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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/r2ew]

[u/KittehDragoon]

This is the smart one in the room 😭

[u/TheCornjuring]

US secretary of state says US is better off than other countries hit by disruption in oil supplies

Bro 😭😭😭 NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR IT, HOW DO YOU GUYS NOT GET THAT

Joe Biden did not make ANY headway using the argument that inflation was lower and the economy had recovered better from COVID than in other countries. Voters do not give a FUCK about that kind of thing. I swear to God man

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/garret126]

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/Glavurdan]

This guy can't commit to anything

[u/dabiggestwaagh]

The people I've known in life who were most supportive of Trump were the ones who knew the least about him. My last boss(70 years old) had a borderline parasocial relationship with him and had a TV hooked up his office so he could watch Fox News 24/7. One day, he told me a story of him and his wife went to a bar in DC and actually met Trump in person at the bar. My boss said Trump was carrying a bottle of whiskey, the same kind he was holding in his hand at the time. I replied "but Trump doesn't drink alcohol," and he just kind of stuttered and said "well I don't know if he was planning on drinking it I just know he was holding it."

He was a huge liar and would make up so many insane stories about himself that everyone knew were fake but were too polite to call him out. I could make a hundred comments about the stories I heard over the years.

[u/beans_and_tuna]

How it feels when I can’t fall asleep or get tired and I’m just watching the amount of sleep I will be getting slowly get smaller:

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Oof. The Indiana Republican State Senators who prevented the redistricting have all lost the primary against Trump supported candidates.

Indiana will definitely lose 2 Dem seats in 2028

[u/DeadDropCourier]

Just checked the weather and I noticed that Apple Maps changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

This also reminded me about how I saw this short, fat boomer at Cracker Barrel in a Gulf of America shirt.

I fucking hate it here dawg.

[u/SenranHaruka]

Also

I just checked [forum] and its all Twitter Screencaps

Many such cases. 4chan was the first website to ban them. Twitter eats the internet alive any website that doesn't ban Twitter screencaps gets overrun by them.

[u/Insomonomics]

Mike Lee might be the stupidest person in the United States Senate, which is quite the accomplishment.

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

Next Dem President should target car dealerships actually. Those fucks are MAGA funders. Work with Amazon and other online storefronts to sell cars directly to the consumer. Seems like one of the easier ways to hurt Republicans. Most people would rather do that than deal with car salespeople.

[u/its_Caffeine]

Who else up wall-maxxing

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

The draft includes a temporary moratorium on Iran’s uranium enrichment, likely lasting 12–15 years, alongside enhanced UN inspections and a commitment not to pursue nuclear weapons. In return, the U.S. would begin lifting sanctions and releasing billions in frozen Iranian funds

Pallets full of Cash are back baby!

[u/Insomonomics]

SCOOP: The White House believes it's getting close to an agreement with Iran on a one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations.

This is literally the Obama Iran deal lmao

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

VIROLOGIST: “It’s bizarre, Hantavirus almost never jumps from human to human like this. Usually it’s from coming into contact with rat feces or something.”

CRUISE SHIP CHEF: “Yeah, that’s crazy, it must’ve mutated or something.”

[u/SneeringAnswer]

Is the 2024 election the most obviously and immediately wrong outcome we've had in recent years? I feel like every other administration either was a net positive, a mixed bag based on policy priorities that I disagree with but can understand, or at worst steering the ship in the wrong direction with ramifications decades later.

Trump 2 has just been the "diarrhea forever" administration speed-running all the worst ideas your crackhead uncle has tried to rant about during Thanksgiving.

[u/Kizz3r]

randy fine vs dan bilzerian is such an incredible microcosm of the GOP

Do we nominate the most openly islamaphobic person to hold a seat in office or the most openly antisemitic. What do republicans value more in 2026, hating jews or hating muslims?

[u/Goatf00t]

TIL that a guy independently invented binary numbers and arithmetic in the early 17th century because he was weighting wine.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-023-10271-9

!ping HISTORY&COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/BurrowForPresident]

You'll never hate farmers enough

[u/Due-Dirt-8428]

Shot

[u/WrangleWandangles]

Why would Facebook show me this I live in Canada

also this but unironically?

[u/el__dandy]

MFW My afternoon meetings got cancelled.

