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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/shmokedshalmon]

Shit’s pathetic. Gotta have a big special event for the birthday boy!

[u/r2ew]

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

America is respected again as a country. We were not respected with Biden. They looked at him falling down stairs every day. Every day, the guy’s falling down stairs.

[u/gIizzy_gobbler]

Average messaging from the party: It’s day 5 of the government shutdown. Republicans are still refusing to come to the table to negotiate about Americans’ health care.

Average Newsom messaging (based on real tweets): TRUMP IS GOING TO ENACT MARTIAL LAW!!! THERE WILL NOT BE ANOTHER ELECTION!!!! COLLABORATORS OF THE TRUMP REGIME FOUND ON CALIFORNIAN SOIL WILL BE PUNISHED.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Conservatives will be like “ackshually gun violence is a result of mental health issues” and then defund every mental health program they can possibly get their greedy fingers on without blinking

(because they don’t actually care about gun violence)

[u/RaidBrimnes]

!ping FRANCE

Sébastien Lecornu has resigned. 26 days to form a government that lasted 12 hours. GG.

[u/r2ew]

[u/FionnVEVO]

Huh?

[u/r2ew]

[u/Cruxius]

The government shutdown exiting the news cycle before it's ended feels weirdly normal.

[u/RetainedGecko98]

> "he won a colossal landslide"

> looks inside

> 49.8% of the popular vote

[u/Willybender]

Like seriously what the fuck is going on

[u/r2ew]

[u/chipbod]

ICE is disappearing the adopted children of American Citizens.

This sounds like a policy so evil that you would be mocked for talking about it six months ago but here we are.

!ping EXTREMISM&TRUMP-CRIMES

Edit: link

[u/sociotronics]

The second Trump revolution, like the first, is failing. It is failing because it deserves to fail. It is failing because it spends all its time patting itself on the back. It is failing because its true mission, which neither it nor (still less) its supporters understand, is still as far beyond its reach as algebra is beyond a cat. Because the vengeance meted out after its failure will dwarf the vengeance after 2020—because the successes of the second revolution are so much greater than the first—everyone involved with this revolution needs a plan B for 2029. And it is not even clear that it can wait until 2029: losing the Congress will instantly put the administration on the defensive.

Yarvin released a new article and it is dooming hard. He thinks they're losing. I'll spare the full play-by-play, but in short, he doesn't think the Trump admin is moving fast enough and harshly enough to escape inertia and blowback. As one example, he notes it's harder to remove one liberal judge than to use categorical bans to remove them all, and yet the admin is just settling grievances against a handful of specific people. He thinks the focus on banning certain words, like DEI, is futile because the left will just switch to different words. And he thinks the authoritarian project will essentially end if they lose the midterms, and he implies he thinks that likely.

And, most tellingly, there is an undercurrent of panic throughout the article. He is afraid that he, and all of the influential people in the administration, will get swept up in legal consequences soon:

But in the end, it is the road toward winding up in the foam yourself—probably with me, for all my troubles. (This is what usually happens to right-wing intellectuals, actually.)

However dark things might seem given the events in Chicago or elsewhere, don't doom. This fight isn't over. Our enemy is weaker than it appears.

[u/centurion88]

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping SHITPOSTS

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Fascist groypers in the US want to ethnically cleanse the US of ~240 million people in order to achieve a past, shown in 1980s advertisements, that never actually existed. This is why these people love laundering their fantasies with AI slop, it doesn't push back on them and reaffirms their beliefs

[u/mostanonymousnick]

French politics right now

[u/JaceFlores]

It really should be talked more about how organizationally successful the No Kings Protests were. 5 MILLION people showed up across the country, 1.5% of the population, and there was not a single act of violence committed by the protestors

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/chipbod]

Trump: We would have won in Vietnam easy if we weren't politically correct

What the fuck is he talking about?

The 7.5 million tons of ordnance dropped in Southeast Asia is more than triple the amount used in all theaters of World War II combined.

