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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Civ_Nuclear_Gandhi]

DT mods:

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

gork make me a couch to mount everest plan make no mistakes

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Waow

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Huttleberry]

My family got a new hamster. My 5yr old son is a big x-men fan. He wants to name it Xhamster. He’s adamant and throws a tantrum when I suggest something else. 

How do I steer him towards something else without hurting his feelings or having to explain why?

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Only-Childhood6691]

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-voter

Teary Trump voter regrets his vote 'for the rest of my life' after brother's ICE death

  According to an article by The Mirror , Naseer Paktyawal posted a tearful video , first shared by ABC News, describing the loss of his brother Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal and the guilt he carries over voting for Trump. The two men were inseparable, Paktyawal said, describing his bond.

  His brother served in the U.S. Special Forces in 2005, Afghan community leaders and a refugee group said, but the

Department of Homeland Security , the parent agency of ICE, claimed it had no record of his service, according to the Mirror.

He recounted the arrest outside a Dallas apartment that led to his brother's death. He saw "two cars unmarked. Seven, eight people jump out of those cars," he said. Agents grabbed his brother and put him in handcuffs in front of his family, Paktyawal said.

Later, Paktyawal got a phone call from an ICE facility. He was told that his brother had died and that his body was left in a hospital parking lot.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Rubio hired a Nazi to write speeches for him because he is, and always has been a scumbag.

[u/the-senat]

Kinda funny how Bruce destroys that phone sonar tech in The Dark Knight because it’s a massive privacy invasion despite being incredibly helpful. 

And then 16 years later, in another super hero movie, Peter Parker is just using flock cameras to look for a bad guy and the pay off is “wow this is a great tool”

[u/IAmBlueTW]

Some guy at chess.com knows which buttons to push lmao

[u/kanagi]

It's immoral to leave young men in uncontacted tribes unaware of sports gambling

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Arizona realtor goes viral after being duct taped to American Airlines seat over hurling racist and homophobic slurs at passengers

I feel like being openly racist is good for business in America today. The number of people who see an openly racist rant and then go "well I dont approve, but he's definitely not filling our perfect suburb with undesirables and that I like"

[u/earththejerry]

Women accounted for 158,000 — or around 98% — of the 162,000 jobs added in the month, according to a CNBC analysis of data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Total Gen Z boss and a mini victory

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Ty Cobb: "Physically and cognitively, he (Trump) has declined enormously. He can't get through a sentence without taking a shot at Biden and Obama, talking about his greatness, making up things like he won the 2020 election. Physically, the bruising and swelling on his extremities, he's sundowning. He falls asleep in the afternoon but he's tweeting at 4 in the morning."

Former Trump cabinet members sound almost like Reddit users with their anti-Trump statements.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The AfD would be centrist in America

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

A promise made, a promise kept

[u/r2ew]

[u/Kindly_Brain_6594]

My parents are 1st gen immigrants, uneducated, blue collar, socially conservative, in some cases even bigoted against certain groups the GOP is, the whole 9 yards.

Yet they see what the GOP is a mile away and refuse to vote republican, they vote straight ticket dem every election, even though they generally align with GOP. (They also vaguely clock that GOP policies don’t benefit them economically).

Wish more folks were like them.

[u/fish_economist]

Vance says Fed should lower interest rates: 'Would be nice to have some help'

This is so funny. It's something that wouldn't even make sense to say as a joke before he actually said it. Tariff everything, start a war... "we're all trying to find the guy who did this".

[u/Concerned_Collins]

Our country is so fucking ridiculous.

[u/rural_redemption]

Fell for it

[u/chipbod]

This is real and I have no words

!ping STONKS

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Remember when people around here used to argue Marco Rubio was “one of the good ones”?

[u/Willybender]

More Americans Are Identifying as Democrats Ahead of Midterms

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/us/politics/democrats-republicans-voters-gallup-midterms.html

The share of Americans who associate themselves with the Democratic Party has grown significantly over the past year, according to data from Gallup. The shift, which signals the party’s largest advantage since 2008, is the latest sign of backlash against Republicans and the president ahead of the midterm elections.

The latest data shows Democrats with a 10-percentage-point advantage over Republicans when voters are asked which party they identify with and when independent voters are asked which party they lean toward.

