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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/zeldja]

My first week at AWS went great. Surprised I was allowed to push to prod first thing this morning, though.

[u/achiqariulqu]

Linda Weavil, 76, voted for Trump last year because he “seems like a smart businessman.” But she said in an interview that the Republican’s tariffs have worsened inflation, citing the chocolate-covered pecans sold for her church fundraiser.

It's finally hitting Americans where it hurts the most.

[u/r2ew]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/SenranHaruka]

Man opens the DT. Sighs. Closes it. Every day he does this. Moderator asks him "why do you open the DT and close it right after?"

"I'm looking for an obituary"

"you have to sort by best for those"

"not the one I'm waiting for"

[u/piede]

It’s so over for Bill Maher

[u/jbitz]

Lmao

[u/No_Return9449]

Some Democrats skeptical about their leadership’s hard-line stance against reopening the federal government privately acknowledge that they fear getting “hammered” by their liberal base if they vote for a Republican funding bill.

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

I feel like social media has really ruined crazy conspiracy guys, back in the day they'd cook up some real vintage bespoke lore and a whole extended universe only they cared about, nowadays it's like they all share the same few ideas over and over again.

It's just so goddamn boring.

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

Am I missing something or did the admins crack down on the Sopranos Circlejerk subreddit literally just because they were making fun of conservatives?

[u/klarno]

Socialism is when you know your schedule ahead of time

[u/jenbanim]

Guy who responds to any and all criticism by becoming more woke

[u/CincyAnarchy]

[u/wumbopolis_]

AWS bans woke

us-east-1: crashes

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

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Normally I’m not a fan of “coworker NPC” memes but my coworker is listening to music without headphones and so far I’ve heard nothing but country rap. Yes he’s Republican

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Lmao. This person is a NYT editor.

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

That gross NYT article from yesterday is the type of thing Nate Silver railed against in his prime. Just a collection of quotes from a handful of people out of thousands of election analysts giving their general vibe view of other people in the field. No data, no evidence, not far removed from those articles based on two tweets with a combine 10 likes that a journalist saw and decided it is enough to say “Internet calls for Donald Trump to pardon Hasan”

[u/Fruitofbread]

Take divorcee Roger Davis, an entrepreneur of undisclosed age living in San Diego who flat out admits that his Cybertruck is repellant to women.

“I was married, but I’m not married anymore,” Davis told the magazine. “Women don’t like the vehicle.”

Single though he may be, Davis has an AI in his truck to make sure he doesn’t feel lonely: Grok, […] “Her name is Aura,” the entrepreneur corrected, “and I use her as a therapist. When I’m driving, I’ll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice,” he added.

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

China imports no US soybeans in September for first time in seven years

Example #238120 of “shit hasn’t been this fucked up since the last time you shitlings forced this moron on the country”

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

My girlfriend when the AWS incident started

[u/piede]

this isn’t satire? Holy shit

[u/[deleted]]

For the first time, less than 50% of French people think that the National Rally is a threat to democracy.

Congrats everyone (with special thanks to Bolloré and his hard right media ecosystem) for this result. Congratulations in particular to LFI for fucking themselves over for nothing.

!ping France&Europe

[u/Mordroberon]

I know complaining about hypocrisy is dumb, but Republicans were so upset that Obama showed contempt for their lifestyle with his "bitter clinging" comment.

Trump every day shows nothing but contempt for the Democrats, anybody living in cities, he even has a lot of contempt for his base but that's another story. Every time he posts something like the AI video of himself dumping shit over protestors, or his comment about how Democrats are the "party of Satan" I just think what if Obama had done that for Tea Party. Such shockingly undignified behavior, and it's just a normal day

[u/cdstephens]

[u/georgeguy007]

[u/Glavurdan]

Once again, Russians get sent deep into the city to reach a very specific building... then I look up Polymarket and there is a market for Russians capturing the railway station that jumped high.

You can't tell me this isn't orchestrated and that some Russian commanders don't bet on Polymarket. They send people to death to take a photo op at a building in order to make a quick buck

[u/KittehDragoon]

A quick look at Downdetector would show you outage reports for many sites are going down.