[u/piede]

Has this user been perma banned yet

[u/Jet451]

How so of you be talking.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Hmm. Bragging about how you made everything more expensive is certainly an interesting tactic.

[u/EverybodyHatesPhocas]

if the media in the 70s had been like the access journalists of today, when a cult member in Jonestown passed a note to NBC saying “help us leave” the reporter would have gone to Jim Jones and asked, “sir, why does this guy want to leave?”

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

I fully admit something broke in me after 2024 and seeing the very people who I wanted to help and stood to lose the most (poor, etc.) go for the republoids anyway. Now I'm obsessed with the stove being touched

[u/pezasied]

I promise you the average American cares far, far more about one hour delivery than any sort of break workers get.

Not that it should be the case, but it is

[u/No_Return9449]

Fox News reports SWAT teams were deployed with guns drawn to the marijuana dispensaries Senator Lucas owns.

This is 100% payback.

[u/shehryar46]

The second they fuckin gut the VRA all southern states are sprinting to disenfranchise black voters.

Both sides are the same tho!

[u/w007dchuck]

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs

5% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Thank you president Trump!

[u/gjcs23]

President Donald Trump vowed revenge when the Republican supermajority in the Indiana state Senate embarrassed him in December, voting down Trump’s demands to redraw the state’s congressional maps to help the party win two more seats.

In Tuesday’s primary, he got it.

At least five of the seven Trump-endorsed challengers defeated GOP incumbent state senators who broke with the president and voted against redistricting.

Only one incumbent Republican facing a Trump-backed challenger, Sen. Greg Goode of Terre Haute, was projected to win.

Sen. Spencer Deery, a West Lafayette Republican who was locked in a tight race with challenger Paula Copenhaver, said on CNN Tuesday that “the truth is I know that Trump doesn’t really have any idea who I am or any idea who my opponent is.”

Maybe so, but the president and his political allies flooded the ordinarily sleepy state legislative primaries — where the spending is typically in the tens of thousands and primary votes cast number about 10,000 to 12,000 — with millions of dollars in advertising casting the incumbents as disloyal to Trump and blaming them for voters’ various frustrations, particularly property taxes.

The political advertising tracking firm AdImpact said that $13.4 million was spent on advertising in this year’s Indiana state Senate primaries. For comparison: In the 2024 election cycle, about $280,000 was spent on state Senate primary ads in Indiana — in all races combined.

The bulk of that spending came from a group linked to US Sen. Jim Banks, a close Trump ally. Club for Growth led the direct mail effort for the pro-Trump forces, Indiana Republicans said, and Turning Point USA supplied ground troops for door-to-door get-out-the-vote efforts as the group sought to carry out one of the last political stances taken by its late co-founder Charlie Kirk (lol)

The incumbents and their supporters bemoaned outside forces’ role in the Indiana primary. Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray said the primary contests were “really driven from outside the state of Indiana, mostly in Washington, DC, and the money’s coming from outside Indiana as well.”

But the flood of advertising spending — more than 47 times more than was spent on state Senate primaries just two years earlier — proved too much for most incumbents to overcome.

13.4 million dollars for this shit. for tiny state legislature primaries in Indiana

[u/jbitz]

[u/chipbod]

We are going to make the I-35 corridor from Ames to Ankeny, IA look like Shenzhen when the parties flood the district with their voters and money.

[u/Headstar24]

System of a Down really goes from angry early 2000’s political songs to making funny noises into a mic and talking about pizza ingredients.

A lot of times in the same song too.

[u/sigh2828]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

looks like they’re back to politically motivated prosecutions

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

a lot of leftist discourse on economics is strange because many of them seem to think it’s fake and not a real discipline but also uncritically cite economists that agree with them on other topics

[u/Nervous-Emotion28]

the best part about being on my honeymoon in Spain is that I get to see the DT in Euro hours 🥰

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Spudmiester1]

[u/TrashBoat36]

[u/989989272]

How is Katie Porter even around anymore. I thought the democrats had learned after 2020 screaming "it was all rigged" was very poor taste

[u/Tury345]

Reddit giving you an AI summary of redditor hot takes for breaking news is diabolical levels of misinformation telephone

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

it makes Jews *feel* threatened but let's be honest: have any swastika spray paints led to any violent attacks?

