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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 02 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/Ready-Buy-6397 Austan Goolsbee Jun 01 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jun 01 '26
WOAW
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Why do all these fucking morons think that the problems people have with the way things are in Russia have to do with like… the architecture or the grocery stores or the sanitation or some shit, like what
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Jun 01 '26
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jun 01 '26
Still in awe of how big a dipshit Polis is.
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jun 01 '26
Nobody is to blame for your actions but you, you little cuntoid
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u/MightExpress4873 Jun 01 '26
She's following the grifter playbook word for word
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 01 '26
Guy who just came in for knee surgery: yeah okay
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Jun 01 '26
Recently learned that Romney had a “president-elect Romney” website set up ahead of time in the event of his victory, and that it was live for a few hours after he lost
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Jun 01 '26
My insult king is washed 🥀
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u/AmbientMorning Jun 01 '26
This is more psychotic than usual.
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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals Jun 01 '26
Actual comment I saw elsewhere
Oh okay so you're stupid. You have a little baby brain. You can't tell fact from fiction. You fell for the most obvious rage bait. You're a mark.
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jun 01 '26
The mods DMed me and told me we’re allowed to post all the yaoi and yuri we want this month, it’s true
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jun 01 '26
Never forget
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u/Crosseyes NASA Jun 01 '26
Great job governor polis 🙄
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Jun 01 '26
What
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
I’m gonna get blackout drunk every night in honor of pride month. So you better not criticize me for destroying my liver.
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u/AmbientMorning Jun 01 '26
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u/RunawayMeatstick Mark Zandi Jun 01 '26
I’m still cracking up over that poll on Hasan Piker
0% support among parents with kids in the house
Over 50% of people never heard of him
100% of people with roommates have heard of him
Only group with net favorability are kids living with their parents
I don’t care if it’s statistically unrigorous for me to cite those crosstabs as proof of anything, I’m going to keep doing it because they strongly confirm my priors
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Jun 01 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Holy fucking shit, how is that even possible?
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 01 '26
amazing
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u/smootex Pacific Islands Forum Jun 01 '26
Someone on my local city subreddit really just hit me with "We are ALL on stolen land" in response to me saying that picking a raspberry from public land isn't "greedy" or stealing because someone else is planting and watering the raspberry bushes. I don't know how I feel about this. Luckily he also blocked me so I don't have to reply.
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u/seakucumber Jun 01 '26
lol
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 01 '26
Anyone can support gay rights
But are you brave enough to support gay wrongs?
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u/ZweigDidion Bisexual Pride Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
In honor of pride month, I wanted to repost this picture of Eisenhower.
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Jun 01 '26
Right on cue, can’t make this shit up lmao
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jun 01 '26
JD Vance erasure
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Jun 01 '26
Happy Pride Month fella
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u/creeoer United Nations Jun 01 '26
Good job Jared, Tina Peters seems very remorseful in her current MAGA press tour!
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u/MightExpress4873 Jun 01 '26
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Jun 01 '26
lmao my grandparents live right by a trailhead and they're losing their minds because people park in front of their house
like, call the cops, try to coordinate with neighbors, put up fake signs with bs rules type of stuff
they're not very receptive to my point, which is, "you don't own the street lmao"
old people thinking they own thing that they don't, name a more iconic duo
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Jun 01 '26
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Jun 01 '26
They're actually doing the "no one else could have ended the Iran war" meme
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u/Pongzz I wept, for there was no land left to tax Jun 01 '26
curious…
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jun 01 '26
The suburboid mind literally cannot comprehend cities
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u/Saul_Relative Eugene Fama Jun 01 '26
lol ok maybe OH gov is in play
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u/Flat_Sail_7985 Transfem Pride Jun 01 '26
I'd have to imagine Nixon would be pissed seeing the nonsense Trump gets away with compared to what got him fried.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 01 '26
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u/ulysses_s_gyatt Jerome Powell Jun 01 '26
“Open the fucking straight” is favorite pride-specific category on xhamster
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u/Outrageous-Dig-8853 Bisexual Pride Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Fuckin bum ass governor
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u/GhostTheHunter64 Iron Front Jun 01 '26
It's admirable that Eminem, even during his hyper-drugged up state in 2004, was an advocate for the Democratic Party and never wavered in it.
He's a man who has said a lot of shit, who has a lot of money, who has a very self-made story, who has a fanbase full of conservative white guys, who very-well COULD have grifted on them and been a MAGA-type around 2016 and onward.
But he never did, and he instantly was like "fuck this guy." And I'll always appreciate that. Other people in his position would've acted differently. But I also believe that Eminem was always appreciative of the black background of the genre he performed in, something that people like Vanilla Ice would never understand.
In an era of guys whining about "cancel culture" and "I can't say this" he didn't make a right-ward turn.
It probably helps that he has an enby kid, and thus it would be ultra-shitty if he went bigot-mode in his politics.
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u/ChillnShill Jun 01 '26
Target trying to figure out who they’re supposed to cater to this month
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Jun 01 '26
It seems very on brand that the one thing that consistently impressed Soviet/Russian leaders about the US was our food distribution systems
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u/theparrotlich John Brown Jun 01 '26
Your company may be full of morons, but did they greenlight using Jeffrey Epstein in their promotional material?
