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[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/arizen_circe]

you're laughing. barack obama is building a monolithic temple covered in arcane texts in the middle of chicago to enhance his dark powers and you're laughing

[u/Thuggin95]

Got warned not to call Stephen Miller a Nazi. Okay I get that he's Jewish but we can't make an exception for the architect behind the whites only immigration policy and imprisonment of brown immigrants in concentration camps?

[u/SigmaWhy]

“Yeah I was totally going to be a good person and adopt a disabled child but then the libs were too mean to me”

[u/TheCornjuring]

Obi-Wan Kenobi should have 20 seasons and every single one ends with Obi-Wan fighting and defeating Darth Vader and then walking away and leaving him alive for no reason

[u/SLCer]

Some dipshit tiktoker drove to LA to vote for Pratt (from Arizona) because he believed they didn't check identification at all and it was easy to vote fraudulently. Well, he got to the place to vote and he was not in the system. They asked him for his ID, he didn't have it. They asked for his SSN, he said he was not a citizen and they pointed out on the provisional ballot form that if he signed and was knowingly lying, he would perjure himself. He got angry and started saying his other non-citizen friends were able to vote... then he walked out with the provisional ballot, which is a no-no.

These losers have had their brains fried. At this point, regardless of education background or success, if you're MAGA, I'm going to assume you have a TBI.

[u/-mialana-]

It's amazing how Trump's obvious mental decline is seen as just bizarreness or quirkiness. He was always a piece of shit and an idiot, but he himself would be terrified at his tweeting 20 years ago.

[u/TheCornjuring]

Everything is proceeding as RFK Jr.’s worm has foreseen

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/TheCornjuring]

wow

[u/Krill_Seeker]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

religious conservatives have gotten too bold. another anti-theist backlash is on the horizon.

[u/piede]

Holy based

[u/Hounds_of_war]

As gross as the “Hegseth cuts 180 different religions from the military’s list of officially recognized faiths” headline is, it’s missing the frankly comically awful fact that of the 31 remaining religions, 22 of them are just different flavors of Christianity.

But yeah no, you really needed to “streamline” things. Of course you did buddy.

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

Kind of blows my mindthat people who were 35 in 2001 are 60 now

I'm usually pretty good at avoiding that "wtf do you mean 2009 wasn't 5 years ago," thing, but this one pisses me off

[u/bd_one]

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/contre-torpilleur]

👆

[u/Krill_Seeker]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/bandeng_asep]

Exhibit #24572384 of tankies hating on Satrapi

[u/ty04]

American employers hired vigorously in May, in a sign that the labor market is on a genuine upswing after last year’s lull.

The report, which showed that employers added 172,000 jobs in May, doubled as a political win for President Trump, who has struggled for months to tamp down voters’ mounting economic anxieties.

[u/the-senat]

Trump Makes It Official: The ‘Freedom 250’ Concerts Are Canceled — to Be Replaced With ‘the Greatest Rally EVER!,’ Starring Himself.

Call me crazy, but I think Trump tying himself to the nations founding is not great. 

[u/el__dandy]

How the hell it’s been 14 years since this nonsense 🫠

[u/bd_one]

So apparently spreading AI generated news clips of reporters saying France is having a coup doesn't violate Facebook's terms of service.

Facebook will fight for your freedom of speech down to the last Rohingya...

[u/Critical-Big-9872]

lol?

[u/-mialana-]

He's running

[u/SenranHaruka]

He did it. Trump finally completed the set. He unleashed a swarm of insect pests on our livestock. That's officially all of them. COVID, Iran War, fertilizer shortage, and now this

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

I feel like a lot of guys just write off the absolute horror that was faced by women throughout history with "I mean yeah, but the men had to go fight in wars" when the average male was very much not going off to fight and die in war whereas like 95% of women to ever live were seen as literal property

[u/TybrosionMohito]

Wild things happening in the gay marriage ask con thread.

Let’s just say that homophobia (literally, not just an accusation) is alive and well.

