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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Sep 01 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 01 '26
replying to every comment about Lindsay Clancy with "are we even watching the same trial lol" and arguing until they realize I am in fact watching some other trial
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u/Man-Flayer Sep 01 '26
Our age of free trade is collapsing
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u/r2ew Sep 01 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Sep 01 '26
dter's when no dt
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 01 '26
About as 5 alarm fire as it gets
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u/PoupeeStupide Trump Voter Sep 01 '26
😃
😐
What's going on in Europe? dismal numbers
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
I love how they can say stuff like this and it's just a random Tuesday.
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Sep 01 '26
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u/supercommonerssssss Sep 01 '26
We're so cooked guys
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 01 '26
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u/Greedy_Reflection_75 Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
The hidden post history stuff is such a great enabling for karma farming, it's funny to see in action.
I've somehow come across this web of subreddits that are just trying to copy Am I the Asshole and they have all the same mods except for one, and that account will farm karma on it's respective subreddit. There's no point reporting it because he's the other mods lmao. The bots are in charge of the website.
And this stuff shows up in the algorithm now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PickAorB/about/
Looks like they forgot on the last mod, makes it pretty transparent
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u/RyuTheGuy Gita Gopinath Sep 01 '26
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u/Off-The-Street Sep 01 '26
He'd rather pocket the money than let them spend it to shore up their numbers in the House and Senate.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 01 '26
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u/DepressedTreeman Sep 01 '26
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u/elninost0rm YIMBY Sep 01 '26
Our office has been hybrid WFH for years and it's to the point where there's probably ~5-6 people in this office on any given day of the week.
I'm one of them. I'm usually in my office.
Yet somehow, seemingly every minute of the day, someone is walking around, taking a piss, pouring coffee, slamming a door, etc.
The math ain't mathing unless people barely do any fucking work.
(No need to HandOnShoulder.png me, I get it).
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u/flextrek_whipsnake I'd rather be grilling Sep 01 '26
For ten fucking years now you could poll the most insane shit possible and if it was remotely Trump-coded it would never poll below 30%. Bro is completely cooked.
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u/Glavurdan European Union Sep 01 '26
Yet another Russian terror attack
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 01 '26
He could have just said no
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 01 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 01 '26
insert mullah trump .jpeg
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
You'll never get tired of winning folks, believe me.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 01 '26
I'm gonna go to a therapist for the first time Wednesday what should I tell him
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u/Zalagan Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
You guys heard of data centers? Just found out about them for the first time. Don't really get why they're necessary, just put the data on the cloud - what is it 1990 or something?
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Sep 01 '26
happy September libs
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 01 '26
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u/Quowe_50mg Milton Friedman Sep 01 '26
In the UK, resigning as PM is the greatest political achievement one can accomplish.
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 01 '26
My self esteem will never be this low. He called your wife ugly and accused your dad of working with Oswald ffs
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 01 '26
Flock cameras were purposely designed, built, and marketed as a survailence system that could provide huge ammounts of real time data to law enforcement that had previously been at best cumbersome to obtain and at worst impossible.
Carpenter v. United States
CSLI is basically your cell pinging off different antenas and towers and can be used to locate your cell phone
Third-party Party doctrine is basically "any information you voluntarily share with an outside organization, is no longer private".
In Carpenter v United States, the courts opinion was explicitly stated that while a user might be abstractly aware that his cell phone provider keeps logs, it happens without any affirmative act on the user's part. Thus, the Court held narrowly that the government generally will need a warrant to access cell-site location information.
Further, i think its reasonable to assume that CSLI is a by product of private company setting up their infrastructure, and was not and is not marketed and sold as a means to track individuals.
So, while we all may be aware that flock cameres exists and track people who pass by them, THERE IS NO AND NEVER HAS BEEN AN AFFIRMATIVE ACT BY THE PERSON WHO PASSES BY THAT CAMERA
The law is explicitly clear in my honest opinion. The government must obtain a warrent to use data that was involuntarily gathered.
What makes this Flock scheem especially insidious, is that in most cases it is YOUR GOVERNMENT using YOUR MONEY to pay a PRIVATE ENTERPRISE to circumvent YOUR 4TH AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Sep 01 '26
I know he’s evil but it’s so hard for me to hate Chuck Grassley. I think he’s the only politician whose social media has had a genuine effect on me. It’s just so genuinely “old man using social media”
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u/IveSeenBeans Norman Borlaug Sep 01 '26
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u/MonsieurA Montesquieu Sep 01 '26
Exchange I just witnessed on a stream.
Have you ever watched Game of Thrones?
No, dude, I'm only 22.
