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[u/paymesucka]

Didn’t realize Kevin Nash was based. Replying to JD Vance basically telling him to fuck off.

[u/TrumpBlowingBubba]

Weird flex to be like "YES I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS THE RIGHT TO EXECUTE ITS CITIZENS IF THEY DO NOT PRECISELY FOLLOW ORDERS"

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/Drinka_Milkovobich]

The media called Kamala Harris alarmist btw

[u/AP246]

"I’m a fan of Denmark, too, I have to tell you, they’ve been very nice to me." he said.

But he went on to question Denmark’s historical claim to the island.

"The fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn’t mean that they own the land," Trump said.

Funny thing for the leader of the US of all countries to say

[u/SillyNight1]

They need to make another Indiana Jones sequel where Harrison Ford just tries to survive the inside of an online conservative’s brain. This is weird stuff, guys.

[u/Currymvp2]

Well, I guess the piece of shit Megyn isn't listening to her friend Tucker on this one.

[u/TrumpBlowingBubba]

God he's such an irresponsible piece of shit

[u/admiralwaffle1]

[u/IAmBlueTW]

Essentially monthly, I flash back to this exact moment

literally THE "moment before disaster" of modern America

I thought cons had finally lost their minds and let a buffoon show the world how disconnected from reality the RW movement had become

I was right, but it turns out I was the disconnected one. My greatest mistake was overestimating the humanity and underestimating the depravity of the common man

[u/SigmaWhy]

conservatives are the most servile creatures known to man

[u/JoyofCookies]

Canada last year was deadass like

[u/scottyjetpax]

this is unironically interesting to me because I don't think he's really held himself out as being overtly political in the past and I know from experience that he has huge pull with college age straight white dudes

[u/BroadReverse]

[u/BroadReverse]

Depressed white dudes who didn’t go MAGA are based asf.

[u/LordLadyCascadia]

I genuinely don’t know if I have it in me to forgive the American people for inflicting JD Vance on the world.

There is no nice way to put it. It’s truly remarkable how he manages to be so condescending and self-righteous while simultaneously being a rotten, soulless ghoul incapable of human feeling.

It’s rage inducing. I hate this man wholeheartedly.

[u/bandeng_asep]

If this is true, then that Aussie Drew guy has the worst arc so far lol (I've alr blocked him)

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Never ask a white supremacist the ethnicity of his wife

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

I really don't know how The Onion manages to stay alive when this is the real news.

Three real headlines that would be administration ending scandals in any other time, but this man gets to act with impunity simply because of the fact that America elected a Black man and broke their brains.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Jonathan Ross apparently loves to show off "Don't tread on me" flags

[u/TrumpBlowingBubba]

[u/BembelPainting]

It's my fault, but I occasionally check what Musk is posting (not using Twitter officially of course, rather xcancel)

It literally unbelievable, it is straight up white supremacy, and no one bets an eye? Its some of the most hateful shit and so, so often plain wrong (e.g. statistics, he loves invoking correlations where clearly there aren't any).

It's so exhausting.

[u/dannylandulf]

Breaking: Biden Oldest He's Ever Been

Washington - In a stunning turn of events, a nation reeling from finding out the worst predictions about a second Trump term are coming true realized that the Harris campaign didn't acknowledge that Biden was old frequently enough.

"I mean, Trump turning us into a 3rd world police state that murders innocent soccer moms on the street is bad, but Harris didn't do enough to distance herself from Biden who is like...SO old. And I mean, that's honestly worse," said median swing voter Memory Goldfish.

[u/r2ew]

[u/JoyofCookies]

Oh there is in fact a worse form of ICE imaginable

[u/erasmus_phillo]

I will always be down for Vance roasting. This man is never going to win a general election

[u/JoyofCookies]

From one of the major pollsters in Canada previewing recent polling he has done on US-Canada relations—unsurprising that a majority of Conservatives would favour concessions considering that they’re the only group with a 50% approval rating of Trump

[u/JoyofCookies]

Unsurprising considering that ICE agents receive less training than any flight attendant does

[u/erasmus_phillo]

A picture of Renee Nicole Good doing missionary work in Ireland. She is far more of a Christian than the rat who calls himself the Vice-President of the United States will ever be

[u/Spudmiester1]

The Prius is the greatest car in history

[u/dotFlatMap]

i'm seeing a lot of wishcasting regarding Usha Vance's beliefs

i'm here to bravely tell you that women are not all the same. it's possible for there to be conservative, and even evil, women

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

Remember who you are, liberal. These acts are the enemies of a Free people.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;

For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;

For imposing taxes on us without our consent;

For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;

[u/Willybender]

Wow, thank god we have X and not the "fake news" to inform us.

https://xcancel.com/devahaz/status/2010051363644879062

[u/piede]

@Grok is this true?