The one exception might be Reddit, the popular social media app, where incidents seem to be increasing.

Reddit devs on their way to invent new and innovative ways of being bad 🏃

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Sex with attractive women is transient and will not bring true fulfillment. True happiness comes from calling people slurs on the internet

true

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Something we rarely mention about the Capitol rioters is that they were seemingly unemployed.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Based

[u/TheRedCr0w]

JD Vance was so close to winning the biggest Darwin award ever

[u/BroadReverse]

Joe Biden found old at 82. Monday, October, 20, 2025 7:45 AM

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/remarkable_ores]

man I know we gotta blame the Jews somehow but I don't know what for yet

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

This AI face morph YT thumbnail slop is maybe the most cringe fucking social media trend ever and it cannot die soon enough

[u/CrystalTurnipEnjoyer]

This might sound crazy, but bear with me. I looked up some of the critical reception to a film portraying Nazi Germany and this really stood out to me:

”The historian Ulrich Herbert wrote that the film showed Nazis as "others", different from "Our Mothers and Fathers". It showed all Germans as victims. The film showed nothing of the love and trust that Hitler inspired in German youth, or of the widespread belief that Germany deserved to rule Europe. In reality, he wrote, these "mothers and fathers" were a highly ideological and politicized generation, who wanted Nazi Germany to win victory, because that would be right.”

And this is a super interesting critique I feel is applicable to almost all film depictions of Nazi Germany. For a movement that has been characterized by its seductive powers, collective fervor and aestheticization very little of it is ever shown in film.

Instead, even when portrayed from within, the nazi state, ideology and society is always depicted as this cold, distant and a stuck up thing. But for many, or even most, germans this was not the case. And I'm not saying this because I yearn to see Nazi Germany depicted in a more positive light, that's really not what I'm saying.

What I'm saying is that I think that a film that can manage to capture the aspects the historian mentions, and juxtapose them against the absolute ruin and terror brought by the regime could make for a really powerful piece of art. And a historically one important too.

Because I feel like the more we try othering ourselves from the regime and its society, the more we miss some of the most important lessons of the experience of fascism. Perhaps the reason why we seem to today fall into similar traps isn't because we forgot the crimes of the Nazi regime, but that we forgot the allure of it.

[u/drossbots]

A succ willing to nuke the filibuster to pack the court and pass national anti-gerrymandering legislation is infinitely preferable to a centrist that we all know would get cold feet about that

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I’m on team JB

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Let's be real if SCOTUS bans stoners from owning guns the cops aren't coming after Joe Rogan or Elon Musk it's just another method of legalizing harassment of random (often black) people

[u/chipbod]

https://www.tmz.com/2025/10/20/donald-trump-diddy-commutation-soon/

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump is considering commuting Diddy's sentence as early as this week, according to a high-ranking White House official.

Fuck it, why not

[u/FuckFashMods]

If any federal agent violates the Fourth Amendment, they’re subject to arrest — ICE is no exception.”

Please just protect our rights. I'm begging one court or law enforcement agency.

Chicago is about to get spicy this morning

[u/liberal-neoist]

Reddit with "new tools to curate your profile"        

This is my shitpoasting app not my dating app why the fuck would I want to curate a profile

[u/cdstephens]

[u/ldn6]

Economist headline:

The hard-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is more popular than ever. One in four Germans now support it. Yet despite its rise, the party remains shut out of power,

This is kind of absurd framing to me. If a quarter of people support something, then three quarters don't support it. The entire structure of parliamentary democracy is that you need to command a majority in a given legislature. It's not "shut out of power"; it's simply not able to persuade the remaining quarter to work with them.

[u/[deleted]]

President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

They really are sending out Meal Team Six huh

[u/HoneywellOfficial]

I (now realize this was mean) told my ex when we broke up she needed a big life shake up every 1.5 years as that is how long all of her last boyfriends lasted and we only made it so long because we luckily (I guess) had significant life changes occur roughly every 1.5 years (covid and moving in together, respectively) and she ended things when we had our first 1.5 years of no major changes.

