An armed man arrested at the U.S. Capitol said he planned to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and burn down The Heritage Foundation, federal authorities say.

Ryan Michael English, 24, of Massachusetts (), was found with a knife and two Molotov cocktails on Monday afternoon near the south door of the Capitol, U.S. District Court records say.

"I'd like to turn myself in," English said after he approached a U.S. Capitol Police officer, the records say.

Officers detained and searched him and found he had a folding knife, a lighter and two 50-mililiter bottles of vodka with a gray cloth attached to the top.

English told officers he went to the Capitol to kill Bessent, who was being confirmed as Treasury secretary. He said he had more Molotov cocktails in his car.

He said he left home on Sunday with the intention to kill Hegseth, who he called a "Nazi," and Johnson, as well as burn down The Heritage Foundation. He said he aimed to "depose" the officials and send a message, records say.

As English headed to D.C., he stopped at a library in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and saw Reddit posts about Bessent's confirmation hearing. He then altered his intended target, the records say.

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!trump2024 !trump2028 !project2025 !the_donald !chuds !accelerationists !fedposters

Artist is @ corndoggylol on twitter. Stalk him with a follow if you want to, child.

Goodbye Regular season. By my spreadsheet that was 272 NFL games you could bet on, meaning a single bet/game (which I did) would mean you risked 54,400 . Being a savy better (like me) you surely got some return on investment. Over the season I netted +573 (week 18 killed me), so with all that risk and reward I'm up 1.053%! Look out for me Wall Street! I'm also -43,200 on Dramacoin scholarships to anyone who asked for money to gamble, while I never asked for anyone to pay it back @Freak-Off did to the tune of 12,600 dc essentially borrowed. You can see that I'm a true financial megamind.

Playoff time: 4 threads left & 13 games left to bet on- WildCard (6), Divisional (4), Conference (2), and Super Bowl (1)

Here's the bracket- your team is in it. Right, anon?

If you weren't in it, your team surely is shaking off some dead weight and acquiring new talent so next year can be your year. Happy Black Monday, you got it champ! I was going to find a nice list of all the firings, but haven't found one yet. We'll see if that changes.

pings: !mensfootball !goomblers !bets @BILLYBIGBOLLOCKS @Freak-Off @Drippo @SpudsMackenzie

Wild card weekend is 2 Saturday games (4:30 & 8), 3 Sunday games (1, 4:30, 8), and 1 Monday Night Game (8)

2 Points of order

1. Regular Season MVP betting is still open. Voting will be open until the announcements prior to the super bowl because why not.

2. I'm doing one bonus bet in this thread only! Of the 14 teams in the playoffs, pick the Super Bowl Champion. This will close prior to the first game at SATURDAY JAN 11TH 4:00 EASTERN TIME (US)

Who will be the Super Bowl LIX Winner

Enter BetAFC-1 Chiefs (15-2) - 32 bets

Enter BetNFC-1 Lions (15-2) - 47 bets

Enter BetAFC-2 Bills (13-4) - 16 bets

Enter BetNFC-2 Eagles (14-3) - 26 bets - WINNER!

Enter BetAFC-3 Ravens (12-5) - 20 bets

Enter BetNFC-3 Buccaneers (10-7) - 5 bets

Enter BetAFC-4 Texans (10-7) - 4 bets

Enter BetNFC-4 Rams (10-7) - 7 bets

Enter BetAFC-5 Chargers (11-6) - 3 bets

Enter BetNFC-5 Vikings (14-3) - 4 bets

Enter BetAFC-6 Steelers (10-7) - 6 bets

Enter BetNFC-6 Commanders (formerly Football Team (formerly Redskins)) (12-5) - 5 bets

Enter BetAFC-7 Broncos (10-7) - 7 bets

Enter BetNFC-7 Packers (11-6) - 4 bets

I was really lazy this week and didn't save much of anything clip related. Here's more of the duck from that Buccaneers game

closed

Greetings dramanauts. Today were gonna look /u/SashaButNotGray1. I found this specimen when scrolling through /r/probation . Our friend is originally from Texas where he got in a little kerfuffle . He accepted the plea for two years probation on a second degree felony charge to misdemeanor assault. He went to the best place for advice, Reddit dot com , for his new life on probation. This was three months ago.