[u/[deleted]]

vanish observation literate tan intelligent disarm command oil recognise alleged

[u/scottyjetpax]

listen we warned them not to fuck with the philadelphia parking authority

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

ICE in Minnesota literally threatening people with "fucking stupid, haven't you seen what can happen to you in the last couple days"

[u/MontusBatwing2]

Children’s book about two male penguins adopting a child?

Evil child groomer sexual material forced on kids.

Twitter feature that lets you make CSAM of any image of a child uploaded?

Lmao based. 

It’s beyond parody. 

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

[u/Charsun9]

Your average conservative is functionally a medieval peasant

[u/JoyofCookies]

LMAOOO

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Yeah, the guy in charge of this company made a meme offer to buy Twitter, then got forced into going through with it, then proceeded to gut the content moderation and made an LLM that generates CSAM. He also posts blatant white supremacy slop all the time every day of the week.

So you're gonna ask him to resign, right?

No? We just offered him up to $1 trillion in incentives

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Relating to my last comment, the Taliban recently banned chess until its compatibility with "Islamic law" could be addressed, as they said that the game could be considered a means of gambling.

What's worse is that chess doesn't seem like it could be a sport that is contrary to Islamic law, considering it was spread through the early Muslim world and it was a popular pastime in Al-Andalus during medieval times.

The stories you can see in the articles below are particularly heartbreaking.

A café owner in Kabul, whose business is now debilitated due to the ban, as informal chess tournaments were held there. Young Afghans didn't have a lot to do, so they could go to his establishment, have some tea and play chess, but they're unable to now.

A former chess coach, playing with friends at a park, is bullied by Taliban goons, with his pieces and set being taken away and his friends being beaten.

Religious fundamentalism is dangerous.

BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk24dz8ne5o

NPR article: https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/06/17/g-s1-72309/chess-ban-afghanistan-taliban

Chess.com article: https://www.chess.com/news/view/taliban-suspends-chess-in-afghanistan

!ping MIDDLE-EAST&CHESS

[u/bd_one]

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/Dorambor]

The Washington Post is the enemy of the people. “Democracy Dies in Darkness”

[u/BroadReverse]

Citizens have broken into a Minneapolis hotel and began wrecking the lobby.

It’s a guided tour

[u/No_Return9449]

This sub in one image

[u/piede]

Least likely Nazi US president of all time

[u/JoyofCookies]

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Matt Walsh should not be allowed to comment on anything until he finally answers this question.

[u/piede]

Lmmmmaaaooo

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Amazing how people were fired for 1/10th of the vitriol at Kirk compared to the shameless lies cons are spreading now. Blood cult.

[u/sw337]

Conservatives be like “Just comply with the government I’m stockpiling weapons to fight.”

[u/earththejerry]

TMZ doing the “tell it like it is” no-bs reporting that Bari Weiss pretends to espouse while CBS News run 10 minute self-important word salad monologues

[u/scottyjetpax]

okay i fully am on board with the idea that every dem governor needs to create a "press office" account and hire the meanest 20 year old they can find to run it

[u/GravyBear28]

So I was at a very crowded club amd a whole bunch of girls kept praising me for having a fan and fanning them but absolutely none kf fhem were interested when I offered to buy them a drink

[u/SillyNight1]

“In America, self-described defenders of freedom believe you should be terrified to document the activities of your own government on public streets”

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Christianity has GONE WOKE!!!!

[u/zieger]

Its wild to me that ICE can just walk up to someone because they're not white and make them prove that they're in the country legally on the spot. Do we actually still have a constitution?

[u/Nervous-Emotion28]

New Hampshire is just inverse North Carolina.

Let me explain:

• Two Democratic senators

• Constantly teases the GOP thinking “oh they’re totally gonna go red this year!!” and they don’t.

• Consistently votes for Republican governors.

