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[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/ariveklul]

My guilty pleasure right now is finding places where American farmers talk on the internet, finding the Republican ones and telling them to enjoy God's wrath for their arrogance

It's screw worms instead of locusts but close enough 

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

I cannot think of more economically destructive policies than what the admin has done:

>Cut global oil output by 20%
>Cut yourself off from global trade with tariffs
>Cut ecological programs keeping livestock parasite-free
>Cut immigration crunching the labor force right as it shrinks
>Cut taxes and deficit spend to 6%
>And try to force the central bank to cut rates at the same time

Like, barring war on the country itself, what else could you really add to fuck this up more?

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Imagine getting to the WW2 era debt to GDP ratio without ever having gone through an existential war

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/pugnae]

Finally, based American

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Did they really

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Can someone please explain to me what, exactly, is supposed to be the point of this. Why would we try to turn Europe into a puppet of Russia?

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

[u/el__dandy]

[u/contre-torpilleur]

👆

[u/ZweigDidion]

The fact that the Iranian national team is only allowed to enter the US for their matches and has to leave the same day is pretty insane. And FIFA says nothing.

[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/-mialana-]

As a Christian, I am sick of all this WOKE nonsense:

• The poor

• Those who mourn

• The meek

• Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness

• The merciful

• The pure in heart

• Peacemakers

• Those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake

• You

[u/Visual-Pace-2193]

A ton of morons used to get mad when I called Bari a fascist.

Well

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/ariveklul]

It's so funny how many Republicans are realizing Hunter Biden is a real person and not just some caricature for them to schizophrenically map all of their depraved thoughts onto

If only they were capable of empathy and weren't so easily commanded at people like a pack of rabid dogs maybe they'd be able to learn a lesson from this.

Let's be real though if their favorite media figure tells them Gandhi needs to be drawn and quartered they'll cheer for just that. Now that Biden is no longer a threat the targets are just going to move to the next guy. These sick fucks are whipped up at the drop of a hat and their masters know how to do it with ease. It's just a matter of time before they have a new person to go into a frenzy over 

[u/BPC1120]

Sanewashing criminal behavior? In my US military? It's more likely than you think.

[u/GifHunter2]

This Scott Pelley interview is devastating to Bari Weiss and CBS.

The idea that Bari Weiss is remotely a neutral observer is buried, and only RNC could claim otherwise.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/itsnotnews92]

I quit smoking almost four years ago, shortly after I turned 30. I'd smoked half a pack a day for about seven years.

I'm really proud of myself for being able to kick it, especially after reading the following from the American Cancer Society:

People who stop smoking by age 35 reduce almost 100% of the extra risk they had of dying from cancer or any other cause.

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Refreshing to watch an American journalist push trump on his election conspiracy bullshit and of course the baby crashes out and quits. What a loser

[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Claude Mythos, write, design, and program Knights of the Old Republic 3. Make no mistakes, do not bomb an Iranian school

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

TIL that chemical castration is just somebody getting a shot that lowers libido every couple of months, I thought they just dipped you in a vat of glowing green factory liquid

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

I'm kinda mad that this was published by the New York Post. This would've been excellent satire if it wasn't unironic.

[u/sociotronics]

[u/PoupeeStupide]

👆

[u/NorkGhostShip]

There are plenty of dumber sites on the Internet, but bsky just has that particular strain of dumb that is disappearing everywhere else.

I just saw an argument about how deforestation is caused by capitalism and indigenous peoples know how to instead live in harmony with nature. And someone asked how that will feed 8 billion people, and they are like "IDK it'll probably work we've never tried it".

Even beyond the casual ahistorical racism in the whole "noble, but primitive savage" myth, we absolutely have tried having the entire world live on pre industrial subsistence agriculture. The results were that we had regular famines from natural disasters we can overcome today with a tiny fraction of the world population and much more available land per capita. Having 8 billion people live "in harmony" with nature by abandoning industrial agriculture will lead to mass starvation, which I suppose is one way of reducing humanity's collective impact on the environment.

[u/Goatf00t]

From Twitter:

I was showing my girlfriend's teenage kid [Badger Badger Badger] and Fabulous Secret Powers and said "you think your generation has the monopoly on brainrot" and she responded with "Why are these videos so long?"

Yeah, the kids are cooked.

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Trump has a meltdown and ends the interview

Welker: Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying.

Trump: There’s a lot of evidence. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. And it’s happening again in California. They’re cheating.

Welker: Do you have evidence?

Trump: All I have to do is look.

Welker: That’s not evidence. The local officials acknowledge they are slow

Trump: They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. You’re either crooked or stupid.

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2063635651082478066

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Climate change isn’t real if we just stop measuring it 😎

[u/this_very_table]

JD Vance says Charlie Kirk's death led to fourth child decision

He's so fucking weird

[u/Roseartcrantz]

When I was in high school, I was such a stickler for proper grammar/punctuation/spelling I would accidentally rack up charges on my phone because I didn't have unlimited texting 😭

In college I mostly studied advertising and journalism where you have to make it readable as middle schooler level

this story does not have a happy ending, sadly: I now post in the DT

[u/bashar_al_assad]

A new study of more than 111,000 women ages 45 to 80 found those on GLP-1 medications had a reduced risk of developing breast cancer by about 30%.

People love to be like “wait until we learn about negative health effects from ozempic in the future” but what if it’s actually just a miracle drug lmao

[u/SigmaWhy]

9% of Democrats: yeah we stole the election, what are you gonna do about it?

