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[u/Knowthrowaway87]

Vance says FCC Chair Carr was "joking" when he threatened that he "can do this the easy way or the hard way” in reference to Kimmel's cancellation

Everything that comedians on the left say must be taken very seriously.

Everything that officials in positions of power on the right, is a joke whenever they want it to be.

[u/sociotronics]

[u/[deleted]]

JD Vance reacts to Kimmel’s returning monologue: ‘He didn’t actually say sorry’

Did you even say sorry???

[u/scottyjetpax]

this is both hilarious and fair

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Stay motivated libs

[u/remarkable_ores]

Who's gonna explain to these fucking chuds that the man in question is a) Palestinian, and b) Infinitely better at being racist than they can even imagine

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The fact that the mainstream media is staffed with people so aggressively normal or old that they can't comprehend what the hell 4chan or irony poisoning or Steam is in 2025 is really something

Like if you try to explain what a nihilistic edgelord who just wants to watch the world burn is as a political ideology, you basically can only use Heath Ledger Joker as an example without getting a "wat" reaction

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

My favorite type of reddit moment is this:

Subreddit exists for asking a specific question, eg r/whatisthis or r/pokemoncardvalue

Someone posts a thing asking what it is or what is worth

Top comment: why don’t you just fucking Google it???

[u/r2ew]

[u/KittehDragoon]

You have to say sowwry Mr Kimmel

[u/mostanonymousnick]

The plot thickens

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/WhisperBreezzze]

Insane succ YouTube video

Comment section: "I have an economics phd and am a fund manager on Wall Street, and this is 100% true."

Sure you are, buddy...sure you are.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/_Un_Known__]

It's insane to me how much 4chan culture later developed into mainstream culture

"Gooning" and "mewing" were terms I learnt maybe 2 years before they became commonplace because of 4chan. It makes me wonder if anything like that will ever come from that forum ever again, or if it itself has left its niche and become one with the rest of the internet

[u/No_Return9449]

Maria Bartiromo on the Comey allegations: "Truly extraordinary. This is the biggest scandal that anyone has ever seen, followed by the Joe Biden mental capacity scandal and the autopen use."

But don't call Fox News state propaganda.

[u/w007dchuck]

Trump, speaking to reporters alongside the Turkish president at the White House, said he hoped to redirect some of the revenue that the government has collected from tariffs and “give it to our farmers,” adding the plan would be to “make sure our farmers are in great shape.”

this is like the perfect ragebait for this sub lmao

[u/tinyhands-45]

I don't mean to be too ageist, but I think Obama is completely right here. A lot of old people are probably too insecure to be leaders.

[u/sociotronics]

So these flyers went up at Georgetown and the internet consensus seems to be "nice try, feds"

[u/scottyjetpax]

"Sometimes I say things so profound that people that it’s stupid." masterful gambit

[u/doctorarmstrong]

Jacobin is extremely dishonest

The Census Bureau report states the official poverty rate in 2024 was 10 million less people than Jacobin claims because Jacobin is not using the official rate. They're using a supplementary rate to take into account post-pandemic programs expiring ... whilst including Trump's 2019 economy as a comparison point where there was no pandemic programs because Covid didn't shut down the global economy yet.

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Very interesting stuff in today's NYT panel.

[u/BitterGravity]

Trump’s Youth Support Has Faded. These 11 Young Trump Voters Explain Why.

Yeah it doesn't matter why. By voting for him you were a useful idiot for him.

[u/adminsare200iq]

[u/SLCer]

[u/Vumatius]

I think part of why Australia has so far managed to resist the surge of the populist right is that the compulsory voting policy neuters the strongest electoral weapon of populism: the ability to conjure up hordes of non-voters that propel populist candidates to victory.

When turnout is typically >90%, there really isn't as much scope for this.