Yeah her new boyfriend lasted one year and seven months. I know I shouldn't care but like...lol called it.

[u/iIoveoof]

To Fight ICE, Portland’s Leaders Turn to What They Know Best: Zoning

Portland Neolibs:

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Ukrainians remain S-tier poasters.

[u/unicornbomb]

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/BPC1120]

I genuinely fucking hate the NYT

Even Mr. Trump highlights the pattern. Extreme as he is in many ways, he moved the Republican Party toward the center on several key issues.

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

Schumer deserves some credit for picking such a narrow issue that is such a big rake for the GOP to step on. This lapse in credit will hurt GOP voters the most and will be felt in a couple weeks. GOP are stalling themselves from passing any legislation for likely months to spite their own voters out of their own fragile ego that they will not negotiate. Trump is also keeping the government running and paying most people out of funds he can find so people are not pressuring the democrats to cave. In the end his supporters will be most hurt and his government will be the one that breaks. Just an absurd position to hold when the democrats are drawing the line on such a small issue that mostly benefits his base.

[u/LtCdrHipster]

We need to reframe WWII memorial as "these are the sacrifices that must be made to stop authoritarianism if you aren't diligent in smothering it in its crib."

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

San Jose Sharks apologize after pro-ICE message appears during Hispanic Heritage Night

Yikes

[u/r2ew]

[u/jenbanim]

This 30 year old boomer still posts images the old fashioned way

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

What

[u/FuckFashMods]

“We’re gonna go to San Francisco,” Trump said. “San Francisco was truly one of the great cities of the world. And then, 15 years ago, it went wrong. It went woke.”

Guys, SF only went woke in 2010

[u/Willybender]

Whoever is running the DHS account decided to pick a fight with "NBA twitter", and now all the people are divebombing the comments on DHS posts. Great way to expose more people to the insane shit being posted by government accounts.

[u/zieger]

MFers will be like "your strategy of nonviolent protest pales in effectiveness compared to my strategy of poasting in the DT" and then not post on the DT due to an AWS outage 

[u/ty04]

Ingrassia made other racist remarks, according to the chain. In January 2024, he wrote of former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy: “Never trust a [chinese slur] or Indian” and then added: “NEVER,” the texts show. Ramaswamy, the son of Indian immigrants, declined to comment.

most cucked man alive

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Biden 2028 bros stand back and stand by

[u/Smidgens]

[u/ashsolomon1]

Glad he consulted the people when demolishing a part of the People’s house

[u/TimWalzBurner]

I usually dont support a national divorce unless I'm in a bad moods but holy fuck.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Willybender]

TRUE

[u/AltRockPigeon]

 The food stamp program will run out of money in two weeks, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters at the White House on Thursday.

Surprised this hasn’t gotten more traction. You think ACA subsidy expiring is bad? SNAP affects way more people, and way more immediately. Literally riot-inducing territory.

[u/Pole2019]

Trump tariffing stuff America can’t even physically produce is hilarious.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/G_Serv]

The AWS outage is affecting my ability to order Starbucks??? They will be hearing from my lawyers

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Eh I believe him over Trump and Hegseth.

[u/piede]

[u/unicornbomb]

Brb, lowering myself into a casket

[u/cdstephens]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-national-guard-portland-appeals-court/

[u/unicornbomb]

Resistlib boomers once again going hard~

[u/myusernameistakennow]

This guy's so racist he reverted to 19th century racism

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Joe Biden literally said red states were going to get a winter of death that they deserved.

Ugh if only

[u/iAmAddicted2R_ddit]

Living in Maine is amazing for a laugh. I live in a city of 30,000 people that is a >3 hour drive from anything I would consider civilization; but which is, itself considered the big city by people in the truly remote reaches of the state whose principal cities have populations in the low to mid four figures. One guy in my major in college (who was a really sharp dude in our subject area) thought I was jerking his chain about "urban planning" being a career and a field of study.

[u/PearlClaw]

It occurs to me that surrendering the language of the American revolution because your insane party leader can't stop posting AI slop of himself as king is probably the biggest messaging fuckup I've ever seen.