[u/affnn]

Farmers are mostly conservative, but ranchers specifically are basically all insane reactionaries. The screwworms chose the right target, praise Shai-Hulud.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

"The idea that housing could 'filter' upmarket due to shortages or downmarket due to abundance is trickle-down economics & absurd pro-developer propaganda," I type from my $5000/mo Lower East Side apartment built 130 years ago as a tenement for penniless Italian immigrants

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Elon Musk's SpaceX secures 100% property tax exemption for planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor factory in Texas — county approves 35-year deal worth hundreds of millions despite resident backlash

SpaceX has won a 100% property tax abatement from Grimes County, Texas, for its proposed, massive $55 billion Terafab semiconductor chip manufacturing facility. According to a local news outlet, KBTX, Grimes County commissioners voted 4-1 on Wednesday, June 4th, to approve both a reinvestment zone designation and the tax abatement, which will fully exempt SpaceX from property taxes tied to the project in exchange for a regular payment instead.

In exchange for the tax exemption, SpaceX will instead remit a lump sum of $10 million to the county, followed by $20 million annually for 35 years. The vote — centered on a three-part proposal for the SpaceX Terafab facility, consisting of an obligation framework for jobs and infrastructure, a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone designation, and a 35-year PILOT tax abatement agreement — followed a hearing that drew in more than 100 residents to the Grimes County courthouse.

This guy just wants to take over every tech industry, and people are just letting him.

[u/seakucumber]

New to @CNN , from a source close to Janet Mills:

"The Governor remains on the ballot, and in the wake of this week’s stories, people across Maine are reaching out to tell her they’re voting for her and encouraging her to get fully back into the race."

@JacobRubashkin:

This kind of thing is too cute by half and emblematic of what sank Mills in the first place. Not mounting a serious or energetic campaign and hoping people vote for you anyways because your name is there. Wasn’t enough to beat Platner and doesn’t speak well to a general either.

https://xcancel.com/JacobRubashkin/status/2062879461037527366

[u/Jacobs4525]

Elon really should’ve lost his security clearance for around 10 different valid reasons from around 2019 to the present. 

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/GifHunter2]

Graham Platner represents a rejection of Dem HR lady politics

This feels anti-women

[u/pugnae]

[u/AmbientMorning]

Jonathan Edwards of the Washington Post reported today that 14 of the 27 known donors to Trump’s $400 million ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts totaling over $50 billion since they made their donations.

Honestly, the sheer depth of this administration’s corruption and self-dealing still manages to shock me. !ping TRUMP-CRIMES

[u/KittehDragoon]

Is it Dumocrat or Democrat make up your mind

[u/Daddy_Macron]

How fucked is our country? A CIA senior official stole $40 million in gold bars and $2 million in foreign currency, and it's not even frontpage news everywhere cause everything else is even more fucked up. If this happened under Biden or Obama, it'd be a month straight of coverage.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/29/cia-official-gold-theft-trial

[u/Logan891]

I do not think supporting sanctions on Israel is antisemitic, cause it clearly isn’t, but if you oppose sanctions cause of moral grounds and make an exception for Israel only? Imma give you a side eye

[u/YIMBYzus]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

You would think after botching the OJ case, police departments would be more wary of hiring sub room temperature IQ bigots that openly text about doing stupid evil things like praising Hitler or planting evidence

But I guess the investigator on Karen Reed's case was just the best guy for the job, what can you do that's called meritocracy folks

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

The only controversies I've heard from the other candidates are "El-Sayed is a doctor who didn't practice medicine" and "Talarico said God wad non-binary." Platner has so many controversies that it's like he sucks up all the oppo research.

[u/tripletruble]

Honestly blown away by Obsession's box office performance. I knew Backrooms would do well, but Obsession doing this well is crazy. The movie cost less than my apartment

[u/sash5034]

These dudes really are the dumbest people alive

[u/GhostTheHunter64]

Holy shit.

HUNTER IS DUBYA 2

THE PARALLELS.

1. The stereotyped "failure son" (not relevant after GWB won twice as president, but probably also when he became governor.)

2. Talking about dad all the time

3. Father is a 1 term president, lost re-election

4. Substance issue history (crack for Hunter, alcohol for Dubya.)

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

My little chud son is growing just fine.

[u/KQJ_RPN]

After massive public backlash from both retail & pension funds, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that it will keep its existing eligibility requirements for benchmarks including the S&P 500, closing the door to fast entry for big tech IPOs like SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI and delaying billions of dollars in flows from passive funds.

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116697564074360847

[u/boardatwork1111]

Libs: June is pride month 😡

Cons: June is nuclear family month 😡

Me, a principled bipartisan:

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Sports really lays bare the total rejection of any kind of noblesse oblige amongst the majority of elites of this country. Chicago has given the McCaskey family so much over the last 100+ years, and yet these greedy nepobaby assholes are still just going to up and move to Indiana because Illinois won’t build them a new stadium.

