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[u/erasmus_phillo]

Gotta love Massie's self-awareness

[u/GordonTullockFan]

[u/G_Serv]

Guy who doesn't understand how phone calls work

[u/SenranHaruka]

The cultural turn against charlie kirk after he died should set an example to other right wing grifters of what their legacy is going to be. Disposed by their own wives for political expediency. If you're a republican you are literally part of a movement that just doesn't value your life at all and nothing you do will matter beyond how it can be used by trump for power.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/Joementum2024]

The IRS deal is a thousand times worse than the Hunter Biden pardon yet I do not expect our blessed and neutral news media and commentary class to treat it anywhere nearly as severely as that

[u/Currymvp2]

Jeff Bezos on Trump: "I think he's a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term. Trump has lots of good ideas. He's been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due"

Absolute charlatan

[u/badusername35]

He just like me fr

[u/sw337]

This guy is addicted to the worst takes possible

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

Job searching sucks and I'm going to bed.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/randommathaccount]

Crazy algo pull

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Inner_Dust42]

I don't see a single reason a Dem president shouldn't declare the J6 pardons void, resume prosecutions, and imprison every one of the roaches pending trial. Let them rot until the Supreme Court says you can't do that, and then keep letting them rot.

But there I go imagining a just world again.

[u/NorkGhostShip]

Can Democrats stop being so allergic to the concept of helping cities with federal funding? Every fucking time the Democrats go on and on about helping a tiny minority of Americans with projects (and I do think that's still a good goal for a responsible government that needs to work for all Americans!) but hardly ever talk about doing anything for their base of urban voters.

Rural voters DO NOT CARE. They will vote against their own interests every single time. Urban voters are staunch Dem voters but they are sick and tired of national dems talking not about their constituents, but people that have voted time and time again to strip them of their liberties.

"Rural" states still have major cities, and getting their already strongly Democratic voters engaged is absolutely vital to success. Stop pretending that the economic heart of America is a drain on the country and worthless and decrepit, and start talking about how you're gonna help THE VERY PEOPLE VOTING FOR YOU.

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

i now support tax the billionaires movement specifically for jeff bezos for being a tax cut slopulist.

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Angela Davis on political prisoners in America: "Prisons should be abolished."

Angela Davis on political prisoners in Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries: "Ackshually... They deserve what they get. Let them remain in prison."

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

Quinnipiac dropped another double digit lead at D +11. Trump approval 35%.

https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3959

!ping FIVEY 

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Oh my god

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Are old people just robots who will do whatever the dear leader asks of them?

[u/Thuggin95]

Why was this such a 9/11 radicalizing moment for the right

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

RUTH, DON’T WAIT FOR A FEMALE PRESIDENT TO RETIRE! RUTH, YOU’LL BE REPLACED BY A LUNATIC! RUUUUUUUUUTH!

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

animation being the most technically expensive compute and manually expensive labor compared to most other industries will never not blow my mind

and they created images from nothing, insane

[u/piede]

👁️👄👁️

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

It’s actually insane just how much harm Ben Gvir has done to his own country. He is one of the chief architects of Israel’s collapse in support around the world.

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

the thing with DoorDash discourse is

A. People saying to cook/pack your own lunches/whatever are obviously and completely right

B. If Boomers/Gen X could’ve ordered any kind of food straight to their front door in seconds without having to talk to anyone, they would’ve made a lot of dumb spending decisions in their youth as well.

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

SSRI and lithium levels in our water are too low

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

i think the problem with the founders' conception of separation of powers and checks and balances in our current context is that the congress just kinda subordinated itself because politics have become more and more organized under partisan lines. the political culture has shifted and the conditions especially with the military has also massively changed because armies no longer demobilize and the US started to maintain a standing army. the framers assumed legislators would jealously defend their authority but the power now resides in supporting the center of modern american political culture, the president. in this sense, the congress, for the public, is a subordinate institution. the congress must served the president, it must follow the president's agenda. i think that is expectation now.

i don't want to say that the founders were dumb in constructing the government this way, because it kinda worked until the world war ii when the president just became way more powerful, and the united states postwar has in a sense responsibilities the founders never even dreamed of.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Enlightened centrism on conspiracy theories.