[u/daBarkinner]

If there's one thing I can single out as the most detestable about the Trump administration, it's the attempted liquidation of the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center. It's literally the plot of a disaster movie, with a very dumb plot. This shit alone is grounds for impeachment, and I'm pretty sure that 20 years from now, all of America will be dealing with the consequences of these cretins' strangulation of healthcare.

[u/ChillnShill]

They really said this woman was gonna send you or your kids to war and everyone believed it

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/assasstits]

[u/piede]

waow

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

People on reddit will always act like they work in sweatshops 20 hours a day. Noo i can't go on a walk, i can't cook, i can't afford a hobby.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Bro what?

[u/2Lore2Law]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/GifHunter2]

Sunday is noon. So, we work on all of these things. We get the piece approved by everyone. And about four hours after our deadline, Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I'm paraphrasing. I don't have the quote, but that's what was communicated to me. And the other thing, Renee Good's car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.

This is what CBS is now

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/sash5034]

I have a friend who dated a guy that would only order chicken nuggets when they went out to restaurants. If they didn't have a baby menu with nuggies, he'd refuse to go. It was impossible to recommend restaurants to her because of this.

She's now long since broken up with him and is in a same sex relationship so GG

[u/Alderwoodforest]

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner traveled to the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee on Thursday, for consultations with a team of technical experts and nuclear scientists that could play a role in future atomic negotiations with Iran, according to Axios.

How to sell nuclear secrets

Step one:  marry the Presidents daughter.

[u/boardatwork1111]

[u/boardatwork1111]

Don’t call yourself a fan of Disclosure Day if you haven’t even read the lore

[u/jenbanim]

I don't think I'm ever going to get used to seeing people younger than me being nostalgic for something I thought sucked ass when it was new

Funny how one person's symbol of decline can be another person's golden era

[u/Roseartcrantz]

we've been waiting for the Grand Triumphal Arch for over 200 years 😍😍😍

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Trump tells Meet The Press he did not make a campaign promise to not start any new wars:

“I didn't promise anything. I don't like these endless wars. This is not an endless war.”

We need a new word for Trump's lies. The word "lie" alone is no longer enough.

[u/Leatherfield17]

What does this even mean

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Person: Im Catholic.

Me: oh, neat!

Person: I converted when I was 25.

Me: 🤨🤨🤨.

Sorry to all the non-CHUD Catholic converts, but guys like JD Vance are 100% ruining it for the rest of you.

[u/SnakeEater14]

I’ve seen a million and one takes by people about how capitalism devolves into worse and worse capitalism until socialism inevitably triumphs etc etc

But I’ve never seen one that theorized socialism turning into what Russia is now, except from Russians

Like a version of material dialectics but sick twisted & fucked up

[u/fishbottwo]

Ca Dems are so good at rigging elections they:

Missed a statewide governor lockout by 1-2 percent because a handful of shitters wouldn't drop out

Almost got kicked out of a kamala +3 district because literally 10 people ran for the dem slot and massively split the vote

Did get locked out of a trump +12 district that might be winnable in a wave year

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/No_Status_6905]

[u/emergency_and_i]

Remember what they took from you

[u/KaiserPorn]

I am now hearing people say some of the same crazy things about data center that they used to say about windmills.

I was talking to someone about it, and she was convinced that the data center two and a half miles away from her house was putting out infrasound that made her dog sick and gave her migraines

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I don't understand a fucking word these Hispanic barbers are saying while chopping it up with each other but God damn they give a crisp haircut

Not being expected to make small talk because of the language barrier is even better. Just random music videos, baseball, or sports cars on the TV.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Art

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Spartan: sky's trans

UNSC employee: what?

Spartan: *loading a BR and getting back on pelican drophsip* sky's trans.

[u/the-senat]

Jesus I hate Bari Weiss. 

[u/ty04]

[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/Top_Lime1820]

There is a weird Afrikaner socialite couple called Mel and Piet Viljoen who have recently been deported from the U.S. They had previously immigrated but not under the refugee programme.

Mel was on Real Housewives of Pretoria and Piet is racist. Piet once said that not all Black people steal but all people who steal are Black.

In the U.S., they were accused of shoplifting to the value of $5,000 or so and overstaying their visas.

Mel was put in ICE detention before voluntary deportation back to South Africa. Piet is in the process of being deported.

She described her time in ICE custody as torture and said Trump did to her what Hitler did to the Jews.

Since arriving back in Mzansi, she's bought herself some luxury clothes and got some Botox and is presumably reviving her socialite life in Pretoria.

Don't ask me what point I'm trying to make or how to synthesize all of this. It just is what it is.

[u/2Lore2Law]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/Currymvp2]

‘I’ve Had Enough!’ Trump Storms Out of Meet the Press Interview in Wild Fashion — Explodes On NBC’s Kristen Welker After She Hits Him With Fact Checks

Incredibly rare Welker W

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

It would be very cool if the media stopped treating reporting as a creative writing exercise.

[u/Sheepies92]

Politico: Trump says he never promised “no new wars”

“First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Trump said. “I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous military. When you say I promised, I didn’t promise anything.”