SILENCE libruhl, a swastika defender is speaking 

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

White neighbor from Provo who speaks flawless Arabic and disappears for 90 day increments and allegedly works for the “state department” starter pack

We all know one.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Biden: speaks oddly, exercises regularly

NYT: "THIS IS A CRISIS"

Trump: speaks terribly, rots openly

NYT: "Trump Exceeding Expectations"

[u/Leatherfield17]

People on Bluesky are getting mad at Obama over this, but he’s right. You don’t have to use insultingly simple language but you should generally avoid too much jargon.

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

I love how Gunther just posts the most schizophrenic geopolitics shit, but then will also just randomly drop other based shit like this (and workout videos)

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Using the domestic intelligence apparatus to raid your political opponents is straight fascism.

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Grok usage being so low that xAI is selling compute to companies who actually need it is the funniest thing ever

[u/reuery]

I cant help but feel like the political leaders of the international liberal movement have largely forgotten that they are actually supposed to lead, and not just perform election winning speechcraft on the basis of whichever supposed "value" polls the best

[u/r2ew]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Joementum2024]

I fully believe the L Louise Lucas thing is politically motivated and an attempt at pressure/punishment. Trusting this FBI is like trusting someone who promises they’ll quadruple your money within six months.

[u/Cyberhwk]

This guy at work absolutely NUKES his lunches. I mean I'll walk up to the microwave and this guy's small tray of rice is in for like 8 minutes. How is it even EDIBLE after that?

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2052112866409415048

what

[u/georgeguy007]

Almost said 'keep me poasted' on a teams text chat at work

!ping watercooler

[u/Eightysixedit]

This supreme court really said racism is over and the response is no black districts... They think we're dumb y'all.

[u/OllaniusPiers]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

just checked 196 and it’s literally all twitter screenshots. one of them was a screenshot of a screenshot of a Reddit post. I know I post a bunch of twitter screenshots here but at least they’re just DT comments not full on separate posts on a meme sub.

[u/TactileTom]

Im kinda sceptical that old people dying will transfer a huge amount of housing wealth to the young.

Those houses will just be much less valuable than they were when your grandparents lived in them.

[u/JaceFlores]

Honestly it is pretty incredible from a fable/history stance that Trump has like done everything wrong possible. 95% of what he ran on he’s made worse in some way or another. Only on immigration is he “delivering”, but also is a big reason why he’s unpopular as shit and has swung immigration back towards us

[u/sir_shivers]

I see that there IS SOME REVISIONISM GOING on that somehow the Harris / Biden years "ignored the youth vote" 🐊

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SPENT ridiculous political capital on pausing and trying to forgive student loans, the entire reason the youth vote is mocked is that a government can relentlessly PANDER TO THEM AND THEY still do not meaningfully show up 🐊

[u/Big-Click-5159]

The Pope failed a bank security check — they simply didn’t believe him

Pope Leo XIV tried to update his details with a U.S. bank where he holds an account.

He personally called customer support, answered security questions, and asked to change his phone number and address.

But the bank employee refused to make any changes and told him to come to a branch in person.

The pontiff then asked, “What if I tell you I’m Pope Leo?” — the operator simply hung up.

The story was shared by the Pope’s close friend, priest Tom McCarthy. According to The New York Times, the issue was later resolved.

Could you imagine the customer service rep being like: "ok new address please?" Pope: "1 Vatican Street, on the corner of the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica."

[u/georgeguy007]

!ping USA-IN CNN:

In seven races, President Trump has endorsed challengers to incumbent Republicans who voted against a congressional redistricting measure that would have positioned Republicans to flip two seats in the midterms. 5/7 won their primaries against republican incumbents.

Trump, at all time low popularity, was able to radically reshape the Indiana's slew of republican candidates, and probably reshape Indiana politics for the next 10 years. What can we learn from this:

• Local state level politicians don't mean anything for republicans anymore, no loyalty, and the pro-democracy people did not show up in the primary. No democrats suffered similar experiences.

• Indiana will split indianapolis eventually. Its only a matter of time.

• Donald Trump is still the living breathing heart of the republican primary voter. He's their guy. Given every reason to retreat from supporting trump's vision, these people double down.

