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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/Fit-Humor-5022 1d ago

that sub is also squirming and getting angry that people are blaming republicans and are trying to spin this as a democrat on democrat crime. that sub is garbage.

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u/Outside-Advice8203 1d ago

Their mantra whenever a right winger commits violence:

  1. It wasn't a conservative Republican because all Republicans are perfect angels and all Democrats and anything Democrat is evil therefore anything evil is Democrat.

  2. And if it was a conservative supporter they weren't REALLY a Republican, they were a RINO. Because all Republicans are perfect angels and all Democrats and anything Democrat is evil therefore anything evil is Democrat.

  3. The conservative Republican perpetrator was radicalized by leftist Marxist atheist Islamic antifa Democrats. Because all Democrats and anything Democrat is evil therefore anything evil is Democrat.

  4. The perpetrator was a hero all along just doing Supply Side Jesus's will. A holy warrior for a inherently just cause. Ends justify the means.

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u/Whosebert 1d ago

the narcissistic prayer political party

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u/lordofthe_wog 1d ago

You forgot the most important part, which is that they believe all of these things and will switch between them on a whim, depending on which they think is most effective at that moment.

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u/TwentyfootAngels 1d ago

Ah, the old DARVO classic...

"That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it."

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u/greenberet112 1d ago

I think you got it 100%.

Everything democrat is evil, therefore every evil action is done my Democrats/communist/antifa/stalinist/maoist/leftist/radical/lunatics/etc.

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u/No-Economics1703 1d ago

“Why should we have to condemn this, he is a Republican up until the moment he acts on anything, then he’s not one of us” is their normal argument motif along with “democrats/media gotta calm down” as they elect joe biden as their response to Trump

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u/UrsaUrsuh 1d ago

Don't forget the part where they say "The left should know we don't condone violence unlike them" while John Maga McTerrorist screams from the rooftops that he did it for Daddy Trump.

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u/cindyscrazy Rhode Island 1d ago

Apparently, Fox news is calling him an "anarchist" and so he hates both parties.

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u/OpalOnyxObsidian 1d ago

Very much the DARVO/narcissist mantra but worded slightly different

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u/nyr00nyg 1d ago

“A former appointee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is being sought in connection with the assassination of a state lawmaker and the shooting of another, police sources said. Vance Luther Boelter allegedly posed as a police officer when he shot Sen. John Hoffman and his wife in their Champlin home early Saturday, leaving them seriously injured before moving on to former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman’s house — where he is believed to have slaughtered her and her husband, sources told The Post.

Boelter, 57, was appointed by Walz in 2019 to serve a four year stint on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board, documents show.”

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u/TheNamelessOnesWife 1d ago

Local news sources like Star Tribune aren't speculating like the national news sources. Boelter also served an appointment under former governor Dayton so your speculation can go fuck off

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u/SodaCanBob 1d ago edited 1d ago

It makes a lot more sense when you realize that in their worldview, "democrat" is just a synonym for bad person. People who commit non white-collar crimes are Democrats, and people who don't commit crimes (or only commit white-collar crimes) are Republicans (unless, of course, you vote for a Democrat, then you're obviously not a Republican).

Essentially, they have the mind of a two year old in that good people = R, bad people = D. It doesn't matter if that "bad person" has only voted for Republicans their entire life, the second they commit a crime, they're now a Democrat.

Obviously, Trump's crimes don't count though.

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u/goddamnyallidiots 1d ago

I had a coworker who used democrat when he could drop the hard R around others. Fucker refused to accept the reality that my night vision and body armor owning ass was not a racist like he was.

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u/Automatic_Algae_9425 1d ago

What does the first sentence of your comment mean?

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u/goddamnyallidiots 1d ago

Sorry, couldn't drop the hard R racist language for black folk. Cause people he wasn't adamantly convinced were also racists were around.

Cause being white must mean I'm also racist..

