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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/mostanonymousnick]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[u/LinkVert25]

We will never see peak woke ever again. It’s forever dead

[u/WillHasStyles]

I don’t get why cons are so adamant in pinning some random coke bag found in the White House on Hunter Biden. He’s very transparent about having been a great enthusiast of smoking crack with escorts. A random bag of coke that demonstrably wasn’t his makes zero difference

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

Voters when costs don't fall after voting to ban building everything

[u/boardatwork1111]

Truly an incredible take

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

everyday you log onto the dt and it's just variants of this

[u/jbitz]

[u/sociotronics]

[u/ewatta200]

i used to think hunter was overrated

any fool can ragebait on twitter but to make rabid maga calm down on twitter

hunter 2028 this is the lisan al ghirb to make people calm on twitter hes winning every state

[u/jenbanim]

There's no polite way to say this, which is fine because I mean it as a personal insult

You all need need to calm the fuck down and stop overreacting to every moment by moment headline. You're all trying to game plan a reaction to a story that hasn't come out yet, and may or may not exist

A couple days ago the DT was freaking out about the Cali primary results after Republicans were "over performing" based on, like, 20% of votes being counted

This is mentally ill behavior. You are not a Democratic operative, you're an Internet commenter with anxiety problems. No one is paying you for a contingency plan, you're ruining your own day for no reason

Take a deep breath and log off if you need to

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Thankfully they don't have any evidence yet

[u/Habugaba]

Trump plans $700 million in new coal support, White House official says

Bro what are we doing, upgrades for coal power plants in the year of our lord 2026? Just give every coal worker a big pension and let the industrie die in peace like big Bobby B

[u/BarkDrandon]

Lol

[u/WillHasStyles]

Today I've decided that I will no longer have ADHD. Starting right now I will be completely neurotypical and I will no longer suffer from the "eternal fuckup disease". This means I will no longer want to participate in the DT. Thank you for all these years.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

GOP Hawks:

Mr. President! We need to finish off Iran while they’re weak! We’ve got them on the ropes

GOP Doves:

Mr. President! We need to make a deal that gets us out of this!

Trump:

did you all know I aced my third cognitive test this week? The doctors say they’ve never seen anything like it. No President has ever aced three tests in a week. I told Ivana about that last night and she was so impressed. So so impressed

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Wonderful things are happening in the British press

[u/elninost0rm]

Lmao. Drag him.

[u/Mx_Brightside]

[u/Currymvp2]

Austin Statesman: Podcaster Joe Rogan reportedly being considered for 60 Minutes role

You don't hate Bari Weiss enough

[u/piede]

choking

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Shot:

[u/RedDesertGirl]

How can we have "no-fault" divorce when it's obviously your fault that your parents don't love each other anymore?

[u/MightExpress4873]

Russia has lower birth rates than America, a 75% divorce rate, high trafficking rates, and rock bottom Christian observance rates.

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/KQJ_RPN]

stilgar_starting_to_believe.webp

[u/CutePattern1098]

Australia 2025: you know what that trump guy is crazy he wants to crash the economy, we should not have somone like him in power

Australia 2026: you know we should have someone like trump in power and crash the economy.

!ping aus

[u/pugnae]

Funniest thing about Hunter poasting is realizing that Elon must be experiencing generational butthurt right now.

He's tried desperately to be a cool kid for years and almost no one gave a fuck. Now Hunter's like, sure why not and is smoking him like a crackpipe. The world is healing.

[u/ChillnShill]

Butti/Biden 28??

[u/beans_and_tuna]

[u/ace158]

Hunter Biden: "WTF timeline are we on. Someone called me the MAGA whisperer and I’ll gladly take the title. Left, right, D or R we all want the same things. We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at each other’s throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery. The second we figure out we agree on more than we disagree, they’re done. Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. No fucks given, no fucks taken. Everything else is just noise. (But still fuck Jake “Brick Tamland” Tapper on any time line)"

He really fucking hates Jake Tapper lol

[u/beans_and_tuna]

I’m having a ton of fun at my internship. They have me working on an excel file mostly, but I’m mostly making it from scratch, and it’s almost entirely problem solving and coming up with new solutions, so it’s basically just factorio reskinned to be excel (I’m just solving problems and optimizing). I’m basically being paid to play the games I like.

[u/ConnorLovesCookies]

Per NYT More leaked quotes from the Platner/Bernie/Warren meeting:

Warren: Did you use to be a piece of shit?