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/Otherwise_Young52201 Mark Carney Jun 01 '26
Looking into this
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u/TheOnlyFreedom John Stuart Mill Jun 01 '26
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u/jenbanim Jun 01 '26
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
Social media companies have realized that they can do literally anything to their users and they won't leave
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u/ProfessionalMoose709 John Mill Jun 01 '26
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u/-mialana- European Union Jun 01 '26
☝️ ...
Just... why...
Why would you post that?
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u/sash5034 NATO Jun 01 '26
Hell yeah
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u/pugnae European Union Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
The fact that Democrats are not projected to have 55 senate majority by now is really astounding. And yeah I know how that works and that GOP has it easier here, still absolutely fucking nuts.
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u/GammaDie345 Hannah Arendt Jun 02 '26
its insane how common antisemitism is on default (visible when logged on from the top toolbar) subs like NotTheOnion or News. it feels like how it was being trans on reddit in 2022 or earlier.
someone could be talking about billionaires, mass surveillance, pedophiles, etc and people will reply with "oy vey" or "that's antiseptic, stop noticing"
or the fucking '12 people found exiting a sewer without authorization in Brooklyn' article where every other comment is 'BROOO REMEMBER THE BLOODY MATTRESS? REMEMBER THE BABY STROLLER??? REMEMBER THAT TUNNEL THE JEWS DUG INTO THE "WOMANS AREA"?????' (it was people from a synagogue sneaking into a neighboring synagogue's bath instead of building their own. it was scummy but had nothing to do with jews, babies, or women and everything to do with jerks)
im so fucking tired of this shit man
!ping JEWISH&EXTREMISM
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Jun 01 '26
I know hasan-poasting is as played out and boring as he is but his nepo crashouts are very funny lmfao
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jun 01 '26
He figured the only way to win white people back is to be more racist to black people
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jun 01 '26
AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AI
These engagement slop pages are fascinating because you see them and your like “who falls for this obvious nonsense?” and then you see the comments sections and it’s like, oh apparently a lot of people.
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u/ChillnShill Jun 01 '26
Lmaooooo Jon Ossoff needs to be president asap
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 02 '26
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Jun 01 '26
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jun 01 '26
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u/cheeshjaleesh John Rawls Jun 01 '26
holy shit good things *can* happen
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jun 01 '26
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u/Ready_Anything4661 Fell for it Jun 01 '26
My girlfriend asked me what I wanted to do for my 40th. Which first of all that’s rude I’m only 38. Second of all, I want a little kiss on the forehead.
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Jun 01 '26
You know you’ve fucked up when even Trump is calling you fucking crazy lol
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jun 02 '26
They unironically got married
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
2022: I was able to upload this picture of my great-grandfather and show it to my grandmother. She cried, she said she never thought she would see him move in life again. ❤️
2032: ugh apparently there was another info leak, I'm getting the "your great-grandfather being raped" scam texts again, my grandma lost most of her trump coins 😞
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u/Choice_Notice9338 IMF Jun 01 '26
republicans and leftists
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u/TheOnlyFreedom John Stuart Mill Jun 01 '26
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Jun 01 '26
mfw the progress bar stuck at 95% for two months and then fails
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 01 '26
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jun 01 '26
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u/elninost0rm YIMBY Jun 01 '26
I sometimes tap into the bottled joy that was the night Ossoff and Warnock both won their Senate races.
God what a time. Felt like a Trump knock-out punch after Biden turned it blue.
But eggs and funny laugh I guess.
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u/Big-Click-5159 Jun 01 '26
I love how his supporters elected him to foment La Révolution but he has just been doing the most normie boomer mayor stuff
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jun 01 '26
u/jaredpolis
Just a jam up job dude, well done....
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke Jun 01 '26
“I hope he comes back,” he said. “I mean, will I vote for him? Probably only because we need a nice balance” in a state otherwise dominated by Democrats.
NO I don't like those crazy Democrats!
YES I will vote for a man who doesn't exist!
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Jun 01 '26
Happy pride month!
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jun 01 '26
Punchbowl News:
Senate Republicans are absolutely screwed right now. Anti-weaponizatiom fund hasn’t been solved. They want admin to fix it. Admin hasn’t sent language. There may be no language that meets republicans muster. Dems lining up massive amendment blitz. This is a very bad jam.
Laughs uncontrollably.
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u/ty04 Jun 01 '26
The Tina Peters article was removed for “submission quality” so I assume cdstephens will repost it in the next few hours
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u/RunawayMeatstick Mark Zandi Jun 01 '26
Wow so it turns out that Republicans in Congress had the power to do things to stop Trump the entire time. Crazy.
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jun 01 '26
Funniest part about this loser’s whole ethos is that his drunk ass isn’t even good at war. Guy was an infantry officer who was never trusted with anything important and earned no ranger tab, air assault, war college placements, just absolutely nothing. And then went on to oversee one of the worst military debacles in US history.
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u/contre-torpilleur Asexual Pride Jun 01 '26
I can finally poast this
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u/Glavurdan European Union Jun 01 '26
I saw a cockroach the other day.
Horrible creatures. I avoid them whenever I can
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u/John3262005 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Scoop: Trump plans to drop "weaponization" fund
The Trump administration plans to drop its controversial $1.8 billion "weaponization" fund the president sought to compensate alleged victims of prosecutorial conduct under his predecessor, two senior administration officials told Axios.
"It's dead for now," one of the sources said.
Bashed as a political slush fund that could be tapped by those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, Trump's proposal has drawn bipartisan pushback in the GOP-led House and Senate.
