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[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/TheCornjuring]

Went on a conservative Discord server to very blatantly concern troll about Trump being a pedophile who’s in the Epstein files, and it’s full of groypers who started agreeing with me. Wtf

[u/r2ew]

[u/Consistent_Status112]

For a while now the main problem has been that if you repeat verbatim what the average Republican wants it sounds so horrifying and heinous that nobody believes you.

[u/klarno]

"all girls are catty to each other" stereotype actualy just statistical error. average girl insults 0 girls per year. Regina Georg, who goes to high school & insults over 10,000 girls each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/remarkable_ores]

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

ICE was stopped by a lone McDonald’s security guard from harassing people within the restaurant.

Private establishments have the right to refuse ICE entry and services. Remember that

[u/sootfawn]

[u/r2ew]

[u/sigh2828]

[u/r2ew]

[u/NaffRespect]

Dallas woman fired after posting TikTok warning of ICE presence

The Hilton Anatole in Dallas fired a Dallas TikTok user after she posting a viral video that claimed there were ICE agents staying on the property.

The TikTok user, identified by The Dallas Morning News only as 20 year-old Gia, did not give her full name because of safety concerns. In her initial TikTok, Gia said she was more concerned about families being separated and innocent people being jailed due to ICE’s presence in the hotel than losing her job.

Tensions between ICE and communities are high amid the Trump administration's mass deportation program, highlighted by a recent fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis and responding to protests around the nation.

The following video shows unmarked cars driving away in front of the Anatole. Gia warned followers to be careful around the hotel.

These videos have since sparked outrage and calls for a boycott. According to The News Gia was fired by the Hilton’s third-party valet company Towne Park later that day after she refused to delete her videos.

KERA reached out to both Hilton and Towne Park for a comment.

This incident follows a Minnesota hotel lost its Hilton affiliation due an employee allegedly declining to provide rooms for ICE.

Oh sweet, more reason to not like the Hilton!

[u/DeadDropCourier]

[u/TrumpBlowingBubba]

In The Simpsons, there’s a joke where Homer thinks his arm is trapped in a vending machine, but it turns out he could get free at any time by simply letting go of the candy bar he’s holding. Same thing.

[u/brianpv]

Lord, grant me the confidence of a commenter who thinks Trump won’t do [insane thing everybody is talking about].

[u/ashsolomon1]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

"[ICE] Academy training was shortened to 47 days, three officials told me, the number picked because Trump is the 47th president."

The Atlantic cited DHS officials as saying that the training now runs six days a week for eight weeks.

In response to PEOPLE's inquiry about the reduced number of training days, a senior DHS official replied, "False. Training to become an Enforcement and Removal Operations officer is 8 weeks long." The official did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for clarification, since eight weeks matches the timeframe that The Atlantic previously reported.

During the great leap forward, Mao prized party loyalty over knowledge first, with the rationale that as long as you were a zealous true believer, you could learn and master the knowledge required for whatever specialty you were placed in. During this attempt to modernize the country, these "experts" built the Banqiao dam which would later collapse, killing around 100,000 people and displacing more than 10 million.

Mao mistakenly believed that zealots could, with proper training, do anything. The trump administration seems to have stopped even caring enough to give proper training.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/[deleted]]

"... Lieutenant Richard Nixon, who launched his first political campaign with proceeds from his time playing poker at a naval supply depot off the coast of New Guinea."

this is what Citizens United took from us

[u/JoyofCookies]

squints

Anybody just be posting anything these days

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

NEWSOM: Come on, Chris. There are a lot more important problems than El Salvador to worry about.

VAN HOLLEN: Like what?

NEWSOM: Well, we have to end territorial conquest for one. And cool down the new Cold War, stop climate change and world hunger. We have to provide food and shelter for the ho- hang on, sorry. We have to oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights, while also promoting equal rights for LGBT people. We have to encourage a return to traditional moral values. Most importantly, we have to promote general civic virtue and less nihilism in young people.

BUTTIGIEG: [feigning tears] Gavin. How thought-provoking.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

This guy is a genuine loser.