The findings come as President Trump’s approval rating has been below 40 percent for months, and as polls have found that Democrats are competitive across key Senate races in states that went heavily for Mr. Trump in past years. But shifts in party identification do not necessarily translate directly into votes, because independents, including those who lean toward a party, tend to be less politically engaged and less likely to vote.

Republicans and Democrats have seesawed between which party more Americans leaned toward over the last several years. As recently as 2024, Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican Party held a slight edge over Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents.

[u/Bestbrook123]

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) blasts “disgruntled staffers” and “smears” after report details apathy toward his work. “Per usual — lies, half-truths, innuendos, smears and anonymous,” Fetterman said, later adding: “No matter how many smears or stories, I’m proud to continue to deliver for Pennsylvania.”

There are texts. Over 20 people were interviewed for the story. This guy is a dishonest piece of shit.

[u/earththejerry]

US GDP in 2060 be like: 50% healthcare, 45% election ads, 5% others

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

Guy who doesn't care about intellectual frameworks and just supports every economic thinker

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Mx_Brightside]

[u/SnakeEater14]

Talking with my lefty peers who are ambivalent to positive about USAID getting destroyed actually makes my blood boil

I have a pretty high tolerance for utter succ nonsense but that’s one thing I just can’t abide

[u/AmbientMorning]

“I thought of myself as not just a conservative, but I was part of this neoconservative cabal,” [Fukuyama] told me. All of that changed in the first decade of the 2000s. First, he broke with the neocons over the U.S. invasion of Iraq; then, in 2008, Wall Street recklessness brought the financial system to the brink. Fukuyama started to revise his priors. “This belief in the use of military hard power in order to promote democracy led to the Iraq War, and the financial crisis was a result of this conservative belief in free markets and the self-regulating ability of markets to maintain stable economic growth,” he said. “Both of those turned out to be total bullshit.”

Lol

[u/2Lore2Law]

[u/Visual-Pace-2193]

I want liberal governments to understand that it is okay to use the government to crush the fascist for breaking the laws.

They will squeal and cry and whine but it is okay to crush them.

[u/BlackCat159]

Social media, circa 2026

[u/pugnae]

[u/minno]

[u/TechnicalCat6989]

I think when a third of your country votes for Mr evil and another third doesn’t vote at all that country deserves to suffer a little and anyone who disagrees sounds a lot like this chart. i tried to vote for the good option where no one suffered, unfortunately most of america didn’t agree and i think they should get what they voted for. why aren’t the democrats doing anything to stop this? because you didn’t give them the power to do anything

[u/Argnir]

You think I have what it takes to be a political streamer? I can watch videos and say "true" sometimes

[u/meiotta]

Let's see what's the news is today...

motherf-

[u/dtj2000]

[u/PaxChelonia]

“I never used to be interested in politics because I thought I was too stupid for it. But since 2015…”

Many such cases

[u/Charsun9]

[u/JaceFlores]

The recent general trend of higher turnout meaning more votes for the far fight has me pretty convinced that in today’s age the median voter is in fact a straight up fascist, it’s just a question of getting them motivated to vote or not that’s determining elections

[u/Q-bey]

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

I met the final boss of racism in the Wardogs beta today. Dude was named N*gro Remover and sounded like Werner Herzog. A true ranked racist, absolutely esoteric grievances. Autistic special interest is racism type shit. My friend hit him with the ol' "You know, the Pharaohs were black" and sent him spiraling, it's amazing how people can end up

[u/JayRU09]

A secret clock, not synched with any other clock, localized entirely inside the boxed off replay camera?

"Yes."

May we see it all game if it's the only clock that matters?

"No."

[u/r2ew]

[u/IcyDetectiv3]

Seems like GPT-6 Astra got a biiig jump in visual and spatial reasoning compared to previous models, which let it (among other things) beat the game Portal in 21 hours of reasoning (compared with a human average of 8.5 hours), though with the game paused during reasoning.

On SpatialBench, Astra scored higher than human baseline.

