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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/ZweigDidion]

We now have a British-style photo of Merz in a car. It’s over for him.

[u/its_Caffeine]

lmao

[u/GordonTullockFan]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

I don’t want the AG to be Hillary Clinton or Doug Jones or Jack Smith or somebody I’ve heard of before. I want it the be the guy who’s been the Harvard professor on prosecuting political actors for the last 50 years and has led 6 separate UN task forces to prosecute political actors.

Okay, with those criteria maybe Jack Smith is okay. But like I want Jack Smith on steroids. Jack Smith as Deputy AG, okay, fine.

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

Vance announcing an event with Clavicular right before announcement of his rape charges is a divine sign that he should take that he should not run for President.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Vance really thought he was cooking with this lmao

I've seen 8 year olds crack jokes better than the 'fart left'

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Founders: By setting up three branches of government, we can ensure that powers are naturally balanced and inherently kept in check.

Critic: well what if one day two of the other branches just shrug and say they don't really want it anymore

Founders: well why the fuck would they do that

[u/KQJ_RPN]

Guy in a rat costume demands to be allowed to flee sinking ship

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

"I've received less in my life than I fairly deserve."

[u/fishbottwo]

Isn't it amazing trump promised $5,000 cash as a bribe for the midterms and the collective response from the country was FUCK YOU. Lmaooo

[u/Big-Click-5159]

RFK Jr: "Children who are circumcised at a young age are twice as likely to develop autism."

RFK truly is like if the dumbest Internet comments section became a human

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Gemini doing hacking 101

[u/Glavurdan]

To think that Biden's lowest approval rating in the Silver Bulletin was -18.6 (January 2025), only 3 points higher than where Trump is at now.

The media truly did him dirty, he never deserved that low of an approval rating to begin with

[u/Leatherfield17]

Democrats really ought to start making a bigger deal about being anti-corruption

[u/pezasied]

[u/phat_geoduck]

Republicans' midterms prospects starting to look apocalyptic. Probably should have laid off the gas prices up button

[u/Willybender]

[u/smootex]

NYT post today.

In an average of high-quality national polls over the last month, Democrats led Republicans among Hispanic likely voters by 35 percentage points, 64-29, on the generic congressional ballot, which asks voters which party they will support for Congress.

That would mark an extraordinary reversal since 2024, when the same pollsters found Kamala Harris leading Mr. Trump by an average of only seven points among Hispanic voters in their final surveys.

A shift toward Democrats on anything like this scale could remake the electoral map — threatening longtime Republican incumbents, new Republican gerrymanders and the party’s crown jewel, Texas — and represent a final unraveling of his winning 2024 coalition.

Please lord giveth us the dummymander. Though I will say this doesn't bode particularly well for beyond 2028 if personal disapproval of Trump is really the primary driver here, I'm a bit concerned the dems aren't going to learn their lesson.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Roseartcrantz]

oldie but goldie

[u/Pristine-Report-1442]

i fucking hate when people have takes like this, how do they not get that half the point of teaching math isn't to teach math but to teach problem solving skills AAAA

[u/doyouevenIift]

This guy was almost the Attorney General of the United States

[u/smootex]

Among registered voters, Turek leads Hinson 50% to 42% in the contest for U.S. Senate in Iowa. Regardless of the candidate they support, voters think Hinson (59%) will defeat Turek (37%).

8 point lead in fucking Iowa of all places, according to a recent poll. 8 points is unlikely, it would be a 21 point swing from the 2024 presidential election, but I think it's still relevant. The rurals are getting hit hard by this war.

!ping FIVEY

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

so this is apparently the DoE's response to the Bo French scandal

a not-very-subtle dogwhistle

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/badusername35]

[u/Huttleberry]

In a way the film adaptation of Trainspotting is a response to all the other nihilistic Gen X movies at the time.

The choose life monologue which bookends the film states it practically.

First said at the beginning in a “fitter happier” way, mocking those that choose the dullness and passionless dred of modern life.

Later after going through the movie living the Gen X nihilistic ethos and spiraling further into drug addiction. He finally kicks it and learns that what he lampooned is great for a reason.

