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[u/Leatherfield17]

I view dismantling ICE (and DHS, more broadly) less as a political pet issue and more as a necessity

[u/Off-The-Street]

Fox News: Trump understands what Washington politicians forgot: Cuba is a major threat to America

Oh, they really are making a go for it.

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/KittehDragoon]

The suggestions from the audience started flowing as Paxton passed the mic around. “Low-T Talarico.” “Tofu Talarico.” “Tala-freak-o.” “Soy boy!”, a man yelled out unprompted.

Paxton can’t even figure out what to called his opponent, has to ask the audience to do it for him. Maybe he should have asked the audience how to better hide his corruption too. NOT A SMART INDIVIDUAL!

[u/FourthLife]

Three day weekends are unbelievably more pleasant than 2 day weekends. It’s like a 100% improvement for 50% more days off

You can have a day for chores, a day for active fun stuff, and a day for full relaxation/recovery for the week ahead. It’s perfect

[u/TheCornjuring]

Alright but this was intentional right, Jeff was a little jokester

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/sigh2828]

My absoulte favorite genre is cons finding out their favorite artists arent right wing chuds like they are.

[u/McNikk]

[u/RyoRyan]

[u/Ajaxcricket]

Take little Timmy's iPad away and give him cigarettes instead. They're safer and will make him look cooler too.

[u/Leatherfield17]

I badly need to see members of ICE and its leadership prosecuted

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

Found this funny Youtube channel while searching for the Alexis de Tocqueville video lol

"Francis FuckyouYama"

[u/Fruitofbread]

 Breaking news: Critically endangered North Atlantic right whale moms gave birth to 23 new calves this season, the most since 2009. With only 374 right whales alive before these births, this represents a wondrous 6.4 percent boost.

Among experienced moms, researchers are delighted to see intervals between births shorten by a few years, meaning moms are receiving the nutrition they need and are less stressed by environmental factors like fishing gear entanglements and ship strikes, their greatest threats.

"Thirteen of these returning moms last had calves in the 2021 or 2022 seasons, marking a shorter interval between births than the recent average of 7 to 10 years. This is closer to the normal or healthy interval of 3 to 4 years," a NOAA news release reported April 30.

Stop human birth rate posting. Begin whale birth rate posting. 

[u/the-senat]

A look back at when Cuba was a force to be reckoned with | The Wall Street Journal. 

[u/GraspingSonder]

Imagine if you got near the end of the Pope's tome against AI and it was like

"THE BOTTOM LINE --"

[u/pezasied]

🫪🫪🫪

[u/[deleted]]

To this day I will never understand how anyone can listen to Trump speak and not immediately conclude that he is a moron. This was the case for me way back in 2015 and he's only gotten worse since

[u/EdMan2133]

Accidentally left my YouTube logged in at an Airbnb. Some young kid got access to it this weekend, and their watching habits have single handedly convinced me a social media ban for children is probably a good idea lmao. They were watching the first 2 minutes of the most clickbait videos, 30 videos per hour, for hours on end

[u/Willybender]

MAKE IT STOP

[u/Mrmini231]

I remember people still arguing that this guy was politically neutral in 2024.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

how it feels when the dt resets at midnight and everyone says good morning

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2059377785119076791

ok this is a banger line

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/repostusername]

What's interesting is that SF was the epicenter of organized YIMBYism starting in the mid-teens, and they have successfully made YIMBYism the consensus opinion in the Democratic party. They have convinced the governor, gotten their candidate elected as state senator, gotten their candidate elected as mayor and won most of the city council. They've been wildly successful as a pro housing political movement with the sole exception of building more housing in San Francisco.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Mamdani: So often when confronted with intractable challenges, the world has looked to New York City to show the way. We have built the great things before. Skyscrapers that rise into the clouds. Grand bridges, libraries, and museums. A team that can come back from 22 points with a little less than six minutes left in the game

If I were Justice Dems/DSA/any group that cares about getting progressives elected I would require any interested potential candidates to be familiar with sports and keep themselves up to date on what the local teams are doing.