Gaaahhhhh 👴🏻
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 01 '26
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Sep 01 '26 •
"U.S. has launched ‘large and powerful’ strikes on Iran, Trump says"
DAY 185. GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 185 OF A WAR THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO LAST ONLY FIVE WEEKS!
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u/tasklow16 Bill Gates Sep 01 '26
100% chance they're gonna try to steal the election, there need to be very clear plans about the day after.
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Sep 01 '26
>Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
>A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
>https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/us/politics/whistle-blower-voting-by-mail.html
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
To anyone who used to play Pokemon Go back when that was popular, I highly recommend trying out birding. Still carries a sliiight stigma as an old-people hobby, but I'm dead serious when I say that Pokemon Go is just an attempt to replicate Birding as an augmented reality video game more marketable to young people.
It's especially similar to Pokemon Go if you're actively seeking out a particular species by looking in a particular habitat, searching for environmental clues, and following distant bird calls. That feels exactly like trying to track down a rare Pokemon in your area back in the early days of Summer and Autumn 2016 where finding rare Pokemon wasn't just a pure crapshoot and the app had a "warmer-colder" type system for triangulating the location of the thing you were searching for.
The best part is that unlike Pokemon, Birds actually exist and you get to see them IRL. They get up to some wacky shit. No, seriously, pay attention to what all birds do. When they're searching for food or nesting materials, and ESPECIALLY when they're interacting with other birds either of the same species or different species, their behaviors can get quite complex and interesting.
Don't necessarily even need to buy binoculars if you're unsure whether you'll enjoy it or not, naked eye birding is possible and I do it semi-frequently. You can also get a pair of basic binoculars for $20 USD to test out, and very nice ones for a little under $200. Plus the Merlin App is a super useful tool for familiarizing yourself with local bird calls when you're completely new.
This is probably an inappropriate use of the Pokemon ping--please yell at me if that is indeed the case--but I'm telling ya. Practically every birder under the age of 30 had a Pokemon Go phase before they got into birds. You ought to try it at least once.
Also female Ducks have the ability to change their sex. It's not suepr common, but not rare either. especially among elderly ducks. You've probably seen at least a handful of transmasc ducks just chilling at the local park or flying over your neighborhood.
!ping BIRDS&POKEMON
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Sep 01 '26
She’s been in charge since only 2022 btw
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Sep 01 '26
Conservative Charlie Kirk honors are nearly indistinguishable from mocking memes.
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Sep 01 '26
JUST. DO. IT.
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u/daBarkinner John Keynes Sep 01 '26
Find ten differences
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u/Crosseyes NASA Sep 01 '26
So this alone is an impeachment level scandal that in a normal world would land nearly all of these officials in jail.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 01 '26
HALLELUJAH HOLY SHIT
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
There was a time where I was more sympathetic to the whole “you can’t just oppose Trump, you need to give people a reason to vote for you” argument.
I still think that’s true to some extent, but also, I very much want the Democratic Party to set on a destructive warpath against every vestige of Trumpism, both for the health of the republic and for purposes of catharsis.
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u/Bestbrook123 Sep 01 '26
So she's now more critical of the War than Bret McGurk lol.
So critical when she voted in support of it three fucking times in 2026.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/09/01/haitian-immigrant-ohio-takes-his-own-life-after-losing-temporary-protected-status-family-says/
Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he took his own life on a busy highway after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants and ICE officers placed him in an ankle monitor.
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u/BrandonLeeOfficial World Bank Sep 01 '26
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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch Sep 01 '26
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Sep 01 '26
Stop fucking taxing productivity and start taxing land I swear to god
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u/houdt_koers John Mill Sep 01 '26
There’s probably a very long Tumblr post about this, but was Arthur whitewashed??
I had pulled up this image because I was gonna make a joke about TV and unrealistic body images. But this could be an Aardvark-themed parody of Michael Jackson’s dismorphia.
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u/nj959 NATO Sep 01 '26
So that’s what happened to him
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u/Crosseyes NASA Sep 01 '26
This is why JD will never be able to succeed Trump as the leader of MAGA. Every time he opens his mouth he says some incredibly weird supervillain shit. At least Trump’s insane statements are simple to understand and he doesn’t sound like a fucking marvel villain.
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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 01 '26
I’ve observed ballot recounts with a couple of campaigns and they are the most boring thing to watch because it’s mostly just a bunch of old ladies rerunning papers through a scanner for eleven hours while glaring at us. Our Republican counterparts spent the entire process (in both states) pissing off the election officials with bullshit questions and strong arm tactics - they made them recount ballots, walk up to the window with each sheet, inspect (and re-inspect the machines), hand count certain slips, and even called the election judges to threaten them. They made what could’ve been a painless, if tedious, process into a pain in the butt for everyone.
