America at a Boiling Point: Deaths, Threats, Protests and a Town Hall Attack

[Coventina]

The battle for Minneapolis and the killings of two American citizens by federal agents have freshly exposed the dangerous degree to which the nation’s social fabric has frayed, the latest smudging of an already thin line between politics and violence in America.

Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, became the latest target of violence directed at lawmakers on Tuesday evening, when a man charged her at a town hall and used a syringe to spray her with a liquid that smelled like vinegar before he was tackled by security.

That same night the United States Capitol Police released a disturbing report showing a surge in threat cases against lawmakers, their families and staff members: They spiked to a staggering 14,938 last year, up from 9,474 in 2024.

Earlier in the day, President Trump had traveled to neighboring Iowa, talking up efforts to “de-escalate a little bit” on Fox News. But he targeted Ms. Omar just hours before she was attacked and stoked the darkest fears about immigrants, warning a crowd of supporters they would “blow up our shopping centers, blow up our farms, kill people.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/politics/trump-ice-protests-omar-attack.html

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Everything Trump touches dies, including the USA.

[UpInArms]

1. MAGAt letter to the editor in my local paper this week

https://imgur.com/a/4wL5a1V

[Coventina]

2. Gross

[UpInArms]

3. My lte was also published

Dear Jesse,

"Hey Dude, I'm not mad at you." Renee Good's last words before she was shot three times and murdered by Jonathan Ross, ICE agent in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026.

"Are you okay?" Alex Pretti's last words to a woman who had been knocked down by an ICE agent in the streets of Minneapolis on January 24, 2026, before he was shot eleven times.

All I can say is that I am not okay. I can only hope that everyone in this country with any consciousness will know that what is happening is not just wrong, it is indefensible.

These are our fellow citizens, Americans being murdered by our government.

If you think for one minute that you "didn't vote for this," you are delusional. This is exactly what you voted for when you cast that vote for Trump.

You think that "owning the libs" is going to get your jollies off? You are not owning anything but a murderous horrific movement that will destroy everything and everyone in its path.

Someday that will be you. I have stood in front of you, voting for your rights, your safety, your family and your way of living.

To all of those who voted for Trump, you have no mercy, no belief in goodness and no soul.

[Coventina]

4. Excellent!