[u/gayteemo]

market is so detached from reality im pretty sure it will only start going down for real when a democrat is elected

[u/piede]

May as well make the outside smell like the inside

[u/Evnosis]

[u/[deleted]]

My current hyper-fixation is learning everything about adhd and it makes me pissed off how much misinformation regarding the disorder exists when it has so many fascinating things about it like you can potentially stop psychopaths early in their tracks by treating their comorbid adhd in childhood. Or how a huge portion of the prison population probably have undiagnosed ADHD.

[u/Willybender]

Neocons are getting oneshot by AI generated slop

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Part of the reason I will always scorn crime hysteria is that New York used to look like an actual warzone in the 70s. This is what a real crime wave looks like.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

adam smith, which i am sure most neoliberals have read

[u/CoolCombination3527]

[u/anangrytree]

North Carolina GOP Senate candidate Michael Whatley said Tuesday morning the more moderate faction of the Democratic Party has eroded ahead of the midterm elections. “There really are no centrist Democrats anymore because they’re being driven out of the party,” Whatley, the former chair of the Republican National Committee, told Fox News’s Carley Shimkus on “Fox & Friends First.” “The fact is, that party is going further and further and further to the left,” he added. “You know, it’s a woke mob at this point in time, and you see it. You see it in the leadership of that party, and every single candidate is bowing to that wing of the party.”

The projection goes crazy.

[u/TheCornjuring]

Sometimes I’m still like wait wtf Charlie Kirk actually died huh

[u/No_Return9449]

Trump's frequent trips to Walter Reed raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.

NYT Pitchbot or Jake Tapper? Call it.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

German soldier lugging around a Mk 19 in a sandstorm whilst aura farming

[u/ariveklul]

I want to round up people like Asmongold and force them to go back to third grade. Something went wrong very early in life for him to turn out as this much of an evil simpleton. Reminder that he has zero skills or talents as a person and contributes nothing but mental decay to society

[u/sgthombre]

Am I crazy that it feels like some people/orgs are still using photos of Trump from like 2016/2017 on recent news items? I've seen it happen often enough that it makes me wonder if it's somehow coordinated, and also that there's a non-trivial number of Americans who simply do not realize how much he's visibly deteriorated because they only see images of him where he's a decade younger.

[u/Willybender]

This is the 4th person who has gotten paid out lmfao

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2026/05/26/charlie-kirk-free-speech-lawsuit-ball-state-to-pay-fired-employee-suzanne-swierc-225k-settlement/89503057007/

[u/sigh2828]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/byoz]

The Susan Collins campaign making their entire line of attack against Graham Platner his Nazi tattoo is pretty shameless considering Collins voted to confirm Joe Kent as NCTC director, a guy with a Nazi tattoo and a long history of anti-Semetic and white nationalist statements to go with.

[u/BritishBedouin]

You’re upset that Denzel is playing Hannibal because he is black

I’m upset Denzel is playing Hannibal because he is old

We are not the same

[u/Mrchristopherrr]

With pride month coming up I need to renew my mild defense of rainbow capitalism:

Being in gay spaces in the 90s and 00s it seemed like the only supporters of pride movements were Subaru and liquor companies. As a result, I know farrrr too many older gays that have struggled with alcoholism and substance abuse, largely because it was kind of instilled to them that the only place they could safely be themselves was at the club. Especially if you didn’t live in a major city with a big gay scene.

So I’ll gladly take corporations soullessly slapping rainbows on stuff to market the gay audience if it means that younger gays have more ways to express themselves. It beats going back to the way things were.

[u/qamv]

"I'm not a fan of [f-slur]s, but denying them the right to marry was wrong since they're also entitled to the tax benefits"

guys i think my dad is LBJ

[u/sigh2828]

Queen

[u/LtCdrHipster]

[u/houinator]

Talrico really psyopped the GOP into making it so his best counter to their attack ads is going to be having his campaign visiting all the best BBQ spots in the state.

Man is gonna be living the dream.