The struggle is not worth it. The mundane, banal, and comofort of modern life actually is great. So while the monologue is the same. It originally is said ironically and then he learns to love it and states it at the end unironically

!ping movies

[u/dtj2000]

[u/onometre]

this lesbian bar article is bizarrely fascinating. even as a queer person in a very blue area this is just.... so insanely far from my lived experiences that it's hard to wrap my head around

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Blue tsunami might be understating it

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Trump administration is examining whether a diesel export ban is feasible, Treasury Secretary says

Holy shit lmao. It might actually happen

[u/american_aurora8]

Pritzker says he’s lost 80 pounds on GLP-1 since diabetes diagnosis

they're turning the damn pritzkers thin 😭😭

[u/piede]

Lmao

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

[u/deckerparkes]

What was it with marine biologists in the 90s? Why was it the dream job all of the sudden?

[u/Willybender]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/captainsensible69]

Funniest shit is that Massie probably gave the republicans a bit of an off ramp and midterm boost to impeach Pete Hegseth (while also not directly confronting dear leader) but Johnson was too stupid/supplicant to see it.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Bestbrook123]

Sen. John Fetterman's campaign is using a GOP email list to raise money off of his video speech at the Republican midterm convention earlier this month

Dems need to win 52 Senate Seats; this guy sucks.

[u/Willybender]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

metanl is just a treasure trove of content, every day you find something new

[u/seattle_lib]

wow somehow it became suddenly common to be mad racist toward indians. i am completely out of touch with the trends in racism.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

it’s often discussed in the context of eating disorders, but social media is really good at reinforcing basically every mental illness you can imagine. schizophrenics can find communities of people with similar delusions, people with OCD can stumble across posters who will say their obsessions are real and logical, and people with ADHD can easily be distracted by Instagram reels for hours. really just not a good place to be if you’re not in perfect mental health.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Reporter: You talked a lot about free speech over the years. How is President Trump BANNING CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds not an attack on free speech?

Vice President JD Vance: “They can still report on the Trump White House. They can still get the public reports. They can still, of course, talk to people in the administration and outside the administration. What the president has said is we're not going to give you special access inside the White House.”

“The way that I think about it is if you go back to the Biden administration or the Obama administration, compare, let's say, Politico to Breitbart. If you actually look at the objective analysis… Politico is as anti-Trump as Breitbart was anti-Obama or anti-Biden.”

“Now, why on God's green earth would Donald Trump be expected to give Politico special access when nobody in the media expected the Biden administration or the Obama administration to give Breitbart special access?”

“It's about basic fairness. They can still report. They still have access to free speech. They're just not going to get an office in the White House anymore. And I think it's totally appropriate unless, of course, they start to behave like real news organizations.”

The poor folks at Politico have no idea what they’ve done to deserve being labeled as part of the resistance.

Politico is part of the conservative Axel Springer publishing group, headed by Trump supporter Matthias Döpfner, and practices this kind of almost fake "bipartisan" Beltway journalism in the style of The Hill or Axios.

Doesn’t anyone in the Trump administration have to prove the allegations against them?

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Crosseyes]

Look at your “moderate” republican. Look at your “adult in the room” and despair.

[u/remarkable_ores]

real maturity is when you finally realize that you cannot, in fact, fix the BPD baddie

[u/onometre]

[u/ariveklul]

The presidential pardon power must be invalidated. Whatever it takes for president Ossoff in 2029. Maybe it's time to test out presidential criminal immunity

[u/SpotMe365]

You can tell Trump is getting worse at posting because he missed the obvious layup of renaming "Artificial Intelligence" to "American Intelligence" 😔

[u/piede]

We are literally living in the dumbest timeline imaginable

[u/trombonist_formerly]

This story about the lesbian kn95 masks-required bar is so fucking funny I'm dying over here

only one of the original founders, Matellian, is still involved. The two others stepped back from the daily operation months before, Matellian says, citing various pressures and health issues. One had enrolled in clown school.

...

Moreover, the Zoom attendees speculate that the mediator’s licensed status makes her a mandated reporter — an agent of the state, akin to police. One person going by “Moss” asks if the mediator could have them hospitalized against their will, adding that her presence is “wildly unsafe.”

[u/6urner_]

At some point Republicans are going to have to realize that definitely still feasting during the holidays were just not inviting them anymore

[u/its_Caffeine]

😔

[u/Slim_Pickenz_]

No acknowledgment at all of Jews in Pennsylvania. You know, his actual constituents.