https://old.reddit.com/r/probation/comments/1g63idg/accepted_plea/

Fast forward to today. Homie fled the county . He went to Europe . But not to Germany , Finland , or even Italy . He went to fricking Russia! Now he wants to get back to the good ol US of A because he learned what everyone in Russia already knows, Russia sucks . Now he runs back to the best place for advice, Reddit dot com. Jannies do their thing!

https://old.reddit.com/r/probation/comments/1ikgyhc/i_left_country/

Like every other r-slurred zoomoid, he's been rug pulled on a meme coin.

https://old.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/1fbeqc8/cannot_get_my_jup/

https://old.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/1fbet3e/coin_base_scam/

He's even got the zoomer haircut.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rhinoplastyquestions/comments/1citfhw/6_months_post_op/

Anyways, /u/SashaButNotGray1, best of luck to you. You stupid, stupid man.

https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ita2zl/angry_bride_struggles_through_vows_as_guest_lets/

!thotpatrol !babykillers

The bombings were supposed to happen at 9 AM. When medics and police would centralize around the bombed buses, there were suicide teams ready to explode in other parts of major cities. Then Palestinians from Judea and Samaria would storm the fences for an October 7th 2.0.

One woman saw the suspicious package on the bus and alerted the driver to get everyone off the bus. It exploded after everyone got off. Then the call went out to the other buses and two more exploded without anyone on them. Three other buses were found with bombs on them and those were removed and detonated as well.

No buses in Israel have been bombed since the last intifada because the bomb makers had been in prison. Many of those bomb makers were released recently in an exchange for the hostages. It's a strong coincidence that shortly after they were released that bombs appeared on Israeli buses again.

!jidf

The seal, believed to be about five or six weeks old, was found in the middle of Chapel Street near East Street. Police blocked off the area to keep it safe until the DEEP and Mystic Aquarium arrived.

"It definitely was concerning for us when we say he was amidst all that hustle and bustle of the city," said animal rescue technician Francesca Battaglia.

Battaglia said this wasn't the first time the aquarium's animal rescue team had seen the seal. He was in Branford last week, and on Saturday, he was spotted – maybe more fitting – next to Shell & Bones Oyster Bar and Grill on South Water Street in New Haven.

"We're like, he's still bright and alert and looking good," she said. "Maybe we can just relocate him to a safe beach, and so our team did do that. But then, unfortunately, the next day, he showed back up in the middle of the city there."

FREE HIM

lmao, gay guys know how to have fun. Literally this is ehy the fertitlity rate keeps dropping in western society

@butthole's comment reminded me of this gem I read today !foidmoment

ofcourse they say its a !moidmoment and a mans fault

!poll_voters !male feminists

Giga - 16 votes

- 24 votes

- 12 votes

The younger brother told investigators that he would see the teacher and his brother "exiting the 1st-floor bathroom together, both wearing towels and wet."

The sister told detectives that the children would sleep in a shared room on the second floor but frequently noticed her brother would not be in his bed the next morning and would instead be sleeping in Caron's bed with her – the victims' younger brother, who was eight years old when he started living with the teacher, also said the same in a statement to law enforcement two days later.

One night while the younger brother was supposed to be sleeping, he told police he witnessed Caron, then 26, molest his brother, 11, while they were on a reclining chair watching a movie with a blanket over them.

In 2019, following the birth of the child, the victim began permanently sleeping in Caron's room and started to keep clothes in her dresser, according to the younger brother to police.

According to the criminal complaint, the crimes were first raised to police following a darning Facebook post by the victims' father who called out the uncanny resemblance of Caron's son to his son on December 12, 2024.

From "Analysis of a Very Large AltaVista Query Log". !coomers come see your ancestors

I am cautiously optimistic that we will reach the $4B/day FY2026 reduction this weekend https://t.co/XQBK3rqkwo

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 1, 2025

Reducing the federal deficit from $2T to $1T in FY2026 requires cutting an average of $4B/day in projected 2026 spending from now to Sept 30.

That would still result in a $1T deficit, but economic growth should be able to match that number, which would mean no inflation in 2026.

Super big deal.

I am cautiously optimistic that we will reach the $4B/day FY2026 reduction this weekend https://t.co/XQBK3rqkwo

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 1, 2025

I am cautiously optimistic that we will reach the $4B/day FY2026 reduction this weekend

I am cautiously optimistic that we will reach the $4B/day FY2026 reduction this weekend https://t.co/XQBK3rqkwo

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 1, 2025

Elon Musk's DOGE commission gains access to sensitive Treasury payment systems

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems, according to two people familiar with the situation.

