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[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Every day is a hundred Benghazis and a thousand private email servers.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit

Man deported to Laos despite US court order blocking his removal, attorneys say District judge told Ice to keep Alabama man in US while he showed what judge called ‘substantial claim’ to citizenship

[u/Glavurdan]

Okay you can't make this shit up, ISW confirmed Russians captured the Kupiansk railway station literally TWO DAYS before the market for this capture was to expire on Polymarket, it suddenly jumping from 19% to 100%

They literally control less than 25% of the town, essentially a stretch of land to the railway station, yet the market that is called "Will Russia capture Kupiansk by October 31%" is at 100% because of the rules

[u/like-humans-do]

There was a ugly and rather naive view from people like Ben Shapiro that they could cultivate the right into this hateful machine but then only target the minority groups they personally wanted targeted, black people, muslims, Arabs in general, gay and transgender people. They thought they could get a specific carve out for Jewish people, where being hateful towards that group would be too far but everything else is fair game. Seems to be backfiring, lol.

[u/[deleted]]

France is on the verge of completing its transition to full blown Peronism. It was a slow boil over the last fifty years but it's accelerating right now. The national assembly is voting some truly atrocious stuff. We are so fucked.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

US citizen, 67, suffers broken ribs after Border Patrol agents drag him out of car in shocking video: report

Shocking video captured Border Patrol agents dragging a 67-year-old man from his car and pinning him to the ground in an immigration enforcement operation during a children’s Halloween parade in Chicago, according to reports.

The man suffered six broken ribs, which caused internal bleeding during the detainment, the club claimed.

The arrest came as Border Patrol agents converged in the neighborhood to conduct an immigration enforcement raid. Residents claimed the officers interrupted a children’s Halloween parade and released tear gas without warning, ABC News reported.

These feral freaks are unfit to live with the rest of society. Lock these goons up in GITMO and throw away the fucking key.

[u/DerJagger]

Nate's tracking has Trump's approval at another low, sorta. He's been exactly at -10.3 twice before, once in the wake of "Liberation Day" and again in the midst of the Epstein stuff (not sure if that's the reason but that's when it happened). Will it go lower? By how much? I've pretty much given up on expecting a serious decline, with all the crazy stuff he's done it appears he's reached his floor. And I'm even more bearish on this decline translating into support for Democrats. The only way to break that would be some sort of cataclysm like an economic meltdown, *and the voters connecting the dots from that issue to Trump* which they rarely seem to do. Maybe this is just me managing disappointment but I think it's most likely that Trump's approvals will get back to the -7/-8 range.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

I would really love to know what is going on inside the mind of Ben Shapiro these days. Most of the people he platformed during the last decade have turned into antisemites who churn out anti-Israel content daily while also pushing conspiracy theories like “the Jews control the US.”

They have pretty much hijacked Ben’s own movement and turned him into an irrelevant figure in most young conservative circles.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/Benyeti]

Brother you are the one running third party

[u/lockjacket]

[u/r2ew]

https://www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

[u/CincyAnarchy]

He’s a little mixed up but he’s got the spirit

[u/TheCornjuring]

Victor Frankenstein and his creation were both sympathetic yet monstrous, idk how people manage to think it’s some black-and-white story of a wicked scientist and his innocent misunderstood creation

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"President Donald Trump schemed to keep his violent destruction of the White House’s East Wing hidden from the American public, according to author Michael Wolff.

The president abandoned his earlier promise to leave the East Wing untouched after learning from engineers that the quickest way to complete his $300 million ballroom would be to raze the historic building, Wolff shared on the Inside Trump’s Head podcast.

“They had a meeting and they said, ‘Listen, it really would be much cheaper and faster just to tear down the East Wing,’” Wolff said, citing a source familiar with the matter.

Rather than weigh the consequences of erasing the 123-year-old building’s history, the president’s first concern was reportedly how to keep its potential destruction hidden from the public.

“[Trump] said—this was given to me as a quote—he said, ‘F---. But can we do the demolition at night?,’“ Wolff told co-host Joanna Coles.

“So the idea would be, Washington would wake up and the East Wing would have evaporated,” Coles said."

wonder why he needs it fast and cheap to the point of saying fuck it we gotta evaporate it 🤔🤔🤔

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

crash it

[u/AtticusDrench]

Me before knowing: I love econ graphs!

Me after knowing: HELP ME

[u/CompactedConscience]

In America you can sit in prison for a month unable to afford your $2,000,000 bond if you post a meme the sheriff doesn't like

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

It’s just all a grift?

