Check Your Six: America’s Violence Spiral
420: Weekend Alert
Hope everyone’s weekend is going well and happy Father’s Day to all of you legends.
You have a super important role in society whether you realize it or not.
This might be the first weekend post I have done, but we’ve seen some wild shit go down the past 24 hours so I wanted to get a summary out.
We can brand it as a sort of “alert” if you will. The most vital of updates that go out in Arb Letter.
Moving forward I will reserve these out of cadence posts as critical information that I think all of you need to be aware of. On top of the violence in Minnesota yesterday we have super recent updates from Trump who hasn’t ruled out US involvement in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran.
Going to be a highly volatile week for markets globally.
We’ve crossed a line in America — drifting from mere political tension into a landscape that feels increasingly insurgent and openly violent. You can make the argument this phase started back in 2020 and has only gotten worse, characterized by the Trump assassination attempts, Pro Palestine protests, and now acts of violence breaking out again the country.
Trump survived two assassination attempts, top state lawmakers in Minnesota were hunted down in their own homes in the last 24 hours, Tesla’s factories were firebombed by extremists, a United Healthcare executive was shot dead in NYC in broad daylight and two Israeli embassy staffers were gunned down over a month ago.
Now we have two wars breaking out — one in Ukraine and one in the Middle East as Iran and Israel begin to ramp up strikes on each other.
These aren’t isolated headlines — they’re signals that the guardrails are gone and the cost of living in denial is rising fast globally.
I cannot stress it enough to all of you — we are in a moment where protest, grievance, and ideology are turning kinetic. You need to stay on top of these threats and be aware of how common they are becoming across the US and the globe.
Murder of Democratic State Reps in Minnesota
In a story that is starting to look like the intro to a Jason Bourne movie, two Minnesota political officials and their spouses were attacked yesterday in their homes by an assailant that resembled Michael Meyers in a law enforcement uniform. House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in their home, while State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were also attacked but survived.
Police say that when they arrived at Democratic state Melissa Hortman’s home, they found the suspect dressed as an officer with a fake police vehicle. He opened fire on responding officers, who shot back before he managed to escape on foot. It’s unclear if he was hit, but a massive manhunt is still underway as he remains armed and dangerous.
The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward on information related to the suspect and new updates on this story are breaking as I type this.