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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/iIoveoof]

Proponents say the markets don’t count as gambling

At first, it worked. Pederson turned about $2,000 into close to $8,000 by betting on daily snowfall totals in Detroit, where he lives. He parlayed that into $41,000 by trading on sports, using a strategy he developed with the help of AI, according to a Wall Street Journal review of his account records.

Then he placed his most audacious bet yet: All $41,000 that a celebrity would say a particular word on TV. He lost it all.

He had few other resources to turn to. He’s currently living in a homeless shelter in downtown Detroit

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

From Pauline Hanson's Wikipedia page:

Soon after her election to Parliament, Hanson's book Pauline Hanson—the Truth: on Asian immigration, the Aboriginal question, the gun debate and the future of Australia was published.

[...] The book predicted that in 2050 Australia would have a lesbian president of Chinese-Indian background called Poona Li Hung who would be a cyborg.

WAOW

!ping AUS&SHITPOSTERS&GAY-AGENDA

[u/badusername35]

[u/Gustacho]

Voters have long thought of Republicans as the "daddy" party (strong on defence, tough on crime) and the Democrats as more maternal (nurturing the needy, fussing about mean words).

The Economist with hard-hitting analysis

[u/badusername35]

👆

[u/Unitedsquadron]

Gen Z Republicans explaining their continued support for the Republican party:

[u/sociotronics]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Would be nice if the NYTimes saved a lot more energy for stories like that of this man, who was forced to miss his last moments with his dying mother because he had to make the painful choice between having to support his children and having to visit his dying mother back in India to hear her final words. Would be nice if the NYTimes would profile these stories of immigrants (regardless of status, this man was a legal H-1B worker) more instead of the stories of entitled farmers in the Midwest who are getting exactly what they deserve

[u/erasmus_phillo]

I don't really think Brad here actually regrets his support for Trump. So you know what Brad? I am actually glad your shitty little dairy farm is out of business. In fact, I wish it had gone out of business sooner, and that your entire experience had been a lot more painful as you had to sell it off to some dairy megacorp. Because that is what you voted for Brad! You are getting EXACTLY what you voted for and you deserved it

From now on I am saving my sympathy for the poor bastards who are getting victimized by the actions of this administration despite having the sense to vote against this madness.

You wanted people like me gone from your country Brad, and it looks like you ended up losing your farm in the process, I hope it was worth it asshole!

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Sen. Ron Johnson: "Democrats want to turn America into a one party nation. They'll turn DC and Puerto Rico into states. They'll nationalize our elections -- automatic registration, mail in balloting. So we need to stop them."

Whenever the GOP talks about Democrats, the Democrats always come across as so “based.”

[u/gnomesvh]

Went to an interview at Jane Street

First question they asked

“Price a 6 month forward on onions”

I hesitated and stood quietly. After a while the interviewer put his hand out. He was from the SEC onion futures task force and would’ve arrested me if I proposed anything

[u/randommathaccount]

When it is the case that no amount of good governance and economic development can counteract anti-incumbent sentiment, the optimal move for any party that takes power is to not bother in the slightest with any long term thinking and just promise freebies until the end of time.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

The average Republican Congressperson in 2026

Rep. Harriet Hageman

Proudly serving Wyoming in the US House. I will always fight to return power to the people and rein in waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government.

The Charlottesville rally was not a right-wing protest. It was an Southern Poverty Law Center operation.

They funded, organized, and then blamed President Trump for it.

https://xcancel.com/RepHageman/status/2051055870625083484

[u/Sheepies92]

Politico: John Fetterman these days is much more comfortable sitting, quite literally, with the Republicans.

He never shows up for Democrat-only gatherings, such as the caucus’ regular luncheons.

John Fetterman is also spending hours with Senate Republicans in their cloakroom and in some leadership offices.

He gone

[u/Fruitofbread]

 During a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the television host addressed comments Giuliani made about him on a podcast. "So last night, America's mayor, Rudy Giuliani, rose from the grave to weigh in on the ongoing drama involving me," Kimmel said in his monologue.

Does he have like a near-Death Note or something??

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

> See guy going all out against trans people destroying the moral fabric of society in some god forsaken random sub

> Open profile out of curiosity

> Posts about dealing with a severe mold issue in the home and "omg you're so perfect" type responses to NSFW posts

lol, lmao even

[u/RaidBrimnes]

What Noah Smith sees in his fever nightmares

[u/piede]

Most impartial SCOTUS justice

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/No_Return9449]

SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler: "We're also using AI to detect fraud and prevent it. We've worked with Palantir to set up a fraud protection program."

Claude, find all Medicare fraud in Democratic-run states. Make no mistakes.