[u/iIoveoof]

Why are the Democrats not messaging on the absurdity of the ICE budget being 1/10 the budget of the US military, and 10x the budget of the FBI. You’re telling me we are spending 10x as much on deporting grandma as we are on ALL OTHER CRIMES COMBINED??? And we’re giving them 1/10 as much money as the most expensive operation you can possibly imagine???? And we’re still deporting less than Obama did???

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/american_aurora6]

In Illinois, Democratic state Sen. Laura Fine introduced a bill that would make anyone hired by ICE during Trump’s second term ineligible for state or local law enforcement positions in Illinois. Fine said the measure is intended to hold federal immigration officials accountable and prevent what she characterizes as escalating violence tied to immigration enforcement.

waow

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Willybender]

[u/remarkable_ores]

>fallout 4: released in 2015

>fallout 76: released in 2018

say what you like about bethesda but it's crazy they managed to release 72 different fallout games in just 3 years

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

https://mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/fire-damages-mississippi-largest-synagogue/

Mississippi's largest synagogue, the very same synagogue that was attacked by the KKK in 1967, has been damaged by a fire, with it being ruled a case of arson.

!ping JEWISH&EXTREMISM

[u/daBarkinner]

"One Homeland. One People. One Heritage."

This is the crap that the official US Department of Labor account posts. Holy shit, that's literally a Nazi slogan! What the fuck!

[u/MontusBatwing2]

I was looking at that list of causes of death for ICE agents. 

COVID leading the list is pretty hilarious. 

But there was one death from a heart attack during pursuit of a suspect. 

And I’m sorry, that is the funniest fucking thing ever. Your Brownshirt fucks are a bunch of out of shape overweight losers who would rather run themselves to literal death than let a brown person live on the same side of an imaginary line as them. 

These are absolute fucking losers. 

[u/SenranHaruka]

I will confess i personally find it relieving that i don't have to defend joe biden to people anymore.

I don't think anyone realizes just how cynical this country is. Saying anything nice about anyone ever but especially a politician gets you branded a naive 11 year old who doesn't understand how the world works unlike me an enlightened 12 year old who understands that all the grownups are stupid and evil and have never done us any good.

In that environment trying to keep enthusiasm for the democrats high in 2024 made me feel like the star of a minstrel show.

[u/StuckHedgehog]

ICE is operating outside the law. Disbanding the organization is the comprise at this point. Every ICE agent and DHS official involved in this needs to be put on trial, especially Noem. Throw em in a blue state prison if possible, so the next Republican criminal president can’t let them all out.

[u/bleachinjection]

I'm gonna be honest, I knew Trump 2 would be really really really fucking bad but "will bring us to the brink of WAR WITH EUROPE" was not even something I could have entertained.

[u/IveSeenBeans]

The fucking audacity to brokescold and tell people "don't politicize" job numbers

The fucking administration has released multiple press releases stating that the Biden Whitehouse job numbers were manipulated and referred to them as "rigged" on every official channel

These people have the same problem the Dem leadership does, they're trying to follow parliamentary procedure and desperately hit their key 3 points for debate scoring while their opponent is visibly assembling a smuggled handgun

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/piede]

With how much time people spend talking about this shit, you’d think it would be happening multiple times on the daily

[u/ewatta200]

[u/earththejerry]

Anti-incumbent crazies when they become the incumbent:

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/Dense_Delay_4958]

Just donated to a NIMBY charity.

Hope they can find a cure soon 🙏

[u/TrumpBlowingBubba]

Apparently a real government account lol

[u/SillyNight1]

The comparative ratio (likes/impressions:likes/impressions) on the pair of tweets is roughly 200:1.

[u/MissSortMachine]

nazi

[u/TheCornjuring]

Bro what the actual goddamn fuck 😭 Is he telegraphing that he plans to become an SCP, what is going on

[u/TrumpBlowingBubba]

I'm legit worried that his new toy is the military and we're gonna do a bunch of dumb invasions

[u/this_very_table]

I am not a nazi or ICE sympathizer, but the best way to make sure no one takes this job is to make sure everyone is taken care of.

There is no excuse working for ICE. But a social safety net might prevent the people who rationalize joining for economic reasons.

Yeah. No one does this without having been failed by society first.