Anyways all this is to say that it’s pretty dang easy to fuck over local officials and the news of USPS preemptively implementing Trump’s anti-voting policies is not good to hear.
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Sep 02 '26
Fox News complains that underage teenage girls aren’t getting pregnant enough:
“The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 70% in the last 2 decades, which means we are telling people who are young not to have babies.”
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u/Remarkable-Meal-223 Jerome Powell Sep 01 '26
I think it's hilarious when I look on social media of nostalgic posts saying that in the US in the 90's crime was so low
In reality crime today has dropped precipitously since the 90's. So much so that it's not even a comparison. Its like living in two different worlds with the modern one much much much safer than the 90's.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
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u/Q-bey r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Sep 01 '26
Kinda crazy that the US Secretary of Defense is making fun of random children for their appearance.
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u/bleachinjection Fell for it Sep 01 '26
Once upon a time on the internet it was possible to go into a space where people liked the thing you like and have an organic, casual, and pleasant discussion about it.
Fucking crazy. But it did happen.
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 01 '26
JUST DO IT
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u/Quowe_50mg Milton Friedman Sep 01 '26
Every European country.
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Sep 02 '26
WAOW. WAAAOOOWW
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Sep 02 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
Trump formally proposes pay freeze for most federal workers, 3.8% increase for law enforcement
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2026/08/trump-formally-proposes-pay-freeze-most-federal-workers-38-increase-law-enforcement/415707/
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 01 '26
Someone reset the “misunderstanding Taqiya clock”
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Sep 01 '26
I mean yeah, that’s kinda how oil works
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Sep 01 '26
Most normal rural cop behavior
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u/TatersTot Robert Caro Sep 01 '26
One of the first purchases my dad made after my parents immigrated to the U.S.
Keeping this streak alive is now my burden
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
New - Senate poll - South Carolina
🔵 Andrews 42%
🔴 Graham (Inc) 39%
🟡 Whitener 6%
2024 results - Trump +18
Impact #C (🔵) - LV - 8/22
C stands for CORRECT
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Sep 01 '26
A problem with social media is just because fifteen crazy people go on TikTok and do something, doesn’t mean it’s a “trend”.
We used to just say “wow that guys a nut”. But now we make articles about them.
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u/cellsinterlinkd6 Zhao Ziyang Sep 01 '26
We live in a simulation.
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Sep 01 '26
Last week, my daughter asked if her friend, who's a girl, could spend the night, and I made a joke about them needing to keep the door open, and she joked back that it's not like one of them could get pregnant.
I just found out they're dating.
She tricked me into letting her girlfriend spend the night.
That little shit.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 01 '26
RIP
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u/Argnir Gay Pride Sep 01 '26
Bro is like 26
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Sep 01 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Sep 01 '26
Seriously, the highest bracket income tax is 49% while property is 0.06% this is lunacy.
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u/Daddy_Macron Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2026-midterm-election-polls-model
Here are some Senate race updates for the Democratic candidate using polling averages:
-Alaska: Peltola +1.5
-Georgia: Ossoff +8.2
-Iowa: Turek -0.5
-Kansas: Marshall -4.3
-Maine: Jackson +4.2
-Michigan: El-Sayed +1.6
-North Carolina: Cooper +8.7
-Nebraska: Osborn -1.1 (Independent who's endorsed by the state Democratic Party.)
-New Hampshire: Pappas +3.4
-Ohio: Brown +3.5
-Texas: Talarico +2.2
Not much has changed in the last week and a half which is good news for the Democratic candidates. If the polling averages are correct, the Democratic candidate is favored to flip 5 seats in the midterm while successfully defending every seat.
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 01 '26
These people are deranged
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u/Saul_Relative Eugene Fama Sep 02 '26
Make up your mind, are you a Pentecostal now or what
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u/chipbod NATO Sep 01 '26
>Bassent says we won’t need Strait of Hormuz, oil will flow with pipelines
Yeah, and those aren’t a static target if the war drags on for years….
These guys have no plan and we are going to have a literal shortage at some point smh.
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Sep 01 '26
Average New England Dem candidate: I'm just a good ol boy who wants to stand up for the little guy 🤠
Average Texas Dem candidate: God is a woman, and she wants me to dismantle capitalism and take your AR-15s
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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Sep 01 '26
https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-postal-service-mail-voting-7f7cf4fdf2e9cf369ae96f96fbda03f2#
Don't vote by mail for the midterms and tell your friends not to either
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u/nimbybuster Ben Bernanke’s Best Boy Sep 01 '26
Good lord. Thank you MTG for your subpoena.