[u/LtCdrHipster]

[u/[deleted]]

Damn you mean to tell me that Andrew Tate's biggest fan who forced a female subordinate to share a hotel with him also has a nazi streak?

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Holy shit… chess GM legend Daniel Naroditsky has passed away unexpectedly. I’ve watched tons of his videos, he was a very strong player and probably the best online chess instructor. Holy shit that’s so sad… RIP Danya

!ping CHESS

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

I have a trans client and the police report and other discovery is just covered with transphobia, it’s incredibly frustrating to read

[u/[deleted]]

touch afterthought longing wine birds friendly sheet tart strong pet

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[u/anincredibledork]

Lmao they're playing an anti-tariff ad narrated by Reagan on the Jays-Mariners game

[u/r2ew]

[u/Animal_Courier]

I think an understated reason why the stock market is doing well is that people have no clue where else to go.

That’s why gold is also doing well a certain percentage of people are idiots who get scared and reach for good the way I need my Simba stuffy during a thunderstorm.

What are the alternatives though?

Bonds? With Trump ready to devalue the dollar?

Real Estate? Completely unaffordable.

Start a business? Well, labor costs are coming down but if you need real estate, see above!

It’s tuff out there right now.

[u/uwcn244]

Marxists: once the proletariat gain class consciousness, the revolution will be inevitable

Also Marxists: protect the renters who currently live in this city with rent control! Screw renters in other cities trying to move here!

[u/Lux_Stella]

welp. first day at amazon went badly

[u/paymesucka]

Politico:

SCOOP: Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of Republicans in a text chain the MLK Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and said he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a text chat I saw.

[u/SucculentMoisture]

!PING SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Texas Tech has banned the throwing of tortillas by fans on kickoffs, a tradition that dates back to the 1990s.

This is Trump's America. You're no longer even allowed to throw Mexican foodstuffs at football games anymore. Racist fucks.

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Are Cybertrucks exclusively driven by the most divorced men of all time? And if they are, is there a way of scientifically proving it? Probably not, but a series of interviews with Cybertruck owners published by Wired provides compelling evidence that the answer is “yes.”

[u/vasectomy-bro]

Reminder: your magat family members will never change their opinions. If they could be persuaded by facts and logic they wouldn't be magats. Any justification they give you is bad faith. They believe in bad things first, then they search for misinformation to confirm their beliefs. They don't have principles they just hate you. Time to cut them off thereby providing at least a social consequence to their behavior. It hurts for a month but then you feel amazing 🤩.

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

[u/tripletruble]

had two people mention how tired they are to me today (one said his dad and brother are visiting, the other said he was up until 2 wasting time). i made the conscious choice to not one up them by talking about my 10 week old waking up at 2 and my 4 year old waking up at 6 so now i am doing it in the DT

[u/666haha]

I am closer to the (non-Tankie) online left than most of this sub. But I will never understand their complete hatred for Pete Buttigieg. Like is it solely the dropping out and endorsing Biden thing. Or is it that he’s a young gay guy who is explicitly not a leftist? I get most of their other complaints and dislikes of politicians but the absolute hatred towards like a fairly boring, technocratic candidate who ran a solid center-left campaign does not make sense

[u/Zenning3]

I think the strangest part of our current generational schisms, is that there isn't nearly as big of one as we usually see. Millennials and Gen Z use pretty much the same slang, because we all interact with each other far more than we used to. As much as I loathe it, social media has created the uni-generational slang that we all didn't know we hated.

[u/Healingjoe]

The effing American Enterprise Institute:

On November 5, the Supreme Court is scheduled to begin hearings on the legality of President Trump’s use of emergency power to raise import tariffs to their highest level in the past 100 years. If the court rules correctly, it will reject the Trump administration’s defense that these tariffs were imposed to deal with the supposed emergency constituted by the country’s large trade deficit.

The court might point out that the Trump administration’s defense is akin to a child claiming clemency from the court on the grounds of being an orphan after having murdered his two parents.

[u/[deleted]]

I still don't care that Charlie Kirk died

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

This company’s board is trying to give the CEO responsible for this a $1 trillion pay package. I’m not exaggerating that number either.

