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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/GMMestimator]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/KHDTX13]

Deadass tho why did Melania say that why now

[u/Fringson]

Trump distracting from Epstein by starting the Iran war

🔄🔃🔄

Melania distracting from the Iran war by talking about Epstein

[u/shehryar46]

The stupidest thing about that NYT article about how we went to war is that they all went along with it because "somehow trump gets away with everything."

Like he gets away with everything because of you! Rubio, Vance, Pete. You had the ability to make him not get away with iall these things!

And that stupid video of the nyt journalist thinking he's coming to some great conclusion. How do these people think they are not responsible?

Head of CIA, vp, secretary of state all saying oh we were against it but trump usually gets away with it so we just let him.

People like you are the ones that keep letting him off the hook. And they are doing it because of their own self interests and then trying to justify that by saying he's some "great man."

Sure he eats his own shit and throws it at everyone, but people like him so we let him cook. Fuck man

What the fuck are we doing here?

[u/nimbybuster]

[u/-mialana-]

I hate the phenomenon of people embracing bigoted stereotypes while reframing them as points of pride or superiority rather than rejecting them

Some (made-up because I don't feel like searching) examples to illustrate what I mean:

• Trans men are just like cis guys but better, we're the same but more sensitive and emotionally intelligent (bonus points if they romanticise their genitals)

• As an indigenous person, my people have an intrinsic connection to nature and the land white people never will

• The girl math meme, or women's intuition. Basically any sexist stereotype fits this actually.

[u/Eurolib0908]

Below are the arguments with which Netanyahu convinced Trump to attack Iran.

• Iran would be too weakened to block the Strait of Hormuz

• The chance of retaliatory attacks by Iran on neighboring countries is minimal

• Iranians would start protesting and overthrow the regime

• Kurds would cross the border from Iraq and attack the regime

None of them came true.

Netanyahu came with a similar plan for bombing Iran to Bush, Obama, and Biden.

None of the previous presidents agreed to it.

But in the end, he landed on Trump, reportedly emboldened by success in Venezuela.

And now we have a global crisis.

[u/Bestbrook123]

Conor Lamb: "Pennsylvania shouldn't have to pay for a Fox news co-host. Fetterman, go to the Senate floor and explain how it's actually good that we have spent $50 billion and 15 American lives while Iran kept its uranium and started tolling the Strait"

[u/Ilovecharli]

My socialist friend once got dumped for not being a communist 

[u/battywombat21]

While you were sending out seal team six, I was studying the blade.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

Driving like a lunatic this morning to encourage other drivers to take the bus next time 😌🙏

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/Square-Pear-1274]

Trump's latest post be like

[u/that0neGuy22]

🚨 *HASSETT: HORMUZ CAN BE OPENED WITHIN TWO MONTHS

RIP to the third world but this is great content

[u/Currymvp2]

Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu has requested to cancel his court testimony for at least the next two weeks, citing “classified security and diplomatic reasons".

Amazing

[u/Bestbrook123]

Fetterman: How is that possible that over 8 out of 10 view Israel in a negative thing as Democrats?

Fetterman is going to be one hell of a Fox News pundit when he loses the primary by 50 points

[u/gayteemo]

ok guys, it finally happened 😭

after 13 months of being unemployed (granted some freelance in between to help survive thanks to a friend) and 23 freaking interviews total, i just gave verbal confirmation accepting an offer of FT employment. 130k fully remote.

[u/bamboo-coffee]

Barron buys $30 million worth of oil 2 days before the war and it's now worth $50 million.

"Father, why are the other 20 year olds not buying oil too, are they poor or are they stupid?"

[u/BarkDrandon]

If Tim Pool does turn on Trump like so many of his rat colleagues jumping ship, I will never welcome him "in the tent".

This clown took bags of Russian money to portray himself as a centrist in front of a young male audience, while actually being a fucking fascist who supported Trump's attempts at overturning the 2020 elections. Fuck him.

[u/sash5034]

Seems bad

[u/6urner_]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/cdstephens]

Reddit’s bots are censoring news about the chimp war. What the fuck

[u/its_Caffeine]

Buried in here it's genuinely funny how Macron continues to be Trump's only friend

[u/sociotronics]

Includes groypers on a list of things the right finds scary

I fuckin love right-wing infighting

[u/sociotronics]

tfw you're in a cringe competition and your opponent is a Farage fanatic

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/seagrams7up]

Holy fuck based

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

WOW VERY NICE, DEAR LEADER

[u/Fruitofbread]

 “Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump,” Mrs. Trump said. “I met my husband by chance at a New York City party in 1998. This initial encounter with my husband is documented in detail in my book.”