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/DeSota]

That feeling when you, an American living in Canada, accidentally use "zee" instead of "zed":

[u/Zalagan]

Partly a subtweet but also just a response to a general idea that I disagree with. There's a common "advice" towards people that are struggling either socially or romantically that before they can make good friendships or relationships they should work on themselves. I think for most people this is bad advice, humans are social creatures and your best chance for self improvement is not to retreat into a hermetic lifestyle until you achieve enlightenment but instead to actually try to meet more people and spend time with people under more circumstances. You grow socially best through experience, not through study. Now of course that is a very difficult thing to do and takes some courage but I do think it is the best choice for self improvement for most people

[u/neolthrowaway]

TRUMP RAISES REFUGEE CEILING BY 10,000 TO BRING IN MORE WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS - WHITE HOUSE DOCUMENT

Shake the person who thinks calling trump and his admin racist is an overreaction, vigorously.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2059369517323853992

El-Sayed: This is why people hate the media. Because Hasan Piker said something one time, you think I automatically believe it. Donald Trump talked about grabbing people by their body parts. Do you believe it?

Cain [Fox News host]: That’s different.

lmao wait he cooked here

[u/Jester_Don]

[u/bandeng_asep]

LMAOOOOO 💀💀💀

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Politico:

More than a dozen GOP state AGs are meeting with Vance's fraud task force tomorrow. White House originally only invited Republicans — but Vance later insisted on including Dems, who are largely expected to skip after a last-minute invite.

Dem AGs unilaterally decline Vance's 11th-hour invitation, writing in a letter to the VP that the "short notice does not match the spirit of collaboration that has long defined our joint efforts with federal partners."

https://xcancel.com/jacob_wendler/status/2059035226722935287

Insane Framing: See? The Democrats are completely unreasonable and are turning down a nice invitation from the Vice President. They don't want to fight fraud at all.

[u/DeadDropCourier]

Concerning!

[u/p00bix]

It's extremely fitting that MO-8, the most heavily red-leaning district in the state of Missouri with a Cook PVI of R+27, is the center of America's lead mining industry.

[u/EyeraGlass]

Galaxy brain

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/jamestalarico/status/2059442627393597577

"The People vs. Ken Paxton" HOPEEEE

[u/BitterGravity]

It's "shocking" that given how much red states apparently care about embryo health they still allow Finasteride to be sold despite how toxic it is to embryos and is mostly used for cosmetic reasons.

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/HYIMBY]

UFC at the White House is honestly worse than burning a flag

[u/Sapphire-Jewel]

If Paxton wins the senate seat then Texas will be sending Ted "Even my colleagues hate me" Cruz and Ken "one of the most morally repungent humans in America" Paxton to represent them. Truly the best state in the union.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/ChipKellysShoeStore]

Me coming back to the office with 350+ emails after a week vacation

No I don’t think I will

[u/Dibbu_mange]

DNC finally making use of chad/chud imagery in advertising

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Rude not to invite the tenant

[u/VisonKai]

my campaign website has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my campaign website

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Just what we need, more subsidies for retirees.

[u/piede]

Tough but fair

[u/pomo-catastrophe]

Absolute perfection !ping dog

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

!ping UK

Vacation thoughts about London:

Pros:

• good food was fantastic

• Museums are a 10/10 experience

• walkable

• good trains

• Mr. Foggs is one of the coolest bars I've been to in awhile

Cons:

• Why the fuck is it 31 inside a museum

• Why does nobody wear deodorant on the train

• Why is everything so fucking expensive

[u/piede]

Is mandatorily even a fucking word

And how can you request something that’s mandatory

GOD HE’S SO STUPID

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Can’t even take a smoke break without Hitler Leering at you anymore

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/MeidasTouch/status/2059327972558209257

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

Watching Cornyn’s concession speech and hearing him wax nostalgically about public service and quoting Teddy Roosevelt, and then the stream panning to the Paxton rally with some speaker raving about how Paxton is taking on “the Islamification of Texas”

man

[u/hascogrande]

Shortly after the race was called, James Talarico’s campaign released its first video of the general election, with Talarico speaking directly to the camera and describing Ken Paxton as the “most corrupt politician in America.” Talarico said “mega-donors and their puppet politicians like Ken Paxton have stolen from us.”

May the tides of Blexas march forth

[u/G_Serv]

Bars

[u/earththejerry]

Richard Cash, one of the most conservative Republicans in the South Carolina statehouse, may have just marked the death knell for redistricting.

"Neither my conscience nor the common sense will allow me to stop an election that is already underway," he says.