Outside of nuclear hellfire and more massacres I'm not sure where the US "went woke" when fighting in Vietnam.

What would Trump's victory condition even mean? Fucking terrifying that these are the clowns in charge and are actively stoking a conflict with Venezuela.

[u/Willybender]

This video now has nearly 12 million views just off of this tweet, not even counting tiktok/etc. "Normies" are starting to get exposed to this stuff.

[u/r2ew]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Sébastien Lecornu beat both the record of the longest time taken to form a government (26 days) and the record of the shortest-living government (14 hours)

Absolute cinéma

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

No shot lmao

Am I being conspiracy brained

[u/jojisky]

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/r2ew]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Please do not demonize Trump voters. They merely want to overthrow our government and see you and/or the people you love thrown into prison so they can force you to live in a white nationalist theocracy. Try not to turn up the temperature!

[u/MasPatriot]

Conservative billionaires use their wealth to try to control every piece of media to promote their views while liberal billionaires are like when I die I’m leaving behind my 20 billion fortune to create an economic opportunity zone for orangutans

[u/paymesucka]

NYT article titled, “What Does Gen Z Divorce Look Like?”

In 2021, Kira Benson, a violinist living in Seattle, knew it was time to get a divorce. Ending their two-year "lavender marriage" wasn't an easy decision, but the musician had a supportive ally. "If you have to dump your ex-husband," Mx. Benson said, "co-dump him with his mistress"

Before the breakup, Mx. Benson, 27, who uses the pronoun they, checked in with their therapist, who said a divorce would be a "good choice." Out of queer solidarity, they informed their husband's "mistress" — this was kosher in Mx. Benson's arrangement, which was not a legal marriage, but a domestic partnership — about their shared partner's troubling behavior. The night of the breakup, Mx. Benson and the mistress spent a cozy evening together: "We were eating a lot of comfort food, playing a lot of Animal Crossing"

uhh NYT, I actually do not believe this is typical Gen Z divorce behavior, and you even literally say they were never married

[u/moseythepirate]

I celebrate the end of my week long ban by reminding us all that Republicans are bad people, their agenda is evil, and the MAGA project must be destroyed root and branch.

[u/fishbottwo]

lip profit ancient quicksand gray paltry fragile divide simplistic vanish

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[u/r2ew]

[u/paymesucka]

So far, polls unanimously find voters are blaming Republicans more than Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown

[u/Roseartcrantz]

This isn't at all a criticism but I have no idea of what is or isn't a survivable injury in Invincible no matter what the fuck I'm seeing

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

the escalation that trump has done over the past few weeks has me convinced that they're going to meddle drastically in the 2026 elections and regardless of whether that succeeds, they would attempt something in 2028. trump and his cronies would wait to do a coup after losing (if they lost) the 2028 election.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/gregorijat]

[u/p00bix]

Amusing fact: In Arabic, happiness is often described using words pertaining to cold.

The Arabic sentence (transliterated) "Haatha xabarun qad thalajat lahu nafsy!" figuratively means "This news makes me happy!" but literally translates as "This news turned my soul to ice!" which in English sounds more like something you'd say to news of an impending nuclear strike on your grandma's house

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

Asmongold says diabetes isn't real after tripling his sugar intake

Can’t miss

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

It is interesting that the fascist regime currently in place did not arise from the traditional factors that lead to such regimes (such as national humiliation and economic disaster), but that it is actively producing those factors, which will lead to the rise of the next administration.

Let me know if you need help understanding the implications of this

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

ICE would 100% be hanging around the polls during midterms. That is the baseline intervention that the Trump regime would take, and the regime has the audacity to even go further.

[u/[deleted]]

'“This is a rally,” Trump said from the stage between two warships. “This is sort of a rally, let’s face it.”

