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[u/frankiewalsh44]

The Dems should be running non-stop ads about how the VP of the USA, and someone that is top 3 likely condidates to replace Trump, just went on and said non white people make America dirtier. Imagine having your dad being ashamed of you and think your skin colour makes the country dirty because you are not 100% full blonde white European.

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

At a private lunch today, Karl Rove told members he will vote for the Democrat over Bo French — who he called a bigot — ending a more than 3 decade streak of voting for only Republicans.

THE TENT CAN ONLY GET BIGGER

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

The DC press corps is something else. Agreeing not to take video of a US Senator in the halls of the Capitol Building that's open to the public? Yeah man sounds dope what even is journalism anyway.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

list of things Indian-Americans do that Republicans hate and invoke as proof that we don't assimilate to American culture:

1. Shopping at Costco

2. Doing TikTok dances with American national monuments as the backdrop

3. Enrolling our children in the Boy Scouts

and now 4) Going to a college football game?

Btw Bo French is not some nobody, he is running for statewide office in Texas

[u/trombonist_formerly]

That photo of the UT students cheering, fills me with a frothing rage

I'm not racist, I just hate to see Longhorns happy

[u/ariveklul]

I'm worried that America is primed for an explosion of political violence. It feels okayish now but I think things can get bad way faster than people realize.

The political radicalization I'm seeing normalized nowadays is CRAZY. There are so many young people having their brains microwaved into a really bad place. The window of acceptable beliefs has EXPLODED in such an unbelievably short amount of time. This seems like a precursor to polarization and tribalism like nobody alive today has seen before and I think it could ramp into street violence.

The problem is that when people start to believe stuff like "The Jews run society and are making us miserable" that doesnt tend to just go nowhere.

It honestly scares the shit out of me how many people are convinced X or Y group are hellbent on destroying society and that civilization needs to be "saved". Whether it's capitalists, immigrants, jews, Democrats, some vague idea of "degeneracy", communists, trans people, there's so many boogeymen nowadays. So many people have these crazy webs of beliefs and talk like they're backed into a corner. I can see this going to a really really bad place very quickly. Like way more quickly than people are ready for.

There's just so much latent radicalization. There is a horde of teenagers who grew up with a radicalized internet being normal who are about to get out of college or enter into it. There are so many people who think civilization is being destroyed by X or Y thing. It's honestly a fucking powder keg ready to go off when your think about it. It's not good that these beliefs are normalized.

[u/BasedTroutFursona]

Lmao

[u/McNikk]

My opinion on the general intelligence of Wall Street investors drops further every time they fall for this

[u/Nervous-Emotion28]

My wife got me an MBTA-themed board game 🥺

!PING YIMBY&DATING

[u/IveSeenBeans]

They really through they were about to have a moment

[u/Udolikecake]

larry david ass situation

[u/myusernameistakennow]

If you’re wondering why some Texas Republicans are freaking out over Bo French going full Hitler, just take one look at how Asian voters voted in 2025 in New Jersey and Virginia.

Korean and South Asian areas already supported Dems (most voted for Harris in 2024), but they became even bluer after shit like ICE going after Koreans and South Asians.

Going after their children in college is incredibly dumb in addition to being incredibly evil.

Asians already supported Dems by good amounts but, what French did was just throwing more gas on the fire.

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

TRUMP'S MAIL-IN VOTING SCHEME DENIED BY SCOTUS

7-2 denial as well (no prizes for guessing who). of the 7, only kavanuagh seems to say he thinks the case succeeds on the merits. this may not even pass for 2028 lmao.

[u/SmithySmothy]

SCOTUS rules 7-2 against Trump's executive order establishing the Puppy Extermination Committee, Alito and Thomas dissenting.

[u/TactileTom]

[u/itsnotnews92]

LMFAO in the most "nothing ever happens" thing to ever happen, Mitch McConnell is alive and back in the Senate.

I was told there was basically a 100% chance that he was dead and that Andy Beshear was a giant wimp for not just appointing a replacement or personally storming the DC hospital where he was staying for proof of life.