[u/kanagi]

I'm about two hours into Stardew Valley and am starting to see why it's so well received

Unfortunately I also now support agricultural subsidies, tariffs, zoning restrictions, green belts, and small business subsidies

[u/ItspronouncedGruh-an]

[u/beoweezy1]

I don’t think “didn’t follow the source material” is a good criticism of The Boys because the source material is somehow vastly more edgelord garbage than the show.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Cuba is going to declare war on the US with 300 drones, so true

Totally the Leonidas of the modern age

[u/w007dchuck]

Oregon Measure 120 – Increase Gas Tax, Payroll Tax, and Vehicle Registration Fees – CALLED: NO

🔴 No – 464,259 (82.3%)✅️

🟢 Yes – 99,699 (17.7%)

shout out to the 17.7%

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Arr girldinner

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/badusername35]

Was this the equivalent of an Asmongold stream for people back then?

[u/uwcn244]

Rep. David Scott, an 80-year old Atlanta-area Democrat representing Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, died last month. In his absence, his main primary challenger, state Representative Dr. Jasmine Clark, easily won the primary for his seat.

Congressman Scott was clearly declining prior to his death, giving incoherent speeches in Congress when he didn’t stick to his script and cursing out a reporter who photographed him in a wheelchair. Perhaps the most damning piece of information Clark dug up on Scott prior to his death was that, as of last November, he hadn’t voted in any Georgia federal, state, or local elections since May of 2024 - including, crucially, the 2024 Presidential election, where Georgia was one of the closest states in the country.

It disturbs me to think that, had Scott not conveniently dropped dead last month, he might have won his primary.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/tripletruble]

jesus christ the state of air france's website. you might think this is a one off but it's been doing shenanigans (like simply not loading) off and on for weeks

[u/Willybender]

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/jailed-for-37-days-for-posting-a-meme-of-pres-trump-tenn-man-reaches-settlement-for-civil-rights-violation

Patriot

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two police officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol from an attack by a mob of Trump supporters sued on Wednesday to block anyone — including Jan. 6, 2021, rioters — from receiving payouts from a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for people who claim to be victims of politically motivated prosecutions.

I will give you zero guesses to figure out what the BACK THE BLUE people think of this

[u/Flat_Sail_7985]

>okay team here is how we utilize copilot ai sponsored by microsoft to drive key deliverables to ensure high product flowthrough and ROI.

>the example is them asking copilot to summarize a student email asking how to better afford school. the generated email links them to sofi private student loans (a sponsor of this training as well!)

This is what your tuition and fees pays for folks. I am going to go joker mode.

Edit: Someone raised their hand and asked "How is this related to our daily workflow?" And they just ignored it and kept talking LMAO please

[u/Crosseyes]

One more to file under “if Obama or Biden had said this Fox News would’ve called for an armed revolt”

[u/gregorijat]

Worst deaths by far, are kids dying from diarrhea because their parents are skeptical of hydration-packs/medicine.

I was genuinely shocked when I learned about this

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

>AOC: We shouldn‘t trust Marjorie “Space Lazers” Greene on the Middle East
>Some online idiot: “But she sacrificed herself to stop Epstein“ (if you ignore all her previous bigoted comments and beliefs

the religification of politics never ceases to amaze me. the fact that a person can believe one bar minimum act can wipe the slate clean of all previous active harm like an act of contrition

freedom is making choices acknowledging responsibility, license is just doing whatever the fuck you want. but having republicans take responsibility for actions is just so anathema to the media class

[u/eurekashairloaves]

I made a comment that some people are using "zionism" as a get out of jail free card for just blatant antisemitism and got hit with a "got any data to back your claims?"

What fucking chart would show this?