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-doge-treasury-5e26cc80fcb766981cea56afd57ae759

"They seem to want Treasury to be the chokepoint on payments, and that's unprecedented," the person added, emphasizing that it is not the bureau's role to decide which payments to make — it is "just to make the f-ing payments."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/politics/doge-treasury-department-federal-spending/index.html

Federal Outlays Breakdown, these are what the treasury actually pays out

Throughout this page, we use outlays to represent spending. This is money that has actually been paid out and not just promised to be paid. When issuing a contract or grant, the U.S. government enters a binding agreement called an obligation. This means the government promises to spend the money, either immediately or in the future. As an example, an obligation occurs when a federal agency signs a contract, awards a grant, purchases a service, or takes other actions that require it to make a payment. Obligations do not always result in payments being made, which is why we show actual outlays that reflect actual spending occurring.

Napkin math with last years numbers:

• Social Security: $374 B (19.7%)

• National Defense: $262 B (13.8%)

• Health: $246 B (13.0%)

• Net Interest: $242 B (12.8%)

• Medicare: $233 B (12.3%)

• Income Security: $162 B (8.5%)

• Veterans Benefits and Services: $105 B (5.5%)

• Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services: $52 B (2.7%)

• Natural Resources and Environment: $39 B (2.1%)

• Transportation: $36 B (1.9%)

• Other: $43 B (2.3%)

Total Outlays Spending: $1.9 trillion

Assuming boomers and the defense companies are untouchable and muskrat isn't r-slurred enough to default on interest payments overnight this can be met by immediately halting payments for:

• Income security(162b) + Vets services(105b) + Education(52b) + Environment (39b) + transportation (36b) + Other(43b) = (.162+.105+.052+.039+0.036+.043) trillion = 0.437 Trillion dollars

Lets slap on a halt for all healthcare outlays including medicaid for 246b to get 0.683 Trillion dollars . Nowhere near enough dollarydoos to meet the target.

Lets make some harder sacrifices. All outlays to the penta-GONE (262b) for 0.945 Trillion. Now the target can easily be solved by reducing SS payments by 14% .

Bigger picture 1 trillion dollars is 3.65% of nominal GDP and 1 trillion dollars worth of outlays being halted for a year from this scheme fires a solid chunk of 2 million soldiers, 2 million federal employees, every contractor so something like ~5-7 million people? Pulling some galaxy brained napkin math out my butt thats 1/16th the total workforce for an additional 6% unemployment not including private sector income loss by sept 30.

UPDATE: FAKE NEWS

MULTIPLE ABOVE SPENDING BUDGET BY 3

Will this go through ?

Who knows ? Its literally the most illegally r-slurred way of cutting the deficit imaginable .

But muskrat says its the plan and this is what the payments system controls

!neolibs

We're playing the turboneurodivergent Dawn of Civilization mod for Civilization IV that replicates world history. !g*mers

Part 1 Part 2

Part 3 Part 4

Part 5 Part 6

Everything is going cool, the Roman Empire is at its near peak historic borders.

I just settled my first Roman American colony in Columbia, South Carolina.

My Spanish vassals can now travel the ocean and have settled their first colony in Puerto Rico.

I've landed an explorer in Australia, the intrepid Down Under Dan, ready to traverse the outback.

I just hope all these mongols on my border aren't up to anything

FRICK

Ethiopia is vassal to the Mongols so they attack Nubia/Egypt. I really dislike these cute twinks

Kilwa (Swahili) are vassals to the Mongols as well, I was sending a boat to Africa to try to capture slaves for New World plantations, they can attack them instead.

And with 90%+ odds to survive the boat goes down Guess they're stuck there

I briefly forget how cavalry works and almost lose Khalpe

We successfully repel the main invasion force and get a new general in Rome, Traianus

Him and Scipio Africanus I send to the city Padua. @Ubie Promise I'll attach the next general and have him fight in the field I'm focused on getting Wonders built in Rome and Padua has strong production, I want to turn into a new military center, building a Military Academy as well.

Fun fact that blue southern tile I JUST NOW noticed is a "Lagoon" land tile and can be developed, not a coastal tile I really am bad at video games

The Mongols tank our stability basically just by existing. We have -10 Foreign due to Bad Relations and it's mostly their fault.