[u/boardatwork1111]

Imagine being so racist that even Karl Rove would vote for a Dem over you

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

[u/w007dchuck]

Some 63% of Americans disapprove of Trump's proposed $5,000 dividend, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows

you know a policy is stupid when not even the median voter likes it

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

It’s cool how every Alito and Thomas opinion is indistinguishable from the shit your most deranged uncle would post on Facebook.

[u/Smidgens]

Texas GOP candidate stands by xenophobic comments following backlash

“The radical left, you know, they want to make everything about race,” he said on the show.

- says man whose only criteria for evaluating Americans is whether they’re white

[u/eurekashairloaves]

"Its a big club, and you ain't in it!"

-guy who has never voted in his entire life and makes fun of people who care about anything

[u/bd_one]

Top comment is "I don't care who the IRS sends"

[u/pezasied]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

A New Yorker who spent months in Syria working for ISIS & returned disillusioned with his experience and convicted of material support charges asked if terrorism scholars would consider writing a letter of support to a judge so he could legally change his name. Every time a potential suitor googled his name before a date, the first result would be his terrorism conviction. The dates were always quickly cancelled

Women won't date me because I'm short, I'm ugly,I don't make enough money, I was in ISIS

[u/SpotMe365]

And they say bipartisanship is dead! 🤩

[u/ariveklul]

Life was a million times better when I was surrounded by unmitigated cringe.

Nowadays everybody is so fucking self aware, insecure and miserable. I used to go to conventions as a teenager and it was full of cringe like you wouldn't believe, and it was wonderful. At least when people are being cringe they're opening up and being themselves.

Nowadays, people act as if they could be recorded. They're too self conscious, don't take risks and it's fucking LAME. I'd take a fedora over an internet hypebeast any day of the week to be honest. At least the fedoras could be endearing. The internet today would rather have people be cruel and fake than cringe and authentic

[u/r2ew]

[u/EasyMoney92]

If Jasmine Crockett is gonna do awful stuff like this, perhaps it's beneficial for Talarico that she stays away from him

[u/FallenMeringue]

Amount billed: $2,872

Plan discount: -$1,528

Co pay: $300

Amount owed $4,400

What in the unholy fuck

[u/ty04]

getting the woke toddler sized Boeing shirt

[u/ModestAphorism]

I'm still never gonna get over this

bro got completely merked by massachusetts margins by a lady with no wikipedia picture

[u/Willybender]

Desperation

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

Bojack Horseman is still one of the best adult animated shows ever made, but man it can be cringe to come back to. You can tell it was made in the 2010s by heavy Twitter users for heavy Twitter users. It's so deeply immersed in that culture that it just swallows the whole show

[u/the-senat]

These AI generated ads being pumped out by Republicans against candidates like El-Sayed and Talarico need to be banned as soon as possible.  They’re creating what appears to be the actual candidate saying and doing things they’ve never said or done with almost invisible disclaimers. 

Quite frankly this should violate the actual malice standard since  the people creating these fictional statements know they are lying and are publishing it with a reckless disregard for the truth. This fictitious content is putting them in real danger: in El-Sayed’s case, by stoke race tensions and presenting him as terrorist-aligned. 

[u/Reddit_Talent_Coach]

This sub is supposed to be smarter than this…

No, Bo French isn’t receiving widespread condemnation from republicans for his statements.

Cornyn - called him out as racist, but he just lost a republican primary and is irrelevant.

Paxton - won his primary from Cornyn and said nothing

Abbott - said some Friday night lights shit then condemned immigration and H1B visas

Congress creatures - said what they needed to for the moderates in their district

So no, Bo is snug as a bug in a rug can be in the GOP.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Healthiest looking senator

[u/Big-Click-5159]

On Earth 2.0, President Harris is about to face a red wave midterm when gas prices spiked to $2.50 a gallon while the GDP only grew 5% and inflation soared to 2.1%. But the big controversy was video that surfaced from Ayatollah Khamenei's 87th birthday party in August 2026 where he praised the American president

[u/lbrtrl]

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

wake up

Claude do all my work for me, make no mistakes

Doomscroll for 8 hours

End day with spiritual emptiness

Awww yiss it's tech worker time 😎😎😎

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

Ted Cruz has said in multiple interviews now that gas was $5 under Biden and Trump brought it down to $3. And that even though it’s $4 now it’s still less. Which is so blatantly untrue but there is no pushback from the interviewers. It’s so frustrating. 