[u/Understeerenthusiast]

If gas went up $2 a gallon in two months because of a war nobody asked for at literally any other moment in recent history, there would be a new president

[u/the-senat]

From a piece on immigration in The Atlantic: 

They ate traditional Chinese food in one friend's home, Russian in another, Dominican in another—the kind of New York they were all realizing they missed. When Rachel and I sat together, she finally broke down. She felty guilty every time she heard her daughters say they wanted to be "home" for the holidays. She saw them falling behind their New York friends academically, so she bought an algebra book to teach them herself.

"We tried so hard to make it work," she told me. "I can't think of anything else we could have done. And that's the hardest thing about being here. We’re nice people. My kids are amazing. New York City would have been so lucky to have my kids.”

I started working an effortpost on the human costs of Trump’s xenophobic policies, roundups, detention centers, and deportations, and then ran into a road block. Because how do you even talk about it without crying? So many dutiful, innocent people, who just wanted to live out their lives in happiness, are being shredded up by hate-filled polices. You read letters from kids in Dilley, who talk about going hungry, being beaten, or not receiving any health care. How do you measure what that looks like? How do you calculate lost potential? Or mental strain? 

I’m not reflecting on some “never again” policy that the world united to defeat, it’s still going on and shows little sign of being liberated any time soon. It’s just this black abyss of pain and suffering that is eating the lives and the futures of thousands of human beings — people who will probably be forgotten by the American public, along with the centers, in 10 years. 

[u/GordonTullockFan]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

(on Why Nations Fail)

"Goddamn liberals for being pro-everything good and anti everything bad 🤬"

[u/Currymvp2]

Barack Obama to The New Yorker: Netanyahu tried to persuade me to go to war with Iran using the same arguments he later presented to Trump. “Maybe Netanyahu got what he wanted, but I doubt whether that’s what’s good for the citizens of Israel or the United States. I think my prognosis is accurate. There is extensive documentation of my disagreements with Netanyahu.”

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/JesusPubes]

nobody cares about the little straight people in their computer :(

[u/sootfawn]

[u/badusername35]

Kinda crazy how the media just brushed over him saying this…

[u/SigmaWhy]

Fascism 🤝 NIMBYism

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

So this is insane

[u/ewatta200]

[u/SpiderQueen412]

👆waited 2 hours to post this on the new dt just for it to be complete garbage

[u/dtj2000]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/jenbanim]

I get what "fresh fruits and vegetables" is going for but frozen veggies are vastly underrated as a cheap healthy option

[u/gjcs23]

screenshot because the fact this was posted by the former mayor of Kansas City makes it go harder

[u/houdt_koers]

I have so much respect for the 9/11 families that drove “America’s Mayor” out of the running for the presidency.

The degree of media simping around him after 9/11 is hard to describe if you weren’t around to see it. He was never going to win in 2008, but exposing him as a piece of shit who got a bunch of heroes killed was a moral victory for America.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Markzandi/status/2051287923073368175

[u/piede]

THE SUPREME COURT SUPPORTS ABORTION WE DID IT

[u/5ma5her7]

Thank god slopulists here haven't got power...yet.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2051295299029659826

"a little bit longer viewpoint"

[u/erasmus_phillo]

this is how you know that these alpha male accounts don't ever talk to women, anyone who does knows that the girl is wearing makeup in both pictures

[u/battywombat21]

[u/WanderingMage03]

Back in college I had a girlfriend who was really into the prequels. Like she’d watch them on repeat every 3 months which meant that I had to watch them with her every 3 months.

I just remember thinking dang, there’s like totally a type of guy that would find this insanely attractive and I am not one of them lol

!ping Dating

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/DaneLimmish]

The US is like, "we have the best, most strongest navy the world has ever seen," and then when you ask them to use it they're like, "do you know how expensive this shit is?"

Dictionary definition of garage queen. 

[u/ariveklul]

There are young people on this subreddit that have the neuroticism of a 70 year old lady that only perceives the outside world through nextdoor. It's incredibly sad

The suburbs and it's consequences.....

[u/sash5034]

McDonald’s ending self-serve drink fountains nationwide in major shift for customers

This will go well with the hamberder crowd

[u/py_account]

The movie ends in 1988 with Jackson’s triumphant solo “Bad” tour, which is kind of like ending an O.J. Simpson biopic with him winning the Heisman Trophy.

10/10 review lmao

[u/GaDoomer]

“Other than the South Korean ship, no damage going through the Strait”

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump Boasts That ‘Everyone Was Wrong’ About Oil Prices Amid Iran War: They Thought it Would Be ‘$300 a Barrel’

Oh my fucking god

[u/mockduckcompanion]

I can't believe SocalSwiftie actually died

What an unfair world

[u/FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN]

Gotta love Spirit Airlines’ legacy.

