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William Lindsey :toad:<p>It couldn&#39;t be about astonishing privilege, could it? Being permitted leeway to commit violence, to use and abuse others, and enjoy impunity — while one is treated as more complex and deeper than the common lot….</p><p>Could it?</p><p>Burke:</p><p>&quot;Brown and Black men, in contrast, are relentlessly typified when they are associated with political violence. Their individual lives rarely matter, it is rare for them to be profiled.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <br />/8</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;They aren’t taken ever as representing movements or institutions or social categories, and their causality is never attributed to other people except family members who might have hurt them or ignored them or offered them their first gun.&quot;</p><p>We all know, of course, that straight white men are the most persecuted people on the planet. So maybe their experience of marginalization makes them uncommonly complex, people of great depth?</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <br />/7</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;There are frequently heroic efforts by their profilers to make them out to be &#39;lone nuts&#39;, serial killers whose ideology is seen as just being a schtick like sending cryptograms and letters to the police, whose only motives are personal, in their madness and sadness and failure, in the circumstances of their lives.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <br />/6</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Burke says,</p><p>&quot;I’m not against individuating Vance Boelter, against understanding the distinctive human life he has led. But it is impossible to miss that people like Boelter, like Dylann Roof, like Timothy McVeigh, like Brenton Tarrant, like Anders Breivik, so often seem to warrant being written about in this way.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <br />/5</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>When white men in the US commit mass murder in service of right-wing ideology, it&#39;s never because of the category or group to which they belong: </p><p>It&#39;s never because they&#39;re Black.</p><p>It&#39;s not ever because they&#39;re Muslim.</p><p>Never due to their being gay or trans.</p><p>Straight white men are complex. They have depth. They&#39;re individuals. We just don&#39;t know why they do what they do when they kill people due to their right-wing ideological commitments.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <br />/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;a far-right white man who engages in political violence that could fairly be called “terrorist” always warrants individuation after they have committed their crimes. They are never abstracted, never made to stand in for a category of persons whose ideologies and identities are seen as a general danger. The explanation of their violence is always located in the particular and peculiar, in the specifics of their biographies.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <br />/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Like every other (straight) white man committing right-wing mass murder in the U.S., his motives, his formation, his commitments are murky: we just can&#39;t quite understand why white men do this kind of thing persistently, the New York Times wants us to imagine. </p><p>Burke writes,</p><p>&quot;I offer this summary of a detailed New York Times profile of Vance Boelter to demonstrate one major point:&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <br />/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Timothy Burke takes an incisive, illuminating look at how mainstream media ALWAYS treat stories of white men in the US — typically heterosexual ones — committing mass murder in the name of right-wing ideology.</p><p>His lens for the analysis is New York Times&#39; report on Vance Boelter written by Dan Barry, Ernesto Londoño, and Ruth Graham.</p><p>Boelter, à la New York Times, is, it turns out, complex, mysterious, an individual.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <br />/1</p><p><a href="https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/the-privilege-of-depth" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">timothyburke.substack.com/p/th</span><span class="invisible">e-privilege-of-depth</span></a></p>
-0--1-<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpSupporter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSupporter</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> and the deadly cost of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religious</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a> </p><p>Vance Boelter, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Minnesota</span></a> man with extensive ties to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a>, was apprehended and charged in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/murders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>murders</span></a> of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband. <br>But as much as this has been called a “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/politically" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politically</span></a> motivated” shooting, it’s worth looking into the role <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> may have played.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj0F79ZxV0Q" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Jj0F79ZxV0</span><span class="invisible">Q</span></a></p>
Crooks&Liars<p>Body bags for Democrats <a href="https://crooklyn.social/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Minnesota</span></a> <a href="https://crooklyn.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://crooklyn.social/tags/Shooting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shooting</span></a> <a href="https://crooklyn.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a></p><p><a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/body-bags-democrats?utm_source=social&amp;amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;amp;utm_content=103874" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">crooksandliars.com/2025/06/bod</span><span class="invisible">y-bags-democrats?utm_source=social&amp;amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;amp;utm_content=103874</span></a></p>
The Wild Hunt News<p>[Editorial] David French frames Vance Boelter as a “Christian assassin” —today’s editorial looks at why the rise of Christian extremism calls for awareness and sacred resistance from the Pagan community.</p><p><a href="https://wildhunt.org/2025/06/editorial-christian-assassin-and-sacred-resistance-david-french-got-this-right.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wildhunt.org/2025/06/editorial</span><span class="invisible">-christian-assassin-and-sacred-resistance-david-french-got-this-right.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/davidfrench" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>davidfrench</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pagan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/americanchristianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>americanchristianity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vanceboelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vanceboelter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/witchcraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>witchcraft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politicalviolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politicalviolence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/christianaggression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>christianaggression</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/christiandominiontheology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>christiandominiontheology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/editorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editorial</span></a></p>