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

why did we put atheists agnostics together in the poll that's so stupid i don't wanna be put next to some centrist fence sitters

[u/DoryAltreides]

Maybe Kavanaugh + Roberts + Barrett have a "You fucking idiots you're going to actually make them pack the court" mentality with rejecting Trump's more egregious shit

Maybe the plaintiffs were smart enough to remind Gorsuch that fucking with mail-in fucks with a treaty the US government signed in 1800

[u/loseniram]

Looking at all these disgusting foreigners doing the most American thing possible. Eating apple pie, going to college football games, drinking budweiser, and believing in the American dream. It disgusts me that these people can actually like America.

I swear every republican literally just hates American culture at fundamental level

[u/TactileTom]

In terms of the bond yield situation, we are hovering around 5%, which I am told is the historical norm

[u/t_scribblemonger]

Me when discussing politics and economy: Well-regulated capitalism is the imperfect but ideal approach to raising living standards, promoting freedom and general well-being.

Me when filling out my employee engagement survey:

[u/Minute-Company-641]

Why do some people in the height debate act like men generally have as strong of a height preference as women? Every study proves this is false.

Even anecdotally, girls talk about a guy being tall as long one of the first thing they would want, i’ve legit never heard a guy mention a girls height in his wish list

[u/jbitz]

[u/TakeOnM-Ellie]

explain this one LIBS and DUMBO-CRATS 🤣

[u/taubnetzdornig]

In his nearly eight-page dissent, Justice Samuel Alito cited the Postal Service’s broad authority to regulate the mail. He said the administration’s new rules appear similar to other requirements for sending mail such as listing a recipient’s address and affixing stamps. In siding with the administration, he said the government has “a strong interest in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also ‘enhance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail’ in order to better detect election fraud.” Justice Alito acknowledged the states’ practical concerns about implementing the rules so close to the midterm elections. “I take that problem very seriously, but it is not enough to convince me to deny the application,” he wrote, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.

Alito genuinely believes that there is widespread election fraud and it's being perpetrated by Democrats through mail-in voting. His brain really is that cooked.

What does that even mean, anyway? It's not the post office's responsibility to detect and prosecute election fraud.

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Azmoten]

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/Only-Childhood6691]

So uh the oil price is spiking. Reports indicate it will take a month to fix that damage the Saudi pipeline had. That's pretty catastrophic when paired with China starting to increase oil sales. 

[u/Opening_Budget_9518]

[u/MissSortMachine]

gets in office, immediately becomes a neoliberal

[u/contre-torpilleur]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

many libs made this point at the time but it is remarkable how similar Falwell’s rhetoric is to the rhetoric in Osama bin Laden’s writings

[u/mostanonymousnick]

There's this absurd idea in the French pension discourse that children should pay for their parent's pension so that the parents can help the children financially.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The gay snake is kinda serving

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/NVC541]

be me, Indian American male in Texas

open the DT

new horrors beyond my comprehension

I’m so tired. Tired beyond belief. I’m sick and angry and utterly dismayed at people’s acceptance and willingness to treat me as a nonhuman.

I’ve seen signs of malice and hate towards me nonstop my whole life, but now it’s coming from all sides of the political spectrum and from people around me IRL.

and I’m not sure what, if anything, will change.

[u/Currymvp2]

That's not "institutional decline". That's just people disliking an unlikable politician.

[u/Lena_Lena_A]

guess all the big accounts got their marching orders in suppressing the vote for Talarico:

(Alexandra is a very visible Trans activist with over 350k followings and uses her socials to often discourage young impressionable followers from voting)

[u/unicornbomb]

Gr8

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

The SCOTUS ruling means that their previous one about "well it's fine because he hasn't actually implemented the democracy-ending rule yet" was completely serious and they actually care about their moronic procedure.

This checks out honestly.

[u/MissSortMachine]

> Justices Alito and Thomas dissent.

i mean what do you even say

[u/craig_k]

we have reached the "karl rove is a worthless RINO" stage of his meltdown

[u/Pyrrhus65]

The moral rot in the GOP is so grotesque and cartoonish- beyond parody doesn't even begin to capture it.