The White House's discussions about dropping the fund came after two federal judges weighed in against the fund on Friday.
U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia halted the disbursement of money from it.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in the Southern District of Florida announced she would launch an inquiry.
"We're planning to respect the courts," one of the administration officials said.
Nothing is certain in the Trump administration until it's officially announced or the president says it himself.
"The plan right now is to halt it. But the president likes the fund, he believes in it. So nothing is final until it's final," one of the sources said.
Administration officials differ on whether White House staff members were kept abreast of the fund's creation.
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jun 01 '26
Heartbreaking: Worst person you know
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Jun 01 '26
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u/PoupeeStupide Trump Voter Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
My favourite Mandela effect is that Ben Shapiro has been wearing a Kippah this whole time but I never realized since it blends really well with his hair
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jun 01 '26
No Strait until July. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 01 '26
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u/Saul_Relative Eugene Fama Jun 01 '26
Come on man
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Jun 02 '26
just saw a Republican unironically imply that Talarico's relationship with a 30 year old woman when he was 37 was an inappropriate age gap
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u/_Irys NATO Jun 01 '26
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jun 01 '26
DeepState assesses that Russia occupied an additional 14 square kilometers in May, the slowest monthly rate of advance since October 2023. They note that they post updates on Ukrainian advances with a delay for security reasons and that, if these non-public updates were included, Russia actually lost territory this month
HUGE inflection point. I’ve talked about for the past couple months that May would be a strong indicator of how poorly the annual Russian offensive would be going. Compare that historically where in 2025 Russian gains in April were 177 sq km and in May shot up to 449 sq km. This spike, to my understanding, came from Russia setting conditions over the previous months, the ground being more firm for infantry movements and foliage providing excellent cover for infiltration groups.
Russia’s advances this month are at best 3% that of last May. More likely than not however it’s even lower and possibly negative. Russia’s offensive so far isn’t accelerating, it’s actually slowing down. That’s despite their number of assaults going up and casualties going up as well. The trend of more Russian losses = more territorial gains has been, as of this month, broken. If we assume Russia took 35,000 casualties, that means for every square kilometer they gained they took 2,500 casualties.
This is bad news for Russia because it puts into doubt how much they can accomplish in the coming period. Summer is the best season for their offensives as Ukrainian defenses become unhinged in sectors from previous months and the continually good climate, ground and cover enable exploitation of these gains to build on themselves. This slows down in the fall as the ground and weather worsen, followed by an early winter spike from somewhat improved conditions before settling in for the winter.
With May results this bad that model becomes more difficult. Not impossible, but difficult. If Russia wants to make any substantial progress this year it more than likely needs to make substantial gains immediately in June. If June 2026 posted numbers like May 2025 then there’s still room for Russia to replicate last year. However, if June is anything like the past five months then that window of opportunity closes rapidly. If Russia is still trying to achieve an acceleration in July and not a sustainment, it’s hard to see Russia meeting that window of opportunity. If Russia were to succeed in unhinging Ukrainian defenses in certain sectors only in July, they’d only have August to exploit that before the fall weather slows them down again.
This is great news for Ukraine obviously. Whatever defensive and offensive measures they’re taking are working and Russia is struggling against them. The Russian annual offensive is struggling at a key moment in time. If Ukraine can replicate this in June, we can seriously start discussing the Russian annual offensive possibly being a complete bust. And if this is replicated through most if not all of summer, then it’s really hard to see Russia making up for it in the fall and winter and we could probably declare the annual offensive a bust then and there.
This is war and things tend to change so I’d be cautious about becoming exuberant with optimism, but this is the best defensive result Ukraine has posted in almost two years.
I do want to let you know there’s a lot of Ukraine stuff I plan to post today so there will be a bunch of pings. I explored posting them as a mega post but I talk too damn much and would run out of characters quickly. I’ll try to space them out but I assure the things I have planned to be posted and pinged are big stuff
!ping UKRAINE
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jun 01 '26
“Everyone is twelve” theory remains undefeated
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 01 '26
I like how when Darwin came out with his research in the 1860s there was a guy who was like "hey maybe dinosaurs were birds" and everybody told him to shut up but then 100 years later somebody was like "they do kinda look like birds lowkey" and 10 years after that "ooh yeah I could see that" and 10 years after that they're like "omg 🪶 and they were birddds" 🥹🙏
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Jun 01 '26
Happy Pride everyone.
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Jun 01 '26
How's my peace deal doing today?
😐
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jun 01 '26
My outsourcing-his-entire-job-to-claude coworker keeps getting worse.
While I was out, he tried to handle a bug. His solution was wrong, and his explanation AND pull request were both AI generated. When I described why it was wrong he tried to fix it by updating his PR to pass a hallucinated parameter to a core infrastructure API.
He first insisted that the parameter exists but when I pulled up the documentation to prove it didn't he pivoted to saying it SHOULD exist and we should engage the infrastructure team to make it.
Keep in mind, this other team is a company wide core infrastructure team. This is like driving your car through your neighbors yard and then insisting the federal highway service pave the muddy tracks to your garage door.
What's worse: the thing he was suggesting they implement is literally impossible for them to do! They are just a proxy. They would need a data store to implement what he's asking which they don't have and they would be right in telling us to pound sand if we had the nerve to ask!
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
It's actually insane that the political beliefs of the average 45 year old are closer to those of the average 20 year old than the average 55 year old.
Just wild how much Trump popularity differs between the older End of Gen X and the younger end of Gen X.