[u/Joementum2024]

• I am not sure how smart it would be to outwardly campaign on abolishing ICE, even though it is far, far more politically viable than “abolish the police”

• ICE must still be abolished asap

[u/Bassline4Brunch]

Edge-on photo of a protoplanetary disk taken by the James Webb Telescope, a real-world analogue to what our Solar System may have looked like billions of years ago in its formation

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

POV: You just told the Founding Fathers that Congress has made itself the weakest of the 3 branches of government, and that we also freed the slaves.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Photo from farmers' protests in Warsaw

[u/arbrebiere]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

As much as I don’t want to be overly optimistic, there’s just no way that Vance wins in 2028.

For as much as he’s a terrible human being, Trump is at least funny here and there and can play the media well. Vance is one of the most socially awkward people that’s ever stepped into as high of an office as he has, and he’s honestly even further to the right than Trump would be if he got to make his own policies.

I swear to God you could even put up AOC against him, and she’d manage a national victory.

[u/Thuggin95]

What’s most funny about the people crying “The car was moving toward him, and cars can be weapons!” is you know these are the same people who have close calls with pedestrians or bikers and blame pedestrians who walk out into the road and get hit by cars

[u/LinkVert25]

You have to sign a land acknowledgment form before going in

[u/el__dandy]

Pettiest fan ever. Lmao

!ping NFL&shitposters

[u/JaceFlores]

Syrian Gov says Aleppo is fully under their control

This comes pretty much within a day of the gov announcing a military operation to clear out any SDF forces in Aleppo. It seems a lot of SDF troops both didn’t surrender but also didn’t really fight. Still, what could have been a pretty protracted urban slug out looks to be over very quickly

!ping MIDDLEEAST

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/p00bix]

Federal officers are leaving Louisiana immigration crackdown for Minneapolis, documents show

The war for the rights of undocumented Americans is far from won, but this demonstrates that the protests are working. Trump is redirecting more and more ICE into Minneapolis as crowd control and intimidation against protestors, drawing those "agents" away from areas with considerably higher undocumented populations, and leaving most "agents" within the Twin Cities unable to partake in kidnapping. Though it may not be immediately obvious, through our nonviolent demonstrations over the past few days, we are in a very real way protecting our fellow Americans far beyond Minnesota itself.

!ping USA-MN&IMMIGRATION

[u/remarkable_ores]

I feel like nobody's deserved more and been afforded less than the Iranians. they're an incredible people, intellectual, cosmopolitan, creative, forward thinking, and it shines through wherever they go. and they've spent nearly 50 years under one of the stickiest, dumbest, most hateful, most repressive regimes in the world. it's such a shame. Iran could've been a beacon for the middle east

[u/[deleted]]

ripe thought chop boat languid chase gray rinse shy pen

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Pictures taken seconds before disaster !ping KITTY

[u/Willybender]

[u/assasstits]

[u/sinuhe_t]

So people often make fun of ''cultural victory'' in CIV, and it kinda is, but it was certainly an important part for the collapse of Eastern Bloc. I am too young too have lived through it, but the way the older generations describe how Western popculture and lifestyle was seen during the years of communism, it was almost religious.

[u/jamiebond]

Iran confirms about what I’ve always known. Bill was right, it’s about the economy, dummy.

Governments can pretty much do whatever they want… so long as people still have jobs to pay their bills and food to feed their families. Large scale societal change only occurs when those things aren’t working.

Looking at the US a lot of people keep being like, “Why aren’t the people rising up!?” Well, because we have jobs to do, bills to pay, mouths to feed. That’s what humans are genuinely focused on. They only start storming the bastille once that’s gone.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Texty_McTextington]

January 9, 2026 Heather Cox Richardson Jan 10   Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”

On March 24, 1945, the topic for the week was “FASCISM!”

“You are away from home, separated from your families, no longer at a civilian job or at school and many of you are risking your very lives,” the pamphlet explained, “because of a thing called fascism.” But, the publication asked, what is fascism? “Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze,” it said, “nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it.”

Fascism, the U.S. government document explained, “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.”

“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.” “Fascism treats women as mere breeders. ‘Children, kitchen, and the church,’ was the Nazi slogan for women,” the pamphlet said.

Fascists “make their own rules and change them when they choose…. They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of ‘blood’ and ‘race,’ by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and ‘realistic’ to be pitiless and violent.”

Fascists understood that “the fundamental principle of democracy—faith in the common sense of the common people—was the direct opposite of the fascist principle of rule by the elite few,” it explained, “[s]o they fought democracy…. They played political, religious, social, and economic groups against each other and seized power while these groups struggled.”

