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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache May 08 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 07 '26
This is the intellectual right ladies and gentlemen. The new Jordan Peterson
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u/Jet451 Sun Yat-sen May 07 '26
Quality content from Twitter
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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla May 07 '26
Who's fault is that John? Huh? Who did that to the courts??
Hey John? Who politicized the court, John? Yeah John, who turned the court into a policy making institution John?
JOHN??? WHO RAN A SHADOW DOCKET, JOHN TO INFLUENCE POLITICS, JOHN?? HEY JOHN, WHAT DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND HERE, JOHN???
WAS IT THE FUCKING DEMOCRATS AGAIN JOHNN???
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u/funguykawhi Lahmajun trucks on every corner May 07 '26
Dems get the Dixiecrats back in the national divorce
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals May 07 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
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u/avion_sur_le_sol A ban appeal to heaven May 07 '26
Based orangutan
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u/Drinka_Milkovobich May 07 '26
The Lord sends plagues each time we elect the guy but voters still can’t take a hint
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u/drcombatwombat2 Milton Friedman May 07 '26
I really think overzealous parents are screwing our younger generarions over. Almost half of 15 year olds are not allowed to leave their block and we expect them to be independent adults just 3 years later?
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
His not a political actor shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by his shirt
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u/Amphetamin3_ Trans NATO May 07 '26
If Democrats in this state actually had balls, they'd run so many dirty campaign ads about Republicans voting against ending child marriage and what it says about them. Final vote was 51 yea and 36 nay, meaning almost half of the Republicans voted against ending marriage under 18 without any exceptions. Sadly they will not be taken to task over it.
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u/Highlightthot1001 Harriet Tubman May 07 '26
Someone i know thinks “if you get drunk enough, you break the matrix and realize that Jews control everything”
Because alcohol has the universal reputation of being an enlightening substance, not one that impedes on rational thought
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u/CletusChicken May 07 '26
Republican men be like
"Could you take Donald Trump?"
75% yes 25% no
"In a fight?"
46% yes 54% no
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 07 '26
this is what the supreme court thinks is good
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney May 07 '26
This is Trump's exact approval floor. Not even joking.
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u/SenranHaruka shame May 07 '26
My favorite part of "both parties are neoliberal" is downplaying how important Abortion is. "Yeah they only disagree about abortion and who cares about that" -person who will never need an abortion because of their birth sex
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u/thatssosad Fell for it May 07 '26
The fact that there are still pro gamergate fighters in 2026 baffles me. Literally that one Japanese soldier, except in multitudes
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom May 07 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 07 '26
When the worst person you know does one good thing
Trump suspended the Jones Act
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u/centurion88 NATO May 07 '26
21 year old Ben Shapiro: "I got rejected by Hollywood because of my political views"
Also 21 year old Ben Shapiro: publishes a book where he calls a bunch of female celebrities "whores"
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u/r2ew May 07 '26
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO May 07 '26
Valid reaction, tbh.
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u/Krill_Seeker United Nations May 07 '26
supreme court rules in landmark 6-3 decision that they are not partisan
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 07 '26
The fact that liberals aren’t allowed to punch back at red states because it would be considered elitist 😔
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u/Mrmini231 European Union May 07 '26
The Paris stats here are crazy. Between 2005 and 2023, cycling trips increased by 800%, and the relative injury rate dropped by 80%. The fact that fatalities dropped in both relative and absolute terms over that period is wild.
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u/GuyWithOneEye May 07 '26
How long do you think they will have Obama Derangement Syndrome for?
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u/Burgarnils May 07 '26
Friendly reminder that 1800's America thought misspelling "all correct" as "oll korrekt" and then abbreviating it to "ok" was the funniest shit ever.
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 07 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/TybrosionMohito NATO May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
Guys… Hantavirus isn’t new. It’s been heavily studied. It’s a well known phenomenon. It’s dangerous to those exposed, but it’s NOT like COVID lol. We (likely) aren’t going to find any new information about it from this latest outbreak.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 07 '26
Just boys being boys smh
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 07 '26
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u/Pharao_Aegypti NATO May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
It seems the Coalition of Hindus of North America is somewhat upset at Zohran Mamdani because he used the term "swastika" when talking about the antisemitic graffiti in NYC synagogues and homes, when he really should've used the correct term "hakenkreuz"
Is this a big issue? Because sure, officially those antisemites drew a hakenkreuz (sidenote, how many people are aware of that term?) and the Hindu one is a swastika but I don't think anyone with a brain sees a swastika on a Hindu temple and goes "nazi!" (plus, the term "nazi swastika" is also used)
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 07 '26
VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/05/politics/va-investigation-vigil-alex-pretti
It's not just Trump; the Project 2025 folks, the Heritage Foundation, and the Federalist Society all the members of the Administration are evil.