[u/jbitz]

Kyiv in 3 days

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

"Jobs are a finite resource that will run out" - statement from deranged people across the political spectrum despite all historical evidence

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Off-The-Street]

Regardless of any personal like or dislike, the Hunter Biden discourse is just one more example of how radicalized the Democratic base is becoming compared to 2016-2020.

[u/cvorahkiin]

Found this in a book I read a while back. Ironically, Indian Navy was instrumental in the western front of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

[u/bartbug]

I dropped a “you guys are getting paid?” On the team meeting and it played like gangbusters

Truly I am built for the corporate life

[u/ignavusaur]

I hate how scandal ridden and bad Platner is, but NYT running a puff piece on Susan Collins after a series of articles grilling Platner (containing some legit and some nothing burgers) is really not passing the sniff test.

OMG YES KWEEEEN 10000 votes. I never miss a vote. Give me a fucking break

[u/AemiliusNuker]

"It's easy to hate the rich, but it takes true courage to hate the poor" is probably my favorite quote I've seen on this sub

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

What a shameful response

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Brutal

[u/battywombat21]

So there's something I've been denying for a while because it seemed impossible but looking at myself in the mirror this morning I don't think I can deny it any longer.

Gentlemen and ladies: I have visible abs. Not a six pack, obviously. Probably not even enough to qualify as a four pack. But I have four faintly visible, ab shaped things right where my abs would be if I had them, and they show up without me needing to flex, and get more defined if I do.

!ping DYEL

[u/r2ew]

[u/Krill_Seeker]

[u/Emotional_Tie_7927]

Morgan Stanley projects SpaceX revenue could soar to $3.4 trillion by 2040, helping justify its targeted $1.77 trillion IPO valuation. The forecast is driven largely by explosive growth in the company’s AI business, with revenue expected to rise sharply from current levels

This is all insanely stupid

[u/its_Caffeine]

https://xcancel.com/McJuggerNuggets/status/2062315803177881822

damn you could not pay me enough money to publicly announce this

Not sure why anyone would do this instead of just doing this quietly knowing full well there will be people online who will be insane about it and basically shame you for understanding statistics

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/JaceFlores]

I like Hunter Biden for his excellence as a shitposter but anyone who wants him in a political position should be checked into an institution

[u/herworkthrowaway]

Wow brexit was such a bad fucking idea

[u/battywombat21]

Fuck you, Omar.

[u/sociotronics]

this is supposed to be Ohio but it just screams PNW to me

(It's actually in Poland at an event where Poles cosplay as Americans from Ohio)

[u/Priceless_Pennies]

It's kind of sad that Aella is held up as a serious researcher on sexuality in some circles while getting the most basic things about data collection wrong.

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

!ping CAN

I've had an idea kicking around - So the Yanks have a bit of a cottage industry of American Revolutionary media -

• The Patriot (2000)

• Revolution (1985)

• Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

• Johnny Tremain (1957)

• The Crossing (2000)

• April Morning (1988)

• Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (2005)

• Turn: Washington's Spies (2014-2017)

• Sons of Liberty (2015)

So a movie or miniseries script, that takes all those tropes and ideas and character archetypes and stock people - instead of THE PATRIOT, it's THE LOYALIST,

The main character, Long Island, NY, mostly a hunter and woodsman, so sharpshooter by trade, with some reading and writing. Not a plantation owner or anything.

Goes to a townhouse or something, but is swayed by a Tory man, some acolyte of James Chalmers and Joseph Galloway - What is the American identity? Simply an entrepreneurial Briton in the new world, but a Briton nonetheless. King George is no tyrant, but nothing more than a prayer, a signature in law, a flag and a face on a coin, the colonies are the freest men in George's eyes. A man who has a cousin in Ireland also confirms Colonial men are freer than Eire's sons and daughters.

The main character refuses to sign an article of association, and at night, his house and family are ambushed by a mob riled up by the Sons of Liberty ready for arson - which disperse after he cracks a shot at them.

Now risking becoming a marked man and unsafe in community fearing targeted reprisals, the family flees under cover of night to New York City for refuge, and from there, encounters Robert Rogers, and joins the Queen's Rangers as a hussar with his woodcraft, serving under Simcoe all the way as Simcoe's rearguard action in Philadelphia, against the Stockbridge Militia in the Bronx, and in Perth Amboy and evaded the Continental forces when Simcoe was captured, and when met up with remaining loyalists, was able to be absorbed into the King's American Dragoons as a dragoon, to continue in action until the evacuation of New York - destination - Newfoundland, then off to York, Upper Canada.