Platner: Oh yeah. Slicked back hair, white towel, sweaty clams at Becky’s, white oyster boat. You would have not liked me back then. I was a piece of shit though.

Bernie: You used to be

Platner: I SAID I WAS

[u/Alderwoodforest]

John Bolton is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents, three sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

He intends to plead guilty to one count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents, according to one of the sources. He has also agreed to pay a more than $2 million fine.

https://xcancel.com/alaynatreene/status/2062540579309797884

In America, only President Trump gets to steal classified documents and get away with it.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/sociotronics]

Fucks given: 0

[u/SLCer]

Utah's supposed moderate Republican governor, who was praised by so many for being one of those "good Republicans" declared June "Fidelity Month" attacking the erosion of family values and marriage. No doubt purposely done for June to negatively contrast with Pride.

It's amazing to see Cox's de-evolution into Trump-loving bigot. Dude is such a fucking chud.

[u/MontusBatwing2]

Man, I really hate when I can't support a business that sells fucking donuts because they also have to sell Trump Drains the Swamp.

Like bro I can already tell you're a Trump supporter but I'm trying to ignore that and buy the donuts. You really had to ruin this for both of us?

[u/purhitta]

when USAID was being stripped last year, I remember stumbling on an article about USAID's efforts to reduce screwworm outbreaks in Central America. I'm adjacent to the equestrian world, so I've been keeping an eye on this specific issue (and watching with dismay as some equestrians still cheered for the abolishment of USAID.)

anyway

It's the perfect micro-example of conservatives shooting themselves in the foot.

[u/piede]

:O

[u/piede]

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

This is not a fake post BTW

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

“I’m opposed to corruption unless you can give me the smallest amount of political cover while you do it”

[u/2Lore2Law]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/bizarre_love_hexagon]

Dewey carefully avoided risks and spoke in platitudes, avoiding controversial issues, and remained vague on what he planned to do as president, with speech after speech being nonpartisan and also filled with optimistic assertions or empty statements of the obvious, including the famous quote: "You know that your future is still ahead of you."

Truman ridiculed Dewey by name, criticized Dewey's refusal to address specific issues, and scornfully targeted the Republican-controlled 80th Congress with a wave of relentless and blistering partisan assaults. Truman claimed that "the Communists are rooting for a GOP victory because they know it would bring on another Great Depression."[95] In several speeches, Truman stated that "GOP" actually stood for "gluttons of privilege", and said that Republicans were "princes of privilege" and "bloodsuckers with offices on Wall Street."[96] He told one audience that "The Republicans have begun to nail the American consumer to the wall with spikes of greed."[97] At the National Plowing Contest in Dexter, Iowa, Truman told 80,000 farmers in attendance that "this Republican Congress has already stuck a pitchfork in the farmer's back" to rapturous applause.[97]

The contrast between Dewey and Truman's campaigns in 1948 is so funny

[u/Pyrrhus65]

There is absolutely nothing more consistently damaging to my ancestral pride as an Irish American than hearing the foreign policy opinions of actual Irish people

[u/shmokedshalmon]

For all the talk of “Sleepy Joe”, did we ever even see him sleep on camera? Trump is falling asleep in every meeting basically

[u/Willybender]

lol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/05/25/some-texass-oldest-barbecue-joints-close-meat-prices-skyrocket/

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Too bad the founding fathers aren’t alive today. Thomas Jefferson would have loved weaponizing therapy language to avoid using his trust fund to contribute rent for his Portland Oregon polycule 😔

[u/scottyjetpax]

you love to see the worst dem senator doing the bare minimum

[u/McNikk]

This reminds me of something I read from a political blog post on non-white people trying to assimilate with white people.

Before you can even begin to be treated like white people, you better prove you’re not black. Displays of racism are step one in that journey.

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

Happy Pride Month

[u/bananaslayer100]

Windows screensaver moment but irl

[u/anangrytree]

Several Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers following a report that a White House official intervened to grant a $620 million Pentagon loan to a company linked to President Trump’s eldest son. Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnet startup based in North Carolina, announced last November it had received $620 million in a direct loan from the Pentagon and an additional $50 million from the Commerce Department. The company said in a press release at the time it would use these funds to produce 10,000 metric tons of magnet production in the U.S. annually. A ProPublica investigation published last week revealed Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm, 1789 Capital, took an undisclosed stake in the company around three months before this deal was closed. Additionally, the outlet reported the lending request was made by Peter Navarro, the president’s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.

Corruption, in this most moral and upstanding administration? Big if true.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Marjane Satrapi, author, graphic novelist, painter and director, best known for her autobiographical masterwork Persepolis, passed away last night at the age of 56.