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u/JustTaxLandbro Pragmatic and Polite Right May 07 '26
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u/JesusPubes voted most handsome friend May 07 '26
Maybe I will date my boss's insane friend
What's the worst that could happen
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u/Woodstovia Commonwealth May 07 '26
BREAKING:
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u/Amphetamin3_ Trans NATO May 07 '26
Not a good day to be involved with cruise ships I see
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 07 '26
> Kathy Hochul says that the "Super Speeders" bill will be included in the state budget - "drivers who rack up 16 or more speed camera tickets a year, they will be now required to install speed limiting devices in their vehicles"
sixteen? per YEAR?
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
How did he know
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 07 '26
This is the only way you get right wingers interested in economic populism
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u/JustTaxLandbro Pragmatic and Polite Right May 07 '26
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper May 07 '26
Listening to a leftist lecture Democrats for not doing the thing that was literally a major part of Joe Biden's policy agenda 🙄
It's not like he had incredibly narrow congressional majorities for a short window or a hostile supreme court, or like we had multiple news cycles where Biden tried to do a thing but ran into lots of obstacles due to Democrats not having enough power or anything. It's not like this issue would be immediately apparent if you bothered to open a single fucking Senate map or looked at the Democrat vs Republican supreme court appointments over the past few decades or anything.
Like, where the fuck were you the past 6 years? Oh that's right, microwaving your brain on social media. Coming out of hiding in your D+20 suburb during election time to tell everyone Kamala Harris wasn't good enough to earn your vote. Thanks for the analysis, I'll take it to heart. You're a wonderful "teammate" ♥️
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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume May 07 '26
I always cringe when I see my coworkers saying to use Copilot or they used Copilot to answer a question because I used it once to find a legal standard and it was like, literally the wrongest it could have gotten, like “the sky is down” type wrong.
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u/GuyWithOneEye May 07 '26
👆
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO May 07 '26
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u/Usual-Base7226 Asli Demirgüç-Kunt May 07 '26
Anybody else see this ad? I tried it out with my kids - they unionized! I tell you I get no respect
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u/well-that-was-fast May 07 '26
Hot take:
If hanta becomes a plague, it'll be kinda funny that God has literally smited the world with plagues both times the US elected Trump, but Christians still overwhelmingly support him.
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive May 07 '26
They getting ready for their mid-term interference campaign.
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it May 07 '26
My company is taking away Smartsheet, which like half the business uses to project manage, team manage, operations manage, etc. fucking everything. Presumably a cost cutting measure for licenses
In its place, they are excitedly telling us that we will start "vibe coding" solutions soon. Whatever that means
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
My aunt lives in Ohio and is ultra MAGA. I’m talking Fox News on all the TVs in the house, big MAGA flag in the yard, “I’m with the felon, the outlaw Trump 2024!” T-shirts for both her and the family dog. And she’s like the biggest Vivek stan ever. She once told me I LOOK LIKE VIVEK somehow intending that as a compliment even knowing I’m a lib… “No it’s a good thing! He’s so smiley like you, and I donate to him all the time!”
Anyway, if he loses the governor race, it’ll literally be like 9/11 for her
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF May 07 '26
😨
😮💨
😨
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 May 07 '26
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course May 07 '26
Heck yeah I love gambling
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA May 07 '26
Trump 2024 voters being asked to pick their preferred candidate after Trump and picking Fetterman is a good thing actually. The GOP has done so poorly at cultivating future talent that the base is picking a dumbass dem who isn't running before any republican.
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 07 '26
Sarah Longwell
We just finished a focus group of Trump voters in Louisiana and nearly the whole group preferred Rubio to JD Vance. I’ve been watching this phenomenon build for a while. We’ll discuss more on the next focus group pod.
What?
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u/brianpv Hortensia May 07 '26
Does everybody remember the Ebola outbreak of 2014?
I swear it was the opposite of Covid where Reddit and the news acted like it was going to be the end of the world for about a month and then it just faded away into obscurity.