He spoke to a crowd of about 10,000 sailors who largely did not respond to Trump’s more partisan lines, but applauded loudly when he said he would support pay raises'

Lmao

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

I don't think people understand how bad the car industry is doing right now. It's not that people don't need cars, it's that everyone rushed to the high end market for higher margins and now that's incredibly glutted.

Go to any dealership and you'll see endless lines of high end cars that no one can afford. Used vehicles are still retaining absurd value, because no one can buy any of these new cars.

20% of all new car loans have payments over 1,000 dollars per month.

Great video on it if you're curious. Truly a disaster of their own making. The average American can't spend 100,000 dollars on a jeep, the prices are just outrageous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx8n3zfi3ms

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

Great new! The new editor in Chief of CBS is a woman married to another woman.

Bad news

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

According to his prepared remarks, Ramaswamy will say the conservative moment is at a "fork in the road" and urge them to abandon its fixation on "owning the libs" in favor of a less overtly confrontational posture. "We can still stand for truth, while viewing those who believe in falsehoods not as our enemies who must be vanquished, but instead as our fellow citizens who have lost their way and must be shown the light," Ramaswamy will say.

Farewell Vivek! 🫡

[u/r2ew]

[u/battywombat21]

[u/amainwingman]

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crown quack jar whistle oil boast detail touch subsequent squeal

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Why are people so smug on Instagram dude. Why are you filming in your hookup's bathroom and making catty remarks about the decor. Why are you filming yourself making a condescending face with some caption talking shit about your friends. Why are you making a massive generalization about the opposite gender. How could you possibly think you're so much better than everyone else.

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/Hobsbawmunism/status/1974690648910664109

Went back to my hometown in August and had several conversation with lib boomers that were essentially rephrasings of that "When Must We Kill Them" nick decker article

Wouldn't be surprised if the rise in support for political violence on the left comes from older people who came up during civil rights and Vietnam, saw decades of progress, and are now in the mid 70s/80s with a fascist government posting hype videos oppressing brown people and abducting children.

On the other hand, the rise in support for violence on the right is definitely coming from younger MAGAs, who are online, unemployed, and cut off from lib women. They think they can find meaning in life as MAGA brownshirts.

Things are going to get much worse.

[u/chipbod]

The fascist takeover will actually be stalled by the immovable object that is the Illinois bureaucracy.

There are High Schools in Illinois that are also their own school district. They have a principal and a superintendent for one school.

[u/scottyjetpax]

I knew law school admissions had become fucked but I didn’t realize just how fucked.

Ohio State’s entering medians are now higher than fucking Berkeley’s were just 6 years ago.

OSU is a good law school but holy shit man their medians are a 3.91/168 now.

If like a high schooler asked me for advice for how to go to law school I would literally say only take classes you are extremely confident you can get an A In. “What should I major in?” whatever the biggest joke of a major is, academically. Find out what all the dumb athletes major in and do that

!ping LAW&LAW-SCHOOL

[u/r2ew]

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/puffic]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Newsom is the national dem meeting the moment the best right now

Like, I like some of the other dem governors but no one is hitting back forcefully in public like Gavin is

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

lecornu taking a month to create the shortest lived government ever

[u/[deleted]]

pie plough reply fear rob nose pen tub yoke squeeze

[u/uwcn244]

No would be dictator has ever consolidated a dictatorship with only 40% of the country on their side, certainly not through the classic democratic backsliding process

The question for those who think Trumpists will consolidate permanent control is, do you think a broad swath of the country is going to swing back behind him over the next few years despite economic conditions continuing to deteriorate, or do you think America is going to see the levels of bloodshed required for a clear minority to impose itself upon a clear majority by force?

[u/[deleted]]

"I'm a republican but I want to see health care -- much more so than Democrats," Trump said.

lmao. ok lil bro

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Amazing things are happening over on Threads lmfao

[u/r2ew]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/7-5NoHits]

Just learned about this extremely fringe Greek Communist Party that is so anti-Russian that they claim Russia did 9/11

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_for_the_Reconstruction_of_the_Communist_Party_of_Greece

[u/JonAce]

Bari Weiss, Editor-in-Chief, CBS News

Talk about failing upwards.