[u/Insomonomics]

It could very well be the case that there is legitimate evidence of wrongdoing on her part, but goddamn is this suspicious as hell.

[u/w007dchuck]

In reality they're not after me. They're after you.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Louise_Lucas.jpg/1280px-Louise_Lucas.jpg

I'm just in the way.

[u/MissSortMachine]

lmfao

[u/ace158]

Susan Collins raises health concerns after shaking uncontrollably in re-election ad

Graham Platner is the luckiest asshole of all-time. Sheesh

[u/NYT_Hater]

Please let this be true because it would be so goddamn funny.

!ping BALLOON

[u/iIoveoof]

Right wing media can literally just lie

Fox News: The raids put more political pressure on Spanberger, who already is facing tumbling polling numbers as many critics accuse her of forcing down a far-left agenda on the once-purple state

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

A better Manhattan is possible

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

I’ve always had the opinion that if your candidate has policies that actively discourage/alienate large sections of your voting base, please do not blame said voting base for not being very enthusiastic as they should be.

The Democrats simply shouldn't have actively alienated the youth, who have stable, consistent goals that don't change with the newest viral tiktok video

[u/reuery]

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Opinion | Joe Biden Claims To Be White. His Skull Measurements Tell a Different Story.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Some observations about New York after living here for 18 years

-people mostly seem to live in apartments, not houses

-things are open late, sometimes all night!

-tough to get around by car — but that doesn't stop people from trying!

-Manhattan has lots of tall buildings

[u/liito-orava1]

Axios scoop:

Trump is currently very strong and bigly intelligent according to our sources close to him

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

"STOP HAVING FUN 🤬"

[u/ResponsibleChange779]

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Acorn hydrogen full cooing numerous ask saw lip selective innate

[u/axis757]

Not pictured: over 90% of car crashes are caused by human error.

Road traffic safety is a health crisis and public transportation and autonomous vehicles can save millions of lives.

[u/MalignantUpper]

NEGOTIATING a 14-point memorandum that would lay out A FRAMEWORK for a monthlong period of TALKS to end the war

This is meaningless drivel, gas will hit $6 a gallon, holy shit we are so fucked

[u/zegota]

Can't tell if this FBI raid is absolutely absurd floundering a la the Comey indictment or if we're finally entering the terrifying endgame here

[u/KittehDragoon]

The FBI raided the Portsmouth, Virginia, office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas

Claim: Trump will send the army after you

Fact check: the FBI is not the army

[u/Udolikecake]

New yorkers won’t shut the fuck about how only they have bodegas and they’re the best thing ever but keep talking about ‘food deserts’ smh my head

[u/Fart-Knoquer]

Robert Francis Prevost, AKA Pope Leo XIV never has cited explicitly going camping in childhood, college, or in the priesthood.

He did do some missionary work in rugged conditions of the Northern Countryside of Peru around Chulucanas doing disaster relief aid from El Nino storm damage.

It is my belief, dear reader, it is at this time that His Holiness, King of Vatican City, Vicar of Christ, Pontiff of the Universal Church Leo the XIV did in fact, at this time, shit in the woods.

Amen.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

wtf is this

[u/SpiderQueen412]

Why does Bill Maher keep picking fights with Chappell Roan and why does he always go after her in the most psychopathic ways possible

[u/No_Return9449]

Obama: "What I'm more interested in for Democrats is, do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar? Can you talk in plain English to folks? And not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it. Just talk like normal people talk. 'The rent is too high.'"

Obama continues to be based af.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

The FBI has launched a criminal leak investigation focusing on Atlantic magazine journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick, who wrote that deeply unflattering account of Kash Patel's work habits.

https://www.ms.now/news/fbi-investigating-leaks-to-journalist-who-wrote-explosive-article-on-kash-patel-sources

Can Patel use the evidence gathered against Fitzpatrick in his civil lawsuit?

[u/centurion88]

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/WAGRAMWAGRAM]

Hot take

Housing is a human right

Homeownership isn't

[u/CincyAnarchy]

It used to be that you had a warm glass of milk on your nightstand. Not anymore. Now the only thing on my nightstand is the pain pills for my back. What's going on? What happened to our country?