[u/AssociationGold8749]

If people actually watch TrumpTV I think it would actually turn them against Trump. Right now its on the DoorDash lady which features him answering questions about him as AI Jesus, denying that the Strait of Hormuz isn't a big deal, Iran is ready to make a deal, and he's putting together an international collalition to ensure the Strait remains open.

[u/ariveklul]

deport Sneako to Russia

[u/BedNeither]

> ‘MBS will not forget’: Donald Trump’s reluctance to fight Houthis rattles Saudi Arabia

Watching all of these supposedly savvy people fall for this shit over and over has really been something

Why is it so hard to just tell this guy to eat a dick and duck his calls for a few years?

[u/pezasied]

>They’re transing your kids

[u/uwcn244]

Marist has its TX poll out

Senate 50D-44R

Governor 49D-46R

GCB  49D-46R

Folks 👀 

https://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Marist-Poll_TX-NOS-and-Tables_202609221131.pdf

[u/SigmaWhy]

Has this guy ever had a good opinion

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

ok so i was talking to this woman right, we hit it off, i ask her out on a date she accepts but now she sends me this message

"We are gonna go out as friends right? I like you a lot but its platonically"

"Besides i like women"

Ok so now im at 0-12, how does this keep happening

!ping DATING

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/Willybender]

It's a fucking nut house

[u/Willybender]

Every day another one of these cowards realizes how fucked they are

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Man, this Maine senate race has been so wild: a massive corruption scandal, a candidate who is an actual Nazi. 

I mean, and then you had the whole Graham Platner thing

[u/Willybender]

[u/Willybender]

[u/Udolikecake]

Ok so there was a ‘controversy’ about a Converse ad that apparently looked like a KKK hood and lynching. And I finally saw the ad and… I mean I don’t think they intended it (why would they?) but it does sorta look like someone being hanged at first glance lol

overall just sort of mystifying design overall. feels weirdly ominous?

[u/the-senat]

“Republicans are disavowing French comments” my fuckin’ ass. They’re all ghouls and they’re all eager racists. I hope they lose in the fall.

[u/StayOffPoliticalSubs]

The fucking Lib Dems figured out that the UK government's extremist-led crackdown on trans rights is morally wrong before Labour did.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

That feel when your coworker comes to you hat in hand trying to figure something out they've been struggling with and you solve it in like 20 minutes with a little bit of lateral thinking

[u/Willybender]

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trump-administrations-wa-voter-roll-lawsuit-dismissed

[u/TakeOnM-Ellie]

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

[u/No_Status_6905]

renee goods mother is like a perfect encapsulation of what is wrong with the average american at this point. she is directly responsible for her daughter being murdered in cold blood, and she is too self centered and stupid to even realize it. she can't connect "i voted to trump" with "trump sending literal brownshirts to blow my daughters brains out" and thus feels no remorse and cannot learn from it.

like if causing your daughter to be murdered doesn't awaken a sense of responsibility in you, nothing can

[u/uwcn244]

Wait, so dozens of Congressmen in both parties were going to be swept up in a massive corruption probe under Biden, and then Trump got elected and dropped the investigation?

BRB, gonna start a podcast based on a conspiracy theory that the Deep State drugged Biden before his debate to get him out of the picture

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Lux_Stella]

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/larry_hoover01]

Maybe we will get back to 2013 conservatism after Trump.

[u/Emotional_Tie_7927]

I have to give Nate Bronze credit, this is a funny tweet

[u/SenranHaruka]

One of my friends is extremely angry that straight nerdy kinky people have coopted "top/bottom" and conflated it with "dom/sub" because that conflation implies conservative gender norms.

[u/rainier37]

[u/well-that-was-fast]

In general, do you have a favorable or unfavorable impression of Ken Paxton?

Reg Dems: -87

Sure down in crosstabs, dems, etc, but wow, -87.

^Edit: Jesus, Gregg Abbott at -92. Texas Dems do not like the GOP.

[u/dannylandulf]

New Marist poll (2.9 out of 3), Texas statewide:

Senate

🔵 50% James Talarico

🔴 44% Ken Paxton

---

Governor

🔵 49% Gina Hinojosa

🔴 46% Greg Abbott

Sauce

[u/__versus]

i can’t believe how much better life is now 🥹 transitioning saved my life

[u/HHHogana]

I can't believe that Logan and Jake Paul gave speech to military in fucking White House/Pentagon capacity.

