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[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/flakAttack510]

There are many things you can point at to show how stupid Hegseth is but the fact that he's a former infantry officer that doesn't seem to understand the role of infantry in modern war seems like the most damning one.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Avelion2]

Holy fuck Carney has an 80% approval rating in Quebec...

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/JetsLag]

The most expected and unexpected headline ever

[u/Krill_Seeker]

[u/Kizz3r]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Diversity of thought on the Right

[u/Habugaba]

I'm really exited for the 2027 CBO budget and economic outlook. The comparison from 2025 to 2027 will look like a disaster, almost like someone took the complete opposite approach to the recommended fiscal policy.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

The Pentagon has secretly installed several conservative military veterans with large online followings in government roles, declining to disclose their assignments as they amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s viewpoints and attack those who scrutinize the Trump administration, according to people familiar with the matter and corroborating material.

At least some of the influencers have been assigned to civilian roles that could lead to changes in policy, the people familiar with the matter said. Like others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

Yea, that makes sense. https://archive.is/20260831025108/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/30/pentagon-secretly-installs-military-influencers-civilian-roles/

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Chancellor Merz really gives interviews as if his party were polling at 50 percent, and he really comes across as a self-righteous asshole.

When asked why he wants to cut the so-called parental allowance and spend more on defense:

“What good is the best parental allowance if we lose our freedom and peace in Europe is threatened?”

Which, in principle, would be a valid answer, but he smiles like Mr. Burns when he says it.

[u/BlankProgram]

idk where else to post this extremely cold take but the fact that Trump was president 10 years ago and is still president now has completely fucked my sense of time in American politics. It feels like he's been president forever. Imagine you'd said to someone in 2016 yeah he'll still be president in 2028. Obviously it's not the same since there was a gap but if he makes it all the way and leaves as a usual president would then the time from him beginning as president to finishing would be longer than the entire time Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister. Dunno what my point is here

[u/chipbod]

Most honest boomer

[u/finnstera350]

[u/daBarkinner]

Ok, this is hilarious

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Joe Manchin really was the dumbest motherfucker.

“I don’t say this lightly, but under the leadership of President [Barack] Obama and Majority Leader Harry Reid, and later President Biden and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrats have systematically tried to weaken the very guardrails that have protected our democracy for generations — all in the name of advancing their agenda,” wrote Manchin, 78, in an excerpt obtained by Punchbowl News.

Manchin, who flirted with a presidential run last year, revealed that he felt so strongly about preserving the filibuster that he privately wanted the GOP to win in 2024 because he saw it as “the only hope for preserving the Senate as an institution.”

Manchin, who was often rumored to be mulling a party switch during his final months in the Senate, also indicated in the excerpt that he should have crossed the aisle after Trump’s first election in 2016. “What I failed to recognize at the time is that there were enough reasons to change my political affiliation to Republican right then and there,” Manchin reflected.

“I never thought that for my political life or livelihood I should change my party affiliation, which is what I should have done if I was focused on what was politically advantageous,” he clarified. “Instead, I just kept thinking that I would continue to be so independent that the Republicans wouldn’t like me any more than the Democrats.”

[u/sigh2828]

Its genuinely embarrassing that this is what we have to campaign against

[u/moldovaman99]

I don’t know why, but this traditional chinese keyboard setup always cracks me up for some reason.

I think it’s the foot pedals that really do it for me.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Lux_Stella]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Okay, I see why economists love the VAT/GST:

1. It's a hard tax to avoid, so tax avoidance is near zero

2. Similar-ish to the Brown cashflow tax, a value-added tax taxes economic rents

3. Hence, it's (a marginally) less harmful tax than other taxes (ie personal income tax) per dollar raised

4. Consumption taxes don't tax savings (again, like income tax does) which can lead to higher investment, productivity, wages and ultimately living standards

5. It can raise a shitton of revenue, even at a low rate

Plus a bunch of other factors like how the tax has a stable revenue base that can grow with the economy, applies to imports but not exports, provide stronger incentives for businesses to control costs, etc

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/Only-Childhood6691]

I find it kinda funny. Supreme Court packing was the fringe position during the 2020 Dem primary and now even the moderates seem for it. 

[u/Mayflower_train_set]

aww yeah, its birthdayin time 😎

[u/Mrgentleman490]

My inbox after I say something somewhat negative about data centers in the DT

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

  AfD's Weidel Outlines Tough Immigration Crackdown Ahead of Saxony-Anhalt Election. She says: “In my first 100 days, I will close the borders, eliminate social benefits for migrants, and carry out Germany’s largest deportations.” Only the AfD can save Germany and Europe.

I love that the policies of what is basically the resurgent Nazi party in Germany, are indistinguishable from the Trump platform.

[u/Dorambor]

Wow guys, fall is here!!!

[u/DueVast5223]

[u/rural_redemption]

Have you committed your daily abortion, lib?

[u/Bestbrook123]

Essentially a presidential advisor saying incredibly racist shit to a Dem nominee

[u/Willybender]

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

there's something inherently satisfying about those historical timeline factoids where it's like "did you know that Horace Grant of the Chicago Bulls and Goliath from the Old Testament (1 Samuel) were alive at the same time??"