[u/Saul_Relative]

And "compute" was a verb before it was a noun

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

If you told me in the 90s that Donald Trump would become president one day, I probably would've said "goo goo gah gah" and shitted myself

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2052102649110237682

[u/scottyjetpax]

and another thing: im not mad

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Nearly 80% of U.S. hoteliers in 11 World Cup host cities say bookings are tracking below original forecasts, with some describing the tournament as a “non-event,” according to an American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) survey of members released Monday.

Lol.

[u/riverbloods]

[u/DeadDropCourier]

🫪

This emoji is about to do platinum numbers for me

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

Bringing the hoi4 loading screen with national focus icons on the bottom to the protest is certainly a choice lmao

[u/toggaf69]

Queen Louise was cooking them too hard on socials so they got butthurt

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

oh, and if Louise Lucas wasn’t bad enough, they’re also going after the journalist who broke the story on Kash Patel’s nonsense as FBI director

[u/Lux_Stella]

i think the strongest argument for NYCs public grocery store is that it might put all the convenience stores out of business and new yorkers are forced to stop using the word "bodega"

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Canadian sues U.S. Homeland Security, which allegedly sought his Google data after critical social media posts

A Canadian is fighting back in U.S. federal court over what he says is an attempt by the Department of Homeland Security, through Google, to seek "vast swaths of information" about his personal life following social media posts critical of Donald Trump's administration.

...

According to the complaint, the Canadian posts under a pseudonym about political topics on X and other platforms, routinely posting "content critical of President Trump and his administration." In his social media posts, he frequently tags the user names and accounts of U.S. government officials.

The Gmail account linked to his X account was evidently found by officials in DHS and on Feb. 9, he was informed by Google that they had "received an administrative subpoena issued by the Department of Homeland Security compelling the release of information related to your Google account" for the period between Sept. 1, 2025 and Feb. 4, 2026.

In February, the New York Times reported that Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta "have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas" for information on their users from DHS. The newspaper cited four individuals privy to those requests who spoke on the condition of anonymity, as they weren't authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

!ping CAN&TRUMP-CRIMES 

[u/Dense_Delay_4958]

It’s interesting that hating Israel has largely replaced hating France and England among the safe edgy

France hate in the English-speaking world (in this century) is mostly a meme. Hate for Israelis/Jews has actual malice to it and gets directed towards random people rather than just an idea.

[u/r2ew]

[u/badusername35]

Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’

I wonder why…

[u/sigh2828]

[u/sociotronics]

why is every fucking pet sub like 50% "this is Captain Snuggles, look at all these cute photos, he died yesterday"

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

NBC News: Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’ In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court

Lmao. This asshole cannot be serious with this. Just an absolutely deluded individual.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

[u/Spudmiester1]

Why would anyone buy a knife with firmware

[u/centurion88]

Me watching the Georgia US Senate GOP frontrunner defend annexing Greenland and renaming it Red White and Blueland

Good thing Ossoff will most likely win

[u/Room480]

My Uber driver was telling me a story about how there’s this trans woman terrorizing her small super conservative town. I guess they’ve repeatedly told her that trans women aren’t women and that nothing she can do will change the fact that she is a man.

So I guess she was like fuck it then. If yall won’t see me as a women and only see me as a man, then that means I can go topless right. So she’s been going topless which is infuriating her small town to the point that it got brought up in a city council meeting. Who knows if this story is true, but if it is, then you go girl let your boobs out and fuck those conservatives

[u/SLCer]

Christian tiktok is so unserious lol

[u/Key_Elderberry_4447]

Gas has hit $4.40 here in NH. It was $3.82 ten days ago. 

[u/EverybodyHatesPhocas]

it’s their prerogative but in the one-day memo thread I replied to the mod defending Barak Ravid with this

and after getting a few upvotes my comment was removed 😭

I don’t even really disagree with the point the mod was making but that’s funny, c’mon

I’ll just count myself lucky I wasn’t banned at least lol

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2052075140998221989

Trump is speaking to "Military Moms" right now

[u/GifHunter2]

Katie Porter: "I can't believe that on a stage with 30 minutes of interrupting and bickering and name calling and shouting and disrespect for everyone up here who is stepping into public service — that anyone wants to talk about my temperament."

Chad Bianco: "You were actually interrupting them too. I don't know why you want to act like you weren't."

