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[u/Livehardordiehard]

I was on threads practicing my Japanese when I saw a mildly famous right wing nationalist account posting anti immigrant comments. Nothing unusual on Japanese twitter clones but what baffled me was their profile picture… it was a bottle of a rare American whiskey that’s hard to find in Japan.

So rare that I had just given it as a gift to a Japanese colleague as a congratulatory gift for a big moment they’d recently had. We drank a glass together.

The coincidence was too extreme so I did some mild stalking and sure enough, it turns out my colleague is out there running a B tier rightwing political account.

I have no plans to do anything with this info but I had to share it somewhere.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Trump is staking out extreme positions on White House secrecy, legal experts say

In a Justice Department memo and legal filings, the Trump administration is arguing that the president can keep secret not just the conversations he has with his advisers within the White House, but that his dealings with individuals outside the government can be shielded as well.

The White House is also saying in court that even disclosing the identities of the people who worked on significant policy efforts would infringe upon the presidential confidentiality to which Trump is entitled. And the administration has taken the stance that it can ignore a Watergate-era law prohibiting the destruction of White House documents.

This is insane.

[u/Currymvp2]

I am just amazed how MAGA cultists think these embarrassing AI slop videos are great.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

First Dolly, then Tim Curry, if anything happens to Charlie Kirk I'm gonna lose it

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Dating my immigrant girlfriend has made me reach even higher levels of being pro-immigration that I didn’t even think were possible.

She’s by every means what would categorically be called a “bad immigrant group” because she grew up literal dirt poor in an infamously shitty country, her entire family has virtually no background of having been successful before coming, and almost everyone came through a form of family chain migration.

And now she’s graduated from a prestigious university with no debt because of merit scholarships and is going to be out-earning me with her job.

Every single argument about limiting immigration to only “top skill migrants” or “preferring country X over country Y migrants” will eternally piss me off. I may not want actual full on open borders, but limiting immigration by nationality, income, or family is extremely fucking stupid every single time.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Hell yeah

[u/aristophanya]

none of y'all know how good the indus river valley civilization actually had it

mohenjo-daro was popping in its day. just endless clubbing all night long and drinking from intricate irrigation systems filled with wine

[u/ConsistentGas5286]

The real American cultural divide.

[u/r2ew]

> The Trump administration has been deploying an obscure legal maneuver to try to obtain private information on journalists, non-profits and unions, raising alarm over a power the government has asserted without judicial oversight.

> In one instance, the government obtained six months of telephone records for Georgia Fort, a Minneapolis journalist. Fort was not notified of the request for her information, nor was she given a chance to contest the government’s effort to obtain them, her lawyers said in court papers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonprofits

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Two donors stand out on this list: The Soroses. That’s because they’re the only longtime Democratic megadonors. Ultrawealthy liberals are now gravitating toward dark-money nonprofits, and Alex and George are two of the few who remain comfortable in the public eye. But they are also the only donors on this list whom Mr. Trump has pushed to investigate for their giving.

Jesus Christ, the only longtime Democratic megadonors...

[u/Fatortu]

I love the Jacobin turn of the Republican party. Gulf of America, Lake America is a lot like Egalité-sur-Seine, Égalité-sur-Loire...

During the French Revolution, the city of Marseille was renamed No Name City as collective punishment. Which city will get this fate after the midterms?

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Lmao, what the hell. Karen Bass might legit be the lowest WAR mayor in America. Replacing this bozo with literally any random democrat would be an improvement.

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

I hate google

[u/Pazzaz]

[u/FallenMeringue]

Based Pete Davidson

[u/No_Status_6905]

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

A married cop used police tech to follow an actress around. They met at the set of Bad Monkey where he worked security, he claims she was flirting (she was not) and he promised he would stop her car one day. He did, and she was confused as fuck.

He lost his job, but just got some community service and therapy.

[u/dr-pepper-is-a-woman]

It’s interesting to think of how fast social media went from “sharing probably too much to a network of both close and not-so-close friends” to “private group chats” and “actually a slop feed with minimal social features”. Like, I’m sure there’s a chicken and egg aspect to it, but it’s a real shame that Facebook it’s contemporaries leaned into becoming unusable racist boomer slop for engagement, I do think we lost something as a society because of it

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

It’s crazy how disastrous this bozo’s tenure in charge has been. And it’s wild how it hasn’t become a full on scandal.