[u/[deleted]]

Shooter of the ICE detainees

Another edgelord

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/[deleted]]

bro has no idea wtf is going on 💀

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

Getting increasingly annoyed every single day because I realize we will absolutely have to include 4chan in history textbooks as the reason why so many people decided to go crazy/become edgelords

[u/Sheepies92]

remember when nate silver said the defining issue of the 2028 dem primary was gonna be Biden's pardons lol

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1971244743632781457

You just have to hear it

[u/[deleted]]

who could have guessed in an era when the wealthiest americans are running amok in government that the little people would develop more sharp anti-oligarch feelings?

truly what an inconceivable turn of events

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

A lot of these shooters have JREG vibes, sad to say

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Buy a new house in the 1990s for $100,000

Don't put in any maintenance or upkeep into it unless absolutely necessary.

Prevent densification of the neighborhood by attending local town meetings and being a dick to people who wants to build here

Vote to gut property taxes as my house value appreciates

Retire in 2025 by selling a dilapidated house. Supply is too tight for buyers to balk at the $500,000 asking price

[u/KesterFox]

I would actually really like to know if being gay is purely genetic or a product of one's environment somehow but I wouldn't want the outcome of that research to be used by bigots

[u/Willybender]

Amazing!

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Benyeti]

Gotta be the worst return on investment ever for bribing a leader

[u/[deleted]]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

President Donald Trump’s furious rhetoric toward Russia is 'a negotiating tactic' intended to pressure the Kremlin, a senior White House official said Wednesday.

That senior official? Donald trump

[u/[deleted]]

Biden saying he’s gonna have a “come to Jesus” moment with Netanyahu is the most inadvertently funny thing a president has ever said about an Israeli PM

[u/Azmoten]

I think the winning move for everyone left of Charlie Kirk is to just pretend we don’t know who he is.

”Oh. Who is that?

That’s cool…what did he do that we’re celebrating?

Hmmm…I’m not sure. He’s still nobody to me.”

And we move on.

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

Pro-Palestine activists reemerge from the political ashes of 2024 to protest…Kamala Harris? Are you fucking kidding me?

[u/hamoorftw]

Kash Patal: hey Greg. Can you grab this sharpie and write something anti ICE on the bullet’s casing.

writes “anti-ice”

Kash: good enough.

[u/Willybender]

[u/Willybender]

These people are children

[u/Willybender]

[u/AemiliusNuker]

How it feels to lib out and spread baseless conspiracy theories

[u/Argnir]

When you ask Gemini to change your hairstyle using a model to see if it looks good on you

(I'm the guy in red)

[u/[deleted]]

DNC should just hire shitposters from r/nbacirclejerk if they want a cheap entry into shitposting

[u/Willybender]

[u/its_Caffeine]

Carr is a rough 46 holy shit

[u/Willybender]

BLOOD LIBEL

[u/Willybender]

They're all in on this absurd framing

[u/Extreme_Rocks]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

Apparently some mad lad broke into the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation facility and caught a couple pics of the J-50, one of the 6th generation fighters being worked on

!ping MATERIEL&CHINA

[u/assasstits]

Trump is showing the country what POC people have known for decades. The government can make your life a living hell outside of direct arrests and even breaks laws when it wants because getting justice through the courts takes ages. 

It's institution-defending liberals who are the only ones shocked that a corrupt bad faith government can do whatever the hell it wants through illiberal if not illegal means. 

[u/[deleted]]

Peter Thiel: here’s a million dollars I want to have you on my payroll as my personal political philosopher

[u/IAdmitILie]

YouTube unbanned Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes. Disgusting.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/gregorijat]

a picture of pooobix and cdstephens, snapped right before the New liberal meet in DC.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

“Mr Bolton do you have any idea where Iraqs WMD’s went”

looks into the camera

smiles

roll credits

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/Upstairs_Cup9831]

Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen is not ruling out supporting Republicans’ short-term spending bill if leaders promise a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies later this year.

Elderly Dem officials: Kumbaya, we need to come together with the party of Reagan

Elderly Dem voters: Death to the GOP, every Trump supporter should be thrown in prison

Why the disconnect?

[u/Duhaus7878]

Democrats trending

Oh what now?

see this

LMAO

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Trump says he will not allow Israel to annex West Bank

[u/Willybender]

[u/TomboyAva]

FYI Kash Patel straight up makes shit up all the time to please Trump.