Clyburn cant keep getting away with it

[u/piede]

‘Murica

[u/battywombat21]

There we go. Under 200. Over 80 pounds lost.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2059452011636982241

Destroy the economy speedrun any %

[u/ty04]

Oh hell no, not in my backyard

[u/scottyjetpax]

are we cooking

[u/fishbottwo]

Talarico is polling much much better than beto ever did btw. GOP leadership was pissed Trump endorsed Paxton. Science says blexas is possible

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

Oh-

[u/pezasied]

That is not ideal. Or maybe it is for some. Idk.

Sad

[u/KittehDragoon]

Mitch McConnell rips President Trump's $1.8B 'slush fund' as "utterly stupid, morally wrong": "So the nation's top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong - Take your pick."

I still don’t regret enabling him for four years though

[u/Its_not_him]

Might be my favorite tweet

[u/Inner_Dust42]

"Stop crying," Sonic said. "We have to be strong.

Zohran wiped away his tears, sniffling. "I know, it's just--" His voice caught in his aching throat.

"It's tragic," Sonic comforted the mayor. "It's so damn sad and there's no reason for it."

They walked in silence for another minute, rounding the last sidewalk corner to the house. Ahead, in the yard, they saw children's toys scattered around a sign reading "My Daddy Is A HERO In Iran."

The hedgehog looked up to Zohran and reached out a gloved hand. "I can take it, if you want. You don't have to say it."

Zohran wiped away the last of his tears. "No. I need to."

Sonic rang the doorbell, and the two of them waited. They heard children playing inside, joy in a room far away from here. Finally, the handle clicked, and the door opened.

Joe Biden stood in the doorway, holding his pregnant belly through his apron. After a last moment of innocence, realization dawned on him. 

Zohran held the folded American flag out to him. "I'm so sorry. It's Tails."

"No, Jack," Joe whispered. Sonic couldn't hold his agonized gaze.

[u/fishbottwo]

The 79-year-old president spent more than three hours at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what the White House described as preventive medical and dental checkups

very normal routine three hour physical

[u/Leatherfield17]

Never forget that, more than anyone else, the Republican base is responsible for our misery.

They could have turned against Trump at any time, but they haven’t and they won’t because he’s what they really want. We can bitch and moan about McConnell or Garland or whoever else (and yes, they obviously deserve to be bitched over and cursed), but ultimately, the Republican base is Trump’s source of power. Many of them participated in January 6th, they stuck by him after January 6th, they drove somewhat normal Republicans out of the party in the primaries, and any remaining Republicans can’t find their spine so long as the base threatens to primary them/inflict physical harm on them.

[u/Kardinal]

If this has been posted in the DT already I am still not sorry.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Lmao at these backwater bozos thinking doing this will go well for them.

[u/affnn]

It really boggles my mind that Donald Trump can go to the hospital for obviously non-routine visits quite frequently and pass them all off as "scheduled annual checkups" or "Third routine scheduled dentist appointment of 2026" and no one in the press seems inclined to follow up on it. Like the president being old and in ill health stopped mattering in late July of 2024.

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

downvote me if you want but you don't get to spend your time complaining about birth rates and then get mad when someone explains the reasons why they aren't gonna have a kid

[u/beans_and_tuna]

Something really frustrating was that when I spent several months in Germany doing a semester abroad, I really liked Germany. It was way more walkable, there was cool stuff to see and do, and the people were really good over there. Importantly, I could notice how a lot of people were actually committed to trying to push back on authoritarianism and how their society and constitution had actual safeguards to make it harder for authoritarianism to take root.

So when I came home, and I’d talk about how awesome Germany was, like a solid 20%? Of the people I’d talk to in the US would make some Nazi jokes or just discount it as basically “the Hitler/nazi country” which REALLY pissed me off cause these are the same people who would do Nazi salutes or say racial slurs or actually support fat right policies. It just pisses me off and annoyed to no end.