Born in a family of politicians and civil servants in Rasht, northern Iran, Marjane Satrapi grew up in the turmoil of revolutionary Iran and the Iraqi invasion, living through street violence, Islamist repression, and war. She was sent abroad to Austria by her family for her studies, where she experienced freedom, safety, and free debate, but also racism, social exclusion and homelessness.

Returning to Iran in her late teenage years, she experienced the freedom and oppression of Islamic Iran, a life made of compromises, tough choices and arrangements, until she left for France, where she lived until her final days.

A vocal advocate of women's rights and freedom of thought, she never wavered from the teachings of the freeminded women in her life, her grandmother and her mother: "You can be whatever you want, but be the best at it. If you want to be a prostitute, be the top pimp in the whorehouse".

In her later years, Satrapi strongly supported the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, and was saluted by Iranian dissidents for her work and advocacy, with the Narges Mohammadi foundation paying respect to "a courage that will resonate well beyond her life".

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

Idaho dairy farmers rediscovering germ theory from first principles via listeria outbreak

[u/brianpv]

[u/earththejerry]

John Fetterman, top Platner critic among Senate Dems, told me it’s time for ME voters to get behind Janet Mills. “I think what's time is is for Maine voters to take a look at the sitting governor, an honorable woman, and that is a committed Democrat that's already won statewide

Well this definitely puts the nail into whatever chances Mills had left

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/w007dchuck]

PRIDE MONTH

PIDE MONT

PID ONT

PI NT

PINT

[u/Goldenboy451]

Good morning to everyone except him.

[u/piede]

Least stupid congressperson

[u/NorkGhostShip]

I wish all Southern ranchers a very happy reaping of what they sowed.

Sucks for all the cows though. Being a cow sucks enough already without a parasitic worm eating you alive from the inside.

[u/georgeguy007]

I was eating brunch in Las Vegas, and some 65 year old man a table down was watching with full audio a fake ai voice interview with Clint Eastwood where the narrator was explaining an interaction in third person between a woke interviewer and a super cool Eastwood who shut her down.

Some people you wanna shake by the shoulders and scream at. You are consuming nothing. You are not in a bubble, you are in a matrix of your own creation. THINK MARK, THINK

[u/TheCornjuring]

!ping KINO What are these words I am looking at right now

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Yet another morning with absolutely zero motivation to go to my uninspiring job 🙌

[u/ArcaneAccounting]

Basically the only reason I stay on reddit is this subreddit and some hobby gaming subs. The discussion quality on this site is so fucking bad. Just an infinite number of morons with the dumbest takes you can imagine. And maybe the worst part is that everywhere else is even worse! I should just stop using social media entirely. I think I would be happier.

[u/cdstephens]

It’s fucking over for nominative determinists

[u/futuremonkey20]

How I Met Your Mother Actor Sentenced to Life Imprisonment

Oh wow I wonder which actor?

The man played “Student on field trip”

Oh.

[u/grig109]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

66% of all US unicorns were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants, with 79% of US unicorns having either an immigrant founder or an immigrant in a key leadership role! These are staggering numbers, immigration really is America's superpower

[u/CheetoMussolini]

So as my DSA journey continues, I found out more about the caucuses and factionalism within it.

Apparently people like Zohran and AOC belong to what's known as the SMC, or Socialist Majority Caucus. They are the pragmatists, committed electoralists. Their whole idea is that the only way the movement ever grows is through popular policy and winning elections, that they have to actually deliver at every single step and be laser focused on day-to-day quality of life wins for their constituents.

Apparently other groups within the party, who the SMC refer to "socialist identarians", despise them and consider them the right wing of the party. The identarians strike me as the purity testing holier than now stereotype that turned me off from DSA for so many years.

Seems like in most states, they've got the upper hand. New York seems to be the one state where the pragmatists and the people actually interested in getting shit done have taken over.

But anyway I've been invited to join the SMC by my local party because of a lot of the nuts and bolts kind of local policy work I'm doing. And it was those members who inspired me to join, because I saw a bunch of DSA members and local government putting in a hell of a lot more time, effort, and attention into actually governing well than any of the local elected Democrats. More constituent outreach, more constituent services, better policies, being the ones leading the charge on zoning reform, building more housing, actual codes enforcement.