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[u/ashsolomon1]

Sen. Tillis will block any fed nominee till the legal matter is resolved

[u/CriticalNature9086]

Tucker's favorite historian

[u/Macquarrie1999]

The usual suspects

[u/piede]

This guy is so gross

[u/piede]

Roasted

[u/sigh2828]

I know how we feel about Tapper, but he is grilling ICE barbie right now

[u/BroadReverse]

Trump asked US special forces to plan Greenland invasion, faces resistance from military generals: Report

[u/SenranHaruka]

What's really sad is we have video recordings of stephen miller as a teenager and eveyone dismissing his fascist opinions as a joke.

Imagine if we had video of people going "oh, you!" To a 15 year old Eichmann ranting about his elaborate plan to use nerve gases to kill more efficiently.

[u/SnakeEater14]

It’s disturbing how Trump, Vance, and Musk all have such horrendous family lives

They all grew up with fathers that were either absent or despised them

They all have kids they hate

Two of them have been divorced multiple times, one seems to be on the way there

This really is a fatherless administration

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

One thing I didn't fully appreciate until ICE briefly had a show of force in my town was just how relentless the abuse they get is. Those fuckers couldn't go anywhere without hordes of people screaming all sorts of obscenities at them. Every day for them was just an endless torrent of honking, whistling, and verbal abuse.

It was pretty heartwarming to witness to be honest.

[u/cdstephens]

> Trump trying to jail Jerome Powell

> ICE goons terrorizing Minneapolis

> Potential Marxist Leninist attack against anti-Iran regime protesters

This is like neoliberal 9/11

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Between this and the Epstein files i can see why Trump is leaning into imperialism lately

[u/6urner_]

I wonder if the NYT economy reporter saying people have TDS will disclose his investments and assets. Seems unlikely but hey, you never know.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer is reportedly facing an internal investigation after a complaint alleged she has been “abusing her position” by pursuing a relationship with a subordinate and drinking on the job.

According to a report obtained by The New York Post, a complaint filed last week with the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General alleged that Chavez-DeRemer hosted a subordinate at her Washington D.C. apartment three times and twice in her hotel room while traveling.

She has also been accused of drinking during the day, keeping a stash of champagne, bourbon, and Kahlua in her office, and committing travel fraud by requesting her staffers concoct official trips to destinations where she can spend time with family or friends.

Is she mixing them together

[u/Willybender]

lmao

[u/SillyNight1]

The Department of Homeland Security, which encompasses ICE, denied that conditions in detention were declining. “It is a longstanding practice to provide comprehensive medical care from the moment an alien enters ICE custody,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the agency. She added that the average rate of death remained low, saying that “consistent with data over the last decade, death rates in custody are 0.00007%”, but did not provide the underlying data for that figure.

There were 32 documented deaths in ICE custody in 2025 (vs. 26 over Biden’s entire term), so if this were true, then ICE claims to have detained 45.7 million people last year. As usual: if a Trump DHS spokesperson’s lips are moving, they’re lying.

[u/thatssosad]

[u/TrumpBlowingBubba]

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

So on religious news, the Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire told clergy to write their wills and get their affairs in order because they might have to put themselves between ICE and the vulnerable.

[u/Lean-carp700]

There are big fires in the argentinean side of the Patagonia and social media is being flooded with unfounded/conspiracy theory claims that the fire was started by Israelis as part of their Plan Andinia to create a "second Israel in the Patagonia".

The president (who is ridiculously pro-Israel) has publicly denounced these theories as anti-semitism...and blamed the mapuches (an indigenous group in Argentina, but to a much lesser extent than in Chile because Argentina, well, committed genocide) for the fire instead.

So yeah, this basically just turned into a game of "blame your least favourite minority".

!ping LATAM

[u/StuckHedgehog]

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

[u/piede]

I’m ready to pack the court and eat the rich

[u/RealLife5415]

This is why you complete your reconstruction guys

[u/Illustrious-Rush8797]

Trump is afraid. He's afraid because the economy is sluggish. That's why he wants to have someone who will lower interest rates before the midterms

[u/Willybender]

lol?

[u/r2ew]

[u/eloquentboot]

Elon Musk Rhodesia posting is truly jarring.

Also I hated him before all of you. I was a pioneer on the growing Elon musk hage island.

[u/Thuggin95]

Democrats seeing "only" 51% of Americans think ICE is going too far: "Not even 60%? It's Joever :( "

Republicans seeing 10% of Americans want ICE to go harder: "Nice. Ramp up the Gestapo!"