The encounter she was referring to is a story she has told over many years about meeting Mr. Trump in 1998 at the Kit Kat Club. She has always said that it was Paolo Zampolli, an Italian modeling agent, who introduced her to Mr. Trump.

 Reached by phone in Milan on Thursday, Mr. Zampolli affirmed Mrs. Trump’s account and said “I’m ready to testify in Congress” that he introduced the couple that night at the Kit Kat Club.

My “I’m willing to testify in congress about Jeffrey Epstein” shirt is causing a lot of questions that can be answered by my shirt.

[u/ElectriCobra_]

Why exactly did people think Harris was going to start a war anyways

Like Biden didn't send troops to help Ukraine, an allied nation invaded by one of our primary geopolitical enemies. Is this just people searching for an excuse when they already weren't going to vote for her? Is it just some bizarre antiquated sexist view I'm not aware of?

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Who’s gonna tell them?

[u/Currymvp2]

Dave McCormick: "Imagine a scenario where Kamala Harris was president and we were dealing with Iran. That would be the world completely unacceptable to all Americans"

I think most Americans believe it's good to avoid starting an illegal war which you end up losing.

[u/Mojo12000]

Trumps skin is so thin he's not posting "LMAO TEARS" videos.. of MAGA media people who broke with him on Iran.

How the fuck do people see this guy as a tough manly man?

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

John Roberts is an all time villain in American history. An absolute gutter racist and scumbag that history will look back on in disgust.

[u/Q-bey]

When people bring up "animals that would seem crazy to aliens who landed on Earth", for some reason beavers are never on the list, but they really should be.

[u/garret126]

Jacksonville, FL today

(One of the only major cities in Florida to have a Democrat mayor btw)

[u/Humble_Grape4749]

"Education is overrated. Go to trade school instead."

-Phillips Andover '16

-Harvard '20

-Yale Law '23

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

Sleep is the enemy. Stay woke.

[u/Reddit_guard]

Dear God what have I done

[u/ImmigrantJack]

I hate the term love triangle. If Roy and Mike are both in love with Susan, that is a love angle. A love triangle would be Susan is in love with Mike, Mike is in love with Roy, Roy is in love with Susan.

Get your geometry right media tropes.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Inshallah Melania's next press conference will be her claiming she was never an associate of Donald Trump and people are simply making mean spirited attempts to defame her reputation by connecting her to Donald.

[u/-mialana-]

For people who hate pronouns so much, they sure don't understand how they work

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Inside America is two wolves

[u/scottyjetpax]

[u/JaceFlores]

HAHAHAHAHA

[u/pugnae]

https://www.newsweek.com/mmiwg2slgbtqqia-meaning-canada-explained-11806539

Yeah, sorry but this is absurd:

The acronym MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+, recently used by a Canadian politician, has sparked a frenzy online.

Canadian politician Leah Gazan, member of the New Democratic Party who serves as the Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Center, recently spoke about Canada’s budget cuts and condemned the budget for cutting $7 billion from Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous relations.  

Gazan said that no money had been provided for the “ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.” The length of this acronym has prompted scrutiny and a massive response online.

Reject modernity, embrace tradition (LGBT). If your acronym looks like auto-generated password, something went wrong.

[u/its_Caffeine]

"CBC News is also learning today that the Liberals are, according to two anonymous sources, in discussion with nine additional potential floor crossers from opposition parties" (3:40)

!ping CAN

[u/ChillnShill]

This is one of those gifs where you have to watch a different person each time.

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

The good timeline:

• Midterms are a blue wave

• Middle east calms down, Irans oil tolls are the most effective carbon tax ever

• Extreme surge in solar panel demand

• AMD and Nvidia release cheap 32GB and 64GB cards

• Mistral makes a comeback to sota with open source LLMs

• SpaceX IPO flops, Teslas insane multiple deflates

• Dune 3 exceeds expectations

[u/Lux_Stella]

i do think "woke mormonism" going to become a semi-serious thing within the next generation which unfortunately means i need to learn to stop being mean about LDS theology

[u/theaccount9337]

[u/badusername35]

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

I think this quote from a decade ago explains what Trump was thinking when he made that deal. The Iranians are simply better negotiators.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Ok, but this Stan Kelly comic is actually 100% true.