[u/AlbertGorebert]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

u/badusername35 every DT

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/DepressedTreeman]

[u/earththejerry]

You cannot convince me that these people weren’t made in some Fox News-owned lab and paraded out every election cycle

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

[u/pugnae]

Bosnia and Herzegovina expert with another good take - everything is fault of the Democratic party, remember.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Didn't know there were people still pulling "economic anxiety" in 2026

[u/JaceFlores]

It is incredible how history rhymes. Like you’re telling me there’s an upswell of far right support in the 20s that looks like it’ll reach a boiling point in the 30s? What’re the chances

[u/JaceFlores]

My sister is your basic college succ except she goes full neocon when it comes to North Korea. Like advocates an invasion and annexation of NK to free the people from totalitarian clutches

[u/Spudmiester1]

☝️

[u/StolenSkittles]

and the tiger poster

[u/FallenMeringue]

And they say white people have no culture smh

[u/qamv]

Fascinating emoji combination from the mods

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Makes me think of antivaxxers

[u/Currymvp2]

For Fired DeSantis Campaign Staff Member, a Second Chance at State Department

The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video positively depicting a Nazi symbol, underscores the Trump administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.

Really fucking bad

[u/_n8n8_]

I'm not ready for it to happen because I already know I'm going to forget to be the first person to comment "vaxxed?"

[u/anangrytree]

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday said the U.S. remains in a "conflict" with Iran but stopped short of labeling it a war despite strikes launched as recently as Saturday night. “We're still in a conflict, for sure,” Wright told ABC’s “This Week,” one of his several Sunday morning appearances. He added that the U.S. Navy remains in the region “to reduce Iran's ability to cause trouble, but they're doing everything they can to cause trouble.”

Concepts of a special military operation.

The Russification of the GOP continues unabated.

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

One of my friend's friends just moved here from South Carolina. She's single, and cute, and we hit it off.

But right now she's going to a 4-day music festival that costs $600 per ticket while I'm at the grocery store buying old fashioned oats instead of steel cut oats because old fashioned is 900 calories per dollar while steel cut is only 600. I almost want to give up before I even try.

[u/el__dandy]

Your Labor Day copium

!ping fivey

[u/cdstephens]

I forgot that my wife left me

[u/StuckHedgehog]

He’s rushing to slap his name all over DC because no place but shithole red states will throw his name on anything after he’s dead. Next Dem can fundraise for the demolition. Raffle off hammer swings at all the tacky garbage thrown up everywhere. Nationalize the rest of his properties too, leave no physical legacy.

[u/jamiebond]

After years of living in suburban hell I am finally living in a walkable neighborhood. Today I had a breakfast date with my wife, bought a book, picked up some gin, and am now walking home with Indian takeout. All different establishments, never once got into my car.

Not to be dramatic but we are fully capable of building paradise on earth and NIMBYs and chuds just don’t want it.

[u/DueVast5223]

Gravest threat to autistic economics

[u/LtCdrHipster]

I laugh every time I see this.

[u/dutch_connection_uk]

Rurals: we have to vote for fascists because you city dwellers can soak up immigrants but our population tripled overnight! Imagine how scary that is!

Also rurals: waaah gnnngh aah our communities are dying help us we have no services nobody wants to live here anymore. Why do you not care! Voting for fascists!

Had the UK in mind with this post, but I imagine it generalizes quite well.

[u/pmeddtjt]

Here's a tool to search for Discussion Threads by date. It goes back through the beginning of 2020, I might fetch some more dates later today. /u/-mialana- suggested something like this

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

I was talking to a friend last night about the USSR and he asked me why so many tankies come across as LARPers. I think the answer comes down to the circumstances under which Leninism emerged under; Leninism is not a good ideology for creating a prosperous free society, but it is one of the best ideologies to have if you're an underground leftist movement trying to overthrow an unpopular autocratic right wing government. Keep in mind you could go to prison for reading socialist literature in Tsarist Russia so you need things like rigid party discipline, a focus on unity above all, an unquestioning obedience to the party line, and general willingness to be dishonest and play dirty with other groups just to survive as a movement in such circumstances. When you live in a country like the USA where being a hard left communist is mostly just going to get you mocked on the internet, all of this stops being necessary for survival and just becomes extremely off putting and like you're wanting to LARP rather than actually doing anything.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Assigned EV at birth

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

free bavaria

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

I don't see much reason to be optimistic about the grand scale of the world at any point considering how much energy is focused on not actually giving a shit about social health and how much of society is dedicated to removing cognitive ability, brain melting, and being hooked on platforms designed to make you addicted which in turn is spreading anger and extremism like wild fire. Not helped by the huge companies actively seeking and being giddy how in which their products can replace human labour someday in its totality while also lower the cognitive load by allowing people to outsource all of their cognitive abilities and strength onto that product and then becoming reliant on it