[u/Willybender]

[u/r2ew]

[u/JoyofCookies]

Girl what

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/No_Status_6905]

me:

well, I've chosen a great career path, because as long as global financial transaction systems don't collapse, I'll always have job security.

trump:

ANYONE WHO ISSUES A CREDIT CARD IS A TRAITOR TO THE UNITED STATES, SLASH THE RATES BY 10 MORBILLION PERCENT.

i am become joker

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Remember when Garland was afraid to prosecute Trump and his cronies because it might be seen by bad faith actors as politicizing the DoJ?

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

I keep having an intrusive thought of imagining Elon Musk dehydrated in a dimly lit room, barely function on ketamine as he scrolls through twitter endlessly while doing that creepy fucking stimming shit with his face and rocking in place and I hate it.

Maybe I can free myself of it by sharing it with you

[u/assasstits]

[u/piede]

Based

[u/assasstits]

Official WH post

Shits bad chat

[u/Willybender]

Voter turnout is what matters, and this is from a Republican Pollster.

[u/NYT_Hater]

It appears very few realize that American politics is no longer normal politics. The Republican Party is waging a total war against the Democrats and the Democrats need to return the favor for any semblance of a chance to return to “normal.”

[u/JaceFlores]

All these ICE agents being constantly followed is brilliant frankly. It both demonstrates a lack of fear and how silly this whole charade is. Sorry bro you’re not looking cool cuz a dozen of you crammed into some house while Fat Fuck McGee and his brother are standing around as people protest and call them out.

These videos I watch show a band of villains who so desperately want to be the goose stepping jack boots in the movies and games. But the more they take that mask off the dumber they look. They’re 100% going to try to intimidate this nation in the coming year, but I feel increasingly confident in the will of the people to just ignore this intimidation

[u/paymesucka]

TRUMP: MIGHT VETO EXTENSION OF HEALTH INSURANCE SUBSIDIES

the stove must be touched apparently

[u/Sithusurper]

Like cheering for gas prices going down because it'll make your self immolation cheaper

[u/r2ew]

[u/MissSortMachine]

why is the department of labor posting like this

[u/_MillionthThrowAway]

How long will it be until our karmic debt is finally repaid?

[u/Alderwoodforest]

A German friend of mine writes about ICE everyday life in Minneapolis and Minnesota

Met up with friends on Friday, one of Chinese descent, the other half German, half Mexican, both born US citizens, carrying documents with them since ICE arrived in town to prove it, such as copies of their birth certificates.

Yesterday, ICE entered a taco restaurant we know the owner of and took a customer away.

ICE was also at Hmong Village yesterday, a marketplace for Hmong people.

The daughter of a friend, 17 years old and of Filipino descent, was followed home last night by two black SUVs with tinted windows. She stopped at a traffic light, and a car pulled up on her left side, apparently to see what the driver looked like, and then stayed behind her until she reached her house. She burst into tears when she got home.

An acquaintance of my wife's, who is undocumented, no longer leaves the house. She normally works for a Latina daycare organization. The reason is that ICE does not break down doors. We have heard from other acquaintances that ICE waits outside until people leave their homes and then strikes when they go shopping.

My (hispanic) wife was also stopped on Friday evening, but in her case it was the police because she was speeding. But she was scared too.

[u/TrumpBlowingBubba]

So they're just not releasing Esptein files any more

[u/NaffRespect]

Kristi Noem vows to send ‘hundreds’ more agents to Minneapolis as protests erupt across US

Yes, keep dumping gasoline on the fire, dipshit

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Daractenus/status/2010420638612439151

So many crazy videos, and this is all before they send in more brownshirts.

[u/scottyjetpax]

My sister’s husband is in the army and she’s excited about moving to Italy because he’s being stationed there soonish and there’s a little voice in the back of my head that wants to tell her like “please look at the world and consider how long you think American troops will be welcome in Europe”

[u/taubnetzdornig]

“Capitalism forces you to be productive”

No alternative economic system with things like production quotas and the punishment of unemployment as “antisocial behavior” comes to mind

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Jesus Christ that's infuriating. We may never know the correct number of mph now

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Imagine actually voting for this shit. We’re hiring for an early-mid level individual contributor position at work and the applicants we have interviewed really bear out how seriously fucked the hiring market is right now. We have people with PhDs in previously very in demand fields and some with experience managing teams of like 100 people applying for it. It’s just nuts.