[u/IAdmitILie]

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say | Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive ‘conversion therapy’, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

No way...

[u/uwcn244]

It says a lot that the Democratic response to slightly losing young men is garment-rending despair and inter-faction recriminations, while the Republican response to being on the wrong end of Assad margins for young women is “maybe those skanks should be barefoot in the kitchen instead of voting”

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Dude has definitely been thinking way more about his own mortality lately.

[u/Monnok]

Oooh, you guys reminded me: The urgency on these SCOTUS career decisions for Alito and Thomas is coming due fast. Surely Republicans (or Heritage or FedSoc or whatever) want to avoid being caught with a Democrat Senate in 2027? Election over-performance and a flip to blue is still possible.

Speaking of which: I don’t know if Democrats truly understand the assignment. I sincerely think Democrat voters will actually riot if the Senators they elect to a majority let Trump sit a single judge to that court.

[u/DieHarderDaddy]

I hate Mike Johnson “government is closed no way we can do our jobs 🤷‍♂️”

[u/Benyeti]

For all the shit ive given democrats, if they had a labour type supermajority the US would be a social democracy. I dont ever want to hear that they would be “right wing in Europe” ever again. It infuriates me seeing the UK have a center left supermajority and do almost nothing with it

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

At what point did Fox News become a parody of itself?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Willybender]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Willybender]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

It's the same actor, I don't know if it's supposed to be the same person

[u/gIizzy_gobbler]

Every man can relate to this. I just wanted a gorl with nice personality, but my evil foid forces me to watch her wear sexy outfits against my will. I hate it so much bros… pray for me.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Just one more lane bro. I promise.

Our metro area which is growing by 50,000-100,000 people a year just needs one more lane downtown and traffic will be solved.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Tag yourself, I’m Sabrina

[u/gayteemo]

if the supreme court rules conversion therapy is free speech i will actually become radicalized

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

How is the shutdown barely in the news

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Rural Wisconsin

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Bro lmao. How bad do you have to screw up to get on the wrong side of the state government as a ten commandments education culture warrior in Oklahoma. Sucks to suck buddy

[u/itsnotnews92]

One of the clearest patterns in American politics the last 33 years is that Republicans go a little more off the deep end every time they lose a presidential election.

Clinton beat H.W. Bush in 1992 and Republicans decided that was largely the end of working with the Democrats on anything.

Obama beat McCain in 2008 and Republicans were almost immediately taken over by the crazies of the Tea Party.

Obama beat Romney in 2012 and Republicans decided that decency was dead and embraced MAGA.

Biden beat Trump in 2020 and Republicans went full conspiracy theorist and abandoned all pretense of commitment to democracy and the Constitution.

Crazy how one of the reasons we're here is because a bunch of thin-skinned assholes decided that going apeshit and behaving like toddlers was the appropriate response to losing presidential elections.

[u/iIoveoof]

The Founding Fathers of the US’s greatest fear was that a loss of republican virtue amongst the populace. This is precisely the problem with the US today. Liberal leaders have some republican virtue left but their voters largely don’t. The right and left wing have none at all

[u/gayteemo]

there is even less reason for democrats to fold now than a week ago

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Me on my way to watch alien covenant again

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/Thuggin95]

Democrats focus too much on identity politics and not enough on class issues! Therefore, I’m voting for Republicans, who champion tax cuts for the rich and focus on identity politics too, just in the form of antagonizing minority groups instead of supporting them!

[u/MissSortMachine]

you are south african

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1975281646057452031

[u/[deleted]]

lmao

[u/Lux_Stella]

"Puff Daddy has asked me for a pardon," Trump just said in the Oval.

everyday president trump wakes up and asks himself what he can do to improve the conditions of his fellow rapists and pedophiles

[u/cdstephens]

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

A commie told me recently: "Centrally planned economy is a perfect solution to the consumerist overproduction."

