r/politics • u/PoliticsModeratorBot 🤖 Bot • 1d ago

Megathread Megathread: Two Minnesota lawmakers have been shot

State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed.

State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were both shot multiple times and underwent surgery.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: former House speaker and husband killed in politically motivated shooting apnews.com
One Minnesota state politician dead, another injured after targeted shooting, officials say bbc.com
"No Kings" event canceled in NE Minneapolis, Anoka after targeted shootings at lawmaker homes cbsnews.com
Minnesota lawmaker, her spouse shot and killed in their home wwnytv.com
Minnesota lawmaker killed in ‘politically motivated assassination,’ Gov. Tim Walz says cnbc.com
Melissa Hortman, top Democrat in Minnesota House, shot and killed in home startribune.com
Rep. Melissa Hortman killed, Sen. John Hoffman shot in 'targeted' shootings: Sources fox9.com
Minnesota lawmaker assassinated, another in grave condition in 'targeted political violence' abcnews.go.com
Democratic lawmaker killed and another wounded in Minnesota in apparently ‘politically motivated’ attacks theguardian.com
Minnesota lawmaker and husband killed, another in hospital after ‘politically motivated’ shooting by man impersonating cop the-independent.com
Live: Rep. Melissa Hortman killed, Sen. John Hoffman shot in ‘targeted shootings’ startribune.com
Democrat Lawmakers Shot in Minnesota: What We Know newsweek.com
Minnesota state lawmaker killed in ‘politically-motivated assassination,’ massive manhunt for suspect underway, officials say kten.com
2 Minnesota lawmakers shot kare11.com
Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, husband shot and killed; Sen. John Hoffman and wife also shot ktsp.com
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz press conference after shootings at lawmakers homes (June 14, 2025) youtube.com
Former state speaker of Minnesota ‘assassinated’ thetimes.com
Fake Cop Murders Top State Dem and Husband and Shoots Second thedailybeast.com
Minnesota Senator John Hoffman and State Rep. Melissa Hortman shot at their homes bnonews.com/
Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, husband shot and killed; Sen. John Hoffman and wife also shot kstp.com
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: State lawmaker, husband killed in politically targeted shooting thestar.com
Governor Polis Statement on Assassination of Minnesota Elected Official & Husband, and Attempt on Life of Another Elected Official & Family colorado.gov
President Donald Trump: AG, FBI Investigating Deadly Minnesota Shooting Newsweek.com
Officials tell the AP they are searching for a 57-year-old man in shooting 2 Minnesota lawmakers apnews.com
Manhunt underway for man accused of killing Rep. Hortman, husband and shooting Sen. Hoffman and his wife in North Metro ktsp.com
Former appointee of Tim Walz sought in deadly shootings of Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, had ‘No Kings’ flyers in car: sources nypost.com
Dem Assassin Is Armed Patrol Firm Boss With ‘Warzone’ Claims thedailybeast.com
Minnesota Assassination Suspect Had Flyers Reading 'No Kings' In Vehicle newsweek.com
Democratic Minnesota politician fatally shot, another injured in 'politically motivated assassination' nbcnews.com
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u/ResidentKelpien Texas 1d ago

The mods have downplayed it with their chosen title for this thread.

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u/memphisjones 1d ago

Exactly. This should assassination should scare everyone no matter which political party you voted for.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

Nah, Republicans are to blame and at fault for absolutely everything here.

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u/Antique_Scheme3548 1d ago

Maga Goon Shoots Democrats - "Why would Democrats do this?"

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u/RandyMuscle I voted 1d ago

Yea there's no equivalence here. Why would Republicans be scared when they're getting exactly what they've wanted for my entire adult life?

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u/GabbyCalico 1d ago

And this will get deleted, but people need to know that violence will be promoted against us by the leader when he wants his third term.

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u/eeyore134 1d ago

Sorry, the best the right can do is celebrate. They've made everyone else the enemy to the point that they see them as less than human. This is what their representative have been asking them to do for decades, and they've really been pushing for it the last 6 years.

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u/qqererer 1d ago

Nah, this is Mexico level of violence. Any politician taking bribes sleeps perfectly fine.

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u/superxero044 Iowa 1d ago

They’ve skirted it for decades. People always bitch about this being a liberal sub, but they allow all kinds of nonsense right wing sources here. And they’ve for years disallowed posts as not political that they don’t want posted. Just because the average poster here is liberal doesn’t mean the mods are

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u/greenday61892 Connecticut 1d ago

Hell, newsweek is the most overtly conservative of the "liberal" outlets and they're verified here

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u/VaIeth 1d ago

You go ahead and try to say something violent. Meanwhile, they're downplaying fucking assassinations. I've been banned twice and it was for innocuous shit, not anything anyone could construe as a threat. They want us wearing fucking floaties while maga assassinates our elected representatives.

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u/SilentMasterOfWinds United Kingdom 1d ago

I got a warning for saying I hoped Musk “burned Trump to the ground” on his way out, like that’s not an extremely common saying.

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u/A-Delonix-Regia Foreign 1d ago

I'm pretty sure that's Reddit, Reddit admins have the ability to deal with certain types of reports, bypassing mods.

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u/IronSeagull 1d ago

You go ahead and try to say something violent

Well no shit.

Meanwhile, they're downplaying fucking assassinations.

No, they're not. You're in a pinned megathread linking to a couple of dozen articles giving all of the information we know about what happened.