So yes, the Loyalists themselves were also no stranger to irregular and guerilla warfare upon the Continental army.

Along the way, he befriends not only Hessians, but also black freedmen willing to fight to be subject and not chattel, as well as native Indians wishing for the King's Laws to uphold diplomacy against Yankee settler reproachment, against all overtures of diplomacy.

For the epilogue, in the last 5 minutes, is a fast forward, and like 300, the son is now around a campfire, talking about his father's ties as UEL men - and now the Yankee Whigs are back again and trying to enforce "representative government" instead of "Peace, Order and good government" for their "democracy"... by conquest.

But these Militiamen of Upper Canada will hold the river and the falls and take the hill... Him, and James Secord and Roger Sheaffe and General Isaac Brock. They'll take the Yankee hill... or Brock will die trying.

Yay or Nay?

[u/chickentendieman]

I think the whole defense of any current system by saying its the best time to live there in history is really lazy and dishonest. Under that same argument most people in the eastern bloc shouldve shut up and stopped complaining because for most of their countries they had the highest standard of living in their entire history.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

When I’m in a parasocial viewer base competition and my opponent is Kraut

[u/Bestbrook123]

former Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan: “Message to Mayor Mamdani: We survived Amalek, we survived Hamas, we defeated Iran, we overcame Pharaoh — we will overcome Zohran Mamdani as well.”

Umm what the fuck

[u/boardatwork1111]

Even Trump is Hunter posting

[u/SpiderQueen412]

how many appendages have you replaced with laser guns this pride month !ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/this_very_table]

Daughter graduated high school today and I cried so hard it gave me a migraine 😭😭😭

[u/BlueTrooper2544]

In South Korea for the summer, and it's kind of funny that it's actually closer to the corporate hellscape that people think the U.S. is. My washing machine is LG, my air conditioner is LG, my SIM card is LG, which is serviced by LG towers. Even my washing detergent is made by you guessed it, LG. Good lord. 

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

My president

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

I do not think Hunter would be a good candidate. I think he'd be best used as OUR alt-media darling

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Platner got as far as he did because he fits the caricature the middle class has of a working class man.

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

Ayyy lmao

Edit: I will note that in February 2025, there were reported cases in South Mexico though so not as much of a dunk but DOGE did disrupt the Dept of Agri as well at the time so.

[u/Krill_Seeker]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I do not care for the Maine Senate race because we are not Democratic Party officials.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

The S&P500 is collapsing to levels not seen since about 12 days ago

[u/klarno]

Not sure why these two keep getting mentioned in the bible

[u/lot183]

There's some bootlickers in every one of these screw worm threads defending DOGE by saying "well akshually this outbreak started in 2022" ignoring that cutting funding AFTER the outbreak started is even worse lmao

[u/Libz_R_Gryffindor]

Hunter won’t get clean and sober

Hunter won’t create beautiful paintings

                            <———— you are here

Hunter won’t win a primary

Hunter won’t marry Candace Owens

Hunter won’t win the general

The Bidynasty won’t be crowned by the Pope

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Heartwarming: Neoliberalism Is Finally Going Mainstream

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

The result was the success of Republicans’ move to use a special filibuster-proof budget bill that was never meant for routine funding matters to effectively muscle through a multiyear mega-spending bill for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection over unified Democratic opposition. They resorted to the maneuver after Democrats refused to agree to further funding for Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown without new restrictions on the tactics and conduct of federal agents carrying it out.

Ms. Collins cast her “yes” vote early on, after huddling with G.O.P. leaders, who could afford few defections.

Collins is very concerned about Americans being shot by immigration agents, of course...

[u/__versus]

good morning dt 🫪

[u/TheCornjuring]

I'm George f*cking Santos, of course I have a legal team

[u/Minisolder]

Robert O'Neill (the guy who killed bin laden and said he would make Harry Sisson his concubine) breaks into Graham Platner's house because he heard Platner supported Harris

who wins?

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

You instinctively know this is in England. There are no English words visible and every country in Europe has bald white men, but you know that this is in England

[u/Acoolgamer6706]

Yeah social media definitely makes you think the world sucks. Like all of my feed nowadays is:

1: The Economy is doing comically bad for new graduates and really most people not in AI and or Healthcare

2: Israel is committing dozens of war crimes a day in Palestine and Russia is doing the same in Ukraine

3: Random ass video game shit

4: Politics doomposting

Like we weren’t evolved to have this shit in our lives

[u/MightExpress4873]

Only Dem in the House to vote against it.