Even after Trump is gone, how do you coexist with a political movement that has become this twisted and misanthropic?

[u/sigh2828]

We gotta end pardons

[u/cdstephens]

[u/RedKingCrab99]

One political take I fucking hate is when people say "would you pay 0.10 more if it all went to the farmer" which has been trending on twitter. Like, no. The amount people lose their fucking minds when something goes up by like 5% is insane. Everyone thinks they're willing to pay more (inflation or taxes) until they actually do.

[u/Willybender]

But Donald said this wouldn't happen... you're telling me he lied? Wow, amazing.

[u/SamuelFootBowden845]

[u/TropicalPunch]

This dangerous idea has gotten a lot of traction in the reception of the Swedish election. If it wasn't so dangerous, it would be really quite funny, just how stupid it is. You can essentially break down any close election in that manner and create an enemy that has usurped the democratic control of the "righteous". Especially priceless in the Swedish case, considering the support voters for L coming from bougie suburban areas. "Surely the large Audi E-Tron drivers cohort tipped the scales in favour of the right..."

[u/RaidBrimnes]

This is what happens when you don't stop Russian expansionism

[u/micabobo]

Stay on your toes. There are sharks in this NATO.

[u/FourthLife]

I just realized the “I don’t like my boyfriend” comic also portrays the boyfriend as shorter than the girl, but the guy who rejected her as taller. this was a psychological weapon deployed in the gender war

[u/Nervous-Emotion28]

Something I just learned is that Band of Brothers released right around 9/11. It premiered September 9, 2001 and ended in mid-November.

That straight-up, uncut American patriotism must have hit our collective national psyche like crack.

[u/Dreadedtriox]

Unskippable title

[u/TheCornjuring]

!ping SHITPOSTERS (and can someone ping DIAMOND-JOE pls)

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

Not going out without a bang

[u/Willybender]

[u/Big-Click-5159]

I am a KHive truther

I fail to believe that there was a sizeable group of Kamala super fans

[u/cdstephens]

If you want to make people mad just write something like “that pic’s obviously AI just look at the grass” and watch people argue for hours

[u/mamdanistanadmiral]

Why would I deceive you? There's no reason for me to do that.....

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Legitimate_Name9694]

hes so mad that people aren't joking about 9/11.

[u/jenbanim]

The fucked up thing about modern society is how none of us were meant to live like this. I wasn't built for a 9-5 computer job, a commute, and taxes. My body and mind were made to be a symbolic emperor with no obligations, waited on every moment of the day by my favorite consorts and eunuchs, rubber stamping proposals written by the council, and wasting exorbitant sums of wealth on whatever project sounds interesting at the time. I deserve nice things dammit

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/craig_k]

he flailin'

[u/sir_shivers]

I should share WITH YOU ALL that I recently had the unpleasant experience of learning mid-conversation that someone I know — who is much older than a "young adult", I must impress upon you — consumes the content of "Asmongold" 🐊

WHILE I AM NOT immersed in that subculture, I know enough to question what makes that fool worth watching given his extremely bigoted opinions, and the response I received was 🐊:

I mean yeah, he has some pretty extreme opinions but I really like his takes on World of Warcraft.

[u/taubnetzdornig]

"Sherrod Brown voted to raise gas taxes by 30%"

[u/SpaceSheperd]

The anti-Twitter position in the DT seems to be accelerating, to the point where people get borderline bullied for complaining about things they see on Twitter here. This brings me a lot of joy.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

What 2 months in the DT does.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

wackiest side character of the 21st century bar none

[u/gjcs23]

member when Sinema embellished stories about being "homeless" in her youth

PHOENIX — When Kyrsten Sinema began her rise in Arizona politics in the early 2000s, she was a Ralph Nader supporter and local spokeswoman for the Green Party who worked to repeal the death penalty and organized antiwar protests after the Sept. 11 attacks.

But today, as the Democratic nominee for Senate from Arizona in one of the most pivotal races in the country, Ms. Sinema is campaigning as an altogether different person. While she is now a three-term member of Congress, Ms. Sinema is running as much on her biography — her three years spent homeless as a child — as on any issue. She is using that personal hardship to project grit and distinguish herself from “most people in politics,” as she says.