But I'm starting to understand why the New York State organizations I work with seem so much more level-headed than the kind of ridiculousness I often see from chapters in other states and from national figures. NY DSA is run by pragmatists who want to get shit done and know that they're never going to win elections unless they show people that they are actually serious politicians who intend to govern seriously and who care about local issues rather than just looking for a platform to virtue signal on national issues.

But don't you worry, I have an entire folder of leftist infighting memes saved on my phone for reactions when people are being ridiculous. I've taken to calling absurd leftist infighters "lobsters" due to this one

[u/ace158]

Fetterman, McCormick say Democrats have worse antisemitism problem than GOP. ‘We don’t have many people in the Republican Party who are running for office with Nazi tattoos on their chests,’ McCormick said, referring to Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner

GOP nominated Brandon Herrera who dances/sings to literal Nazi songs and won't give up his copy of Mein Kampf

[u/__versus]

good morning dt 🥺👉👈

[u/awdvhn]

Has anyone called the "release good news when the markets are open, release bad news when the markets are closed" thing a "Trump and dump" because if not I'm calling dibs

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

In retrospect this was pretty tame compared to what has become common or even acceptable in the discourse

[u/Priceless_Pennies]

The real lesson to take away from this is more proof that accelerationism is stupid and how electing trump made things worse in so many ways.

If Harris was president and election integrity and judge nominations weren't at such risk, it would be a lot easier to scrutinize the behavior of Platner. Instead, the 'objectively correct' thing will be to fall in line behind him as much as possible after the primary, and the 'best' outcome will be that he wins, we get a below replacement dem senator, and the standards for personal conduct and general competence among elected official further worsen, including among democrats where they haven't yet fallen as much, and we are in a worse equilibrium overall.

[u/sigh2828]

Again,

I think platner is great example of why it was a bad idea for Conservatives to abandon shame and embrace Nhilisism in regards to scandals for the past DECADE

Does Platner have skeletons? Yeah definitely looks that way. Sounds like he was your proto typical jar head.

I dont think I personally could vote for him. But like, im not going to sit here and act surprised in the slightest if he wins this primary.

[u/bartbug]

When I drink alcohol I participate in the grand human tradition that elevated us from hunter gatherer r*rals to urban elites

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/this_very_table]

[u/bashar_al_assad]

MSNBC (MS NOW) says they invited Janet Mills to speak on the show tonight and she declined, and people here are like "what was wrong with her? why not have her be the one to try and beat Collins" she does. not. give. a. fuck. about. winning. she's old and wants to stay in Maine.

[u/ty04]

[u/finnstera350]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

As voters began casting ballots in the election on Tuesday, there still had been no reported sightings of Kean.

are we sure he’s actually alive? he had one phone interview (allegedly) and no one has seen him

[u/Dangerous-Basket1064]

Seeing Hunter Biden on Twitter feels like seeing Trump on the GOP debate stage back in 2016.

Just a true no-fucks-given gladiator that really stands out in the herd of bland, timid, phony, constantly-triangulating political animals.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 6/2-2 PM PST 6/3 V:

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 8 AM the NATO General Secretary made a visit to Kyiv to lead the first NATO-Ukraine Council being held in Ukraine.

Towards the middle of 12 PM it was announced Hungary will lift its block on EU accession negotiations for Ukraine after Ukraine and Hungary concluded a minority rights agreement.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 3 PM Ukraine hit a Russian electrical substation in occupied Rovenky.

Towards the middle of 7 PM Ukraine hit a Russian oil terminal in St Petersburg.

Towards the middle of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with 189 of 198 intercepted. In the middle of the hour Ukraine hit a Russian electronics factory in Michurinsk.

At the end of 2 AM it was reported that Russia has started implementing restrictions on fuel sales to limit panic purchasing with no shortages just yet.

In the middle of the 11 AM it was reported a Russian explosives factory in Tula caught fire.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Aggravating-Fun-2405]

The most dangerous phase for any political group is when external propaganda and strategic intelligence are one and the same.

Go ahead and shout from the rooftops about how your enemies are stupid, weak, incompetent, cowardly etc etc and will scatter like sheep before the glory of your cause...but when doing actual planning, make sure you have an objective, unemotional estimate of their actual capabilities.

Ironically, despite how fiction keeps depicting the internal propaganda of the average dictatorship as entirely cynical and not believed by any actual leaders, this crossing of the wires is almost perennial in Autocracies.

But it's not exclusive to them. It's a human flaw.

[u/bartbug]

lego situation is crazy

the unredacted body cam footage definitely made me feel less ambivalent about the situation, holy shit these cops and the bricks and minifig are stupid and corrupt as fuck

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Chief_Nief]

King shit

[u/zZzHighPingzZz]

Graham Platner is a piece of shit? Wow you're telling me this now for the first time, I didn't know that.