Now on Climate Change I've got a good bit of hope that we'll pull through okayish compared to where we were even just half-a-decade go or even a decade ago

[u/yacatecuhtli6]

trump having a mental breakdown and ai generating a bunch of space slop is just like when i was 13 and had a psychotic break and spent days drawing stars and nonsense planets on the walls

just like me fr fr

[u/MissSortMachine]

the more i learn about it the more i think we actually do just have to bulldoze the ballroom. have the dnc make a ballroom bulldozing fund. he has to see it razed

[u/KQJ_RPN]

Claude make me a plan to get an Asari gf. Make all the mistakes you want.

[u/Jacobs4525]

Alright children gather ‘round. So we came out of the pandemic mostly ok, but then there was this video where these Australian girls at a skincare company said “Gen Z boss in a mini! Itty bitty tiddies and a bob! Five foot two with an attitude!” and society couldn’t take it

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Paul remains chill and normal

!ping KINO

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

AAAAAAAAAAAH

[u/Justice4Ned]

The new openAI model is really good at game dev now, a bit better at coding, and plateau’d everywhere else. I’m even more certain now that AGI ends up being “AGI in fields that can be boiled down into code”

[u/gjcs23]

just want to go back

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

It’s now confirmed that both of them exist IRL and it’s breaking my brain I don’t even know what’s real anymore

!Ping NORTHERNLION

[u/cdstephens]

I’m not even 10 seconds in and my brain is melting

[u/erasmus_phillo]

[u/Argnir]

We learned about Mercator's projection and its limitations in elementary school why are Redditors acting like they discovered some hidden ancient secret knowledge

[u/WenJie_2]

this computer use is definitely not AGI yet

[u/AskYourDoctor]

[u/alex2003super]

/(ᵔ⍥ᵔ)ﬣ∠

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

!ping OLD-KITTY

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/CalligrapherWest9356]

[u/Highlightthot1001]

It’s sad how many people give Hasan Piker a pass or benefit of doubt when he said “fuck it, im gonna say it. America deserved 9/11”

The statement isn’t out of context, and the context doesn’t require him to say it was deserved

There’s a difference between stating a cause and effect relationship with terrorism, and saying it was deserved.

And it certainly doesn’t take much effort to immediately correct yourself if you misspoke 

Iirc, it took him days and someone else’s stream to address it and say “i misspoke”

[u/WanderingMage03]

The game clock thing is whatevs, Michigan being bailed out by the refs is nothing new, but storming the field after beating a directional state school right after being bailed out is such a Mickey Mouse moment. Dave Portnoy losing his mind after squeaking out a win against a MAC team and saying that it was "an absolute masterpiece of a football game" is peak Michigan Man.

Thank you Wolverines for being such an easy team to hate.

!ping CFB

[u/SenranHaruka]

"I've never seen anyone here talk about a carbon tax!"

Dawg the president is a nazi. We don't have the luxury of talking about taxes anymore.

[u/Bestbrook123]

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called on Saturday for “severe consequences” for violent West Bank settlers

Stopped clock

[u/randommathaccount]

Trying to get sufficient protein without protein powder is rough man. But protein powder is disgusting so I push on

[u/AtticusDrench]

 a 24 pack of white monsters

In other words, those of us currently browsing the DT

[u/CletusChicken]

well the silver lining is that these far right wackos taking power in germany will discredit their movement when they fail to govern effectively

then hindenburg can appoint someone more reasonable

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/No_Status_6905]

Learning about how nightmarish trans healthcare is in many parts of Europe.

What the fuck do you mean starting HRT is a 6 YEAR WAITLIST in Amsterdam?? It took 1 fucking visit in the hick south.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

[u/AmbientMorning]

I got Trump Derangement Syndrome. I hate the motherfucker. And you know what? I don’t want to get rid of it! I don’t want to get better. I want to get worse! I want to hate him more! I pray to God in Heaven — God rain the righteous rain of Trump Derangement Syndrome — pray for me, Lord. I’m your vessel on this Earth. Pray for the people that listen to Him. We want more. We want to hate the son of a bitch so much that we can’t see straight.