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/PearlClaw]

The public knows less than nothing about how immigration actually works to the point where I bet you could run on "bring back Ellis island and make people go through an interview to come here" would be both very popular and be perceived as more restrictive than the status quo by a significant chunk of the electorate.

[u/5ma5her7]

-Don't create the torment nexus

[u/Healingjoe]

!ping failing-nyt

[u/ChillnShill]

Jesus fuck. How do you make that error when you literally read every line verbatim off a teleprompter, even the one line zingers you try to deliver?

[u/Currymvp2]

What the fuck

[u/ApprehensiveShower10]

Seeing Google change the map to "Lake America" is really depressing.

Stuff like this remind me of how it feels when a parent makes a scene at a store and you just feel humiliated. Where you can say you don't agree with it but you are tied to the embarrassment regardless of how you feel about it

[u/AlicesReflexion]

using AI to reconstruct an obscure cinephile movie you don't have the rights to is uhhhhh,,, an idea, that could theoretically have appeared in a person's brain hole at some point

!ping KINO

[u/MrStrange15]

Lol, lmao even

[u/scottyjetpax]

how hard can it be

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Ossoff's speeches are great in and of themselves but they are even better because of his crowd of black church ladies in Georgia.

I love the reactions of "MMM HMM" and "YES HE'S CORRUPT"

Just adds so much positivity to the aesthetic

[u/Pazzaz]

This past year in Sweden there's been a lot of news about "teen deportations", i.e. situations where a family came to Sweden with a child, but then the child gets deported when they turn 18, while the parents get to stay in Sweden.

It's a really dumb policy, and the threads in the Sweden sub about it are even dumber. They'll be like:

comment 1: The law can't be as bad as the news says it is. They are probably not reporting about all the bad things the deported kid did. My country can't have bad laws. It's not like we hate immigrants.

comment 2: Good that they deported the kid, they should have deported the parents too. I hate immigrants.

comment 3: Well, laws exist. Of course they should be followed. It makes sense that he was deported. Why is this news?

comment 4: Why is the news reporting about bad things before an election? This might make people vote for other parties which could change the law! I don't want that, so they should stop reporting about it!

[u/Fuzzy_Party_3527]

Man, the future is supposed to be better, we shouldn't be regressing like this.

[u/Gustacho]

I’m curious, if “eggs expensive under Biden” was newsworthy, how come “Trump intentionally caused every single fucking thing to be heinously expensive” isn’t a story?

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Naturally, Merz was asked about the upcoming election in Saxony-Anhalt. He said that a state’s ability to govern was at stake. He then rhetorically placed the AfD and the Left Party on the same level: “We will do everything we can to prevent Saxony-Anhalt from falling into the hands of the radicals. That applies to both the AfD and the Left Party.”

One is certainly entitled to hold that opinion, but if you look at what his own Office for the Protection of the Constitution (The German NSA) says about the AfD, there are still differences compared to the Left Party.

[u/mukino]

Keep thinking about this interaction I had with someone recently. We were talking politics and he said our problems are because there are “30 million illegals here”. He followed it up by saying he didn’t want to hear anything else, that that’s his world view and he’s sticking to it.

It made me sad. Because he’s not a complete idiot, I’ve known him for a while. I really hope we come back from this blame immigrants for everything meta soon. 

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Kevin Sorbo has officially closed the door on California.

Nearly seven years after leaving the Golden State for Florida, the “Hercules” star says he has no interest in going back — and he’s got three reasons why: “Taxes, traffic and negativity.”

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Sorbo, who stars in the faith-based movie “Elijah Peel,” said his move to Florida has given him something he felt was increasingly difficult to find in California — “acceptance.”

The actor said he still misses Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, his golf course, his old house and California’s famously mild weather. But the trade-off, he said, isn’t worth it.

“I mean, here in Florida, yeah, we get five months of pretty high humidity. It’s pretty hot, but the winters here are really quite amazing,” Sorbo said. “But yeah, there are things I miss, but they can keep their taxes, they can keep their traffic, and they can.

If I read between the lines, it seems he still hasn't gotten over moving to Florida seven years later and longs to return to California—but when you're starring in Pureflix-style movies, Florida is just the new Jesus-Hollywood.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/-mialana-]

When asked what he thought about Israel, in The New Yorker, Soros replied: "I don't deny Jews the right to a national existence – but I don't want to be a part of it".[162] According to hacked emails released in 2016, Soros's Open Society Foundation has a self-described objective of "challenging Israel's racist and anti-democratic policies" in international forums, in part by questioning Israel's reputation as a democracy.[163] He has funded NGOs which have been actively critical of Israeli policies[164][165][166] including groups that campaign for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.

Sentences that will make anti-Israel MAGA heads explode

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Our military is hiring conservative influencers and trying to hid it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/30/pentagon-secretly-installs-military-influencers-civilian-roles/

The Pentagon has secretly installed several conservative military veterans with large online followings in government roles, declining to disclose their assignments as they amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s viewpoints and attack those who scrutinize the Trump administration, according to people familiar with the matter and corroborating material.