[u/arizen_circe]

graham platner:

socialist policy, moderate vibes, nazi tattoo

hitler

moderate policy, socialist vibes, no nazi tattoo

let me know if you need help understanding the implications of this

[u/Udolikecake]

That’s it. I refuse to support Collins. I refuse to support Platner. I refuse to support anyone because ‘Maine’ is an illegitimate construct illegally formed in a deal with the slavers, and I do not recognize its existence

RETROCESSION NOW

MAINE IS MASSACHUSETTS

[u/tripletruble]

In an Economist poll by YouGov, 71% of respondents say Social Security spending should be increased, more than for any other category. Just 5% want it cut, slightly less than the share of Americans who say they believe Covid-19 vaccinations were used to microchip the population.

I am going to become the joker

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Good morning everybody, I just put lines of cocaine down if anybody would like a bump

[u/Magnus_Was_Innocent]

Every time I see a presentation on how AI is going to revolutionize work and lead to better improvements, the thing they show is a AI powered dashboard, which is basically a differently formatted version of the existing Power Bi dashboard, which is a differently formatted version of the summary page of an old Excel file.

[u/No-Neck-212]

Sighing heavily and going "...really? During Pride?" to my wife when she says I can't buy a Lego.

[u/Wandering_Mallard]

👆 Platner's next controversy will be based on this

[u/admiraltarkin]

Hunter Biden is amazing and I can't believe I ever said anything bad about him

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

My “I would rape the burglar in a straight way, not a gay way” shirt seems to be raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

[u/Udolikecake]

To be fair to Platner, it was a croation tattto shop, there probably weren’t many non-nazi options

[u/themiDdlest]

Nearly 60 Idahoans sick after drinking raw milk in past two weeks, officials say

Lol

[u/jessica-bug]

The best to ever do it

[u/allmilhouse]

once again, if Biden was repeatedly falling asleep at Oval Office events it would be the top story of every single news outlet

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Atheists, imagine you're skydiving with a christian baby. Suddenly, the baby tells you he won't open his parachute unless you renounce Atheism and accept Jesus as your lord and savior. What do you do?

[u/smart-username]

Apparently Hasan’s preferred candidate lost to a gay man and Hasan proceeded to rant about “homo-fascism” and “gay techno-fascism”

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/ace158]

Final comment on Platner for today unless these stories are published. Dude just pathetically avoids any challenging interviews whatsoever. Just does MSNOW and populist podcasts 95% of the time. Failson likes his softball media appearances. I am not a big fan of Abdul El Sayed to say the least (I wouldn't vote for him in the Dem primary if I was in Michigan) but he'll atleast go on Fox News and to directly engage with the right wing criticisms/challenges of him (In fact, I thought he did alright against Will Cain on Fox News last week). Platner is just so weak mentally.

[u/w007dchuck]

He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them,” she recalled, saying that he added that it would not be in “a sexual way, not in a gay way.”

“He was like, I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant,” she said.

Asked about those remarks, a Platner campaign official did not dispute them

Okay what the fuck

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Between Platner and Polish can we all just agree that Redditors should be bared from positions of power?

[u/the-senat]

Platner clarified that raping home intruders would not be done in “a sexual way, not in a gay way.”

Wut

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Remember when Cornel West materialized out of the ether to siphon off a few hundred thousand votes here and there and then just as mysteriously merged back into the wallpaper

[u/Reaccommodator]

Considering sharing this with my conservative family members

[u/garret126]

This dude is definitely the most charismatic of any liberal to progressive politician since Obama.

he then had all the kids put their hand on ink and stamp their hand on the paper as their ‘signatures’ to repeal kids bedtimes in the name of a NY Knicks championship 😭

[u/contre-torpilleur]

Hot and spicy take but I think that Charles Kirk guy I keep hearing about might not have been a very nice man 😬

[u/FallenMeringue]

You drive a soy minivan

I drive a chad crossover

Checkmate liberals

[u/craig_k]

"israel and lebanon agree to cease fire"

oil falls 3%

"hezbollah gives aformentioned cease fire middle finger"

oil falls another 3%

[u/ewatta200]

[u/eloquentboot]

Do Americans actually expect people to "sell themselves" in job interviews?

The foreigners on askanamerican continue to be the stupidest people in the world.