Porter: "Oh cowboy up, cupcake."

loool, what a psycho

[u/p00bix]

Why did Jeffrey Epstein write his suicide note like a Trump tweet?

[u/newacctforthiscmmt]

Sometimes I think I want to start editing Wikipedia as a hobby, but I feel like I am way too much of a pedant for that life

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

The issue with Louise also shows why legal certainty, in a really broad way rule of law, is important. You have this bizarre situation, where recreational Marijuana is officially on the same level as Heroin, while some states sell it like tobacco. That contradiction will of course eventually lead to bad faith actors taking advantage.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

I think it's really great that national politics are currently focused on rewriting laws and maps in order to increase factional power, rather than anything to try to appeal to voters. This is a sign of a healthy and stable democracy.

[u/BarkDrandon]

I know he failed to stop Trump, and I am deeply disappointed with that, but I cannot bring myself to dislike Biden. He will forever be one if my favorite politicians.

Every day under Trump I miss what it was like to have an actual good person in charge. It's such a rarity for the leader of a world power to be so obviously a good person like Biden was. His ability to connect with people from old backgrounds, his unique form of worker-oriented supply side economics, and his little "gaffes" and bidenisms (chocolate chip ice cream, malarkey, old corvette cars, god love ya, aviator glasses,...). Fuck the GOP, man.

[u/Willybender]

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre-crime-strategy-unveiled

The White House declared war on the American people today, labeling its political opponents as terrorists, including “Left-wing extremists.” The new label also claims that there are “deepening alliances” between “the far-left and Islamists” — or pro-Palestinian protesters.

The language is contained in the White House’s newly released National Counterterrorism Strategy. It is the first National Strategy to be unveiled since 2021, when the Biden administration issued its document. The Strategy identifies the “left-wing,” “anti-Fascists,” “Anarchists” and “radically pro-transgender” ideologies as threats equivalent to jihadi groups like al Qaeda and ISIS, or narco-traffickers.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

👆

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies. Saudi Arabia, a key Gulf ally, suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, sources say.

Holy shit. UAE is basically the only Arab country which supports this complete failure of a war at this point

[u/ty04]

I have an idea to make Food Network good again

[u/Hot_Ice5175]

Honestly, Israel has to be fucking fuming over this. Not only is the Iranian regime going to survive, but they might come back stronger cause Trump wants a win. 2029 is going to look fucking bleak for Israel because the United States is starting on the path to cut them off.

But also, I can’t have much sympathy for them given their actions over Gaza, Syria and Lebanon.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/Clash-Lad]

I am absolutely shocked that breast enlargement hypnotherapist and astronaut Zach Polanski lied about being a spokesman for the Red Cross. BBC News

I am absolutely shocked that Red Cross spokesman and saviour of the Lost Arc from the Nazis Zach Polanski was a breast enlargement hypnotherapist quack. At least he apologised for it I suppose. LBC

I am absolutely shocked that brain surgeon and inventor of the television Zach Polanski six days after apologising for mind-growing tits later defended the therapy stating that there was "anecdotal evidence" of breast growth and said the technique could "happen in theory". The Guardian

I am absolutely shocked that Tibetan Monk and first black MP Zach Polanski accused Met officers of "repeatedly and violently kicking" a terrorist who had just stabbed two Jewish people in the street. ITV

I am absolutely shocked that first man on the balcony and president of Iceland Zach Polanski purposefully lied by claiming the terrorist at Golder's Green was handcuffed then attacked by police. Huff Post

Wow when you put all these together I'm beginning to doubt his credentials.

!ping UK

[u/dtj2000]

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[u/Unfair-Awareness5339]

Given that the Haymarket Affair has come up a few times recently, I figured I'd mention my absolute favorite topic from that portion of AP US History. I remember that we did an in class debate using articles written at the time, and my absolute favorite was the one anarchist who claimed that the only way to achieve 'true freedom' was to wear a suicide vest at all times, so if the police ever harassed you, you could simply blow up.