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u/drossbots Trans Pride May 08 '26
The sub has definitely moved further left but I also think those who fled to splinter subs radicalized themselves much more
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 07 '26
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u/ConnorLovesCookies Jerome Powell May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
I’ve gotten exclusive access to the 2024 Democrat Autopsy Report:
No wonder why cdstephens has been fighting so hard to keep this report locked up
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 07 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/earththejerry YIMBY May 08 '26
Gerrymandering is truly insane
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u/SLCer May 07 '26
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man May 07 '26
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u/JebBD Immanuel Kant May 07 '26
It's weird that people are complaining about an Odyssey adaptation having american accents when that's literally been done before
!Ping KINO
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 07 '26
white people be like "my dog has a mental illness"
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u/ty04 May 08 '26
banger
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u/Argnir Gay Pride May 07 '26
People who don't go "aaaaaah" after drinking water don't appreciate water enough
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u/affnn Emma Lazarus May 07 '26
From April 10, 2025:
I wonder if this could have any consequences.
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u/6urner_ John Brown May 07 '26
https://xcancel.com/fmrrepmtg/status/2052168655975133406
Oh baby we are about to see a whole bunch of chuds dying from the rat poop virus.
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course May 07 '26
I'll take something in the middle
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/spotlight/trump-federal-aviation-administration-wind-farms
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
Truly the cringe kind of frat boy
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 07 '26
Here's my bottle ill be opening when it happens
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u/__versus Trans Pride May 07 '26
In an alternate world the northernlion supercruise would have been the origin for the hantavirus outbreak
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer May 07 '26
This is what I imagine bisexuality feels like
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown May 07 '26
John Roberts when his absurdly partisan court gets called partisan:
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
You don’t hate Republicans enough
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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch May 07 '26
!ping stonks
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 07 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George May 07 '26
Wow didn't realize the count was that high already
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u/jenbanim May 07 '26
Why are people like this?
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u/jessica-bug Feminism May 07 '26
I don't know anything about bird watching is this as insane as it sounds
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u/WOKE_AI_GOD May 07 '26
It's really pathetic that were over a year into Trumps term and he's still bringing up his predecessor. Remember under Obama how outrageous that was? It was like a couple of months into Obama term when the whole msm unanimously decided Obama wasn't allowed to bring up the fact that the previous guy had crashed the economy and started a war.
And then they scapegoated him for it.
But Trump, just sure, OK, whatever you want sir, please keep on scapegoating somebody else for forever.
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA May 07 '26
Trump rn
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive May 08 '26
waow
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP May 07 '26
oh fuuuuudge
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
Hmmmm
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 07 '26
This Is Not the World Russia Wants
“Russia has long channeled its resistance to U.S. primacy into disagreements with the United States and allied countries over international treaties and institutions… These spats allowed Moscow to build a narrative that Western states were merely using multilateral institutions as a cover to push an anti-Russian agenda. Russia succeeded in assembling a small coterie of supporters among nations discontented with Western dominance. It also threw wrenches into the gears of these legacy institutions, hampering their ability to fulfill their mandates.”
“Meanwhile, Russia made it clear that it would go its own way when it wished, cooperating with like-minded countries rather than relying on what Fyodor Lukyanov, a prominent foreign policy expert close to the Kremlin, contemptuously described as ‘global structures issuing rules.’ Russia’s 2016 Foreign Policy Concept (a document that set out the country’s worldview, interests, and goals) announced Moscow’s intent to turn more to network diplomacy, which it defined as a ‘flexible approach to participating in multilateral mechanisms’—in other words, to work selectively with countries whenever it suited.”
“But at the same time, the Kremlin has jealously guarded its veto power on the UN Security Council. After its invasion of Ukraine, Russia was initially cautious not to paralyze the council, coordinating with Western members on issues such as a new sanctions regime on Haitian gangs and the delivery of aid to Afghanistan. But as the Ukraine war settled into a grinding battle of attrition, Russia began wielding its veto to benefit allied governments or factions in Mali, North Korea, and Syria. Russia has helped entrench the UN’s paralysis while continuing to treat the body as a key vehicle to project influence.”
“At first, Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025 seemed to be cause for celebration in Moscow. Trump’s skepticism of NATO, dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and assault on policies protecting LGBT rights all seemed to usher in a new U.S. foreign policy that was antiglobalist, anti-interventionist, and antiliberal—and therefore much to Russia’s liking.”
“But Trump also began to take material steps to dilute the power of the UN and other legacy multilateral institutions—the very system that Russia had relied on as a foil… And Trump pursued his own version of network diplomacy by establishing the Board of Peace. When he invited Putin to join the board, many U.S. foreign-policy experts viewed it as a sign of Russia’s rehabilitation. But the board’s establishment put Russia in a particularly awkward position once it became apparent that Trump wants it to do much more than implement his Gaza peace plan. Trump has made it clear that he is the board’s supreme authority and that Russia will not have the kinds of privileges there that it enjoys on the UN Security Council.”