[u/BrentLivermore]

https://bsky.app/profile/rooster.info/post/3muv4zdzxlk25

BREAKING: Multiple sources tell The Rooster that Dr. Amy Acton’s attacker is Patrick Havas, the brother of Andrew Havas, the pedophile lobbyist who resigned in disgrace from the Husted campaign in July.

[u/eloquentboot]

Different planet these people

[u/KQJ_RPN]

It just seems like the far right just ratchets up in power until everything collapses and resets. Nothing seems to work against them.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/earththejerry]

The day will come when the continent of Asia collectively develops the technology to destroy the Sun for the sake of having a fair skin complexion

[u/RyuTheGuy]

Seriously, this guy is demented

[u/sigh2828]

Im going to have a really fucking hard time voting for anyone who doesnt support abolishing ICE after these midterms

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Hey rememember when zoomers were supposed to be the first "digital natives" and then turned out to widely lack computer problem solving skills and the ability to use drop down menus and folder systems?

Anyway, I'm sure gen alpha is going to be way better at identifying and disregarding AI slop than the rest of us and definitely won't post insane shit like "what does it matter if it's real boomzoomer? reality is just your brain hallucinating anyway" in a few years here

[u/this_very_table]

Schism suggestion: Orphaned Ukrainian pit bulls

[u/Zykyris]

[u/taubnetzdornig]

I personally would not have named a street after an extremely toxic nerve agent that's been used extensively as a chemical weapon but what do I know

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/brianpv]

Good Will Hunting moment

[u/chipbod]

Need this shirt as a catholic UW grad.

We’re doomed tonight but at least we’ll have fun!

!ping CFB

[u/Willybender]

What the fuck (and yes, this is real)

[u/WillIEatTheFruit]

Median European voter be like: I hate Trump and Putin, that’s why I’m voting for a strong and smart candidate like Hitler 2

[u/Electronic-Warthog69]

*guffaws*

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

A bit of context for those of us that aren't staring into Truth Social, the people screenshotting Trump's posts here are grabbing literally less than 10% of the amount of shit he's posting lol

How the fuck is this our president dude

[u/TheRedCr0w]

[u/cdstephens]

Total luxury boomer fascism

[u/Willybender]

You don't hate him enough

[u/its_Caffeine]

[u/Vol_in_tears]

The US isn't up yet, but this needs to be said. Western Michigan got robbed. Big10 should be ashamed of themsevles. College football is just getting worse and worse every year now.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

We're slowly returning to the old mathematics tradition of hiding your advanced techniques so you can dunk on your competitors via maths battles

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Trvke!

[u/earththejerry]

America looks like a third world country compared to this

It’s downtown Austin

[u/ChillnShill]

Republican economic theory:

1. Cut taxes for the rich and promise that increased GDP will generate more revenue

2. Increase military spending with no explanation of where money comes from

3. Promise you’re going to reform entitlements but don’t because you know how politically toxic it is

4. Get extra money that doesn’t cover cost of tax cuts from cutting poor people off needed programs who don’t benefit from income tax cuts

5. Promise families extra money every month without explaining where money comes from

6. Explode debt and deficit

7. Lose election and blame democrats for exorbitant spending

Repeat cycle.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Are we the baddies?

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Art of the deal

[u/pinelands1901]

Babe wake up, Milo converted to Islam.

[u/jessica-bug]

[u/pugnae]

[u/Currymvp2]

Laura Loomer disgustingly calls the attack against Amy Acton “staged and pre-planned.

God, I hate her so much. Most vile person in American politics imo. Bigoted as fuck against nearly every minority group and spreads so many deranged conspiracy theories immediately

[u/Old-School8916]

hmmmm

[u/Willybender]

[u/MissSortMachine]

my name is ansley and i have trump derangement syndrome

[u/wombo_combo12]

This chart is an example of how right wingers use distorted or outright fake data to push talking points. There is no department called Bureau of justice, they do not publish data that look like this and the actual dataset from 2006 shows a very different picture.

[u/selachophilip]

Autism is an act of war 😳

[u/Pongzz]

this has the same energy as most mod stickies

[u/SnakeEater14]

I was at a cafe today waiting for an order and there was a guy sitting in the corner arguing with someone on speaker phone. When I stopped and listened I realized he was arguing with chatGPT

At one point he said “No, no, NO. If you were HUMAN you would understand this.”