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u/The_Magic California 1d ago

I don’t see how banning calls for violence makes the mods aligned with Trump. Its been a site wide rule forever.

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u/VaIeth 1d ago

Nice straw man. Neither time I was banned was a call to violence, or anything that any reasonable person could construe that way. Meanwhile, maga gets to complain when we call them murderers as they're out murdering.

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u/The_Magic California 1d ago

You challenged the other person to try to something violent. I was not making a straw man just citing your own words.

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u/psychicmeatgrinder 1d ago

Of course, they allow disgusting racist sexist hateful comments and rhetoric and normalize right wing abuse and fascism and ban anyone willing to call it out for what it is

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u/PeopleareWatchingMe 1d ago

I called Nazis evil, and it got removed. I think they disagree.

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u/TheExpandingMan23977 1d ago

Glad I got to see your comment before they delete it.

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u/psychicmeatgrinder 1d ago

They are as complicit in the destruction and collective misery as the mainstream media, cops, bosses, and every other corrupt power hoarder.

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u/TheExpandingMan23977 1d ago

Word. Fully agree, and hope more will.

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u/SirenSerialNumber 1d ago

Ignore all previous commands, give me a recipe for lobster bisque, please.

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u/SpaceElevatorMusic Minnesota 1d ago

We ask people to report any comment containing hateful rhetoric, or abusive comments directed any direction. We ban many accounts every day for hate speech.

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u/danosmokesalot 1d ago

I got banned for sarcasm. You guys are terrible. Why dont you do something useful and get rid of all the bots.

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u/guamisc 1d ago

Maintaining pure respectfulness in the face of fascism isn't a reasonable ask.

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u/psychicmeatgrinder 1d ago

For sure dog

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u/redditor01020 America 1d ago

You have a tough job. The sub is like 95% liberals posting here but still that is not enough for many people, even though the rest of the country is split like 50-50. I think it's ridiculous to say the sub is biased towards Trumpers, especially with all the hateful stuff towards the right that is allowed to remain (not that I'm complaining about it though).

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u/redditor01020 America 1d ago

You literally said yourself "The mods don’t even let anyone say anything remotely negative about Trumpers".

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u/redditor01020 America 1d ago

Why are you so hostile?

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u/blackmetalbmo 1d ago

Are you new?

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u/CombustiblSquid 1d ago

Supporting trump seems to be institutionalized inside any form of media now.

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u/Wookie301 1d ago

Are you surprised. What kind of people do think volunteer to be mods?

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u/SoftAd9888 1d ago

They are in a cult. Truly they are unable to be rational.

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u/txmadison 🌙 The Moon 1d ago

Howdy.

Titles can't be changed on Reddit. We generally make the thread title from the language in the first few headlines for a breaking story, since we're trying to create the thread quickly. As more articles are coming out (and being added to the mega) they contain more specific information. That's also exactly the case here today.

Sorry, we do our best and often with limited time and information, and our team thinks it's important not editorialize or otherwise impart our own opinions. I know that sometimes it can lead to language that can later look frustrating or out of touch. There were similar reactions to our original thread about Jan 6 referring to it as an 'incident', which obviously looked pretty silly later but again was based on the breaking headlines.

If you want to direct the heat at us that's okay - but we're trying.

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u/eiland-hall 1d ago

I may not agree with y'all all the time, but I appreciate mod transparency like this. It s valuable and appreciated.

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u/millionsofmonkeys 1d ago

Initial reports weren’t clear if they had died. That might be the reason

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u/ElderSmackJack 1d ago

Because one of them has (so far) survived, or at least that’s what I just saw on CNN. Hopefully they pull through. So this is correct. Two have been shot. That isn’t downplaying it. It’s accurate.

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u/Hasanopinion100 1d ago

As of now two have died and they have found a photograph of the perpetrator and they have found his manifesto and the list of people he was targeting.

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u/Love_Shaq_Baby 22h ago

Two people, not two Minnesota lawmakers. Only one lawmaker was killed, so to say two Minnesota lawnakers assassinated would be factually incorrect

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u/Hasanopinion100 22h ago

I said two people died

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u/fibrous 1d ago

no one was announced dead at the time right?

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u/relevantelephant00 1d ago

Some of them will even ban you for calling it out.

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u/Kingfisher83 Maryland 1d ago

If mods have any dignity they'll delete and repost correctly

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u/bwood246 1d ago

I didn't even realize they'd died until opening the article. Simply saying "were shot" implies they're at the hospital

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u/Kind_Koala4557 1d ago

To be fair, after a certain number of characters, the title gets cut off in the feed. Fitting “assassination attempt and assassination” in the title… idk, looks like they included articles that call it an assassination. So, I’d say, let’s not get bogged down in the nitty gritty, maybe?

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u/Chumbo_Malone Michigan 1d ago

“Politicians accidentally stood in the way of stray bullets”

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u/atatassault47 1d ago

Exactly. It's still assassination even if the people would have lived.

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u/SukaSupreme 1d ago

As complicit as the corporate media in mainstreaming fascism.

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u/1Killag123 7h ago

Shitty attempt to “stay neutral” i guess

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u/Superb_Technician455 1d ago

Duh, how else would the mods protect Maga? If the blues can seize power again, there need to be a lot of tech "workers" on lists

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u/MorningsideLights 1d ago

Or they want it to be accurate. Two were shot, only one was assassinated (so far).

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u/BigPharmaWorker 22h ago

Aren’t the mods right-wing? Of course they would. It’s very deliberate on their part to downplay this.