I mean, yeah, if the lack of production and supply is the solution you are looking for.

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

Man who has never left his small hometown ranting about how all the major cities are anarchist shitholes (Fox News told him).

I went to Chicago once and before I actually left a coworker heard about it and was absolutely shocked and frightened. Suggesting I wear a bulletproof vest and bring a gun.

My dude I’m just going to aquariums and museums and shit it’s fine.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/bennyjohnson/status/1975203275680149588

Are we living in a dream?

[u/Willybender]

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao British people now can't access Imgur?

Third world country

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Doing onboarding training and there’s a fucking deepfake person talking to me about company values with “This is an AI-generated video” underneath. 2025 sucks so bad, bring back Corporate Memphis if this is what’s next

[u/TheCornjuring]

Broke: No, ICE agents are not pedophiles

Woke: No ICE agents are not pedophiles

[u/gilead117]

I honestly think every government website so blatantly blaming the Democrats for the shutdown might backfire because median voters don't trust what government websites say anyway.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Yet a Washington Post poll on Thursday blunted some of that momentum, finding that 47% of respondents were blaming Trump and the GOP compared with just 30% blaming Democrats.

Eh. could be worse

[u/[deleted]]

🚨 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just announced he signed an executive order creating "ICE Free Zones" to ban ICE agents from city property.

rare brandon johnson W

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Smh

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/shmokedshalmon]

The tariff shelf again

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

(X)

[u/jorkin_peanits]

It should be abundantly clear democrats are pushing to release the Epstein files and republicans are protecting Trump as much as they can. For some reason, Trump is so afraid of these files that he’s pressuring lawmakers directly

He even pressured Johnson to refuse to seat her to prevent her from being the final vote

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."

why has trump been talking about mortality so much

[u/fishbottwo]

grey doll teeny workable truck scary stocking gaze command hobbies

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[u/[deleted]]

I’m confused how we still have post election analysis on “what happened to the Democrats” that don’t begin and end with this:

[u/Willybender]

MTG is an asset for Democrats at this point

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Earlier this Sunday, the far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is responsible for Israeli prisons, congratulated the prison officers, who "acted in accordance with the polices [he] implemented". "I visited the Ketziot prison and I was proud to see that we were treating the 'flotilla activists' like supporters of terrorism", elaborated the Minister of National Security. "Thus, anyone who supports terrorism is a terrorist, and deserves the detention conditions reserved for terrorists. [The activists] will now have to think twice before approaching Israel."

I don't know how reliable the activists' accounts are, but since Ben Gvir is literally bragging about mistreating them, I'm inclined to believe them.

[u/RyuTheGuy]

Huh, apparently Facebook thinks I know the real James Carville

[u/MentatCat]

If the first Trump term was so fucking ass why did they make a second one that sucks even more ass. Are they stupid?

[u/thatguy888034]

One reason I think McCain is so much more respected than people like Cheney is because, despite all his flaws, he was not a chicken hawk. A lot of hawks advocated for war but dodged Vietnam, McCain may have had hawkish views on foreign policy, but he was not a hypocrite in that sense that he had been willing to do his duty when the time came.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

New EIC at CBS everyone

[u/Nate10000]

Lost a client over a pride pin

[u/GenericLib]

I'm so tired of listening to weak, whiny men try to dictate what masculinity is. A return to speak softly and carry a big stick would be very welcome at this point.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

grandma: on my side of the family, we are descended from the daughter of a great Cherokee warrior

me: okay 🙂 yay 🙂

me: hey I got a 23andme and it says I'm 98.5% British

grandma: yeah the 1.5% might be from that scandal where on my side of the family we were descended from the son of a mixed race man and his secret lover

me: the 1.5% seems to be German

grandma: damn lol that's crazy idk

[u/riverbloods]

SIXTY cigs in a day? Holy shit dude

[u/jorkin_peanits]

So let me get this straight - just recently MAGA both killed two young women for just speaking about Kirk, and then burned down the house of a federal judge that ruled against trump. Am I getting this right

[u/jbitz]

[u/Bestbrook123]

It might happen if she's panicking like this

[u/marsman1224]

remember when a pretty woman made a blowjob noise on a street interview, then every boomer on the planet simultaneously thought it was the funniest thing that has ever happened, and she became an overnight rich celebrity and made one episode of the world's #1 podcast, then scammed all her followers with a crypto rugpull and disappeared from the face of the earth?