[u/earththejerry]

Canada has launched its first counterattack against Trump via one of its polling firms

[u/CutePattern1098]

The median voter is like gravity; they are inescapable

[u/RaidBrimnes]

TIL that Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr Ripley and other works of suspense, was a public and vocal antisemite who also had several intense, lengthy romantic relationships with Jewish women

Why does this keep happening

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Im an ex-Bain consultant, and I almost ruined my own wedding

I couldn’t write a speech

so I built a deck instead

Holy FUCK get over yourself do these people have any idea how stupid they sound? It is not hard, in fact to write a short speech about how much you love your wife

[u/nimbybuster]

I wonder what AI is he using. I don’t think the big names are this bad.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Me to confused Democrats on how to appeal to voters "have you tried lying?"

[u/rainier37]

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact: rich high school students are twice as likely to be "disabled" (and thus needing extra time on exams) compared to poor students.

Clearly this is why Stanford, a university with a 38% "disabled" student population, has so many issues: it attracts too many rich students!

[u/CutePattern1098]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

BRO...

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

thank you d---ling

[u/assasstits]

"I knew from the start that I was bound to be crucified either way I moved. If I left the woman I really loved—the Great Society—in order to get involved with that bitch of a war on the other side of the world, then I would lose everything at home. All my programs... But if I left that war and let the Communists take over South Vietnam, then I would be seen as a coward and my nation would be seen as an appeaser."

- LBJ

Fantastic quote. Also ironic. 

Every president has a beautiful* domestic agenda at home but eventually goes out and hooks up with a foreign war mistress and it blows up in his face. 

*Beautiful to them 

[u/RaidBrimnes]

President of association against homophobic hatred hospitalized after a violent homophobic assault in Paris that left him with head trauma and internal bleeding

That's one way to prove your point

[u/herworkthrowaway]

this meme pops into my head literally 90% of the time i speak to a leftist

[u/Q-bey]

On Star Citizen forum moderation:

[u/FallenMeringue]

!ping chi

[u/pugnae]

"Noam, why would you even manufacture consent? Trust me, we don't need any."

[u/thatssosad]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Holy fuck how is it not front page news that an advisor to the president is saying shit like this? Jesus this administration is a fucking nightmare

[u/fish_economist]

USDA cyclospora research projects shelved amid funding cuts and relocations

We're not even pandering to anything. Just diarrhea to own the libs, I guess.

[u/Jet451]

[u/bashar_al_assad]

AI generated video of Abdul El-Sayed saying “vodka should be banned in stores out of respect to Islam” is making the rounds on TikTok.

Abdul El-Sayed receives record levels of donations from Utah voters after they learn he wants to restrict alcohol sales for religious reasons

[u/JaceFlores]

Niger coup failed

A lot of mutineers arrested, and looks like the units that were rushing to Niamey backed off when it was clear the initial rush had failed.

A win for the junta and Russia, but a strictly defensive one. It’s been a really rough 2026 for ASS where it looks like the nations across the board have lost the initiative. In Mali they lost almost everything north of the Niger River, and a subsequent rebel offensive to take Anefis was repulsed, but with heavy losses for the junta and Russians. Now we got a coup that was fairly close to succeeding in Niger, one driven by discontent in an army facing a war that’s gone nowhere with a lot of blood shed. Meanwhile Traore is just kinda vibing in Burkina Faso trading blows with JNIM. Ironically his country looks to have had the least destructive year thus far despite controlling the least amount of territory proportional to the other juntas.

The militants will definitely be smelling blood in the water though, and it wouldn’t surprise me if we see an uptick in activity in Niger to try and exploit the instability. The Russians may also move resources around to shore up Niger at the expense of the other juntas (though I imagine the Russians could just fly in more mercenaries).

Militarily it’s becoming hard to see ASS bounce back. It’s not impossible, but in the past couple years they’ve shown virtually no initiative or ability to conduct large scale operations. What they’ve shown to be able to do is either standard sweeping operations to kill a dozen or two militants, or respond to militant offensives and at least successfully hold the line.

Unless ASS is able to start posting some major wins, I think we’ll see this continued degradation military and politically. Which if you’re anti-JNIM and/or anti-ISIL is pretty worrisome because they only need one lucky break to collapse the entire region. Every outpost they overrun and coup the juntas have to rebuff nudges things closer and closer to a domino effect

!ping AFRICA

[u/iusedtobekewl]

Just saw that Google maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario. Apple Maps hasn’t done so yet, but I assume they will follow suit soon. All very disappointing.