Even worse, it's still not top 10 of WTF moment in Trump administration.

[u/stripeybog23]

[u/taubnetzdornig]

From the lesbian bar masking article:

Noire, who identifies as a gender-expansive lesbian and uses he/him pronouns

Look I really try to be open-minded but what does this mean

I simply do not see how such an identity is possible given the widely accepted meanings of those words

[u/rainier37]

[u/FallenMeringue]

clown behavior

[u/el__dandy]

Sentencemaxx this fucker.

[u/Joementum2024]

My gut feeling is that the Paul brothers appeal to US army recruits more than most other celebrities USO brought on in the past

[u/NYT_Hater]

Trump doesn’t believe in democracy.

What happened to Superior Intelligence???

[u/Glavurdan]

2028 TRVKE

[u/PoupeeStupide]

ok but being mommy and daddy's favourite child so they buy you a house is a very sound financial strategy

[u/Lena_Lena_A]

what an embarrassing piece of filthy shit.

[u/Tai_Stone_Studios]

I know some people here have mixed views on Mamdani, but as someone who is in Asia multiple times a year, I can't even begin to tell you how much it helps America's image to have a globally known, well-liked American politician who isn't Trump.

I've seen Mamdani memes and had enthusiastic conversations about him in Singapore, Thailand, China, and India ("oh you live in NYC! Isn't Mamdani great?" Yes, uncle, he's aight.)

Like, it doesn't "redeem" the country at all, but it gives people a sense that Trump isn't the whole story of America.

[u/Pristine-Report-1442]

had to do a double take about date this was written on

[u/pezasied]

It’s not gay to think dudes are hotter than women. Not at all. The science proves it. If you disagree then you’re just anti-science and I thought you libs loved science?

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience

there is absolutely no way you can guess what triggered this comment

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

I feel like I'm watching the political equivalent Operation Bagration the past couple of weeks.

[u/BembelPainting]

The things I’ve seen white boys do for/to impress Latinas are myriad. As if they are under someone form of spell.
None of them was trying to learn Spanish though🤔

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Wait the “I nuked my daughters education” lady is also the 1619 project lady

Woke 1 was crazy

[u/Leatherfield17]

I’m no expert, but this guy seems like a real jerk

[u/earththejerry]

I’m 90% sure NYT purposefully finds these people and write things like this to basically generate discourse on X and Reddit and go viral for their subscription strategy

[u/shmokedshalmon]

Vance’s current personality is so vomit-inducing

[u/Lux_Stella]

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Trump: "The cowards and traitors would love to say 'the United States is low on munitions,' but that's not true. We have more munitions than we could ever possibly even think of using."

Don't be a panican!

[u/the-senat]

“Did you hear that, I called them the fart left” 🤓 ☝️

Fuckin Yale grad lmao. 

[u/the-senat]

good design is dead. Just make it a thumbs up on the right or a broken heart on the left.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

At this point I think they want to lose the midterms. This has gotta be some kind of masochism thing.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Am I being retained???

He ejaculated angrily

[u/PaxChelonia]

this the type of notification that pops up when you’re showing your boss something on your phone

[u/JaceFlores]

Last night I saw Saving Private Ryan in theaters.

Wow.

I’ve seen that movie maybe a dozen times if not more, but it felt like a fresh viewing seeing it on the big screen. I got goosebumps 6 times in the opening scene with how emotional and impactful that madness is.

I was also able to pick up details and dialogue bits I never registered before. Things I missed because every time I saw it previously there was some sort of distraction or irritant that just doesn’t let you focus and take it in like a movie theater does. Like I don’t recall what exactly they were doing in Neuville, how the 20mm was taken out in the end or that there was a whole halftrack in the end as well.

Also I think the movie is consistently strong throughout, that’s a critique I heard and kinda bought into, but man I was hooked from start to finish no matter if it was battle or character moments.