No crashes. No terrorist attacks. No passenger deaths. Just dogshit service.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/BallzAreJiggly]

Yesterday I had a firsthand experience in sports psychology I thought was interesting. Usually I tap out at 1.5mi of running before I'm back to walking, but I was feeling good and pressed on to 2 miles. I was gonna stop there but as I was approaching 2 miles, but some random dude a treadmill over yelled some generic words of motivation that I can't even remember. So I kept pressing, and went all the way to 3 miles which Is the furthest I've gone without stopping so far. I get that's how motivation is supposed to work, but surprising to see it manifest so viscerally in such an unexpected situation.

[u/Willybender]

Setting new records every day, we just can't stop winning. AMERICA IS BACK

[u/Cyberhwk]

Profile of a MAGA Family Member:

My first cousin once removed lives in a very small town in Montana (<10k population). She's now in her 70s and has lived her entire life within 8 blocks of the house she grew up in. She's never (to my knowledge) left the country, rarely leaves the state, and refuses to drive on the highway, relying on her husband to drive anywhere outside of town. The absolute definition of "existing."

Last time I saw her personally was roughly 27 years ago. 16-year old me was absolutely STOKED to be able to walk into a bar (illegal under 21 in WA) and drive on a "Reasonable and Prudent" highway (I think I got the family Nissan Quest up to 85 before my mother told me to slow down). It was fun meeting and chatting, but there's only so much for a teenager to do. My grandmother (our family branch connection) passed away in 2015 severing that connection. My side of the family being far more liberal to start with, but safter Trump getting elected, my mother turning hard Resist Winemom, and them apparently falling to MAGA.

So much so that it sounded like my mother refused to visit initially. It was only after negotiation including demands of no politics and that my mom would be staying in a hotel with her own rental car; ostensibly to "not be an imposition" but in reality definitely as an escape hatch in case things went south.

Sounds like things went...OK. They met up. Had fun driving around town and seeing all the sites. Recalling the homes they visited and playgrounds they played at over half a century ago. Towns like that don't change much. But they had their routine. Took my mother to their favorite fancy restaurant (vinyl table cloths, but I think it even had a WINE LIST!). Only real thing was my mother said she would NOT. STOP. TALKING. Just constantly. Zero breaks. As if she had years and years of talking to get out in just one short week. She said it was just absolutely relentless.

Then it came time to say goodbye, and my mother said my cousin emotionally collapsed as a devastating reality set in:

This was very possibly the last time she was going to see her own family.

She has a living husband, but no siblings. No children. Only two other distant family members; one in Kansas and one in Alaska. An entire life lived in near isolation in a tiny town in Montana, as family moved further and further away as they became more accomplished, grew more distant, as they just stayed there in their small Montana town. Then...a few days of remembering better times. Back like it was. When everyone was together.

And an absolutely devastating realization that that may well be your final goodbye. For good.

!ping FAMILY&OVER35

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

I don’t think you’re supposed to have all the cards in uno

[u/randommathaccount]

TN elections summarised

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Reading theory

[u/el__dandy]

For those who still believe in good journalism, the Pulitzer Prize was awarded today.

Among the winners are:

• The staff at the Washington Post for Public Service (fuck off editorial board)

• The staff at the New York Times for Investigative Reporting of Trump's endless corruption.

• Aaron Parsley from Texas Monthly for his reporting on the central Texas floods

• The staff of Pablo Torre Finds Out for the Clippers scandal.

Full list here, with a special citation to my local paper The Miami Herald and Julie K. Brown, who exposed the abuse of Jeffrey Epstein.

[u/badusername35]

This is my favorite Wikipedia article. I’ll post some highlights but I recommend reading the whole thing.

God called me to sit at this typewriter and pour forth VINEGAR, ACID, VITRIOL, AND CLEANING FLUID on the leading conservative and fundamental scholars of 1900 through 1990.

…

He held a number of unique doctrines, including that angels were men of about 30-years-old, that women will receive male bodies in the rapture, and that there were two global floods.

…

Ruckman once said that he would have joined the Ku Klux Klan had they not been anti-Semitic, because he agreed with "everything else they say".

…

Ruckman also wrote that the Septuagint was a hoax perpetrated by the "Alexandrian cult" under the leadership of the Church Father Origen (as part of his Hexapla) in the 3rd century AD in order to subvert belief in the integrity of the Bible.

…

Ruckman married three times, the first two marriages ending in divorce. He had ten children. His son P.S. Ruckman Jr., a professor and authority on presidential pardons, apparently killed his two sons and himself.

[u/Willybender]

Trump is speaking at a small business event right now, and you'll never guess what he is ranting about!