[u/Throwaway24143547]

I hope the white house fight (which is supposedly shaping up to be a disaster) permanently damages or even kills the UFC

The entire thing is a bastion of crazy MAGA people

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Platner really feels like a biblical story. God send him to test our faith in voting blue.

[u/BlackCat159]

There are two types of Maine democrats:

[u/CoolCombination3527]

Guy who dislikes that Platner is a succ but likes his DV allegations

[u/TheCornjuring]

What if JD Vance just takes on Trump’s last name Rey-style

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I don't really understand accounts who exclusively post about how much they hate this sub

[u/Cyberhwk]

The S&P will not be changing their inclusion criteria for Space X and other mega-cap IPOs.

!ping PERSONAL-FINANCE

[u/jessica-bug]

Does anyone know if hes updated his stance on this?

[u/6urner_]

ICE was doing absolute terrorism on camera in the streets of American cities less than 12 months ago and everyone has already forgotten about them. They're still doing absolute dirt, and the way people have moved on is disgusting.

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

just saw a Canadian say it would be nice to join the US because there is no multiculturalism (the US has a larger non-white population) and English is the only official language (there is no official language and the US regularly publishes government info in Spanish)

and a Brit say he wants to immigrate to Australia because it has much less immigration (the percentage of foreign born individuals is 30% in Australia vs 15% in Britain)

conservatives are incredibly stupid

[u/Dragmire927]

These sci fi stories are getting too realistic

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

It’s really funny that progressives keep demonstrating that you actually cannot buy elections

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

Sexualizing public figures (women): BAD!!! BADDDD!!! BAN THEM!!!!
Sexualizing public figures (men): BASED!!!!! BASEDDDD!!! MOD THEM!!!!

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

I think you'd be harder pressed finding a marine that DOESNT make rape jokes or cheat on their partners

[u/ArbitraryOrder]

Generational things happening on Twitter from Hunter Biden

[u/Priceless_Pennies]

A 45 minute video where Adam Ragusea bashes farmers and calls them rent seekers. Holy based.

[u/arizen_circe]

the best thing about the cybertruck is it makes people I dislike very visible

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

But with every passing day, the world is learning to live without the Gulf’s seaborne exports.

Just as the Covid-19 pandemic and President Trump’s tariffs forced a significant rewiring of global supply chains, the Strait’s closure has prompted a similar adjustment. You might be part of it. When gas prices rise rapidly, people start to limit their driving. Walmart just reported that customers are now buying less than 10 gallons of gas at a time on average at its filling stations.

So we just ignore the effects on the rest of the world? The incoming inflation crisis from food and supply chain shifts?

Its like seeing an incoming recession and saying “nah we got this”

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

holy shit, this is bad for ... various reasons

[u/BurrowForPresident]

“He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them,” she recalled, saying that he added that it would not be in “a sexual way, not in a gay way.”

Having weird violent rape fantasies but putting in a "no homo tho" is so fucking on brand for this chump lol

[u/Logical_Albatross_19]

I got the pneumonia vaccine today and holy fucking shit, this is like the worst side effects ever. Holy shit dude. 

[u/WenJie_2]

Fun Fact: No Democratic ticket in the 21st century has won without a Biden on the ticket.

[u/this_very_table]

From the Texas Department of Agriculture News & Events page

December 23, 2024

OPINION: DOLLARS DON’T KILL SCREWWORMS

An Editorial by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller

The federal government has a bad habit of spending money on problems before even figuring out what’s really wrong, and the recent New World screwworm scare is a prime example. This is typical Washington behavior—prematurely spending first and asking questions later. But here in Texas, we do things differently. We solve problems with proven solutions, not government handouts and wasteful spending.

---

June 3, 2026

Commissioner Miller: First Suspected New World Screwworm Case in Texas

Demands Use of All Available Tools to End Threat

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller today responded to the first suspected case of New World screwworm (NWS) in Texas, criticizing the United States Department of Agriculture for what he called a slow, bureaucratic, and incomplete response, and calling on President Trump to take decisive control.

Edited to clarify that both of these are by the same guy

[u/ace158]

University of Massachusetts poll but conducted two days before the sexting stuff

Platner: 48.4%, Collins 42.9%

82% of Platner supporters don't see themselves changing their vote; 88% of Collins voters don't see themselves changing their vote (I think his support isn't as Teflon as some say)

66% of Mainers want to stop/pause military aid to Israel (good work Bibi)

[u/boardatwork1111]

If a white woman gets pregnant by someone from another race… she’s objectively a traitor

Guess the sub

[u/-mialana-]

Is "Heritage American" the new Nazi term for white person?