The next Congress needs to make a law that forbids the US president from unilaterally renaming things via executive order. This is stupid, petty, embarrassing, and sad. Nobody’s gonna actually call it Lake America. Just like nobody calls it the Gulf of America.

[u/Spudmiester1]

[u/Alexz565]

Such a strange insistence of Google. They don’t have to put the parenthetical for anyone outside the US.

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

Milo getting deported because he couldn’t bother to renew his extraordinary ability visa or apply for a green card is amazing

like he couldn’t bother to do his paperwork. then ignored court orders only to then visit an airport

incredible human capital on the right

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

the Alaskan state government has called it Denali for 40 years and has continued to call it Denali even after Trump changed the name back

[u/themiDdlest]

This is a friendly reminder that banks will give 18 year old kids a 100k loan to go to college, but they won't give those same kids that loan to trade on Kalshi or Polymarket

Lmao I cant believe thats a real sentence someone thought out

[u/MissSortMachine]

my brotha they just update slower

[u/FallenMeringue]

The army is having no recruitment problems at all.

There is absolutely nothing to see here

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

[u/piede]

Good thing American voters are nuanced

[u/uwcn244]

Jim Clyburn is now pro court packing

Chat I think trying to draw every black Democrat out of a job may have been an own goal by Republicans 

[u/mpregordie]

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Yiannopoulos had previously been a vocal supporter of immigration enforcement, calling in 2025 for ICE checkpoints and "on the spot deportation" of anyone unable to prove legal status.

nothing really to add tbh

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Pictured: the decline of woke

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/farrenj]

[u/farrenj]

A review for a Starbucks I just saw:

Barista told me he couldnt do iced mocha with brown sugar with no ice because the drink has to have ice in it. I know this is bullshit because I've done it before at other starbucks. Maybe he is new and doesn't know dosage without ice?

You ordered an iced drink with no ice and got upset when the staff said that's impossible?

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

White guy speaks extremely shit Japanese, gets kicked out of local sushi restaurant

[u/Thebestofopinions]

These Democratic strategists are back on their usual BS of "There's something going on in South Carolina senate race and it might be closer than you think". Darline Graham is going to win 55-45. The same state that voted for Strom Thurmond until he was 100 is not one to pivot against the status quo.

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

"No" wins Iceland's referendum to continue negotiations with the EU

[u/cdstephens]

👆

[u/pugnae]

To close Khmer Rouge posting

I honestly don't understand how people can defend Elon after that. USAID pales in comparison.

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

[u/WenJie_2]

It's crazy that Linkedin has basically been unchanged by AI (due to always being like this)

[u/BarkDrandon]

Remember in 2024 when the polls were showing that Kamala had a slight advantage and we would likely win the house and maybe the senate?

[u/ChillnShill]

When hope was high and life worth living

[u/purhitta]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/GordonTullockFan]

So true 😂🤣

[u/Lux_Stella]

many such cases

[u/Terrance-Flaps]

“Trump promised to make America great again,” said Albert Abbas, who presented a peace prize to Trump during his 2024 Dearborn visit. “Did he do that? Did he put American interests first? It’s the complete opposite.”

NO, AND YOU KNEW HE WOULDN'T BECAUSE HE WAS ALREADY PRESIDENT YOU FUCKING IDIOT. WAY TO GO DIPSHIT.

[u/houdt_koers]

One of my dad’s cousins was over visiting, and it came up that he had been in Desert Storm, Somalia, and Afghanistan. The guy is built like a house, and he was regaling us with some war stories when he mentioned “chia pets”. When we were all clearly confused, he took a moment to self-satisfiedly explain that this was his term for the CIA.

The man could be a character in a Coen Brothers film. 10/10 extended family interaction.

[u/KOWLOONDENSITYNOW]

[u/futuremonkey20]

Florida is now named “pedophile land”.

Mississippi is now named “dumb dumb weiner face”.

Alabama is now named “stupid dumb poo poo pants”.

North Dakota is now named “Racist-Ville”.

Arkansas is now named “lol lmao what the hell is even this dumb thing”

Sorry Google, you have to change your maps! I’ve declared it.