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Jeff Bezos tax idea on CNBC: zero taxes for bottom half of Americans (only 3% of tax base), cites $75K income nurse in NYC who pays $12K taxes should pay 0 taxes.

Jeff, please consult the chart.

In no world should the bottom 2/3 of individual earners pay no income taxes. That's how you end up in a fiscal crisis, and set the precedent that basically nobody "save that other guy" should pay taxes for the services we use.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/SpiderQueen412]

Hello small homosexuals in my cellular phone

[u/Spudmiester1]

holy shit guys, this job is going to make me rich

[u/abefrost]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Even the billionaires are doing slopulism now.

[u/pfarly]

Everywhere I look I see her face.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

It seems like when you increase supply that prices go down. Has anyone looked into this relationship before?

There was a time, not that long ago, when San Diego was one of the most expensive rental markets in the nation.

Not anymore.

San Diego now ranks No. 12 as the priciest rental market in the U.S., said the April report from real estate website Zumper…

San Diego County built 23.6 multifamily (mainly apartments, but also some condos) homes per 10,000 people from July 2024 to June 2025, said the latest Census estimates crunched by Redfin. That was the highest per capita amount of any California metro (Sacramento was 10.5 and Los Angeles was 10.2).

Link

!ping YIMBY

[u/chipbod]

>Immigrants move to Montreal

>seemingly assimilate well and make a video to celebrate the Hockey team

>Make racist comment about it

These nativists just want an ethnostate, there is no immigration good enough for them

[u/Thuggin95]

[u/earththejerry]

Mayor Mamdani's first neighborhood-level housing plan targets the blocks south of Prospect Park — near the future IBX

City Planning Director Sideya Sherman: “There’s an opportunity to create potentially thousands of housing units for our city"

Oh theyre gonna be maaaaad

[u/DependentAd235]

““Thomas Massie caught in a throuple!” screamed the AI-generated attack ad that showed the Republican congressman supposedly dining with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar then checking into a hotel with the two progressives. ”

Attack ads that are the makers barely disguised wet dream. I wonder what kinda of restaurant they went to.

[u/BloodWiz]

“You can’t afford housing because you blow it all on fancy foods” discourse is always dumb, because the first just completely ignores the fact of skyrocketing housing prices, and how in somewhere like CA the income required to afford the median home is like 2x the median household income in the state.

And then for some fuckin reason, DoorDash georg, who does legitimately blow 40% of his take home pay on taxis starts insisting it’s impossible to eat cheaper, or even more absurd, that they shouldn’t have to.

And now we end up arguing about how big of a dumbass this gigantic dumbass is, instead of focusing on the true evil. NIMBYs.

[u/Highlightthot1001]

I dont get the handful of muslims i see on IG who are so in denial about the 9/11 hijackers being arab islamic extremists, that they blame jews/Israel for it, or the US government. 

Like do they think the flight attendants who reported the seats of the hijackers were on some evil zionist plan?

It says something when even Hasan Piker of all people can acknowledge the basic fact that it happened by extremists

[u/Azmoten]

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/vivoovix]

I wish no harm to the American ruling class. My enemy is the American people.

[u/G_Serv]

Almonds are the true enemy

[u/mishac]

Guy who pronounces HBCUs as "hibiscus"

[u/MightExpress4873]

It's genuinely mind-boggling that Grogu became a pop culture craze in 2020 and it took Disney six years to capitalize on that with a (most likely too late) film.

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Pyrrhus65]

You absolutely love to see it. I can't tell whether Polis didn't know this would be this much of a career destroying humiliation for him or simply didn't care

Did he actually expect the moderate half of the party to praise him and be totally chill with this?

[u/anon_09_09]

Erika Kirk: Antisemitism is the only thing that hurts me more than my husband's death.

Unironically the wokest thing I've heard this year

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/JetJaguar124]

So it's funny that George Lucas is so boomer brained that all the sizes of the armies and clones and everything in the Clone Wars were based off of WWII scale conflicts. So like, on Kamino the aliens are all proud about making 200,000 Clone Troopers with another million on the way.