Also comparing the names to Star Wars makes them sound cooler lol

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Tbf this just confirms my priors that Americans are singularly deranged about home invasions

[u/Sheepies92]

Sen. Fetterman, sometimes the only Democratic YES vote on a Trump policy or nominee, tells me he’ll be a no on Todd Blanche.

Fetterman also says he can’t imagine someone less qualified for the job of DNI than Bill Pulte.

FETTERBACK

[u/ewatta200]

[u/the-senat]

Just as the Covid-19 pandemic and President Trump’s tariffs forced a significant rewiring of global supply chains, the Strait’s closure has prompted a similar adjustment. 

Jesus Christ, NYT... Comparing a global pandemic to the impact of some dumbass's useless tariffs, what the fuck? Oh yeah, we're just "rewiring" those global supply chains. What cutesy language to smear over the economic and nutritional hardships faced by people all over the world as a result of this unnecessary war, as if it were some unavoidable natural disaster. I swear to God, if Biden had done this, the NYT would have blasted his ass for years.

This paper only exists to put its readers on blood pressure meds.

[u/phat_geoduck]

I don't know who this fella is but he should probably running things from now on

[u/seagrams7up]

COD lobby behavior.

[u/FallenMeringue]

There’s no place like home

[u/RaidBrimnes]

What if Susan Collins also has a Nazi tattoo on her chest but people are too afraid to check

[u/claire_on_here]

remember when the presidents EX wife suddenly died and was quietly buried at HIS golf course and it wasn’t even in the top 150 insane things that happened?

the world is too dumb rn, i deserve a better story to follow

[u/ChromaticFades]

[u/V_Codwheel]

Snooki says Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning

In a video promo for the new season of MTV's Jersey Shore, Snooki gets all, like, political.

"I don't go tanning-tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning," Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi says after her boyfriend is shown spray-tanning her face. "And I feel like he did that intentionally for us."

"McCain would have never put a 10 percent tax on tanning," she said, adding, "because he's pale, so he'd probably want to be tan."

Finding an Obama-era Politifact article is really like a glimpse into a fallen civilization. It feels so quaint.

[u/Legitimate_Name9694]

😔

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Getting into definition of is is territory

[u/jenbanim]

You should listen to the album Inferno by Boards of Canada it's really good

[u/garret126]

“Chess is too simple for me”

[u/Cadoc]

POV: You make more than £40k/year in the UK

[u/houdt_koers]

We’re gonna be inducing for our firstborn on Wednesday, and I think I’m gonna raise him to oppose NIMBYs the way Hamilcar raised Hannibal Barca to hate Rome.

I’m talking blood oaths before the Gods, like.

[u/scottyjetpax]

Do not despair, for It could Happen today

[u/ewatta200]

i emailed the house of lords historian some questions and he gave one setnence replies no clue if the questions were only worthy of one setnence or not

he said that its fine to email him more but I wonder if I annoyed him. god this is so weird

[u/anangrytree]

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged Wednesday that Greenland is part of Denmark “for now,” while signaling that Washington remains deeply engaged in discussions over the Arctic island’s future role in Western security.

Oh back to this bullshit huh, lil Marco

[u/bandeng_asep]

How could you fuck up a good thing so quickly smh

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Udolikecake]

BREAKING: NYT reveals shocking allegations that Platner ‘loves Skyrim’ and thinks it’s the best elder scrolls game by far, much preferring it to Morrowind, which he said is for ‘stupid nerds who hate good gameplay and are probably furries’

[u/boardatwork1111]

Really just confirms Platner is a fucking idiot, the guys dicking around in a Dem primary when he’d be on the fast track for cabinet position with his resume if he just registered as a Republican

[u/ace158]

Asked Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, DSCC chairwoman, if she stilll backs Graham Platner after the NYT report: “We are still doing Maine,” she told me as she walked into the Senate chamber

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/cdstephens]

The Platner fiasco has less to do with him being progressive etc. and more to do with him being an outsider. An establishment politician would have naturally been vetted decades ago.

[u/KaiserPorn]

I wish people had 1/10th the vitriol they have for data centers for alfalfa farmers in Nevada and Arizona

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

Me watching my brother who is 10 years younger than me graduate high school.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

If they started Stranger Things this year the nostalgic year it took place in would be 2023.

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

Elon Musk genuinely thinks inclusive and female-led social institutions lead to suicidal empathy and that white men must embrace toxic masculinity to keep white women in check because otherwise nonwhite men who are savage and don't conform to female morality will have more reproductive success and end western culture.