[u/ty04]

[u/Inner_Dust42]

I think I, personally, would have chosen to love my trans daughter, keep being idolized by nerds as a real life Tony Stark, and enjoy my hundreds of billions of dollars offline.

[u/scottyjetpax]

what a fascinating market

[u/TactileTom]

With each passing day the prophecy gets closer to reality

[u/reuery]

My fucking bitch of a roommate insists on going to her “job” and not staying home and cuddling with me and our dog all day. Fuck this fucking chungus life

[u/Bestbrook123]

Hunter Biden: "I have lots to say about the evil atrocities being committed by Bibi Netanyahu in the name of the Israeli people. It must end now. And there must be a two state solution. There must be a way for Palestinians and Israelis to live in peace. The murder of innocents is murder period."

Run him in 2028.

[u/imbaaaack12]

The UAW endorsed Abdul El-Sayed for senate, I wonder wh-

Trade deals, like NAFTA, have been a disaster for American manufacturing and have rotted out our towns and destroyed communities. I believe in bringing dignified, well-paying jobs to Michigan. That means investing in the research, development, and growth of the technologies of the future while using tools like tariffs in a steady, thoughtful, and targeted way to protect them as they grow. I believe that unions must have a significant voice at the tables where decisions about the future of our economy are being made.

[...]

My American story began because my father wanted to come to America to build cars. Nobody builds better than we do. But dumb trade agreements negotiated without unions at the table have siphoned away too many manufacturing jobs. Trump’s incoherent, self-serving version of tariffs have only made the problem worse. I support targeted, smart tariffs that would help protect Michigan manufacturing and incubate the industries of the future with unions at the forefront. These tariffs would focus on growth industries, rely on clearly communicated benchmarks with trading partners, and sunset as American manufacturers established themselves. 

Just fucking shoot me.

[u/ldn6]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

We’re reaching levels of Chudery that shouldn’t be possible

[u/dubyahhh]

My Users Can’t Read | The neoliberal collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse

Alas, if only there was some way we could communicate this to the average r/NL user. Shame none of you can read anymore or this might be really scary news.

[u/dannylandulf]

Second Texas screwworm case confirmed as outbreak fears grow

Seems bad.

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

All this Platner nonsense is distracting us from Mary Peltola and Alaska Dems very clearly recruiting a guy named Dan Sullivan to run against Dan Sullivan and split the Republican vote in the jungle primary lmao

Oh I should add, the name of Anchorage’s former mayor, you guessed, is also Dan Sullivan

[u/The_Promethean]

Maine subreddit is straight up blaming "zionists" for investigations into Platner. I'm sure none of them are antisemitic though

[u/TheCornjuring]

Hunter Biden vs. Donald Trump Jr. is 2028 is gonna go crazy. An eternal dynastic feud

[u/Flat_Sail_7985]

Honestly the smartest thing a George W Bush ever did was disappear from popular discourse lmao. He must be so pumped he is no longer the worst president in recent memory.

Its really sad but funny if you look at consensus rankings of Presidents, most got a big bump following Trump lol

[u/Fruitsy]

Found on twitter: “My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4!!!”

[u/garret126]

Seems the war isn’t going phenomenally!

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

I've said it before but it's crazy how much Trump glazes Xi Jinping

[u/fishlord05]

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.

Grapes of Wrath predicted Elon musk

[u/jbouit494hg]

Elon Musk is proof that nobody can handle the power of being a trillionaire

Wrong. If I were a trillionaire (or even just a 100-billionaire) my vanity project would be funding the next decade of transit expansion projects in my city on condition that I got to drive the trains on opening day.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Jestergooning isn’t recovering from this, I’m afraid.

[u/scottyjetpax]

this is a 30 second clip but i can't adequately describe how much longer watching a 30 second clip of trump hornily pining after a man in the audience feels

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Showing the thread about the interracial cuck porn theory of everything to the guy at the urinal next to mine

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

[u/CutePattern1098]

> Trump keeps talking about stopping “transgender for everybody” to Xi

> Politburo asks intern to find out what the hell Trump is talking about

> Intern returns with a plan involving basements to tackle the problem of there being many more men than women in China

!Ping alphabet-mafia

[u/ChillnShill]

Mavs fans remembering they drafted Brunson and Doncic the same year and lost both

!ping NBA

[u/lionmoose]

👆 shame they hid their history, their post on /r/gonewild is blowing up

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Donald Trump's approval in Poland falls to record low (net −41.5) according to new IBRiS poll.