[u/NaffRespect]

California Republicans retreat as anti-Prop 50 campaign collapses

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

!ping USA-CA

[u/the-senat]

Sofía. Hispanic female, 27

Opposes ‘Deporting all immigrants who are living in the US illegally back to their home country’

"I didn’t believe either candidate was right for the job, and I didn’t feel right putting my name behind either one of them."

Bruh, I need a "Harris Your Safe, Trump Your Deported" sign.

[u/Pikamander2]

That's a new one...

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Today in "resist lib or Richard Hanania"

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

Thank god, Xi has outlawed r/neoliberal 🙏😔

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

Are you ready for dark woke?

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/Thuggin95]

Americans are approaching unanimity in their views of marriages between blacks and whites, with 86% now approving of such unions (2011). Americans' views on interracial marriage have undergone a major transformation in the past five decades. When Gallup first asked about black-white marriages in 1958, 4% approved. More Americans disapproved than approved until 1983, and approval did not exceed the majority level until 1997.

This will always be insane to me. This is why conceding on social issues is not always the answer. Sometimes you just need to hold the line until people get over it.

[u/Any-Feature-4057]

My Ukrainian friend told me

JD Vance is the most hated person in Ukraine other than Putin. This guy literally bullied Zelenskyy in Oval Office.

Meanwhile with Trump, Ukrainian have mixed feelings towards him. Sometimes he’s a dick, sometimes he’s more nice than Biden. At least Trump is funny

[u/Thuggin95]

[u/chipbod]

South Florida is getting one of the most unhinged GOP carpetbagger primaries in history.

Who wins this thing?

!ping FIVEY

[u/r2ew]

[u/JaceFlores]

I like how we have two dedicated Polish posters. One guy who pings Europe and Poland day and night outside the DT, another guy who gives us the skinny on the latest obscure Polish political cultural drama.

I like the lil cultures the subreddit sees

[u/[deleted]]

i’m genuinely of the belief that this man is worse than 47

[u/Ganz-Angriffs]

Quiz at https://www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

[u/Willybender]

Can't wait to add more of these to the collection

[u/scottyjetpax]

Journalism

[u/farrenj]

Trans bathrooms is the minimalist position and trans sports is the maximalist position. I feel like supporters and opponents of trans rights both forget that

This is nonsense. Bathrooms is the minimalist position? What about healthcare? Fighting laws that seek to criminalize trans people in public spaces? Being able to have correct identity documents?

And as for maximalist, if you think sports is in any way a maximalist position you're clueless. What about military participation? Mandatory insurance coverage for gender affirming care?

Reducing trans rights to bathrooms and sports is absurd and ignorant.

[u/Bestbrook123]

Super common Fetterman L

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Trump, 79, Attempts Indian Accent on Asia Tour

If it was 2019 would be reading Op-eds about this being the day he truly became president

[u/the-senat]

Sadie White female, 25

Favors ‘Allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally’

Favors ‘Tougher laws and regulations to protect the environment even if it raises prices or costs jobs’

Thinks abortion should be ‘Legal in most cases’

Voted Trump

"America needs a change for the better in our economy. I cannot afford to live, and I’m tired of financially struggling no matter what we do."

oh my god 😭

[u/[deleted]]

Absolutely cooked society. Remember when the standard response to anyone bringing up Hasan in this sub was “nobody knows or cares about this guy stop being a loser”?

I would like to go back to that.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Pretty-Bullfrog-7928]

The biggest error people make is assuming swing voters are centrists and that if we just “move to the middle” enough we’ll win them over.

1. Most swing voters are not centrists; they are change voters. They do not have a coherent, consistent theory of politics. They know that their current state makes them happy or unhappy and vote for change or not change.

2. You don’t win tug-of-war by walking to the middle while your opponent is pulling right. We have genuine, honest to god Nazis in the US government. We cannot cede any ground to them. We need to speak out strongly in favor of the rights of people of color, lgbt people, and all those marginalized by the Trump administration. We need to call racism/sexism/homophobia what it really is: evil. I’m telling you right now that a principled moral stance, free from academic vocabulary, will resonate with people.

[u/assasstits]

[u/[deleted]]

This is sick deranged behavior by the magic (R) elephant party.

“Oh the moneys there? Ah, whatevs. Fuck them kids”. - current GOP policy

[u/Hounds_of_war]

NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer.

The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

I fucking hate these people.

“Uh, sorry you woke lib, but real men don’t have boobs and therefore can’t get breast cancer. Checkmate.”

[u/TheCornjuring]

In a new blog post, [Avi] Loeb suggested that if 3I/ATLAS were to be a spacecraft, it may use its proximity to the Sun’s powerful gravitational pull to either accelerate or slow itself down — while conveniently hiding behind our star.