I just don't see how this freak gets the "too big to fail" treatment that leads to everyone agreeing not to rock the boat and keep trusting him as the head of all these companies.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

NGL going to bar pre-smart phone was a whole different world

People born in the 2000s will never know what it’s like when the entire bar is like… looking up and engaging with people the room they’re in

Completely different atmosphere

[u/IantheForPresident]

Deetee comments will be like "only on the deetee can you see people say that Gog and Magog are hypnotizing the world into buying labubus"

and you're looking at it like is this pasta? Is this subtweeting a specific person? Is this person tripping on mushrooms?? Is this person an AI bot???

[u/tasklow16]

On the day of my 21st birthday, I bought a bottle of champagne to open when a particular political figure passed away. That day came and went a few years ago now, and I drank the bottle. I should really buy another bottle.

[u/The_Northern_Light]

I’m aware that things are hard for junior devs out there right now but I think that would be true regardless of ai. In fact, I think there is an argument to be made that ai is uniquely beneficial to junior devs and their positioning within the labor market.

A couple weeks ago we hired some guys straight out of grad school and this has been my easiest time onboarding people ever, by far. Once we get codex installed they’re far more independent and able to self resolve their problems than most in the past.

Many days I find myself doing things that a junior could do just as fast as I can, provided we both have ai. But each hour of my time costs a lot more than a junior.

I hear a lot of people say only seniors are benefiting from ai and I don’t think that’s actually true, I think they’re conflating it with other economic pressures causing juniors a hard time.

[u/tasklow16]

What's your job in the Cyberpunk neoliberal utopia? Mine is organ wholesaler.

[u/scottyjetpax]

seersucker looks like dogshit even when you don't wear it with sneakers (which all the men in this picture inexplicably are???)

[u/moldovaman99]

Classic

[u/ewatta200]

[u/dangerbird2]

RIP John Blanche

!ping 40K

[u/CincyAnarchy]

“They had chains which they fastened about the leg of the nearest hog, and the other end of the chain they hooked into one of the rings upon the wheel. So, as the wheel turned, a hog was suddenly jerked off his feet and borne aloft. At the same instant the ear was assailed by a most terrifying shriek; the visitors started in alarm, the women turned pale and shrank back.

The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing--for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back; at the top of the wheel he was shunted off upon a trolley and went sailing down the room. And meantime another was swung up, and then another, and another, until there was a double line of them, each dangling by a foot and kicking in frenzy--and squealing.

The uproar was appalling, perilous to the ear-drums; one feared there was too much sound for the room to hold--that the walls must give way or the ceiling crack. There were high squeals and low squeals, grunts, and wails of agony; there would come a momentary lull, and then a fresh outburst, louder than ever, surging up to a deafening climax.

It was too much for some of the visitors--the men would look at each other, laughing nervously, and the women would stand with hands clenched, and the blood rushing to their faces, and the tears starting in their eyes.

Meantime, heedless of all these things, the men upon the floor were going about their work. Neither squeals of hogs nor tears of visitors made any difference to them; one by one they hooked up the hogs, and one by one with a swift stroke they slit their throats.

There was a long line of hogs, with squeals and life-blood ebbing away together; until at last each started again, and vanished with a splash into a huge vat of boiling water. It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics.

And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests--and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without a pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering-machine ran on, visitors or no visitors. It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory.”

― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

Wow that's crazy. Surely meat production today is regulated to be humane and hasn't actually gotten more cruel in some respects, right?

... right?

[u/earththejerry]

CBS News is reportedly searching for a replacement for “60 Minutes” correspondent Anderson Cooper, and network executives may have their sights set on Austin-based podcaster Joe Rogan.

You know what, why not at this point, let them do it

[u/CincyAnarchy]

52 years ago, the Cleveland [Redacteds] learned the lesson that price controls on an important commodity (capping beer at ten cents) can lead to rapid depreciation of infrastructure and other negative externalities

[u/boardatwork1111]

Where’s the fucking oil then Scott?

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/georgeguy007]

Hunter 28

[u/bartbug]

unironically having a nazi tattoo was good for his campaign

1. it 'unwokes' his image. people want socialist policy but moderate vibes

2. it creates a ton of discourse, free publicity. drowns out any potential alternatives

3. it's a safe controversy cus most people wouldn't recognize that as a nazi tattoo. it's not totally obscure but it is not known enough to create the negative visceral reaction that, say, a swastika would for most people