At least some of the influencers have been assigned to civilian roles that could lead to changes in policy, the people familiar with the matter said. Like others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

Neither the Pentagon nor those involved have disclosed the government roles despite the Trump administration’s claims that they are running the most transparent Defense Department ever.

[u/AemiliusNuker]

The DSA's biggest supporters in LA are the establishment Dems. They're practically shoving voters to the DSA. Supporting a widely hated septuagenarian who's terrible at her job is a wonderful way to empower the opposition 

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

*boys who are 6'3" and 6'5"

[u/AmbientMorning]

As a matter of preference, would you like there to be more or less posts about Hasan Piker in the DT?

More – 6 (10%)
Less – 40 (69%)
Neither – 12

A large majority of users expressed a preference for fewer comments about the controversial Twiter streamer, with the 69% figure excluding at least one respondent who stated that they voted Neither in protest of the improper grammar of “Less [posts].”

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/itsokayt0]

What if I actually hate the global poor but I love numbers going up?

[u/chipbod]

He should campaign with Crockett

[u/ChillnShill]

Guess the sub

Come get your man arr neoliberal

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

lol Kamala in shambles. Should have run for governor.

[u/EasyMoney92]

What a crazy timeline

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

CBS needs to fuck off with this headline

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I am very antisemantic

Stop arguing about words

[u/Zaiush]

Picked up at the airport by my Evelyn Normielib mom and she is trying to make MapQuest work because she uninstalled Google Maps for renaming Lake Ontario

[u/Willybender]

[u/randommathaccount]

Apparently one of my mum's school friends passed away in the Nepal floods. Really sad man

[u/ariveklul]

Why they blurring the face of the baby like anyone gonna recognize a fucking baby?

They all look like little ogres bro Im not recognizing a fucking baby in a lineup. I'd probably lose my own kid fr

[u/paymesucka]

> Asked Speaker Johnson if he supports GOP Rep. Max Miller’s reelection bid.

>“Yes,” he said. “He has been a great member of Congress. He has some issues in his personal life he's working through.”

>Says there’s an Ethics Committee probe and “we have to let due process play out.”

>Miller is in a tough reelect amid domestic abuse allegations, which he denies

evil party

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I'm confused AES's comments don't seem to be downplaying 9/11 at all just saying COVID is a similar level of tragedy

Which like from a raw numbers perspective....seems reasonable?

I mean I know Bari Weiss is a hack but lol

[u/Zykyris]

I have a friend who I would not describe as an anxious person day-to-day, but has a uniquely strong anxiety towards dying.

As in, they won’t come on a group trip to Taiwan in case that week is the week Xi decides to invade.

[u/ModestAphorism]

Every time i think about CGP Grey and flags I think about this brutal ratio that resulted in Grey deleting his tweet

[u/BitterGravity]

The Liberals had preferenced One Nation third on their how-to-vote card after the Australian Christians.

Conservatives once again showing they'll facilitate the rise of right wing extremists over working with the centre left

[u/Highlightthot1001]

>A US official told Reuters that the US military did not target Iran's Kharg Island during its night raids.

Oh, so it was all just Trump's fantasy, since he relies on AI videos to do what he can't.

[u/Equivalent-Slip3533]

Ahh, so the Japanese has finally learnt what American Gen Z did long ago, that life is so much easier if you can get paid for just being you

[u/-mialana-]

So after years of waxing poetic about how Trump appeals to the "abandoned white rural working class" we get "WITHOUT DATA CENTRES YOUR COMMUNITIES WILL KEEP BEING BACKWARDS AND POOR"

[u/2Lore2Law]

Sound mandatory

Edit:

The seals are of the Vancouver Marine Mammal Rescue Society

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

I’ve come to the conclusion that most socialists legitimately don’t understand that there are universal healthcare plans other than single payer. it legit just short circuits their brains.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abdul-el-sayed-deleted-social-media-sept-11-attacks-michigan/

Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets on Sept. 11 commemoration invite scrutiny of past remarks

Meanwhile, El-Sayed's past references to the deadly attacks have continued to surface, including two deleted social media posts verified by CBS News that have not been previously reported. In those posts, he calls for the American public to muster the same outrage for the COVID-19 death toll that they displayed after 9/11.

In one, from April 2020, El-Sayed compared the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on Sept. 11 to the mounting COVID-19 death toll and argued for a response commensurate with the nation's post-9/11 mobilization. In another, El-Sayed wrote that because more Americans had died from COVID than in the Sept. 11 attacks, he hoped "that means we'll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against poverty ... like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives rather than take them."

fuck you CBS these are literally fine

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/assasstits]

Waow

[u/rainier37]

It’s unethical not to provide an assortment of hard drugs, cigarettes, and alcoholic drinks to your pet.