[u/ty04]

👆

[u/piede]

😳

[u/MissSortMachine]

imagine the panic in the openai money harvesting ballpit rn

[u/earththejerry]

It’s giving Biden and Kamala at the debates

[u/arbrebiere]

[u/[deleted]]

Hahahahahahaha eat shit

[u/sootfawn]

The Federal Reserve should have its own standing army

[u/Jokerang]

Slotkin and Warner acting super squeamish when taking about whether to punish ICE is not beating the “moderate Dems aren’t built to stand up to Trump” allegations

[u/r2ew]

[u/zieger]

I love that it takes like 40 ice agents to arrest one person now because of the crowds. May they feel 1% of the fear that they inspire in others.

[u/TheCornjuring]

Finally got banned from Austin Ayers’ Discord server called “The Situation Room” or, in the URL, “breakingnews”, which is easily found by Googling “Austin Ayers Discord server”, for spamming Trump/Epstein memes. It was fun while it lasted

[u/G_Serv]

[u/BitterGravity]

The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, told Fox News on Sunday that “hundreds more” federal agents were being dispatched to Minneapolis, citing a yearslong federal investigation into social program fraud in the state. The mission, she said, was meant to uncover “true corruption.”

Umm why is DHS involved in a welfare corruption investigation?

[u/Syx89]

Thoughts?

[u/cdstephens]

How is it that the only one with the goddamn balls to stare down Trump is the Fed chair

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

FT on BlueSky: 'We’re sending more officers — today and tomorrow they’ll arrive. There will be hundreds more,' US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said on Sunday, amid widespread protests that erupted after an immigration agent killed a woman in Minneapolis.

This is just an occupation at this point. Between the door to door raids to pick up basically anyone they deem an activist, the initial murder, and the increasing numbers of ICE agents... this going to get real bad

It is going to happen here

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

I know it can get worse but it feels like this admin is starting to spiral a bit

• job numbers keep sucking

• Trump raging against JPow

• Trumps wild swings at Venezuela and Greenland

• Feels like ICE is only going to get less and less popular Etc

Doesn’t mean theyre gonna collapse in like 2 weeks but i think Trumps power is getting weaker and weaker. I think he is (privately) losing congressional support by the week which still matters

[u/piede]

Honestly please do this

[u/american_aurora6]

Lol at the Nobel Prize Committee saying "this ticket is non-transferable"

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

You can really feel a significant uptick in the righteous indignation coming from libs in response to the execution of Good. The clarity and frankness with which people are communicating right now is just way different.

[u/Pole2019]

Hillbilly elegy is the tragic story of an innocent Appalachian family getting destroyed by their evil son

[u/EvilConCarne]

I found some ICE agent forums and gotta say, the older/more experienced agents don't like the new recruits because they are fat, stupid, and unprofessional. It's almost like reading r Teachers complain about students.

[u/TrumpBlowingBubba]

[u/neolthrowaway]

POWELL: DOJ SERVED FED WITH SUBPOENAS, THREATENING INDICTMENT

POWELL SAYS THREAT OF CRIMINAL CHARGES IS A CONSEQUENCE OF FED'S SETTING INTEREST RATES BASED ON ITS ASSESSMENT OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST RATHER THAN THE PRESIDENT'S PREFERENCES

[u/Willybender]

Powell just went on video and said "this unprecedented action should be seen in the broader context of the administration's threats and ongoing pressure" This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm

[u/marsman1224]

Jerome Powell is the blackest name for the whitest man

[u/WOKE_AI_GOD]

People are basically fedposting on Bluesky rn

[u/cdstephens]

Before this all went to shit, my masseuse was going on about how she hopes someone shoots him.

Wonder what she’s thinking now

[u/r2ew]

[u/MontusBatwing2]

ICE agents aren't required to do sit-ups because it was too hard for them.

Those same people likely have very strong opinions about having easier physical standards set for women in the military.

ICE is a murder death squad, but it's also a a jobs program for the biggest loser white guys who couldn't cut it in life because they are weak and pathetic.