<blockquote><p>“The man arrested, Vance Luther Boelter, 57, held deeply religious and politically conservative views.”</p></blockquote><p>…<br>look it’s a big tangent from the main thrust of the article, but I’m not sure “deeply religious” is a good descriptor <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mike-lee-posts-senate-minnesota-lawmakers-shot-eb58f097a2e627b9441f64ac6f7bbaa8?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=user/AssociatedPress" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>, at least as it’s colloquially understood — which is in reference to the Christian religion. </p><p>The beliefs &amp; views of MAGA “conservatives” bear almost no similarity to the longer tradition of Christianity - it’s an idolatrous (&amp; frankly heretical) sect that’s been cultivated for decades to bolster a far-right authoritarian fascist movement. </p><p>The “Jesus” depicted in the Bible would almost definitely be repulsed by &amp; condemn its adherents.</p><p><a href="https://convo.casa/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/christianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>christianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>christianity</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jesus</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/idolatry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idolatry</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/heresy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heresy</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/vanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/grifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grifters</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Gizmodo: Alleged Minnesota Shooter Used Data Brokers to Find Lawmakers’ Addresses. “Vance Boelter, the man accused of assassinating a Democratic Minnesota state representative and shooting a state senator on Sunday, acquired the addresses of his victims and other alleged targets by using information collected by online data brokers, according to court documents obtained by Politico.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/20/gizmodo-alleged-minnesota-shooter-used-data-brokers-to-find-lawmakers-addresses/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/20/gizmodo-alleged-minnesota-shooter-used-data-brokers-to-find-lawmakers-addresses/</a></p>
United States<p>Hoffman family shares more details about targeted shooting</p><p>For the first time, the Hoffmans are revealing more about what happened in last weekend’s targeted shooting at…<br><a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/america" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>america</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JohnHoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnHoffman</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/shooting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shooting</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/unitedstatesofamerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unitedstatesofamerica</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USnews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USTopics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USTopics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USAnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USAnews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a><br><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2178829/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2178829/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Techdirt<p><strong>Surprise: Minnesota Killer Used Data Brokers To Target And Murder Politicians</strong></p> <p><a href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/18/surprise-minnesota-killer-used-data-brokers-to-target-and-murder-politicians/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tech</span><span class="invisible">dirt.com/2025/06/18/surprise-minnesota-killer-used-data-brokers-to-target-and-murder-politicians/</span></a></p>
James Russell<p>Media: Dems Getting Offed Is Their Fault</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/politicalcomedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politicalcomedy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/politicalhumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politicalhumor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vanceboelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vanceboelter</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/melissahortman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>melissahortman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/markhortman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markhortman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/johnhoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>johnhoffman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/timwalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>timwalz</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democrats</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;He would have been exposed to versions of courses currently offered, such as one that explains how &#39;the World is in an era of serious warfare&#39; and how &#39;the body of Christ must remember that Jesus has already won this war.&#39; He may have heard the founder’s slogan that &#39;every Christian should pray at least one violent prayer a day.&#39;”</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>violence</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <br />/22</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;During his time at the school, Boelter would have been … taught to see the world as a great spiritual battleground between God and Satan, and to consider himself a kind of spiritual warrior. He would have been told that actual demonic forces can take hold of culture, political leaders, and entire territories, and thwart God’s kingdom.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>violence</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <br />/21</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;To some degree, the roots of Boelter’s beliefs can be traced to a Bible college he attended in Dallas called Christ for the Nations Institute. A school official confirmed to me that Boelter graduated in 1990 with a diploma in practical theology.&quot;</p><p>~ Stephanie McCrummen</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/VanceBoelter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VanceBoelter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>violence</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <br />/20</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/vance-boelter-minnesota-shooting/683209/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/</span><span class="invisible">2025/06/vance-boelter-minnesota-shooting/683209/</span></a></p>