Sweden and Finland will jointly hand in their NATO membership applications tomorrow.

Swedish PM Magdalena Andersson and Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö announced the news at a joint press conference moments ago in Stockholm.

This is history in the making.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1526577892288876545?s=20&t=NUEkhR6Fd7jXDlP908zMbg

Eugene Robinson: Do not dare look away from the bloody horror that left 10 dead in Buffalo.

Do not dare write off the shooter as somehow uniquely “troubled.” Those Black victims were murdered by white supremacy, which grows today in fertile soil nourished not just by fringe-dwelling racists but by politicians and other opportunists who call themselves mainstream. [...]

What we need to talk about is how politicians and thought leaders on the right are using the vile poison of replacement theory to further their own selfish ends — garnering campaign donations and votes, boosting television ratings, achieving fame. And we need to talk about how most of this demagoguery is coming from people who should know, and probably do know, that what they are telling potential killers, such as Payton Gendron, the man in custody after the Buffalo shooting, is complete fiction.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/15/buffalo-shooting-replacement-theory-white-supremacy/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/17/2098478/-Abbreviated-pundit-roundup-The-right-s-hate-machine

No shortage of THIS formula-

"If God Were A Republican"

Freedom isn't owning 25 rifles...

Sen. Bernie Sanders tells NBC that Manchin and Sinema "sabotaged" Biden's agenda.

"You've got 48 members of the Senate who wanted to go forward with an agenda that helped working families ... You had 2 people who prevented us from doing it. You have a better word than sabotage?"

Al Franken with timely advice:

Democrats’ attempt to codify the right to abortion went down 49-51. We should immediately drop a bill codifying the right to use contraception. Make Republicans vote on that one! Let’s go on offense for a change!

This is not a partisan observation. This is a public safety warning."

“I spent a decade working in counterterrorism. The rhetoric we are seeing from leaders of my party — the Republican Party — is directly fueling violence and a spike in domestic terrorism. This is not a partisan observation. This is a public safety warning.”

— Former Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor, on Twitter.

Rob Reiner: "There are not fine people on both sides."

@robreiner

The racist massacre in Buffalo rest at the feet of Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP. There are not fine people on both sides.

Vice President Harris: "We are seeing an epidemic of hate."