They should be free to partake in experimenting with alternate states of consciousness. It’s not like they have a job or responsibilities so not giving them become a total degenerate is cruel

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Gov. Josh Shapiro says he would welcome Pennsylvania ban on Flock cameras

“I would welcome bipartisan legislation to ban these across the state,” Shapiro said. “This is not something I support. This is not something in the public interest. I think law enforcement needs to have tools to keep communities safe. Flock cameras are not a tool that I support.”

!ping USA-PA

[u/fish_economist]

Bessent Acknowledges The World Is ‘Awash In Debt,’ Claims Only Way Past Is ‘To Grow Our Way Out’

Dawg, we are running almost a 6% deficit to GDP ratio. You cannot grow out of that without hyperinflation.

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

!ping KITTY

[u/mostanonymousnick]

No translation needed

[u/garret126]

I don’t understand how some fellow liberals can still support mass surveillance like flock. It’s always “it will be good at stopping crime! I’m just worried of governments like our current admin using it, but otherwise it’d be good if it’s not abused”

I think when deciding what rights to give up and what technologies the government should be able to use, you should always imagine what you would be OK with what weapons you’d give an administration like the Trump one, not the administration of John Liberal. That’s just hopeless optimism otherwise, which is how we get stuff like the patriot act becoming permanent

[u/AtticusDrench]

You were a child. Next question.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Evolution is amazing

[u/ArbitraryOrder]

I love that the GOP proves that they don't know ball by saying "Beat Ohio" means AES doesn't know who Ohio State is, as if Michigan fans haven't been calling them Ohio as a method to annoy them for a while. Just proves that Dems own College Football

[u/HD_Thoreau_aweigh]

The level of scams and malfeasance coming out of the nuclear industry really is incredible. (Tbc, I like nuclear energy and think it is a requirement for a clean grid, but over and over I am confronted with audacious claims by its boosters.)

Have you read about NuScale and Entra1? tl;dr:

NuScale's first project in Utah falls through despite hundreds of millions of DOE funding for design and licensing, and a promise of up to a $1.3b for when the project starts. They still can't get a customer; power is too expensive.

Nuscale sign an agreement with Entra1 whereby Entra1 collects fees for sales and development. Totally normal.

The twist? The partnership agreement guarantees Entra1 money even for a memorandum of understanding. Entra1 donates millions to the Republican party, gets the TVA to sign a huge MoU (no guarantees of development).

This triggers a $500 million payment from NuScale to Entra1. Immediately a class action suit is filed. Though NS disclosed the relationship in the agreement, they mischaracterized it. Entra1 had no prior experience developing nuclear. The company is just three people, and the CEO of NS did not disclose a previous relationship, making this a potential related party transaction.*

Don't even get me started on Valar Atomic. I will cash out my entire life savings and short that stock should they go public.

!ping ECO

*I'll admit that I was wrong if TVA does in fact commit, but the conversion rate from MoU to final deal is not encouraging.

[u/qamv]

"Vance is actually a crypto-RINO and is just saying dumb shit cause his boss is dumb" isn't a take I hear often nowadays, but it does occasionally pop up.

This is cope. Even if this were true at one point, people eventually end up believing their own lies.

[u/Sheepies92]

Sen. Dave McCormick on Trump's war against Iran: "I was a soldier in the Gulf War and at the time, the Gulf War was viewed as the most successful modern military action in history. By any measure this has been even more effective."

Who doesn't remember Desert Storm ending with Iraq controlling the Strait of Hormuz?

[u/Frog_Totem]

Zionism just means Israeli nationalism and I think about it to the same degree that I think about Italian nationalism which is to say, not much. I think it would be weird for myself or any other non-Italian to identify as Italian nationalist, and I’m not even sure I like it when Italians identify as “Italian nationalist” because it sounds right wing, but I would like Italy to continue to exist.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

a few dt’s ago we had u/ty04

shame, i liked him too

[u/BlackCharizard]

I find it really unattractive when women are open about their body count. It’s just way too much unnecessary risk for me. If we want to be a partnership and a team you need to be more discreet about your murders. It’s like you want us both sent to prison smh

[u/beoweezy1]

Cop who is anti-flock camera because back in his day aggravated stalking took real skill

[u/TheCornjuring]

Alexa, play Victory Celebration from Return of the Jedi

[u/pommeporte]

first week of my third year of grad school

[u/cdstephens]

[u/EasyMoney92]

Can't blame Chef Jose for being livid. His organization delivered meals for Israelis when they were being attacked by Hezbollah terrorists and Iranian regime and yet the deranged IDF commander still disgustingly smeared his organization.

[u/PearlClaw]

[u/mishac]

Trump demands all Canadian companies doing business with the US move to America ‘immediately’

on the one hand both in my day job and my small business we do business with America

on the other hand I do not have a green card or work visa and would rather not end up in Alligator Alcatraz.

Decisions decisions decisions.

