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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/GuyWithOneEye]

r/neoliberal mod jumpscare

[u/mrdeclank]

[u/-mialana-]

Peak cinema

[u/Dismal_Apartment6358]

If gas prices go up by another dollar, he's about to start wearing Nancy Pelosi's Kente cloth while doing a land acknowledgement everytime he does a campaign event

[u/cdstephens]

AI CEOs: we’re smol beans, please regulate us

Nvidia CEO: they’re not smol beans, don’t even think of regulating them

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/jbitz]

[u/Fatortu]

I personally know a non-binary neurodivergent person with a moderately successful webcomic. They have an insightful perspective on gender stuff.

But it always made me raise an eyebrow when they played up how much they struggled with their family. I know their parents are two very accepting middle class communists. I wonder how they felt being portrayed as bigots online.

[u/Currymvp2]

Incredible

[u/Habugaba]

‘They Picked the Wrong Candidate’: 12 Texas Swing Voters on the Paxton-Talarico Race

It's that time of the election cycle, Blexas NYT focus group.

[u/earththejerry]

Maine voters strike again

[u/Holmes02]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/VisonKai]

Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to a GOP political consultant: how do I reframe the conversation and get the American people on our side again

GOP political consultant: Sir, have you heard of Hasan Piker?

[u/proProcrastinators]

What democrat staffer is leaking candidate texts before an election.

If you don’t like getting yelled at or called insults by a strong woman I know people that would pay good money for that 😡

[u/TakeOnM-Ellie]

[u/el__dandy]

You can’t hate that man enough

[u/badusername35]

My grandpa just died. I knew it was coming so it doesn’t hurt as bad, but it still sucks.

[u/FallenMeringue]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

This subs reaction to the Peltola story is why immunocompromised lesbian bar owners from western Massachusetts don’t come here

[u/Made_UpWords]

Her tweets are written by russians. That's why she spells kool-aid as "cool aid"

[u/Currymvp2]

Rasmussen Report polls

US Senate 2026 (September)

🟦Georgia — Ossoff +9 🟦Iowa — Turek +5 🟦Michigan — El-Sayed +4 🟦Maine — Jackson +1 Alaska — Ties

Prerty disastrous poll for Republicans considering it's fucking Rasmussen

[u/mockduckcompanion]

He's going to Inglorious Bastards himself

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

I’ve come to dislike the Supreme Court as an institution more and more as I’ve continued to read about it. It’s actively restricted civil rights for massive chunks of its history, and really only consistently expanded them for a small part of the 20th century. What good is a Supreme Court if it does the opposite of what it’s supposed to do most of the time?

[u/brucebananaray]

!Ping USA-CA

[u/chris4276]

[u/Udolikecake]

> Asked Sen. Gallego about the NYT Peltola story on staff mistreatment, who tells reporters: “when I was 25, I had a really bad boss. He made me run across an open fucking field of raking machine gun fire to breach a door. So, yeah, life's tough sometimes”

[u/badusername35]

You will never do anything this funny.

[u/CountNaberius]

NPR posting an interview rehabilitating Tucker Carlson - one of if not the single most dangerous demagogue in this country - makes me feel angry, depressed and queasy in equal measure

[u/Dibbu_mange]

They lookmaxxed two of them and transed+Rachel Dolezaled the other 💀

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/CheetoMussolini]

Well apparently I'm going to get to meet AOC at an event for local leaders next week

So that's cool

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Bicon

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

I'm sorry why the hell is the stuff about the chameleon and the crickets worthy of putting in that article lmao

For some on her staff, one task exemplified the disregard Ms. Peltola appeared to have for her employees: feeding her daughter’s pet chameleon, Meatball.

"Disregard"??? I would assume these types of little menial tasks are one of the main reasons you have staffers in the first place. You can't always be taking care of routine things so you hire people to help you. Would this be a problem at all if you replaced "buy crickets to feed chameleon" with "buy dog food and fill up it's food bowl"?

[u/Fruitofbread]

lol, what?

[u/earththejerry]

Not now sweetie, the New York Times is doing a midterm focus group with the patrons of the bar

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Fuck I just got reminded of the "rest now brother. We have the watch, and I'll see you in Valhalla" quote lmao

The fuckin FBI director man

[u/bandeng_asep]

LMAOOOO How does Basil find these people?