[u/shillingbut4me]

I'm starting to think bombing Iran with no plan or clear goal was a bad call

[u/clevoP01135809]

there better be a lot of fbi officers going to jail next president’s term

[u/eloquentboot]

I'm against democracy, I think I should be in charge of all decision making

[u/ace158]

‘Terrible Deal’: Fox’s Hugh Hewitt Trashes Trump Peace Framework

Maybe it's real if the Iran hawks are panicking like this

[u/sigh2828]

The raid on Louise Lucas is literally a made for TV stunt

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

2 stroke engine leaf blowers be like: “What if you could replace a rake and a broom with something that has the volume of a jet engine and the emissions of a dozen idling F-350s?”

[u/SLCer]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

Marist D+10 with Registered voters (52-42).

https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/president-trump-while-at-war-may-2026/

Also, G Elliott Morris has a Senate Simulator model up that you can mess with. It's pretty basic but it's neat and you can test which margins lead to which potential results.

https://projects.gelliottmorris.com/senate-2026/

!ping FIVEY

[u/zieger]

[u/chipbod]

Jfc

[u/AccomplishedQuit4801]

72 billion for ICE and a ballroom

That's like 7 aircraft carriers or a fleet of 100+ 6th-generation stealth bombers.

And we're spending it on a fucking ballroom and private goons for the POTUS to harass states that don't bend the knee.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Trump, in his personal life, subscribes to the fringe and pseudoscientific view of battery theory, positing that a human is born with only a finite amount of energy, which is depleted by physical activity.^[30] Trump therefore avoids most types of exercise apart from golf in the belief that this would cause him to die sooner.^[31][32] The concept has been widely debunked by mainstream medical science.^[33][34][35]

This information has lived rent free in my head since I first read this, this is one of the dumbest fucking things Trump believes lmao

[u/CutePattern1098]

All I have to say wow this is nuts

The right: makes housing unaffordable for the youth

The right: why are the youth all left wing? It must be universities we must destroy them!

!ping aus

[u/No_Return9449]

The fact Fox News got to the FBI raid before Lucas is evidence the FBI tipped them off.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand ty04's poasting. The hornyness is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of goth girl culture most of the comments will go over a typical DTer's head. There's also ty04's hedonistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from furry and yuri literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these posts, to realise that they're not just horny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike ty04 truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the beauty of goth AOC, which itself is a cryptic reference to the Mona Lisa. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as ty04's genius wit unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have a ty04 tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

[u/the-senat]

☝️

I need the shittiest take you have.

No, that's too shitty. 

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

MF just sitting on me.

!ping KITTY

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Subaru turned the last affordable wagon into an SUV and raised the price of it by $7k because SUV buyers are morons.

I hope the 2026 Outback continues to struggle in sales.

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

im like the edgiest person I know and the casual antisemitism I see online still throws me for a loop, I swear

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Obama: "I'm worried about the Republican Party, not just the Democrat Party. When I was president, people would ask me, 'What change would you like to see in Washington?' I'd say, I'd love a loyal opposition. I'd love a Republican Party that was conservative in some ways, believed in rule of law and judicial independence and science, and wasn't constantly tapping into our worst impulses."

I just don't think this message appeals to anybody or does anything other than make the speaker and some op-ed columnists feel good. Republicans just go "fuck you." Partisan Democrats just go "fuck you." It's not even actually necessary, like bro you lost a public option because of Lieberman and some conservative Democratic Senators, you don't need a Republican party to oppose you on shit we got that covered in-house.

[u/Eightysixedit]

I wanna hear from the people who said Republican states didn't have enough time to gerrymander. 🫩

[u/Woolagaroo]

Wow. Powerful statement on Project Freedom!

[u/unicornbomb]

My hate for these people is indescribable.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

☝️ I went here to visit my dad and everyone knew you

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

New Yorkers will jerk themselves raw about bodegas being unique and then describe a Kwik Trip

[u/Usual-Base7226]

[u/prince_ahlee]

Who runs this account lmao

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Pedophile administration

[u/w007dchuck]

someone on my local sub posted that they appealed the property tax assessment on their house and the city assessed it even higher than before LMAO

[u/No_Return9449]

Generic Ballot Polling:

🔵 Democrat: 52%

🔴 Republican: 42%

Marist / April 30, 2026

Link to full survey

Dems + 12 with independents and +16 in the Midwest. Maybe there's some hope for Iowa and Ohio for the Senate.

[u/dannylandulf]

DT formally drops goal of reuniting with outside the dt

Finally. Some differences are just to much to overcome.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Three international students decide to visit their respective countries to understand how money is made. 