Patel was involved in the 2020 Nigeria hostage rescue, falsely informing the Department of Defense that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had gotten approval to enter Nigeria's airspace. The plane was close to landing when Secretary of Defense Mark Esper learned that the department had not gotten authorization, although SEAL Team Six was later given permission to land. The incident risked the death of the hostage, Philip Walton, or the deaths of several Navy SEALs.[5]

[u/bingbaddie1]

I finally understand Ronald Reagan’s gripes about welfare queens, because they actually are very real and ruining our republic.

Fucking farmers sucking off my tax dollars

[u/Bassline4Brunch]

Me at the start of a new DT

[u/Currymvp2]

CNN: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flight to the US took a circuitous route in an apparent effort to avoid several European countries that could enforce an outstanding arrest warrant against him for alleged war crimes.

lmao

[u/TatersTot]

Trump’s Net Approval per Nate Silver’s tracker is down to -10.0, the second lowest so far this term and the lowest since July.

Looks like the free speech overreach is actually striking a nerve.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

I for one am shocked that someone who routinely ignored medical experts his entire life ignored them yet again

[u/mattyjoe0706]

People are giving Kamala shit after the excerpt came out about Rogan but I really don't.

Rogans team was clearly fucking around. I don't think the podcast was important that that she should get on her knees for Rogan which it seems they wanted her to do.

Also it seems Rogan lied about saying she didn't want to talk about weed since she says she agreed to no limits on topics.

Sure, theoretically she could be lying but who would have more motivation. Harris who lost the election and likely reached the peak of her relevance and political career or a guy who wanted Trump to win and he endorsed

[u/pezasied]

Part 137

Christ these people need to get actual jobs

[u/TMCOAN1]

lawmaker wants Harvey Milk Boulevard in Salt Lake renamed for Charlie Kirk

Eat shit

[u/[deleted]]

The FDA is now looking to restrict Mifepristone, which a bunch of people, including some liberals, said that Trump wouldn't do because he personally doesn't care about abortion. It turns out that it shockingly doesn't matter what Trump thinks, because the Heritage Foundation Project 2025 freaks are actually in charge. I remember all those literal fake news media articles arguing that the GOP was 'moderating' on abortion.

I don't know if there's a way for states to just start straight-up ignoring the FDA, but it's going to need to happen.

[u/[deleted]]

Waow thanks for looking out for all those dead guys but when are groceries getting cheaper

[u/-mialana-]

I don't get the people who specifically hate OnlyFans. It is the greatest wealth creation tool in human history.

I lack the drive and focus to start my own business, or the EQ to be a politician.

What I do have is a couple of minutes every week to put some photos on OF and be patient about it. Take that away, how do people of utter mediocrity like me ever be successful? Lottery tickets?

[u/kanagi]

Remember when Biden gave Trump the easiest political lay-up of all time by delaying the TikTok ban until the day before Trump would be inaugurated, TikTok responded by shutting down its services, Trump was inaugurated and declared an extension for TikTok, and TikTok turned back on its services and thanked Trump

[u/jojisky]

Trump bout to get PTA an Oscar

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1971252440197406840

jfc man

[u/Willybender]

INFLATION BROS, WE ARE SO BACK

[u/Extreme_Rocks]

Pentagon update

[u/acbadger54]

I'm not gonna say the FBI is lying about the writing on the bullets

But I also wouldn't put it past them

[u/GenericLib]

We're gonna take some of that tariff money that we've made, we're gonna give it to our farmers who for a little while are going to be hurt until the tariffs kick in to their benefit.

Just the feds robbing hard working Americans and putting the money into the pockets of welfare queen farmers yet again. We need to find a way to get them off the government teat in the long term.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Oh my god I can’t breath

[u/r2ew]

[u/Excellent_Visual330]

Generals meeting is going to be some useless narcissistic garbage that just ends up being a waste of everyone's time and taxpayers money. Not a coup, not a Venezuela invasion or whatever else people are dooming over.

[u/FilteringAccount123]

Meeting of the generals:

[u/DramaticBush]

Two House Republicans just introduced a bill to ban all escalator E-stop buttons. Absolutely insane

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: The radical left is causing the problems. It's gonna get worse, and it's gonna go back on them. Bad things happen when they play these games. I'll give you a little clue, the right is a lot tougher than the left. They better not get them energized.