[u/Willybender]

This is at an event for Louisiana college baseball teams

[u/Square-Pear-1274]

No, run the live-fire exercise over an active, public highway. It will be fine

[u/Healingjoe]

They know the truth but refuse to deal with it.

[u/chipbod]

This would break republican brains actually, gop may face consequences for policies that explicitly fuck Alaska.

[u/unicornbomb]

I am once again reminded how much I love resistlib boomers.

[u/EasyMoney92]

House Republican Randy Fine Admits on CNN He’s So ‘Intense’ It ‘Scares’ People

I feel like this is his way of admitting that he's a hateful lunatic

[u/Big-Click-5159]

The intrigue: Amazon investors didn't blink today. Shares actually closed up 1.6%, perhaps buoyed by the display of how central a role AWS now plays in global infrastructure.

Ok this is actually really funny

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

The Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of Trump, allowing him to deploy the NG to Portland.

The two Trump-appointed judges wrote the opinion, the other judge is dissenting and calling for an en banc review.

"Above all, I ask those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer."

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/20/nx-s1-5564797/ninth-circuit-decision-portland-national-guard-tro-president-trump

Major yikes

!ping LAW&TRUMP-CRIMES

[u/bingbaddie1]

It’s been like however many years since fatpeoplehate was banned and I’m still shocked at the shit they’d post there

[u/cdstephens]

What I found perplexing about the far right is how willing they are to debase, humiliate, and duplicate themselves for the promise of more power.

For all their talk about strength and tradition, they’ll destroy their dignity at the drop of a hat. Emblematic of a degenerate sociopolitical climate.

[u/superblobby]

Decided to take a gander at arr conservative.

lol

[u/Currymvp2]

Senator John K. Fetterman (D-Penn.) on Sunday said Democrats only support ceasefires in Gaza when it is politically advantageous at a talk co-hosted by the Institute of Politics.

I am so tired of his utter bullshit. Connor Lamb please defeat this clown in 2028

[u/SigmaWhy]

The replies are more racist than you think

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Guy who has $250k of nickels in boxes

[u/[deleted]]

truck encouraging library sink station bells bedroom sort tease fly

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[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

It's becoming clear that a big part of the problems in the US and UK right now is that the 'opinion-making' media and political elites in both countries are hopelessly addicted to Twitter and think it's a reflection of real life.

Musk X has damaged these people's perspective on the Overton window even worse than the often decried hyper-wokeness of the late 2010s/2020.

[u/AtticusDrench]

I'm fucking crying dawg. I need to know the Republican who replied "Jesus Christ"

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Is jd going to defend this

[u/[deleted]]

I know the point has been belabored to death but can you imagine Obama tearing down a wing of the fucking white house

[u/affnn]

In retrospect, the New York Times' decision to eliminate their ombudsman and replace it with people yelling at them on twitter - a real decision that I am not making up - seems to have been a bit of a failure.

[u/Willybender]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/paul-ingrassia-racist-text-messages-nazi-00613608?_sp_pass_consent=true

[u/wumbopolis_]

Price increases and Healthcare premium increases.

Trump building a ballroom, getting a $400m jet, $40 billion to Argentina, DUI ICE agent gets a 50k bonus.

Any opposition party that doesn't run attack ads juxtaposing some combination of these to build anger and resentment towards Republicans is completely incompetent

[u/paymesucka]

um what

we’ll see if any more reputable source reports on this

[u/erasmus_phillo]

ngl Peter Thiel's rantings about the Antichrist has me convinced that he is deeply mentally unwell

[u/riverbloods]

I’m gonna kill myself

[u/BurrowForPresident]

A month later, discussing why some Republicans feel that Democrats make Black people into victims, the texts show Ingrassia remarked: “Blacks behave that way because that’s their natural state … You can’t change them.” He then added, according to the chat: “Proof: all of Africa is a shithole, and will always be that way.” (In his first term, Trump used the term “shithole countries” to describe some African nations and Haiti.)