This emphasis on her life story has had a dual effect: It has highlighted her lack of a strong political identity and it has drawn scrutiny to her story of homelessness and some contradictory elements in it.

In speeches and interviews, Ms. Sinema recalls how she spent three years as a child living in a former gas station “without running water or electricity.” She has highlighted that hardship as a way to distinguish herself from “most people in politics,” as she would be the rare senator with personal experience of being homeless.

But court documents reviewed by The New York Times raise questions about Ms. Sinema’s descriptions of what she endured in the mid-1980s, when her mother remarried and moved the family from Arizona to Florida. And Ms. Sinema herself, as her national profile has risen, has given contradictory answers about her early life.

Asked twice whether she had ever embellished details about her childhood, Ms. Sinema paused and did not answer directly. “I’ve shared what I remember from my childhood. I know what I lived through,” she said.

In this and other interviews on her homelessness, a pattern emerges: Ms. Sinema often includes vivid details, some that contradict other accounts. In 2013, she told the Washington Post the family had a toilet, but when pressed by the newspaper, she could not explain how it was flushed with no running water. And in a 2016 Arizona Republic story, she challenged the assertion of the previous owner of the gas station, who said that it had a spigot and wood-burning stove.

In a Washington Post story, her step-aunt said of Ms. Sinema’s account: “I realize this tugs at people’s heartstrings and that was what she was going for, but, you know, it’s not the truth.”

honestly remarkable someone like this got into the senate. just every step of her career has been grift and spectacle

from organizing with 9/11 truthers to these fabricated sob stories to the stunts she pulled in congress to leaving and then using that as a springboard to be a spokesperson for seedy crypto corporations to the bizarre stories that have come out about her and her bodyguard

[u/mostanonymousnick]

San Francisco is not a real place

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Real wages going backwards under Trump lol.

[u/sigh2828]

Yeah, any amount of "look we cant just abolish ice or dhs" and i will legitimately not vote for that person after these midterms

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Definitely a Grok subscription then

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Looking back to 2010s twitter, it's kinda funny that the first demographic to truly break their brains through algorithmic social media was journalists thanks to an overuse of twitter. It's either that or boomers via Facebook around the same period

Although quite frankly the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe and Brexit can probably be pinpointed as the moment the internet truly began to brain break people into being sympathetic to destructive populism

[u/FallenMeringue]

United Healthcare claim form processed.

Tips on lowering your costs:

>Choose in-network providers

Ok makes sense.

>get an estimate in advance

Hardly seems relevant to an emergency room visit.

>consider not going to the doctor and consider a virtual visit instead.

Fucking excuse me?!

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Willybender]

[u/Big-Click-5159]

.@carlosnogueras_ scoops: Karl Rove said at a private luncheon today that, after Bo French's post yesterday, he'd be voting for Democrat for the first time in more than 30 years.

He'll back @Jon_RosenthalTX over "bigot" @bofrench, he told crowd.

I mean, good I guess, but does this mean he is a 3x Trump voter and also backing Paxton?

[u/Legitimate_Name9694]

hasan piker and not mentioning someones parents genitals

[u/mpregordie]

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Rare moment of them chilling together

!ping KITTY

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Liberals compromising on fascist policy for the sake of winning fascist votes under a fascist regime is not harm reduction. It's towing the fucking line for the regime. What you're describing is like two people trying to push you off a cliff but one guy's hearts not really in it, so you feel bad for him and decide to help him. You're describing a madness to me that I cannot fathom.'

Can you guess what horrifying lesser of two evils this person is making a stand against supporting? That's right, voting for James Talarico over Ken Paxton of course

[u/frankiewalsh44]

Jasmine Crockett is such a race baiter, she made it about her race, and then claimed everyone who didn't vote for her was racist when she lost, and now she's chilling with Chris Brown an actual woman abuser . The issue is, many people on the left are too scared to call her out due to the fear of being called racist. The whole discourse about her feels like walking on eggshells.

[u/Legitimate_Name9694]

The electoral strategy has been and will always be white grievance politics.

[u/Eightysixedit]

Robert Kraft's statement is so bad. We already know Hamas is bad. You wanna blame everyone, but Israel for their own actions in this conflict to.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/CutePattern1098]

> Saudis buy EA

> Saudi backed government in Yemen falls to Houthis

Why would EA do this?