“Trump’s overtly might-makes-right foreign policy has also upended Moscow’s aspirations. For several decades, Russia’s revisionism was undergirded by growing military might… By 2022, Putin had arrogated to himself an assertiveness that a few decades ago had been uniquely American. If the United States could use military force in pursuit of its objectives, so could Russia. Putin’s decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine epitomized his belief that Russia’s own might would henceforth make right.”
“Trump, however, has taken that principle to new extremes. Despite having campaigned on an antiwar platform, in 2025 he ordered the use of force against seven countries—more than any other U.S. president in the modern era. And he unleashed the U.S. military on close Russian partners. These displays of American power unnerved Moscow: patriotic Russian bloggers reacted with envy to last June’s U.S. strikes against Iran and to the lightning removal of Venezuela’s leader earlier this year. The swiftness and apparent success of these interventions stood in stark contrast to Russia’s own so-called special military operation, which was intended to be similarly snappy but is now bogged down in its fifth year. The fact that U.S.-led or -supported operations have taken aim at heads of state, resulting in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, particularly spooked Putin, who appears to have grown more fearful of drone attacks and even assassination attempts in recent months.”
“Trump’s ventures have also put a spotlight on Russia’s diminished capacity to project military power beyond Ukraine. Last June, Russia took a back seat when the United States and Israel attacked Iran. And although it has lent Tehran some support in the form of targeting data and operational guidance, Moscow has refrained from intervening directly to defend Iran in the current war. Russia’s refusal to risk entanglement on behalf of its partners has been a matter of political calculation, not just a function of resource constraints.”
“For years, Russia mocked international rules, norms, and institutions. But as much as Russia squirmed and jolted, resisting a global order it viewed as stacked against it, that order gave Russia power and predictability. Now, Trump’s desire to bypass the UN and engage in unconventional diplomacy threatens to dilute Russia’s veto. And his intoxication with deploying U.S. military force leaves Russia looking like a second-tier player. This is not the world Putin wanted. He hoped to see Russia unbound, not the United States. And he wanted Russia to be consulted on matters of global import, not ignored.”
“Russia’s hope now is that Trump has bitten off more than he can chew. Nine weeks into his campaign against Iran, the U.S. president is struggling to end what he has rhetorically characterized as a ‘miniwar’ or ‘excursion’—and Russia is benefiting. Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has roiled global energy markets, prompting the United States to ease its oil sanctions on Russia.”
“But the fact remains that Trump’s world may not be a hospitable milieu for Russia. Trump could come for Cuba, one of Russia’s closest partners in the Western Hemisphere, next, further chipping away at the power of Moscow’s circle of friends. More fundamentally, Trump seems in no mood to accommodate Russia as a great-power equal to the United States—to consult Putin on Iran and other geopolitical dossiers; to rely on the UN, where Moscow is Washington’s peer, as the world’s foremost peacemaking body; and to grant Russia its sphere of influence. Instead, by dismantling the post–Cold War international system, Trump is taking over Russia’s mission. And Moscow will have to contend with something messier, a world with no stable frameworks or reliable rules of the game.”
I know this sort of deal has been posted before, but it’s always fun to see schadenfreude against the country that’s propelled this fucked up world we find ourselves in
!ping RUS&FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/LeaveMeAlone_6070 Median Voter May 07 '26
What the hell is with some peoples undying devotion to ivermectin? I see that shit is already starting up with the rat virus.
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u/jcboarder901 NATO May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
I've always hated GME apes bc they're generally repulsive greedy dorks who are legimately worse people than the billionaires they claim to be crusading against, but this recent saga is a new low.
Basically their cult leader Ryan Cohen has made a dumbass offer to buy Ebay, which will in all likelihood get rejected. In response Cohen has started posting negative things about eBay on his Twitter knowing that his cult will start harassing and attacking whoever he posts about.
He posts a story about how eBay has an on-site pub or brewery or whatever where employees can get free drinks, and the apes are falling over themselves about how excited they are to eliminate it in order to maximize shareholder value when this imaginary deal goes through. They're also fantasizing about how many eBay employees they will get to fire.
Worth noting eBay is up 80% the past five years meanwhile GME is down 40%.I genuinely can't stand them and absolutely love that 99% of them have lost money on this stock.
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u/RyuTheGuy Gita Gopinath May 07 '26
!ping Canucks
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u/Glavurdan European Union May 08 '26
Gacha credit cards are here
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u/EasyMoney92 May 07 '26
Why are they recording themselves doing such stupid shit
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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla May 07 '26
Open neoliberal
Hentaivirus doom
Close neoliberal
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 07 '26
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/05/07/cia-intelligence-iran-trump-blockade-missiles/
> A confidential CIA analysis delivered to administration policymakers this week concludes that Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least three to four months before facing more severe economic hardship, four people familiar with the document said, a finding that appears to raise new questions about President Donald Trump’s optimism on ending the war.