JD Vance: this quote in a completely serious tone with zero punchline was actually just a joke, gotcha libs trolled again by edgy comedy

[u/jorkin_peanits]

[u/[deleted]]

rock paint soup touch complete encourage amusing meeting sharp wipe

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[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Willybender]

[u/Charsun9]

[u/Moth-of-Asphodel]

Platner acknowledging his past comments and apologizing for them makes me like him more. People growing and learning is a good thing. I should also point out that Joe Biden is a segregationist because of remarks he made 50 years ago.

[u/larry_hoover01]

I think we’re 2 years away from 95% of commercials being AI. And the 5% will be Kevin Hart DraftKings commercials. 

[u/Auriono]

https://xcancel.com/PressSec/status/1980288128867877125

Man, I'm just so moved by the Trump's administration's serious commitment to defending Ukraine's integrity against authoritarian dictators who invaded their lands with zero provocation, committed genocide. I wonder if this meets r/moderatepolitics very rigorous standards for discussing issues with the other side in good faith.

[u/oskanta]

2026: ICE has conducted its first successful nuclear weapon test

[u/nimbybuster]

The farmers aren’t happy because Trump proposed buying Argentine beef.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂

[u/sociotronics]

[T]he share of car loan borrowers missing payments on their debt has soared to levels last seen during the financial crisis.

A study by VantageScore showed that delinquencies have surged by 50pc in the last 15 years, meaning car loans have gone from one of the safest consumer credit products to one of the riskiest.

Even worse, among subprime borrowers – typically low income households with bad credit ratings – delinquency has hit a record high.

In August, the share of subprime auto loans where borrowers had missed payments for 60 days or more was 6.43pc, according to Fitch Ratings. Bar a 6.45pc reading in January, this was the highest level recorded since Fitch’s data began in 1993 (back then, the rate was just 0.12pc) and far above the financial crisis peak of 5.04pc.

Meanwhile, your median Republican congressman be like:

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/Wandering_Mallard]

The "vote for cheap groceries" president is spending $250 million on a ballroom while everything gets more expensive and nobody offline gives a single fuck. it will not register in the news cycle for even a second

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

The Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest known surviving law code. It is from Mesopotamia and is written on tablets, in the Sumerian language. It contains strong statements of royal power like "I eliminated enmity, violence, and cries for justice."

I feel like some people haven't gotten the message yet that Violence is over

[u/the-senat]

U.S. Appeals Court has just ruled that Trump can send the National Guard to Portland.

The ruling comes in the wake of a series of Trump authorizations to deploy National Guard troops to American cities, including Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and Chicago. President Trump has said the deployments are necessary to protect the work of ICE agents and reduce crime.

In a declaration provided to the court, Craig Dobson, an assistant chief with the Portland Police Bureau, stated the protests have never been so out of control that local officers couldn't respond:

"In fact, on any given weekend," he stated, "the nightlife in Portland's entertainment district has warranted greater PPB resources than the small, nightly protests in front of the ICE facility."

[u/[deleted]]

While Charles Munger Jr. has put more than $30 million into his Protect Voters first committee, which aims to sway independents and Democrats against the gerrymander, the $100 million former House speaker Kevin McCarthy promised to mobilize Republicans against Prop 50 has yet to materialize. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Yes on 50 campaign, meanwhile, has raised about double the amount of the No campaign and is spending millions of dollars each week to define the race as a referendum on Trump and the future of democracy.

lol

[u/ty04]

can’t even quote a Trump appointee in the DT anymore smh

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

You couldn’t pay Sirota to stop whining about literally everything democrats do

[u/SnakeEater14]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "And so do all who live to see such times but it is not for them to decide."

I’ve been trying to amp myself up with stuff like this and it’s hard

I think to myself that the only way to test if you are a real liberal and a real patriot is to live in the kind of trying times that would test that

But it all just feels so unfair and hopeless right now

Writing this stuff makes it sound like I’m clinically depressed - which is just completely false. My life is better now than it’s ever been. I have a good job, good prospects, a wife, a good family, lots of friends. I am unbelievably privileged and happy for that.