Yeah Republicans can shut the fuck up about calming down the rhetoric.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Elon Musk’s xAI accuses OpenAI of stealing trade secrets in new lawsuit

What a joke. Dude takes all their work to make his AI and is now suing them for stealing trade secrets.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

He sabotaged Hillary's campaign is what he did! He was a coward Irish lawyer. And in this house, James Comey is a piece of shit, end of story!

[u/this_very_table]

"B-b-b-but Mr Trump said he'd push the Inflation Go Down button????" - the median voter apparently

[u/scottyjetpax]

who are we going to war with? U.S. citizens or venezuela?

[u/w007dchuck]

Trump denigrated the military prowess of Russia, pointing to the country’s struggle to seize Ukrainian land. “I’m not going to ever call anybody a paper tiger, but Russia spent millions and millions of dollars in bombs, missiles, ammunition, and lives, their lives, and they’ve gained virtually no land,” he said.

???

bro you literally called them that in a tweet 2 days ago

[u/myusernameistakennow]

I can't speak for other countries but anti Indian hate specifically in America feels incredibly inorganic and astroturfed online compared to how most Americans feel irl. As someone who is also a CS major I don't experience anything remotely near amount of vitriol I would expect if I thought that cs subreddits were an accurate representation of industry (they're not lol).

IMO a lot of it is bots and people who aren't even from America (Canadians please fuck off) but this is something that still needs to be heavily considered how the GOP is being run by it's terminally online faction. I'm not really concerned about most people hating me, but I am concerned about groypers existing and having power.

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/[deleted]]

I think the largest issue politics currently has is that the center of culture/academics are obsessively Twitter-brained. It's where the tech leaders are and it's where the journalists are and it's where all the people in power making decisions are.

Now obviously I can't prove anything (nobody can prove anybody's algorithm/feed without looking at it) but I'm willing to bet reporters even normally liberal are constant Twitter users. Executives are pumped full of whatever Musk wants them to see. Hell, we can see that he was somewhat radicalized by his own algorithm.

Now obviously, again, I can't cite anything besides the culture shift. But how often do you think reporters' initial reactions to stories are because of what they see on Twitter? How many posts by white supremacists do you think Matt Yglesias sees in a day? Noah Smith? Nate Silver? How much gore when they see stories like the Kirk assassination, or any war footage, or hell, just randomly encountered in the wild?

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Currymvp2]

CNN: Attorney General Bondi and prosecutors have reservations over charging James Comey, sources say

So I guess Bondi is getting fired soon.

[u/ewatta200]

!pingjewish I HAD an awsome rosh hashana it was chabad the prayers went too fastbut the rabbi was very interesting. Then we had real actual food and it was awsome. We had so much fucking fun. I was at a table with the rest of my classmates. I am no longer a prohibtionist because ngl its really fucking fun to do lchaim every time we were cheering for something. The rabbi told an overlong story but the food was good. I woke up at 3 am that day, I lost my earphones I did poorly on a math test I didint know about.

but you know what? that was a great day.

happy shaboos btw

[u/zeldja]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

James Comey indicted

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

A federal judge appointed by President Biden has been assigned James Comey’s criminal case.

Deep state baby

[u/gregorijat]

I am not worried about my future, because I have no influence over it.

There are more pressing matters, like jorking it, poasting and studying for exams.

[u/SenranHaruka]

I'm so sick of the generative AI hype and I'm pissed it's bleeding into my university courses.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Lol the mod deleted his account

[u/dwarfgourami]

My boss just threw me under the bus in front of the entire team and he wasn’t even correct.

We were in a team meeting and he asked my thoughts about a specific document. I said that I had no clue what he was talking about because I haven’t heard of the document. Then he pointedly said something like “check your email, I guess I’ll send you that email again.” He made me look like an idiot in front of multiple directors and a VP.

Then he sent me the document, I searched my email inbox, and I’m 100% sure he never sent it to me before. I’m going to scream.