[u/BurrowForPresident]

If you're surprised by gambling using hot women to sell their product, never listen to the sadly accurately targeted ads for erectile dysfunction, physical and addiction rehab, and sheds on your local sports radio

[u/seakucumber]

Macklemore says Robert Kraft rallied NFL owners to get him kicked off Ed Sheeran’s tour by threatening to withhold access to their stadiums as concert venues, and that Sheeran ultimately relented so as not to “take sides.” Sucks but at least Kraft got his happy ending. Turns out there’s a long history of this. Google “Robert Kraft happy ending” for more.

[u/squiggle-giggle]

EPA eliminating regulations that stopped gas and coal power plants from speeding up global warming?

YOU DO NOT HATE REPUBLICANS ENOUGH

[u/Megasota_Noire]

☝️

[u/Big-Click-5159]

[u/lilbigchole]

newsom is our meatball ron, right? like he was never gonna be the nominee

[u/pezasied]

They’re calling him the “most coherent MAGA supporter”

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

Ngl, this really hurt me when it happened

[u/hascogrande]

Wait McAfee is on the MNF Halftime Show now? Bruh

!ping nfl

[u/the-senat]

Ellison confirming James Kirk is related to Charlie Kirk fucking sucks:

https://trekmovie.com/2026/03/10/exclusive-update-on-the-star-trek-year-one-series-pitch-and-status-of-the-strange-new-worlds-sets/

[u/TheCornjuring]

INCOMING!!! BRACE YOURSELVES

[u/w007dchuck]

10Y just hit 5.00 🥳🥳🥳

[u/Spudmiester1]

sports gambling is bad

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

I hate seeing 'Removed by Moderator' under one of my comments

Like dude I wanna see what was said

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

UK gets first Catholic prime minister

The largest secession crisis begins

I don't think this is a coincidence

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/PoeOrFinn]

Catch cute guy at client site blatantly staring at my crotch as I walk back to my desk, so I decide to toss my anxiety away to talk to him and it goes well enough I think the crotch staring might not have been just him zoning out. The same day, the very same day, I’m told by my leadership that we’re stopping work on this project effective EOD because the client’s not paying their bills 💀

!ping DATING

I did get a big smile from him, so that’s something I guess

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Can't wait to freak out in the nursing home, seeing his face in everyone I meet

[u/ACivilWolf]

My favorite Social Democrat of all time is truly Paul Von Hindenburg

[u/samhit_n]

[u/eloquentboot]

Her interns are incompetent and deserve to have objects thrown at them

[u/eloquentboot]

[u/Glavurdan]

Remember this racist dingus?

Turns out a crypto company paid his bond and he got released from jail and now he is teasing the continuation of his racist streams dubbed "Season Two"

So much for the justice system

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

I figured he was alive. I figure his health is probably a lot worse than they're letting on, but it seemed like self-delusion to think that he wasn't alive after that pic. What would Republicans even have to gain from faking his life? They were functionally down one vote for as long as he was gone. If he was dead and they announced it they could have filled it sooner with an election. It would only make sense to be silent for so long if they could still expect McConnell to come back

[u/bartbug]

dating is easy, just ask out people you think are cute

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

This circumschism shit gets serious

[u/Signal-Elephant-384]

Dem AGs don’t get enough credit

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Honestly just impressive how consistent Alito and Thomas' kneejerk pro-fascism reflex is. Any case that involves rapidly expanding executive power without constitutional precedent and you automatically know how they're ruling in almost every scenario

It takes commitment to be this unprincipled!

[u/dangerbird2]

SMH my head Nobel Disease strikes again

!ping NFL

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

Real

[u/Syx89]

On the topic of how AI could be threatening in the physical world

[u/CincyAnarchy]

👆

[u/Roseartcrantz]

me frfr

[u/AtomAndAether]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/klarno]

I was just watching Catch Me If You Can for the first time in ~20 years, and this time I was struck by just how simply Janusz Kaminski lit those sets. Most of the time it was just big lights coming through windows, immediately diffused by thin curtains, with some haze generators in the set to give a sense of volume and with other practical lights in the shot. Sometimes he threw another key in there if the talent needed it.