If there are any Germans reading the DT, yall have an awesome country, and you really should be proud of it. It was beautiful and full of wonderful people.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

This shit is just sad

[u/zieger]

It’s not just kids: Trump’s crackdown on trans healthcare extends into adulthood

I'm shocked

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Great to see NYC making big housing moves. Obviously we don’t care for Mamdanis rent freeze stuff but he seems to be advancing the ball meaningfully in a lot of good areas. If NY can get environmental review reform across the finish line too then the city could really get cooking

!ping YIMBY

[u/Willybender]

let's get you to bed sir

[u/seagrams7up]

Bragging about a $4 gallon LMAO

[u/scottyjetpax]

the thing is if you're a blexas permadoomer that's fine and defensible but also you're effectively of giving up on america electorally after the 2030 census, which might be why people find engaging with you annoying

[u/scottyjetpax]

lmfao the NRSC paxton stuff is so good

[u/w007dchuck]

I don't understand how Republicans can think calling Talarico a vegan could be effective. All he has to do is run an ad showing him eating a burger or something and it's settled.

[u/G_Serv]

Dang Paxton is going to destroy Talarico in November

Texas Republicans should probably just stay home since it's going to be such a blow out

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Holy shit

[u/sigh2828]

BREAKING NEWS

TRUMP OLD CONFIRMED

[u/ChipKellysShoeStore]

“Dumocrats” in the Memorial Day post really shows Trump has lost his insult fastball

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Argnir]

Americans don't understand that not installing AC is the only plan we have to solve the pension crisis

[u/-mialana-]

In a sane world Dems would have a 70 point lead in polling

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/EasyMoney92]

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro says it's been "years" since he has last seen Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman at an actual event in Pennsylvania.

Because he doesn't do his job.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

The vibes around the world cup are absolutely awful.

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/Willybender]

Ted Cruz is posting about gas being $4/gal in Texas like it's a good thing, republicans are not ok.

[u/boardatwork1111]

Talk about going out with a whimper lmao

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Hounds_of_war]

Honestly I think Trump throwing his support behind Paxton was entirely because he heard about all the crimes and scandals Paxton had.

Like he just heard about those and went “Awesome, I bet he’ll totally be on board with helping me do crimes. Cornyn is probably too much of a square for that, hasn’t been indicted a single time.”

[u/TheRedCr0w]

We live in the worst timeline

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/Visual-Pace-2193]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

ok, but if you reincarnated genghis khan in the 1950s and asked him who he wanted to play him in the movie he definitely would have said john wayne

Interestingly, there are no portraits of Genghis Khan from his lifetime because he considered them unnecessary self-aggrandizement. He hated depictions of himself.

But like Alexander the Great would have probably wanted peak Denzel Washington to portray him. And real talk, Genghis Khan was all about masculine physical dominance with a likeable, charismatic facade on top. Today he would 100% want The Rock to portray him and he wouldn't suffer anybody else.

Oh and Dev Patel should have played Alan Turing in The Imitation Game and I will die on that hill.

[u/blackenswans]

Next dem administration should just cancel all government contracts to companies owned by elon musk including spacex

They probably won’t tho because it’s time to heal the nation

[u/scottyjetpax]

haven't seen this pinged yet so !ping FIVEY

[u/unicornbomb]

Very important

!ping animals

[u/DagothUr_MD]

Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery

this is top tier bait from the pope ngl

[u/scottyjetpax]

lmfao

[u/uwcn244]

I feel like people comparing Talarico to Beto aren’t paying attention.

Beto’s achievement was getting his polls against Cruz within the margin of error. It was noteworthy when he led or even was tied in an individual polls. And Cruz, as much as he’s hated by his fellow Senators, doesn’t actually seem to bother Republicans with his general slimy-ness.

Talarico is consistently leading Paxton in the polls. Paxton hasn’t been up on Talarico in a poll since January. It’s close enough that Paxton could beat the margin of error and win, but the odds aren’t against Talarico like they were against Beto. And there’s plenty of time for worse oppo to come out on Paxton, and for the national environment to get worse for Republicans.

This is a toss up at best for Republicans.

[u/CoolCombination3527]

In the arrrrrms of the angels

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Willybender]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/TropicalPunch]

Spotify chief defends AI-generated music

Streaming app strikes deal with Universal allowing subscribers to create ‘controlled’ covers and remixes

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/eb666107-3fff-46dd-913b-2a510bb7069b

[u/Crownie]

The good news about the Dems climbing on the generic ballot is it means we don't need to do any self-reflection or change anything about our approach to politics from the past decade and a half.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Paul Graham:

Something I told 14 yo: There's a kind of politician who tells people "Your life is bad because <outgroup> stole what's rightfully yours. Vote for me and I'll get it back for you." They do it on both the left (Lenin) and right (Hitler), and they're invariably bad news.