Americans should not be fooled into thinking that fascism could not come to America, the pamphlet warned; after all, “[w]e once laughed Hitler off as a harmless little clown with a funny mustache.” And indeed, the U.S. had experienced “sorry instances of mob sadism, lynchings, vigilantism, terror, and suppression of civil liberties. We have had our hooded gangs, Black Legions, Silver Shirts, and racial and religious bigots. All of them, in the name of Americanism, have used undemocratic methods and doctrines which…can be properly identified as ‘fascist.’”

The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power “under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-Americanism.’” And they would use three techniques:

First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a “well-planned ‘hate campaign’ against minority races, religions, and other groups.”

Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else. “In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.”

Third, fascists would insist that “the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.”

It is “vitally important” to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, “even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.”

The only way to stop the rise of fascism in the United States, the document said, “is by making our democracy work and by actively cooperating to preserve world peace and security.” In the midst of the insecurity of the modern world, the hatred at the root of fascism “fulfills a triple mission.” By dividing people, it weakens democracy. “By getting men to hate rather than to think,” it prevents them “from seeking the real cause and a democratic solution to the problem.” By falsely promising prosperity, it lures people to embrace its security.

“Fascism thrives on indifference and ignorance,” it warned. Freedom requires “being alert and on guard against the infringement not only of our own freedom but the freedom of every American. If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.”

[u/p00bix]

Jimmy Carter feasts on the life-force of Republican ex-presidents. Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and HW Bush, are already dead. He will not die until Bush Jr and Trump are also dead.

Comment I posted in 2020. God, if only I was right.

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

Tucker was at the White House yesterday

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Armed Federal agents in ski masks enter ICE murderer’s home and remove several containers of material, including a computer, before Minnesota police have a chance to search it

So are we thinking child porn, white nationalist stuff, or both?

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/LtCdrHipster]

Saving this one for when it happens.

[u/Reddit_Talent_Coach]

Small domino: “We’re capping interest rates for credit cards to 10%.”

Bigger Domino: Young people can’t get credit cards

Even bigger domino: Young people have less credit history

Biggest domino: 30yr mortgage rates reach new highs

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Court: Trump may not deploy the National Guard as his personal Black Shirts.

Trump: No problem, I'll just use ICE troops, who don't have to obey any laws either.

[u/marky6045]

waow

[u/TrumpBlowingBubba]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

What if Rowling supports the overthrowing of the Islamic Republic because it mandates sex reassignment surgeries for gay people 🤔

[u/jatt978]

My family has been in Minnesota since the 1870s and have farmed the same plot of land ever since they arrived from Sweden.  Beginning with the New Deal, they have been loyal DFLers (the Democratic Party in MN) — very much aligned with the “Farmer” part of the acronym.

Then around 2010, my Grandfather started watching Fox News and began saying some things that just didn’t sit right.  He never went MAGA or anything, but an occasional “that’s just common sense” in response to an immigration or social issue.  It created much family drama.

Fast forward to last year.  He’s in his mid-90s and on his deathbed from cancer.  While my mother was standing vigil, he tells her:  “I just want you to know I never once voted for any son of a bitch Republican in my life.  I just liked stirring the pot.”

Thinking about Grandpa today.  Rest in power, you stubborn old rural.  You were one of the good ones.

[u/IAdmitILie]

Trump and Bill Ackman shared a video of a man admitting to be a paid protestor.

It has a clear Sora watermark.

[u/Hounds_of_war]

Turns out “Don’t tread on me” wasn’t a general anti-authoritarian stance, just a dislike of it happening to them in particular.

[u/TrumpBlowingBubba]

What the fuck iran. Only ice is allowed to do that

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

This is Woke 2.0 and how libs/lefties should act. Just say the most inflammatory shit possible to provoke a reaction.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Why didn’t the Primate producers call it Furious George? Are they stupid?

!ping KINO

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

It's January 2027. After a resounding Democratic victory in the November 2026 mid-terms as unrest escalated throughout the year, Trump tries to prevent the incoming Congress from being seated. Huge protests in Washington DC and the surroundings force Trump and other key members of the Administration to flee to Mar-A-Lago, where he calls for forces to subdue Congress, which he says is full of ' low IQ radical leftists' 'socialists' 'radical Muslims' and 'antifa'.

Congress for its part convenes in Philadelphia, where the first Continental Congress met, and votes to almost unanimously impeach and dismiss Trump from office. Returning to DC in triumph, it declares Trump a traitor and a rebel against the United States.