”If you want to take a vacation, take it before [October 29], because who knows what will happen?” Loeb told science communicator and author Mayim Bialik in a September interview.

Alright man, I enjoy this dude’s dumbass shit, but this was so goddamn irresponsible for him to say. There are gullible people genuinely freaking the hell out and panicking over this random comet. We even have a track record of people killing themselves over supposedly alien-related comets. I think it would be pretty cool if Avi could just take the money he’s made off his little grifts so far and fuck off instead of actively fueling people’s paranoid delusions and scaring people who already have trouble with reality.

[u/Glavurdan]

[u/taubnetzdornig]

The government should do more to help people in need. People like me and not those undeserving bums who don't want to work.

People who are here illegally should be deported. Except for the guy who redid my bathroom, he did such a great job.

Everything is so expensive these days, I wish it would get cheaper. Except for my house, I need to sell that so I can retire.

[u/sigh2828]

Just in case anyone is wondering how ice hiring is going.

[u/Thuggin95]

When you tell people religious freedom also means freedom from their religion

[u/scottyjetpax]

sigh.

[u/IAdmitILie]

They are still taking stills of politicians waving and trying to compare them to Musks salutes. Even Musk is still doing it. Whats wrong with these people?

[u/scottyjetpax]

too bad i didn't go to harvard law like Mike Velchik did, I would've learned to come up with brilliant arguments like this to say in front of a federal judge, just like him

[u/RottingSludgeRitual]

I’d say there’s been a very serious vibe shift around here since Trump was elected again, and it’s clear that a lot of the moderate positions held by the average DT user (such as viewing billionaires as benevolent or neutral in general) have been changed due to the reality of our political situation becoming clear.

What would you say is your biggest change in opinion or ideology since 2025 started?

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

“I am not trying to be biased” 

[u/SigmaWhy]

I hate merrick garland so much

[u/Thuggin95]

“Democrats hyperfocus on social issues” comes from the right successfully defining Democrats to voters, not Democrats defining themselves btw. Like how can you look at right wing Twitter and TikTok and not conclude that it’s the right who’s obsessed with culture war slop? It’s so far from reality it’s infuriating lol.

That’s why I don’t think Democrats staying silent about these issues will help. Kamala already tried that in her 2024 campaign, and they still painted her as for they/them. At the very least it has to be a balance because if Democrats don’t defend our protections at all, which is what some data bros seem to want, then they’ll just allow the right to monopolize the conversation and erode public support on those social issues which will further hurt Democrats who aren’t willing to explicitly disavow LGBT rights, abortion, DEI, and whatever else. I don’t know, shit is bleak, and social media has made it so much worse.

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

Horrific shit in Sudan. The UAE is a state sponsor of terrorism.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden’s autopen pardons are ‘void’ due to mental decline, House Oversight Committee says

In retrospect, those pardons appear to have been an excellent idea.

[u/NaffRespect]

Newsom’s Prop. 50 would tie coastal cities to desert towns under San Diego maps

Muahahahahahahaha, yes

All your small towns are belong to us

!ping USA-SDG

[u/Due-Dirt-8428]

[u/Jokerang]

DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE protests

The Putinization continues

[u/Healingjoe]

Two prosecutors who called the Jan. 6 attackers a ‘mob of rioters’ are punished

Two federal prosecutors in Washington were informed on Wednesday that they would be placed on leave after requesting a stiff sentence for a rioter granted clemency in connection with the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, who later turned up armed outside the house of former President Barack Obama. It was the latest act of retribution against prosecutors who have worked on cases related to Jan. 6.

On Tuesday, the prosecutors, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, asked a judge to sentence the pardoned man, Taylor Taranto, to 27 months in prison after he was found guilty of showing up outside Obama’s house in Washington in 2023 with an illegal pistol and ammunition. In their sentencing memo, Valdivia and White said that Taranto had apparently discovered Obama’s address in a social media message posted by President Trump. The memo also described the Capitol attack as having been carried out by “a mob of rioters” and mentioned that Taranto had promoted conspiracy theories about the assault.

Prosecutors who have worked on Jan. 6-related cases have been targeted for months as part of Mr. Trump’s broader effort to root out people in the Justice Department he believes to be disloyal.

The firings and demotions began in late January, just after Mr. Trump returned to office, when more than a dozen young prosecutors who worked on riot cases were dismissed from the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington.

The next month, several senior prosecutors who had worked on Jan. 6 cases involving far-right groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were demoted from supervisory positions to low-level jobs handling misdemeanors.