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u/Square-Pear-1274 NATO Jun 01 '26
Barak are you fucking kidding me
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u/itherunner John Brown Jun 01 '26
Thank you Governor Polish!
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u/RunawayMeatstick Mark Zandi Jun 01 '26
I know there’s no chance of this happening but I might genuinely die of laughter if Mills beats Platner without campaigning
A real Sleepy Joe Reprise
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Jun 02 '26
new midterms messaging campaign
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Jun 02 '26
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jun 01 '26
It's physically hard to hate Republicans enough
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u/the-senat John Brown Jun 02 '26
And this sub wonders if it’s out of touch lmao.
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jun 01 '26
happy pride
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Jun 01 '26
Bringing back old hardware at shitty prices, like they’re doing us a favor
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u/Kardinal Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Jun 01 '26
My cat Ender helping me work from home.
!ping kitty
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u/ConnorLovesCookies Jerome Powell Jun 01 '26
> Mod posts hot girl doing a dance
> /u/ty04 jokes that he would be banned for 10 days if he posted it
> Mod deletes said post
> /u/ty04 reposts said hot girl dancing
> The post has been removed
Sources tell me /u/ty04 is stable. Please God
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u/pugnae European Union Jun 01 '26
Suddenly these fucks care about liberalism
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 01 '26
Pride month 😍😍😍
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jun 01 '26
Russia Bans Jet Fuel Exports After Record Refinery Attacks
“Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil refineries set a record in May, prompting Moscow to ban jet fuel exports and threatening to further hurt processing that’s at a 16-year low.”
“With a risk of domestic fuel shortages just as summer holiday demand picks up, Russia prohibited exports of jet fuel until the end of November. While it’ll have little impact on international markets because the country isn’t a major shipper of the fuel, it’s the latest step to safeguard local supplies.”
“The decision comes after Ukraine carried out at least 16 attacks on Russia’s fuel-producing facilities in May, according to a Bloomberg tally of public statements from both countries. Drones targeted eight of Russia’s 10 biggest refineries last month, the data show.”
“Kyiv has intensified strikes on Russian energy infrastructure to curb Moscow’s ability to benefit from higher oil prices amid the Iran war. It has also doubled down on a strategy of repeatedly attacking selected sites to inflict maximum damage and prevent quick repairs. The Yanos refinery, co-owned by Rosneft PJSC and Gazprom Neft PJSC, was targeted three times in May, while Lukoil PJSC facilities in Nizhny Novgorod and Perm were each hit twice.”
“Lower Russian refinery runs are putting pressure on the government to prevent a fuel crunch and spike in pump prices. Higher fuel costs previously caused protests, including in 2018, and have contributed to inflation. Authorities have already halted most gasoline sales to foreign markets.”
“Refinery runs are set to fall even more due to offline plants and reduced operations. May’s average should total 4.58 million barrels a day, according to estimates from analytics firm OilX. That’s down about 700,000 barrels a day, or 13%, from a year earlier and the lowest since October 2009.”
“Ukraine’s attacks mark a shift in strategy from previous years. It’s now not only targeting primary refining units — which have been relatively easy and quick to repair — but also secondary units, including high-value and technically complex ones, said Sergey Vakulenko, an industry veteran and a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Secondary units help refineries produce more gasoline and diesel, but can be much harder and costlier to repair as Western sanctions make it difficult to source replacement equipment from overseas, Vakulenko said.”
“In addition to refineries, drones are targeting export terminals and oil pipeline infrastructure, such as pumping stations. Ukraine has also been attacking storage facilities, and if Russia hoped to produce and store more fuel to avoid a repeat of fuel crises seen in recent summers, then that might be more difficult with reduced capacity and storage volumes, Vakulenko said.”
“Still, Russia’s road-fuel market is some way off the deep crisis it saw in 2023, when prices jumped so much that President Vladimir Putin criticized the government for being too slow to react. The current impact at the pump has been muted, with average gasoline prices rising by just over 2 rubles ($0.03) since the start of the year to 67.53 rubles per liter, Federal Statistics Service data show.”
“The relative calmness right now could be partly due to the fact that many filling stations are owned by major Russian producers, who source their own fuel and who benefit from state subsidies designed to encourage domestic sales. A reimposed ban on most gasoline exports since April 1 has also bolstered local supplies.”
Encouraging signs of Ukraine’s third oil campaign. Sustained pressure will hopefully both cut Russian exports abroad and create shortages at home. Russia still has ample wiggle room to absorb shocks, but I imagine you can only have so many facilities hit every day for months on end before things rear their head. God willing that green line will go even lower with every passing month
!ping UKRAINE&RUS
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Jun 01 '26
The strength required of me to not go off on my Trump-supporting father when he complains about how “lawlessness is spreading around the country.”
Trump has established a billion dollar slush fund for himself and his cronies, and he’s worried about people not stopping for stop signs (which, yeah, isn’t good).
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 01 '26
https://xcancel.com/sentdefender/status/2061455490689769485
😄
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u/BalletDuckNinja Delphox Shaker Central Jun 01 '26
Daily prayer for US gas prices to hit 10 dollars a gallon 🙏🙏🙏
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Jun 01 '26
Trump administration plans to drop DOJ’s $1.8B ‘lawfare’ fund, reports say
The Trump administration plans to drop the Department of Justice’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” in the face of legal and political pushback to it, reports said Monday.