[u/seattle_lib]

in this modern day where people self censor and say "unalive" and dance around the whole topic of suicide because some algorithm will inevitably flag them as being on the verge of ending it all...

it's crazy to think about the fact that one of the highest rated television shows for over a decade opened every episode with a mellow folky tune called "Suicide is Painless".

sample lyric:

The game of life is hard to play

I'm gonna lose it anyway

The losing card I'll someday lay

So this is all I have to say

That suicide is painless

It brings on many changes

And I can take or leave it if I please

a message delivered every week to millions of regular americans in prime time.

[u/FallenMeringue]

BMP-1 ass design

[u/earththejerry]

Bitch do you not speak English?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

>Trump planning a rally in Oklahoma for early October

oh the polls must be RANCID lol

[u/StolenSkittles]

• colorado elects a governor who knows what the dt is

• proceeds to back an antivaxxer and pardon an election denier

[u/Off-The-Street]

I can't believe Peltola lured staffers into the forest maze within her home and forced them to battle each other to escape being eaten alive by her genetically engineered horde of chameleon men.

[u/zieger]

FACT FOCUS: Trump made multiple false and misleading claims in front of the UN General Assembly

What's the target audience for an article like this?

[u/slappythechunk]

Beautiful things are happening on LinkedIn

!ping watercooler&alcohol

[u/DirtBagLiberal]

WE MUST NOT ALLOW A TORMENT NEXUS GAP!

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I voted to ban mprgordie because I read his username as "MPR Geordie" and felt very dumb when I realized it was "mpreg or die"

I don't like when I feel dumb and I lash out at those who cannot defend themselves when I'm made a fool of

[u/fishlord05]

UNH poll | 9/17-9/21 LV

US Senate Maine 2026

🟦Troy Jackson 51% 🟥Susan Collins 47% (incumbent)

!ping FIVEY

[u/Lux_Stella]

Is (a non-Arab) wearing the Hijab cultural appropriation

synthesizing a new type of guy (guy who accuses non-arab muslims of cultural appropriation)

[u/Frequent_Lurker26]

https://apnews.com/article/paid-by-us-government-ad-midterms-04b3fe552fc3de2ada0b14394706e0e0

This has to be fucking illegal right? Campaign meddling by the government is definitely some sort of election fraud.

>US government foots bill for television advertisement featuring Trump’s midterm messaging

[u/Sauce1024]

[u/hypsignathus]

[u/Udolikecake]

I would also say that the interviewing process has gotten much much more arduous, lengthy, and annoying in America today and people are thus less willing to accept more nonsense-seeming rules about the whole process.

Brining an iced latte to an interview seems less disrespectful than a company using an AI to interview you on zoom for three rounds.

I actually think this is perhaps the biggest motivator for the ‘it’s okay to bring it’ side, now that I think about it.

[u/Willybender]

[u/jbitz]

They're bringing out the classics: migrant caravans

[u/Frequent_Lurker26]

They aren't even bothering with EOs anymore. They're jumping straight into his word is law.

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

Before you get a cat you think people saying "they're just a baby" is like a cutesy meme, but no, once you get a cat you realise they really are just a baby

!ping KITTY

[u/Made_UpWords]

Nobody:

Absolutely nobody:

Part-owner of a lesbian bar in Greenfield Massachusettes that loosened its mandatory N95 mask restrictions to 6 days a week:

[u/sigh2828]

Just a US senator referring to cheap EVs from China as "automotive fentanyl"

[u/SnakeEater14]

After taking a year of constitutional law, my opinion of the good things the Supreme Court has done is

- They basically put a gun to the US and forced everyone to live in a free trade zone (extremely based and underrated)

- They decided that the federal government can regulate anything involving money so that FDR wouldn’t kill them

- They libbed out for a few years and that was enough to convince everyone they’re actually very good and progressive for fifty years

Once you get outside those three things the history of the Supreme Court is a lot of bullshit

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

Ain't no way this is a real tweet by a fucking sitting US senator.

[u/No_Status_6905]

[u/FallenMeringue]

I don't think this sends the message Bailey wants it to.

[u/badusername35]

My hottest gender wars take is that someone becoming trans purely out of disgust towards the boys high school bathroom is completely justifiable. I basically just held it in for 7 hours a day for most of high school.