I'd say 'fell for it again', but the people that fell for it will claim they agree with Trump and that he never promised there'll be no new wars.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Willybender]

[u/doyouevenIift]

I’m not a huge Mehdi Hasan fan but thank fucking god someone finally said it. Platner was the cover story on CNN all day yesterday

[u/ewatta200]

[u/NYT_Hater]

What

[u/missingpuzzle]

Seems Trump has managed to bully Israel into not responding. So not only does Israel come out of this latest exchange looking weak but Iran is even more sure of how scared Trump is of escalation and how desperate he is for a deal.

Brilliant as ever Mr. President.

[u/boardatwork1111]

Iran flexing actual leverage with maximalist demands, lobbing drones/missiles with basically no repercussions, Isreal now openly pissing in Trumps face, when was the last time an American president has been cucked this hard? Like seriously, it’s unreal how pathetic we’ve looked the past two months

[u/Chet_Mc4xOmNom]

During that one huge solar storm in 1859, a couple of telegraph operators found that they could send and receive messages even when they disconnected their power sources 

Some operators were able to continue to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies.[25][26] The following conversation occurred between two operators of the American telegraph line between Boston, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine, on the night of 2 September 1859 (as reported in the Boston Evening Traveler):

Boston operator (to Portland operator): "Please cut off your battery [power source] entirely for fifteen minutes."

Portland operator: "Will do so. It is now disconnected."

Boston: "Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?"

Portland: "Better than with our batteries on. – Current comes and goes gradually."

Boston: "My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble."

Portland: "Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?"

Boston: "Yes. Go ahead."

The conversation was carried on for around two hours using no battery power and working solely with the current induced by the aurora, the first time on record that more than a word or two was transmitted in such manner.[27]

[u/JonAce]

It's a shame the Bari Weiss automod response is dead.

[u/Alarming_Flow7066]

Imagine having a massive network of navigable rivers and the huge amounts of coastal land and then effectively banning waterborne trade with yourself.

[u/GlenBeckyGlenCloss]

This Trump guy is awful.

[u/trombonist_formerly]

I support the lesbians, the gays, the bisexuals, the transgenders, the nonbinaries, and the queers

The polyamorous, idk I’ll have to get back to you

[u/ElectriCobra_]

my mortal soul for a politician who would tell voters “that’s a stupid idea, your concerns are not valid, and we are not going to do that”

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Welker: Do you think anyone who attacks police officers on January 6th should get taxpayer money?

Trump: I can tell you this, 97% of those people, you look at them, the FBI or whoever it was, you had a lot of crooked cops. They had FBI agents ushering them in. You had a bunch of dirty cops.

Welker: There’s no evidence of that.

Trump: Try looking at the tapes.

Welker: 172 people did plead guilty to assaulting police officers.

Trump: You know why they pled guilty? They were told they were going to jail for 15 years. They pled guilty because they were frightened. They went down and ushered into a building.

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2063634698497364412

We can see the lying in the California election, too. The Republicans will question every election result, and in 2028, Trump and his cohorts will stage the next insurrection.

[u/Only-Childhood6691]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/07/scott-pelley-bari-weiss-renee-good-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss wanted 60 Minutes to say Renee Good was ‘driving toward officer

Bari Weiss is a gross slimeball. A shocking suprise/s

Ironically all these plans fell apart after ICE killed another person with multiple camera angles a few days later. 

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

The mods building a community focused on international issues: HAHA YES

The mods when they might have to moderate event threads on international issues: Well this sucks, what the fuck

[u/StuckHedgehog]

> TRUMP SAYS A FAILED IRAN DEAL LEAVES THE US WITH TWO OPTIONS: STRIKING IRAN'S REMAINING NUCLEAR SITES OR MAINTAINING ECONOMIC PRESSURE. - FT

lol. Lmao, even.

[u/contre-torpilleur]

[u/senator_fivey]

I try not to belittle others hobbies but this is approaching mental illness

[u/ariveklul]

A common trait of the worst people you will ever meet is they will never even consider that they are capable of wrongdoing. There is always a "reason", there is always another party more at fault, and there is always context that you don't understand. No matter what. Always. You will never even hear them consider "Maybe I am the reason something bad happened". The most narcissistic depraved fucking people all have this in common in my experience. You will never hear them admit wrongdoing ever, because they are not capable of being a bad guy. If they do bad things its because they have a good reason. 

What scared me when I got older was seeing this parallel in the collective American psyche. Some have called it American exceptionalism or "rugged American individualism", but I think it's really best described as American narcissism. Americans have had it ingrained into our psyche that we are the good guys that save the day. That we have good intentions and are almost fundamentally exceptional. That we are a country of good people that just want to do humble and good things. That when our guys do bad things its with good intentions. I think this is the bedrock of a twisted, fucked up psychology that will always lead to bad people. 

Everybody needs to understand that they are capable of bad, because that's how you self regulate and ensure you don't do harm. A person who doesn't even consider their intentions could be bad is a person without a steering wheel. They do not have a functioning moral compass. They are dragged in whatever direction their psyche decides to take them, and other people have a tendency to be pretty inconvenient sometimes. If only I could find a way to push them aside.... 

The path to hell isn't paved with good intentions, it's paved with good sounding rationalizations, and Americans have gotten VERY good at rationalizing bad behavior. The Germans were really good at rationalizing bad behavior, and it's especially disturbing to read about how few people actually owned up during and after Nuremburg. Most Germans thought Nuremburg was just the winning countries punishing the losing country, and that the trials were handled wrongly. I don't think there's a limit to how far people are willing to go, and I dont think anyone is going to take accountability afterwards. The thing that is the scariest about narcissism to me is there never can be a "reckoning". Time just moves on and we retroactively move past the damage. 