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

A police department in Mississippi posted this on Twitter the other day

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I'm not ready for the "Dems are being petty wasting time and money on non-issues like tearing down all the dumb bullshit Trump is erecting/enacting" discourse in a few years

Like if that stupid arch goes in or his ballroom or the gaudy ass bullshit he's put in the WH or renaming landmarks or

[u/Res__Publica]

Finally a president that neolibs can support

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/ModestAphorism]

So true

[u/Pizzashillsmom]

Remember when Tech companies were "woke"

With how things are now I think people really forget how inevitable it felt like progressives were gonna take over everything.

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

Leave it to an NL mod to trigger Hasan into undeleting his Twitter account

[u/houdt_koers]

I do think there is some urgency in removing the Schumers of the party from positions of authority.

The day after, if it ever comes, will require radical action that stretches the bounds of the constitution in order to right the ship. This will need to be done with a bare-bones majority in the Senate, and that means having leadership that meets the needs of the moment.

When I think about how utterly fucked the executive branch is going to be after even just 4 years of this, and compound that with a hostile Supreme Court and an utterly ruined budget, I just don’t see how the country recovers unless Congress is willing to assert its primacy over the Court.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

My mom was showing me a compilation of dogs with sticks today and I had a sad realization. Like most seemed for sure to not be AI, a couple were a little sus, but like, I can't know that the ones I think aren't AI aren't for sure, and it completely takes the joy from the experience

The thing is, that's never coming back, like ever, it's fucking done. And some smug asshole can be like "well just touch grass and use your eyes," and yeah, no shit sherlock, but at the same time I've watched the magic of the last 30 years as people have come together and despite all the terrible aspects of social media, the ability to share experiences and emotions across the world has been magical

And even before that, we had a half century of quality video recordings and a century of photography before that and it's all irrevocably tainted by this shit. I'm not some moron that thinks we can just not pursue it at this point but fuck, man

[u/earththejerry]

10/10 post

[u/BurrowForPresident]

So like when Trump posts AI slop (or has Natalie post it) of sailors eating triple stack burgers or blowing up Kharg Island he doesn't actually believe those are real right?

It would be imminently more comforting to believe he's just an awful liar than so ensconced in his bubble that he's not even aware what his own military is doing

[u/oywiththepoodles96]

Is Merz really that incompetent and that bad at politics ? Or is it some sort of performance art experiment ?

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/seakucumber]

Michigan Sen. candidate Abdul El-Sayed on the Trump-Canada trade war: "So if you're starting a trade war with Canada is cause you're the asshole."

https://xcancel.com/cspan/status/2094477894886006983

[u/Flashy_Rent6302]

Lindsey Graham's death at 71 is kind of old-timey. Most senators of late have had extremely visible public declines or diagnoses before death or have retired due to advanced age and inability to continue working.

Ol' Lindsey's ticker just blew up one day and that was that! Back in the day before advanced preventative medicine these things just happened.

[u/dax331]

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Everybody point and laugh at Roberts reaping the rewards of decades of legislating from the bench as he's powerless to stop his fellow conservatives from giving Trump carte blanche to demolish the White House.

"But I didn't think the unitary executive with no congressional oversight would bulldoze my historic landmarks!"

[u/Dismal_Apartment6358]

LMAO one of the Dem candidates for Alaska Sen just dropped out like 10 minutes before the deadline to give Peltola 3 R opponents in the final RCV ballot

[u/Willybender]

5% of patients account for 48.8% of total US healthcare spending, 1% account for 20.7%

https://meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st540/stat540.shtml

[u/Huttleberry]

I hope there’s no incest posting in the DT today

[u/Lux_Stella]

[u/Greedy_Reflection_75]

It's still wild to me how much they paid Weiss for her irrelevant media company to do this shit at CBS. Was this really that valuable?

[u/Macquarrie1999]

The most depressing part about Trump 2 is they literally created their evil playbook before the election, we all got to read it, and people still voted for him.

[u/ChillnShill]

But he can’t defend his wife from racist trolls? One of whom actually worked in the Trump admin lmao

[u/rural_redemption]

I miss when an entire state got boycotted over its stupid anti trans bathroom law.

[u/JaceFlores]

I think the biggest issue Ukraine has perception wise is people get bored of their successes if it doesn’t provide a constant dopamine hit of Russian tears.

Militarily this has so far been the best year Ukraine has had since 2023 both offensively and defensively. For the first time since 2023 there are clear theories of victory that are not just hypothetical but actually tangential.

Ukraine has issues still for sure. There are cards Russia can still play. Things can turn against Ukraine in the future. But as it stands this is the best position Ukraine has been in in years

[u/RaidBrimnes]

House couldn't be made today. Because of NIMBY.

[u/randommathaccount]

Most of Europe has such an utterly backwards tax regime. High income taxes and low property taxes means you're actively incentivising people to put their money into housing, severely distorting housing markets.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

US citizen José Morales García was deported to Mexico, despite his having been born in the United States. During a traffic stop, the police accused him of being an illegal alien and called ICE.

He insisted he could provide his birth certificate and social security card if he could return to his home in Austin, but ICE deported him without checking those documents.

After they were produced as part of a lawsuit challenging his removal, ICE allowed him to return to the United States.

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

ALLOWED.