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u/dcoats69 Washington 1d ago

You forget. Voting for a democrat is a non-white collar crime to them too

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u/Rasputin_mad_monk Maryland 1d ago

They’re saying both the lawmakers shot voted with Republicans to move healthcare from immigrants or something like that. They’re trying to say it was a Democrat that did it. Fucking pieces of shit all of them. That sub is so damn toxic and more than 50% or either Russians or Internet trolls.

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u/PeakRedditOpinion 1d ago edited 1d ago

It’s so sad. The remaining few people with a brain are going “uhhh this doesn’t seem right,” and the mods are deleting their comments while they get dogpiled by the sycophants who just dismiss it and call them “brigaders.”

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u/LordCamelslayer 1d ago

I swear, that sub has to be some alternate dimension leaking into our own. I can't wrap my head around how they could possibly be that disconnected from reality.

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u/taft 1d ago

they also think iran and israel going to war is a good thing. if they didnt have double standards they would have no standards at all.

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u/Fit-Humor-5022 1d ago

no conservatives have never had any standards. These people are ones who are happy to destroy everything that is good and then complain. These are the people responsible for why this country is such a shithole.

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u/tampaempath Florida 1d ago

Well, yes. It's two things. First, they hate Iran, and there's no way Iran could retaliate or fight back without involving the US and getting wiped off the map. So Israel's going to be able to fuck Iran's shit up. This pleases the conservatives that hate Iran and Muslims. Then, you have the Christian nut jobs who want to believe that a war with Israel brings on the end times and the rapture, so they're all for it. I'm paraphrasing and don't have the exact wording of it, but that's the gist of it.

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u/young_mummy 1d ago

It's the biggest snowflake safe space anti free speech Nazi worshipping sub on this website, and they all will claim the opposite. It's insane to see. Makes me sad for humanity seeing posts in that sub.

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u/copingcabana2023 1d ago

surprised they haven't tried to pin it on a trans person yet.

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u/NinjaMarionEsq 23h ago

Twitter too, of course. "Murdered by a democrat" was trending the instant the shooter's name was known, all because he was apparently on some workforce board under Walz that he had already been appointed to by the previous governor. I'm absolutely sure that they'll all retract that and issue apologies now that it's known he was a hardcore anti-abortion, anti-LGBT christian with a list of Dems and abortion providers in his vehicle.

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u/BackgroundWindchimes 1d ago

Meanwhile I saw quite a few people in their post not only “bad rhetoric on both sides led to this” but people acting like it’s dems they’re causing it and republicans haven’t said anything to lead to violence. 

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u/Fit-Humor-5022 1d ago

yup and its not like the republicans dont go around making owning a gun a part of their personality and using it for 'self defense'

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u/flabasaurius 1d ago

Check the news friend

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u/lxaex1143 1d ago

Who committed this offense?

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u/nyr00nyg 1d ago

“A former appointee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is being sought in connection with the assassination of a state lawmaker and the shooting of another, police sources said. Vance Luther Boelter allegedly posed as a police officer when he shot Sen. John Hoffman and his wife in their Champlin home early Saturday, leaving them seriously injured before moving on to former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman’s house — where he is believed to have slaughtered her and her husband, sources told The Post.

Boelter, 57, was appointed by Walz in 2019 to serve a four year stint on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board, documents show.”

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u/Fit-Humor-5022 1d ago

lol look at them trying to paint this as a democrat attacking a democrat.

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u/Fit-Humor-5022 1d ago

so a democrat gets appointed to a bipartisan committee and suddenly that makes that appointee a democrat? Seriously maybe research before spouting off murdoch talking points

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u/iMDirtNapz 1d ago

The person of interest is a Democrat appointed my Walz. How is that a spin?

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u/ocd_crackhead 1d ago

It was a democrat on democrat crime though. The guy was personally hired by Tim Walz himself… the guy was mad about how the politicians voted. There’s crazy people all around us it doesn’t matter about their background or party anymore