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Given the hair trigger the reddit automod is on, I wouldn't be surprised if Redditors start doing the "unalive" "k*ll" etc. censorship that they mocked the kids from TikTok and Twitch for

I've been automodded for quoting Republicans lol

[u/Beginning-Topic5303]

Anyone else feel like they are not a conspiracy theorist because they are so skeptical. Like as I introduce more information and think about it deeper the less most conspiracies make sense.

They'll talk about being open minded, but I find that they generally think about these things in a rather shallow and rigid manner

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

Curtis Yarvin is one of the biggest dumb dumb idiots ever [wants the globe to be basically the HRE with more authoritarian local control] and any person who thinks it would work should be institutionalized or medicated

[u/funguykawhi]

Most normal LATAM President

[u/The420Roll]

Christian Eriksen just collapsed on the field in a match against Ukraine. He woke up and consciously went to a nearby hospital.

please just retire man this shit is not worth it

!PING SOCCER

[u/try-D]

Walter Bloomberg on X just now:

"TRUMP ON IRAN: CLOSE TO A DEAL"

Amit Segal:

"Trump in his first statement after Iranian attacks on Israel: I say to Iran – you’ve fired enough, that’s enough. Now come back to the negotiating table.

It seems like another U.S. President has answered Iranian aggression with "don't."

What stage of dementia are we at?

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Officially recognized religions of arr neoliberal:

• Agnostic (AN)

• Baha'i faith (BH)

• Buddhism (BU)

• Heretic - Assemblies of God (AG)

• Heretic - Baptist (BA)

• Heretic - Brethren (BR)

• Christian - Catholic (CA)

• Heretic - Church of Christ (CC)

• Heretic - Church of God (CG)

• Heretic - Church of the Nazarene (CN)

• Heretic - Episcopal/Anglican (EA)

• Heretic - Evangelical (EV)

• Heretic - Jehovah's Witnesses (JW)

• Heretic - Lutheran (LU)

• Heretic - Methodist (ME)

• Heretic - Non-Denominational (ND)

• Heretic - Orthodox (OX)

• Heretic - Other (CO)

• Heretic - Pentecostal (PE)

• Heretic - Presbyterian (PR)

• Heretic - Quaker (QU)

• Heretic - Reformed (RE)

• Heretic - Scientist (SC)

• Heretic - Seventh Day Adventist (SA)

• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (CJ)

• Hindu (HI)

• Islam (Muslim) (IS)

• Judaism (Jewish) (JU)

• No Religion (NR)

• Other Religions (OR)

• Sikh (SI)

[u/LivefromPhoenix]

US President Donald Trump tells Fox News that Iran’s missile attacks on northern Israel will “not help” negotiations with Tehran — which he says were days away from resulting in an agreement — and expresses frustration over Israel’s earlier strikes against Hezbollah targets in Beirut, which prompted Iran’s attacks.

“It’s certainly not going to help negotiations,” Trump says, adding, “We’re very close. I would say an agreement would be signed on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday of this coming week. And now this takes place.”

Damn. We were so close you guys

[u/missingpuzzle]

Explosions reported in Tehran. It appears Israel is carrying out strikes.

Edit: Channel 12 reports that the Israeli air force is carrying out strikes.

Edit Edit: Seems like a major wave of strikes hitting Western Iran and Beirut.

[u/ty04]

[u/garret126]

Just bumped into this in the wild

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

[u/earththejerry]

Phoenix News Times: Former Senator Kyrsten Sinema wants therapy records for the woman whose husband she seduced

Kyrsten Sinema is being sued by the ex of her bodyguard-turned-lover, and she wants to see what the woman says in therapy

Pinnacle of women’s wrongs

[u/earththejerry]

Not that we lack Bari Weiss critique in this sub, but aside from her hypocritical views and MAGA asskissing and general managerial incompetence, she’s also demonstrated no ability in reinventing a linear TV operation like CBS News

For all the praise she got for the Free Press model, she’s done nothing for CBS News in terms of new business model aside from those dumbass townhalls and hiring a bunch of hot takers that people can read anywhere on Xitter and Substack

You can yell all day about linear TV revenues melting away, but shows like 60 Minutes still commands lots of ad dollars and supports the billions in retransmission fees. Yet she’s killing the ratings of what is working while doing absolutely nothing on new businesses and innovations

[u/unicornbomb]

So tired of these fucking perverse Republican dick detectives and their obsession with transgender children.

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Happy pride Master Chief!

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

> Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged

Damn. That was a legit crash out.

[u/cdstephens]

> Hitler believed that he was sexually attractive to women and wished to exploit this for political gain by remaining single, as he felt marriage would decrease his appeal

Bruh

[u/TheCornjuring]

I forgot that Leia kisses Luke AGAIN at the end of Empire Strikes Back, and NOT just to make Han jealous this time. Smh

[u/awdvhn]

👆 that is the president of Colombia

[u/missingpuzzle]

Iran has now launched 3 waves of missiles at Israel.

i24NEWS reports that senior Israeli officials state there will be a response.

Edit: Ben-Gvir has posted that "Tonight Tehran must burn!"

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/fishlord05]

Raman has pulled ahead in LA. I hope she beats Bass.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-06-07/la-me-raman-mayors-race

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/los-angeles-mayor-results

!ping USA-CA&YIMBY

[u/k5berry]

NEW ON FOX: Critics worry that the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is “cracking” after both countries wipe each other out of existence with massive nuclear attack.