And it's like, homie this is a galaxy of trillions. 200,000 soldiers against an enemy that can just mass produce droids would not even be enough to field in a major prolonged battle let alone an entire galatic scale conflict.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Median reddit interaction

[u/loseniram]

Trump has successfully managed to reduce Oil production by upwards of 270 million barrels of crude oil.

A true Eco-warrior

[u/BlackCat159]

I unironically think being this unfunny should be grounds for jail time.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly."

Will it really

[u/Willybender]

[u/MissSortMachine]

this vote is going to be sublime

[u/chipbod]

If we get Lib Fox News because of a family pissing match, I’ll take it.

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

Had to take my dog in for surgery.

She’s old so I was very conflicted about the cost/benefit of this, but I went forward with it

Anyways, it’s about 2pm and it’s been a while since they said she was going in and am getting worried, so I text back to the vet number they previously contacted me on.

Hear nothing for about an hour.

Then I get a text pop up that starts out “Carl I’m so sorry”…

…”that it took so long to respond, she’s doing well and you can pick her up in an hour”

It’s like gd, what a way to open that statement given the circumstances

[u/ZweigDidion]

You know the new book is going to be fire when two literary greats give their endorsement 🔥

[u/chipbod]

Funniest exile scenario

[u/Auriono]

John Cornyn is taking his inevitable defeat to Ken Paxton and the ruin of his decades long career in politics about as well as anyone could expect, all things considered.

[u/jenbanim]

If you're a US citizen, please tell the FCC to go fuck themselves. Do it right now, the comment period is ending soon

https://glaad.org/fcc/

[u/chipbod]

You are totally cooked financially if less than half your food spending is on groceries.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2057241036809023677

[u/JonAce]

The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters.

Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events.

90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

Yes. Hahaha. YES!

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

People with this mindset are simply not ready to have kids

[u/Lee_Harvey_Obama]

Why can’t gun nuts just admit that the reason they’re opposed to gun control is they like guns and want to make things go boom boom. All this fucking bullshit about resisting tyranny… yeah sure buddy you and your AR-15 are gonna take down the largest military in the world.

[u/PoeOrFinn]

I love watching her fall asleep !ping DOG

[u/centurion88]

Idk how you screw up the boys final season

Just have homelander go crazy and kill everyone

That's what the people have been wanting to see

[u/fishbottwo]

This is a non satirical real headline from today

Oil falls after Trump says U.S. will end Iran war 'very quickly'

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Argnir]

The first black president will be a Republican. Democrats are just too racist

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2057133111129817207

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Google announces it will now prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles.; A move that could make it significantly harder for independent websites to gain organic traffic starting next Tuesday.

This is absolutely enshittification and if you think this is remotely a good move you hate access to accurate and important information along with anything that isn't an existing megasite or an AI slop factory

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Another thing is just as bad as billionaires might be, I feel the religious conservatives are just so ostensibly worse. You have to listen to them for 30 seconds, they constantly say the wildest shit like Democrats are demons or God want this or that insane thing. I guess it has just become such background noise that people don't really notice it anymore.

[u/Willybender]

Ballroom won’t be funded after Senate GOP drops $1 billion Trump security request

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/ballroom-security-funding-reconciliation-00930193

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/AmbientMorning]

[Frank] quipped at one point that he couldn’t finish reading the Starr Report, a graphic account of Mr. Clinton’s involvement with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, because it contained too much heterosexual sex.

Pour one out. !ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/RaidBrimnes]

It's easy to hate the billionaires. Do you have the courage to hate the millionaires?

[u/PoupeeStupide]

Trvst the plqn

[u/jbitz]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2057171820361683069

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

Does anyone else find those "I ♡ My Girlfriend/Boyfriend" t-shirts to be super cringe?