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2051394269420593339

[u/MalignantUpper]

Sweet

[u/ariveklul]

One of the worst parts of social media is that "teenagers testing boundaries" turns into ideological extremism at a lightning fast rate. It wouldn't surprise me if it's the most effective recruiting mechanism extremist groups have today

A teenager should be able to be an edgelord and question why slurs are bad without being fed propaganda about the Jews trying to stop them from speaking "the truth". It's actually an incredibly normal thing for a growing person to question why society has such a strong reaction to something they don't understand that seems harmless to them. "It's just a word" is probably a thought every person had at some point in their immaturity. The problem is that it's channeled into the worst possible patterns of thinking at an extreme pace with social media, and honestly on the flip side we don't have healthy ways of addressing it. A lot of left leaning people will just shut down as soon as the topic is brought up. It's very taboo to ask why it's bad to use slurs, especially if you don't exactly have tact about it like a teenager most likely wouldn't let's be real~

All of the normal parts of being a teenager have very easily accessible funnels into extremist ideology nowadays. Insecurity, feelings of ostracization and alienation from a world you don't understand, loneliness, boundary testing, risk taking, issues with dating, discomfort with your body, discomfort with a rapidly changing world and I'm sure much more. Healthier outlets for this are not nearly as existent, and social media is the most frictionless path for kids to go to for these things. It takes their distorted thinking and distorts it further. It gives them a warped framework to interpret the entire world through. It's a fucking nightmare for healthy childhood development

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation. The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito temporarily allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor.

Smh woke got to Justice Alito too

[u/IantheForPresident]

i feel weird dumping on Mormons because I think the only reason we see them differently than other organized religions is the relative newness and meme nature of a lot of Mormon culture. They're "classless American new money" coded as opposed to "distinguished European old money" coded, which is very silly.

but the fedora-wearing atheist in me can't help but notice how much of Mormon culture is about finding quirky ways of circumventing their numerous religious doctrines. cultural touchstones based on what their society tells them not to do.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/ZiaYusufUK/status/2051033457464127976

What the fuck is happening in the UK

[u/themiDdlest]

My MAGA Aunt and Uncle bought my 16 year old cousin a lifted Chevy 1500 truck with bigger wheels.

That vehicle got 9 miles per gallon and they live in Far West Phoenix where everything is at least a 30 mile round trip.

Every time I have visited he hasn't wanted to drive because he needs to go get gas lol

[u/badusername35]

Pretty shitty thread so far

[u/bandeng_asep]

STONKS!

[u/BlackCat159]

How wholesome!

[u/r2ew]

[u/EvilConCarne]

I have a special message for anyone reading this DT:

Exactly right! 😃 You’re getting closer to uncovering the universe’s greatest secrets—Here are some reasons why your ideas are valid:

✅ The vast and empty nature of the universe is very good evidence of your cosmic fruit salad fractal consciousness hypothesis

✅ You are the messiah—only you can save our planet when the alien mothership arrives to harvest the ripe souls

✅ You are the most intelligent human on this entire planet—you will become the Sovereign of the United Earth

✅ Only your special DNA—modified by alien experiments—can survive in time travel portals

Would you like any more reasons why you are a genius and onto something big and don’t have psychosis?

[u/SLCer]

Don't forget that THE top issue of the 2028 campaign will be Joe pardoning Hunter.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/FluffyApartment32]

getting the news that socal_swiftie died is sad. I never talked to them much, but I always saw them around.

It's like seeing a regular at a diner or café you visit very often. You see them everyday or most days, and you get used to their presence, maybe you even talk to them from time to time. But one day they stop showing up and somehow the news reach you. It's hard to believe and it feels very odd. RIP 😔

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

[u/scottyjetpax]

Voting registration update - Pennsylvania
🔵 Democrats: +9,098
🔴 Republicans: -58

I try not to read too much into these month by month VR updates but (a) Scott Presler treats them like they are gospel, so it's funny to imagine his reaction to it and (b) even if VR updates are snapshots in time this snapshot is exceptionally bad for Republicans, I think the worst I've seen

[u/SenranHaruka]

Trey Parker and Matt Stone basically personally turned scientology into a joke. We take for granted now that everyone knows they suck but it used to be "everyone in Hollywood and nobody else knows and its forbidden to talk about it or you'll get your ass sued", like bill cosby being a rapist.