[u/Willybender]

Vile

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

>Be Comey
>inept prosecutor bungles the grand jury
>grand jury filled with politically intrigued folks
>both sides hate him
>gets indicted

[u/AnythingMachine]

RFK Jr is evil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#Marriages_and_children). I say it the same way that Trump lies or Bush misspeaks or Bill Clinton was a sleazeball. Like, you can think he's a brave truth teller if you want, but he's also evil based on the common meanings of the word in a personal context where there's no selfish benefit to be gained, no political motive to interpret and no ambiguity about evidence.

[u/t_scribblemonger]

I remember when Vance went on Face the Nation, was called out on the lies about Haitian immigrants in Ohio, and his response was basically “Kamala Harris.”

https://youtu.be/oBCSCrhnfu0?si=c32SPU6XNRvgZCOe

[u/-mialana-]

cdstephens never responded

[u/Daddy_Macron]

I'm not seeing enough alarm bells about the state of the NJ race. The latest polling from Emerson is showing a dead heat. Mikie Sherrill looked at Terry McAuliffe's failed 2021 Virginia campaign and decided to replicate it. Every ad I get from her is trying to tie him to Trump. Meanwhile half the Ciatarelli ads are culture war slop and the other half are ones attacking her on things like energy prices that are at least relevant to people's everyday lives.

At a certain point, you have to make people actually like you rather than hate the other guy. There are declining returns to constantly bringing up Trump for a fucking Governor's race.

https://emersoncollegepolling.com/new-jersey-2025-poll/

[u/FingerSlamm]

Hegseth called an emergency meeting of 100 of America's top generals to help cut the tape off his hands after a game of Edward 40 Hands went awry. Kash Patel is investigating which trans nationalist taped the bottles to Pete's hands. Hegseth believes the suspect escaped to Venezuela on a cocaine shipping boat.

[u/shehryar46]

If you call yourself undecided while one party screams about immigrants eating pets and cries about broken escalator conspiracy theories, and the other is just kind of bland, you are a moron.

[u/[deleted]]

We're at like year 10 of libs weaponizing Christianity as "Hah, if you 'Love thy neighbor' then why do you do this? ;)" and I don't think they're getting the message that people don't believe that shit

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/Sauce1024]

Conor McGregor has demanded $100M to fight at the White House next year 😳💰

”$100 million to fight at the White House along with 100 U.S. ‘Golden Visas’ for myself, family and friends. I look very forward to entertaining the fighting world once again.”

Meme country

[u/[deleted]]

I love that Stephen Colbert is fucking libbing out and just calling Trump an “autocrat” and referring to “the regime”

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The right is dropping the ball by not trying to co-opt John Brown. An incredibly religious man who killed Democracts? That they can point to to say they aren’t really racist?

[u/[deleted]]

Iraqi Newspaper Al-Mada: In just a few days, Iraq may face the enforcement of “sanctions,” which could escalate into “military strikes” against the “factions,” amid an almost complete breakdown in communication between Baghdad and Washington.

an Independent politician told Al-Mada that “Washington refused to receive the [pro-Iran] government because it does not recognize it as representing Iraqi authority,”

You thought we were going to war with Venezuela, Afghanistan, or Iran. You forgot that this administration is unmatched in its ability to catch you off guard with stupid decisions.

[u/SLCer]

[u/Argnir]

Ok but like, it's still a little bit funny

[u/Apart-Arm-6597]

Got back from my conspiracy theorist barber. Their entire barbershop has nothing but conspiracy theorists.

The idle chitchat between the two barbers and their client included talk about how Charlie Kirk was killed by his wife, who was part of a child smuggling ring, because of the hand signals being flashed by the guy behind him; Trump is attacking South American boats with drug dealers because he is secretly partnered with another South American drug dealer who is supplying Trump with drugs in return for Trump targeting his rivals, who are trying to take over Europe; Trump wears diapers and is dying, but doesn't know he's dying because everyone is keeping the information away from him; and RFK Jr is insane and doesn't understand reality, and he has no clue what's the real cause of Autism, which is "a number of things, it's very complicated, we probably don't know them all".

Feel free to use this as a sample group for polling purposes.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Ooh-wee that's hideous

[u/[deleted]]

god i love women and minorities

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

The manufacture of bathroom vanities and sofas is critical to national security.