The Khan is ready to talk peace, then I screw it up and get greedy and unsuccessfully try to kill another one of his Keshik units

Next turn thoughever with a little more harassment towards him and his vassals he's open to talk again

No way he's pawning that piece of shit city off on me I counteroffer

And we are at peace

We can even go for a Defensive Pact now

Ultimately pointless because they collapse soon after

Then this region becomes independent Iran under the Safavid Shahdom

And the fall of the Mongols allows China to reform as the Tang Dynasty

We've researched Representation which advances us to the Industrial era (in 1424AD!) and gets us a new Great Statesman, Quintus Hortensius

These guys are new to DoC and I haven't really shown them off before but there's a few things we can do with them. They can "Resolve Crisis" and stop all city unrest empirewide, reform a government without revolution/anarchy, build an administrative center to reduce maintenance, or be settled for espionage and commerce. We're just gonna hang onto this guy for now.

We then research Scientific Method, obsoleting our religious monasteries and enabling the possibility for Secularism

Secularism even has its own religious victory if we wanted an Atheist World Order

As we are first to research we get a Great Scientist. We have enough different Great People now for another Golden Age if we want. We'll hold onto these people for now.

Clermont constantly revolts. France (Province of Gaul) is kinda unstable too and it's affecting my stability. Fortunately it's nowhere near as bad as it was when the Mongols were around.

I decide to liberate Clermont and help France out.

Down Under Dan has finished mapping out all of Australia. Beginning to settle our first colony.

Australia is rich with rare strategic resources, and since we destroyed England on accident, it's ours to colonize. We're starting with Adelaide.

It's of course outside our historic expansion zone but we can take the penalty. Australia is not a civilization yet ingame as well so it will never become independent nation. Tbh, Australia and South Africa as civilizations are currently the biggest gaps in the game imo, but it's still in development

We gain our first slave when Muscogee attempt to raid mines outside Columbia, and can put them to work at a Slave Plantation

It's hard to tell, but that sumovab-word is returning TWO full bags of commerce (10 )

Our stranded African raiding party is successful in tracking down some natives to enslave as well

^{(pls ignore that they are European heavy swordsman units, I think this is a cosmetic oversight)}

History is so fun

Slaves are pretty valuable if a civilization wants them, Turkemenistan for example keeps coming buy asking to buy these guys I captured

Sometimes this can be used as a great metagame strategy, for example trading technologies to the Mande and Congolese for slaves, which you then sell to Europeans for money or other technologies. But we're making ~150 gold per turn so we don't need that shit

When one of the Swahili cities gets captured by natives we can use our little raiding party to free it, repairing our relations and foreign stability a little.

Plus we get more slaves

We can send these slaves to our new Australian colony to work in the coal mines

The Dutch spawn in 1580AD, sadly another Protestant power

As expected, since the English are kill and I'm only colonizing the south they colonize New York.

Also notice that I've expanded to Nashville

I've mentioned this, but this is a new map and unfortunately the dynamic city name mapping isn't complete. In DoC on the old map I'm pretty sure this would have been named Nieuw Amsterdam since the Dutch founded it

It breaks my heart that this isn't New Amsterdam I would literally cheat and rename it but it just seems to get renamed back to its default.

Although they're Protestant, after sending some missionaries we're able to pay them to convert.

and then immediately steal back the money we gave them

Now the only major European Protestant power is Sweden, who refuses to budge. Since the Netherlands have renounced their heresy we're willing to sign a Defensive Pact as well.

We're full on in the Industrial Era now.

Now is a good time to burn some Great People for a Golden Age as we're getting factories, power plants and railroads up across the empire

Padua as our military center is complete, with a Military Academy and Ironworks. We're pumping out promoted riflemen with leadership every turn

Marrakesh is our naval center, having built the wonder Trafalgar Square in it.

Corporations are starting to spread. Unlike the weird gimmicky implementation in base game corporations spread naturally in civilizations that allow them. Corporations piss citizens off and will start to get a LOT of angry faces in modern times. Lead developer Leoreth is kind of a Marxist I think. He's also pretty abrasive. This mod is an impressive achievement so he's earned the right to be as eccentric as he wants but I should find some of his rants at other developers in a future installment, they're hilarious.