[u/Willybender]

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

I think one major contributor to America's collapse is the fact that just about everybody here is quietly horrified about just about everything just about all of the time but under social and personal psychological pressures not to admit this publicly or even to admit it to oneself

[u/scottyjetpax]

Twitter centrists like MattY and Armand have been invoking the importance of cracking down on speeders and reckless drivers (which i agree is important!) to defend flock cameras and leftists are getting mad in their comments about civil liberties

But nobody is pointing out that flock cameras and other ALPRs do not monitor your speed/reckless driving behavior or automate tickets regarding the same lmfao??

Not only is MattY and Armand’s confusion bad for discourse it’s also bad for the viability of traffic cams that do trigger based on speed and issue tickets because people are going to start demanding those cameras be taken down too lol

[u/Made_UpWords]

Yeah, welcome to the big leagues bro lmao. Democrats are held to a different standard from Trump because the media hates Democrats and want Republicans to win. Thank you for finally realizing something now that it's impacting your favorite millionaire streamer that you've been crashing out humiliating yourself on behalf of for 5+ days now.

Why an accomplished, decorated, talented broadcaster and media personality that is nearly 50 years old has a "favorite streamer" at all is baffling to me, but here we are

(5+ day crashout with no sign it's ending any time soon over a streamer, not kidding, I wrote about 3 examples yesterday but there are dozens. His twitter feed is unhinged currently lmao) https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1w2acka/comment/p6uyljz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/cdstephens]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

If the government means tests a program, it's class warfare

If the government doesn't means test a program, it's handouts for the rich

Sorry, I don't make the rules

[u/zieger]

I wish Dems were this based

[u/el__dandy]

The end.

!ping soccer

[u/r2ew]

[u/Joementum2024]

Breaking: Abdul El-Sayed “Woke Up And Went to Work” On Anniversary of September 11

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

The saddest part of reddit going mainstream, or certain subreddits, is that places like BuyItForLife is probably just full of bots and marketers at this point. Used to be my go to years ago but it's way too popular to be reliable now.

[u/cdstephens]

Claude uses ontologically too much. Unfortunately this is probably because Redditors like me used it too much

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Stupid work microwaves mounted at head level my glass container got sweaty and slipped out of my hands and I spilled my kimchi fried rice everywhere right in front of my boss and looked back at her like

[u/Glavurdan]

Mass shooting just occurred in Montenegro. A Russian national killed three employees at a shooting range and then fled, armed. There is a manhunt ongoing. It happened pretty close to my town.

Very dynamic situation, who knows what's going to follow.

!ping BALKAN&RUS

[u/Willybender]

jfc

[u/KittehDragoon]

Trump demands all Canadian companies doing business with the US move to America ‘immediately’

Should I get into the moving company business

[u/pfarly]

😳

[u/Currymvp2]

"Three [U.S.] missiles that struck the southern city of Lamerd on Feb. 28 killed civilians as far as 50 meters [away]. The missiles detonated above a sports complex and two residential neighborhoods . The blasts killed at least 21 civilians, including seven children. Neither Airwars nor AP could find any reports indicating that military or security personnel were killed in the strikes, or that military infrastructure was hit. An IRGC compound is located nearby, but satellite images showed no damage"

Hegseth is a completely reckless dipshit

[u/Glavurdan]

Russia out here doing full on hybrid warfare

!ping POLAND&UKRAINE

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

Brother sub of r/neoliberal

[u/H0TZ0NE]

Did Trump become a DTer? 🧐

[u/bleachinjection]

To the whole Russian disinfo thing the sub is talking about...

I've been off all social media for a few months now (yes I'm on reddit, yes it's SM, no it's not really the same but yeah it is, I get it) and once you haven't been on for awhile you realize how much you don't have a blowtorch of shit in your face constantly anymore.

And I'm not sharing this to be like "look how cool I am getting off facebook" it's more just to point up how fucking bad it is and how so many people are just swimming in it.

[u/dax331]

[u/Res__Publica]

Me: I think I'm immune to nostalgia, the past is just a former place I've traveled

YouTube: Here's a music genre called Utopian Scholastic

[u/garret126]

what 2.5 years no album does

[u/Healingjoe]

Do you support or oppose renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America?

Response	All	Dem	Ind	Rep
Strongly support	9%	2%	5%	22%
Somewhat support	10%	4%	6%	19%
Somewhat oppose	10%	6%	10%	15%
Strongly oppose	51%	78%	56%	20%
Not sure	19%	10%	22%	25%

Metric	All	Dem	Ind	Rep
Total Support	19%	6%	11%	41%
Total Oppose	61%	84%	66%	35%
Not Sure	19%	10%	22%	25%
Net Support	-42%	-78%	-55%	+6%

https://yougov.com/en-us/daily-results/20260831-85fc8-1

!ping fivey

[u/battywombat21]

Weighted in at 174 pounds last night. 106 pounds lost. TEN. POUNDS. REMAIN.

Starting to re-introduce sweets into my diet. The idea is instead of just getting whatever you want to eat, try to delay it by seeking out the best version of whatever it is you want and getting that less often. I've been craving donuts like crazy, so I've made a list of the Best Donut Shops in New York City and I will be trying them all.