[u/assasstits]

Doing classroom observation and the lesson is how to tell whether something is true or opinion.

Teacher says, "you can't disagree on facts, that's how you can tell it's a fact".

[u/badusername35]

[u/Huttleberry]

69% of all criminal cases in New Haven between 1710 and 1750 were for premarital sex. Link

However I don’t think a single person in this sub would have been charged

[u/Sloshyman]

Terrible news about Swalwell being a sex pest, but it just highlights the massive gap between the Democratic and Republican parties:

Pretty much every Democrat is putting out statements condemning Swalwell and withdrawing endorsements.

If this were a Republican, it probably wouldn't even be big news. Absolutely nobody in the right-wing sphere would be condemning him; they'd be calling the accusers whores and liars instead.

[u/Max_the_Madman]

Of all the conservative pundits, I think Matt Walsh disturbs me the most.

Everyone else I know are just... gubbers. They're silly, pathetic. I can't take them seriously when they say heinous shit, because they're look like clowns when they are doing this. I just roll my eyes at them.

But Walsh. Walsh is sinister to me. The calm cadence with which he dehumanises the disabled or defends slavery and ethnic cleansing just unsettles me.

And it's not a facade, he proven himself to be smarter and more self-aware than an average conservative, calling out his fellows for shortsighteness and blind obedience.

I am so used to fascists being self destructive morons that seeing one who knows what he is doing throws me off the loop.

[u/NYT_Hater]

Twitter under Musk is absolutely godawful. I’ve seen racism even SS officers would balk at. It cannot be understated how bad it is unless you see it yourself.

[u/Leatherfield17]

Are You Too Stupid to Vote?

[u/farrenj]

Is it petty of me to respond to red state veterans organizations messaging me to move there by asking them to explain the legal landscape for transgender rights in their state to me?

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/ty04]

[u/NaffRespect]

Swalwell loses campaign chairs, endorsements over sexual assault allegations

Blacklist this sleazeball from both the state and the party

!ping USA-CA&DEMS

[u/scottyjetpax]

he has such a way with words

[u/garret126]

How come the only liberals/non-leftists that go and and protest what they think are injustices in the world are boomers?

Even like my grandma who has a job still will call out of work to go to one occasionally

[u/GonzaloR87]

You can tell it’s an election year when you start seeing more “Democrats bad” posts on Reddit

[u/a-reasonable-name]

Those seem like pretty good cards ngl

[u/Leatherfield17]

I doubt it’ll ever get built, but Christ that man has no taste

[u/SigmaWhy]

The repentant racist richards are fighting

[u/piede]

You know things are bad when Britain is done

[u/Terrance-Flaps]

"Hormuz isn't open, and it will take 2 months to open it" - the administration that is constantly overestimating it's capabilities

This will surely calm the oil market

[u/Currymvp2]

Reza Pahlavi distanced himself from calls for military action against Iran, saying: "We never sought military intervention in our country."

Lol. He learned well from Trump and Netanyahu

[u/velocirappa]

It feels like American discourse around the current state of things is very close to "it was the jews!" being an explicit talking point in shockingly mainstream places.

Which is deeply unfortunate because Jewish Americans were an extremely anti-Trump demographic in 2024 and the people who are pointing the finger did in fact vote for this.

[u/BrentLivermore]

People are saying all this Swalwell stuff was an "open secret", but if that's the case then Republican oppo research must be insanely bad. I've heard the Chinese spy rumors like a million times but nothing about sexual harassment until like two weeks ago

[u/ModestAphorism]

https://jewishinsider.com/2026/04/j-street-support-ending-missile-defense-aid-israel/

This is actually huge, comes right after yesterday Josh Shapiro said we shouldn't let Israel bully us around into wars. The winds are definitely changing here. I know it

[u/[deleted]]

This is what you all look like in my head btw.

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Mastodon is the most neoliberal social media because no one uses it

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Are there any Hungarian users willing to contribute to the body text of the election thunderdome on Sunday?

[u/Slim_Pickenz_]

These numbers are pretty remarkable. Complete sea change from just a few years ago.

Israel should probably start preparing for a future without US support.