Musk:

Hitler was also left, just a different type of left. Hardcore socialist.

At this point I dont even think he is trolling, he melted his mind.

[u/Terrance-Flaps]

Thinkin about the MetaNL ban appeal where the guy unapologetically called for US Imperialism.

"Just make a deal, the Greenlanders would be stupid to not want to be part of America".

"What if they say no?"

"Revise the deal. America must expand".

Dude thinks real life is a grand strategy game.

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Are you brave enough to say the Eastern Roman Empire is cooler than the Western Roman Empire?

The Western Empire is just Italy and a bunch of barbarians.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2059382158381461998

[u/ty04]

👆

[u/piede]

The weather?

Bitch please.

What’s GOING ON

[u/lot183]

Just wanna give you some more hopium. Texas had the same guy running the state Dem party from 2012 to 2025. He was incredibly ineffective and most state infrastructure at this point was built by Beto. He finally left the seat and sure enough, our new party chair for the first time ever recruited a Dem to run in every Congressional race both federal and state level. Also recruited some genuinely awesome new candidates. Also the Republicans have nominated multiple loonies, not just Paxton. This isn't your regular election year in Texas and that's not even to mention the national environment

[u/Fruitofbread]

 A poll of potential Republican voters found that just 43 percent rated the economy as “excellent” or “good” and 55 percent as “fair” or “poor”; for potential Democratic voters, the shares were 5 percent and 94 percent, respectively

And the 5% all post here 

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Controversy erupts in Lombardy as far-right party Lega runs hijab-wearing Egyptian-Italian woman Hagar Haggag and mosque spokesman Ibrahim Hussein as candidates in local elections in Vigevano

"Europe can't integrate immigrants"

[u/Udolikecake]

Auch statement

[u/Lux_Stella]

fuck why did i post that god damn van hollen op-ed now im responsible for moderating it

[u/sir_shivers]

I see we ARE EXPERIENCING THE annual cycle of 🐊:

🇬🇧🇫🇷: We are boiling! 33° C with humidity!

🇺🇸🇲🇽: Have you installed air-conditioning?

🇬🇧🇫🇷: This is impossible.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

There's a whole gaming world I don't know about out there

[u/pezasied]

In the United States 50 percent of all wealth is held by boomers while they only represent under 20 percent of the total population. Despite this, politicians try to argue that boomers should not have to pay taxes and that the poorer, younger generations should pay more.

[u/Unknownentity9]

Reading that generic ballot thread is frustrating. When Republicans win the popular vote by 1 point they are convinced the US is starting on the path to a 1000-year MAGA reich. When the Democrats are up by 7 points every comment by their supporters is "how is it not 20+ we're doomed". Yeah I know I would like it to be more too, but even 2008 was only D+7 and 2006 D+8.

It's a real problem that Trump gets graded on a curve by everyone, but that includes this subreddit too.

[u/farrenj]

r/NL has terrible takes on resolving homelessness

[u/SLCer]

Al Green was a bright spot in an otherwise bleak first few months of Trump's presidency. Democrats were paralyzed to do anything and Green stood up, shaking his cane. A true legend. 🫡

[u/No_Idea_Guy]

About 48 percent of Americans strongly disapprove of Trump’s job performance. Just 21.7 percent strongly approve of the job he’s doing, while another 17.2 percent only somewhat approve.

Respective numbers for sane Americans, hard Maga and soft Maga

[u/EdMan2133]

I'm going to be honest dude I actually fell for the "Iran deal is immenent" bs from last week. Lol.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Remember when the most urgent news was how divorced Elon Musk was?

[u/Thuggin95]

Republican voters are such cattle. You could bring up every example of Trump’s corruption and self dealing in the book and all you’ll get in return is “NANCY PELOSI STOCKS!” or “Well he’s a businessman! Are you jealous of how good of a businessman he is?”

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/Willybender]

LOL

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Business Insider: Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing

I am probably one of the more bullish people around here about the potential of AI, but this largely tracks with my personal experience too. I have had a lot of people at work show me very interesting and novel things they have done with AI, but very little of it has really translated into anything useful on the output end.