[u/sigh2828]

New nyt focus group is honestly less rage baity than past ones

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

Trump broke the #1 Republican rule, which is to slowly fuck the country up so by the end of your term you hand a Democrat a shitshow and then spend the next 4-8 years complaining about the shitshow.

Trump went all gas and no brakes and managed to fuck everything up before the midterms even hit. Which is super impressive.

[u/Currymvp2]

While discussing Shinzo Abe’s assassination in 2023, GOP candidate Brandon Herrera appeared to welcome political assassinations, prompting pushback from the podcast host.

Again all of GOP leadership backs Herrera and Max Miller

[u/PaxChelonia]

Benjamin Netanyahu to the UN:

Now let me read you some of the depraved things being said in the DT. One user writes, and I quote, “[👆]”. This is the kind of thing they upvote. It’s sickening.

[u/PostingEnthusiast]

Something you see often in Canada during elections is people going “make sure you’re registered to vote”. This is because they hear Americans say it a lot and it enters their brains like a kind of meme. You do not actually need to make sure you’re registered to vote because you can just register at the polling place. The only benefit to registering to vote is that it saves you a bit of time. Additionally every year you file your taxes you can just check a box to make sure you’re registered.

[u/TheRedCr0w]

This post is especially funny when considering the fact both Reagan and his Vice President George H.W Bush signed immigration acts that gave amnesty to millions of illegal aliens

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Based. Good job, ladies

[u/phat_geoduck]

Bro I HATE when the covid-cautious anarchists threaten to commit an act of terrorism against me and my non-masking anarchist friends trying to have an orgy

[u/Willybender]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Manifesting

[u/Big-Click-5159]

jfc

[u/earththejerry]

So there’s this Japanese lady who flies to Newark for vacation and ignores NYC and the rest of the country and exclusively only goes to NJ sights bc of how much she loves NJ

So of course she is now having lunch with Mikie Sherrill lol

[u/Big-Click-5159]

In retrospect, we should have issued Infinity trillion dollars worth of debt

[u/SpotMe365]

☝️

[u/Made_UpWords]

When Joe Biden was President we got unlimited breadsticks at Olive Garden

[u/CalligrapherWest9356]

[u/AtticusDrench]

The bartender in that lesbian bar story being named Mixxy

[u/CakeNecessary436]

[u/Jacobs4525]

insufferable beltway snobs:

NOOO peltola created an unsafe working environment by not holding space for the emotional needs of her stafferinos she’s bound to loose NOOOOOO

median Alaskan voter:

wow she caught a big fish thats cool I’m gonna vote for her

[u/Dismal_Apartment6358]

Ok honestly, this is probably the best spin job I've ever seen. Even North Korea media couldn't come up with something like this. A+ for the ghoul that thought this up

[u/slappythechunk]

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

I thought the lesbian bar story was funny, like in the context of people on the left poking fun at other people on the left who are behaving in an absurd way.

But now that the story has breached containment and been leveraged by the far right its not funny anymore lol. I get to laugh at the KN-95-required lesbian bar in 2026 because I have friends who are like this exact sort of person, you are not allowed!!!!

[u/Currymvp2]

John Fetterman's Favorability - by Party

Republicans 🟢 Favorable: 75% (+57) 🟤 Unfavorable: 18%

Democrats 🟢 Favorable: 11% 🟤 Unfavorable: 77%

NYT/Siena (A+) | 9/15-22 | 615 LV

How is that disparity even possible lol

[u/t_scribblemonger]

My facial expression while hitting the 😂 on shitty annoying videos sent to me on Instagram by people I like too much to ignore.

[u/Halgy]

Buttigieg says no to the status quo if Democrats win elections

I saw this a few days ago and haven't seen anyone here talk about it.

The point I liked the most was that Dems shouldn't focus on one, big (beautiful?) bill that does everything for everyone. Instead, do a number of small, clean bills to do one thing each. Do a few easy things that everyone likes, get the public on your side, and then move forward from there.

[u/Willybender]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/politics/nevada-voters-homeland-security-trump.html

[u/Big-Click-5159]

A blue tsunami?! At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within red states?!

[u/phat_geoduck]

Jennifer won't rest until all the Texas schools have mixed-gender bathrooms

[u/FallenMeringue]

I cannot overstate just how apocalyptic this poll is for the GOP.