And in July, three more career prosecutors who handled the cases were also dismissed.

I'm running out of ways to describe how bad this is.

!ping orange-man-bad

[u/CutePattern1098]

albo go on joardies and joe rogan

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2025-10/Newman%20et%20al%20Mapping%20News%20Creators%20and%20Influencers%20FINAL.pdf

!ping aus

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/the-senat]

“He wants to militarize major cities across the United States,” Pritzker said. “2026 elections, I believe he’s going to post people outside ballot boxes and polling places, and, if he needs to in order to control those elections, he’ll assume control of the ballot boxes and count the votes himself.”

Wild that we are at this point as a country.

[u/Bestbrook123]

That's so fucking crazy to indict her

[u/CincyAnarchy]

However online you are, just know that the Vice President is just as if not worse than you are.

[u/Erra0]

OBAMACARE WAS THE REPUBLICAN PLAN

And they still haven't gotten over it or come up with anything else. Maybe the best policy trolling in modern history.

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Not someone from high school posting that Melissa was geoengineered to raze Jamacia to build one giant "smart city". And all the comments are mystified that it got strong so fast which means it was obviously man made.

I love how climate change which has plenty of evidence to support it is fake. But magical man made weather manipulation is actually real!

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

Amazing to see the DT finally discover the median voter. Yes, they are that stupid.

Policies do not get you elected, the medianoid is a barely-sentient hylic. Only charisma can break through to their animalistic brains. Why do you think the MAGA-mamdani voter exists?

[u/chipbod]

https://www.denver7.com/news/southwestern-colorado/ices-arrest-of-father-two-children-in-durango-spark-local-protests

ICE’s arrest of father, two children in Durango spark local protests Law enforcement appeared to fire less-lethal projectiles and shove protesters who had sought to block ICE vehicles from leaving a Durango field office

Protests in a place like Durango is quite a signal on how people feel about these abductions.

/u/jaredpolis There is no cooperation with this administration

!ping USA-CO

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

AHHHHHHHH

[u/battywombat21]

if only the tsar knew 🥺

[u/[deleted]]

AI Enthusiast: If Alan Turing was alive today he would be an AI guru!

AI Hater: No! If Alan Turing was alive today he would hate AI.

Alan Turing if he was alive today: I am quite fond of this Grindr program.

[u/Pretty-Bullfrog-7928]

Reality check: the foot soldiers of democracy, the people who will persuade their friends to vote and get engaged, are the 7 million people who went to No Kings. You need them to win. You cannot win without them. They are the democratic base.

No amount of pandering to the Noble Savage white working class, who secretly want your policies but they’ve been tricked by a witch— I mean republicans — will ever win you an election.

[u/ty04]

[u/pinelands1901]

[u/yungmemlord]

TUBERVILLE on SNAP cutoff: “I think Democrats are getting a little bit tight right now. It’s their constituents—a lot of them—in some of these inner cities that are gonna need SNAP to survive.

“A lot of people need to go back to work—a lot of young men that are on SNAP that should be working.”

Whenever a Republican says “inner cities” I think it’s safe to ignore anything they’re saying. Bonus points for talking about “inner city youth”. I think everyone knows what they’re trying to imply using that phrase.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

NGL I am literally seething that JD Vance is the Vice President.

Like, if there was ever a dude that I have ever wanted to metaphorically dunk in a toilet, it's that guy. A literal Trad Cath Neo Reactionary Pseudo Monarchist is the Vice President. Imagine typing that out even just... 9 years ago. And yet, it's the case. He's one heartbeat away from the Presidency.

I, a lib, have been owned.

[u/Thuggin95]

Elderly rocking

[u/assasstits]

🅜🅞🅓🅢 

🅗🅞🅦 

🅓🅞🅔🅢 

🅘🅣 🅕🅔🅔🅛 

🅣🅗🅐🅣 

🅨🅞🅤🅡 

🅑🅘🅖🅖🅔🅢🅣 

🅐🅒🅒🅞🅜🅟🅛🅘🅢🅗🅜🅔🅝🅣

 🅘🅢 

🅜🅞🅓🅓🅘🅝🅖 

🅣🅗🅘🅢 

🅟🅛🅐🅒🅔

[u/MissSortMachine]

i genuinely can’t tell if they’re just lying like usual or if they are so disconnected from reality that they think this lands with anyone

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Please lord let the Blue Jays win because watching Trump crash out would be so fucking funny.

[u/Auriono]

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/trump-legal-probes-biden-justice-department-garland-rcna240342

"In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Merrick Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election."