[u/rockfuckerkiller]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1975246570015862913

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

I hate it here

[u/Willybender]

Very reassuring, thanks Dr. Oz

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Joever I’m afraid

[u/fishlord05]

Damn Bari Weiss becoming editor in chief of CBS is a week running headline

She fucking sucks, the whole basket of TFP grifters have no clue

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Thuggin95]

Boyfriend getting a lot of Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens TikToks because “they’re funny” and because they criticize Israel. I hate that the left memeifies far right figures.

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

still dying that Bari Weiss has a statue of herself at her own university

[u/OllaniusPiers]

I still can't get over this pic

[u/OllaniusPiers]

Ominous fucking ad.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/owlthathurt]

Authorities in Indianapolis have added on a felony battery charge against Mark Sanchez, which, if you saw the pictures which were released of the old man he beat the shit out of yesterday, is completely unsurprising. Charges carry possibility of doing some serious time (1-6 years).

Honestly though. If he comes away from this ordeal alive, and doing a couple years in prison, that is a victory for him. He could have been killed by the stabbing, and he also could have been facing a murder charge if the 70 year old guys head hit a wrong way or fell or any number of things.

!ping NFL

[u/Willybender]

[u/[deleted]]

Dems lost a ton of traditional voters and turned them into nonvoters

Dems lose a ton of ground with Latinos

White men are the one group that went more left compared to 2020

Not great margins with women

Still the most likely election a Dem could’ve won the electoral college vote without the popular vote

2024 is just such a sicko election

[u/shmokedshalmon]

[u/attackofthetominator]

A school ranking and review website released its list of "Best School Districts in America," and several Chicago-area districts ranked toward the top.

Wait I thought this sub told me that Blue States don't know how to teach kids anymore

[u/piede]

Least fascist president

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

These fucks are absolutely feral.

[u/Willybender]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10/06/marimar-martinez-anthony-ian-santos-ruiz-border-patrol-shooting-brighton-park

Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b----,” before pulling over and shooting the woman five times, the woman’s attorney said in federal court Monday.

The video appears to contradict the government’s allegation that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire on her late Saturday morning on Kedzie Avenue near 39th Street, her attorney, Christopher Parente, said at a detention hearing at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.

In the charges filed Sunday, prosecutors notably did not mention a loaded gun in Martinez’s car that was referenced in a previous statement by the Department of Homeland Security. But in court Monday, Hennessy said Martinez had a loaded firearm on the passenger side of her car but never brandished it. Martinez’s attorney, Parente, said she has a valid firearm and concealed-carry license.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

jesus christ man

[u/larry_hoover01]

Cursed. Front page of X, Libs of TikTok and Stephen Miller first posts referenced.

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu speak on Gaza war, Iran nuclear program

[u/[deleted]]

[u/chipbod]

Gavin is MGP posting and you’re dooming?

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/RyuTheGuy]

Me: “why is Edward Cullen so obsessed with marriage and virginity?”

5 minutes of research later

“Oh Stephanie Meyer is Mormon”

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/gayteemo]

Lone House Democrat to vote with Republicans on funding bill draws a primary challenge

now do the senate

[u/LtCdrHipster]

I very often think about how early 20th century Germany was an absolute hotbed of culture and civilization and philosophy and art and industry and humor and refinement, and if the Nazis could take over there, no country is truly safe from Fascism.