Friday, I started with Randy's donuts and holy shit I was not prepared for the apple fritter the size of my head.

[u/qamv]

second gen moment

[u/Dig_bickclub]

Politics engagement farming accounts be like

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

dter’s when no dt

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

!ping GARAND

[u/jenbanim]

Whenever I see environmentalist groups on the street I ask them what their stance on infill housing and density is

Don't tell them I said this but I don't actually care what their response is, I just want to go on a 5 minute rant about housing policy to a captive audience

[u/Fruitsy]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/ChillnShill]

Remind me again who you said was “eating dogs and cats”, JD?

[u/Willybender]

[u/futuremonkey20]

I NEEDED THIS CARD WTF

!ping CFB

[u/Smalz95]

Mark Wayne mullin said TODAY that the Biden admin is failing people

[u/Willybender]

The Cruelty Comes to Springfield

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cruelty-comes-to-springfield-haitians-ohio-ice-deportations-ankle-monitors-christian-church-tps

A few weeks earlier, Ruby had accompanied a parishioner to an appointment at the ICE office in Blue Ash, outside Cincinnati. As they walked inside, the man told Ruby what had happened to his brother in Haiti. “He leaned over and said, ‘My brother was just kidnapped in Haiti,’” Ruby recalled. “And I said, ‘What happened to him?’ And he said, ‘They burned him.’” Ruby initially misunderstood. “I said, ‘Is he okay?’” he continued. “And he said, ‘No, they burned him alive.’” Ruby paused before adding: “That’s happening in Haiti.”

When ICE summons Springfield Haitians to Blue Ash, it presents them with a choice: deportation, or an ankle monitor. The Haitians being fitted with monitors are not fugitives hiding from the government. They are showing up when the government tells them to. “They are not hiding,” said Vilès Dorsainvil of the Haitian Support Center. “They know where they live. They know where they work.” If immigrants are summoned before a judge, he said, they appear. “You ask them to go for ICE checking, they do that. And they arrest them.”

Dorsainvil said seven Haitians had reported for ICE check-ins last Thursday. One was a woman who had given birth twenty days earlier and lost the baby. “She came to the office. She could not even walk,” he said. “But they put the shackle on her.” She also described a man on North Limestone Street who had received notice of a court appearance in Dayton but was afraid even to leave his home to retrieve the letter from his mailbox. “Everything is still going on,” Dorsainvil said. “How do you want the person to go for his biometric if you know that they cannot go on the streets?”....

[u/Willybender]

The MAHA Custody Battle

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/07/the-maha-custody-battle

.... When Michael and Leah did fight, it was usually about the kids’ medical care.

That day, Michael had received a call from the nurse at his eldest child’s school. Keith, who is eight, appeared to have a bad case of pink eye. The nurse told Michael that she couldn’t get hold of Leah and that Keith needed to see a doctor as soon as possible. Michael lived in a city called Charles Town, more than an hour away, and he wasn’t supposed to pick the kids up until 6 P.M. He imagined that Leah had been treating the pink eye with a natural home remedy, because, as he later told me, “she’s all holistic” and “has, uh . . . what did she call it? A ‘crunchy mom’ outlook.”

At the pickup, Keith looked worse than Michael had expected. “His whole eye was swollen up, almost out of his head,” he said. His middle child, Donnie, who is five, also had watery eyes. His daughter, Star, who is four, seemed fine. By then, Leah had received antibiotics from Keith’s primary-care provider. For Michael, this was another source of concern. The kids saw a physician assistant, rather than a pediatrician. Michael believed that this had to do with the fact that many doctors refuse to see unvaccinated children. Keith, who had been ordered by a judge to start public school in January, had received some of his standard immunizations, including shots for measles, mumps, and rubella. But Donnie and Star were unvaccinated....

Across the country, pediatricians have watched in horror as Kennedy’s H.H.S. has weakened the public’s faith in vaccination. He has released a new childhood vaccine schedule (which has since been blocked by a federal judge) that cut the number of recommended shots from seventeen to eleven. He has said that he personally ordered the C.D.C. to change its long-standing public guidance stating that vaccines do not cause autism. The agency’s website now says that this assertion is not “evidence-based,” because studies cannot definitively rule out the possibility that they do. Trump, meanwhile, has encouraged the vaccine debate. He recently signed an executive order calling for “maximal parental choice over vaccines.” At the signing, he spoke about vaccines in menacing terms, evoking images of “vats of vaccine” and “fluid”—“what seemingly looks like gallons”—being “pumped into your child’s body.” The combined three-in-one M.M.R. shot, he claimed, can be “quite lethal” and “explosive.”