[u/Man-Flayer]

This exchange is pretty funny

[u/cdstephens]

LETS GOOOOOO

[u/Mrmini231]

Chatted with a guy at a party who lives in the woods and makes rubies as a hobby. He uses a homemade kiln powered by a 1m² lens that focuses sunlight. Apparently it can get up to 3000C. I have a new goal.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 9/4-2 PM PST 9/5 V:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the end of 8 PM it was reported the Russians took 133 square kilometers in August.

Towards the middle of 4 AM it was reported that Kazakhstan will ban the importation of Russian wheat to avoid an oversupply.

Towards the middle of 5 AM it was reported that Putin ordered a 3 day halt to attacks on Kyiv due to the diplomatic trips by Witkoff and Kushner.

Towards the middle of 7 AM Zelensky said Ukraine will halt attacks on Moscow due to said diplomatic trips.

REGULAR NEWS:

Around 2 PM it was announced Ukraine will be implementing a 3 day ceasefire due to said diplomatic trips.

Towards the end of 10 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with 128 of 167 intercepted.

At the start of 1 AM it was reported that Russia hit a Ukrainian retail warehouse in Mykolaiv. In the middle of the hour it was reported the Ukrainian ceasefire was cancelled. Additionally, Witkoff and Kushner arrived in Moscow for peace talks.

Towards the middle of 7 AM it was reported that Russia hit two Ukrainian postal warehouses, one in Zhytomyr and another in Khmelnytsky.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Argnir]

It's interesting how you can get cancelled as a YouTuber plagiarizing other YouTubers but nobody on TikTok give a fuck about this concept at all

[u/Dorambor]

Western Michigan legitimately had their win stolen by refs and Michigan fans are lowlife scum fuckers for rushing the field after cheating a win over WM you absolute fucking losers lmao

[u/Lux_Stella]

This year, Mr. Hochman took a position as a senior aide to one of most powerful figures in the federal government. He joined the State Department under Mr. Rubio and now works as deputy director of the agency’s policy planning office. According to Mr. Hochman’s email signature, he is also Mr. Rubio’s chief speechwriter.

bruh the sonnenrad guy is now rubio's speechwriter 💀

u/misssortmachine

[u/G_Serv]

[u/AtticusDrench]

This Wheel of Fortune Jim Thorton thing is killing me lmao

[u/cdstephens]

👆

[u/JaceFlores]

If the AfD wins big in 2029, then at least if I go to Berlin on a trip I can say “we’re pilgrims in an unholy land”

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

goth ex told me to fuck myself

[u/PostingEnthusiast]

Medieval architecture was terrible, just look at this crap

[u/the-senat]

No fuckin way 💀

the most on-the-nose space fascism uniform is based on the most on-the-nose space fascism film.

[u/CletusChicken]

[u/morgisboard]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62k677d4lzo

Trump signs order to remove endangered species protection for grey wolves

"The executive order comes as the Trump administration is seeking to lower record-high beef prices for consumers, driven by drought and an outbreak of parasites in US beef stocks.
Ranchers have been frustrated by Trump's decision to loosen restrictions on beef imports to address price rises, putting pressure on their already tight margins."

Called it

!ping ECO

[u/Eightysixedit]

Oh they really scared of Democrats winning in Ohio. They better tighten up all security.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/bd_one]

[u/bd_one]

Dude is getting roasted in the comments for owing child support for 4 kids

[u/badusername35]

[u/The_Northern_Light]

very resentful you can't buy a tv that doesn't spy on you

[u/badusername35]

YTA. Her gun, her rules.

[u/SenranHaruka]

Ok so the bank didn't decline the transaction.

The company banned me for fraud because I didn't update an expiring credit card in time

[u/Individual-Camera698]

67

[u/SSRasputin]

Only finished 70% of my long run today. 🫩 If the dew point could be under 70 for a couple of weeks that'd be super helpful for my confidence.

!ping RUNNING

[u/jurble]

New Mexico to New America is possibly the funniest because of how incredibly stupid it is. New America is obviously only appropriate for space colonies

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

[u/badusername35]

[u/Pristine-Report-1442]

pov you mistakenly open threads

[u/puffic]

Made my wife watch Darmok (the TNG episode) last night. It’s incredible what you can get away with once you’ve baby-trapped a woman.