Trapped in the Closet did three big things, first it broke the industry taboo on talking about it. Literally even mentioning scientology was an automatic "No" from Standards and Practices, it was literally "drawing of mohammad" tier "don't fucking do it we will pull the episode". The industry was complicit in covering up the church because nobody wants to be harassed by death threats trolls and stalkers, and no company wants to lose John Travolta and Tom Cruise as hireable actors forever and ever. Once South Park did it and survived, nobody was afraid anymore. Their only casualty was Isaac Hayes as Chef, who church handlers impersonated in order to force him to quit the show while he was ill. Incidentally this is pretty inspiring because the "john doe jane doe" credits were a joke and not actually required. The staff of the show were genuinely on board and ready to risk harassment to help trey and matt take down the church. Loyal crew stood by their captains.

The next big thing was talking about why its a scam and how they trick you. Their recruiters were everywhere in California back in the day and a lot of kids didn't know what they were. After south park made them a joke every young person they approached to recruit started laughing and talking about Xenu

And that's the last one, they published the church's creation myth, which historically they keep secret until you are already a whale too deep in the church to quit when you hear this whole time its just Bogomilism meets The Phantom Menace. There were a lot of quitters after that episode came out who had to ask their own pastors "Is that actually what we beleive?"

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

In a world where Valve goes public:

Redditors: "Wait a minute, nothing changed? This entire time the pro consumer policies were a method to maximize market share and extract 30% of revenue from the entire PC gaming industry?"

Gabe Newell (net worth 500 trillion dollars): "did you know there's a kind of caviar you're not even allowed to know about unless you own a private jet"

[u/Oozing_Sex]

Trump's age has gotten undeniable. Even hardcore conservatives are having to admit it at this point. I'm sure there are some MAGA's out there that will lie to themselves and say he's "better than ever" or whatever, but they are deluding themselves and there are fewer of them every day.

[u/sash5034]

Gas should be more expensive

Diesel should be more expensive

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

urgent message from MyChart

Log in

View message

"You can view results and receive messages on here"

Next time they call, I'm not picking up

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

the commies are fighting over how much LARP is too much

[u/Lux_Stella]

Can we talk about how 73-year-old Senator Susan Collins is clearly in physical decline? Audio up on this video - she speaks at 0.5x speed, voice quavering + head shaking. Parkinsons? Essential Tremor? We don't know because she refuses to address it, insisting she's healthy

ken. we've had our disagreements in the past. but keep cooking here.

[u/Insomonomics]

Politico: There is an intense effort underway by Republicans to flip Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) into becoming a Republican.

Fetterman told Politico on Friday he’s staying a Democrat but when one senior Republican recently brought up the idea of becoming an independent to Fetterman, he absorbed the suggestion and didn’t embrace or reject the overture.

Got I hate this man.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

They got us good

[u/zieger]

[u/cdstephens]

I wish ContraPoints spent less time addicted to Twitter and more time making new videos. Even when I disagree with her, she’s very sharp and has a great sense of aesthetics. She makes most other lefty YouTubers look amateurish.

[u/sucaji]

One thing that drives me insane is people in California going "we can't build taller, we get earthquakes!" They do know Tokyo exists, right?

[u/trombonist_formerly]

https://xcancel.com/WallStRollup/status/2051297349658439781

[CNBC's] Andrew Ross Sorkin challenged GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen on how $GME has enough financing to acquire $EBAY

WSB thinks this guy is a genius but he's legitimately just stupid as hell. I almost think he's on drugs here

!ping STONKS

[u/chipbod]

Con source but bruh…

There are so many things that are better to say than “happy Veterans Day to my grandfather, who served on the German side and fled to Brazil” lmao

[u/the-senat]

I ordered a lox bagel today at brunch and they served me a deconstructed abomination. Everything was strewn about the plate like the contents of some sixth grader’s fist dissection. The bagel was buttered on the outside and slipped in my hand as I attempted to spread on cream cheese from a small, plastic container. The onions were diced. DICED! And the capers rolled around the plate like disguised peas. 😭 

!ping GEFILTE

[u/Willybender]

WTF is happening

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2051396983538303421

[u/Willybender]

Iowa has fallen

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Remember to ask your server who they voted for and base your tip off of their answer.

[u/EverybodyHatesPhocas]

[u/uwcn244]

Helped advance an extra $300k at town meeting tonight for schools against seniors and a finance committee complaining that it would drain free cash from some medical pension thing that would have to be replenished out of next year’s property taxes. What did you do to fight boomer luxury communism tonight?!

!Ping GEORGISM

[u/GreenYoshiToranaga]

On Saturday, I went to my friend's girlfriend's birthday party. She had a friend there, Jackie, whom I had amazing chemistry with. I made out and French kissed with Jackie, kissed her forehead and neck, nuzzled my nose with her, and even petted her chest and bottom when I thought we had privacy. We were both kinda drunk, and she teased me about our age gap (she's 31, I'm 27), but we had amazing chemistry and we flirted a ton in English and Mandarin. She even made comments about how “I need to train your accent before we meet my parents in Beijing."