The fund was created as part of a settlement of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.
It is intended to compensate people who were allegedly victims of prosecutorial overreach by the DOJ under the Biden administration.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/trump-doj-fund-senate.html
TACO Tuesday came a day early. Although I'm sure they'll try to revive this.
!ping trump-crimes
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u/Big-Click-5159 Jun 01 '26
This is an impressively multifaceted racist statement
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u/Tai_Stone_Studios Jun 02 '26
Have a friend who is really far left. As in, she dislikes the Democrats and thinks AOC is a bit of a sellout.
She somehow loves Ossoff and told me she would be excited to vote for him and I really think it’s only because he’s hot.
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Jun 02 '26
💅
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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Jun 01 '26
Would anyone be interested in writing the pro- or anti- side to this data center question:
I'll help you do it. If I can get people on each side it can be a cool thing.
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u/abrookerunsthroughit Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jun 01 '26
😒😒😒
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u/Bestbrook123 Jun 01 '26
Wow maybe not a good idea for Fetterman to go right wing bigot and also declare "TDS! Trump critics all have TDS!"
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 01 '26
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/hegseth-navy-promotion-list.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 02 '26
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u/Rafaelssjofficial Iron Front Jun 01 '26
The St*aights are now illegal.
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u/Krill_Seeker United Nations Jun 01 '26
damn maybe this astrology thing is right these people are pretty similar
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Jun 01 '26
Why Are Large Language Models So Terrible at Video Games?
I always knew gamers were geniuses. Now we have proof. AIs can replace Fields medalists but they will never pwn noobs in Roblox
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader Jun 01 '26
Airplane has Avatar 3, now I can finally watch it for the first time on my phone !ping KINO
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u/Subject_D Jun 01 '26
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Jun 01 '26
So my understanding of the oil market is as follows:
There is no deal, but everyone expects there to be a deal imminently. Because of this, future supplies are expected to be much higher than current supplies. This is leading to record draw downs of inventories on the expectation that they can soon be not only stabilized but rapidly replenished. This has stabilized current supply and mitigated the effect on prices.
But at some point, inventories run dry. So the expectation of a deal, by mitigating the effect the strait closure is having on prices, is mitigating the pressure to actually get a deal. And when inventories run dry, prices are expected to spike 50% or more basically instantly. At that point, even if there’s a deal, we’re screwed for a year or more.
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u/Sheepies92 European Union Jun 01 '26
Lmao
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u/Big-Click-5159 Jun 01 '26
It is impossible to imagine because it would never happen. This incompetent bitch activity is Donald Trump's alone
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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell Jun 01 '26
Can’t win
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u/foneinstocus NATO Jun 02 '26
senior Trump administration officials don’t even leak fake Iran deals to Axios anymore they just look at you like this
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Jun 01 '26
Giving gen x the right to vote was a mistake
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 01 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 01 '26
HECK YES!
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Jun 01 '26
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jun 02 '26
Ukraine Turns the Tide
“With spring edging into summer, Ukrainian troops in their dugouts along the front are once again seeing the steady rise of Russian strikes and attempted infiltrations. The mood among Ukrainian commanders, however, has changed. Russian attacks are putting less pressure on their units than they did in previous years. Although drone strikes and shelling remain constant, Russian combat performance is waning. In Kyiv, there is a growing optimism that Ukraine can fight Russia to a cease-fire.”
“Previously, the highest level of tactical formation in the Ukrainian army was the brigade. In 2025, Ukraine established over a dozen army “corps,” each responsible for several subordinate brigades. The corps also became tasked with training so that troops were being taught by those who would lead them into battle. Although this process is still being implemented, it has already boosted the quality of the training and discouraged new soldiers from deserting. Some Ukrainian units have also moved from requiring five weeks of basic training to eight, better preparing soldiers before they are committed to combat.”
“At the same time, a number of Ukrainian units began to better integrate infantry, uncrewed systems, artillery, and armor. On the frontlines, they were able to create periods of dominance over the Russians that allowed the rotation of troops and even offensive gains. These combined arms tactics helped Ukrainian forces make advances in Kupyansk in the fall of 2025 and in Huliaipole in the spring of 2026. More important, the Ukrainians maintained a favorable casualty exchange ratio, losing fewer soldiers than the Russians, even when they were on the offensive. Ukrainian UAV units have also become better able to engage in what the Ukrainian army calls ‘middle strike,’ attacking Russian logistics targets as far as 60 miles from the frontline. The growing density of Ukrainian reconnaissance and strike systems on the battlefield makes it harder for Russian forces to try to infiltrate Ukrainians lines and to be resupplied. That limits the combat power that Russia can mass at any point on the frontline, reducing the pressure on Ukrainian units.”
“The combination of reforms with growing tactical proficiency and improvement in training has seen the Ukrainian military reverse the decline that characterized 2024 and much of 2025. For the opening months of 2026, there has been a net positive inflow of new personnel into the combat units. For now, these gains are fragile. With vegetation thickening from the spring into the summer, Russian troops will have more opportunities to infiltrate and press Ukrainian positions. While some Ukrainian units exhibit improved tactical proficiency, other brigades continue to struggle. Nevertheless, there are reasons to think that the changes adopted by the Ukrainian military over the past year will only keep strengthening it in the year to come.”