Free Enterprise at this point is definitely more profitable than Regulated Trade, even as beastly as the city of Rome is. We have an extra Statesman left over from discovering Representation so we may as well use him to reform the whole government.

With Democracy and a Constitution we now are the Roman Republic once again. The Great People boost from Democracy will be great during our Golden Age.

Excess resources benefit corporations and all this industry spreads unhappiness and disease, so now's a good time for my vassals to start pulling their weight.

By now we've recovered our horrific Foreign Stability with strong vassals and the elusive Good Relations

Spain is booming, having colonized Texas and the incredibly helpful Panama Canal. France is not so much They've only built Speightstown. I'm going to give them some old galleons and maybe a settler to help them out.

Finally, with some assistance they settle New Orleans

We're getting warnings that we're close to the domination limit on population. It's feasible we could go for a Domination win. But I still want Space

Coming soon: America

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Top upmarseyd comment:

This admin will turn me into a west wing watching lib. wtf is this man.

An administration just made up of idiots and rage

they don't even know how to do a free https redirection using cloudflare !codecels

Also Drumpf's immigration guy, Tom Homan was Obama's immigration guy. Thsyre all friends, how nice!

Reddit foids will do anything to "prep" except buy a gun.

Silicon Valley built the modern world.

Why shouldn't we run it?

— John Shedletsky (@Shedletsky) February 3, 2025

Lmao:

you needs less tricknology n increase dem p values n sheeeei-

dei hires OUT

m-my grant proposal

Five minutes later:

!chuds some of the overpaid gov't titsucker subreddits and hard rn:

/r/fednews /r/professors /r/1102 /r/foreignservice /r/daca /r/patentlaw /r/womenintech /r/usajobs /r/antiwork

Post more in the comments!

Bonus content

https://old.reddit.com/r/ANormalDayInAmerica/comments/1i7ke6f/wife_just_lost_her_job_because_of_an_executive/

https://old.reddit.com/r/sales/comments/1i7j8r0/closed_my_first_100k_deal_and_then_i_didnt/

>$100k deal

>... revoking already approved funding for this refugee focused Non-Profit ... had to lay off 90% of their staff within 24 hours ... backed out of the deal

Lot of money for peaceful refugee activists !nooticers ...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/1i7ench/fed_up_w_judgement_for_eating_outside/

>I work in a hospital

>workplace full of disease

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The most important objective of any modern musician/composer, due to the globalisation and ease of access to endless amounts of music through streaming, is to catch the listeners interest as quickly as you can. Regardless of genre the general audience demands a reason to listen to what you make; and with an oversaturated market like music production, there is little they won't have heard already.

How do you avoid being uninteresting, but not pretentious?

Using cush chords, simply put is the method of retaining the tonic (first) chord whilst shifting the other chords in your progression to another modal set of chords, in a new key.

For example, let's begin in C major. The 2 5 4 1 pattern would consist of:

Dm / Gmaj / Fmaj / Cmaj

This sounds fantastic by itself, but listeners have heard this progression 1000 times without knowing it. So how do we engage them?

Let's say we use cush chords, and shift everything EXCEPT the tonic C major to the key of Eb major, a minor third above. You use the respective chords from this key aside from the tonic C.

Fm / Bb7sus / Abm / Cmaj

(Instructive video by openstudiojazz for visual explanations)

And here is a transcribed example of these sorts of chordal changes and methods used:

Now your progression sounds vastly more open, more engaging more interesting. This isn't limited to just shifting a minor third above and you can do it as many times as you want in a composition. Implementing something simple like this gives your composing the edge above standard methods used by the majority of others in your position.

Happy composing! let me know if composition effortposts are something wanted or not

The past two nights I've been stuck around liberals that have stared into the abyss for too long. They claim that scared idiots like conservatives like simple answers. Yet the simple answer they cling to for their election lose is that America is racist and sexist.

Never mind the fact that compared to Biden, Kamala got 6 million less votes. Trump only went up by 3 million votes compared to his last presidential rub. The fact of the matter is no one liked her. She has a history of being unpopular.

They say that Trump is holding onto power so he doesn't go to prison. That makes zero sense because he could give himself a blanket pardon just like Biden gave his family.

I really wish these people weren't in so many of my social circles. I need to find ways to meet more regular people

Almost as if it isn't actually child safety that they care about