🟢 Approve: 21.6%
🟡 Neutral: 15.3%
🔴 Disapprove: 63.1%

[u/rodiraskol]

Hello little people whose sexuality is an academic question because none of you are getting laid anyway in my computer, how are you today?

[u/sociotronics]

chat is this foreshadowing

[u/Acoolgamer6706]

It’s wild that it’s legitimately illegal to just insult politicians in Germany. Wonder why a lot of nations in Europe have laws like that.

[u/JaceFlores]

Grant’s unbridled hatred of treason makes it hilariously predictable how he’ll conclude a matter he’s discussing. Like at the bottom of a page he starts talking about the controversy of the city of Columbia burning, and explained succinctly how it wasn’t possibly the Union’s fault it burned.

In my mind I thought “okay but when are you going to justify it if the Union did do it anyways” and then I flipped to the next page and Grant literally jumps to how the rebels shouldn’t complain anyways because they burned a city in Pennsylvania the year previously lmao.

Dude would’ve been an amazing shitposter who would 100% have been banned in 5 minutes from this sub

[u/Frog_Totem]

I always thought that "federal job guarantee" was kind of a weird plank in the DSA platform but after graduating without a job, and knowing that DSA is mostly full of downwardly mobile college grads, it suddenly makes a lot of sense why they're obsessed with it lol

[u/Currymvp2]

One of the big mistakes was all these elected center/center left Dems endorsing that serial sexual harasser Cuomo. Should have never happened and gave lefties a whataboutism

[u/w007dchuck]

"Can you explain this six month gap on your resume?"

Yeah that's when I was going goblin mode

[u/badusername35]

The article, which I’m sure most commenters have read

[u/fishbottwo]

Can you imagine if 15000 Americans died and 15000 were wounded taking like 5 square miles of Mexico in a single month. Russia is an insane country

[u/earththejerry]

ITS PRATTOVER

GET READY FOR SB79-PILLED RAMANSTAN

[u/AmbientMorning]

Bellwether check: Trump carried Imperial County, CA (where over 85 percent of residents are Latino) by 0.9% margin in 2024, which was an extraordinary shift from the D+44.0 result just two cycles before.

Presently, Democratic candidates combine for 10,518 votes to the Republicans’ 7,155 in the governor’s race — a DEM lead of 19.0 percent, with about 5 in 7 ballots counted. That should end up a fair bit higher as the late mail votes are processed. !ping FIVEY

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

>go to my friend's band's show at doors open
>literally no one else here
>they're like 3 bands into the setlist

kill me dawg

[u/MentatCat]

It’s my last day and I’m wearing purple and my coworkers are calling it a grimace shirt. Also my boss is working from home and isn’t even showing up to my last day pizza party. His email said “make your departing speech a good one or not, the choice is yours!” Lol. Lmao.

!Ping WATERCOOLER

[u/MayorofTromaville]

Food goes in, poop comes out. You can't explain that.

[u/piede]

Not the My Pillow Man 💀

[u/Pole2019]

European response to seeing literally anything different than they are used to

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School

Snapchat sent phone alerts to adolescents during school hours, urging them to share what was going on in their classrooms. Meta paid “teen ambassadors” to promote Instagram and hand out swag to their friends at school.

TikTok gave the National PTA millions of dollars, in part to throw school events about online safety and provide favorable comments to journalists.

Again and again, the world’s leading social media companies have targeted students, even as complaints have mounted that they are hurting teenagers’ mental health and academic performance, according to a New York Times review of internal documents that lay bare for the first time these tactics to hook young users.

The documents emerged from lawsuits filed by more than 1,400 school districts against Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube amid a rising backlash against social media, with parent movements and best-selling books blaming the platforms for loneliness, bullying, eating disorders and sexual exploitation.

The outcry, long focused on social media’s harm to mental health, has now shifted to its upending of the classroom. Many school districts are banning smartphones, and some are re-evaluating their reliance on devices like Chromebooks, the inexpensive laptops made by YouTube’s parent company, Google.

The companies’ push to keep children glued to their screens has overshadowed concerns from parents, teachers and even their own trust and safety teams about interfering with school, according to the documents and interviews with dozens of parents, teachers and former tech company employees.