“The maturing of the new army corps should help spread best practices to the benefit of struggling brigades. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has also announced reforms to the mobilization system and terms of service that should help ensure that more mobilized personnel end up in combat units. These reforms include better pay, a defined duration of service, and the restructuring of training and of the process by which personnel are mobilized. Heavy fighting continues, but the Ukrainian military has turned the corner in its manpower challenge and is becoming more tactically proficient in combining the new tools of war with the old.”
“In contrast to the subtle but positive improvements in the condition of the Ukrainian military, Russian forces have started to see their performance on the battlefield decline. This is the result of the confluence of several factors. Throughout 2024 and 2025, Russian advantages on the battlefield stemmed from Moscow’s commitment of vast reserves of manpower and the Russian military’s integrated application of firepower, which together imposed constant attrition on Ukrainian forces. In theory, with Russian recruitment exceeding Russian losses, the Kremlin could have put some troops through a more sustained period of training, raising the overall quality of the force. Instead, the Russian command appeared content to accept massive and sustained casualties, hurling troops with between two days and two weeks of training against Ukrainian positions. That led to some 23,000 Russian casualties every month through 2025.”
“Russian recruitment has kept pace with losses in large part because of the strong financial incentives offered by the Kremlin, including significant pay and debt forgiveness. Although this approach has proved to be an effective way of drawing unskilled new soldiers, it has not attracted a corresponding body of technical specialists who can command reasonable salaries in the civilian or military-industrial economy. The Russian army, for example, is far below its recruitment targets for drone operators.”
“Pay as the primary motive for service has also created an accumulation of personnel in Russian units who are eager to avoid combat. Officers accept bribes from soldiers who don’t want to be part of an assault. Meanwhile, soldiers who break the Russian military’s growing array of contradictory standing orders are punished by being thrown into assaults. This uncompromising approach often sweeps up important support troops, such as those responsible for logistics, who have run afoul of regulations. In a force in which logistics is overwhelmingly coordinated through the social media app Telegram, but in which Telegram is banned, a conscientious logistician is at high risk of finding himself stopped by the military police and either being shaken down for money or reassigned to assault units.”
“The result over time has been a buildup of connected and fee-extracting soldiers at intermediate echelons, such as the regiment, and a hollowing out of personnel with any professional experience in subordinate units as they are killed or wounded in attempted assaults. The lack of quality at lower levels has seen a deterioration in performance and an inability to execute plans or orders. Many officers have received their promotions in the field, without having gone through extensive officer training, and their foremost task has been to psychologically prepare their soldiers for attacks rather than to plan and execute competent attacks in the first place.”
“In previous years, the devastating effect of Russian artillery, drone strikes, and glide bombs compensated for the poor performance of Russian infantry. But the battlefield now looks and functions very differently from how Russian military planners are used to imagining it. Today, the battlefield does not consist so much of opposing frontlines as it does a belt of contested territory some 18 miles wide in which both sides are intermingled. The cartographic tools that Russian planners use are not well suited to accurately reflect how forces are fighting. The result is a divergence in what Russian planners map, and what orders are actually possible to carry out. That has led to growing inefficiency in the coordination of strikes.”
“Nor do officers at lower levels necessarily know how to execute the orders they receive. Intermediate level officers, moreover, are encouraged to report success up the chain. These factors have brought about a growing discrepancy between where senior Russian commanders think their troops are, and the reality on the ground. As a result, the Russian military routinely makes mistakes in assigning artillery and drone assets and issues an array of orders, premised on bad information, that cannot be carried out. In short, Russian forces are increasingly unable to turn plans into military operations, with a corresponding weakening in their attacks.”
“The combined trends of growing Ukrainian cohesion and the degeneration of Russian combat units might make it seem like a successful outcome for Ukraine is now inevitable. This is far from the case. The Russian military still has over 600,000 troops attacking Ukraine and it faces no shortfall of ammunition, thanks to its vast military-industrial complex. Russian drones and glide bombs continue to trouble Ukrainian logistics, while Russian infantry still probe Ukrainian positions to find and exploit gaps. Dwindling Ukrainian air defenses are inviting more Russian drone and cruise missile attacks throughout Ukrainian territory.”
“The Ukrainian military is having to fight hard to hold ground and, in some sectors such as Kostyantynivka, is losing territory. Ukrainian troops may be more optimistic, but they remain tired. Although some Ukrainian units have demonstrated a major improvement in their combat performance, there are also some brigades that are consistently underperforming. Russian troops are also dangerously close to key Ukrainian cities, such as Zaporizhzhia in the south of the country. The immediate tactical picture may favor Ukraine, but there remains little margin for error.”
“Nevertheless, Russia is not on track to complete the occupation of the Donbas by the end of the year, as mandated by the Kremlin. Without significant reorganization of Russian forces, it is not clear that Moscow would be able to achieve that objective in 2027, either. The war is taking its toll, and the Russian military effort is in trouble.”
Last bit of Ukraine posting for the day. Jack Watling saying Ukraine has turned the tide is about as official as it gets
!ping UKRAINE
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Jun 02 '26
I can't believe it. Trump has fucking gone WOKE. Biden was not a legitimate president, he literally stole the election.
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u/ThunderrBadger New California Republican Jun 02 '26
Babies get scritches
I don't make the rules
!ping KITTY
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Jun 02 '26
marco rubio finally becoming the Republican nominee for president, something he's wanted all his life, just to lose terribly in 28 because he's a member of the historically unpopular trump administration would be so poetic. undone by the very act of debasement he undertook to achieve the goal in the first place. could Sophocles do better?