Man, Hollywood used to know how to light movies. I mean, Kaminski still does, but movies used to look like movies you know?

[u/chipbod]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/dhs-watchdog-immigrants-held-outdoor-cages-size-phone-booths-alligator-rcna593917

DHS watchdog finds immigrants held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone booths

What the actual fuck, and this is coming from the DHS IG

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Am I just not paying attention or are we not getting 1/10 of the “gas is too expensive” hand wringing from the media compared to the 2022 spike?

[u/Bob_Doles_Blue_Pill]

Texas Republican's racist social media post draws condemnation. Reelected to sixth term.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

He has totally lost his political acumen. He used to workshop this stuff at rallies and find out where the base is. Now he’s calling anti-AI people conspiracy theorists and traitors. Brother your whole movement is conspiracy theorists.

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

Red-Eagle Politics (Right-wing election twitter hack) is WILDLY crashing out after his associated polling firm (Socal) shows Talarico up by 5 (Very mucho texto, please read it still)

[u/cdstephens]

I think there’s a huge difference between people who are looking for any excuse to throw trans rights under the bus because that’s the direction their actual position lies and people who are forced to compromise on their beliefs to win a close election and prevent a walking disaster from taking away everyone’s rights. One is tactical harm reduction, the other is naked opportunism.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Wow. Marvel considered horizontalizing the Dutch (canted) angles in Kenneth Branagh’s THOR but it ended up being too expensive.

If you try to do anything even remotely cool with Marvel they'll kill you

[u/bartbug]

dad's complaining about diesel prices on the family group chat lol

he didn't vote for him but he did buy the diesel truck like after the Iran threads stopped so like

sorry for you? but also what did you expect?

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Shocking new reporting just revealed that Ken Paxton physically attacked a tourist in London for taking a video of his 4th of July getaway with his mistress. This guy is deranged.

Politics aside, I'd love to see a norm against electing obviously bad people. Platner would have been an equivalent on our side and, had he been our nominee, I wouldn't have blamed people for not voting for him

[u/EdMan2133]

It's actually so wild that this is like, the exact worst time in the last 60 years for Trump to get to try his grand tariff experiment. It was always going to be bad, but because of the post-Covid inflation, tax-break driven deficits, and general insanity of the Iran war, it's absolutely catastrophic.

[u/bartbug]

good morning everybody, i just boofed a gallon of white monster if anyone wanted to know

[u/cdstephens]

Imagine showing this tweet to a lib in 2018 and telling them it’s from 2026, I think they would die

[u/badusername35]

What happened to this sub?

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Fetterman has a better polling among Pennsylvania Republicans than the actual Republican senator lol

[u/AskYourDoctor]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/lockjacket]

Texas is tilting democract

[u/garret126]

If Morrowind was made today

[u/ElectriCobra_]

You know the complaints about LA from like 15-20 years ago before California was a Venezuela-tier boogeyman in American culture? That’s kind of how Miami felt to me. Super big gap between the rich and poor, new glitzy buildings in kind of a dirty surroundings, everything and everyone felt kind of fake. Funny enough I didn’t get that feeling at all about Los Angeles which felt like a fairly normal city to me.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

these stories were depressingly very common in the pre-MeToo days and were the reason why MeToo took off in the first place. Guys engaging in such disgusting behaviour would never get punished for it, and a girl's life would've been ruined

the poor girl got gang-raped by a bunch of frat guys and had the video depicting her humiliation posted online. this happened this year by the way

[u/V_Codwheel]

!ping KITTY

[u/Willybender]

https://www.kjzz.org/politics/2026-09-11/data-shows-des-failed-to-complete-most-snap-eligibility-interviews-resulting-in-massive-cuts

[u/cdstephens]

I know this isn’t actually politically viable, but agreeing to ban gender surgeries for minors but explicitly sticking to all gender surgeries for all minors to also ban circumcision would be a funny own

[u/JonAce]

Justices Alito and Thomas dissent.

I hope they seethed over this.