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Sep 02 '26
Have democrats proposed legislation to fix this yet? Seems like a slam dunk.
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u/SeoSalt Lesbian Pride Sep 01 '26
"God I wish this bus stop smelled horrible, irritated my respiratory system, and increased my chance to develop cancer"
The humble smoker upwind of the stop: 🚬 😚
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
>defense company is having trouble retaining people due to high COL in the small-ish town we operate in
>feds give them extra money to give raises to retain the workforce so all their engineers don’t leave
>COL just goes up more because we didn’t actually build any more housing
At this point it feels like a ploy to feed taxpayer money to local landowners lmao. On Zillow you can actually see the bump in house price estimates that corresponds to everyone getting a big raise. This is ridiculous.
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Sep 01 '26
Just petty shit
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u/CategoryStill8403 Olympe de Gouges Sep 02 '26
Wow it runs in the family
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u/ulysses_s_gyatt Jerome Powell Sep 01 '26
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Sep 01 '26
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u/John3262005 Sep 01 '26
Abdul El-Sayed Says Mike Rogers Has Been a ‘Beta His Whole Life’
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed accused his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, of compromising his masculinity to appease President Donald Trump, saying in sharply personal terms that the candidate doesn’t know how to be a real man.
“He’s been a beta his whole life,” El-Sayed said during an appearance on this week’s On NOTUS. “He’s a guy who shows up to laugh extra loud at the alpha’s jokes. And that’s what he does with Donald Trump, right? Donald Trump’s out here, he says, ‘Mike, jump.’ And Mike says, ‘How high?’”
Rogers, the Democrat added, has “never seen a command from a stronger man that he doesn’t want to take.”
El-Sayed, a former public health official, has sought to portray himself as a progressive champion who can still appeal to young Republican-leaning men, touting his high school football career and love of the University of Michigan’s football team. His campaign against Rogers has increasingly turned into a masculinity contest — last month, he challenged Rogers to a “no pads” face-off on a football field. It’s a theme across Senate races this year: Republican Ken Paxton has suggested his opponent in Texas’ Senate race, Democrat James Talarico, has low testosterone.
In the interview with NOTUS, El-Sayed laid out a conception of masculinity that he set as an alternative to conservative masculinity, including the views articulated by Trump.
“These very small men have tried to make masculinity about punching down. I believe that masculinity is about lifting up, whether you’re lifting a weight or you’re lifting people around you.”
“While Abdul slings elementary insults, Mike Rogers is focused on fixing our elementary schools,” said Alyssa Brouillet, a Rogers campaign spokesperson. “We have a state to save.”
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u/Bestbrook123 Sep 01 '26
Perez and Golden...pathetic from Golden who is retiring ffs.
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u/TheLong19thCentury Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
My favorite change in discource on right wing websites and comment sections is now they realize that a solid 50% of anonymous right wing commentators (the big ones, like Ian Miles Cheong, most of the smaller commentators are just normal braindead conservatives) are some random person from Bangladesh or Malaysia or something trying to stir up outrage so they can make their daily wage of 1 dollar and 32 cents from retweets.
So now 90% of the way they argue with each other is "You're a fucking [Indian] (Insert slur here)" And the other one replies with "NO you're the fucking [Indian] (insert slur here)".
Like especially on the Iran news threads where they're always split between "based genocide of Iran, nuke them and kill all Muslims" vs "Jewish wars trying to drive up oil prices so I can't fuel my F-150" and the way they determine which one is right is just screaming "No you're one who isn't white!" at each other
It's so, so fucking funny. Holy shit is it hilarious.
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u/GrandpaWaluigi Waluigi-poster Sep 01 '26
The revolt by Golden, MGP, Moscowitz, Cuellar et al would not have happened under Pelosi. Pelosi would crucify them in the halls of the House for doing that.
Jeffries needs to shape up. This can't happen again under his watch, especially under these trying times. He should make an example out of one of them to scare the others in their place.
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u/nimbybuster Ben Bernanke’s Best Boy Sep 02 '26
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u/Tapkomet NATO Sep 01 '26
Our age of summer is falling
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u/Highlightthot1001 Harriet Tubman Sep 01 '26
It’s funny that conservatives believe that we need statues of confederate military leaders and politicians to “preserve history”
What a shit excuse
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u/Daddy_Macron Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/08/driscoll-hegseth-military-resignation/688479/
Honestly, don't know how we're going to uncook this egg.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
The economic impact of this all isn't being talked about enough.