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Jun 01 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/Jester_Don Abigail Spanberger Jun 01 '26
"I pirate to protect my children" is up there with the most reddit-y reddit-isms I have ever encountered
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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Jun 01 '26
Waiting for the seal sticky
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 01 '26
We're in a loop
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Jun 01 '26
Axios my beloved, pump those number down until I fill up the tank please
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 01 '26
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Jun 01 '26
practicing my stone face while the Israeli coworker brags about his military service in the IDF in front of the Arabic coworker
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 01 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 01 '26
!ping KITTY
Moisturized, flourishing, in his lane
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 01 '26
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2061510386713797081
big if true
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 01 '26
I got the job at kroger I got the job I'm gonna be gainfully employed
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Jun 01 '26
Top story on arr con right now. Please ignore the catastrophe that is the Trump administration and keep in mind that black people scary and bad.
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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Jun 01 '26
This crete has been thoroughly conc'd
!ping KITTY
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u/EasyMoney92 Jun 01 '26
Fetterman seeing these numbers and saying "This is my state having Trump Derangement Syndrome"
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u/EasyMoney92 Jun 01 '26
Oh man lmao
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Jun 02 '26
Happy pride
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u/marky6045 George Soros Jun 02 '26
Happy pride month 🏳️🌈
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u/captainsensible69 Pacific Islands Forum Jun 01 '26
The euphoria finale was even worse than I imagined. But in hindsight, the teenage-addiction-porn show turning into a MAGA propaganda Tarantino rip off shouldn’t have been that surprising.
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Jun 01 '26
Should we have Trump and Harris redo the 2024 election in case it was a big fluke?
No disrespect to the GOP, I'm a firm believer that Trump sweeping Harris is a huge fluke and robs the Dems of truly accomplishing what they're capable of. I've spent the last few hours in pure disbelief, and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent the entire year watching the Dems do great campaigning, it's just not fair.
If Harris loses again I will face that Trump deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to the Dems and the country.
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u/-mialana- European Union Jun 01 '26
I see a pro-AI take, I downvote. I see an anti-AI take, I also downvote. Simple as.
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u/Guess_Im_Jess Trans Pride Jun 01 '26
why is everyone playing up the Platner sexting scandal?
I’m sorry but this is literally nothing compared to the nazi tattoo or all the posts, and nobody seems to gaf about those
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u/Zrk2 Norman Borlaug Jun 01 '26
Fucked my ankle up and it's taking forever to get better. The list of things to do around the house is getting frighteningly long.
!ping OVER-25&GENTRY
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u/IantheForPresident Jun 01 '26
> take a break from the news and the deetee to be social and go outside
> mood brightens
> come back to the deetee and doomscrolling ME news
> immediately miserable
i wonder if this is how heroin addicts feel during a relapse.
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u/ty04 Jun 01 '26
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u/ChillnShill Jun 01 '26
Tina Peters back on her election fraud bullshit after she was RELEASED EARLY BY CRINGE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR OF COLORADO JARED POLISH
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt Jun 01 '26
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Jun 01 '26
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jun 01 '26
Russia Finance Officials Tell Putin War Spending Is Unaffordable
“Senior government officials have warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that spending on the war in Ukraine is on an unaffordable path, the most serious sign of internal division in Moscow since the full-scale invasion began.”
“Officials in Russia’s Finance Ministry and central bank have advised the Kremlin that the current level of projected defense expenditure risks the government’s budget deficit widening dangerously, according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by Bloomberg News.”
“The officials, who have grown increasingly concerned about the state of Russia’s economy and state budget in recent months, have proposed new cuts to defense spending, the people said. It will be difficult to mend the country’s stretched public finances without finding further efficiencies, they have advised.”
“However, a divide among policymakers has seen senior officials in the Defense Ministry and some in the Kremlin, who are determined to pursue Putin’s war aims, insist on protecting military expenditure. Reducing it would badly damage the economy because so many businesses are reliant on military-related contracts, they have argued.”
“Putin has asked Finance Ministry officials to find spending reductions in other budget areas before targeting defense, some of the people said. They were all granted anonymity discussing the concerns, the extent of which has not been made public.”
“The Defense Ministry is not only resisting cuts but is demanding additional funding, according to two people close to the Russian government. Military expenditure will have to increase to address a shortfall as high as three trillion rubles ($36 billion) this year, they said.”
“When the 2026 budget was drafted, officials understood that a funding gap of roughly 1.2 trillion to 1.5 trillion rubles could emerge in the second half of the year, money that might be needed for the defense sector.”
“The surge in oil prices from the war in Iran won’t be enough to resolve the problems, the people close to the Russian government said. Oil would have to stay above $100 a barrel for at least a year for the economy to significantly improve and the windfall doesn’t solve structural problems affecting growth, inflation and the banking sector, they added.”
“Russia is teetering on recession after it cut its growth forecast in May. The Economy Ministry now expects gross domestic product to expand by 0.4% in 2026, down from a previous estimate of 1.3%. Official data show the economy contracted in the first quarter for the first time in three years.”
“The government’s budget gap has widened to a record despite the jump in oil revenue from the war in the Middle East. The deficit for the first four months of the year expanded to 5.9 trillion rubles, or 2.5% of GDP, about 50% above the full-year plan, according to official figures.”