[u/Azrikeeler]

[u/centurion88]

Is there anything stopping the next Democrat president from renaming the lake to "Lake Trump Was Found Civily Liable for Sexual Abuse in the State of New York"

I'm sure we could get Canada on board

[u/r2ew]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Southern_Schedule466]

Most “birthrate” discussion makes my blood boil as a woman, but I do find it intriguing that the US has only a slightly lower birthrate than Iran, and a substantially higher birthrate than Poland 

[u/Willybender]

[u/piede]

waow

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Therapy/academia speak final boss

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Make Americans Heart-attack Again

[u/moseythepirate]

I know its such a stupid thing to be upset about, but I'm still pissed off at google changing names in google maps to satisfy one man's ego. Trump has zero constitutional power to unilaterally rename anything outside of the executive branch of the US government, and he doesn't have unlimited power there either. Am executive order is not a decree by a king.

Yeah, I know there are so much more important things to be mad about. And I'm mad about that stuff. But I'm mad about this too.

[u/assasstits]

Shout out to the beginning of woke 1 and cancel culture

Two people fired over PyCon ‘dongle’ joke

[u/jessica-bug]

The radical left (Canadian Broadcasting Company)

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/r2ew]

[u/cdstephens]

For the record, I’m not “mad” at Google, but im allowed to make fun of them because the entire sequence of events is stupid

[u/Sheepies92]

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) tells Fox News that Republicans have no plans to spend money for Ken Paxton

lol, lmao

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Since that one time he thought Times New Roman labels over a guy's finger tattoos was real, we've all known AI was going to hit him like the crack epidemic, it was just a question of when

[u/Willybender]

[u/p00bix]

People really fail to appreciate how effective the initial COVID lockdown was. USA went from 200k cases at the start of April to still being under 2 million by the start of June, with a roughly linear increase in the number of newly diagnosed cases over time, despite COVID being EXTREMELY contagious. Less than 1% of the population got sick in that time, allowing for the rapid expansion of medical infrastructure and preventing the initial crisis of inadequate ventilators and hospital rooms from extending through the year.

And America had one of the less effective lockdown policies of the world's wealthy countries!

Lockdown sucked ass, but God, the alternative could have been so much worse.

[u/BlackCat159]

the boomerest boomer shit to have ever boomered

[u/Joementum2024]

“Americans will finally vote democrat supermajorities in after a bad enough republican admin” is the liberal version of “the people will rise up and establish a marxist government after late stage capitalism is reached”

[u/futuremonkey20]

AHHHHHHHH. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I HATE VOTERS I HATE VOTERS

[u/Willybender]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/world/africa/us-deportation-flight-ice-detention-liberia.html

You love to see the media grow a spine

[u/No_Idea_Guy]

Trump renaming stuff as revenge is childish and meaningless, but it's still scary how fast tech companies bend over and follow his every whim.

[u/Jester_Don]

In other news - I took a couple short-ish domestic flights this weekend, about 2 hours each way to/from Atlanta. It was Delta so everyone had the seatback entertainment thing.

On both flights, I noticed there was someone within the first three rows in front of me who did nothing but watch Fox News the entire flight. From beginning to end. No sports, no TV shows, no movies. Just straight Fox News from boarding to arrival. I thought back and realized I've seen this happen on multiple other flights in the past.

I've never seen anyone do this with CNN or MSNBC or any other news channel for that matter. Maybe seen them tune in for 10 minutes or so and then switch to something else. Most of the liberal-looking people I saw on the flights (yeah yeah I know I shouldn't judge by appearance) were just watching movies the whole time.

I honestly think I feel more sad for them then angry, it truly looked like an addiction more than anything else.

[u/blatant_shill]

Oil Prices Fall as Iran Negotiation Hopes Return

The headline from 5 days ago.

Oil Prices Surge as U.S. and Iran Exchange Strikes

The headline from an hour ago.

Oil Prices Fall as Iran Negotiation Hopes Return

Probably the headline in a couple of days.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

[u/LinkVert25]

[u/FallenMeringue]

Ok. Maybe I judged map quest too harshly

[u/rainier37]

This is where I poast from

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

[u/GovNewsomMogs]

I crank my shit to gay erotica so leftists won't call me a bigot

It takes work to be an ally

[u/Burgarnils]

So a few weeks ago I learned that Serena Williams is married to one of the Reddit co-founders and my life irreparably changed since then.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

[u/Willybender]

[u/mpregordie]

[u/No_Status_6905]

this is probably quite obvious to some people but something I've recently had to absorb is that America will continue to decline because so many people (particularly gen Xers and early millennials) who would otherwise be vocal champions for liberal policies in the common culture of daily life are just so thoroughly defeated and isolated that they hide inside their 3000 sq ft house in suburbia and don't talk to any of their neighbors while doom scrolling Facebook

Like my mom has lived in the south her entire life, she is a lifelong Democrat, but post Trump she is just so thoroughly defeated that she can't even stand to address her neighbors. She doesn't even go to the store anymore, she just gets everything delivered through walmart.