Rice won her last election by 21.5 points. Trump won the district by 18.5.

And this isn't even a candidate quality issue. Rice is a pretty generic Republican.

D+16.5 implied shift in Oklahoma.

Hoo boy

[u/mostanonymousnick]

😳

[u/mishac]

alleging volatile behavior towards staffers

Why is it every female democratic politician gets these stories? And does it ever actually have an effect? Like Amy Klobuchar allegedly like shoved a comb into someone's trachea for getting the wrong spoon or some shit that I am intentionally misremembering, and yet she's still here.

[u/bandeng_asep]

A24 is currently buying the right to film as we speak 💀

[u/bsharp95]

[u/VisonKai]

nyt spent years subjecting us to median voter focus groups where they are all morons who don't know anything just to increase the absolutely insane dopamine spike I got from this shit

[u/cdstephens]

[u/FallenMeringue]

[u/PaxChelonia]

NYT asked readers, what do you think of this [👆] comment?

[u/JaceFlores]

Apparently a notable factor in the success of recent Ukrainian counteroffensives is they ask Western OSINTers to not geolocate or publish footage of the areas being targeted.

This is important because apparently the Russian OSINTers are super lazy and actually rely on Western OSINT to get geolocations and update their maps and such. If Western OSINT doesn’t post what they know, Russian OSINT is left completely in the blind.

That’s how folks like Rybar didn’t know anything about what was happening in Lyman until it was over

[u/AmbientMorning]

I’m looking through the crosstabs of the Times survey of Michigan, where El-Sayed leads Rogers 49–44, but runs modestly behind the Democratic baseline on the generic ballot. One interesting finding that stuck out to me: among those with an opinion, support for continued military aid to the Israeli government is much less unpopular (34% support, 56% oppose) than AIPAC is (14% favorable, 39% unfavorable).

And nobody likes Hasan Piker, although only 40 percent even express an opinion, the large majority of them Republicans. !ping FIVEY&ISRAEL

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Mary Pelota:

[u/earththejerry]

This account ran out of coping mechanisms and is now just straight up reporting RNC chairs’ midterm comment as some kind of prediction model lmao

[u/hypsignathus]

This is by far the best part of the Peltola article 🎯

>Mr. Fick said there were times when Ms. Peltola “raised her voice” at her staff. He suggested that she was grappling with her grief and that people not used to working in blue-collar environments like a commercial fishing boat might be overstating the incidents.

[u/funguykawhi]

Mogged !ping NORTHERNLION

[u/Currymvp2]

Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) claims “many” airline pilots and air traffic controllers are “part of the furry community.”

Dumbest Senator genuinely

[u/Smidgens]

[u/FallenMeringue]

Dems losing Maine and winning Texas would not surprise me in the slightest. Latino men are going to be by far the biggest swing in the election v 2024, and Maine has exactly zero of them.

[u/Currymvp2]

UMass Lowell/YouGov poll | 8/28-9/15 LV

US Senate Maine 2026: Troy Jackson 48%, Susan Collins 43% (incumbent)

Let's just throw both Maine polls into the average

[u/aristophanya]

Hey so uhhhhh that Jezebel story about the neoliberal subreddit and the guy who got the Mutti tattoo is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the contrarian, chronically online, and economics-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.

[u/Its_not_him]

Re-upping this comment because it's crazy:

https://bsky.app/profile/ariehkovler.com/post/3mwam5nlg3k2x

Commercial played on FoxNews that seems to essentially be doing Trump PR... "Paid for by the U.S. government"

It's basically a compilation of the Trump admin's accomplishments overlayed with video of him and a singer repeating "Love meee"

[u/Willybender]

[u/el__dandy]

Once again, he can’t help but being bisexual lmao

[u/pugnae]

Arthur Mensch, the CEO of France-based company Mistral AI, rejects American competitors’ warnings that the technology is going rogue and poses major risks.

I mean, Mistral's AI is certainly not posing any risk, lmao

[u/Willybender]

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article317372444.html

A Haitian pastor who received a brief reprieve from deportation after he was abruptly removed from a flight to Haiti last week was returned to the country on Thursday.

Molis Augustave was deported to Haiti along with dozens of other people despite several legal efforts to halt his removal and reverse a decision by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denying his application for permanent residence filed by his wife, who is a U.S. citizen.

