacking State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette

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51 h. ago Trump says he won’t call Minnesota governor after political shootings: ‘he’s a mess’ – US politics live

US president to break with traditional response to tragedies by not calling Minnesota governor Tim Walz in the wake of ‘politically motivated assassination’A memorial outside the Minnesota house chambers displays a photo of Melissa and Mark Hortman behind a table where people are dropping off flowers, notes, a hard hat, a plaid shirt. Signs in front of it read “in honor of our beloved Melissa”. On her desk, a photo and a bouquet of roses.On Monday afternoon, the skies darkened, spilling sheets of rain across the Minneapolis suburbs Melissa Hortman represented. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago How the right spread ‘brutal and cruel’ misinformation after Minnesota lawmaker killings

The rightwing media ecosystem spins up narratives to serve their agendas after tragic events, regardless of accuracyTina Smith, a Minnesota senator confronted Mike Lee, a Utah senator, on Monday to tell him directly that his social media posts fueled ongoing misinformation about a shooting that killed her friend.Lee’s posts, which advanced conspiracies that a Minnesota assassin was a “Marxist” and blamed the state’s governor for Melissa Hortman’s death, were among many threads of false or speculative claims swirling online after the killings. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago Jon Stewart and Sen. Tina Smith roast MAGA Senator Mike Lee over Minnesota shooting tweets

‘I want to know why those deaths in Minnesota are worth only a night of edgelord s***posting,’ Daily Show satirist rebukes Republican over offensive posts

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56 h. ago Jon Stewart and Tina Smith roast MAGA Senator Mike Lee over Minnesota shooting tweets

‘I want to know why those deaths in Minnesota are worth only a night of edgelord s***posting,’ Daily Show satirist rebukes Republican over offensive posts

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60 h. ago Minnesota shooting suspect had dozens of potential targets, prosecutors say

Prosecutors say the man charged with killing one Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another had dozens of apparent targets, including officials in at least three other states

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62 h. ago Many lawmakers on list of suspected Minnesota shooter vow not to bow down

From a legislator in downtown Minneapolis to a veteran Ohio congresswoman, many lawmakers included in the suspected Minnesota gunman’s list of targets are vowing not to bow down

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65 h. ago After Minnesota shooting, some states are more tightly guarding officials' personal information

Lawmakers in some states are moving to delete their home addresses from online directories after one Minnesota legislator was killed and another wounded in their suburban Minneapolis homes last weekend

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68 h. ago Minnesota shootings latest: Suspect Vance Boelter remains in federal custody on murder charge with bail set at $5m

Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were fatally shot in the early hours of Saturday, the same day a state senator and his wife were also wounded

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2 d. ago The View rips Sen. Mike Lee over Minnesota shooter tweets, says he’d ‘be fired instantly’ anywhere else

‘It’s like a slow dehumanization of the other,’ The View’s Sara Haines lamented on Monday

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2 d. ago Minnesota shootings latest: Suspect Vance Boelter could face death penalty as new details reveal other officials targeted

Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were fatally shot in the early hours of Saturday, the same day a state senator and his wife were also wounded

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3 d. ago Suspect in Minnesota shootings visited other legislators’ homes, say authorities

Officials say suspect accused of shooting two lawmakers went to two other legislators’ homes intending to kill themA man accused of dressing up as a police officer and shooting two Minnesota state lawmakers in their homes – killing one and her husband – also showed up at the houses of two other legislators the same night intending to assassinate them too, authorities revealed on Monday.Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was captured on Sunday night after a major two-day manhunt and charged by state prosecutors with the second-degree murder of the Democratic representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, at their residence in Brooklyn Park early on Saturday. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Minnesota assassin 'planned to murder FOUR Dem lawmakers on Saturday and tricked policeman into thinking he was cop'

Minnesota shooting suspect Vance Boelter went to the homes of four different representatives and tricked police into believing he was one, prosecutors claim.

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3 d. ago ‘Dumbfounded’: Dad who bought Vance Boelter’s home stunned by connection to Minnesota murders

Exclusive: Tech executive Zachary Svendsen told The Independent that his shock intensified upon finding his home address plastered all over the internet by misguided armchair sleuths

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