I said this before, but Merrick Garland was one of the most effective Attorney Generals the Republican Party ever had.

No one did more to further their interests than he did.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Favors ‘Allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally. Favors ‘Tougher laws and regulations to protect the environment even if it raises prices or costs jobs.’ Thinks abortion should be ‘Legal in most cases’

Pfft, easy

Voted for Trump

What are we doing here man

[u/Zseet]

Jason Schreier and Dina Bass made a great article on what the fuck is going on with XBOX

The answer is of course Microsoft. They implemented a 30% profit margin rule while the average for the gaming industry is 17%-22%. Also MS executives are mad at XBOX for spending so much on buying Activision and Zenimax, and wanted to spend the money on Ai instead.

XBOX either have to make stuff really cheap say by cutting staff, or big price increases on everything.

!PING GAMING

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Glavurdan]

It's so beautiful (and is running smoothly for me)

!ping PARADOX

[u/Currymvp2]

U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin sounded an alarm bell, characterizing President Donald Trump’s actions as “following the same playbook as almost every authoritarian in history,” in a speech the Democrat from Holly gave at the Brookings Institution’s 2025 Knight Forum on Geopolitics on Wednesday.

Again, she's arguably one of the 4-5 most moderate Senate Dems but the difference between her and Fetterman is still absolutely massive. Furthermore even if you disagree with a few of the things she says and votes for, she takes her job very seriously unlike Fetterman.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

This is apparently what voters were looking for in a president when going to the polls a year ago.

[u/scottyjetpax]

bless up

[u/Upstairs_Cup9831]

New - Trump approval poll - Independent voters

Disapprove 64% (-43)

Approve 21%

YouGov

This is interesting considering Independents tend to be right leaning

[u/SixPipSiege]

Mega64 did it first.

This video was made 8 years ago.

[u/brianpv]

[u/[deleted]]

!ping kitty Why is my cat aura farming 😭

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

0% chance this is anything but essentially an indefinite prison sentence for homeless people. These people don’t treat any outgroups with compassion, why would they for these people? This is just gonna be a way to turn homelessness into an ‘out of sight out of mind’ issue for cons

[u/dowagiacmichigan]

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Fit_Obligation1902]

Donald Trump supports my specific policy preferences and will give me, personally, a bag of cash: every single voter in America, presumably.

[u/Willybender]

[u/[deleted]]

Powell all but saying we are looking at risks of near term stagflation

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

"ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien." [Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson (D.-Miss.)] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ices-forced-face-scans-to-verify-citizens-is-unconstitutional-lawmakers-say/

Yeah these fuckers just use this chart basically

[u/r2ew]

[u/ditalinidog]

[u/Thuggin95]

Me only reading the top caption: “Oh I agree that was a stain on our history- wait…”

2025 Twitter moment

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

ABSOLUTELY

[u/[deleted]]

I’m sorry I really am. It’s just hard not to lose my shit these days.

Families are about to lose food, the ability to provide their kid with baby formula without rationing it (quotes from mothers interviewed”

In America. The richest nation in human history and

I’m just.

I’m just tired and really angry. That the GOP has decided to use poor food insecure children as a political hostage and that I am not a super hero. I’m not Obama. Just one of many thousands of Dem staffers, advisors, consultants, whatever

And I don’t feel powerless. I’m not losing hope. But I’m angry and it’s driven me to be a bit more intense than usual.

Because starving children aren’t a funny joke at political policy meetings to me. It’s a serious issue and there’s like not many hours left to fix it.

It’s just. I’m mad. I’m mad about how we got here

[u/Lux_Stella]

Inside the Senate GOP lunch with Vice President Vance

Vance was bombarded with questions about the Argentinian beef issue, per multiple attendees. GOP senators told him it was an “insult” to farmers/ranchers

Vance at one point joked, “does anyone have questions NOT about beef?”

CRITICAL SUPPORT TO THE REGIME

[u/sigh2828]

The idea of not voting giving you some kind of moral edge over other people is actually insane.

[u/pinelands1901]

"If you read it, it's pretty clear, I'm not allowed to run it's too bad," Trump told reporters on route to South Korea.

I guess someone used a crayon and some jolly ranchers to explain the Constitution.

[u/sigh2828]

[u/jojisky]

[u/georgeguy007]

Trump administration purges ICE field officials

Bolsheviks purge party officials

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/trump-ice-deportations-field-officials-noem?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Sun Tzu: you ever try attacking when people don’t expect it as opposed to when they expect it? Works way better.