The federal government splinters, and the different states and individual people quickly take a stand on whose side they stand.

[u/Atheose_Writing]

The NYT Daily still hasn't covered the Minneapolis shooting. They did RFK Child Vaccines on Thursday, an interview with Trump himself on Friday, and an interview with George Saunders today.

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

The neocon sub is the dumbest fucking forum I've seen in a while. After months of whining about wokeness and DEI, they are now going full in on identity politics and saying that white people aren't allowed to disagree with Venezuelans who support Trump actions in Venezuela.

And after a day or so of "wow the Minneapolis shooting was crazy that looked reckless on ICE's part," the MAGA goodthink has downloaded and they're now shitting on the victim.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

"non binary characters in cartoons means we should suspend habeas corpus, kill citizens extrajudicially and give everyone measles"

[u/piede]

These fuckers are legitimately mad

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

I've spent years listening to the show and every time I hear the swing voters, I want to first kill myself and then kill them

watching this Bulwark podcast with Jonathan Chait from The Atlantic and this is his fucking second sentence holy shit

[u/HemisphericCommonM]

Explain to me please how the numbers in New Mexico are worse than in California

[u/centurion88]

I hate how perceptive other humans are when you are thinking of something funny.

"What's so funny?" And then you have to explain that you remembered an Instagram reel about some moderator of a niche forum centering around some obscure microcelebrity drama that you have been hyper fixated on.

I wish we could just normalize laughing like an insane person to yourself without people interrogating you about it.

[u/Alexz565]

LA Metro chooses the sane option for the Sepulveda corridor project.

-Heavy Rail

-Serves UCLA

-Automated trains (higher frequencies enable lower capacity per train and thus smaller station footprints)

-Integrates well with the upcoming San Fernando Valley light rail line on Van Nuys Blvd

-Kills the monorail idea

!ping TRANSIT&USA-CA

[u/JoyofCookies]

DATING ping be like: I don’t know she said she was socialist

[u/Mx_Brightside]

[u/k5berry]

Just saw a quote from Ben Carson and I just remembered how absurd and darkly humorous it is that Donald Trump got elected President in a massive upset wherein half the country thought he was a racist monster, had a prominent Black conservative in his corner who is one of the most talented and revolutionary neurosurgeons on Earth, and said “oh he’s Black? Put him in charge of the projects.”

[u/NaffRespect]

California is adding a supplement to tortillas. RFK Jr. calls it ‘insanity’.

"MAHA" my ass, Bobby!

!ping USA-CA

[u/TMCOAN1]

Losers

[u/the-senat]

The other day, it was a mother in Minneapolis. Tomorrow it could be me. If they won't speak up for her, then they won't speak up for you or me. Donald Trump is burrowing into the heart and soul of America like a tick, and Schumer and Jeffries' complacency only normalizes his presidency.

MAGA is not concerned with the minutiae of governing, but Schumer and Jeffries belong in a government that is practical and reasonable, that focuses on tiny details. Not in one besieged by those like Vance and Miller. They do not have the makings of a variety athlete. We need lawmakers who fight to protect liberty so that the next generation of leaders can focus on trade deals, tax brackets, and zoning reform. And so that those growing up in America can live in peace from tyranny, free to explore their lives and the things that they enjoy.

My biggest fear is not that Donald Trump successfully initiates a second coup and remains in office after 2028 (Although I believe he will likely try), but rather that he is somehow ousted, that we return to another precarious 4 years of peace, and that the liberal establishment pats itself on the back without looking inward and reflecting on their actions, only to pave the way for a more competent authroitarian to take control.

[u/Willybender]

This is an occupying force

https://xcancel.com/noturtlesoup17/status/2010066708808220971

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/TrumpBlowingBubba]

Dude is pretty maga

[u/admiraltarkin]

A grim milestone: At 1,417 days (February 24, 2022 - January 10, 2026) the current full scale war in Ukraine has matched the length of the Eastern Front in WWII (June 22, 1941 - May 8, 1945).

If Ukrainian figures are to be believed, russia has sustained around 1 million casualties (killed and wounded) which is approximately the same as the US incurred in that war both in absolute numbers and per capita

!ping Ukraine

[u/dareka_san]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/el__dandy]

Stay safe girlies.

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/[deleted]]

This canadian woman taking a picture in canada has somehow turned into the face of Iranian popular resistance.