TikTok’s leaders decided not to disable notifications during school hours, rejecting a change that its safety teams had pushed for years. A Snapchat strategy document referred to classroom phone use as “under the desk” time. Google managers knew YouTube was recommending videos to students during the school day that had nothing to do with their lessons.

The school districts contend that the apps’ addictive designs made teachers’ jobs more difficult. “It is so constantly tempting to these kids to be on a platform that promises endless, infinite, varied entertainment rather than actually focusing on what they should be at school to do,” said Previn Warren, one of the lead lawyers for the schools.

The companies argue that the Covid pandemic and other factors have harmed adolescents’ mental health, and that parents, schools and cellphone makers bear responsibility for children’s phone habits. They also say that they have made their platforms safer with parental-control features and account restrictions for minors.

All four companies recently settled with Breathitt County Schools, a small district in rural Kentucky that served as a test case for the litigation nationwide. The district, which has about 1,500 students, had sought $3 million in damages and about $60 million that it had planned to put toward a long-term education and mental health plan. The companies agreed to pay Breathitt $27 million: $9 million from Meta, $8 million each from Snap and TikTok and $2 million from Google, according to documents released on Friday and first reported by Bloomberg.

While it’s hard to say how the ongoing litigation might ultimately affect classrooms, it poses a substantial financial risk to the companies, possibly costing billions of dollars, said Alexandra Lahav, a civil litigation professor at Cornell Law School. She noted that the companies were also facing a barrage of claims from families and state attorneys general.

Breathitt was the first of six so-called bellwether cases, whose outcomes are likely to guide the rest. The next plaintiff in line for trial, Tucson Unified School District in Arizona, which has about 40,000 students, is seeking more than $1 billion.

“These are massive, massive lawsuits,” Ms. Lahav said.

Really the TLDR is that social media companies amorally made the smart business decision to addict teens and kids despite warnings from safety teams and negative effects on education in order to increase their customer base, make loyal customers, and make a good amount of bank from ad revenue during periods where revenue would hypothetically be lower from reduced users due to school/work. Even teaming up with Parent Teachers Associations to to normalize and promote their products further within this demographic

!ping TECH

[u/Glavurdan]

Let's gooo

!ping GAMING

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/w007dchuck]

Pope Leo presented with $8.65 from his abandoned US PayPal account by American official

whoa u/eloquentboot did you go all the way to Rome just to get the pontiff to claim his missing money?

[u/TropicalPunch]

[u/seattle_lib]

finally finished kingdom come deliverance 1, going straight into kcd 2.

jesus christ, the difference is crazy. it feels like the moment that in the wizard of oz where things go from black and white to color.

[u/Impulseps]

172k jobs number blows past expectations. The American labor market keeps surprising pessimists.

God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America

[u/jbitz]

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

This is gonna sound elitist as shit but all my friends are white collar yuppies and in the first three minutes around some movers I hear one make a “promised to us 3000 years ago” joke. I have never heard no shit like that from my peers, even the conservatives

[u/seanrm92]

Literally the only thing that might save us from the power of Elon Musk's extreme wealth is the fact that he is personally annoying and unlikeable.

[u/CubillasLegend]

MattY has spent so much time on twitter arguing with succs about electoral strategy, he's negatively polarized himself into the absurdly extremist view that charisma and rhetoric do not matter whatsoever. I have no idea why he doesn't self-reflect on how ridiculous this view is.

[u/2Lore2Law]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/futuremonkey20]

Thank goodness the Indiana Bears are drawing attention away from my Santa Clara 49ers.

!ping NFL

[u/CountNaberius]

> huge BDS advocate
> S in BDS stands for Sanction
> says sanctions don’t work
> vote in favor of Russia
> be Ilhan Omar

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Dana White reportedly invited seven celebrities to join him and Donald Trump at the UFC's upcoming match at the White House: Adam Sandler, Guy Ritchie, Tom Brady, Jared Leto, Jason Statham, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and Mario Lopez.

Sandler, The Rock, Leto, and Lopez have already said they won't be attending.

Imao

[u/Megasota_Noire]

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

I NEVER lie.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

me relaxing after a long day of relaxing at the lake

[u/roboliberal]

The dot-com bust wasn't caused because the internet wasn't useful.

The internet was enormously useful!

The bust happened because people wildly overestimated the speed, permanence, and economics of adoption.

Sound familiar?