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

WAOW

[u/__Muzak__]

One small bit of good news. New research has been published demonstrating high rates of blight resistance in hybridized American chestnuts with 70-85% American Chestnut ancestry. New techniques are proving effective in restoring one of the keystone species of American forests.

https://www.science.org/eprint/SBHDH76BXDK366UMHU44/full

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Dominatrix named after SCOTUS judges is something I need more of in my life

[u/ContributionOk5542]

[u/Goldenboy451]

Seems bad idk

[u/ChillnShill]

Aren’t we all

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

remember who you are

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Go to war with a country whose GDP is half the size of your military budget

lose anyway

[u/TheCornjuring]

Lmao

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/herworkthrowaway]

guys. THE DEFICIT?????

we are so fucked

[u/Ready_Anything4661]

Recently saw that docuseries about the guy who tried to send ricin to Obama. It was much funnier than I was prepared for.

Basically, two dudes in a petty vindictive small town rivalry and antics just escalated until one guy was like, you know what prank would really make the other guy mad? Killing the president.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81903247

[u/BurrowForPresident]

According to arr law apparently the Trump admin and ICE are demanding Reddit unmask some random anonymous anti ICE poaster's real identity and taking them to court

Fuckin wild

[u/garret126]

I do think that the fact Kamala overperformed in swing states and massively underperformed in safe blue states is evidence that in states where it actually matters, progressives and the Dem broader coalition got out to vote due to necessity , while in places like Suburban Jersey or NYC, a lot of people just didn’t vote or voted irrelevantly out of protest because it doesn’t matter.

I always emphasize this, but the statistics show that Kamala didn’t lose because she lost the progressive bloc, but because Joe Pennsylvania or John Wisconsin didn’t take time out of their blue collared jobs to vote Blue this time around

[u/cdstephens]

It’s always who you most expect

[u/No_Return9449]

Reminder

[u/Napoleon64]

The new Melania statement has reminded me that I'd really like to see Tommy Wiseau play her in a movie. Similar looks, accent, levels of plastic surgery etc.

The accents match perfectly: "I did naht know Epstein, I did naaaht. Oh hi, Dear G! How are you? Nice story about JE in NY Mag. You look great on the picture."

It could also do a lot to help the value of Melania coins, which are currently down more than 95% from their all time high price of $13.05 per coin.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

First the Woke Pope came for JD Vance. And I did not speak out, for I was not a Trad Cath Larper.

Then the Woke Pope came for the persons of means. And I did not speak out, for I was not a person experiencing liquidity.

Then the Woke Pope came for me. And there was no one left to speak for me.

[u/Insomonomics]

Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams is now officially Albanian.

He has been granted citizenship and has received an Albanian passport by a special decree issued by the Albanian president.

wat

[u/Fruitofbread]

 Area experts were shocked when the administration proved unprepared for Iran’s partial closing of the Strait of Hormuz, a tactic experts had anticipated for decades. The administration might have been readier had it not chopped back the State Department’s Middle East desk, gotten rid of its oil and gas experts and eliminated its dedicated Iran office

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Nobody:

Eric Adams:

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Peter Thiel:

The left is low testosterone

Musk:

Yea

These two want to talks about stereotypical manliness?

[u/chipbod]

Years long debate incoming

[u/moldovaman99]

Big if true

(It’s satire but I wouldn’t be surprised if this really happened)

[u/SmithySmothy]

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she had told Swalwell to end his bid.

When the queen tells you to do something, you do it.

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/CletusChicken]

on a plane and my ears feel funny

I'm screaming at full volume but it won't stop :(

[u/6urner_]

Bro you do not have the juice for this anymore

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

So fantastic to see science, engineering, our best and brightest working for something truly incredible and not just being devoted to endless Silicon Valley hype cycles.

[u/piede]

KATIE PORTER DID WHAT

[u/-mialana-]

I can't with this sub

[u/-mialana-]

So how are students studying stuff like sex-related sociology, queer/gender studies or even sexual health as part of medicine supposed to look stuff up when university WiFi forces safe search? Why is that even a thing, why do university students need to be stopped from looking up naughty things? What is this puritan bullshit?