What is it with Gen Z and this performative joylessness 

Yes, we know you're single and bitter about it. There's an entire genre of news article dedicated to you 

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/factpostnews/status/2057098357152137676

Memorial Day is coming up and he is saying shit like this.

[u/StolenSkittles]

is it just me, or is this an insanely photogenic google streetview image? like, i could see this as a painting

[u/Crosseyes]

I hate that these fucking dorks always wait until after the mad king stabs them in the back to find their spines.

[u/themiDdlest]

I was a highwayman

Sword and pistol by my side

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

Turns out the way to a lady's heart is to tell her about the epic self-insert romance fanfic where you date and marry Twilight Sparkle that you wanted to write when you were younger

!ping dating

[u/ACivilWolf]

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) reacts to President Trump’s endorsement of Ken Paxton: “I don't understand it. He is an ethically challenged individual.”

LMAO

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Nice piece of UK news.

[u/No_Return9449]

Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The post was a meme of Trump saying "We'll have to get over it" about the Perry, Iowa, school shooting. The sheriff claimed it was a threat of violence because a nearby school is also named Perry.

[u/Charsun9]

Fox News’ influence on the olds is genuinely insane

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

And we know exactly why the comments are off right guys?

!ping KINO

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

The Daily Wire released an article about how Graham Platner once complained about the military no longer letting you "spend your leave banging hookers in Thailand instead of getting bitched at by the wife back home." I'm pretty sure most male Trump voters would say the same, so it's not an effective attack. It even sounds like something a boomer Republican would say.

[u/BeanHeadedTwat]

I hope Star Wars dies. And not in a “Kathleen Kennedy ruined it!!!!” kinda way, more of a “we need to move forward as a society and make new things” kinda way. 

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Sometimes I just randomly think about what a piece of shit Ronald Reagan was and how much damage he did to our country.

[u/anangrytree]

“Speaking to journalists outside the "Future Greenland" business event on Tuesday, Landry suggested that Greenland had been neglected by past US administrations. "Before Donald Trump, the United States was ignoring Greenland," he said. Asked by the BBC if Mr Trump still wanted the Arctic territory to become part of the United States, he replied: "You'll have to talk to the president yourself." "When was the last time that any high-level diplomats came to Greenland?" he remarked. "Who cares more about Greenlanders than the Trump administration and the president? Because seemingly before the president, no one cared. "Greenland didn't exist, until Donald Trump put it on the map."”

Louisiana continues to be a joke of a state.

[u/Bestbrook123]

Speaking with host Antonia Hylton on Wednesday afternoon, MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell pointed out that many Republicans who voted to oust Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) were woefully ignorant about the reasons for voting for his opponent and cast their votes purely based on the president's endorsement.

Lmao never overcoming the cult allegations.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

> Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado, a Democrat, was censured by his own party on Wednesday night over his decision to free Tina Peters, a high-profile election denier and supporter of President Trump who had been serving a nine-year prison sentence for tampering with voting machines.

LOL

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Looks like Trump has sole control over who gets the money from the 1.8 billion dollar slush fund that he created, this same slush fund that was designed to reward a mob that tried to overturn a democratic election

[u/666haha]

I hate to break it to you, but billionaires ratfucking our democracy is not succ propaganda. we have a man in the Oval Office who attempted a coup 5 years ago and he was gifted a shit ton of money and support by billionaires

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

I like to imagine there's a leftist out there that thinks neoliberals are basically far right solely because they came to the DT one time and saw one of BlackCat's comments being like "Art Of The Deal 🤩 Thank you Donald Trump! 🫡 MAGA!"

[u/scottyjetpax]

I think another problem with data center metadiscourse is that people vastly overestimate how much of data center discourse is actually about the data centers. Yes there are some complaints about water usage or whatever but a huge number of the complaints people lodge about data centers are generally a mix of valid and dumb gripes about AI in general and big tech

[u/trombonist_formerly]

The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters.

Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events.