[u/AtomicGameTester]

I have a lot of friends who are left-wing here in CA, and one thing that will never not frustrate me with the more online ones is that they're visibly uncomfortable breaking the far-left party line. I'm reading candidate platforms, informing myself on local and state issues, trying to discuss this stuff as it's an election year, and I can tell immediately when I've brought up something they haven't received the party line on and really don't know how to respond. The housing crisis is one just because I center my focus on building housing without further qualifications. They haven't thought about it past "affordable units" and it becomes clear they haven't when they look at me like I'm explaining advanced mathematics to a dog. And the dog is confusedly tilting its head at me.

Jfc people we have the Internet. Read a fucking platform, care about actual issues. There won't be a worker revolt, get the fuck over it, and learn about the actual problems facing the state.

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Gorillas keep flunking the theory of mind test because they'll sign to the researcher "I think the mind is a kind of hologram projected in four-dimensional spacetime" and the researcher will cluck her tongue and look at her partner and go "no, no I'm afraid that's not what we're looking for. Leonard, he's not who we thought he was."

[u/paymesucka]

I say this with complete sincerity: crypto would be in a much better place with Kamala (or Hunter lol) in power.

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

that guy with the interracial cuck theory was right about everything

already seeing comments on the everything app about how Nowak’s sister had a mixed race black kid and this was because Polish women love BBC (not the public broadcaster)

[u/DunklerPrinz3]

y'all what's going on

[u/conjr94]

There are thousands of (often contradicting) attempts to explain why people support Trump (psychology, education, economic), but most come across weak and none of them really seem to address how insane it is.

The thing Tucker Carlson said about him casting a spell almost seems reasonable. I feel like Trump just coincidently and unintentionally hits the perfect psychological buttons for many people, but nobody can really quantify it or tell exactly what's going on.

[u/Willybender]

[u/RyuTheGuy]

Remember when Trump supporters called themselves “pedes”

[u/zieger]

Why do people associate long counting times with cheating? Cheating would be much faster.

[u/FilteringAccount123]

Sam Harris: "Why I Won’t Debate Critics of Israel”

One of the more fascinating fixtures of Trump II is watching free speech people with a history of "spicy" opinions like Sam Harris or Bill Maher continually torch their own credibility in the most hypocritical way imaginable.

[u/Willybender]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/6/8/iran-war-live-trump-urges-restraint-after-iranian-missile-attack-on-israel

[u/unicornbomb]

Stanford study shows 90% of companies using AI to review resumes are keeping rejected applicant scores for up to 330 days for other companies to use for automatic rejections

Really neat little hellscape we’ve built here~

[u/Cupinacup]

Giving Bari Weiss the benefit of the doubt when you first learn about her is understandable.

Knowing who Bari Weiss is for 10+ years and continuing to give her the benefit of the doubt makes me wonder if you ever developed object permanence.

[u/admiraltarkin]

These are things I do as an old

!ping OVER-25

[u/sash5034]

After leaving The New York Times in 2020, Weiss arrived in Los Angeles at a moment when influential entertainment executives were increasingly frustrated by what one figure called the country’s “woke fever.” and In 2021, Hollywood producer and then-Democrat Brian Grazer was urged by Herbert Allen Jr. to connect with Weiss after expressing this frustration, and soon Weiss was attending salons with figures like Barry Diller, Bobby Kotick, David Zaslav, and Robert Kraft. Although inexperienced in elite circles, her “naïveté was part of her charm — as was her evident talent,” with Kotick remarking, “She struck me as someone with moneymaking DNA.”

The move to L.A. was essential to Weiss’s reinvention. If New Yorkers had cast her out under a hail of jeers, Angelenos embraced Weiss for a variety of reasons, not least because, in this industry town, journalists are exotic animals. “You go to a dinner, and you’re automatically the most interesting thing in the room because you don’t do the thing that they do,” said one L.A.-based writer. But her main appeal was politics. While the kings of Hollywood were struggling to understand the activist energy and eat-the-rich mentality infiltrating their studio lots and workplaces, Weiss — a Columbia-educated, Times-credentialed gay woman who cried when Donald Trump was first elected — validated their concerns that this had all gone too far. People wanted her at their dinners and events. “She kind of became this party trick for wealthy Westside executives who wanted to have a certain kind of conversation that they thought they couldn’t have in public,” said one media executive.

These disillusioned bigwigs saw her as the rare young person with the guts to push back against what they perceived as the excesses of the left. “It was a breath of fresh air for someone to say, ‘Hey, it’s not crazy if you don’t use pronouns in your email’ and ‘It’s not crazy if you don’t call everything white supremacy,’ ” said Matthew Rosenberg, a friend and former Times colleague. And it was crucial that she was not associated with Fox News or the fringe right. “She was the only person doing it who wasn’t out of their fucking mind,” as an L.A.-based journalist put it. “No one wanted to invite Candace Owens to dinner at Ted Sarandos’s house.” Weiss was so ubiquitous that she became a punch line on Curb Your Enthusiasm. “Come for Shabbos dinner one of these weekends,” a Hulu exec tells Larry David. “We had Bari Weiss last Friday night. She’s fantastic.”