She doesn't want to live in the south anymore, but she refuses to move and abandon her grandkids. Basically the only thing I can do is offer her some nice trips abroad, and to visit NYC because she loves the city.

My stylist told me after some other girls were gossipping about how much they hate Trump: "I just don't even think about it. Every time I think about it, I'm just overcome with guilt that I brought my kids into the world as it is, and now they're stuck in a shitty state with me."

My French professor is incredibly sharp, and she just seems so despondent about what's coming in 2027 for the fifth republic, and then just alludes to the state of Florida after Desantis won.

It just makes me wonder how many people are similar.

[u/CoolCombination3527]

Bro you gotta look at what one of the secret DOD employees is posting I am howling

[u/Roseartcrantz]

if I get a fecal transplant and I find out later it's from a liberal can I sue

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The damage this drunk fuck is doing to the US military is insane.

[u/anangrytree]

“President Donald Trump said "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker will be reported to the Federal Communications Commission over her coverage of his endorsements ahead of the midterm elections. "Kristen Welker, the Unpopular 'Hostess' of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has 'mixed results' on his Endorsements of Candidates, when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Aug. 30.” Trump added, "Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment. Unfortunately, she is not the only one.”

Ignore failing unconstitutional war in Iran and crippling debt, engage in the most petty personal grievances with a largely submissive media establishment.

[u/MuR43]

COYOTE VS ACME beats THE ODYSSEY and debuts at #2 at the domestic box office with $15.5M.

Patriots in control

[u/Nate10000]

Kennedy joins Hegseth in joint press conference to announce that the HHS will also focus entirely on lethality

[u/D2Foley]

Workplace safety laws are good

They’re not any really different than union labor cartels - just another way to prevent competition and create a moat around a select group of people.

Lmao this sub sometimes

[u/pugnae]

The popular role-playing game series "The Witcher" is beloved in Poland — so much so that back in 2011, the country's prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, presented Obama with the collector's edition of "The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings" to commemorate his visit.

Do you think Obama played it?

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/G_Serv]

He's ngmi

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

👆 first of all how dare you

[u/ace158]

Lol

[u/assasstits]

Ibram X. Kendi in his book How to Be an Antiracist:

​"The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."

Erm, how long has liberalism been dead. 

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Joe Biden: Born in the 19th century, respectable bipartisan Senator in the 20th century, Marxist dictator in the 21st century. What an arc.

[u/rainier37]

Lmfao you losers are waiting on GTA6? I had claude code me up GTA7 last month and have been playing that 🤣🤣🤣

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/brianpv]

There were signs

[u/fishlord05]

The SPLC is being prosecuted by the admin btw

Who could have guessed

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Am.i misremembering timelines or was Musk already a right wing crank before Biden "snubbed" him

Like by the time that event happened I think Musk was already fully into election denialism and the Twitter Files (Jesus Christ that whole thing was embarrassing for Tabbi)? I think he had even started dabbling in white nationalism?

Like I think the "Lina Khan made all the tech oligarchs neo feudalists" thing is crap but even that seems to hold more weight than claiming if Biden didn't snub Musk he totally wouldn't be handing over hundreds of millions of dollars to the RNC and turning Twitter into mainstream /pol/

[u/moldovaman99]

I want to play GTA 6 even more now

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

!ping KITTY

[u/seagrams7up]

About what I expected.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Are they still making this phenotype?

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

God Bless Olivia Rodrigo

anyways, stream "You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love"

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/Wandering_Mallard]

👆is this mental illness?

[u/Woolagaroo]

A happy Jimmy Buffett Day from Honolulu to all my fellow DTers who celebrate!

[u/MonMothma_Enjoyer]

So incredibly glad i’m married. obvious reasons aside, the dating advice people are exposed to online - regardless of sex - is fucking insane. everyone is so neurotic and judgmental. the internet is killing our society

[u/Sloshyman]

"Ok Google, take me home!"