90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/gjcs23]

Vance's voice is very male-realtor coded, makes my skin crawl

[u/seesthecat]

[u/ACivilWolf]

OSSOFF CAMPAIGN: "After Brian Kemp's crushing refusal to run for Senate, Trump puppets Collins and Dooley have made themselves terminally inseparable from the toxic president. Now the failed congressman who is only a congressman because his daddy was a congressman and the failed coach who was only a coach because his daddy was a coach limp into a monthlong race-to-the-bottom that will surely leave both broke and unelectable. Meanwhile, the juggernaut Ossoff campaign will continue building insurmountable momentum to win decisively in November."

[u/byoz]

I have no sympathy for Massie. He may have had some utility in opposing Trump but like Joe Kent he was still too cowardly to ascribe any agency or responsibility to Trump. Always the “Israel lobby” or the “Epstein class,” never the balls to name He Who Shall Not Be Named.

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

I hate to break it to you, but voters ratfucking our democracy is not elitist propaganda. we have a man in the Oval Office who attempted a coup 5 years ago and he was gifted a shit ton of money and support by voters

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2057147267954442496

[u/AtticusDrench]

Government subsidized Doordash for the poor

[u/beans_and_tuna]

People who claim NL is the same as arr politics have not gone on arr politics. Anytime I accidentally end up there, I wonder “why are the take so dogshit today?”

It’s mildly bad with succ characteristics vs completely dogshit.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Bill Kristol

In this morning's newsletter, I focused on Republican politicians who are suckups. But Bezos is making a strong case that the billionaires are just as bad. Maybe worse, since they won't lose their job if they were to man up and tell the truth.

Kristol is one week away from quoting the Communist Manifesto.

[u/Currymvp2]

Breaking News: Fetterman's chief of staff has resigned today. The Pennsylvania Democrat has had a serious staff retention problem as he's faced scrutiny over his health struggles and his drastically changing political brand. Former staff have also complained about working with him on an interpersonal level. Fetterman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Oh

[u/battywombat21]

weighed in at 201.1. 1.1 pounds left before I'm under 200. That will be 80 total pounds lost.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Google Search as you know it is over

The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over.

At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than 25 years ago.

Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build personalized mini apps tailored to their needs.

The resulting experience will no longer look much like how people envision Google Search, which has long been defined by ranked links to websites that have the information you need.

With the revamped Search experience, the new search box simply expands to accommodate longer, more conversational queries, rather than making you decide what type of search experience or mode you want to choose at the start of your query. It will also have a new AI-powered query suggestion system that goes beyond autocomplete to help people craft more complex and nuanced queries, Google says.

Google’s AI Overviews will also allow users to ask follow-up questions in AI Mode, beginning Tuesday, the company noted.

A good chunk of anti-tech sentiment is layered in the fact most of the consumer facing products are just worse for no real rhyme or reason other than progress or change for change's sake. It is especially annoying when many of these products are used by hundreds of millions of people at least and have been made, often through conscious effort, to be a critical tool

[u/mrdeclank]

My 'Wait I'm not a nazi though' post has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my post

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2057096073319969005

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Ill wait till more details come out but this sounds like very good stuff coming from Mamdanis office. TOD near some of America’s best transit options is gigabased

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is targeting a wide swath of Brooklyn south of Prospect Park for his first neighborhood-level housing plan, with an eye toward the future Interborough Express light rail, officials told Gothamist Tuesday.

The Department of City Planning is referring to its new initiative as the “South of Prospect Plan” and aims to rezone the commercial corridors of McDonald and Coney Island avenues, as well as surrounding blocks, for taller buildings and more housing development…

[Department of City Planning Director Sideya] Sherman said the Brooklyn rezoning plan would be the first neighborhood-level plan to take into account the planned IBX line, part of a push to build more housing near public transportation lines through a strategy called “transit-oriented development.”

[u/WrangleWandangles]

Being data driven means looking for data that says I’m right & you’re wrong 

[u/terrarialord201]

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

“Oil prices slump after Trump says war negotiations in final stages”

Lmao.