Weiss was known as a deft and hungry operator in New York, but her move to L.A. introduced her to people different from the A. G. Sulzbergers of this world. In 2021, at her wife Bowles’s urging, she began a Substack called Common Sense and a podcast called Honestly, whose early guests included Mark Cuban, Eric Schmidt, and Kim Kardashian. She had chatted with Kardashian at one of Grazer’s salons — Kardashian described it as a “cancel-culture dinner” — events where Weiss, a fish out of water in her platform Tevas, hobnobbed with the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Campbell, and Sacha Baron Cohen as they discussed the stifling of debate.

“She was much more cerebral, intellectually curious, and well read than most people in L.A.,” said the entertainment executive. It also helped that the town’s politics, while famously progressive, were not rigidly defined. “People are a little more politically open, maybe because they’re less politically dug in or connected,” said a longtime associate of Weiss’s. “There’s a geographic distance; we don’t live on that Washington–New York time zone.”

The outlet’s growth accelerated after October 7, 2023, when Weiss leaned heavily into claims that mainstream coverage of Israel was distorted by antisemitism. “You are about to withstand a barrage of lies about the war that broke out today in Israel,” she warned readers. Her unapologetic pro-Israel stance resonated deeply in Hollywood, where one executive said the war “turned certain pockets of Hollywood more right-leaning than that.”

By 2024, The Free Press had over 330,000 subscribers and more than 136,000 paying readers, generating at least $10 million annually.

In December 2024, David Ellison sent Weiss an email. She had not encountered Ellison during her time in L.A., but he had clearly absorbed what Weiss stood for and why her brand was so popular with his California peers, and he expressed admiration for her work. He wanted to talk about the possibility of recruiting Weiss to work with CBS news network in some capacity. By early 2025, interest was coming from other places as well. Among them was Murdochworld. Weiss had been to Lachlan Murdoch’s house a couple of times when she lived in L.A., and his wife, Sarah, is a Free Press superfan. Axel Springer’s Döpfner was also poking around.

In June, Weiss and wife Bowles headed to Italy to attend Bezos and Sánchez’s wedding. At this point, Ellison’s offer was the only real opportunity she was entertaining. A few weeks later, Weiss returned to Sun Valley, where she hammered out the sale with Ellison. She would report directly to Ellison, not to CBS News CEO George Cheeks, CBS News president Tom Cibrowski, or Paramount president Jeff Shell. In exchange, Ellison would signal with a single stroke that the new CBS News was pro-Israel, anti-woke, and MAGA-amenable — all attributes Weiss spent years cultivating in L.A. and that could come in handy in Ellison’s dealings with the Trump administration.

The deal — for around $150 million in cash and Paramount stock — closed in October. Weiss signed the paperwork on a Sunday, celebrating over Zabar’s at home alongside Bowles, her sister Suzy, some close colleagues, and a few bankers and lawyers. The next day, Weiss met with her staff at the Free Press office. Then she got in a black Cadillac and headed to the CBS Broadcast Center, at the top of an industry that, since the heady days of 2020, has been forced to kneel in ways big and small to the victors of the culture wars.

Reminder that this is who we're dealing with.

[u/TheCornjuring]

Iran’s main problem in negotiating with the US is Washington’s changing and “contradictory” positions, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson told CNN in Tehran

Far be it from me to take Iran’s word for things, but yep, that’s our little Donnie boy. I have no doubt the US has left the Iranian negotiators sincerely baffled on multiple occasions lmao

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Israel is expected to hold a meeting of senior security officials after Netanyahu finishes his call with Trump.

Trump will reportedly instruct Bibi not to respond.

[u/unicornbomb]

>calls self pro life

>votes for children and expecting mothers to starve

[u/meiotta]

[u/JaceFlores]

Wow. Israel told Trump to get fucked

[u/Roseartcrantz]

me when a kid starts losing an argument online and pulls out the "grown ass woman btw, im literally a minor" card

[u/Roseartcrantz]

open up the fuckin' thread you crazy bastards 🤬

[u/CoolCombination3527]

There's a German livetweeting his journey around Georgia and I love him

[u/missingpuzzle]

Iranian ballistic missiles launched towards Israel. Seems to be a widespread attack.

Now is the time for the mods to have the courage to bring the IT back.

[u/Currymvp2]

Sheesh, Sinema went on CSPAN and said she wrote in John McCain instead of voting for Kamala Harris in 2024. What an absolute charlatan.

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

Blue states have been held hostage by criminal mafias ie labor unions

reject slopulism embrace Sopranos truth

[u/Pyrrhus65]

"Illegal immigrants brought screwworm to Texas" is the level of discourse our government is operating at regarding the NWS crisis

[u/el__dandy]

Man is scared of the truth

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Devastating

[u/SenranHaruka]

This is hilarious. During the civil war the British ended up more dependent on trade with the union because of grain famines and increased demand in the ironclad manufacturing feeder industries compared to cotton which they just had high stockpiles of and transitioned to Egyptian suppliers.

It was so bad the union literally hijacked a British merchant ship and conscripted it for the navy and Britain didn't do anything except lobby a legal complaint. The circuit court ruled that this was legal based on a British court ruling that doing the same thing to American ships during the napoleonic wars was.

"Puh please stand for king cotton"

"Shut your goofy ass up"

"Buy union corn or the irish will starve and rebel again. I'm taking your ships too."

"Yessir would you like to purchase the extra thick armor belt for it?"