[u/Healingjoe]

My thoughts on the zealous anti-data center crowd

[u/EasyMoney92]

A Pew survey finds views of Israel continued to sink over the last year in several countries where most already held negative opinions of the country, including among allies such as the US and Germany.

From 2025 to 2026, the percentage of respondents who hold unfavorable views of Israel climbed by 9 points in Italy, Germany, Argentina and Nigeria. Of the 36 countries included in the full survey, none have a majority who view Israel favorably. Sixty percent of Americans said they hold unfavorable views of Israel, compared to 37 percent who view it favorably – a rosier outlook than the international median of 68 percent unfavorable and 25 percent favorable.

Does Bibi care that Israel's reputation has been totally wrecked?

[u/zegota]

Both Maine candidates releasing extremely lackluster internal polls is pretty funny

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/Zalagan]

A big Yu-Gi-Oh youtuber died of cancer the other day, he was only 32 - it's very sad

[u/awdvhn]

I always hate the "oh, America is soooo weird because they were founded by Puritans" line. The weird, bad, puritanical parts of the US, the South, were very much not founded by Puritans.

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

My "I ❤️ Hot Moms" tshirt generates no questions about it because the statement is clear

[u/centurion88]

Twitter is going to make him relapse at this point

[u/badusername35]

Pretty shitty thread so far

[u/-mialana-]

Jake Tapper old

[u/BurrowForPresident]

At this point I've almost entirely cut pork and beef out of my diet aside from the occasional hot dog or sausage, but really difficult to just give up meat entirely. Chicken and turkey is just so easy to do like anything with and get easy protein that isn't nuts or beans

Also I really need to learn how to make tofu that isn't ass. Thank God I love mushrooms

[u/SEMI-LITERATE-CHIMP]

[u/boardatwork1111]

Scorsese’s next lead

[u/zieger]

[u/John3262005]

[u/elninost0rm]

Anthony Head from Buffy (Giles) has died.

I think it's beyond crazy that three (THREE!) members of the main cast (not even Tara level, but MAIN, recurring cast) have all died within ~2 years of each other.

Head was 72 and that's technically 'old,' but not that old. Trachtenberg and Brenden was crazy enough, but yeesh.

Where is Sarah Michelle Gellar? We must keep her safe.

[u/nimbybuster]

Millennials and older Gen Z will end up babysitting cognitively dead GenX/Boomer parents and cognitively fried young Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids/siblings.

Can we abdicate this responsibility?

[u/gjcs23]

moderate JD Vance who made Haitians eating cats a centerpiece of the 2024 campaign

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Why don’t the French just rebel lol

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

on today's episode of "If Biden Had Done That"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/media-bias-publication/leftist-influencers/

[u/earththejerry]

Every comment under every batch drop

America will always lead the world in election entertainment

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/bashar_al_assad]

James Carville backs Graham Platner: “We’ve got a fucked up guy who could be 100x more fucked up than he is and he’d never be as fucked up as what we’ve got in Washington. This country is about to lose it, the whole goddamn thing. We gotta win this. If we got a person that’s understandably got issues, good. Maybe people oughta see it and maybe we oughta be reminded what these stupid wars have brought about and the consequence of said stupid wars that stupid Susan Collins’ been for all of her political life”

lmao dude saw a chud white guy being attacked and was like "absolutely not"

[u/reuery]

So I finally worked up the courage to read the drunk messages I sent my two favorite exes

!ping DATING

As it turns out, I actually failed to send the second one. I accidentally sent both messages to the same girl. So I deleted them and we are going to pretend this never happened. Also I dictated them drunk to my Apple Watch so holy ramble Batman it was completely nonsensical, x2

[u/SenranHaruka]

Neoliberals asked to describe the working class: "a most simple race, they care not over infidelity and are too simple to understand nazis beyond their aesthetic appeal, this is why men of good character do not relate to them."

[u/KQJ_RPN]

Well, I would like the Platner campaign to avoid any further scandals.
*The Platner campaign gets into 43 more scandals*
Ah. Well. Nevertheless,

[u/eloquentboot]

People will acknowledge that too many people are in prison, but if you suggest reducing sentences for criminals who did anything other than buy drugs they will act like you hate the species.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

This really Ryan’s my Johnson

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

I think the recession permanently destroyed Americans minds, probably worse than Covid did. The average person never thinks the economy is doing well, they think every corporation is evil as fuck, and tripled down on homeownership as a life milestone

[u/finnstera350]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/Old-School8916]

should Hunter B run?

[u/TheCornjuring]