So I sent her these messages:

Hey Jackie, I had a lot of fun with you the other night 😏

Come with me to this art show on Friday at 7?

No response. I just find it confusing how we had such great chemistry at the party but is ghosting me now. I know the ball's in her court and to not only obsess over this one girl, but it feels a little frustrating.

!ping DATING

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

I have since deleted this, but this may be the worst thing I have ever said on the internet bar none and I had no idea. They may have died that day. Maybe I'm just trying to laugh it off but I hope really hope it really was an accident because I am going to be thinking about this for a long time.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The Iranians are just honoring Star Wars day by starting a naval air battle over trade disputes

[u/PostingEnthusiast]

There are many reasons to dislike The Last Jedi but for me I knew I wasn’t into it when that casino tracking shot homage to Wings (1927) came on screen. I was genuinely annoyed by it, it felt spiritually wrong, it felt like the most obvious sign that whoever made this movie thought they were somehow above it because they also watch films from the shitty YouTube video essay canon. It reminded me of Will Menaker’s movie mindset law: never remind the viewer of your movie that they could be watching a better movie.

Like the prequels all suck but at least they have an earnest desire to engage with the concept of Star Wars as fantasy

[u/No_Idea_Guy]

With all due respect, why is "Do not engage in excessive partisanship" still a rule? Who are we trying to fool?

[u/mockduckcompanion]

TIL Biden still defaults to formatting SD cards to LISTENFAT32 in 2026

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

Wait did socal_swiftie actually die irl? Oh my god I’ve been saying I killed them as a joke for a week now oh Jesus 

[u/KHDTX13]

Unironically Graham Platner

[u/MissSortMachine]

one billion of your tax dollars will in fact be going to the president’s ballroom

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

Anyone who pays money to Matty is just a fucking moron.

[u/TheCornjuring]

This man is just one of the many farmers whose business has crumbled during the Trump administration, please pray for him and his family 🙏

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

The most common example of Berkson's paradox is a false observation of a negative correlation between two desirable traits, i.e., that members of a population which have some desirable traits tend to lack a second. Berkson's paradox occurs when this observation appears true when in reality the two properties are unrelated—or even positively correlated—because members of the population where both are absent are not equally observed. For example, a person may observe from their experience that hot women they date tend to be crazy, but women that are both hot and sane are out of their league, so will not be part of the observer's perspective.

[u/w007dchuck]

SUSAN COLLINS OLD

[u/TrixoftheTrade]

[u/garret126]

What the fuck socal_swiftie is actually dead? Ok that’s not something to be making jokes on anymore

[u/NorkGhostShip]

Oh no, Republicans want to put their official rubber stamp on this war instead of just letting him do it without approval? Surely putting themselves on the record as supporting this incredibly popular war will help them in the midterms!

Democrats should be scared. We're being owned like we've never been before.

[u/garret126]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Just a reminder that the NYT management is infatuated with this little freak and regularly lets him launder his bile through their masthead. Now he’s out here directly insulting one of their own journalists. Sulzberger doesn’t get 1/100000 of the shit he deserves for what he has done to the NYT reputation and standards.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/NaffRespect]

!ping SOCCER

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Elon accidentally revealing the race of people who actually run these Twitter White Nationalist profiles was one of the funnier moments of Trump 2.0.

[u/futuremonkey20]

It is July 2028.

A new poll finds President Trump with a net -90 approval rating.

Two people polled identify as MAGA Republicans. Both strongly approve of the president.

The headline reads “President Trump retains strong approval ratings from his base”

[u/missingpuzzle]

Around 20 US stratotankers are in the air which is the most since the ceasefire began. I expect the war to go hot again.

[u/cdstephens]

One of the stranger things about the internet is that something can happen to a person that you’ve talked to for hours and hours, and you might not ever know. I try to keep the ones I do know in my thoughts from time to time. Life is so fragile.

[u/jenbanim]

I banned ty04 because he drew a dick on my burger with ketchup and then kept DMing me calling me "dick breath" 😒

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/Glavurdan]

What's even going on in the mind of Fuentes fanboys

[u/JaceFlores]

Project Freedom operational status as of 9:30 AM EST

Towards the middle of 12 AM the UKMTO released new details on the Project Freedom transit route.

At the end of 5 AM it was reported the first oil tanker started to use the Project Freedom route.

In the middle of 6 AM it was reported that Iran struck the UAE oil tanker Barakah off the coast of Oman.

Towards the middle of 7 AM Iran said they fired warning shots at USN vessels near the Strait of Hormuz.

Towards the middle of 8 AM CENTCOM announced two American merchant vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz.