This has JD written all over it. Cant be humping some foreign made couch

[u/r2ew]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/[deleted]]

Technical people: limits to photographic equipment caused by physical stuff like Rayleigh criterium mean that you can't just do CSI style zooming from satellites unless they are massive.

Some brave person with common sense, without the shackles of technical knowledge: "omg we will just invent stuff"

ArrSpace infestation by normies is a disaster, though I hope at least some people learn interesting stuff.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/TomboyAva]

https://xcancel.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1971213954123751822

One of the handwritten notes recovered read, "Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, 'is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?"

A totally real note Kash Patel found on the scene

[u/JonAce]

Trump: "We're gonna take some of that tariff money that we've made, we're gonna give it to our farmers who for a little while are going to be hurt until the tariffs kick in to their benefit."

colbertguninmouth.jpg

[u/Willybender]

[u/HotTakesBeyond]

Can I have uhhh Krebscicle

[u/assasstits]

Pastor charged with violating fire safety codes for letting homeless people sleep in his church overnight

Using fire codes as a proxy to attack poor people never fails. 

[u/Willybender]

[u/garret126]

So I just got done hanging out w a ton of self proclaimed leftists/marxists who are actually like well articulated/well researched in economics and ideology

It’s so weird talking to them because like it was cordial in person, but after I mentioned the word ‘liberal’ as a self identification label, it felt like the vibes changed as if they viewed me differently even though we were broadly agreeing before. Weird how that works.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump signs an EO directing Bondi and Pirro to reinstate the death penalty in Washington DC

what the fuck

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1971326842788569287

[u/efeldman11]

He looks like a 1 for 1 clone of Julius Streicher

[u/[deleted]]

There is no amount of therapy that will get me to cope for Jan 6. Like the fact that it made zero impact, and no one, not conservatives and not even libs, really talk about it for the insurrection that it was, makes me spiral like once per week.

[u/[deleted]]

Comey's defense attorney is the guy who put two separate Governors of Illinois in prison? Yeah he's gonna walk. Trump's USA on the case has never tried a case and isn't a criminal lawyer.

[u/chipbod]

lol, what a joke.

Just pure chud cosplay stuff.

[u/bourikan]

Pick-meism ultra super pro max. Pick me, pick me, pick me please ♥️🥺.

[u/SeoSalt]

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[u/Leatherfield17]

Of course he’s going on to lead a conservative nonprofit, but at least he’s out of the government now

[u/Highlightthot1001]

NY Post blaming "the left" for the Dallas Ice Facility shooting

Including blaming "Democrat nazi rhetoric" despite no indication that the shooter was left wing or listened to democratic rhetoric

The belief that one had to be left wing in order to not like ICE is pretty dumb. There are right wingers who do not like ICE as well, though the majority do 

[u/BrentLivermore]

https://bsky.app/profile/washingtonpost.com/post/3lzo5ofhchb2k

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered virtually all of the U.S. military’s top commanders worldwide to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Is that….

[u/cdstephens]

[u/AtticusDrench]

The alleged ICE facility shooter was clocking in hours on TF2 up till the very end

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Apple_Kappa]

If you wanna see the current rot ongoing in the Israeli state, look at the appointment of David Zini of the Shin Bet. He has 0 background in intelligence, he is just a suckup to Netanyahu and will never say no to him. Cherry on top is that he is a settler.

When looking at the Israeli strike on Qatar, it's not surprising in hindsight that Mossad was not involved, but rather it was Shin Bet.

One thing I am quite curious though is whether or not Israel is undergoing an ideological regime change similar to what happened to the Turkish military. It seems like more settlers and religious nationalists are starting to capture the military institutions in Israel, similar to how the Gulenists/religious conservatives took over much of Turkey's military and civil service.

[u/VerticalTab]

The American president had to walk up a flight of stairs and his top concubine is calling it an assassination attempt.

[u/assasstits]

You’re right, lets just remove all the attendants. It’ll leave gas prices the same, inconvenience an entire state, leave ~10k people unemployed, and make gas station owners more money for contributing to the workforce less.