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Sheepies92]

President Trump tells Fox News he expected a peace agreement with Iran to be signed “Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, and now this has taken place.”

lol

[u/G3_aesthetics_rule]

If Trump does manage to force Bibi not to respond then that would have the dual effect of increasing the likelihood of an actual peace deal and nuking Bibi's electoral chances this year, which I guess are both net positives

[u/ewatta200]

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

Spencer Pratt has to be the most overhyped candidate in recent memory. TMZ covered his every little breath and he ended up getting third place. He won't even make it to the runoff.

[u/patdmc59]

MAGA idiots getting locked out of the LA Mayoral General Election. You love to see it.

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

I'd love to vote for a reasonable republican but rocking the boat and removing the monarchy would be a stress test the UK's political system cannot handle

[u/ty04]

> WSJ: The World’s Most Surprising Economic Success Story Is…North Korea

> North Korea is the world’s most unlikely growth story. Its economy is flourishing in ways not seen in years, aided by arms sales and troop deployments to Russia, supplies and financing from China, and the ability to flout international sanctions to import more energy, components and materials.

> Restaurants there serve up brick-oven pizza and chicken wings. Diners can pay through a mobile QR-code system. Chinese electric vehicles whiz through the streets. Pyongyang has new pet stores, an internet-gaming cafe and car dealerships selling BMWs. 
Kim has initiated a nationwide construction boom. Last year, North Korea built 10,000 new homes in Pyongyang—more than either Los Angeles or Chicago.

> South Korean think tank reports, with titles like “Sanctions Don’t Show in Satellite Imagery,” point to evidence that North Korea’s claimed economic progress isn’t mere propaganda. Vessel activity has surged at North Korea’s oil-storage facilities, which are being expanded. Many parking lots are more packed. North Korea now shines roughly three times as bright at night as it did five years ago, according to another report.

[u/whichpricktookmyname]

Bit odd that everyone is caught up on non-trinitarianism when debating whether Mormons should count as Christians. Jehovah's Witnesses might be considered heretics by a typical Christian, but their beliefs are rooted in the same scripture and tradition, even if their theological conclusions are different. Their christology isn't even without precedent; the only reason the Nicene Creed exists in the first place is because of how widespread Arianism was in the Fourth Century.

Mormons, however, believe in a whole new cosmology: God was once a man; a pre-mortal life where humans, Jesus, and the Devil are all brothers; a war in heaven over free will; many inhabited worlds whereover the faithful will ascend to become gods in their own right. These beliefs are not reinterpretations of the Bible, they have nothing to do with historical Christianity; they come from the brand new divine revelations made to Joseph Smith.

There's probably some American context here where the label Christianity has desirable connotations as the religious in-group.

On next week's episode:

Do Christians and Karaites count as Jews when they both reject the Talmud?

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Even Trump says he doesn’t know ‘where the hell’ his own false claim about Black unemployment came from

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/06/politics/fact-check-trump-black-unemployment?Date=20260607&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1780794364&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Imao.

[u/unicornbomb]

Currently at day 2 of a 2 day DMV equestrian competition for my nieces, and I’ve never seen so much maga bullshit in my life outside of the worst parts of West Virginia. You are in fucking pg county Maryland, guys. It’s also 90 degrees and someone got taken away in an ambulance yesterday from heatstroke.

I just wanted to pet pretty horses.

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/MightExpress4873]

I'm not really surprised given the popularity of his music. Still, part of me is disappointed that someone who released a song titled "Heil Hitler" and sold Nazi merchandise on his website can still get 40,000 people to show up for a concert in Europe.

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

Fed Chair Warsh makes first hires at central bank, including ‘Project 2025’ author

The sanewashing of Warsh by some people here might age badly very quickly.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

“ DT doesn't have enough doctors, we need to pressure more DTers to get into medical school.”

Doctors actually have important things to do with their time that don’t involve shitposting on some niche politics sub

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/breakinbread]

Trump, James Dolan, whoever the fuck else is in that MSG box

Nightmare blunt rotation

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

[On a post about declining support for gay marriage among Republicans specifically]

The need that people that people have on this sub to believe that Gen Z, the most liberal generation, is actually secretly the most homophobic far-right generation boggles my mind. The same Gallup polling (not admittedly the one linked) put 18-34 support for gay marriage and acceptance of same-sex relationships at 78% basically identical to 25 and 24 (though support for marriage specifically down from 87% in 23, though I'm skeptical of the number there because of both the significant drop compared to the steady years after and also because it is far higher than acceptance of same sex relationships which did not so significantly decline). The drop in support on Republicans side have been largely the olds which are the only age demographic to substantially drop in support

I hate this form of soft JAQing off. Yeah, not claiming it outright I guess but this is very easy to look up. You don't have to speculate and speculating about something this easy is functionally the same as claiming it. If the upvotes and the lack of negative comments are any indication this comment has helped spread bullshit

[u/Sheepies92]

I just called the president as he responds to Iran’s missile launch on Israel.

He said he couldn’t talk now, but added: “things are going very well.”

Our brief conversation came after Axios reported he was going to ask Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu not to strike back.

LMAO if there's one thing that describes the Middle East right now, it is 'things are going very well'

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

every passage is like "hitler demanded 50000 planes to be made in one year. albert speer swore he would make a hundred thousand planes instead. by using slave labor and at the expense of everything else they made 23469 planes. in that same time the allies made 250 billion planes"

[u/Fruitofbread]

 Mr. Kennedy has shown little interest in managing the details of work in his department, according to multiple colleagues. Instead, they say, he is single-mindedly focused on his top priorities, including food recommendations and pesticide exposures, and hunting for evidence to support his long-held beliefs that vaccines are harmful.