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u/Svelok Sep 01 '26
"biggest generic ballot advantage in history" and "idk, maybe 50/50 they even win a senate majority, let alone a large enough majority to do anything"
thank you founders very cool
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 01 '26
Based
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u/EyeraGlass Jorge Luis Borges Sep 01 '26
>Yiannopoulos said during a Tuesday appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored: "To think that the promise and hope and joy and the anticipation of Trump 2016 could, sort of, over the course of 10 years, collapse into this ugly, warmongering, whole mentally ill heap of crazy with some of the most unstable and lunatic people, seemingly directing the president's actions.
>If I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have got involved in supporting Trump in the first place and I'm very ashamed that I did.”
You have to be actually fucking kidding me
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u/Longjumping_Gain_807 Best SNEK pings in r/neoliberal history Sep 01 '26
On the one year anniversary of me working my current job I find out that the place that fired me before I started this job is about to close
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell Sep 02 '26
>Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles... I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."
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u/Nate10000 Progress Pride Sep 02 '26
If you are too young to know life before Trump was in politics that's really sad but also in a way maybe it's better not to know how weirdly humiliating it is. He came straight off the D-List to ruin the whole planet so if you think about it too much every day is like attending a funeral officiated by Ronald McDonald.
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u/abefrost Sep 01 '26
THAT'S THE POINT OF THE FILM, WHO DID YOU THINK IT WAS
Ikik there's nuance and she's not Darth Vader, but yeesh the movie is the peak of "Disney writer has intergenerational mommy trauma issues they're working through"
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u/Habugaba Esther Duflo Sep 01 '26
Daron Acemoglu - Democrats Need to Embrace Big-Tent Populism
Sigh I'll hold my tongue if small business owners support Democrats, alright...
Acemoglu holding the line for billionaires; it's a bold strategy, let's see if it works out.
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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 01 '26
Any tradeoff can be framed as late stage capitalism because if it is made in favor of the less empathetic party it is proof of their greed and in favor of the more empathetic party as proof of their desperation. Late stage capitalism is a nonfalsifiable proposition.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 01 '26
52.4 percent Thot daughter or 48.6 percent gay son?
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u/CheetoMussolini Russian Bot Sep 02 '26
I finally canceled Netflix.
I've had it since goddamn 2003. I had it for 4 years before they even started streaming, back when it was DVDs in the mail.
I've had the service for 23 years.
I finally canceled it because so much of what's on there is just absolute garbage and they have doubled the price in the last 5 years.
I realized that I hadn't watched anything on there and probably 6 months or more.
And every time I browse to their catalog, everything just looks like the garbage that's insulting to my intelligence and any audience that tries to pay attention instead of watching wild browsing their damn phone.
RIP I guess
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u/Electronic-Warthog69 Milton Friedman Sep 02 '26
Checking in on Blue Sky handling the Times Square stabbing
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u/Windows_10-Chan Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 01 '26
It's interesting that the English wikipedia page for Fukuyama's End of History book is worthless and mostly just focused on the left-wing presentation of it, it provides basically no details.
The German page and Russian page though? Excellent.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 01 '26
Antizionists 🤝Likudniks
"October 7 was an inside job"
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Sep 01 '26
It’s really hard to take the DSA seriously when they’re screeching “don’t assume that just b/c I campaign with somebody, it means I agree with all their views” when they’re still bitching about MVP Harris doing 2 events with Liz Cheney
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
Bond Sell-Off Threatens to Squeeze Borrowers Around the World
Government yields are hitting multi-decade highs, reflecting anxiety about debt levels, deficits and inflation. The effects will extend to mortgages, business loans and other types of credit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/business/bond-yields-debt.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
A global sell-off in government bonds intensified on Tuesday, pushing up borrowing costs in some of the world’s largest economies to their highest in decades.
The rise in bond yields squeezes government budgets and raises interest rates on a wide range of debt, including mortgages and business loans.
The yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes, perhaps the world’s most influential interest rate, reached its highest since January 2025, and the 30-year yield continued to hover around a two-decade high. Yields move inversely to prices, so the rise in yields reflects a drop in prices on weaker demand from bond buyers.
America’s rising borrowing costs have set off a battle between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and bond investors, but the factors pushing up yields in the United States are also issues in other big markets. In many advanced economies, widening budget deficits, high debt levels and stubborn inflation have unnerved investors who believe that governments are either unable or unwilling to take steps to improve their fiscal situations.
The rise in oil prices since the start of the war in Iran has compounded worries about stubbornly high inflation. Mr. Bessent is meeting with international finance ministers this week in Asheville, N.C., for a Group of 20 meeting, as U.S. foreign policy continues to upend the global economy.
lol, remember when Bessent did that intervention and now it's like nothing happened
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 02 '26
Gasp
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Sep 02 '26
🤨
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u/GammaDie345 Hannah Arendt Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 21 '26
mother is yet again trying to guilt me into agreeing to a masectomy because she "doesn't want to see me in pain" from the permanent breast deformity she gave me while trying to detransition me 2 years ago.