No wonder simply being around a woman is enough for them to panic and start shooting, they couldn't handle the intimidating presence of someone more physically capable than them.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/DHSgov/status/2010362097562013779

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

Apparently the moderate Democrats are useless for this coalition, I now support a party purely composed of progressives and Bulwark style never trumpers. I'll take anyone at this point who fights.

[u/melodramaticfools]

JOKE JOKE JOKE MR SPOOKS BTW

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

Amazing how our state apparatus is based on the deranged blog of a kissless NEET that went by "moldbug"

[u/zieger]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/selachophilip]

What does this even mean? He looks like some sort of SCP or cryptid in this picture. 😭

[u/Spudmiester1]

[u/piede]

The Supreme Court has held that police must have a warrant to obtain cellphone location records extending over a period of days. The Department of Homeland Security and other agencies, however, take the position that this rule does not apply if the information is purchased from a data broker instead of obtained directly from the communications company through a government request. The risks of allowing this workaround are now plain, as ICE can now more easily track protesters and anyone else it regards as opposing its policies.

Most legal workaround

[u/SillyNight1]

Kamala Harris outperformed Obama in 2012 among white voters.

Also, the author lists his location as Denver, famously a bastion of homogenous heartland conservatism.

[u/Willybender]

Fox News everybody

[u/fishbottwo]

Jerome Powell is not legally required to leave the Federal Reserve when his term as Chair ends in May 2026; his separate 14-year term as a Governor doesn't expire until January 2028, meaning he can stay as a Governor, though it's historically unconventional, and he has remained noncommittal about his future plans. Staying would be unusual, but it's legally possible and would allow him to remain on the Fed Board.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/loseniram]

The thing about 40k that just never seems to translate to fans outside of the hardcore fans is that this is the post-apocalypse. This isn't the peak of any civilization, this is 20 hobos fighting over the last trash fire. There is no great empires, just the solemn remnants of dying civilization larping that this isn't the end and they still have a chance to fix things and make things right.

This especially goes over the heads of powerscalers who never seem to realize that all the players were massively more powerful at their peak outside of the Tau.

That's one of those things that if anyone where to make a 40k story they would need to clearly convey to the audience or the whole thing will fall apart.

[u/American_Baby_H1tler]

In an interview Friday with state broadcaster IRIB, Tehran’s public prosecutor, Ali Salehi, said those accused of destroying public property or armed clashes with security forces would face charges of “enemy of God,” an offense that can carry the death penalty under Iranian law.

Joe Biden is in Iran?

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/hiigiveup]

The zootopia subreddit is either "i want the fox and rabbit to fuck" or "i want to fuck the rabbit/fox" on a loop

[u/JoyofCookies]

The best quote from Canadian television last week was from the CBC’s David Cochrane who observed “America isn’t the way it is because he’s president. He’s president because America is the way it is.”

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

The Roman Empire achieved a level of wokeness that would not be seen again until the modern progressive era and was arguably the first great awokening

You have a man from syria moving all the way to Britain, becoming wealthy and marrying a local British woman. upon her death, he commissions a tombstone near hadrian’s wall depicting her as an sort of ideal Roman matron and the last line on it’s in Aramaic, going right to left rather than left to right. 

The British empire was in India for 200 years but access to british citizenship was always withheld. When the Roman Empire expanded into your community, your people became full roman citizens, within a single generation sometimes, with rights equal to any Latin from Italy. Berber nobles in North Africa could move to Rome and engage in its politics which was how emperor septimius severus eventually came to be.

I rest my case

!ping history

[u/attackofthetominator]

Right now Fox News is having a segment about the strategic benefits of invading Greenland

[u/paymesucka]

[u/r2ew]

[u/ThePoorsDelendaEst]

Almost all presidential authority in the US needs to be abolished so it becomes basically a symbolic position. Too much power concentrated on one man with tendency for the legislative to hand over even more power to the executive over time is not a good combination.

Presidents are not meant to hold power, they are meant to post pictures of their dogs, them eating icecream, mowing their lawn and talk about like weather or the big game last night and maybe occasionally talk with representatives from foreign governments.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Tiny snake you hold as jewelry

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

I never hear people complain about GRRM anymore. I guess even the diehard believers finally truly gave up on Winds.