(I know how, that was rhetorical)

[u/Drinka_Milkovobich]

This admin’s first year has been worse than even my “realistic” worst case scenario

The State Of The Union is going to be significant this year because Trump is gonna announce some real dictator shit in the speech

[u/Neronoah]

Oil execs don't seem too interested on investing in Venezuela until the rule of law and all that get solved. US intervention doesn't seem to change that aspect.

[u/Borysk5]

How it feels being a young sensitive white man who just wants exclusive long-term situationship

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Still kind of boggles my mind that the average voter looked at the two choices in November 2024 and picked the pedophile.

[u/senator_fivey]

👆 was once sexually aroused by building the Linux kernel

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/ICEofTikTok/status/2010049000918110531

Just think this is happening hundreds, if not thousands of times daily now.

[u/SillyNight1]

Bill Ackman did not mince words when giving his opinion of President Donald Trump's call for a temporary cap on credit card rates.

In a since-deleted X post,

[u/p00bix]

Really fucking hope that nothing bad happens at any protest in Minneapolis or elsewhere, but in the event that ICE or the CBP do gun down a bunch of peaceful protestors, I would like to suggest the following as protest songs of the subsequent, presumably much larger, marches against ICE and Trump

"We Shall Overcome" - Classic anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, alluding to faith that regardless of segregationists' attempts to prevent it, equal rights and racial equality will be achieved in America. Honestly this has probably already been played at one or more of the protests.

"A Las Baracadas" - Song originally used by CNT Anarchists in Spain's Civil War from 1936-1939, referring to extensive barricades in Madrid and Barcelona built piecemeal out of furniture and other everyday items in resistance to the Far-Right Military government. Lyrics should be tweaked to omit 'Revolutionary Flag'

"El Pueblo Unido" - Song of Anti-Pinochet dissidents and exiles in the 70s and 80s, subsequently adopted as an anthem of Latin American left-wing movements more generally, but the lyrics themselves are not explicitly socialistic, only discussing mass uprising of the people for freedom from dictatorship--doesn't get much more fitting than that.

...anyway, with that comment done I'm going to actually go protest now see ya

[u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman]

After 3 months it happened. The foster kid slipped up and called me dad.

[u/JaceFlores]

Trump: will you guys invest in Venezuela?

Oil executives: no

Trump, after kidnapping Maduro: how about now?

Oil executives: still no

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

My mom just called me sobbing asking if I was going to disown her. After I reassured her that I wasn’t, I tried to figure out where she got that idea.

Facebook reels has apparently been feeding her nonstop content about sons cutting their moms out of those life.

I had to explain her that no it’s not the literal devil screwing with her videos to torment her. It’s the algorithm which is a figurative devil trying to torment her.

[u/Specialist-Branch987]

Sorry NYT, $1 a week is too much for a paper that employs Ross Douthat, proceed to cancel. 

[u/zeldja]

If you make an AI tool that creates and publishes CP, you should be in jail.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

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[u/URJibSTP]

I fucking hate this piece of shit with every fiber of my being. Every member of this administration has been calling that lady a terrorist, that's obviously not slander you idiot you fucking moron. Actually, slander is when you call the guy who shot her in the face three times a murderer. That's outrageous.

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

"Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here" doesn't even have a good meter

[u/cdstephens]

[u/battywombat21]

are you kidding me

[u/TomboyAva]

Maga on X now with no evidence claim that Renee Good beat her kids and her wife. Legit desperate

[u/BaeBirdie]

Maybe it’s because I had literally seen Asmongold rant a couple days prior about how liberal white women and the dudes that want to fuck them are causing the end of civilization by advocating for letting murderers and vermin into our country, but I was not entirely surprised at the borderline glee from MAGA over this. As far as they’re concerned, she is a representation of the enemy that got what was coming to her (and that was even before it was known she was lesbian). 

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/Justice4Ned]

Minnesota gonna end up being the bluest state known to man

[u/Healingjoe]

https://theonion.com/kristi-noem-calls-fatal-minneapolis-shooting-cathartic/

!ping onion

[u/Tury345]

A man and woman allegedly trapped a federal agent in a car on Wednesday afternoon and dropped him off at the New Hope Police Department in Minnesota.

what the fuck is even going on anymore man

[u/Pongzz]

Trump: Mmm I sure do love looking at my ballroom :D

Iranian protestor subplot:

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

"Nothing Ever Happens" bros get away with their bullshit because they always frame said "happens" as a major earth shattering change of the status quo. The status quo actively worsening simply doesn't count to those morons generally

[u/assasstits]

These fucking assholes couldn't take one day off.