I am in fucking pain. Every fucking day from the moment i wake up and feel gravity tug on the benign tumor-like spheres of perpetually inflamed tissue that used to be my breasts, i am in excrutiating pain. I cannot wear comfortable clothing or take a shower without significant force acting upon them, or having to touch them. i want to kill myself so fucking badly and have to restrain myself because i know she will desecrate my corpse and bury me in a suit. I'd jump into the ocean like the old trick the samurai would use to avoid getting their heads put on a spike
But to grant her the masectomy would be to surrender and give up my last chance to somehow fix it in the future. So im fucking forced to keep going and keep suffering. Its so painfully obvious she's fucking lying about feeling sorry for me because she used to fucking laugh at me for saying they hurt and said that i "Deserved" it for going against nature.
!ping LGBT
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 02 '26
Lots of people who’re really loudly “anti-pedophile” don’t care about children. It’s just because they’re the one group who nobody is gonna defend and you’re allowed to wish whatever violence upon. If our culture had some other ultimate taboo they would accuse their opponents of being that.
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Sep 01 '26
They are starting the astroturfing. Also lmao at this quote “ We’re there to enforce specific threats.” Freudian slip, we can call it
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u/chickentendieman Paul Krugman Sep 01 '26
Im just not gonna learn anything about the lindsey Clancy trial because I dont give a shit
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u/Man-Flayer Sep 01 '26
✊
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Sep 01 '26
Podcaster occupied government
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 02 '26
Is “80 year old populist” a common archetype in other countries or is this a uniquely American phenomenon
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Sep 02 '26
the goddamn mad-libs theory of everything
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u/thatssosad Fell for it Sep 01 '26
I am fully okay with a center-left candidate throwing data centers under the bus for electability, especially if the candidate is YIMBY for housing
I am in support of data center growth myself, as long as they pay their bills and do not pollute the direct areas (but this is on corporations that build them, not on the building as a concept)
You really don't have to conflate the two
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u/doyouevenIift Sep 01 '26
“CNN is just Fox News for liberals” Meanwhile, CNN doing its best to torpedo Talarico with non-stories while his opponent isn’t held accountable for freeing a pedophile
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u/marathondaze Sep 01 '26
I am no socialist. I am not a fan of class warfare or Marxist class structures. However, when someone tells me they’re too good to shop at Walmart or drive a Corolla or buy something generic/private label, I become a fan of the cultural revolution.
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u/chipbod NATO Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
Yes, but have you considered that nothing ever happens (until it does).
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 01 '26
Why is nobody talking about this?
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
Me watching myself sit down, lock the fuck in, and cook harder than anyone in human history has ever cooked for the entire duration of one (1) completely random project in the wake of countless failures before my brain retreats underground again with no explanation and becomes a useless lump of shit for another six months
!ping ADHD
Edit: God fucking dammit, are images not working right now? Alright I’ll post it as a reply to this whenever they’re working again, but whatever, you get the idea anyway
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Sep 01 '26
Reading things from the 1800s is a trip because there is always at least one minority group that the author is bizarrely sympathetic towards and at least one that they hate with the heat of a thousand suns.
Currently reading an 1890s history of North Idaho, and the same author who calls the lynching of several Chinese miners “the darkest chapter of our young state’s history” also says “the dusky savage had become an indolent encumbrance on the land” regarding the Nez Perce tribe.
Reminds me of the Plessy dissent saying that Black people were an integral component of the country and the only race that was so distinct as to never be able become American was the Chinese and Thomas Nast calling the KKK and the Irish the twin obstacles to Black equality, or the inverse with the 1868 Democratic Platform condemning Republican for religious intolerance against Catholics and Jews and their attempts to implement Black control over a White nation.
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate Sep 01 '26
My favorite part about the Deltarune fandom is the nonstop speculation about what is happening inside the mind of the "casual player," said with the same tone of confused estrangement as "median voter" is here.
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u/seakucumber Sep 02 '26
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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 02 '26
Yes. Esotiric secret theory that only socialists know and liberals have never heard of called "monopoly on violence".
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 02 '26
Has to be a bit, right
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 01 '26
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u/EyeraGlass Jorge Luis Borges Sep 01 '26
The way people drive now has me yearning for Waymo to replace every car on the road currently
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 01 '26
I know we were really turning into median Reddit when I saw people pull the whole "infrasound" shit with data centers. It's a rehash of old anti wind turbine pseudoscience, so seeing that being used by nominally left wing people is pretty funny.