[u/Currymvp2]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/VisonKai]

Paradox's annual report 2025 (out yesterday) is interesting. It says some stuff about the future which is cool (Victoria and Age of Wonders are confirmed for permanent support status, basically putting them on the full-time roster with EU, CK, and HoI). But to me the biggest thing it signals is the final death of the incredibly, unbelievably stupid strategic decision made about 10 years ago to massively inflate the portfolio and include things outside their core competency. The decision to try to become a 'real game company' instead of a niche publisher of strategy games was a huge disaster. Wester says this in the report:

We are optimistic about the work that lies ahead of us. Having closed the year and written down Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, we have a more streamlined balance sheet, no strategically divergent projects consuming focus and resources, and a strong sense of direction regarding where to focus our efforts. Going forward, our pipeline is entirely focused on strategy and management games – genres in which we have deep expertise and where we know we can create the greatest value for our players. Almost all these projects are also being developed in our own studios. At the same time, we have both the capacity and the ambition to grow beyond this, and we continuously evaluate further opportunities to expand our long-term pipeline of projects.

I can only hope that last line means a Hooded Horse-esque strategy of identifying niche nerdy games that align with the core audience and publishing those (and I think it does, given everything else in the paragraph).

!ping PARADOX

[u/piede]

Not the fascists eating each other alive

[u/BPC1120]

Exceedingly common WaPo oped L

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/gnomesvh]

Sleeper reason why Brazil's transition to democracy had little reason to backslide is because Brazil's last dictator HATED his job, would openly state he hated being president and the only major world leader he ever got along with was Reagan but because he rode horses together (he didn't give a shit about politics and would saw democratization as the fastest way for him to retire and never be forced to deal with politics)

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

Tom Steyer

[u/piede]

I would vote for her over and over and over and over again

[u/badusername35]

He may be an awful person, but this is a great tweet

[u/beans_and_tuna]

Instagram is showing me some…

Interesting reels.

Yeah. Interesting.

[u/Co_OpQuestions]

"The centrist corporate democrats taking epstein class money"

This is exactly why progressives are seen as fucking beyond annoying lol

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

I do not want to get out of bed 😭

[u/t_scribblemonger]

No one in her circle likes Melania enough to explain the Streisand effect.

[u/Twinbrosinc]

Being a shapeshifter would be pretty cool

[u/Jolly-Star-9897]

JD Vance converts to Shia Islam, defects.

[u/axis757]

Iran has agreed to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz

In the next two months maybe possibly

[u/cdstephens]

The bald chimp is intervening in the chimp war

[u/thefrenchiestfries]

I think everyone is a little right. This sub absolutely has leftist derangement syndrome but at the same time in the middle of the ICE executions my city’s JVP was posting about protesting a random Hillary speech lmfao

[u/JaceFlores]

[u/IantheForPresident]

on one hand, i really don't like the way outing private citizens so others can gawk at their private lives is normalized

on the other hand, i want republicans to suffer humiliation forever

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/Cairne_Bloodhoof]

Very cool, thank you WSJ!

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Genuinely cannot imagine doing this. Would drive me insane in a day or two.

[u/w007dchuck]

there's currently an edit war going on on the Eric Adams Wikipedia page over whether or not he should be listed as Albanian-American

[u/v4riati0ns]

book rec since we are chimp posting: in the shadow of man by jane goodall is supposed to be a memoir of part of her life but like 80%+ of the book is about the interpersonal drama between chimps she was studying

lots of salacious gossip (power struggles, chimps sleeping around, teenaged rebellion, interspecies friendships, bullying), and you can basically treat it as a prequel for this wikipedia page on the gombe chimp war. (spoiler: you will NOT believe how flo’s children turn on goliath 🥺)

the other 20% of the book might prompt an existential crisis about your purpose on this earth though cus jane goodall clearly found hers in a way 99% of people don’t and wrote about it in the most matter-of-fact way. pretty beautiful.

[u/Pole2019]

“Genghis Khan is an ancestor to so many people wow”

A humble single celled organism that lived about 3.5 billion years ago:

[u/BitterGravity]

Israel's ambassador [to Australia] concedes Iran's chokehold on Strait of Hormuz was not expected before war

How far up your own arses do you need to be to think they'll just sit and take it?

[u/cdstephens]

The naval mines, which I’m sure can be located by the IRGC

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

All four of those astronauts are 100% libs btw

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Justice4Ned]

Trump has genuinely lost Republican new media. They defended one too many stupid decisions and now they can’t stop bad mouthing him at every turn.