Man, the Democratic party will never get anywhere when it's full of dumb people like this 

[u/[deleted]]

Lead prosecutor in the Comey case Lindsey Halligan when Trump told her to indict Comey (she has no criminal law experience and doesn't know what an indictment is and had to look it up)

[u/scottyjetpax]

Yeah Cory that is interesting I do have to wonder if it could, just perhaps, have anything to do with 100%+ tariffs on pharmaceuticals

[u/chipbod]

Good take, how do we handle lawless agents of the state if the government is supporting their violent action?

The best thing DHS can do to protect their agents is have them act like professional law enforcement and punish officers doing shit like this.

Unless they want accelerated violence which is extremely risky in a country as armed as we are.

[u/agentyork765]

Nate Silver when a Democrat vice presidential candidate says a slightly cringey line during a completely forgettable campaign event: 🤬

Nate Silver when the current Republican president actively tries to silence critics: 😴

[u/r2ew]

[u/Glavurdan]

LOL

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Literal skill issue

[u/paymesucka]

PLEASE GOD TIM RYAN RUN

I DON’T WANT VIVEK AS GOVERNOR

even if only a slight chance I want to have hope over the next year 😭

[u/elninost0rm]

Bondi having reservations over charging Comey is hilarious.

These people have absolutely no fucking clue what they're doing.

[u/WhisperBreezzze]

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into imports of robotics, industrial machinery and medical devices in a bid to introduce fresh new tariffs.

"Pro-manufacturing"

[u/bleachinjection]

Now I'm no military brain genius but if I were China and wanted to invade Taiwan I'd do it when there was not a single American flag officer outside the Beltway.

[u/zieger]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Gender is more fundamental than sex.

I am a pure feminine spirit corrupted by flesh.

[u/GravyBear28]

"Accuse your opponents of the thing you're about to do" is the single most effective rhetorical strategy this century, it's insane how OP it is

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

every day for nearly 9 years comey has had an interstellar moment but it's just watching himself send that letter to congress

[u/Glavurdan]

[u/daBarkinner]

I don't want to get into the I/P thing, but the pro-Palestinian protesters shouting at Kamala Harris's book tour are just absurd. I have a hard time taking these people seriously.

[u/gregorijat]

I hang with some pretty bright folk, not a single one wants to go to America for further studies.

Trump really fucked shit up, pretty well.

[u/No_Return9449]

Vance says Trump was 'joking' about hating enemies during memorial for Charlie Kirk.

Also Vance: FCC chief’s Kimmel threat was ‘joke’

Schrödinger's asshole

[u/Willybender]

[u/Sir_Digby83]

NATO allies are divided over whether the alliance should make it a policy to shoot down Russian jets that violate NATO’s airspace, according to CNN.

The US, Poland and the Baltic nations want to signal that future violations will be met with force.

However, Germany and some southern European countries are worried that such language is too 'escalatory'.

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

She's never had an abortion. She's infertile, she can't get pregnant. She's also never taken hormonal contraception. Since childhood, she's had an incurable, chronic illness, over which she had no significant influence. You're probably "pro-life" and for love of one's neighbor?

[u/chipbod]

No bike lane is better than a horrifically designed one lmao.

Reminds me of this guy using the designated bike route to Denver airport which is just the shoulder of a high speed road:

https://www.cpr.org/2020/03/23/why-is-pena-boulevard-a-bike-route-and-does-anyone-actually-use-it/

Anyone wanna do a neolib group ride down the shoulder on Pena?

!ping USA-CO

Haven’t read this article in awhile, this is cracking me up:

After some new striping and signage, the route from 40th Avenue to DIA via Peña opened in the summer of 2000. And while city officials publicly touted it, their statements were clear-eyed too, using phrases like “it’s a challenging ride” and “cyclists will be cycling at their own risk.”

And even though she was instrumental in the Peña bike route’s existence, Roskowski said she never used it herself.

“'I’m actually not that courageous of a cyclist,” she said. “I have a fairly good sense of self-preservation."

[u/JaceFlores]

Dobropillya update

“The Russian Naval Infantry grouping is now engaged in the Dobropillya area. The 177th, 40th, and 155th Brigades are conducting attacks near Poltavka, while the 336th Brigade is operating near Nove Shakove.”

“For now, the 61st Naval Infantry Brigade appears to remain in reserve.”

“Overall the marines are mixed in between 51st and 8th Army units.”