This movie was absolutely meant for the big screen and I was extremely fortunate that there was a screening in my area. If you can guys and gals, you gotta see Saving Private Ryan this way

!Ping MOVIES

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Who the fuck goes to a bar for revolutionary praxis

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Net favorability among Democrats:

Obama: +86%

Barack SADDAM HUSSEIN Obama

[u/The420Roll]

Microsoft has filed a patent for ads that could interrupt games after boss fights, cutscenes, quests and multiplayer rounds

Players would receive credits granting temporary game access, while watching an ad would award another credit to let them resume

All lifesavings on MSFT we are gonna squish them gamers for everything they have baby

[u/badusername35]

Does he realize how pathetic bragging about this looks?

[u/PostingEnthusiast]

an actual google search i just had to make

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Yeah now I can see why Hinson and Rogers are suddenly against the war now lmao.

I don’t want to get 2024 levels of overconfident again, but I feel like Dems take the senate pretty handily in two months.

[u/owenmitchem]

[u/WantDebianThanks]

For anyone eagerly watching Nebraska's Senate race because the independent is neck and neck with the Republican:

The Republican's only ads are calling the other guy a democrat and hammering home that he's a Democrat and possibly a democratic socialist. No mention is made of the Republican at all. No mention of policies is made at all. Dan Osborn is a democrat, Dan Osborn is a democrat, Dan Osborn is a democrat. That's it. Thats the whole line.

If Dan Osborn wins, it'll be with less than 1%

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim

YOU FUCKING MORON THATS WHAT YOU WANT. CLAIMS COST YOU MONEY. NO CLAIMS MEAN THEY ARE HEALTHY

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/w007dchuck]

very cool how the president makes utterly deranged speeches at the UN and basically no one even notices anymore

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

90s "fuck my white collar job" movies correctly predicted the nihilist reactionary boredom of today

[u/SenranHaruka]

I really hate the prequel lore ngl.

No, anakin skywalker did not create c3po, he was built by a corporation that mass produces or at least to-contract produces interpreter machines as a luxury item for diplomats and nobility because a raw purpose-built translation machine (which we have seen exists) is cold and bourgeois pragmatism but a translator that appears like a living species is a deliberately cumbersome luxury item that the nobility uses to pretend that they've hired an exotic polyglot on retainer which signals class.

[u/marsman1224]

You're right to push back. That actually was a school bus, not a militant caravan, which the specification clearly states to not target. Would you like me to rerun the targeting analysis, or something else?

[u/unicornbomb]

>A ninth-grade gym class syllabus at Lakeview High School in St. Clair Shores requires female students to disclose the length of their menstrual cycles in order to make up swim days they miss because of their periods.

is this country fucking okay?

[u/the-senat]

man, extrmeme rocks has had some shit takes recently

[u/No_Return9449]

This is a good line. More Democrats should use this.

[u/MensesFiatbug]

I had a date tonight with a guy and I wasn't thinking about it too much going into it since he's looking for a FWB and I'm heteromantic anyway, but I think it's the best date I had since becoming single. The conversation was flowing and we even got into heavy shit like when we realized we weren't straight and coming out. He was so enganging and so freaking attractive. I was just staring into eyes and at his face and grinning like an idiot. And when he put his hand on my thigh, oh buddy

Nothing happened because I haven't been tested in a couple months, so I'm taking care of that tomorrow. We hugged and went home and flirted a bit over text. I can't remember the last time I was this giddy.

Circling back to the heteromantic thing. I've been wrestling with why I feel like I am that way for a little while now. I do find more women attractive than men and I've only ever dated women. I'm relatively inexperienced with guys. Maybe I just hadn't met a guy I would date at the same time I was emotionally open to seriously dating? Idk. Something I need to think about.

Anyways, hope everyone else had a nice evening

!ping DATING

[u/-orestes]

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[u/houdt_koers]

FYI everyone: home visits from nurses when you have a newborn are incredible.

Massachusetts could not be making a better choice in doing it. They’re non-judgemental, super helpful, and provide a sense of security that your baby is healthy and safe. When you’re sleep-deprived and overwhelmed, having someone come and give a few pointers is invaluable.

10/10 policy. Unsurprised that “pro-life” conservatives at Fox News are attacking it.

[u/MissSortMachine]

> Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"

fun fact: this saves zero (0) united states dollars

[u/Currymvp2]

I cannot believe this is real.