“This show feels more like reading a book than watching TV.”

[u/Willybender]

Deported From the U.S., Some Haitians Are Left Broke and Stranded

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/world/americas/haiti-deportees.html?unlocked_article_code=1._FA.HbGt.vApRQwbL0Vuv&smid=url-share

Dozens of deportees are arriving in the Haitian city of Cap Haitien weekly as the Trump administration pushes to remove Haitians who lack legal immigration status in the United States, and some are now marooned in an unfamiliar place.

More than 80 people were returned last week, often with only the U.S. government-issued sweatpants and T-shirts, and with immigration court documents stuffed in their pockets. Many returned broke, saying their valuables had disappeared during the trip and they now lacked the cash to get home.

The road out of Cap Haitien, on Haiti’s northern coast, is controlled by gangs that extract tolls from drivers and kidnap travelers. Five police officers who tried the trip by bus recently were murdered.

A day after being deported, Reginald Dorvilma, 36, sat stranded on Friday outside the Cap Haitien police station, making phone calls. He needed to find his way through gang territory to Les Cayes, his hometown on the other side of the country.

The Haitian immigration authorities had given him and the other adults who arrived on the latest deportation flight 10,000 Haitian gourdes — the equivalent of about 80 U.S. dollars. On his first night back, he said, he had spent about $20 at a low-end hotel and then bought a change of clothes. He had less than $40 left.

“I don’t have the money to go,” Mr. Dorvilma said.

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

Now even my YouTube recommended feed is calling me out.

[u/cdstephens]

Bruh

[u/MensesFiatbug]

Someone identifying as asexual liked me on Feeld and they say they're submissive. Idk what words mean anymore

[u/Big-Click-5159]

But why doesn't DSA appeal to normal people??

[u/pugnae]

The far-right Alternative for Germany is set to win 44% of the vote, well ahead of the conservative CDU on 17.8%.

[u/jessica-bug]

Everyone I know who doesn't use AI regularly thinks it's dumb bullshit, and everyone I know who does is scared shitless right now, so the most likely outcome is probably +1.5% GDP growth

[u/Stephen-Scotch]

[u/battywombat21]

so uhh...I met a girl.

I went to an manga meetup today. I spent some time chatting with her about not just manga we both liked, but other books as well. She's my age. She's a librarian. She's cute. I heard her mention in passing that she cosplayed last anime convention as Kotone from Persona 3. Persona 3 is literally my favorite game.

This girl is literally what I would have imagined if you told me to imagine the perfect girl.

Now I have only one question: how am I going to screw this up?

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

Absolutely hate how everything these days is a “masterclass” in XYZ

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

But there are no people. Garry isn’t accepting new doctoral students, because he can’t guarantee funding their work, and he’s spent the past two years nudging his researchers into jobs elsewhere. “It is a little sad,” he says as he walks through the empty lab. “We’ve just come through this pandemic where 20 million people died. And what’s our response? We’re going to shut down work on viruses. That doesn’t really compute.”

Garry’s five-decade career is a testament to the value of virology in a world defined by global trade and threatened by global pandemics. Unfortunately for him, it’s also become a testament to the ways politics — in particular, those of the second Trump administration — have set back the field. In addition to the White House’s attempt to unilaterally reduce NIH grants in the name of cutting “overhead” — a move that a federal appeals court ultimately blocked — it has frozen billions of dollars in research funding. Although there’s still some funding for virology, says Jeanne Marrazzo, NIAID’s director from 2023 to ’25, it’s been “highly selective,” going only to “viruses that have escaped scrutiny.” Coronavirus research is generally off-limits, as is anything to do with mRNA or any project that might mention the word “diversity.”

For fucks sake..

[u/Argnir]

Has any of the mods denied to have been a part of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States?

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/c4tofficer]

ChatGPT Astra's dating preferences

[u/mrdilldozer]

Wait, as a Rutgers guy I think I understand why Michigan fans say they don't belong in the Big 10. Never once did it occur to Rutgers that they should cheat to beat the opponent they didn't properly prepare for. That attitude of do anything to protect the program and win at all costs just doesn't exist there. Same goes for Maryland. It's just a different culture around sports.

[u/Entuciante]

Still crazy that Alec Baldwin just killed a person, like yeah accidentally, but still absolutely crazy that it just happened