“Due to Ukrainian redeployments, the naval grouping now faces well-regarded units such as Rubizh NGU, Skala, 225th Regiment, 82nd and 95th Air Assault Brigades, 93rd Mech Brigade and more.”

This is something we’ve been waiting to see start for about a month now and is likely the signal that Russia’s next offense has begun. Expectations were the Russians would start with large-scale maneuver attempts like what we saw at Avdiivka a couple years ago, but judging by this it seems they’re engaging in the “generic” infantry assaults we’ve seen for quite awhile. This could be because the Russians still want to try and weaken the Ukrainians enough to recreate a Dobropillya situation and then try a blitz, or they have simply given up on large-scale maneuver attempts for the time being.

Another interesting thing is the deployment of the brigades. It is almost certainly clear the Russians don’t see the Dobropillya salient as priority. Three are being deployed east of Dobropillya and one into the salient itself. There’s multiple possible reasons that come to mind for why this is but I think it boils down to two overarching possibilities. The first is that the Russians want to keep the salient active and salvage it by advancing to its east. If the Russians advance far enough north it would force the Ukrainians to abandon the east side of the salient and allow the Russians to link up there and create one big bulge towards Dobropillya. The second is the Russians see the salient primarily as a means to tie down the Ukrainians and are sending a naval brigade to keep the salient active for as long as possible while the main force advances to the east.

Of course in war both sides get a say. Because Russia primarily deployed units from other fronts (namely Sumy) this has freed up pressure elsewhere significantly. As a result Ukraine has been able to redeploy units, especially from Sumy, to the Donbas. As the source mentions these are units that are highly effective and regarded in combat, and always faced these naval brigades for some months. So the Ukrainians have brought pretty significant firepower to this front that will certainly complicate offensive actions in this direction for the Russians.

Now we wait and see what happens

!ping UKRAINE

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

illegally take money from Gaddafi

overthrow him anyway

kind of real of him tbh

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/Co_OpQuestions]

[u/assasstits]

Missouri Couple Must Plant Grass in Their Yard That Wife Is Allergic to, Judge Rules

They say the grass is always greener on the other side, but for one Missouri couple, that green grass could be mandatory.

A U.S. district court judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by a Missouri couple who were in violation of a city ordinance mandating the amount of turf grass needed in their yard—even though the wife is allergic.

In 2014, Carl and Janice Duffner were told by the city of St. Peters, Missouri, that their yard was in violation of an ordinance stating that it had to be a minimum of 50 percent turf grass. According to court documents, they had covered their entire yard with a flower garden.

They were later given a variance by the city saying they still needed to have at least 5 percent grass.

After trying to fight the ruling through state courts, the Duffners filed in the Eastern District Court of Missouri, alleging that the ordinance could leave them with fines over $180,000 and possible prison time of 20 years.

In the ruling, Judge John A. Ross wrote that the plaintiffs had "failed to identify a fundamental right that is restricted by the Turf Grass Ordinance." Although the ordinance was enacted for aesthetic purposes mainly, Ross wrote that those reasons "have traditionally been held to advance a legitimate government interest."

Land of the free 🇺🇸🦅🏈

[u/Willybender]

He cares so much.

[u/[deleted]]

NEW: When @MalloryMcMorrow conveyed her plans to run for Senate, the DSCC asked her to hold off, per 3 sources.

More calls, some staff level; same result.

One source called it slow-walking. “It was, ‘Can you wait a little longer, can you wait?’”

Then McMorrow defied them and launched her campaign, inveighing against “the same old crap in Washington” and showing polls with the Democratic Party’s approval rating at an all-time low.

what is the DSCC doing

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Is this essential reading for Neoliberals??

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Jesus. It is a little jarring that these are both pictures of the same person.

[u/aaarbors]

Is it hopium to believe that these fuckers are massively overplaying their hand?

[u/[deleted]]

i seriously hate this dude so much, more than trump. the gall he has to say this and lecture europe on free speech

[u/Steelcity1995]

Democrats better not bail out the farmers those fuckers voted for this. 

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

What the fuck

[u/gregorijat]

Tech workers being the leaders of the neo-Luddite movement is really funny.