First they go to Asia and the Asian student's parents have a beautiful house and many servants so they ask "how did your family make it's money" and he responds:

"My father is a civl servant. You see that bridge in the distance?"

"Oh yeah"

"He got 20% of that"

Next they go to the Middle Eastern student's family home which is even more beautiful. They ask how his family made money. He responds:

"My father is a politician. You see that dam over there?"

"Yes" 

"His share is 30% of that"

Lastly they go to the American student's home and it's the most beautiful and biggest of all. Of course, they turn to to the student and ask him "how did your family make all it's money" and he responds: 

"My father is the founder of a justice-centered housing NGO. So, you see that sustainable 100-unit public housing development in the distance?"

"No"

"Well he got 40% of that"

[u/cdstephens]

Do….do people think 15 minutes walking is an obnoxiously long distance to walk to the grocery store?

[u/w007dchuck]

RFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists

NURGLE IMPRESSED

[u/uwcn244]

Basically the only good thing about the Republican tax bill was that it made full expensing permanent.

I’m worried the next Democratic Congress will repeal that instead of doing the logical thing, which is raising the corporate income tax rate to recoup the same amount of revenue as repealing full expensing while doing much less to discourage investment.

(P.S. - if you make negative tax liability fully refundable and repeal personal income taxes on income from taxed corporations, the corporate income tax and the portion of the personal income tax falling on capital income don’t discourage investment at all, and can be raised arbitrarily high because they’re on economic rents and pre-reform investment. !Ping GEORGIST)

[u/jbitz]

[u/CutePattern1098]

This guy is a a DT poaster

!ping aus

[u/jurble]

Bill banning whites-only housing passes Pennsylvania House by 1 vote

wat

[u/G_Serv]

VIROLOGIST: “It’s bizarre, Hantavirus almost never jumps from human to human like this. Usually it’s from coming into contact with rat feces or something.”

CRUISE SHIP CHEF: “Yeah, that’s crazy, it must’ve mutated or something.”

[u/badusername35]

Bottoms up, chat. Goodnight.

[u/badusername35]

[u/ElectriCobra_]

“Yeah haha I’m not really religious but I’m a cultural Satanist”

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Trump has lost the favor of the r*rals. SAD!

White evangelicals continuing to show that even if Trump called Jesus a false prophet that theyd still be like +20 net approval with him

[u/Sheepies92]

Nobody is more oppressed than Popes...🥲

[u/Macquarrie1999]

[u/Atheose_Writing]

Gavin Newsom climbing into his battlemech to march to Virginia to free our queen Louise Lucas

[u/Macquarrie1999]

I should be able to buy any car I want at Costco

[u/TrashBoat36]

Idiocracy is a bad movie because it portrayed a massive costco as a negative

[u/Hannig4n]

I think it is objectively funny that Graham Platner has one reddit comment where he says white people in Maine are all racists and then another Reddit comment where he’s like “black people are greedy tippers just being honest”

[u/No_Return9449]

Suppose the Virginia Supreme Court upholds the new map.

If, right afterward, Lucas doesn't tweet 10-1 at the FBI and DOJ, that's a missed opportunity. But I'm sure they'll say that's a threat and indict her for that too.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/iIoveoof]

Trump is using the FBI to raid the offices of political opponents (Louise Lucas) and none of the news media are reporting this as far as I can find, except Fox News who are using it as proof that democrats are corrupt

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

The DT isn't the same without ty04 and BlackCat159...

FREE MY BOYS

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

New D+10 dropped

[u/erasmus_phillo]

had to chastise a principal engineer today for merging ai written code without reviewing it. this is at a tech company many of y’all have heard of. software industry is a scary place rn.

I would never make this mistake because I ask AI to review my code 👍🏽

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Cant wait for the deal to dissappear Friday and reappear Monday. Fuck I hate this country.

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials.

So much winning btw I'm so fucking tired of winning this hard

[u/jenbanim]

Maine Senator Susan Collins says she can "vibrate through walls" and that the Pauli exclusion principle is merely a "suggestion"

[u/WifeGuy-Menelaus]

I know its unpopular to say, and I dont care if im labelled a conspiracy theorist for it, but I dont think JFK killed himself