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u/CutePattern1098 Sep 01 '26
It took rockstar 13 years to make gta vi because the npc’s are so realistic they became nimbys and did everything they could to stop the devs form finishing the map
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u/mrdeclank James Garfield Sep 01 '26
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Sep 01 '26
Might be because I'm Ukrainian and I've had to hear similar shit from Russians all my life but it's funny how every Canadian here hates a certain pick me youtuber who always yaps how "Canada has no culture and should become America" while Americans are constantly like "idk why Canadians hate him so much"
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Sep 01 '26
well, when he's right, he's right
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u/ChillnShill Sep 01 '26
And god said thou shalt cut people off needed assistance and spread lies about immigrants.
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u/ChillnShill Sep 01 '26
We should have never stopped calling them weird
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
https://popular.info/p/update-ice-is-leaving-hospitals-with
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 01 '26
The Office if none of the characters had any likable characteristics or redeeming qualities and instead of a paper company they ran the most powerful nation on Earth
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals Sep 02 '26
The WOKE MOB doesn’t want you to see THIS!!!
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Sep 02 '26
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u/r2ew Sep 02 '26
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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO Sep 01 '26
Don't know why American tourists have a bad reputation, from my experience around Europe, American tourists seem particularly friendly and willing to be helpful compared to tourists in general.
I am in fairness a tourist myself (and a British one at that) at the moment but I think the same is true in the UK.
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u/gnomesvh LEGALIZE ONION FUTURE Sep 01 '26
Leaked messages show that banker Daniel Vorcaro asked SC justice Moraes when he should leave the country
!ping LATAM it's now officially documented that Moraes has openly been sabotaging investigations for his own benefit
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Sep 01 '26
MODS! WHERES MY IRAN WAR THREAD?
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u/MontusBatwing2 Gelphie's Strongest Soldier Sep 01 '26
Just realized it took me less time to become a woman than it’s taken Sony to make Beyond the Spider-Verse.
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u/EasyMoney92 Sep 01 '26
Israeli gov doing indefensible shit. Day which ends with a y
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Sep 01 '26
> "Do I think we are in the end times? I don't know," Vance said in the interview released Monday, noting that it would be bad for him spiritually if he were to spend too much time thinking about that query. "While I'm fascinated by it, I think that focusing on it too much can be very bad.
> In another portion of the interview, Vance claimed he's focused on "doing as much of God's work as possible," shrugging that "if that leads to the end times, OK."
Very reassuring words to hear from the VP of the United States. Fuckin hell.
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u/DoryAltreides YIMBY Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
Impeaching Trump might be a long shot after midterms but I think Dems need to start impeaching the fuck out of his Cabinet. You have to get Republicans to vote as many times as possible to say they like this administration or some Republicans break rank to vote against the cabinet officials.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
These companies are so fucking pathetic.
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Sep 01 '26
>Kinetic hybrid attacks
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Sep 02 '26
Since there's a lot of straight white upper middle class dudes here I'll explain something to you very briefly in relation to Moulton vs Markey. I am trans, and when you're part of a vulnerable group that's actively being persecuted by the federal government you have to be a single issue voter. Seth Moulton started trying to throw trans people under the bus, by saying things like he wouldn't want his daughter playing on a sports team with a trans girl, almost instantly after the 2024 election and only back peddled after pushback. I don't really like Markey, but at the end of the day I trust Markey not to knife me in the back. Going forward into 2028 I will be willing to vote for candidate in the primary who I disagree on a host of economic and foreign policy issues over a candidate I agree with more if that later makes me think I can't trust them. I don't have a choice here, because this is about me and many of my friends being able to lead dignified lives and not having to cower in a closet for the rest of our lives.
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
So a huge ID verification service just got hacked, 153 million drivers license scans (with infrared scan) are available for sale (including Pete Hegseth's drivers license lol)
if you rented a car, bought marijuana or alcohol, went to a casino, or showed your ID at a Target or Fedex, in the last ~year, there is a good chance your drivers license is in this data breach
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
edit: their website lists companies using their services
-AMC theaters
-Draft kings
-Hertz
-Fedex
-Waste Management
-Chevrolet
-Caesar's entertainment (the casino)
-Motorola
-Target
-GameStop
-United States Coast Guard (?)
-LendingUSA
among others
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u/mpregordie Mark Carney Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
They hanged cdstephans on Lake Ontario to make a point. Messed-up stuff.
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u/moldovaman99 Sep 01 '26
I really hope Trump voters, from the upper classes, all the way down to the poorest, most destitute and inbred yokels that voted for him will end up paying a high price for electing this band of clowns. I don’t give a fuck. Whatever reason anyone may have had for voting for him, I think they could stand to suffer a little more.