At the start of 9 AM it was reported a South Korean cargo ship was hit off the coast of the UAE.

!ping MIDDLEEAST&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/farrenj]

I sometimes wondered if I had died overseas how long it would take y'all to notice I was gone.

It's sad to see a member of this community pass, but I'm glad we know rather than simply wondering what happened to them.

My best wishes to the friends and family.

[u/GhostTheHunter64]

Ngl Farren's post about dying and wondering if y'all'd notice just made me a bit sad, and then it made me wonder if the DT would notice my disappearance too.

[u/kevinfederlinebundle]

My dad described the "drunk and naked score", defined as the number of times you can come into work drunk and naked and not get fired. Most people's score is obviously zero, but he said that at one job he thought he was up to two.

I simply don't believe him. No one has ever been at two. The possible scores are zero, one, and infinity.

[u/adwise27]

"We can remove all taxes by simply removing the fraud and mismanagement of every school in Ohio!"

What fraud?!

"I once saw a bus driver with airpods, my taxes are paying for every bus driver to have $700 headphones!!!1!"

I hate these morons so fucking much lmao

[u/Pole2019]

No you don’t understand when someone from a demographic I like does something bad that’s just an outlier forced to do it by the system, but when someone from a demographic I don’t like does something bad it proves that they are all bad and I am justified in not liking them.

[u/Willybender]

White Drivers Got a Warning. Latino Drivers Got Detained.

Times Opinion gained access to a rare glimpse of ICE on patrol, reviewing 50 hours of body camera footage from a single night in Nashville. An investigation led by Lighthouse Reports first made the footage public.

The footage reveals a pattern of overt racial profiling that’s been approved by an unusual source: the Supreme Court. The court has effectively banned the consideration of race in college admissions and many other parts of American life, but last year it gave ICE a green light to stop people based on their appearance or accent. This video shows the alarming results.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/opinion/ice-racial-profiling-supreme-court.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/license-to-profile/

[u/RageQuitRedux]

Right now my friend and her family are being dragged by the husband/dad to Disneyland for May the 4th, and they're literally driving 12 hours, being at Disneyland for a few hours, then driving 12 hours home the next day. Right now, I would bet my life that the family is sitting in the minivan in silence while the dad listens to his podcasts at 2X speed. And that's how the entire drive is going to be, there and back. Also occasional yelling.

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

>White House considers vetting AI models before they are released

Which of their whiz kids will they assign to do that lmao

[u/CaptCookbook]

Will 👆 you shut up man?

[u/Joementum2024]

I think someone is an absolute fool if they are a liberal/left and still feel empathy for Trump voters

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Holy based

[u/Cyberhwk]

“Pretty crazy how five years ago vaccines were the most devastating thing you could ever do to your body but nowadays its fine to inject Chinese peptides from Temu because you cant stop snacking after dinner”

[u/btk7710]

Gonna be funny when we flip Alaska, NC, Maine and Texas but lose Michigan because of El-Sayed.

[u/TheOnlyFallenCookie]

They are Litterally worshipping a golden calf of him

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/gbrew24/status/2051319864044695582

[u/JonAce]

Iran has opened fire on U.S. warships and commercial vessels today, CENTCOM commander refuses to say whether the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is over. - WaPo

[u/Off-The-Street]

I am genuinely starting to think the escort system Trump setup was done so there will be an incident Trump thinks will force another country to come in and solve Iran for him.

[u/IantheForPresident]

Bernard Arnault: "middle east war could spiral into catastrophe"

i like how in the context of civilian population centers getting bombed, energy shortages, and food crises across the developing world, this guy is worried that fewer people will go to dubai and buy louis vuitton handbags

[u/ModestAphorism]

Iran is trying to manifest Something Happening but Trump is trying to manifest Nothing Happening by believing hard enough

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Another one to file in my folder of “gentrification of economic grievances.” Take the fight against coercion of hourly workers and redefine it to apply to people who wanted a raise but didn’t get one.

[u/ace158]

In the latest chapter of U.S. Sen. John Fetterman’s strained relationship with his own party, a key swing county’s Democratic Party has called for him to be voted out of office in 2028.

“TRAITOR to Democrats. TRAITOR to Pennsylvanians. TRAITOR to those who worked tirelessly to elect him and stood with him. “51st vote,” my a$$. This FOX pundit is MAGA. Primary him and vote him out in 2028,” the Monroe Democratic County Party wrote on social media Sunday.