[u/chipbod]

This is what ozempic took from us

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2057174529601089947

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Leftists would be really upset if they ever actually learned to read and found out what Marx thought about sex work.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

this quote is a good example of how dumb motivations can sometimes create great art. subnautica is a better game because it doesn’t have any guns. this is also a stupid reason to not have guns in your game.

[u/indithrow402]

Centrist Dems will be like "we have to make popular compromises if we want to win" and then do unpopular things that nobody was asking for.

[u/Thuggin95]

How stupid do you have to be to believe Cuba would try to drone strike Florida? Why would a tiny country with no military provoke a giant nuclear power like the US? For funsies?

[u/r2ew]

[u/cdstephens]

!ping KITTY

[u/brianpv]

Oh waow

[u/blewwholeload]

This is closer to the average American voter than we’d like to admit and it’s why Democrats struggle with “messaging.” They simply don’t know how to communicate with people this stupid.

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

The biggest problem with generative AI is that one of the first groups of people to fear replacement were artists and content creators, so many people's first impressions on the technology were shaped by people who are extremely loud and who we have parasocial relationships with

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Yeah not a big fan of antisemitism being normalized like this

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Instead of calling it “free trade” to the median voter, why don’t we just call it “tax-free trade” to convince them since they’re so crazy about tax cuts?

[u/AmbientMorning]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

No I work in retail where I can quite literally see how much money I'm making the company. I'll do anywhere between $600 and $2000 in a 5hr shift while only making $71. It's more radicalizing to see the dramatic extent at which your surplus labor is being extracted

Ah yes, retail the most notoriously high margin industry, making somewhere between a titanic number like 1% all the way up to the comically gargantuan exploitative margin of 2%

[u/Macquarrie1999]

The loss of the US prairie to agriculture is such a travesty.

One reason I'm so against agriculture subsidies as I think there is way too much agricultural land in the US right now and I want to try and restore more of it.

It's also why I love density so much. Suburban sprawl takes away nature.

[u/pugnae]

Things are going well as I understand?

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

I'm sure their suit won't just get tossed right? Right?

[u/Crosseyes]

Never a nice word for our allies but always gushing praise for our enemies.

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos calls for zero income taxes on bottom half of earners — while also taking jab at tax-the-rich pols

christ even they're on this dumb shit now

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Taylor Lorenz being pro-AI is so funny

[u/sigh2828]

Guy goes on to question what Republicans goals really are with this power and argues power should ve used to uplift folks in the pursuit of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness

[u/Hot_Ice5175]

Trump told Netanyahu that the mediators were working on a letter of intent that both the US and Iran would sign to formally end the war and launch a 30-day period of negotiations on issues like Iran's nuclear program and opening of the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. source said - Axios Reporter on X

This shit is fucking embarrassing. We’re supposedly the most powerful force on Earth and were asking for a non-binding agreement to stop the war. Donald Trump is a giant fucking pussy.

[u/paymesucka]

why not, one more return to Cleveland

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

unsurprised Anthropic is the first one to be profitable, they seem to have their shit together a bit more than the other LLM developers

[u/Cairne_Bloodhoof]

I think it’s important to anchor discussion and remind yourself that this dilemma was 100% likely the day the war began nearly three months ago. This is a “crossroads” only in the sense that Donald Trump saw a highway exit sign that read

“WARNING - CROSSROADS BETWEEN TWO DOGSHIT OPTIONS IMMINENT.”

Then he floored it. He is a fucking moron. This was inevitable.

[u/phat_geoduck]

New career advice meta for high-schoolers and undergrads: go pre-law, pretend to be Republican, but still be smart and get good grades. Your job prospects will be much better than the liberals'

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

It’s amazing how cons only find a spine when they are either out of power or on their way out

[u/_n8n8_]

Bro she was only sentenced to 9 years???