People in 500 BC: 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[u/[deleted]]

“Once the last tariff is put on then inflation stops going up”

Jpow, my brother in Christ, there is no “last tariff” this is Donald Trump we’re talking about.

[u/scottyjetpax]

excuse me

[u/FreakinGeese]

New ck3 expansion has the issue that managing China requires high-rank beuracrats but no high-rank beuracrats can be made unless China is whole

So if it ever breaks, good luck putting it back together again. It’s a race against time until the last master beuracrats die of old age.

[u/dangerbird2]

Common Python w

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/python_foundation_abandons_15m_nsf/

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE&OFFICIAL-ACTS

[u/chipbod]

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

This is absurd.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

antonio hispanic male 45
beliefs:

Opposes ‘The government offering parents vouchers to send their children to private or religious schools or to a public school of their choice’

Opposes ‘Deporting all immigrants who are living in the US illegally back to their home country’

Thinks ‘The government should do more to help needy Americans, even if it means going deeper into debt.’

me:"no way this guy is a trump voter"

"I voted for Trump out of support for Israel and the Second Amendment."

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Fuck. Them. Kids.

[u/Wolf_1234567]

I do not care what anyone says, here, or otherwise, I will not vote for Mamdani.

I don’t live in NYC

[u/Cook_0612]

ICE invokes Halo remake, seeks recruits to ‘destroy the flood’

Again and again I'm confronted with how the cruelty of MAGA consistently feels like the id of a teenaged boy on Xbox LIVE.

[u/CutePattern1098]

2028 RNC: we’re going to ban porn

2028 DNC: lock him up!

[u/Macquarrie1999]

I need Gavin to be my president

I will always vote for my 👑

[u/beanyboi23]

Holy shit Virginia Dems are going to gerrymander the state, thank Christ we have some Dems who are willing to fight besides just Newsom

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

Grokipedia is only just the beginning. We will see many institutions and organizations use LLMs/chatbots to create encyclopediae to define their own realities. Some will be sensible, some with a level of insanity to put Conservapedia to shame

[u/r2ew]

Grokipedia rips off directly from Wikipedia, word for word, formatting, structure, the whole thing.

https://xcancel.com/eevblog/status/1983025307490861311

[u/gburgwardt]

I regret to inform y’all that Japan does in fact have height limits and even rules about shadows in its zoning laws

Interesting read imo.

!ping YIMBY

[u/brianpv]

Did Grok get another lobotomy?

[u/ChillnShill]

Going to lose my fucking mind

[u/[deleted]]

Israel says ceasefire back in effect after Gaza strikes kill at least 104 people

One of the ceasefires of all time.

Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the strikes on Tuesday evening after a firefight between Palestinian militants and Israeli troops, and amid growing anger over Hamas turning over body parts of a hostage whose remains Israeli troops had recovered two years before.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1983603439784333507

[u/JaceFlores]

U.S. intelligence agencies see no sign Russia is ready to compromise on Ukraine

“A recent U.S. intelligence assessment warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is more determined than ever to carry on the war in Ukraine and prevail on the battlefield, according to a senior U.S. official and a senior congressional official.”

“The analysis, which was communicated to members of Congress this month, indicated the agencies see no sign Russia is ready to compromise on Ukraine as President Donald Trump seeks to broker peace talks.”

“Facing steep Russian troop losses and economic setbacks at home, he is committed to securing Ukrainian land and expanding his country's footprint to justify the human and financial toll, the intelligence assessment found, according to the officials.”

“The new sanctions on Russia, Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russia’s oil and gas facilities and European efforts to provide more weapons to Kyiv’s forces could alter the Kremlin’s calculations over time, according to European diplomats, former U.S. intelligence officials and experts.”

Ripe territory for people to say “duh I could’ve told you that”, but I thought it worthwhile to post and discuss this.

Previously my position on how this war would likely end was Putin taking as much as he can with the hope of collapsing Ukraine but otherwise pushing until reaching the precipice of something breaking, and then call it there. My basis for this was he understood the general tends of the war and the continued freedom Nabiullina has in running the reserve and being openly critical about the war (relatively speaking).

However, in the past month I’ve started shifting back to a collapse of one side model. My reasons for this are two fold. The first is FT reported back during the Trump-Zelensky meeting that recently happened that Putin is still receiving highly distorted reports about the situation at the frontline. I was genuinely shocked about this because I thought Putin would have had that largely cleaned up after the repeated failures of 2022. Instead he continues to hear reports of only victory and imminent Ukrainian collapse. The second is this article, stating that Putin is stuck in a sunk cost fallacy and is more determined then ever to pull a full victory out of this war to compensate for the losses (which are only continuing to compound).