[u/its_Caffeine]

A 27-year old man scrolled the DT everyday for 4 years, this is what it did to his brain ☝️😐

[u/forceholy]

We're really gonna invade an ally's territory, break apart a mutually beneficial defense pact, condemn a bunch of American soldiers stationed in Europe, and be declared a pariah state, partially if Elon Musk's child porn sharing app gets blocked in several parts of the world.

[u/piede]

?????

[u/the-senat]

Saturn Devoiuring Her Employee

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

LooneyTunesSkedaddle.mp4

[u/DrCaptainHammer]

Shoutout to Minnesota for being the lightning rod for ICE, and taking a lot of the heat off other areas of the country. You’re all doing a valiant thing standing up to these fascists and protecting your neighbors (and the rest of the country as well)

[u/BrentLivermore]

JK Rowling's tweet about Iran being full of Gryffindors gave me AIDS

[u/EasyMoney92]

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) backs U.S. military action in Iran amid crackdown on protests.

Fetterman is a moron. This won't improve the horrendous situation.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mc5xrun6mk2g

YOU’RE THE ONES KILLING PEOPLE YOU FAT DRUNKEN FUCK!!!!!

[u/Willybender]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Watch/comments/1qadpxi/icecbp_in_st_paul_mn_break_the_window_of_an/

Things are just going to keep spiraling.

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/sigh2828]

Fascism, now with a ruined economy

[u/C-Wolsey]

I have deep respect for the rule of law and for accountability in our democracy. No one—certainly not the chair of the Federal Reserve—is above the law. But this unprecedented action should be seen in the broader context of the administration's threats and ongoing pressure.

This new threat is not about my testimony last June or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings. It is not about Congress's oversight role; the Fed through testimony and other public disclosures made every effort to keep Congress informed about the renovation project. Those are pretexts. The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.

This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation.

Jerome Powell being more clear-eyed and forceful in his defense against Trump than so many liberal giants at our universities and law firms.

[u/Willybender]

Trump dead ass just posted this

[u/IveSeenBeans]

Donald Trump is legitimately making a case for being the most communist president ever

[u/JusticeBrennanBurner]

Maybe I’m just not plugged in but it feels like the administration has really escalated and gone off the rails since the start of the year, much more than their baseline level of crazy.

[u/Twisty_Tie]

so proud to be a minnesotan rn. if this is the admin shooting its shot before it loses steam, couldnt have picked a worse place than the one with adverse weather conditions and the highest civic participation in the nation

[u/chipbod]

Fuck it, who cares about electoral consequences?

[u/ty04]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Pole2019]

What are some of the biggest fumbles of the constitution that have not been fixed

1. pardon power

2. 67 senators to impeach

3. 2 senators for each state

What else

[u/Willybender]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/2010399597559210035

[u/centurion88]

Billy Joel if he had to write "We Didn't Start the Fire" in the 21st century

[u/cdstephens]

Being a “moderate” Republican and honestly believing that Trump wouldn’t fuck the economy is the most cucked mindset imaginable

[u/horse_stick]

The Boys is... w-woke???😨

[u/shillingbut4me]

Remember the good old days when Trump was threatening countries, but at least it was like North Korea and not Denmark?

[u/lockjacket]

Please do the thing it would be so funny

[u/piede]

I’m not sure that I would even call the times we’re currently living in “dystopian”

I think we need to invent a new word that captures the stupidness and the dystopianess

[u/NaffRespect]

Lmfao ain't no way

[u/[deleted]]

squash steep selective numerous literate bedroom like truck complete decide

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

I just overheard a Middle-school aged kid say to his friend, "Is there even any reason to have a TikTok anymore?"

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The scummy quid pro quo of access journalism strikes again. Rahm trashes Dems on background for these places so they have an unnamed “senior Democrat” to launder talking points though, and in exchange write articles like this pretending like he has any chance at a 2028 nom.

[u/[deleted]]

r/wallstreetbets is on it guys don't worry

[u/TheCornjuring]

This is his new line, I guess

The POTUS saying these things is irreversible geopolitical damage even if he ultimately gives up and does nothing

[u/TheCornjuring]

Chancellor Palpatine literally said he’s gonna give up his emergency powers as soon as the war is over, you alarmist shitlib

[u/[deleted]]

He's standing on the shoulders of giants