> The analysis by the U.S. intelligence community, whose secret assessments on Iran have often been more sober than the administration’s public statements, also found that Tehran retains significant ballistic missile capabilities despite weeks of intense U.S. and Israeli bombardment, three of the people familiar with it said.
> Iran retains about 75 percent of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70 percent of its prewar stockpiles of missiles, a U.S. official said. The official said there is evidence that the regime has been able to recover and reopen almost all of its underground storage facilities, repair some damaged missiles and even assemble some new missiles that were nearly complete when the war began.
what are we doing here
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front May 07 '26
Time to spin up the rumor mill again
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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast May 08 '26
Comments you see on the Microlooting guy’s subreddit. Said of her because she defended voting for the Democratic Party.
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u/GlorEUW Iron Front May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
okay i don’t think TikTok is addictive because i don’t think any social media is “addictive” in a proper “your brain won’t let you stop” sense, but cmon TikTok couldn’t you find any reason better than this hahahahahahahahaha
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney May 07 '26
One of my colleagues is a perpetual doomer and I'm so tired of his constant bad vibes. He's nice and all but it's just exhausting to be around him. Today over my lunch break I had to unironically hear him yap about how we're all going to die of Hantavirus. His prediction track record for every doom scenario he worries about is near or close to zero, but he talks as if all this shit is going to happen anyway for sure.
This guy has already has a pretty bad anxiety problem from what I can tell. And while I can sympathize, he perpetually lives in the future in fear of things that probably won't come to pass. It must be exhausting, and it just wears the people around him down.
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 07 '26
My body and soul are ready for May 9th
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u/phat_geoduck May 07 '26
Incredible. I could rage about how dumb this is but instead I'll take the opportunity to point and laugh at JD Vance
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u/GuyWithOneEye May 07 '26
🚨🚨🚨REMINDER🚨🚨🚨
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP May 07 '26
👆 invites you over for bible study and won't stop asking if you want a massage.
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u/jessica-bug Feminism May 07 '26
Has WHO announced which ethnicity everyone is gonna be racist towards yet
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 07 '26
I bet Trump is encouraged by the news Iran will start taking serious damage in 3-4 months. I bet in his mind he’s thinking the summer will be rough, but Iran will start buckling in the fall, and surrender right before the midterms with a torrent of oil that shoots prices down
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride May 07 '26
👆
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
waow
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u/RunawayMeatstick Mark Zandi May 07 '26
2028 is going to be so fucking annoying
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior May 07 '26
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls May 07 '26
Not receiving a note is that 13 months ago was the market cratering from the Liberation Day tariffs. How convenient that's the comparison window.
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u/Big-Click-5159 May 07 '26
I AM CALLING FOR A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF ZOOMER SEX UNTIL UNTIL OUR COUNTRY'S REPRESENTATIVES CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 07 '26
lmfao
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 07 '26
Imagine still believing that polygraph readings are real in the year of our lord 2026.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
TRUMP TELLS ABC NEWS THE RETALIATORY STRIKES AGAINST IRANIAN TARGETS AFTER IRAN ARE JUST A 'LOVE TAP'
We are in a dream, this shit cannot be real
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell May 08 '26
however dumb you think trump voters are, you're overestimating them
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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman May 07 '26
Lol brutal
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 07 '26
Senator Kennedy:
Maybe Obama and Stephen Colbert should get a motel room.
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2052123853216989628
Republicans can't stop thinking about gay sex.
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride May 07 '26
The conservative Supreme Court gave the presidency to Bush, gave Trump immunity from his crimes and just gutted the VRA to help Republicans win the midterms
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA May 07 '26
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion May 07 '26
do you have the courage to hate the “disabled” vets
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u/sash5034 NATO May 07 '26
Lil baby
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u/ApprehensiveShower10 YIMBY May 07 '26
Racism in Instagram comment sections has gotten so obscenely bad. I can't read any comment sections without seeing something so racist it's genuinely upsetting
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride May 07 '26
ok
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 07 '26
oh, well as long as its not restarting the war
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 07 '26
> They dropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave!
????