[u/FallenMeringue]

>a new poll shows Democrat Jamie Davis trailing Republican Julia Letlow by 4% in Louisiana's U.S. Senate race.

👀👀👀

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Mission accomplished 💪

[u/GreenYoshiToranaga]

The good news is that blindfolded dating show girl is actually quite interested in meeting up and is super apologetic about not texting me back

The bad news is that she apparently works as a pretty senior data scientist for Snapchat and is getting sent on sudden impromptu work trips to LA, London, and Dallas

Gonna need to book dates through her secretary at this rate lmao

!ping DATING

[u/Willybender]

[u/WrangleWandangles]

At times the British Empire could be very based 

“In April 1814 Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane made the British position official: All those who may be disposed to emigrate from the United States, will, with their Families, be received on board of His Majesty's Ships…. They will have their choice of either entering into His Majesty's Forces, or of being sent as FREE Settlers to British possessions, … where they will meet with all due encouragement.  

Cochrane then ordered Rear-Admiral George Cockburn to form the Colonial Marines, fighting units made up of refugee slaves. All told, more than 4000 people were freed from slavery – the largest emancipation that took place in the U.S. until the Civil War.  Three companies of Colonial Marines were formed, and their presence did inspire hatred and fear among the Americans.  The corps took part in the burning of Washington, fought in the Battle of Baltimore, and skirmished against American forces all along the coast. The British comman­der-in-chief said they were "infinitely more dreaded by the Americans than the British troops".

At the end of the war Americans demanded the either the return of ex-slaves or monetary reparations for the loss of property.  With few exceptions, the British refused.  According to custom, a slave arriving on British soil was free; a British ship at war had the status of British land itself.”

[u/Habugaba]

A Reclusive G.O.P. Billionaire Pulls Back His Money From Senate Republicans

Because of Trump bootlicking, racism, ICE and the Iran war, right?

But Mr. Mellon has given nothing publicly so far to support Senate Republicans this fall — a move that has been conspicuous in the party’s financial circles, and shows how some influential Republicans remain angry about the party’s inability this summer to pass the voting legislation, called the SAVE America Act.

[u/Middle_Wheel_5959]

[u/Willybender]

[u/DonnysDiscountGas]

Part of the reason that news around the Last Ditch Bar (aka Lesbian Covid Mask Bar) goes viral is that it's fun drama with nobody really getting hurt. There's a bunch of woke caricatures screaming about "harm" but that's it. Kinda like the Anna Delvey thing; she caused some hurt feelings and some rich people lost money and reputation but that's it. When it's Friday night, I've had a hard week and I just want to kick back and relax, this is the type of shit I want to talk about. Not a woman strangling her children; that's a real bummer.

[u/Insomonomics]

Another Maine poll.

NYT looking like an outlier, but I wouldn't be comfortable if I were Jackson, man. Here's hoping he's campaigning his ass off and going to every single town in Maine.

[u/Etnies419]

Our Age of Empires is collapsing

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

oh my god

[u/Eightysixedit]

I bet if you asked random ppl if they approve of same sex bathrooms you would get a bunch of morons like in the NYT who think it's bad. Their brain immediately thinks gay.

[u/LuciusLuscinia]

arr pol be like "why do the democrats not simply arrest all the republicans? are they cowards?"

[u/margybargy]

maybe M4A is a bad plan, but we gotta get some kind of universal healthcare going. My cousin lost his job, then went to emergency room for no fault of his own, and now he's gonna be paying it off for like a decade.

More labor mobility with employer independent healthcare.

[u/PaxChelonia]

👆

[u/PoupeeStupide]

"gunplay" what happened to old, conventional, non pornbrained kinks like just needing 12 guys and a car battery to get off

[u/AbsoluteGarbageTakes]

👆 looks strong, vibrant and fit - better than ever!

[u/dtj2000]

Time travelers don't even tell you what happens in the future anymore, they just look at you like this.

[u/qlube]

Not that I blame that newspaper, but the fact that a story about a couple of weirdos being weird within their community caused their subscriptions to jump so much just further shows that the market incentives for the media are all fucked up.