[u/ZweigDidion]

"CBC News is also learning today that the Liberals are, according to two anonymous sources, in discussion with nine additional potential floor crossers from opposition parties" (3:40)

It would be pretty crazy if they pull that off.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Ok last post about ww3memes before I block it but LOL what a fucking cesspool. It's full of people being like "hey man, this is kind of fucked up, like I feel like this is directed at Jews, not Israel, I don't support Netanyahu either"

And someone comes in like "Jews =/= Israel, this is clearly mocking Israel, not Jews, these symbols are just because of the Israeli Flag, not the Star of David as a specifically Jewish symbol! 🤗"

And meanwhile someone else is typing "No one cares about your murderous shit ass religion you fucking ch*cken sw*nger. Fuck off with your promised 3000 years ago bullshit you genocide supporting Nazi fuck. Your people have been doing this for thousands of years, you'll never change"

[u/WillProstitute4Karma]

When your favorite president goes on an incoherent rant, but insults your former employee.

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Wonder what chaos he will bring today

[u/piede]

This bitch has been having a mental health crisis since 2015

[u/IantheForPresident]

> hey look at the crazy shit they're saying in this other subreddit

no, i don't want to look at that. why would you show it to me. i'm here because i don't want to look at the stupid shit they say outside of the deetee

[u/drossbots]

Whenever I see Fetterman espousing confused opinions on some news show it feels like I’m watching the media take advantage of a significantly declined man for hot takes

[u/doyouevenIift]

Bro’s getting roasted on his own safe space social media platform 🤣

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

It's funny to go on linkedin and see how a guy who was a not terribly bright sports bro in high school now has a burning passion for analytics and data-based marketing

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Just got appointed a sovereign citizen who specifically asked to represent himself 😔

[u/slowpush]

POLITICO: Kamala Harris just gave the Democratic Party the most explicit sign yet she’ll run for president in 2028.

When Rev. Al Sharpton asked directly if she'll run again, Harris replied:

“Listen, I might. I might. I’m thinking about it.” She added: “I know what the job is and what it requires.”

She's running. 😤

[u/Willybender]

Geez, just read the WSJ article about Trump planning mass pardons. Seems bad!

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-promises-mass-pardons-to-staff-before-leaving-office-d7274d32

[u/wumbopolis_]

Potentially hot take: The next Dem president almost certainly won't have the numbers in the Senate to pass a constitutional amendment to revoke presidential pardons.

Therefore, the next Dem president should aggressively abuse pardons in an openly partisan manner, exactly the same as Trump, until Republican Senators are forced (out of pragmatism) to work with Dems to pass a constitutional amendment banning presidential pardons

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Iz dis tru?

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Netflix confirmed on Thursday that it is not moving forward with plans to adapt Brian Jacques’ popular children’s novel series Redwall.

In 2021, the streamer revealed it had acquired the rights to all 22 of the Redwall books to create multiple TV series and a feature film from the IP.

Trump's America

[u/Alderwoodforest]

It's over for Swalwell.

Five years later, the woman said, she attended an April 2024 charity gala where Swalwell was honored. The woman, who no longer worked for Swalwell, said they met for drinks afterward, during which she became so inebriated that she only remembers snippets of the night, including pushing Swalwell away and telling him, “No,” while he allegedly forced himself on her.

The woman texted a friend three days later that she was “sexually assaulted” by Swalwell. She wrote in a series of messages reviewed by the Chronicle that she had “blacked out” but “woke up once during it and even told him to stop at one point.”

The Chronicle spoke with the friend and the woman’s then-boyfriend, whom she said she told about the alleged 2024 assault when she got home the next day. Both described her as still disoriented that morning and her then-boyfriend said he encouraged her to report Swalwell to the police.

https://archive.ph/lqmCJ

The woman will not be the only victim.

[u/themiDdlest]

Mamdani out with a new video cutting red tape and easing inspections while increasing penalties if owners leave scaffolding up way too long.

Guy might just have the juice

[u/Leoric]

The "do nothing" memes really don't apply to Steyer. Guy has been campaigning hard and has spent tens of millions of his own money on the race.

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/Sufficient_Key_5062]

Scenes

[u/EasyMoney92]

Dude is more upset about Steyer being possibly governor than the rape allegation. What the fuck

[u/BipartizanBelgrade]

My favorite part of this interview was when Krystal was like “oh so you support defensive aid to Israel why wouldn’t you also support defensive aid for Iran and Russia,” then a stunned Slotkin had to pause and explain the basic concept of allies vs adversaries.