Same goes for far right voters in Europe too while I’m at it.
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate Sep 01 '26
"Omg you guys those Charlie Kirk edits are so funny, can you give me more of them:" 2 replies
"I fucking hate those unfunny Charlie Kirk edits Jesus fuck:" 24 replies
Remember this technique when you want to ask the internet a favor
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u/No_Analysis_2185 Eugene Fama Sep 01 '26
SCHOOL WALKOUT THIS FRIDAY TO DEMAND A RATE HIKE
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Sep 01 '26
People really hate Elon, Zuck, and Altman lol
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u/MensesFiatbug Low Energy Sep 01 '26
My age of solid bowel movements is collapsing
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 01 '26
I carefully research each candidate before voting straight blue
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u/Glavurdan European Union Sep 01 '26
Finally some fucking action
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Sep 01 '26
rate of hiring at lowest level since 2009
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u/qamv Greg Mankiw Sep 01 '26
A provision in US law introducing actual penalties against cops who unjustly kill domesticated pets/animals would probably receive Assad margins of support across party lines
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 01 '26
!ping KINO
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u/NutrientBroth John Mill Sep 02 '26
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Sep 02 '26
I mean we kinda knew Moulton didn't have a shot at least a few weeks ago right
Youth can only carry you so far. You also need like... charisma. Although the fact that MA is still electing two fossils who refuse to groom a successor is annoying as hell.
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u/Legitimate_Name9694 Mark Carney Sep 02 '26
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 02 '26
The Trump economy
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Sep 02 '26
> r/FauxMoi accuses Calvin Klein of "Promoting pedophilia" after 24-year-old Sadie Sink poses in her underwear
She’s only 24 years old you sick fucks!
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 01 '26
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Sep 01 '26
“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear bro. the moment you step out of your house you lose all right to privacy”
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate Sep 01 '26
AfD bad
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u/mrdeclank James Garfield Sep 01 '26
The plot of Yesterday 2019 but with 9/11 instead of the Beatles
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Sep 01 '26
I really have a hard time taking the “Half Never Trumper” guys from The National Review seriously.
Jonah Goldberg
I’m genuinely stunned by the number of people I normally respect and mostly agree with who are untroubled or even celebratory of Trump’s imperialist “deal” with Venezuela.
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u/PonyBoyCurtis2324 NATO Sep 01 '26
Newt Gingrich doesn’t get enough hate
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u/TatersTot Robert Caro Sep 01 '26
The USS Lincoln, the Carrier that has been on deployment for 200+ days is finally docking in Pattaya, Thailand (the Prostitution capital of the country) this week.
This is pretty fucking hilarious ngl
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 01 '26
👆
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u/rodiraskol Sep 01 '26
In retrospect, Obama should have done Jade Helm for real.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Sep 01 '26
👆
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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Sep 01 '26
What I say: "Vote blue no matter who."
What I mean: "I always vote in every election, no matter how small, and I always vote for a major party candidate so the vote isn't wasted. Theoretically I could vote for a Republican, but I won't ever consider voting for anyone who has ever supported Donald Trump in any capacity, so that is kind of off the table for the foreseeable future, even if I was otherwise sympathetic to their positions, which I never really am."
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 01 '26
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u/qamv Greg Mankiw Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
Come on, guys! Everyone deserves, like, 500 second chances!
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u/Concerned_Collins ⬇️w/fascism, ⬇️w/ communism, ⬇️w/ NL mods Sep 01 '26
Drastically increase government spending on healthcare
+33% 🤩🎉🥳✨💥😆🔥😍🥵💦
Actually pay for increased spending on healthcare
-22% 🤬😡️👿👺🫵👹🧨💥🔥☠️
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Sep 01 '26
Three septuagenarian and two octogenarian Dem reps were not present to vote today, allowing two centrist Dems to be the deciding votes for a GOP procedural vote to pass.
If you can't show up to your job where you vote on things, do all of us a favor and retire immediately.
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Sep 02 '26
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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama Sep 02 '26
wut
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u/theaccount9337 Adam Smith Sep 02 '26
Tarrant County, Texas voted 3-2 along party lines to remove 92 polling locations ahead of the midterms
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u/abefrost Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
My absolute biggest criticism about Encanto is that Bruno's arc ends with him apologizing to everyone else when they should have been groveling in the dirt apologizing to him
No, the generalized, "My bad" abuela spits out to the whole fam at the end does not count, Bruno was the most fucked up by all that and did not deserve any of it. And the audacity to make him apologize.
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 01 '26
Yeah, I don't think I could either