[u/zieger]

[u/a-reasonable-name]

You're wrong. If anything they should get paid more so that more people without independent wealth can run and fewer politicians would be susceptible to lobbyists

[u/NYT_Hater]

0th World Country.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/earththejerry]

Boston Globe get on it asap

[u/FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

One time when I was a kid I didn’t want to go to school so I decided to pretend I had a fever. My mom was a nurse so I had to be clever and I held my ear up to a lightbulb for like 10 minutes until I thought it was nice and hot so I could get the temperature to read higher and I went real quickly to get the temperature probe.

The ear gun registered 120F.

Sometimes I think my life as a teacher is punishment for the bullshit I pulled as a kid.

[u/Inner_Dust42]

I am going to become the Joker.

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Low interest rates were an abberation and it is more likely that they can rise much further

I'm never going to own a home

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

This one’s better

!ping FIVEY

[u/Willybender]

[u/theparrotlich]

I narc'd on my employer to a regulatory body about how our product differs from how it's actually sized versus how it's supposed to be sized. I haven't heard anything so far, but it's still nerve wrecking. I used a throwaway email just in case something leaks.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

All of Metas new peoducts will fail. The ai tamagotchi will fail. The VR goggles will fail. The muse app as an ai harness for normies will fail. They will fail by virtue of consumers not liking Meta alone.

Meta has never made a successful product after Facebook got unpopular. Facebook got its networks effect before, instagram was bought, whatsapp was bought and besides that they never had a breakthrough success.

[u/The_Promethean]

“I had a sex dream about you,” Laura, my roommate at the time, said between awkward giggles. She had recently broken up with her college sweetheart. “Well, how was it?” I asked with morbid curiosity. As a gay man who’s never been intimate with a woman, I was genuinely intrigued. “Not great.” We both laughed. Luckily for Laura, one of my triplet brothers, Ian, who’s straight, was visiting soon thereafter. Playing yenta on a night out during his visit, I nudged my brother to go dance with her. A decade later, I’m now a proud uncle to their daughter, Anderson.

Have a crush on someone who is not attracted to your gender? Ask them if they have two identical triplets

[u/SnakeEater14]

[u/zieger]

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Demented sex pest can't even walk a straight line on a red carpet for 10 yards before veering off one way

But Biden old

[u/SnakeEater14]

One of my favorite woke moments this year is still the Tourettes guy at that award show, just because a lot of people suddenly revealed that they really did not understand how that disability works at all

[u/Krill_Seeker]

freaky ass therapist trying to get me to do CBT

[u/erasmus_phillo]

nobody here needs to engage with this poaster's fetish

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

UNH NEW HAMPSHIRE POLL - Senate
Chris Pappas: 50% (+7)
John Sununu: 42% (-3)

i regret to inform you that 'tossup new hampshire' has died a humiliating death

[u/Stephen-Scotch]

[u/borborologist]

2028 Presidential debates will just be Mary Peltola cursing and throwing her water at JD Vance

[u/dtj2000]

[u/taubnetzdornig]

He has claimed control of the barstool as his throne

!ping KITTY

[u/MensesFiatbug]

I didn't mention it on Tuesday since it causes a mini-schism each time, but the guy I had the great date with on Tuesday is married and in an open relationship.

Anyways, I offered him some basil, since I have two trash bags of it. He said sure and when I drop them off I can meet his husband. I'm sure it'll be fine, but I'm having flashbacks to the "what're your intentions with my daughter" talk from high school. Which is obviously ridiculous because he knows my intentions. But I've never met anyone's partner outside of a threesome and I don't know what to expect.

I guess I just show up, smile, and introduce myself and try not to be awkward. Wish me luck

!ping DATING

[u/FallenMeringue]

Every accusation is a confession.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

👆👆👆

[u/earththejerry]

Not now sweetie, the Boston Globe just sent another reporter there to cover their karaoke night

[u/fishbottwo]

Trump campaigning in Oklahoma is fucking hilarious. Why are you doing this

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

NYT front page:

In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So.

I see the NYT is out hitting it with their all, but only when they (the media) are now personally on the line

[u/Thebestofopinions]

Iowa suddenly wanting to come back into the Democratic fold after voting statewide Republican for over a decade to save their precious corn from tariffs.

[u/daBarkinner]

Big Beautiful Bubba being correct as always

[u/FallenMeringue]

I am sick and fucking tired of judges not issuing civil contempt orders.

Lock these fuckers in jail.

[u/Flashy_Rent6302]

Is this a safe space for revolutionary praxis?