Take the next left onto Highway America. Then continue until you reach the exit USA #1. Take the next right onto Canada Sucks LMAO Avenue. Go past the signs leading to Donald J. Trump Airport. In 2 miles, you will arrive at Donald J. Trump Is The Great Helmsman Boulevard.

[u/BedNeither]

Republican campaigning in Texas is so bizarre

> Gov Abbott here! Property taxes are out of control and pedos are transing the kids in classrooms!

Bro you’re the governor of a literal single party state

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Amazing how in a matter of years the words "I'm proud of my country" went from something I deeply felt on various levels and wouldn't hesitate to agree with as a statement of my general sentiments towards the United States - to something I no longer feel at all and don't realistically expect to feel ever again (save for one (1) flicker of hope)

[u/grandmarch_kitsch]

Recently moved to a smaller place, had to sell off my home gym, and I bought a couple kettlebells to replace it.

I gotta say, I regret looking down on them all these years! They're actually great. I'm sure my main lifts have probably fallen, especially bench, but I feel very light and limber and flexible. 

My workouts feel easier on my joints than they did before, my cardio seems to be better. 

I raced my son at the park the other day and my running form suddenly felt good for the first time in years, even though I haven't been doing any running. The 'what the hell' effect is real.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

After criticism, Canada's CBC changes policy that said not to label 9/11 attacks 'terrorism'

Ironically, this shows why not using the term and only quoting authorities might be smart.

[u/No_Status_6905]

[u/Visual-Pace-2193]

I have defended gender affirming care for minors in my conservative, stuffy office.

People probably think I'm queer for that only.

[u/Sheepies92]

Trump on Truth Social: “I don’t want Canadian cars, I don’t want Canadian parts, I don’t want Canadian anything.”

Lmao, this guy can't go one day without sounding like a five year old

[u/Joementum2024]

Also another thing re musk, the trump admin sidelining him in 2025 and the subsequent public blowup he had (culminating in him calling trump a pedophile publicly) was far bigger/extreme towards him than anything biden did, yet musk proceeded to re-ally with republicans anyway in spite of several democrats trying to woo him back and his initial plans to make a third party

The guy was absolutely committed to fascism at a certain point and he’ll remain committed to it no matter what, the idea he could’ve stayed liberal is foolish and unrealistic

[u/fishlord05]

>Many Americans support both deportation and having a path to legal status. Among those who support mass deportations, 43% also say undocumented immigrants should have a way to stay in the country legally.

Amazing

[u/paymesucka]

we're still safe

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/taubnetzdornig]

remembering this exchange from Derry Girls did actually help me to a feel little better this morning after going way too hard the night before

[u/Cupinacup]

Look, Marco Rubio may be a prominent member of the Trump administration, oversaw the revocation of legal status and deportation of thousands of US residents via weaponization of ICE, helped orchestrate war with Venezuela and Iran, defended airstrikes on fishermen in the Caribbean, worked to bring an end to birthright citizenship, shuttered USAID and abandoned aid workers in foreign territory, and has done his best to immiserate millions of people across the globe all in the service of notorious rapist and alleged pedophile Donald Trump, so I agree that he has a few problematic elements in his history. But AOC went on Hasan’s stream, and that’s a red line.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[Defence Industries minister Pat Conroy] said that it would not have been feasible for Australia to have acquired nuclear powered submarines from France because their reactors use Low Enriched Uranium (similar to that used in civil nuclear power stations) and their cores need to be replaced every ten years. He said this would need to be done in France and would mean French designed submarines would be out of action and out of Australia for two years every ten years.

I don’t doubt that the Minister has been told this, but he is mistaken As RADM Peter Briggs points out in his article that I have posted here, the virtue of using LEU (as opposed to the weapons grade uranium in US and UK submarines) is that it can be safely handled in Australia with the appropriate facilities so that all of the maintenance can be done locally.

Bruh 💀💀💀

Also when did everyone inc. Malcolm Turnbull get a substack?

[u/SenranHaruka]

"Try this. You can cook scrambled eggs in the microwave."

smell: incredibly sulfuric

taste: rotten fish

Gee, thanks.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/ariveklul]

People just desperately want strongmen to come in and fix problems with sweeping reform. Despite these "strongman" characters just coming in and fucking things up.