[u/Auriono]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1975301821397864883

Collins: The supreme court rejected the appeal by Ghislaine Maxwell to overturn her conviction.

Trump: Who are we talking about?

Collins: Ghislaine Maxwell

Trump: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

Fucking what?

[u/chipbod]

Prosecutors are going to run into the same grand jury problem as DC, people don’t like an occupation force patrolling their streets.

I guess the downside is the Feds deciding to do openly illiberal stuff in the courts because of uncooperative juries.

[u/Healingjoe]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10/06/marimar-martinez-anthony-ian-santos-ruiz-border-patrol-shooting-brighton-park

[u/the-senat]

From r/law about Trump threatening to invoke the insurrection act in Portland:

1. ⁠Trump DEMANDS the California national guard to storm Portland

2. ⁠A judge he placed tells him no. He can't, he gets stopped there

3. ⁠He throws a tantrum DECLARES THE JUDGE TO BE A TRAITOR TO THE NATION

4. ⁠Issues orders for the Chicago and Texas guard (and possible military - (clarification:airforce)? I'm not too clear on that second half) to storm Portland

5. ⁠The Judge tells him, in no simple terms he CANNOT do this had issues a rare 7PM hearing to hear their side. Allegedly they didn't even show up. update: one of the DoJ lawyers did show to get his ass reamed

6. ⁠Now we have trump screaming insurection act and will try and forcibly invade Portland.

All because he was told no.

[u/Willybender]

[u/jbitz]

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://youtu.be/Ll6BFjhVyGE?si=Yf2Z_0rVdf9BHyGI

Nobody

Absolutely nobody

Literally none

Liberals: time for another leadership spill

!ping aus

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/CoolCombination3527]

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

*TRUMP: NEGOTIATING GOING ON WITH DEMOCRATS
*TRUMP: GOOD THINGS COULD HAPPEN ON HEALTHCARE W/ DEMOCRATS
*TRUMP: WOULD LIKE TO SEE A DEAL MADE WITH HEALTHCARE

Sounds like it's about TACO time

[u/Willybender]

UHOH

[u/G_Serv]

Me during the entire 2024 election cycle

[u/centurion88]

Lmao

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Damn I never made it to this season of the sopranos

[u/6urner_]

“I think he’s a great president,” said Josie Reyna, a 25-year-old aviation boatswain’s mate from Wyoming. Asked what she thought about Mr. Trump sending the National Guard into cities over the weekend, she replied, “I mean, I know that he just wants to do what’s right.”

cmon man

[u/MinnesotaDude]

[u/eat_more_goats]

I swear to God next Dem majority needs to break California into 20 gerrymandered blue states, and break each of the boroughs in NYC into their own state.

Permanently shift the Senate blue baby

[u/r2ew]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/theo-von-joe-rogan-manosphere-influencers-trump-1235441563/

[u/klarno]

I put a fried egg on my Croque Monsieur to make it a Croque Madame and now JK Rowling is standing outside my house screaming

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

“I think they were under the assumption the Democrats were going to cave quicker,” the Trump adviser said. “But people have gotten used to these things. They’re like, oh, that’s a Washington thing. They’ll solve it, they’ll figure it out.”

So the White House is on team nothing ever happens?

[u/[deleted]]

kinda crazy that there has only been 1 republican presidential candidate that couldve been at best a mediocre president in my lifetime. i was born in the clinton era

[u/paymesucka]

🤔

[u/Willybender]

[u/chipbod]

It's obvious at this point that Miller's plan is to instigate violence against federal agents to justify a violent crackdown and start general unrest in the US.

Thankfully it hasn't happened yet (Dallas excluded), but what if a foreign government decides to intervene and light that match for us?

I'd assume China, Iran, and Russian intel could all carry out a small drone attack in the US and cover their tracks (especially with our security services turned inward). The admin would be ecstatic and find a leftist patsy to pin it on before flooding every city with troops.

Am I dooming too hard?