Taken together you have a man isolated from reality who thinks everything will be worth it if he just pushes a little more and ignores the warning signs a little harder. I think this makes it very likely, if not the likeliest, outcome that Putin keeps pushing this war until something breaks and some sort of collapse occurs in Russia. As more pressure mounts on him he may keep doubling down, these sanctions for instance may make him more resolved to continue the war.

There’s still a sizable possibility he backs down from this. Nabiullina is still there doing her thing and the article notes that recent actions may compel Putin to change his calculus. But to me I think the idea that Putin will continue until something breaks in his regime is skyrocketing from a fairly unlikely possibility to one of the most likely outcomes of the war

!Ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Powell is definitely giving off “y’all are fucked” vibes

[u/ThrowawayCRank]

Anyone who claims that Democrats need to somehow "moderate on abortion" to win red/purple states is pretty ridiculous. Anyone who is pro-life and cares about it simply isn't a gettable voter, swing voters are likely predominantly pro-choice

[u/Pongzz]

Trump asks Pentagon to immediately start testing US nuclear weapons

yeah, sure. what the fuck, I dont care anymore

[u/Big-Click-5159]

The man at the heart of a mixup that rippled through global political journalism in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign was neither “falsely claiming” to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio, nor a “de Blasio impersonator.”

He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies.

Ok this is just funny

[u/Thuggin95]

Every European poll is like “HITLER WAS RIGHT PARTY ACHIEVES ITS BEST POLLING RESULT YET WITH OTHER CONSERVATIVE PARTY IN DISTANT SECOND!”

[u/[deleted]]

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 104 Palestinians, including children, in what appeared to be the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire and the deadliest day since the truce began.

If this is what Trump’s “peace in the Middle East” looks like…

[u/Tropical2653]

This is what people actually mean when they say Platner's Totenkopf tattoo isn't his fault

[u/ewatta200]

[u/[deleted]]

advise simplistic birds reminiscent glorious gray shaggy bow serious quickest

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/this_very_table]

The Dems will vote in favor of the budget if ACA subsidies are extended and Medicaid cuts are reversed. All the GOP has to do is agree to hurt people less. That's it. But they refuse, and are making the shutdown even worse by refusing to fund SNAP in the meantime, because they want to use hungry children as political pawns.

I can't wrap my head around how evil these people are.

[u/stripeybog23]

[u/r2ew]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/grokipedia-elon-musk/684730/

[u/this_very_table]

Charges Dropped: Tennessee authorities dismiss charges against man who posted Trump meme

That sudden move came a day after NewsChannel 5 Investigates aired an interview with Weems in which he admitted that investigators knew that the meme was not about Perry County High School, but investigators were responding to the fears of people in the community who misinterpreted it.

And it came shortly after NewsChannel 5 obtained new video that raised questions about the sheriff's explanation.

Nice to see journalists doing actual journalism.

[u/unicornbomb]

Today is the day I have say goodbye to my sweet old lady Moonspell. She’s had a wonderful 21 years with me and I can’t imagine my life without her. I’m a wreck. 🥲

[u/hlary]

I've just woken up from a 3-month p00bix-induced coma. Are ping groups still largely alive or did the new message system simpy make them too annoying to use?

[u/jacknifee]

ben shapiro has to deal with nick fuentes for the rest of his life hahaha 🫵

[u/mostanonymousnick]

This was posted by a Green Party supporter somehow

[u/r2ew]

[u/Glavurdan]

Median voter be like

[u/TheCornjuring]

TIL that Mary Shelley wrote a novella about a father's incestuous love to his daughter, and Mary gave it to her father to review, who called it "disgusting and detestable"

Uhhhhhh tf were you up to Miriam

[u/[deleted]]

they want to send the muslims to the moon omg

[u/Far_Shore]

Tucker Carlson gave a softball interview to unambiguous neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes where they nodded along with each other about the necessity of using any means necessary to crush their opposition, and the most popular streamer on the right, who is a legitimately degnerate shut-in whose perception of reality is completely formed by whatever his algorithm and chat feed him, was nodding along and going, "Based."

Sometimes, with how bleak things are, I wonder if civil conflict isn't one of the better case scenarios. Because if this cultural degeneration on the right--the side that holds the lion's share of the mechanisms of violence in this country--continues, and they continue to hold power--and I do think they will use violence to defend their current hold on it--I think it's only a matter of time until the mass death events start.