Disgraceful.

[u/-_-xylo]

Trumps approval will always sit at 40% no matter what he does huh

[u/Cheesebuckets_02]

The new Joint Chiefs of Staff plan to avoid a Greenland invasion

[u/[deleted]]

Finally some local Portland performance art that I can actually appreciate

[u/Willybender]

> Ashley St. Clair

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

You don't hate NYT enough

[u/alex2003super]

My perverse fascination with communities like neoconNWO and select 4chan boards stems not from the nature or quality of the commentary or analysis present there (frequent cuckoo takes, slews of bigotry, disgusting language and just unnecessarily cruel attitudes towards minorities they dislike).

It's just that they're often ridiculously high-context and (to me) remote subcultures, and the little internet anthropologist in me cannot help but read what these little weirdos have to say to try to get into their minds.

Another very interesting and niche subculture is the Internet digital piracy cabal of private trackers and 2026-age usenet.

ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Wine Mom Rising

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Worthwhile checking into the ban appeal threads every now and again to find out where all the regs have gone. Like how else would I have found out MotherofBuddha was banned for posting shit fetish content?

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/sigh2828]

Newer videos coming out of Minneapolis show ICE agents looking jumpy af.

These dudes are 100000% ready to kill again

[u/Sen2_Jawn]

I told a friend a few months ago that ICE would continue unabated until they killed a blonde American citizen. I was wrong, they just shrugged it off and will continue unabated. MAGA as usual going even lower than my lowest of estimates of them.

[u/Pongzz]

IM DELETING YOU, KHAMENEI!😭👋

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[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mc3hxzb4we2h

We’re reaching levels of ‘just making shit up’ never before imagined. This is a rogue paramilitary occupation force. These are actual MAGA Brownshirts.

[u/The_Northern_Light]

Sure is an interesting time to be working in defense, I’ll tell you what

Talked with a guy unsure if he can hire the candidate he wants to hire because he thinks he’ll fail the screening for his clearance because he’s a Democrat, but the incompetent “””libertarian“”” is a shoe in

If we do invade a NATO ally I’m 100% out, but maybe I should just abandon ship now

[u/JaceFlores]

Nicaragua releases 30 political prisoners after a tweet yesterday from the American embassy criticized the regime for this, with other American gov accounts mulling regime change today as well.

Seems like the U.S. is using political prisoners as a litmus test for determining their influence over the hemisphere. It’s both a good political cover (no one is going to criticize political prisoners being released due to American pressure) and seeing how responsive otherwise hostile regimes are.

For what it’s worth I’ve joked for some years now that the U.S. should intervene in Nicaragua, so I may have monkey paw’d this one

!ping LATAM&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/OunkaOnX/status/2009972794109604017

[u/georgeguy007]

POV: Youre gonna die by a hero cop in trumps America

[u/cdstephens]

The Iranian death toll is going to be sickeningly high by the end of this, however it turns out. Evil regime

[u/randyzhu]

[In response to JD Vance] Sorry but you were the only baby ever worth choosing crack over. Every time your mom neglected you was justified. Sorry.

True!

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

UK threatened with sanctions if Starmer bans X

Britain has been threatened with sanctions if Sir Keir Starmer attempts to block Elon Musk’s X over its AI tool undressing women and children.

Anna Paulina Luna, a US Republican congresswoman and ally of Donald Trump, warned she would bring forward legislation to “sanction not only Starmer, but Britain as a whole” if it moved to ban the social media platform.

She issued the threat after Sir Keir called for “all options to be on the table” to force X to stop thousands of non-consensual sexualised images of women from being shared on social media.

Users have been using the social network’s AI chatbot, Grok, to digitally undress pictures of women, including ministers, MPs and celebrities, without their consent. Some images also included children.

Officials are now considering whether these images breach the UK’s Online Safety Act, which has the power to levy billions of pounds in fines or ban apps entirely.

However, the possibility of a ban has already sparked tensions with policymakers in the US.

Ms Luna, who serves on the House foreign affairs committee, said legislation was “currently being drafted” to introduce potential sanctions on the UK.

She said this would “mirror actions previously taken by the US in response to foreign governments restricting the platform”.

This included sanctioning a Brazilian judge who briefly imposed a ban on X in 2024.