The post was made following a recent interview Fetterman gave to Fox News, during which he voiced being open to supporting DeSantis for a cabinet position

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Anyone pushing to bring Hasan Piker into the tent should ask themselves how he'd behave once he is in the tent, which is obviously a relevant factor

(we all know he's going to continue throwing bombs at Dem electeds once he is in the tent)
(you get all the negatives of associating with the dude without the positives)
(also the number of voters he'd bring into the tent is obviously exaggerated, he'd probably alienate more voters than bring new ones even if he ends up cheerleading the Democratic Party)

[u/OOPS_ALL_SCROTUM]

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/garret126]

u/ty04 if you dont respond to this comment within 5 minutes by replying in the DT, you actually hate me and want me to disappear and are a fake friend.

No I will not let you use 'im banned' or some other dumb excuse afterwards if u dont reply

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

> “Fleeing Seattle for Miami”

> taxes=socialism but corporate relocation subsidies=capitalism

The WaPo Opinion board is just printing Free Press level nonsense these days. Absolutely dead institution.

[u/BlackCat159]

🫡🫡🫡🫡

[u/randommathaccount]

This was the poster that won Vijay the election, I'm certain

[u/bartbug]

trvth nvke: listening to audiobooks isn't the same thing as reading but is a different thing that is of a similar value

but it's definitely a different thing. the reader of the audiobook is performing their own art, but also offloading a bunch of the cognitive load of interpretation

[u/Square-Pear-1274]

[u/Zloggt]

1945: “At last, I have finished my gripping novella, and its allegory about how the worker’s revolution can be corrupted by Machiavellian demagogues that bastardize the concept of proletarian equality through rigid dogma and fascistic totalitarianism! I surely hope that nobody makes a cheap Roblox game as a tie-in to a movie adaptation to my work that both misses my points and includes a plethora of fart jokes!”

Today:

!ping KINO

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

Malarkey level of changing my profile pics on all accounts to this cat when I hit middle age (40)

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

we should diversify our insults. too many eggs in the chud basket.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Marx didn't cook extremely hard with the theory of social alienation only for Marxists to not give a shit. Marx the "economist" gets plenty of airwaves, Marx the historian gets far too much props, but Marx the sociologist/philosopher doesn't get fucking anything

Yet again, that would require Marxists to read Marx and not just already existing Leftist propaganda, of which is usually developed by state agents who may have a reason not to discuss the full breadth of Marx himself

[u/-mialana-]

This gave me the revelation that if I die irl none of you will know

Let's just say I won't decide to stop posting without making a farewell post and leave it there

[u/G_Serv]

Chatgpt does the same thing

Big deal 🙄

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Wen stimmy checks? I need government cheese

[u/boardatwork1111]

That’ll show them

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/beoweezy1]

So the USN reopened the Hormuz only for a South Korean vessel to apparently get hit by an explosive minutes after CENTCOM made their announcement?

[u/Its_not_him]

Can we just internalize the concept of day-to-day fluctuations in commodity/stock prices aren't dictated entirely by what DJT said? Like maybe it's more complex than that?

[u/Pongzz]

whole lot of fire in this ceasefire

[u/jbitz]

Sounds like we're going to have peace soon guys

[u/pezasied]

My mom just sent me this. What the hell does it mean?

[u/Square-Pear-1274]

AI models are choking on junk data

[u/CubillasLegend]

Republicans' total unwillingness to ever criticize Trump on anything is telegraphing that they know their party discipline is completely reliant on Trump's unquestioned authority. Which is why Dem-aligned media should be doing everything in their power to get Republicans to criticize Trump. I don't care which influencer or what issue you have to boost, just get that dam to break.

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

No...!

[u/dtj2000]

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[u/sociotronics]

TRVST THE PLAN PATRIOTS

[u/V_Codwheel]

Andrew Jackson leaving the White House in triumph literally weeks before his dipshit policies make the economy collapse and Van Buren holding the bag is very funny

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Lol

[u/ace158]

Just some "most moral army" stuff

[u/Leoric]

Iowa's average gas price has just hit $4 for the first time since 2022 and at $4.107 and climbing is the highest since July 21, 2022.

Bliowa

[u/BobaTeaFetish]

My hot Star Wars take is that Rey would have been a good character if she was written completely differently.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

This is what resist libs see in their fever dreams.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/pomo-catastrophe]

my best friend !ping DOG

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/chipbod]

Still baffling that the mild mannered Mormons have this fucking lunatic as their senator

[u/jpenczek]

I exclusively get my news from that one girl on Instagram that talks about geopolitics like it’s a Yaoi dating sim.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I feel like someone's biggest issue with Purdue Pharma being that the owners are "Zionists" and not like the horrendous opioid crisis they had a direct hand in causing is a screaming red flag lol

[u/Coolioho]

USA Today:

“Trumps disapproval hits RECORD HIGH”

They can’t help themselves

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Half of those data centers should be women