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#shootings — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #shootings, aggregated by home.social.

  1. New York Times: Disinformation in Minneapolis Shooting Points at People Who Were Not Involved. This link goes to a gift article. “Within hours of a federal officer shooting and killing a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman on Wednesday, some social media users identified two separate and unrelated people as the shooter, a move that for hours sent threats and vitriol their way.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/10/new-york-times-disinformation-in-minneapolis-shooting-points-at-people-who-were-not-involved-gift-article/
  2. First, they blame all the mass #shootings on mental health, then they go and cut #mentalHealth services
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    #Trump cuts jobs at nation's mental health agency and some jobs at #CDC : Shots - Health News

    The Trump administration has laid off more than 100 employees at the nation's main mental health agency, NPR has learned.

    Employees were notified of a "Reduction in Force" shortly before 8 p.m. ET on Friday
    #rif #fired

    npr.org/sections/shots-health-

  3. → Charlie #Kirk was killed by a meme
    garbageday.email/p/charlie-kir

    “We have let school #shootings in #America persist long enough that we have created a #culture […]. All of it now is just another #meme you can participate in to go viral. Made even more confusing by a new #nihilistic #accelerationist movement that delights in muddying the waters for older people who still adhere to a traditional political spectrum. Many young #extremists now believe in a much simpler binary: #Order and #chaos.”

  4. Latino leaders condemn ICE following incidents in Chicago

    CHICAGO (AP) — Latino leaders expressed dismay Saturday over recent immigration enforceme…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Chicago #DomesticNews #DonaldTrump #Generalnews #Hispanics #Immigration #J.B.Pritzker #KevinHerrera #Lawenforcement #Politics #Protestsanddemonstrations #Shootings #U.S.DemocraticParty #U.S.DepartmentofHomelandSecurity #U.S.ImmigrationandCustomsEnforcement #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA
    newsbeep.com/121074/

  5. Lately I find myself thinking a lot about who and what I pay #attention to.

    In The #Violence Project, Peterson & Densley suggest that many of mass #shootings are really #suicides (deliberately expanded in scale) by people who felt #ignored for months/years before.

    books.google.com/books?id=cLsd

    There's so much talk about attention spans, apps for screen time, #mindfulness, and staring off into space for your private sense of calm & focus.

    Eventually we need to pay attention to others, I think.