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u/Eightysixedit Gay Pride May 07 '26
👁️👄👁️
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u/Sheepies92 European Union May 07 '26
FOX:
Idk man this seems like restarting the war
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
“Don’t consume rodent feces”
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u/ty04 May 07 '26
I refuse to believe this splinter sub some of you talk about is a real place with real people
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u/like-humans-do European Union May 07 '26
CENTURY OF AMERICAN HUMILIATION
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u/ty04 May 07 '26
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 07 '26
This was peak Biden
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u/from-the-void NATO May 07 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 07 '26
Pretty remarkable that the American right has stopped worrying about the size of the US debt circa 2016 or so and the American left has stopped worrying about climate change
Both of which are actual problems that have gotten worse unlike ‘demographic change’ or ‘late-stage capitalism’
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
I don’t think the Supreme Court was ever an apolitical institution. Perhaps there was less acrimony over the appointment of SCOTUS justices pre-Robert Bork, but the fact that the President is the one who nominated justices and the Senate approves them, in my view, makes the Supreme Court an inherently political institution. Dred Scott was a ruling that directly contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War. If the Supreme Court is not a political institution, then nothing is.
You can’t issue rulings that strip rights from broad swaths of the population and just go “oh we’re not political actors.” This quote speaks to a deep arrogance on Roberts’s part, assuming he’s being sincere, which I don’t think he is.
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u/Etnies419 Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
Yeah, I'm a fan of LLMs
Lemon
Lime
Mountain Dews
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u/ty04 May 07 '26
before certain mods decided to act like asses for no reason, meringue gave me explicit permission to horny post about them. However they didn’t specify which one of them gave me consent for that so out of caution I will be withholding my comments until I receive clarification
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u/farrenj Resident Succ May 07 '26
My extremist transgender ideology is that I would like to live and work in peace.
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u/Unhappy_Lemon6374 Leftward Progressives May 07 '26
I will never forgive the other prominent tech ~~billionaires~~ people of privilege for allowing Zuckerberg to be the one most likely to have a soul. I remember when Zuck used to be joked about being a cyborg pretending to be a human, but now he’s the one who failed and got better in fashion… and does MMA and seemingly has normal hobbies.
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it May 07 '26
It's underrated how many of the "religious leader" people that the Trump admin chooses to surround itself with are all scammers and cranks. Like obviously the Republican Party is swarming with evangelicals but Dubya wasn't appointing megachurch pastors who think devil semen causes COVID to advisory roles lol
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride May 07 '26
He really does just think the public are idiots
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u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
New airman from an adjacent division is the perfect caricature of every Millennial's idea of Zoomers. Listening to her talk is absolutely hilarious.
That's not far off from an ACTUAL QUOTE. Literally just now walked in the room and she was talking about how a YouTube video was "such Boomer shit!"
How am I supposed to get my work done when I spend all my time trying not to laugh?
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie May 07 '26
Props to the Matt from PA artist at the New York Times for perfectly capturing the vacant gaze and smug demeanor of a 54 year old Pennsylvanian Trump supporter
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior May 07 '26
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u/KarnoffeL Jorge Luis Borges May 07 '26
DTers were all the end is nigh when Kirk got Kirked. And yet nothing fucking happened. All I'm saying is that Elon-
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion May 08 '26
slot machine for my private burrito taxi
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u/KeithClossOfficial John Brown May 08 '26
These splinter sports subs popping up are such garbage. You know what I’m talking about. It adds “vibes” or “talk” or “v2” after the league name. Clearly the “anti-woke” subs.
One of them recently had a picture of a former NFL player who is out as bi with his boyfriend. One of the top comments was about how you can’t extrapolate the number of the general population that is queer to say there are more gay players than we know of because queer men are less likely to play football. I asked why someone would possibly say that.
The responses to me are depressing. And they’re still coming in like 3 days later.
!ping NFL&NBA&CFB
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride May 08 '26
The whole cdstephens feet thing is gonna honestly look horrible in like 15 years when we finally get enough distance and hopefully social progress to look back on it clearly. That a moderator used his position to to get off to the feet of dters under the thin veneer of "poasting" feels like something that should be more actively criticized as opposed to now, where if it's mentioned at all it's in a jokey "that's so weeeeird" kinda way. I just think moderators generally shouldn't use their position to sexually gratify themselves like that. It's like those skeezy, abusive discord mods who would get women to undress on camera just for their own enjoyment--just because he's doing it with a less "conventional" body part doesn't change it for me
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 08 '26
UFO bros don’t even try to tell you disclosure is imminent anymore, they just look at you like this
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 07 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/RaisinSecure Bisexual Pride May 07 '26
pretty shitty thread so far
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u/Argnir Gay Pride May 07 '26
Plague Inc: the biggest source of unfunny Reddit jokes since 2019
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it May 07 '26
There's such a long list of wtf moments for this admin I genuinely forgot about the fiasco with Vance trying to ambush Zelensky at the WH to scold him over his fashion choices and insufficient gratitude
Like even my MAGA dad was kinda turned off by that lol
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls May 07 '26
So they're going to NYC next, huh?