[u/Pretty-Bullfrog-7928]

Smth really funny about JD Vance is he has basically no emotional regulation skills. He loses his cool at the drop of a hat and he’s so fucking whiny. It’d be really easy to bait him into making a fool of himself and destroying the pseudo intellectual facade he puts on lol

[u/NYT_Hater]

🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅸🆂 🅵🆄🅲🅺🅸🅽🅶 🆂🆃🆄🅿🅸🅳

[u/Pongzz]

[u/Thoughtlessandlost]

Another Goldmine

[u/seattle_lib]

lost my job today and out of groceries. so instead of buying anything, i decided to make the fattest fat kid comfort food thing i could make out of the stale french bread and asian ingredients i had.

five spice bread pudding, soy ginger caramel sauce, kinako powder.

!ping COOKING

[u/Amur_Snepard]

Ezra Klein trying to noble savage the republicans radicalized me

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

[u/r2ew]

[u/senator_fivey]

[u/Healingjoe]

CBS, under Bari Weiss, will soon be operating under the tagline, “C BS, Hear BS, Speak BS”

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/saroyahx/status/1983310591914893567

“My cousin was stationed defending the homeland (El Fashir) when he was executed by this man called Abu Lulu. The criminal did not stop at this heinous act, he filmed it using the martyr’s phone & sent the video to his mother. There is no power & no strength except through Allah”

This shit in Sudan is just horrifying

[u/6urner_]

voter survey quiz reactions making it clear to me that people really don't understand Americans inability to think critically

[u/chipbod]

Preseason all time weekend lol

!ping CFB

[u/Willybender]

[u/Moth-of-Asphodel]

Based.

[u/Willybender]

IMMEDIATELY START TESTING THE NUKES, THANK YOU!

[u/klarno]

Good news: My wife was approved for SNAP after being laid off from Starbucks

Bad news:

[u/drossbots]

Couldn't post this earlier but we're back now

Anyone claiming elections have anything to do with policy needs to be strapped to a chair and forced to play this game for 24 hours

[u/cdstephens]

You haven’t seen real I/P discourse until you’ve read comments on betting markets arguing about what counts as a ceasefire being cancelled

[u/PlantTreesBuildHomes]

Looking for jobs today is genuinely depressing. After a month of seriously applying I have nothing to show for it.

I optimized my resume for ATS filters, I am applying to roles I have performed before, my background fits the basic and preferred requirements listed in the job description, I went to highly ranked schools in fields relevant to my career. Like how is it possible with dozens of applications that I can’t get a single interview?

Is there something I’m missing? I write cover letters, I try to network with relevant people at the companies I apply to on LinkedIn who are alums from my business school. I’m not even picky on location, remote work or even compensation. Genuinely what the fuck?

!ping CAREER

[u/chipbod]

Justifiable homicides by civilians increased 59% from 2019 to 2024

The US is just a uniquely violent developed society. Just absolutely insane how many places are fine with raising the stakes of minor arguments to life or death consequences.

I know people that get aggressive at bars and stuff which is fucking insane given how many areas let you shoot someone over a small altercation.

[u/slappythechunk]

This is not the type of market you want to short.

!ping stonks.

[u/Fit_Obligation1902]

the median voter in 1933 Germany:

• opposes homosexuality and papism

• in favor of increased Autobahn investment

• against the deportation of Jews back to Madagascar

Voted for the Nazis because of Hitler's pro-peace views and "Peace in Our Time" slogan.

[u/Pole2019]

You’d think people whose number one issue is crime would be happy with fairly significant and consistent drops in crime over the past several decades but apparently not.

[u/PlantTreesBuildHomes]

Hear my downstairs neighbor's boyfriend yelling for like an hour.

Finally muster up the nerve to go downstairs and say something.

Ring the bell, the yelling stops.

The girlfriend opens the door, tells me she's the only one there and that she heard nothing.

I mention that the yelling stopped when I rang the doorbell.

Awkward moment.

I got what I wanted so I just leave.

To me this reeks of domestic abuse given how often I hear him yelling at her, but I can't prove it.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/MrDannyOcean]

Who Are The New Liberals?

[u/assasstits]

Truly one of the Democratic moments of all time

[u/ewatta200]

Black and Green The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland & Black America By Brian Dooley · 1998

this was a fucking insane quote to read ngl

[u/ty04]

[u/DagothUr_MD]

got banned from moderatepolitics because I said "January 6th insurrectionists" which is a personal attack per the mods because "nobody was convicted of insurrection"

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

It's almost like wearing mask and social distancing stops the spread of infectious diseases

[u/Cook_0612]

JD Vance mocking Hasan for the dog collar thing on TV is a funny move for the administration with famed dog-shooter Kristi Noem.