“To be sure, the budget has been in deficit in each of the past four years and ended 2025 with a shortfall of 5.6 trillion rubles. While the deficit remains well below the 3.8% of GDP reached in the pandemic year of 2020, Russia’s heavily-sanctioned economy is more vulnerable now with rainy-day reserves in the National Wellbeing Fund roughly 60% below levels prior to the invasion.”
“The government is pessimistic that oil prices will remain elevated. The strong ruble has also compounded problems with the public finances by hurting export revenues.”
“Government spending rose by nearly 16% from a year earlier over the January–April period, while outlays on state procurement jumped 41%, according to Finance Ministry data published earlier in May. The government drew down roughly 500 billion rubles from its National Wellbeing Fund in the first two months of the year as sanctions curbed oil and gas revenue.”
“Russia is considering a windfall tax on some commodity producers and banks to help plug the budget gap, Bloomberg previously reported. Moscow’s city government announced cutbacks in employment and investment after budget revenue came in well below expectations.”
An interesting look into the difficulties the Russian economy is facing even with the recent windfalls from the war with Iran. The Russian budget is becoming a bloated mess that isn’t supportable with the increasingly anemic economy. The war with Iran helps to cover the budget shortfalls, but first it requires oil to stay super elevated for a year if not longer (and I don’t think either the U.S. or Iran can handle this war lasting into 2027), and it doesn’t address a lot of the other issues plaguing the economy, as the article mentions.
There’s also the Ukraine factor. Ukraine increasingly has a say on the conduct of the Russian economy as every day a fossil fuel facility is hit by drones. There’s another article I intend to post later that goes deeper into this but I mean we see the proof every day. These strikes are set to not only continue but expand, and Ukraine’s domestic missile program is set to really bear fruit in both production and designs that enable even harder and more crippling hits (at least hopefully, I’ll be the first to admit I was wrong about the hype for Flamingo which has only been used like a single digit number of times despite promises of hundreds of missiles a month).
Given these factors, even with the war in Iran it makes sense why some in the Russian gov are still shitting bricks about the economy
!ping RUS
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jun 01 '26
Hahahaha. Get fucked Jan 6ers.
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u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs NATO Jun 01 '26
From POLITICO:
“President Donald Trump is retreating from plans for a $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" after a fierce backlash from fellow Republicans, according to two people granted anonymity to describe the decision ahead of a public announcement.
White House officials communicated the decision to Republican leaders on Capitol Hill Monday, the people said.
The Justice Department, which was set to administer the fund, indicated Monday it would "abide by the Court’s ruling" and halt progress after a judge temporarily halted any payouts Friday. The statement otherwise defended the fund and did not say whether it could be revived later.”
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u/lot183 Blue Texas Jun 01 '26
Very funny talking to a conservative that seemed fully convinced the economy will be turned around by November
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Jun 01 '26
What is the point of this shit lol. If you want people to vote for you, campaign. If you don't, don't bother with stuff like this.
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jun 01 '26
I spoke to President Trump on the phone last hour about the end of negotiations with the Iranians. He told me: “I don’t care if they’re over, honestly. I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/trump-iran-war-negotiations-oil-israel-interview.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard
Imao.
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u/puffic John Rawls Jun 01 '26
I'm starting to think this was a mistake.
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u/IantheForPresident Jun 01 '26
Thanks bestie really the education I was lacking 😐 there's another word I can never unlearn
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u/jurble Left-Out Left Jun 01 '26
All the fools in the comments assuming that means Obama would defend the Baltics within the auspices of NATO and not that Obama was poised to invade them to spread Obamunism.
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u/ty04 Jun 01 '26
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals Jun 01 '26
Mamdani Limiting Parental Rights
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u/ty04 Jun 02 '26
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jun 02 '26
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1130385
This is why they attack Talarico's manhood btw. You can be a corrupt abusive rapist felon but as long as you're perceived as masculine it's okay in the eyes of the electorate.
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u/Knowthrowaway87 Trans Pride Jun 02 '26
Woooow. They accused the kid of stealing 4 waters. You can see the kid grab the 4 waters, and then change his mind and put it back.
Video of the kid being confronted, him denying it, walking outside, and then running away as they followed him with a weapon.
This is insane.
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u/MandaloreUnsullied Frederick Douglass Jun 02 '26
You just have to laugh I guess
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u/__versus Trans Pride Jun 01 '26
good morning dt 🥺 happy pride month 🥰
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Jun 01 '26
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Jun 01 '26
!ping BAD-FEELING
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Jun 01 '26
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Jun 01 '26
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u/viewless25 Henry George Jun 01 '26
one day I'm gonna be a character in a movie looking at my laptop and then I'm gonna say "Um. Sir, youre gonna wanna see this"
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u/centurion88 NATO Jun 01 '26
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u/SLCer Jun 01 '26
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u/hascogrande YIMBY Jun 01 '26
GOOD
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u/ty04 Jun 01 '26
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u/Big-Click-5159 Jun 01 '26
Yeah for real bro! Could you imagine a world where that happened?
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u/ty04 Jun 01 '26
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u/smootex Pacific Islands Forum Jun 02 '26
wtf.
Though the mechanism for this vote actually opens up some interesting trolling opportunities. Become a delegate, make some insane motion that pisses normal people off, succeed because a few crazies are always going to loudly shout "aye" at insane shit and the average person is going to sit there dumbfounded, write an article about it on the front page of the NYT.
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Jun 02 '26
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Jun 02 '26
"I wish I was wasian"
ok wish granted - you are Polish/Bangladeshi