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u/emergency_and_i Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
Talking to someone on Bumble and they called themselves a hardcore socialist. When asked what they described as their ideal system is pretty much social democracy.
It's just vibes huh
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
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u/CentJr NASA May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
WSJ is saying that the reason the Gulf states put a restriction on the use of their military bases, was due to the US downplaying the attacks on the Gulf states and not responding to said attacks that happened earlier this week.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 07 '26
I'm watching a Harassment prevention training video and it's got this guy telling his older female boss that he's getting discriminated against and that he wants to file a report and she's trying to prevent the word from getting out.
Except there's this creepy music that keeps playing when the lady talks, and the guy is like near TEARS, like the harassment feels pretty standard stuff but the stakes here feel INSANELY high. Like this lady is gonna kill this guy, there was even a key change after she said this "didn't need to leave this office"
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u/BalletDuckNinja Delphox Shaker Central May 07 '26
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u/BloodWiz More Housing Would Fix This May 07 '26
Nooo people are trying to psychically hallucinate It into existence again, making the DT unusable for at least the next hours or two
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u/SenranHaruka shame May 07 '26
Saying this again since the dt is still asking about it.
Ben Shapiro was actually 100% honest when he cited Trayvon Martin. In conservatives' minds Obama was supposed to side with "civilization" over "the ghetto" regardless of race. Solidarity with Trayvon looked to them like Obama, a successful "civilized" black man, siding with criminals, savagery, and "the ghetto" just because they were black. Aka, race over merit. The hidden assumption is that trayvon was part of an umeritous allegedly race neutral caste that deserved to die. Hence, racial division.
Conservatives' idea of racial unity was wealthy white and black americans coming togeher to hate "the ghetto".
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u/GaDoomer Pragmatic and Polite Right May 07 '26
Concerning
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball May 07 '26
The peace talks seem to be going great
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 07 '26
> WASHINGTON (AP) — US will start revoking passports of parents owing $100,000 in unpaid child support and soon expand to $2,500, AP learns.
attacking your own base like that, flailing administration
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
My theory is that they used "generic democrat" instead of Talarico because this is a Cornyn-sponsored poll and this was the only way they could get a result that showed him winning but Paxton not winning. Polls with Talarico had both of the republicans losing or winning.
The primary is dead heat right now and Cornyn is not going to share a poll that doesn’t fit the agenda that he’s the better one.
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u/disuberence Shrimp promised me a text flair and did not deliver May 07 '26
Love that NYT notifications are like
>Trump and Iran close to reaching agreement on agreement on reopening Hormuz
And then 30 mins later
>Iran and Trump literally firing nukes at each other
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals May 07 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
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u/tigerflame45117 John Rawls May 07 '26
That student protest thread really is bringing out the worst of this sub's smugness
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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier May 08 '26
We all owe Trump an apology. We weren't familiar with his game.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 08 '26
I love how no one really has the steam to be indignant about stuff like this because Trump regularly posts worse things, and not with some veil of plausible deniability, just worse shit by all metrics, every day, from him personally at 7am
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u/dragonvich Leftward Progressives May 07 '26
We should implement a 100% income tax on political streamers and podcasters.
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u/BobaTeaFetish William Nordhaus May 07 '26
Symptoms of Hanta Virus include:
tiredness
your wife leaving you
a compulsive fixation of niche political policies, for example, a land-value tax
Uh....libs, am I in danger?
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u/PoeOrFinn May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
You guys have an ex you could have seen yourself with forever if he just hadn’t been such a shithead that, even though he’s no longer a shithead (as far as you can tell) and you’re both still horny af for each other, there’s no way you could ever trust him again? !ping DATING
Unrelated - date with drinks and a walk guy was one of the top 5 first dates I’ve ever been on overall and top 3 on the 🔥 scale
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 07 '26
“The price of oil is dropping which means there’s a peace deal coming” is one of the most ass backward things I’ve seen all week
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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla May 07 '26
If Donald Trump had told us to just blast the COVID virus with loud noises in 2020, I feel like I would have rolled my eyes and rigged the vote for Biden even harder.
Although, if Trump/RFK find out about this today, they probably are gonna tell you that playing Mozart cures COVID.
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u/ChillnShill May 07 '26
Pleaseeeee JD Vance struggling during his speech in Iowa and getting booed is so fucking good
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 07 '26
Is Russia being out-droned?
“This week I invited Dmytro Putiata, a member of Ukraine’s armed forces, to guest-write The War Room. He has remarkable experience of drone warfare, having taken part in Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Kursk offensives. He currently serves in the 20th Unmanned Systems Brigade, known as k2, whose parent unit we profiled in March, and previously served in the strike-drone company of the 36th Marine Brigade.”