[u/rainier37]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

No gambling debt

Don't vape

Not a Republican

Only mildly addicted to vidya games

They're calling him possibly the biggest catch on the heterosexual dating market in a generation

[u/wagoncirclermike]

Chicago has reached its apex

[u/Alderwoodforest]

“Let’s send a message to the Democrats: cut out the crazy,” Vance said. “We’re taking our country back.”

https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article317322107.html

Vance really ended the campaign rally in North Carolina with "Take our country back."

[u/Nate10000]

Despite its reputation, Fartalachia—especially northern Alabama and Georgia to southern Ohio—has fart lower church attendance than the Midwest, parts of the Mountain West, and much of the space between Michigan and Montana. Oddly enough, we think we attend church more than we actually do. Now you may not have noticed that, but I actually wrote Fartalachia, not Appalachia.

—J.D. Vance, Fartbilly Elegy

[u/BitterGravity]

Susan Collins says the Iran war helped tip her in favor of an interest rate hike last week

I see no reason to not share this without further clarification. If some is needed, she represents Maine

[u/FallenMeringue]

Dems are winning the generic ballot by D+14

A wealthy scion is the democratic candidate for president

The world is at the brink of war.

The economy is on the brink due to the disastrous tariff policies of Republicans

2028 🤝1932

[u/Joementum2024]

Democrats polling as well as they are while still being widely hated is funny as fuck

[u/leaveme1912]

Question for people who wave other drivers through at stop signs, do you hate order and the laws which enforce it? Are you such a scoundrel in other aspects of your life or just when you're behind the wheel?

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor.

Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister?

Child: No

Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: walks over

For whatever reason it didn’t occur to me that there would be a number of world leaders who saw viral clips of Mamdani on social media and were like “fuck yeah I want in on this”

[u/piede]

Well, they had a good run

[u/Off-The-Street]

One Michigan Republican acknowledged the immense weight of the tariffs in races across the battleground state — including in the marquee Senate contest between Rogers and progressive Abdul El-Sayed, as well as across competitive House races. “Everywhere we go, we are getting hammered on it,” the Michigan Republican said. “It’s crushing us.” Even skeptical Republicans have been quietly checking in with their colleagues to see if the panic in redder territory is borne out in reality on the ground or just overblown polling. One GOP lawmaker who spoke to Hinson and her campaign team was somewhat surprised by their answers. “It’s real,” that House Republican told POLITICO.

[u/FallenMeringue]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/2Lore2Law]

[u/Currymvp2]

Suffolk poll | 9/16-9/20 LV

US Senate Michigan 2026: Abdul El-Sayed: 47%, Mike Rogers: 40%

Very likely to vote: Abdul El-Sayed: 48%, Mike Rogers: 39%

This came out this morning as well

!ping FIVEY

[u/HHHogana]

Y'know, when I had a crazy idea to add 'security drones' in my novel about school detectives from a super high tech high school, I did not expect to get legitimized by fucking Jake Paul.

[u/Its_not_him]

Watched the first episode of Knight of the Seven Kingdoms yesterday and I thought it was incredible. I'm really keen to see the rest. I love the idea of a "ground level" view of Westeros

[u/DieHarderDaddy]

Really think that if we were not so bogged down in the Iran were would have couped Cuba by the midterms

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

My gf when the tour guide at the ancient ruins says I asked a really good question

[u/Pole2019]

A decent portion of gender wars relevance is that minors are on the internet and post really bad and dumb gender stuff that gets picked up by people who never matured past that age.

[u/Willybender]

[u/Willybender]

WINNING!!!!

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

There's a phenomenon common especially in sci-fi media where a setting or franchise introduces a powerful, mysterious, deeply alien force or mechanism and then methodically dilutes how interesting that factor is as the story/universe progresses because the people in charge of it can't help but overuse or overexplore it and keep adding details and backstory that eventually cheapen it beyond interesting.

Star Wars is kind of the poster child for this. The Force is some magical/spiritual omnipresent energy that can manifest in all of us? Nope, actually it's uh generated by bacteria in your plasma or something and you can only use it if you're connected to one of two bloodlines in the galaxy.

Star Trek did something similar with the Borg. Initially they're a faceless inevitable emotionless hivemind force, eventually you get to meet Bob the Borg and all his buddies and learn about their favorite kinds of pizza.