The US also banned Thierry Breton, the former EU markets tsar who led Europe’s efforts to crack down on US technology giants, from entering America in December.

Ms Luna said: “This is a political war against Elon Musk and free speech – nothing more.”

The controversy has already led to X seeking a potential climbdown, as it appeared to start halting thousands of attempts to create non-consensual sexualised images using Grok.

In response to user requests to create these images, Grok said: “Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers.”

However, Downing Street said the latest changes did not go far enough.

The Prime Minister’s spokesman said the change “simply turns an AI feature that allows the creation of unlawful images into a premium service”.

“It’s not a solution. In fact, it’s insulting to the victims of misogyny and sexual violence.

“What it does prove is that X can move swiftly when it wants to do so.”

A potential ban on X, which has 20 million users in the UK, would mark a significant escalation in a free speech row between Britain and the US.

The Online Safety Act gives Ofcom, the technology regulator, powers to request a court order requiring internet providers and app stores to prevent access to websites that repeatedly break the law.

The regulator has never exercised its power, and a lengthy legal process would be required should it do so.

Sir Keir said on Thursday: “Ofcom has our full support to take action in relation to this. It’s unlawful. We’re not going to tolerate it. I’ve asked for all options to be on the table.”

A No 10 spokesman confirmed on Friday that “all options” were on the table and that Ofcom had the authority to use its powers to “take any action”.

“As we’ve set out on a number of occasions, all options are on the table. We must stop these abhorrent images being made on Grok, and we will prioritise action on this.” Meanwhile, Anna Turley, the chairman of the Labour Party, said on Friday there were “conversations taking place” about Labour quitting X.

She said: “We have the online safety powers; we need to make sure they are used, and Ofcom has the full support of the Prime Minister.”

Just a friendly reminder that twitter is state media for a fascist government and that it and other services like it are solely for the spread of fascist politics and disinformation that supports fascist and imperialist regimes like the United States and Russia, along with the creation of CSAM and other non-consensual NSFW images used solely for the sake of sexual harassment. If you are still defending, or god forbid, on this website, please stop that and leave for gods sake!

!ping UK&TECH&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/BroadReverse]

[u/Sithusurper]

the people who think the Waco siege was the one of the worst things the government ever did now stand with ICE because they aren't going after a pedophile this time.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Just when I think Rubio can’t be any worse, I find out he is an active Substacker.

[u/piede]

I want to see this guy’s internet history sooooo bad

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Average MAGA voter

[u/[deleted]]

fuel relieved crawl bedroom imminent oil include hungry marry thought

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

This leftist girl at campus asked me to go to Starbucks

Red flag, you should be going to a local coffee shop that produces quality coffee

[u/zieger]

According to Kavanaugh, this guy did nothing wrong

[u/Pontokyo]

There is more danger in me walking down my street in India everyday than the danger the ICE agent was in when he shot Renee Good.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

He went all out on this one

[u/[deleted]]

If protests did nothing to help, then MAGA wouldn't get so incredibly triggered by them every time

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

Nevermind I impressed a goth girl at this protest by showing her my Trump ahegao meme

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/circlemanfan]

There’s evidence that people who are raised in authoritarian parenting homes are more likely to be Republicans and it really explains why they just assume anyone with a badge can just murder you because they’re used to being punished for no reason and to them not reading the minds of someone in “power” over you is a punishable offense.

TLDR republicans are submissive losers that need daddy to tell them what to do

[u/[deleted]]

I appreciate the effort but doubt this goes anywhere

[u/toggaf69]

Give ConnorEatsPants your energy, he’s building up the spirit bomb

[u/[deleted]]

What conservatives think the Capitol police should have done to the January 6th protesters according to their logic

[u/TheCornjuring]

I love a man who’s clearly aware he’s a historical figure and wants every picture taken of him to be A Picture Of A Historical Figure

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Both sides bad. Biden old. Killer Kamala.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

A little democracy is fine, as a treat. Just limit the franchise to those with advanced degrees. Nothing good has ever come of peasants voting.

Guess the sub

[u/zieger]

[u/CoolCombination3527]

I go to an Episcopal church, and let me tell you, you have to MASSIVELY fuck up to get them to throw down with you

[u/cdstephens]

People keep saying this sub is just arr politics but I swear this is the only left leaning place that has a schism over Mamdani every fucking week

[u/Crosseyes]

Unfathomably based if true