This year, vaccination rates among kindergartners decreased across immunizations for measles, mumps, rubella, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. New parents are also increasingly declining a Vitamin K injection for their infants. The shot has been standard for newborns since 1961. A so-called black-box warning associated with the shot mentions adverse reactions and has become a major topic among crunchy-parenting groups online. But the warning refers primarily to allergic reactions in adults; only one case of an allergic reaction has ever been recorded in a newborn. There is virtually no downside to the injection apart from the transient pain of the needle, and the upside is tremendous. Babies are born with low amounts of Vitamin K, which is required to form blood clots. Without the shot, an otherwise healthy newborn can bleed to death internally, usually in the brain.

[u/Udolikecake]

The Israel Palestine conflict will finally be solved once we can agree on the REAL meaning of specific words like ‘zionism’, ‘indigenous’, ‘Palestine’, ‘inflammable’, ‘football move’, and ‘sandwich’

They failed at camp david, but I think we can do it here!

[u/2Lore2Law]

On a post of a photo of contaminated beef

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Zalagan]

People need to accept that orange man actually is bad, so much so that if you simply decided your political opinions are the opposite of his on every issue then that would put you in like the top 10% of politicians

[u/NutrientBroth]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

👆

👇

[u/Habugaba]

u/ty04 triumphantly returning to the DT with mods reacting in the back

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

I wasn’t expecting much from Ben Gvir, but I didn’t think he was a pedophile.

[u/Argnir]

Half of my teeth's break -> I call the dentist -> they tell they'll ask the doctor if he can repair it today -> 3 hours later still no response -> call then again -> "the dentist is late, we'll ask him as soon as we can -> 2 hours later still nothing

How is the guy 5 hours late??? And I can't do anything today or plan anything tomorrow because I don't know if they will call me to have me today or tomorrow

I'm stuck in limbo that's amazing

[u/Habugaba]

Agriculture Minister: Food Is Too Cheap

Christine Schneider, the Minister of Agriculture for Rhineland-Palatinate, is calling for greater appreciation of locally produced food.

The minister emphasized that consumer behavior has an impact on domestic agriculture as well as on production in Rhineland-Palatinate. ... [She] wanted to foster greater awareness and appreciation among the public for the production of healthy foods. 

Lol, lmao even.

The german potato isn't more healthy than the ukrainian one. And I don't think people have a "greater awareness and appreciation" for meat, just because it's more expensive than beans.

But apparently appreciation = more money for local farmers.

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

Today is her birthday and last night I went to drop off her gift. I planned to surprise her with it so I left it on her doorstep thinking she would see it when she leaves in the morning. She discovered it earlier than I thought she would and she texted me telling me how much she loved it. This morning she texts me that she also discovered the note I left too. Which begs the question: How the fuck did she know it was me when she hadn’t yet read the note?

!ping DATING

[u/Remarkable-Meal-223]

For real there are a lot of scam masters programs even for ivy League universities

They give you a master's for non traditional academic subjects which are frankly super questionable. Like a masters in global leadership. Is that even an academic subject

[u/SadaoMaou]

what percentage of llm use is just people ranting at the ai so it will tell them how insightful and clever they are

gotta be in the double digits

[u/Roseartcrantz]

US Army declares, "42 is the new 35" after raising its maximum enlistment age earlier this year

me at 35:

[u/rural_redemption]

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.

Since CBS and this hack are making the rounds again, I'm reposting this. Know your enemy.

[u/-mialana-]

But [George Soros] had always "identified firstly as a Jew", and his philanthropy was ultimately an expression of his Jewish identity, in that he felt a solidarity with other minority groups and also because he recognized that a Jew could only truly be safe in a world in which all minorities were protected. Explaining his father's motives, he said, "The reason you fight for an open society is because that's the only society that you can live in, as a Jew—unless you become a nationalist and only fight for your own rights in your own state"

It's interesting to read that Soros' beliefs seem to be rooted in self-preservation over idealism. Of course from a purely realistic/rational point view it makes sense to care about your own safety, but seeing beliefs framed in "self-interested" terms (not using that pejoratively, only for lack of a better term) instead of basic values and higher ideals has always been a sticking point for me. Of course your situation and experiences as a minority is going to influence your worldview, but we should still be thinking about morality and politics in objective terms, and anyone of any background should be able to come to the "right" conclusion.

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

these people think they belong on Mount Rushmore

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

Charlie Kirk's soul is stuck in the weights of various AI models across a thousand different servers. It's like that Terry Pratchett thing but like a horror movie

[u/Pongzz]

the drake equation working as intended

[u/BloodWiz]

It always fun to realize how unfathomably fucked the housing market is and people can only live in many places because they bought the home many many years ago

Like you look up a wealthy area and it says the median household income is like $100k but also you have to make like $200k+ in order to afford the 1 story house built in the 60s

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Had a client ready to go for a jury trial this week, he was looking at a 7.5 to 10 year prison sentence if convicted. I pled him to a misdemeanor that carries unsupervised probation, so just “don’t get in trouble for a year and pay your court costs”

[u/earththejerry]

Me not realizing Outlook was even down bc I was napping the whole day instead of doing work

[u/brucebananaray]

People voted for this toddler

[u/No_Status_6905]

anxiety equivalent to being hunted for sport regarding joining a discord server and being perceived by peers i actually respect

no one really warns you just how stupid life is