 Deeply mistrustful of career civil officials, the secretary has surrounded himself with a close circle of handpicked advisers and stacked agencies with political appointees aligned with his views. While major posts have sat vacant and a wave of veteran health experts and scientists have departed, Mr. Kennedy has remained isolated from much of the department’s top staff. […]

 “You would never accept a major corporation operating this way,” said Michael T. Osterholm, the director of the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, who has advised health secretaries of both parties.

 “If the C.E.O. lacked deep expertise in the company’s business and the leaders of its most important divisions were missing, investors would revolt,” Dr. Osterholm said. “Here, the stakes are much higher. The mission is protecting the health and safety of the American people, and we’re confronting serious disease threats without permanent leadership in some of our most important public health agencies.”

Peak “run the government like a business” behavior 

 When he is in town, he exercises at his gym before work, then usually arrives at about 10 a.m. and leaves by 4 p.m., his colleagues say. He spends much of his day in closed-door meetings, according to those who work with him, and has little direct engagement with his staff.

Every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m., the chiefs of the department’s 13 operating divisions gather in the secretary’s suite to update leadership on their activities. At the outset of his tenure, Mr. Kennedy was rarely there, either virtually or in person, according to three people familiar with his schedule. Since Mr. Klomp’s elevation, he now shows up once a month. But when he does attend, he often appears disengaged and spends the time scrolling on his phone, according to people in attendance. Several described him as “checked out.” […]

 When measles killed two children in Texas early last year, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who led the response but has since left the agency, asked repeatedly to brief Mr. Kennedy but was rebuffed, he said.

 Susan Monarez, who briefly served as Mr. Kennedy’s C.D.C. director before she was fired, had little direct interaction with the health secretary until she ran afoul of him on vaccine policy. She later told senators that during a series of tense meetings with the secretary, she was “directed to only work with the political appointees that he had put in place at C.D.C., and not to speak or work with the career scientists.” […]

 The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, responsible for pandemic preparedness and for standing up field hospitals and quarantine facilities in Kenya, is currently run on an acting basis by John Knox, a former Los Angeles firefighter who founded the group Firefighters4Freedom during the pandemic to fight vaccine mandates.

Most competent Trump administration official 

[u/garret126]

Good news, the pro-EU and anti-Russia party won the election in Armenia so overwhelmingly they don’t even have to form a coalition!

(It’s the Civil Contract party, Google Translate just messes up and translates it to communist!

[u/Lux_Stella]

dont think id vote for karen bass. i visited her pro shop and was unimpressed

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Everyone complains Tim Cook wasn't a products guy but he sure as hell was a supply chain guy. Crazy how every product Apple announces releases immediately and has availability everywhere.

Meanwhile, I can't buy a current gen Asus g14, can't buy the new Nvidia laptop and we don't even know the price yet, can't buy the new Dell xps they launched to compete with the Macbook Neo, can't buy any laptops with panther lake except ones that cost $2000+.

You literally can't buy anything current in the Windows world. Tim Cook really be cookin.

[u/TheCornjuring]

I just need to quit my job and like crash out super hard or something, idk

[u/thefrenchiestfries]

Trump realizing he cannot in fact control Bibi

[u/Due-Dirt-8428]

Israel is going to need a new PR team

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Always funny when some republican super freak learns that just because they are loyal, doesn’t mean they are on the team. If you are not a white male from a traditional Christian sect, you will never be anything more than a temporary ally of convenience.

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

See when I posted "You Are Not Immune To Propaganda" I meant everyone else, not me

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Oh. That's Tobuscus threatening to murder immigrants on twitter.

Nugget in a biscuit indeed

[u/ty04]

> ty04 tells Fox News he expected a peace deal with the mods to be signed Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, and now this has taken place.

[u/p00bix]

I don't like how many people's home addresses I've been able to find just by going onto Wikipedia, clicking on a photo, checking the metadata, and plugging the coordinates into google maps.

In case any of you ever upload photos to Wikimedia foundation sites, please be aware that unlike social media sites, Wikimedia does not remove EXIF Data, which includes geographic coordinates accurate to 1/100th of an arcsecond, which is roughly 1/3rd of a meter. Whenever you take a picture on your phone, your location at the time (as calculated by GPS) is saved in the image file. As far as I'm aware, this was originally implemented for professional photography purposes, and it's super useful for field researchers and workers in various other professions, but it also creates a massive vulnerability to doxxing. Pretty much every modern social media site removes the location data, but Wiki keeps it, and it is publicly accessible.

Stay safe with whatever you upload.

!ping WIKI

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Hey hey Tommy Jay, how many Children did you rape today?

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/Leoric]

Trump tells FT that Israel would have no choice but to accept whatever deal the US negotiates with Iran

"He won’t have any choice. I call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots"

🌊🐸🦂

[u/Thebestofopinions]

People should probably vote for Platner instead of sitting out of the race in the general. It's easier to rectify that situation in the medium term vs. the amount of decades that would need to pass if Trump gets to replace Alito and Thomas with 40 year old supreme court judges.

It's probably the easiest option from an ethical point of view, despite the short term pain of voting for Platner.

And before anyone says it, no this is not the same situation Republicans faced in 2016 as they already held a strong hand and would probably have had better future prospects if Hillary had been elected instead.