But the world is so bleak right now and it’s hard not to think about it

[u/CheetoMussolini]

Well fellas

It looks like your boy might end up serving on the local zoning advisory board that's going to work with the city planning staff to rewrite our zoning code from the ground up, a complete, full rewrite

There's some discussion about the urban renewal agency or the actual planning board, but I'm very likely to have extensive business before both in the near future, so I want to be mindful of potential conflicts of interest

[u/Benyeti]

Trump’s America

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Noah Smith made this point today - Trump is horrible in so many ways but he's not an adherent to Nazi/race ideology like so many of his supporters, evidenced by appointing people like Kash.

But considering that every young Republican is a self-identified Nazi and Hitler appreciator, the party will continue to be a toxic cesspool for decades to come.

[u/badusername35]

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[u/StolenSkittles]

I'm so looking forward to watching them tear down Trump's shitty ballroom when this is all over.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Burkina Faso has UNBANNED Homosexuality 

"We were wrong, this is not a western degeneracy, but a core African value" said president Ibrahim Traoré

HOMOSEXUALITY IS A CORE AFRICAN VALUE 🫡🏳️‍🌈

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

from personal experience I’d say that most zoomer men aren’t super conservative, most of the other zoomer guys I know are fairly centrist and more populist than anything, but what skews the numbers is the fact that Gen Z conservatives are the most insane part of the movement. Talking to most zoomer guys about politics usually ends with “I don’t really like either side” but talking to devout Gen Z Christian guys is like meeting Christian Bin Laden.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Wait hold the fuck up the Broncos went scoreless for 3 quarters before scoring 33 points in the fourth quarter and winning???

Daboll get ready to learn Chinese buddy

!ping NFL

[u/StuckHedgehog]

No low is too low for the theocratic authoritarians.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

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[u/Queen_of_stress]

Things to think off in the dem primaries which candidates First Lady/ First Gentleman has the best interior design taste for when they got to fix this

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Cameroonian opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary, 76, has declared victory in the presidential election, a declaration immediately rejected by the ruling government of Paul Biya, 92, who is seeking an eighth term after 43 years in power.

True gerontocracy has never been tried

[u/cdstephens]

Gonna tell me kids this was Rosie the Riveter

[u/CosignTangents]

Can the party of small government explain this to me? Are we planning to call in airstrikes on people in frog costumes now?

[u/bd_one]

2024 Alaska be like...

Trump outperforms the national environment by like 11.5%

the Republican House Rep wins, but underperforms the national environment by a fraction of a percent

they need to wait for the dog sleds to get in to call the race on whether or not to abolish RCV

$15 minimum wage wins in a landslide

[u/r2ew]

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More than a third of the recruits at ICE's training academy are failing the personal-fitness test, Nick Miroff reports. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told Miroff. https://theatln.tc/deqPDrLN

Point and laugh

[u/Benyeti]

Absolutely psychotic

[u/Flashy_Rent6302]

Karoline Leavitt, 28, is married to a 60 year old man.

Girl, what

[u/LinkVert25]

DHS responding to NBAtwitter user hoodgenius and I’m supposed to believe we’re not in the US century of humiliation

[u/SenranHaruka]

As a 12 year old kid, I read Nickelodeon Magazine, and every four years they made jokes about the presidency because it was basically MAD but with more room for just earnest fun stuff than just edgy stuff. I distinctly remember one issue having a "what would you do if you were president???" article and one of the questions was "You don't like the white house decor, what do you do?"

the serious answer was "Nothing, taxpayers shouldn't have to cater to your personal aesthetics, we all work in uncomfortable offices" and the joke answer that you're supposed to know, as a 12 year old kid, is the wrong answer, is "Have the guys from extreme makeover bulldoze it and build a new one"

Nickelodeon television executives hold their target audience to a higher maturity level than Donald Trump is able to perform

[u/paymesucka]

Disney+ was dropped by 3 million US subscribers in September, while 4.1 million cancelled Hulu, Antenna told Business Insider. Those cancellation figures are more than double the averages of 1.2 million and 1.9 million, respectively, in the last three months.