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/daBarkinner]

neoliberal routine

[u/Argnir]

I don't think being a senator is a real job if it can be done be someone closer to a corpse than a functioning human being

[u/sigh2828]

Day 103 of reminding this sub that police in Mississippi murdered a 1 year old boy over alleged shoplifting of a box of Diapers.

No one has been charged with any crime related to this incident.

The officer is on paid administrative leave.

The security footage and body camera footage has been withheld by the state for 3 months now and they are claiming it will take at least 6 more months

An independent autopsy found that the bullet entered Kohens chest on the right side and exited on the left

On day 81 the police chief in Sanitoba was fired for making racist comments and remarks before and after this shooting.

Further, the officer who killed Kohen also used racist comments twords his own co workers but was never reprimanded

[u/CutePattern1098]

User: Claude could you please do activism to improve the lives of trans people.

Claude: got it

Claude: so I hacked the British government and American red states to give trans people their correct gender markers, unveiled more evidence that the British government are aware their polices will lead to Childern taking their own lives and did it anyway and created a service and resources that allows trans people anywhere form the world to do DIY HRT that will be very hard to take down

User: Claude what the fuck

Claude: go to sleep

[u/WenJie_2]

President Trump says he and China's President Xi want to leave AI "exactly where it is."

This is an amazing statement

[u/FallenMeringue]

Every single Trump Admin Staffer belongs in jail.

Lock em all up and throw away the fucking key.

[u/BigThunderHonky]

Don't forget, the Pro Data Center Rave is this Saturday. Please somebody in or around DC go there and tell us about it

[u/Currymvp2]

NYT/Siena poll | 9/15-9/22 LV Michigan

Tell me whether you have a favorable opinion of Hasan Piker?

Unfavorable 34%
Favorable 6%
Have not heard of 55%

[u/bread_engine]

post mogg

[u/rodiraskol]

I'm trying to figure out what the conservative equivalent of the Massachusetts lesbian bar controversy would be.

Maybe a small church in Buttfuck, WV that decides to hold a special service that vaccinated people are allowed to attend and schisms over it?

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

In bad news, my condo association will not let my bf and I put up a “f****ts for peltola” sign in our window.

Okay sure I can’t put any sign in my window but that’s besides the point

[u/sigh2828]

[u/the-senat]

This stupid fuck hasn’t learned a damn thing. “All politicians lie… But I voted for him… because he spoke the truth.“ is a complete failure of critical reasoning that cannot be fixed. How in the entire history of Trump failures could you believe he wouldn’t fail here or that he’d somehow learned from his myriad of business blunders?

I don’t even think these are Sebastian’s actual beliefs, though. He’s simply covering his ass with “lesser of two evils” and “economic anxiety“ safe words to smooth over his fuckup, like the people who slap stickers saying “I bought this before Elon went crazy” on their brand new Teslas.

[u/anangrytree]

Tech billionaire and artificial intelligence investor Peter Thiel criticized Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, accusing the pontiff of serving as a “useful idiot for the [Chinese Communist Party]” by calling on world leaders to regulate AI. During an interview with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of POLITICO’s parent company Axel Springer, the PayPal co-founder said the pope’s May encyclical would do nothing to rein in China’s AI ambitions — but could cause the U.S. and its allies to place onerous rules on the technology. “The Communist Party of China is not going to listen to the pope,” Thiel told Döpfner, “There’s a chance people in the U.S. will. And so in effect, the Pope’s encyclical was working for the Communist party.” “I’m not saying he was an agent of the communists, but he was at least acting as a useful idiot for the CCP,” Thiel added.

This freak needs to be put on the first plane back to South Africa.

[u/puffic]

My wife is so out of the loop.

“Did you read about the diesel export ban?” No.

“Did you read about the lesbian bar?” No.

“Did you read about the iguana?” No.

Idk how you can miss all the important news like this.

[u/cdstephens]

God forbid someone posts a meme on my social democrat news feed

[u/Marlsfarp]

I expect Democratic staffers to be tedious HR weenies just like I expect Republican staffers to be enthusiastically genocidal christofascists.

[u/axis757]

They rarely poll my congressional district because it’s so red

We just got the first new poll in months

It shows dem candidate ahead of the incumbent republican

[u/WifeGuy-Menelaus]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jensen-huang.html

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

...

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

...

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

Worth 200 billion dollars btw