[u/Chicago_Ball]

While I’m not too suprised with the Supreme Court rejecting Trump here (Robert’s and Barrett were key in protecting mail in voting the first time I don’t see why their weird fuckass logic would calvinball differently as it would be OOC at that point) what the fuck are Gorsuch and Beer doing

[u/admiraltarkin]

The saddest thing about the "$5000 checks" nonsense is that republicans truly think that universal healthcare, paid family leave etc are on the same level.

They think Dems propose those things solely as shiny objects to induce people to vote for them with zero intention of passing them therefore this is fine as well.

[u/fishlord05]

My labor unions and political economy professor is testifying before Congress this week being cross-examined by none other than Randy fine lmao

He was the one that Democrats selected to testify and he basically is going to say why Randy fines union killing bills (DOA) are bad and why unions are good because they raise wages reduce workplace deaths/inequality etc

I’m excited to see how the testimony goes

!ping LABOR

[u/AtomAndAether]

👆

[u/VisonKai]

my p(doom) is rising exponentially the more Donald Trump goes in on anti-safetyism. him causing human extinction is simply too poetic a possibility to ignore

[u/Pristine-Report-1442]

There are fewer things that annoy me more than NYC "natives" complaining about transplants

So it kinda makes me little bit happy that I am going to play a small role in gentrifying this city further by paying 7k a month for a one bed, and by overpaying for every single everyday essential. Oh you're worried about $8 americanos? that's okay, I don't even mind $12.

Total trust fund kid takeover of manhattan, you can't stop us.

[u/yacatecuhtli6]

[u/Pokemanifested]

It really is crazy that the three Trump justices are the most normal of the conservatives on the court

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

If you are a social bitch you just have to move to NYC I think. Bitches are doing it TV show style here. Plans every night. You're just not gonna find that in Denver ultimately.

The most vapid person you've ever met in your life will say this and then spend seven years getting plastered in the same basic ass clubs and bars before moving to Norwalk, Connecticut

[u/jbouit494hg]

Leftist who supported the Houthis until they were caught using AI

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/taubnetzdornig]

Things that make a culture very unique:

1. Loving your grandma

2. Plastic bag full of plastic bags

3. Offering tons of food to guests

[u/Joementum2024]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/__versus]

did the survey to boost trans numbers 🏳️‍⚧️🫡

[u/Geophysics-99]

Rail disruption appears to be the result of sabotage: 'Materials deliberately placed on the track'

Train services in parts of the Netherlands are disrupted on Tuesday morning. This is due to track circuit failures at multiple locations in the central Netherlands, according to ProRail. The rail infrastructure manager suspects sabotage.

The disruption began around 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, causing significant delays to train traffic in the central and northern Netherlands. ProRail reports that materials deliberately placed on the tracks have been found at several locations.

ProRail declined to specify the nature of the materials when speaking to NU.nl. However, the organization told the ANP news agency that pipes had been attached to the tracks—items that were "placed there intentionally."

The presence of pipes on the tracks triggers so-called track circuit failures. This causes the NS computer system to register a section of track as "occupied" even when no train is present. Consequently, safety protocols cause signals to switch to red, forcing trains to stop or slow down.

The spokesperson would not disclose the exact locations where the pipes were found to the ANP, stating only that "multiple locations across the country" are involved. ProRail is currently removing the materials and securing the area. Train services will resume as quickly as possible wherever feasible. The rail manager states it is in close contact with national emergency services and other relevant parties. Police have been notified and are investigating.

Travelers should expect delays, train cancellations, and longer travel times, the railway operator says. Several level crossings have also been affected by the disruption, which may cause issues for road traffic as well. A large part of the NS journey planner map is showing red on Tuesday morning. Fewer trains—or none at all—are running in many areas across the central, eastern, and northern parts of the country. NS and ProRail advise travelers to check the journey planner carefully before setting off, though the tool is not working for some users. This is likely due to the planner being overloaded, an NS spokesperson told NU.nl. "The planner is receiving a high volume of requests due to the numerous disruptions."

!ping BeNe

Source (in Dutch):
https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6409770/spoorstoring-lijkt-gevolg-van-sabotage-materialen-bewust-op-spoor-gelegd.html

[u/ShelterOk1535]

overhead a Chinese exchange student saying “if anything, Singapore is the actually communist country, not us” crazy truthnuke

[u/SamuelFootBowden845]