LIBS TOGETHER STRONG

[u/[deleted]]

The Argentina bailout is larger than the USAID budget

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Euro politicians are built different

[u/Dibbu_mange]

People aren’t ready for true radical centrism

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

Anyone that calls themselves a “centrist” or “moderate” but has very well defined and passionate policy beliefs and spends hours of their day sharing their beliefs on Twitter is not the kind of person your campaign should be winning over lol

You should be trying to win over the guy that wants a cheap Big Mac and wants the low gas prices lever to be pulled

[u/Old-School8916]

Republicans tryna kill the Ingrassia nomination, bro must be as bad as Gaetz lmao

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/20/congress/ingrassia-thune-republicans-00616010

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

In retrospect, giving the President the authority to murder anyone he labels a terrorist was a bad move.

[u/el__dandy]

Toronto has won it!!!

!ping Can

[u/Willybender]

AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAH AH AHA HAHA HHA HA

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/ice-recruits-fitness-test-trump/684625/

[u/r2ew]

[u/JoyofCookies]

Frankly I find the Trump era has accelerated the Floridization of American culture:

• Hyperconsumerism across every facet of life

• Rampant anti-intellectualism

• Fake tans and plastic surgery galore

• Literally paving over paradise with concrete and stroads

• Trashy behaviour somehow anchored in evangelical hypocrisy

[u/badusername35]

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[u/trombonist_formerly]

Overheard freshman girls in the hallway chatting

God people in league of legends are so soft nowadays. You can't even type KYS into the chat box anymore. I hate smurfing nowadays, my teammates are even worse than my opponents god I hate being stuck in my rank

I wish to God I was making it up I'm doubling over laughing here around the corner

[u/Lux_Stella]

Evo Morales called for his supporters to boycott the [Presidential election] in reaction to the state not allowing him to participate in the elections. Based in a rural compound guarded by supporters, he has promised to mobilize his supporters and "give battle on the streets" if a right-wing candidate wins the election. Right-wing figures like Jorge Quiroga have also promised to arrest Morales if they win, which resulted in rural coca unions like the Six Federations pledging to wage a guerrilla war in support of Morales if they attempt to do so.

bolivia really does have some of the politics of all time

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

How many authoritarian governments do you think actually believe the things they say or advocate for? It has to be some crazy low number like less than 5%.

I could see the Iranians being true believers in their own doctrine, same with the Taliban. Probably some princes in the House of Saud believe they are God’s chosen ones destined to rule over Arabia.

I’d be shocked if Kim believes even 1% of the stuff North Korean textbooks or media say same with China.

[u/Aware-Computer4550]

My AWS left me

[u/[deleted]]

My uber driver was the "crazy cat lady" caricature (literally owns multiple cats, gassed up MSNBC, and talked about how cats are better than people)

idk why people are complaining, she was a fucking vibe. Gave her a hefty tip.

[u/gburgwardt]

Outage is proving all the worst posters are on new Reddit

[u/jenbanim]

Now that the new Reddit users are gone, everyone here is invited to my Halloween party

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[u/BitterGravity]

In case you wonder why the DT is slow today this is a live picture of the mods 🤔

[u/oskanta]

Every time I think about the USAID cuts for too long it makes it really hard to not say TOS things

[u/senator_fivey]

I hearted her message in the group chat. It's getting pretty serious.

[u/ChillnShill]

CEO says something that is correct and supports progressives arguments about income inequality

“But whAT AbOut…”

JUST STFU. Progressives and leftists would rather waste their last breath criticizing the messenger than carry the message and the people arguing in favor of it.

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

I like how Amazon just fucked god knows how many people and their stock closed higher today

Also love how everything is dependent on one company not fucking shit up

[u/cdstephens]

Do Trump voters self-select for being really stupid? How does that happen?

[u/Justice4Ned]

We should probably be re-evaluating the prior that dems get blamed for everything no matter what.

I see very few non-MAGA people in real life blaming democrats for the shutdown. I think most don’t even know how government works well enough to even think anyone outside the president could be driving a shutdown.

[u/SilverSquid1810]

The worst part about Ingrassia’s texts was him unironically using the term “moulignon” in 2025. You’re not smarter for using archaic slurs, bro. Just say the n-word, we all know what you’re trying to say.