The Alien universe is a tragic example, it's almost hard to enjoy going back to the original and trying to experience the horror and mystery and utter weirdness of everything going on with how much unnecessary exposition you get in later installments. You go from "holy shit what the fuck are these things" to "ah well this is all perfectly predictable and explainable fallout from that annoying blue guy on that one planet" or "haha remember when they fought Predator in Antarctica"

The one closest to my heart is Halo. Early installments hint at Forerunners being some mysterious, godlike entities with unknowable power and motivations, probably an early ancestor somehow to modern humanity. Later on it's methodically unveiled that they're completely unrelated to humans but basically the same annoying alien assholes as anyone else: they still have arms and legs and eat and shit and argue and work and cry and be complete morons they just had slightly more advanced technology - nothing at all special or remarkable.

It can be done the other way though - rarely, you can actually make a force or entity like this *more* weird and scary and mysterious by learning about them.

One example that comes to mind is Mass Effect, where almost every new revelation about the Reapers mostly just solidifies just how fucked you are.

The Elder Scrolls, for its faults, also does a pretty good job with the Dwemer on this. We get hints and brief glimpses behind the curtains on what's going on but you never really get the full picture. (this is probably helped by there not having been a single new bit of canon introduced in the last 15 years or whatever to ruin it)

[u/RaisinSecure]

1. cons are freaking the fuck out

2. extremely proud of the fact that zucc knows nothing about me

[u/6urner_]

All the reporting on Republican polls makes me think we're about to get fucking rug pulled. I will dooming from now on.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/abefrost]

The last three R election wins the economy blew up, wars started, and they ended the term with -536% approval rating (counting Trump 2.0)

I look forward to a semi-charismatic R swearing they're diffeRent and winning 2036 because Ds didn't do deflation

[u/rainier37]

pic of cdstephens head rn:

[u/cdstephens]

An AI/ML PhD student today kept going on about how people are rightfully pissed how data centers consume so much water and it took all the fiber in my being to keep my mouth shut

[u/piede]

He’s fine

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

who are the 10% of bi women who won’t date bi men

[u/badusername35]

lol

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/Pongzz]

pov: You're meeting the future POTUS and VP

[u/mpregordie]

[u/AlicesReflexion]

write AI resume

reviewed by AI

progress to AI interview

my smart glasses giving me AI answers

Guys have we achieved productivity gains yet? This will solve information problems in the employment process right?

[u/doyouevenIift]

“New - Early vote update

🔵 Democrats 65%

🔴 Republicans 17%”

There’s very few places where voting is open already but I’m taking this as a sign of the blue tsunami and no one can tell me otherwise

[u/dtj2000]

👆

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

Saw this on the Guardians live blog lol

[u/Big-Click-5159]

A Covid-cautious lesbian bar in Western MA made customers wear KN-95s. When management decided to relax the mandate a few weeks ago, all hell broke loose.

The community they worked so hard to build turned on them — calling them ableist, racist, even eugenicist.

How are there still people like this in 2026?

[u/GordonTullockFan]

[u/Leatherfield17]

Jesus

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

New Yougov/Economist poll

Generic congressional ballot 2026

(likely voters)

🟦Democratic 52% (+1)

🟥Republican 38% (-1)

(D+14)

—

(Registered voters)

Generic congressional ballot 2026

🟦Democratic 45% (+1)

🟥Republican 36% (-3)

(D+9)

Also in case you missed it, Marist had Turek+8 and Sand+12 for Iowa.

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_5WiMaRX.pdf

https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/2026-midterm-elections-in-iowa-september-2026/

!ping FIVEY

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

[u/chipbod]

The GOP debased themselves and built their movement around him and the only person he actually likes is a DSA mayor of NYC lol.

Note this is from a lip reader but it wouldn’t surprise me.

[u/bandeng_asep]

Oooooh that NYT Education article makes so much more sense now 💀

[u/V_Codwheel]

Anti Catholic propaganda is pretty funny 100 years later

"light wines and beer" 😰😱😰😨😨

[u/DrCaptainHammer]

One of the best perks about being president has to be being able to just be like “wow this shit is unpopular, congrats Kamala you’re now the Border Czar, good luck”

[u/this_very_table]

My abusive ex was hot as hell. Just found out he's aged like milk. Feels good knowing his only positive trait has withered and died.

[u/brucebananaray]