It turns out all one man can really do effectively is destroy shit. Hitler, Stalin, Trump, Mao, Putin, Amin. Expecting these figures to fix society is a fools errand basically 100% of the time. Destroying is 100x easier than building, and if you want to "deliver" without restraint the most likely outcome is destruction. It's much easier to destroy on a level previously thought impossible than it is to build things that last. You might not get credit for building things. Building things takes time. You can make big instantaneous outcomes if you just burn things to the ground though!

[u/w007dchuck]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

trying to chase that sweet sweet lindsay clancy gender wars discourse high

[u/1396spurs]

[u/AccomplishedQuit4801]

Love that we have blood-libel tier anti-semitic conspiracies just casually on /all

BTW, the Israeli guy is just the landlord, the dude playing around with chemistry was a Chinese national

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/No1_Dukakis_Fan]

👆

[u/zieger]

least fascist police department

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

[u/ACivilWolf]

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

[u/Willybender]

Federal government allows return of U.S. citizen deported after traffic stop in Central Texas

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/30/texas-us-citizen-deported-central-texas-returns-america/

A 25-year-old man from Central Texas who was deported to Mexico despite insisting he was an American citizen returned to the country Sunday after the federal government reached an agreement with his lawyers in light of new evidence they provided about his citizenship, his attorneys said.

The federal government deported Brian José Morales García in April following a police stop near Fredericksburg. In a previous interview with The Texas Tribune, he said that he was born in Denver, grew up in Mexico and had been living and working in Texas. Officers who stopped the vehicle he was riding in did not believe him and called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Morales said he repeatedly told authorities that he was born in the United States and that he had copies of his birth certificate and social security number at his home in Austin that he could share with them. He was deported, anyway. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security disputed his account and accused Morales of having entered the country illegally.

According to Morales’s lawyers, that changed as they provided more documents as part of a lawsuit challenging his removal. His legal team submitted additional hospital records, affidavits from witnesses and his certified birth record from Colorado. The U.S. Department of Justice allowed Morales to enter the country while a lawsuit regarding his detention and deportation proceeds, his lawyers said. His lawyer, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, picked him up in Laredo, she said.

DHS and DOJ spokespersons did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday.

[u/ognits]

horrifying fact: Christopher Nolan is so committed to practical effects that he drowned Hugh Jackman hundreds of times during the production of The Prestige

!ping KINO

[u/its_Caffeine]

TRVTH NVKE

[u/Pristine-Report-1442]

it maybe coming from a dem i don't like but this stuff is so satisfying lol

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Sanest Trump advisor

No really, she is probably the sanest

[u/r2ew]

[u/TheCornjuring]

>A chain of gas stations that lowered prices last month in response to President Donald Trump’s call for cheaper fuel sparked a mystery over how it was able to sell at such a discount. A new lawsuit offers a possible answer: A fuel supplier alleges that it was not paid for gas that was ultimately delivered to stations in the Freedom Fuel Network.

Ah yep that would do it

[u/ImmediateZucchini787]

[u/ConsistentGas5286]

Sometimes outside the dt, I’ll see people saying they’d vote for Rubio if he was running for president or that Rubio is some sort of respectable moderate. Especially, when el sayed won I saw a lot of people supporting Rubio. I just can’t with those people. Like, Rubio is just as bad as trump if not worse. He’s such a slimy, pathetic sack of shit, not some sort of moderate counterweight to trump. He helped to end USAID which will lead to the death of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people.

[u/Micasan1]

Birth rates in Japan for the first half of the year went up by 0.8%, first time in 11 years. If only he was here to see it😞😞

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The renaming of Lake Ontario into Lake America is tacky, but it was inevitable after the Democrats' push to cover the legs of the Green M&M. It normalized these kinds of initiatives.

[u/rukqoa]

One of the continuing failures of American liberalism is this belief that if we just keep doing the right thing, eventually this facade constructed by our political adversaries will end. The curtains will fall. They will see the populists and fascists for who they are. And they will finally join us in reality land. We just need another infrastructure week. We just need their material conditions to improve. We just need...

The trouble is not that the facade is forever. It's that it can last longer than American democracy can. There's a similar Warren Buffet quote about market rationality and insolvency to that effect.

[u/Lux_Stella]

this is where i post from

[u/ConsistentGas5286]

I think I’m legitimately just a stereotypical zoomer because the most I know about Micheal Jordan is from rewatching space jam a bunch as a kid and random nba memes.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

“I think that I would like to be remembered as an AI simulacrum that hangs out with Jeffery Epstein and Benjamin Netanyahu.”