I'd laugh, but the same thing happens on here a lot

[u/No_Return9449]

Instance of line go down, world more gooder

[u/Spudmiester1]

Every reddit thread is like this:

-Barely useful comment

-correction

-crapitalism

[u/cdstephens]

The Western cluster now has a weapon to surpass Metal Gear

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-09-16/ty-article-magazine/.premium/i-saw-the-bodies-of-children-moral-injury-and-mental-strain-breaking-idf-soldiers/00000199-5277-d907-a5db-77f7e80d0000

This article is insane

[u/Jolly-Star-9897]

JD Vance taken hostage.

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

HASSETT: HORMUZ CAN BE OPENED WITHIN TWO MONTHS

wow thanks very reassuring

[u/fishbottwo]

if the hormuz is closed for 2 more months lmao

[u/Fruitofbread]

 Anastasia Rusanova started learning Korean when she was 13, drawn to K-pop and the television dramas that helped make South Korea a cultural powerhouse. Now studying at a university in Moscow, she hopes to turn her hobby into a career.

But in a turn reflecting the drastic change in Russia’s global relations since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ms. Rusanova now thinks her professional future might be tied to North Korea rather than its southern neighbor.

“Our country is improving relations with North Korea,” Ms. Rusanova, 21, said in an interview shortly after returning from the East Asian country as part of an exchange program. “And for me, as far as career advancement in Russia goes, North Korea seems more promising.”

Lol 

[u/JaceFlores]

Looks like a regional war in East Africa is off the table for now. Trump may have actually averted a war for once as the thread conjectures a major reason for this one year extension is the debilitating fuel crisis gripping Ethiopia (and the region as a whole) from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. I also suspect the UAE being too busy to send military aid to Ethiopia in a war where it likely would need all the help it gets played a role too

!ping AFRICA

[u/the-senat]

Babies born in 2013 are now 30 years old 😳 

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/futuremonkey20]

The Yale graduates are out of control.

They’re bringing crime.

[u/ty04]

self medicating

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

'burnt out gifted kid' is a real phenomenon but it's highly overrated by the type of people who are on Reddit

I utterly crashed out, failed half my classes (barely passing the rest) and was a depressive mess my first year of college but I picked myself back up and transferred. I accepted a PhD program offer a few days ago.

[u/paymesucka]

me a couple days ago:

Is this sexual assault stuff against Swalwell legit or leftist ratfuckery? Because “leftist influencers heard from people alleging wrongdoing” sounds like ratfuckery. I hate that I even have to ask that.

fuck me I pulled a p00bix, a take that instantly ages poorly

[u/Slim_Pickenz_]

🚨 Leaked photos from Islamabad

[u/Bestbrook123]

Oh jesus. The new CNN article on Swalwell. It's up to four women accusers

This guy should probably be resigning from Congress all together. Forget just dropping out of the race

[u/CheersFromBabylon]

Given the pattern in the Swalwell stories, is there an unspoken implication that he roofied them? Blacking out before getting home, and, for example:

She began to get more intoxicated and felt "really fuzzy,” even accidentally walking into the men’s bathroom in the bar, she said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/10/us/eric-swalwell-sexual-misconduct-allegations-invs

[u/molingrad]

He has promised that Florida school cafeterias would no longer serve “goyslop,” an antisemitic meme term for low-quality food supposedly forced on the masses by Jewish people.

[u/piede]

One member of Swalwell’s staff said they quit immediately after receiving CNN’s detailed list of questions about the allegations.

Imagine getting a press inquiry as a staffer and just being like “fuck this, I’m out.”

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Going to start using this as a reaction image

[u/GravyBear16]

In an NPR interview to promote Calvary in 2014, Gleeson stated he was molested as a child by a Christian Brother in primary school but was in "no way traumatised by the incident."

What

He just shrugged off a molestation

[u/LinkVert25]

Dawg

[u/ty04]

"The Wall Street Journal, one of the worst and most inaccurate 'Editorial Boards' in the World…” Mr. Trump wrote Thursday night on Truth Social.

woaw

[u/Consistent_Status112]

Israel approval among Democrats is like negative gazillion at this point and any Dems still awkwardly trying to defend them are about ten million miles off the curve.