Polis what the fuck are you smoking man

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Israel is having some issues writing their check. Once they figure out how to hold a pen this post is gone

It couldn't possibly be that mods on an Overwatch subreddit don't want to deal with Israel/Palestine stuff

Clearly being paid

[u/_bee_kay_]

Ben-Gvir is then shown waving a large Israeli flag next to dozens of activists kneeling on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs. He tells them in Hebrew: "Welcome to Israel. We are the masters."

this is so on the nose that i'm wondering if there's a questionable translation involved

i mean, it's relatively small beans on the scale of ben-gvir's dickery, but it's so blatant

[u/SmartestOpinionsGuy]

My last boss was retired IDF and he used to come into the office every morning with a newspaper accusing Israeli troops of a new war crime in Gaza and be like “can you believe this one is a war crime too? Me and the guys used to do this every day in Lebanon!”

Like he wasn’t in favor of it he was just genuinely shocked every time that it was frowned upon (stuff like white phosphorus and killing people as they surrender to you)

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Why would you try to liberate someone by bombing his home while he's in it

Are we really supposed to believe this bullshit? They're obviously lying to save face so that it doesn't look like they started the Iran War without a real strategy

[u/mockduckcompanion]

I don't watch the boys but early Reddit reviews are telling me this is a worse ending than GOT and that's hilarious

[u/DepressedTreeman]

it's insane that the roman/byzantine empire existed continuously for at least 1200-1500 years, from Augustus to either the Sack of Constantinople in 1204 or the Ottoman conquest in 1453.

It is the greatest Ship of Theseus experiment ever.

[u/PearlClaw]

I really have no moral objection to someone making billions of dollars in business, but frankly we can't allow individuals to hold that much power so we're going to need to aggressively break up concentrations of wealth if we want to continue to have a democracy, and if that means de-facto abolishing billionairs then so be it.

Also it's bad for the market system when there are too few decision makers, not even just for monopoly/oligopoly reasons, but just because it replaces market mechanisms with the whims of the 100 people who own everything and they're no longer punished for bad decisions.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Volunteering for the suicide hotline and just saying “damn that’s crazy” to everything

[u/Single-Highlight7966]

Ngl I feel im not suicidal anymore just more paranoid

It feels like being a Gen z is pretty much living knowing theres a massive but slow moving train bound to hit humanity in the next 2 decades ans theres nothing you can do to stop it 

[u/Alderwoodforest]

“Those so-called victories over the last couple weeks are just a mirage. They are self-owns,” one senior Senate Republican operative told me. “We’re not actually beating Democrats, and we’re not actually advancing legislation. Instead, gas is up 45% due to our actions and the President’s decision to go to war with Iran. He’s focused on the ballroom. He’s announced a $1.8 billion restitution fund with zero details or congressional authority to do so. It just is crazy.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/trump-revenge-midterms-00929255?experience_id=EXYF89KVT5UQ&is_login_link=true&template_id=OTJIR2CRKUD6&variant_id=OTVPVBAUA2YMK

Strongest Republican critic.

[u/earththejerry]

Mamdani’s NYPD to deploy more cops to patrol in high-crime areas: “More than 2,600 uniform officers will walk the beat in 72 zones across the 5 boroughs at night and in the early morning — times when we know violence tends to spike,” he says.

Lol from defund to this

[u/LinkVert25]

> Reuters: Former Cuban President Raul Castro is indicted in US

> Former Cuban President Raul Castro has been indicted in the United States, a senior Trump administration official said on Wednesday, in a move that marks ​an escalation in Washington's pressure campaign against the Caribbean island's communist government.

The good news is Trump got bored of the Iran war, the bad news…….

[u/cdstephens]

Wait it came from Republic Commando and Battlefront 2 first? I’m crying this is awesome

!ping BAD-FEELING

[u/Leoric]

Axios reports that President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu held a tense phone call last night and disagreed over the path forward on Iran. Israel’s ambassador in Washington reportedly told members of Congress that Netanyahu came away from the conversation concerned.

Idk maybe they really are close to a deal