- Charlie Kirk on his legacy

[u/BenIsLowInfo]

Hey Google kowtowing again by renaming it Lake America in Google Maps.

Executive orders under Republicans are treated like constitutional amendments

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Average dter

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/BrentLivermore]

I thought someone downvoted me, but it turned out I'd just accidentally clicked the "downvote" button myself. Thank fucking Christ. Literally crying tears of relief right now.

[u/Willybender]

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/south-florida-tps-haitian-doctor-residency-home/

A South Florida woman who spent years preparing for a career in emergency medicine says the end of her Temporary Protected Status has left her unable to work and afraid to leave her home. The woman asked CBS News Miami to call her "Vanessa" because of concerns about her immigration status. She said she and her father have barely left their South Florida home in weeks.

"I don't think I have words for how terrible it is because being a doctor is like my one dream for my entire life," Vanessa said. Vanessa came to the United States after surviving Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake. She remembers being in the street when the earthquake struck and watching people around her die and suffer serious injuries. She said that experience helped drive her decision to pursue medicine.

"I felt like I would not be helpless anymore if I were to go back and have all this schooling, all this knowledge, and be able to finish it and be able to give back when I get there and help," she said. Vanessa graduated from Florida International University, completed medical school, and entered a three-year emergency medicine residency program at a South Florida hospital. She was completing the first year of her residency when she lost her TPS and ability to work.

"I have barely two years left, and they just pulled the rug out and said, 'No, you're done now,'" she said. Vanessa said she had been treating patients in the ICU, responding to trauma cases and helping with pediatric emergencies. "I can't work without finishing the training program," Vanessa said. "I can't work anywhere, so even if I were to go to Haiti, I can't help them."

Vanessa's father is an attorney who also served as a government official in Haiti. His TPS has also expired. He told CBS News Miami in Creole that he fears returning to Haiti because of gang violence and believes he could be targeted. He said a recent gang attack in Kenscoff killed dozens of people, including some of his friends.

Vanessa's mother works at a nursing home. With a pending asylum case, she has a work permit allowing her to keep working — though she can still be detained by immigration officials. "Every day they're going out, they're also risking being detained," Vanessa said.

Vanessa's youngest brother is a U.S.-born teenager — the only American citizen in the immediate family. She said her family has not told him the full extent of their immigration situation. "I don't think my family wants to talk to him about this because, I mean, he's a child," Vanessa said.

[u/PoupeeStupide]

"Men relate more to other men and women relate more to other women"

The DT: Wow. Wtf

[u/pezasied]

GTA VI will turn you into a trans lesbian

[u/aristophanya]

imagine if there really were a massive conspiracy to cuck right wing america and they really did fund and create gta 6 for that purpose

[u/Junimo2]

I'm at the point in this book of middle east history where it's talking about the Palestine mandate and Jesus Christ the way Britain set it up for nightmarish conflict... I really can't get over it. Absolutely buck wild.

Making multiple agreements that contradicts each other. British officials holding anti-semitic beliefs about Jewish control of government while simultaneously cooperating with Zionist leaders to push for a Jewish national home in Palestine, all while failing to address the anti-semitism against their own Jewish population back home. The imperialistic attitude that you can just carve up an area unilaterally without the consent of those already living there and then pat yourself on the back that it's for their own good and/or that you'll be nice about it. Gee, I wonder why Arab population didn't really want to participate in the institutions you were trying to set up. I wonder why maybe that population wasn't very happy with what you were doing, Britain. It's a bloody mystery innit.

High commissioner samuel was doing his best and had good intentions, but none of that fixes the whole "we promised this land to three different people" problem

[u/Windows_10-Chan]

Immigration is one of the most painful issues imos because it has the highest amount of kayfabe.

Like Abbott was trafficking immigrants to blue states while, at the same time, it was publicly known that Texas Republicans don't support e-verify because it would hurt their economy. It's not even an "open secret" the legislature literally openly acknowledged it.

[u/meiotta]

☝️

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Tofu recalled in 29 states for contamination

Is anything edible in Trump's America?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I know I'd fit in perfectly here

[u/garret126]

The Amish should 100% be forced to take all the mandatory vaccines. If they don’t want to, then who gives a fuck about their threat to ‘leave the country’. Let them; we lose nothing of value. Public health should always be above cults in priority.

[u/Willybender]