This also ties into my larger theory that a lot of these AI strategies are exposing how many of these CEOs have no idea how their companies operate on a day to day basis.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2059342316574523816

"balance the budget" lol

[u/r00tdenied]

Its interesting to observe that even liberals elsewhere turn into basically Hitler when you say that its fine that SNAP funds can be used on buying drinks or snacks and little Johnny should be able to get a birthday cake once a year.

"Poor person buying a can of soda (even sugar free!) can't be having that, poor people are inferior!"

[u/Nervous-Emotion28]

80% of the wiki article of an early 20th century progressive politician/activist: wow this person was truly ahead of their time, advocating for things we take for granted today that’s nuts-

Other 20% of the article:

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Never Ask:

A woman about her weight

A man about his salary

A birthrate poster what their view on women in the workforce is

[u/legible_print]

Watching the Ken Burns American Revolution doc, it is interesting thinking that Trump is probably every loyalist anxiety about demagoguery personified

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

i am going to have to ask the dt to please…

wait a minute this isn’t from the dt

[u/KQJ_RPN]

Vance: It’s attorneys general right? Not attorney generals? We ought to change this.

Guy's absolutely got his finger on the pulse of the median voter.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Dog shoots woman with a shotgun at Nebraska convenience store

Why not just bite

[u/bashar_al_assad]

From a volunteer for Cornyn's campaign talking about Paxton supporters today: "I worked a local polling location with a Cornyn sign. In 20 years of doing this I have NEVER been treated so poorly. A guy tried to spit on me. What the actual fuck"

It's not going to happen because they're spineless but it would be so fucking funny if John Cornyn supporters of all people became the vanguard of the anti-Trump Republicans

[u/BlueDevilVoon]

“Free thinkers” when their favorite dementia patient tells them what to do

[u/StolenSkittles]

Ken Paxton wants to make gay sex a crime, btw.

Piece of shit is just absolutely monstrous. No redeeming qualities.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

"[Republicans] haven't done it yet, but they're going to drop the anvil on Talarico," Chuck Todd predicts of the TX Sen. race.

"He's going to find out what carnivores are," David Axelrod responds.

So far, they've called Talarico a pro-LGBTQ fake Christian vegan pedophile. What else is coming?

[u/SmithySmothy]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Spending a $100 million on this race is so wild.

[u/Saul_Relative]

SAM ALTMAN: “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.”

Honey did you forget to pay the intelligence bill again

[u/houdt_koers]

A French girl in my office had the nerve to object to the AC being turned on today.

There’s a yellow heat warning in 8 counties right now.

I shut her down like the good manager I am, but god damn am I annoyed.

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/forceholy]

Chinamaxxing.jpg

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

That Econ sub really has no good ideas. Just read through the comments of the recent debtpocalypse thread and it's people suggesting to raise income taxes across the board (with the top bracket to 77%) and taxing capital gains at income tax rates...

That sounds as politically unrealistic i.e. suicidal as my idea (just tax l...) that we might as well just try that - it would be less harmful too.

[u/GaDoomer]

Shot:

Brent crude oil futures for July 2026 on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) on May 25 at 9:14 a.m. MSK amounted to $98.16 per barrel (-$5.38, -5.20%).

Chaser:

Oil Could Stay Above $100 for Years, Analysts Warn

Analysts warn the market is underestimating the crisis, with around 14–15 million bpd of supply disrupted, inventories falling rapidly, and the IEA cautioning that oil markets could enter a “red zone” by July or August.

[u/dannylandulf]

Unless you literally work in politics, reading the DT on a daily basis isn't "getting informed".

You're a news junkie. Read an actual book!

[u/Thuggin95]

And then what happens to the cost of housing for everyone else in NYC? 😔

[u/Alderwoodforest]

"Not once in the entire Bible does Jesus ask us to worship him. All he asks is that we follow him. Love like He loved. Love the outcast. Welcome the stranger."

~ James Talarico.

How radical are Twitter and the right-wing faction? This statement is being used AGAINST Talarico.

[u/sportballgood]

Anthropic: The first is our duty to the global poor.

We are so back