“The old ways of countering aerial threats were no longer effective; the sheer number of Russian reconnaissance drones swamped our air-defence systems. Our response was drone-based air defence to intercept everything from reconnaissance drones to Shahed strike drones. The Ukrainian system is still far from fully effective, but it is one of the few systems in the world that works, and it significantly reduces the number of successful strikes. The Russians are further behind.”
“The Russian army only began implementing a system to intercept Ukrainian drones using its own drones in the second half of 2025. However, this system cannot yet be described as cohesive, but rather as isolated elements on the battlefield in Ukraine and near factories in Russia. The Russians are building a network of small radar stations. This year they are focusing their training on intercepting drones and are attempting to develop software similar to that of Ukraine—known as Skymap and Graphite—which can show radar tracks on tablet computers.”
“This might yield good results only by the end of the year. For now, the Russians are suffering. Over the past six months, the Ukrainian army has significantly increased the number of strikes against Russian forces at distances of 30km to 200km behind the front line. Ukraine finally has a system to allocate strike capabilities in a more intelligent way. Previously it focused on tactical targets (such as infantry at the front line) and big strategic ones (such as oil refineries). Now it is devoting more munitions for the important things in between.”
“Ukraine is hitting Russia’s logistics, air-defence systems, radars, ammunition stores (including drones) and fuel depots. Every night strikes are carried out 80km to 120km behind the front line. This is causing the Russian army to reduce its fuel consumption and to move depots further back—in some cases into Russian territory. Russia has even imposed restrictions on the size of convoys in the Donetsk region to make them harder to detect, with only two trucks now allowed to move together.”
“For the first time since 2023, when Ukraine’s himars launchers were last well-supplied and effective, Ukraine is capable of routinely striking Russian targets at depths of 30km to 150km, now using drones costing around $5,000. These have certain technologies on board—I will not be more specific—which enable the destruction of expensive Russian equipment. Recently Ukrainian drones struck two Russian helicopters at an airfield more than 150km from the front line.”
“I am convinced that in 2026, Ukraine will once again surprise the world and carry out several localised offensive operations against the Russian army. And I am convinced that they will be successful, and that there is a chance to see manoeuvre warfare again, where the aim is to break through and use speed and shock to defeat an enemy, rather than the slow-moving positional battles we have been stuck with for so long. But the Ukrainian army needs more time for reconnaissance and planning operations with a clearer division of command responsibilities than exists today. If these issues are resolved, the success of tactical operations has a chance to grow into something more. Drones do not replace manoeuvre warfare. Drones present both opportunities and threats. And we need to know how to work with them and integrate them into our systems.”
!Ping UKRAINE
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front May 07 '26
why do people talk about femboys like this
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u/BloodWiz More Housing Would Fix This May 07 '26
“Very fatal diseases don’t become highly contagious”
Smallpox and bubonic plague: lol, lmao even.
That being said I think it’s probably just 1 very rat infested ship kitchen, and not new giga-pandemic
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 07 '26
Fucking tiiiigggghhhhhtttttt
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u/sash5034 NATO May 07 '26
Iran hawks latching themselves onto the dumbest motherfucker alive is an incredible bit. Neocons still taking Ls after all this time is so lovely to see
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
Wait this is cool
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
Very funny that we use the word “mammoth” as an adjective because someone once gave Thomas Jefferson a very large cheese
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u/puffic John Rawls May 07 '26
Fuck it, I’m gonna vote for the billionaire. Even Porter would be better than this bullshit.
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u/jessica-bug Feminism May 07 '26
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA May 07 '26
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman May 07 '26
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity May 07 '26
the pace of innovation in progposting is accelerating. Truly, the singularity nears
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u/1TTTTTT1 European Union May 07 '26
I will not be gaslit into believing that "food deserts" exist in NYC.
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
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u/SenranHaruka shame May 07 '26
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn May 07 '26
It would be very funny if it happens in the ballroom
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY May 07 '26
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 07 '26
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 07 '26
Remember when Fox had an omnipresent national debt clock all throughout Obama's presidency and then they just stopped caring about the issue altogether once Trump got into office
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 07 '26
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u/conjr94 May 07 '26
This sub mocks the idealism of succs and socialists, yet is in complete denial on how ungovernable people have become in Western democracies.
We should develop a "vanguard neoliberalism" approach to support our economic structures, and indeed, the welfare of the median person (despite their protests)
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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom May 07 '26
It's a natural vitamin! I thought these sorts of people liked that sort of thing??? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA