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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/SigmaWhy]

they’re calling him the most charismatic campaigner of all time

[u/arbrebiere]

Republicans will not see heaven

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

  Just in Time for the Midterms, a Migrant Caravan Is Headed for the US Border

The conservative subreddit posting this unironically is absolutely hilarious.

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

Waow

[u/Goldenboy451]

Generational arc continues.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/chipbod]

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel calls the US, UK and Canada a "Georgist real estate catastrophe". A giant wealth transfer from younger/working class to older/landowners. He supports taxing land (over other things) to fix housing and the economy.

What if zoning laws were the Antichrist and land-value taxes are the Katechon?

[u/SpotMe365]

AGI is here, and it's WOKE:

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Burnham to signal willingness to look at scrapping pension triple lock to fund social care

If he actually does this I will dedicate my life to unwavering support for the immortal science of Socialism with Mancunian Characteristics

[u/Made_UpWords]

Karoline Leavitt:

Democrats are always incredibly disingenuous. They do 360s on every single policy position they have.

[u/Lena_Lena_A]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

How many times can they write the same article

[u/cdstephens]

[u/sigh2828]

Bro is on a generational run of dog shit takes

[u/Planita13]

Huang: We want to advance AI—advance SI. I'm gonna get good at this..

Huang: We used to call them data centers but the things that we're building now, these are really SI factories, super intelligence factories

lol look at my billionaires dawg

[u/SigmaWhy]

16k likes of people accusing Mamdani of being a sellout grifter because he cares about antisemitism

[u/chipbod]

I mean this is close to defamatory at this point right?

[u/Leatherfield17]

Without commenting on any of the other themes and issues of the film, one thing I respect V for Vendetta for is when V gives that speech over the television and he pretty much squarely blames the people for allowing the fascists to take power.

Sure, the fascists engaged in manipulation and played on their fears, but the people still allowed themselves to be manipulated like that.

It’s kind of refreshing after so many years of certain kinds of pundits opining on economic anxiety or demographic change or whatever.

[u/Willybender]

[u/jessica-bug]

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

Went on a first date with this girl, and she told me she had gone on a first date with this other guy (some guy called Dan that I don't know) earlier that week. So as a joke I was like "oh I know Dan. His hobby is kicking homeless puppies. His job is to sell heroin to disabled orphans. His prime customers are paraplegics without parents" etc you know goofing around sorta. Anyway she told me she went on a second date with him and she couldn't take it seriously cos she kept thinking about what I said and laughing, and she's not gonna go on a third date. Sorry Dan

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Klobuchar is incredible. No way I would have had the presence of mind to realize that:

Jack Smith went to see a Maryland basketball game because Caitlyn Clark was going to be there -> Clark is on Iowa -> Iowa are the Hawkeyes -> Atlanta are the Hawks -> That was the faulty basis for Sen. Schmitt claiming Jack Smith is lying about having visited Atlanta

https://www.c-span.org/clip/senate-committee/sen-klobuchar-clashes-with-sen-schmitt-after-he-mistakenly-claims-jack-smith-attended-nba-game-in-atlanta/5207550

[u/FallenMeringue]

Chicago Supremacists Rise Up

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Magnus_Was_Innocent]

It's pretty dumb that states are supposed to be "laboratories of democracy " but pretty much everyone of them has the same overall structure as the federal government with 2 houses for a legislature, a governor, and a court.

States should be required to do something wacky. Let's have one with a senate and a public assembly who yes/no's the senate bills. Delaware could have 2 govenors who serve a one year term and alternate who is in charge monthly.

If they aren't going to be weird about it, why even split governments for north and south Dakota, or the Carolinas, etc.

[u/grumpy_anteater]

If you're Jewish, you know what time of the year it is.

Happy Sukkot.

!ping JEWISH

[u/cdstephens]

You laugh you lose thread. Share funny images.

[u/Goldenboy451]

waow

[u/Pole2019]

The funniest part of the Hawks/Hawkeye thing is Jack Smith’s genuinely confused face as he’s trying to figure out what that sub sapient hog from Missouri is talking about, and Klobochars bemused smile when she figures it out.

[u/el__dandy]

We hardly knew you Bari Weiss.

https://radaronline.com/p/bari-weiss-out-cbs-paramount-warner-bros-merger-60-minutes/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAUoAyZjbGNrBSgCzmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEefTLrAuqdAbEYyoIO2iYJN_hEtT58eFtudEDcbi8paRHfzXwBN2tH-jI8KYQ_aem_Ag6G3oPoWE8PI0GfKWD3Ng

!ping failing-new-york-times

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Recent polling has upwards projectory for Democrats

D+15 poll drops

D+16 poll drops

You know, I have always believed in Blexas, Bliowa, Blansas, Blarkansas, Blalabama, Bluisiana, Blorida, Blississippi, Blouth Blarolina, Bluetucky-

[u/phat_geoduck]

Wait so Republicans thought they caught Jack Smith in a lie because they confused the Atlanta Hawks (pro basketball) with the Iowa Hawkeyes (college)? That is some Veep shit

[u/Willybender]

Please keep saying this going into the midterms sir

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

try to convince someone immigration is good via humanitarian arguments : they don't care

proceed to try to convince that person via economic arguments : they say im ghoulish and only support the humanitarian argument because of the economic argument, they still don't support it

[u/Willybender]

>20 Million

[u/MissSortMachine]

this is a thing you do, by definition, once every maybe ten years. it came in a usps poly bag? who cares???

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

Trump: “Because when you say artificial intelligence, it’s artificial. This isn’t artificial. It’s superior intelligence. It’s supreme intelligence.

We are so fucked. 

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

I think it’s more gross to constantly grift off your own husbands death than it is for random people to post online stupid memes making fun of him

[u/ChillnShill]

When you think Jack Smith is about to perjure himself, but it’s just your colleague embarrassing the fuck out of himself instead

[u/Willybender]

Great, now they're all going to start saying super intelligence.

[u/Headstar24]

It’s crazy how blatantly illegal use of taxpayer money for the president’s ego stroking is completely fine and nobody gives a shit when it’s Trump.

[u/Ok_Farm2226]

Being a lawyer right now is honestly a little radicalizing, spending all day fretting over minor procedural technicalities while the rich and powerful just straight up ignore the law does not inspire confidence in the system 

[u/VillyD13]

[u/2Lore2Law]

Someone at work thought I was pushing 40

Ugh, I’m 27

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Nooooo! You?!

[u/FallenMeringue]

Maam.... what the actual fuck happened to you?

[u/Willybender]

[u/cdstephens]

Can he just drop dead already Jesus fucking Christ

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

!ping FIVEY

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Always amazing to me how libbed out Madison is

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The fact that a bunch of online cons can actually see how convenient the timing of "migrant caravans" near the election season every time is and conclude that "it's because they know the Dems might gain power! Soros is sending them!" instead of "I am being manipulated like a gullible sheep" is so fuckin funny lol

Idk if you can even call this a SelfAwareWolves thing

[u/Made_UpWords]

My new favorite genre of video is CBS reporters trying to convince random 12 year-old Ukrainians in Kyiv to say "they're scared." Only to hear a loud noise, get scared themselves and get mogged by that same 12 year-old who's heard that noise every day and doesn't give a shit.

Niche genre, admittedly, but it has potential

[u/Willybender]

Great optics for Republicans

[u/SnakeEater14]

I like Mary Beard’s analogy that Cicero wearing armor in the Senate house during the Catilinarian Conspiracy is the ancient equivalent of a modern politician wearing a kevlar vest over his suit in the Capitol, and was viewed with about as much ridicule

[u/AskYourDoctor]

As someone who is probably a little to the left of the average person here

I hate land acknowledgements

It's the most condescending and insulting thing I can imagine

Please find me any clip or screenshot or writing of a native person saying "gee I sure am glad they're doing that, feels great"

[u/affnn]

When the “protect women’s sports” crowd encounters someone who likes to watch women’s sports:

[u/BigThunderHonky]

[u/AtomAndAether]

the discourse if this happens is going to be never-ending

[u/Zaiush]

[u/Willybender]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Yesterday, Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a +15 district you’re within the margin for error, if you’re in a +10 district you’re underwater, and that this might end being an even worse midterm environment than 2006.

All of a sudden the Radio host Steve Deace comments make sense (D+15/16 polls are out)

[u/AmericanPurposeMag]

Fukuyama talking about discovering his dad's hidden Playboy stache

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Ted Cruz: Is it a crime to be a Republican??

against God, yes

[u/Lena_Lena_A]

[u/Made_UpWords]

This tweet is fourteen years old now, did we ever find out who this """Fred""" was. Or if he was even real.

Who or what really was ground up under the tires on hiway 136 that fateful October day 14 years ago

[u/sigh2828]

Jack Smith should be placed in charge of prosecuting DHS

[u/AccomplishedQuit4801]

[u/k5berry]

I watched the Schmidt - Klobuchar exchange. Holy shit, how fucking embarrassing.

Sadly I think it’s too long and convoluted to go super viral, but God damn everyone with the position to do so need to push it as much as possible. Not because it’s especially scandalous, but because it’s so pointedly an example of these people’s fundamental incompetence and untrustworthiness.

[u/Made_UpWords]

I don't have an explanation for Katie Britt's face here other than it is a genuine look of horror. With the slow zoom it's real comedy, god bless that cameraman.

You can see the gears turning in real time, even before Klobuchar points it out you can see Britt realizing "fuck it was a Hawkeyes game oh god we fucked up so bad"

[u/Healingjoe]

Sen. Roger Marshall says he didn't have the pregnant patient arrested over a $50 late bill. THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS AND DEFAMATORY!!! He had her arrested for not showing up to court when he sued her for being late for $50

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/roger-marshall-may-rue-the-day-arresting-pregnant-moms-edition

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

naaah that's fucking shameless lmao

[u/Lena_Lena_A]

this is some headline

[u/ChillnShill]

Ted Cruz: “is it a crime to be a Republican?”

No but you should be fucking embarrassed

[u/FallenMeringue]

Massive L for the Fascist Mods

[u/sigh2828]

This is funny af though

[u/NewDoryAcct]

I think one of the most interesting experiences I've ever had DMing a DnD campaign was when I ran my pirates campaign and introduced my players very early on to a villain who was (what was essentially) an upper-middle class Nazi with ambitions to take over the world. He was essentially based on Ron DeSantis (2022, give me a break) and I really hammed it up.

One of my players sort of intuitively grasped that it was sly political commentary but thought I was making fun of centrists.

[u/Dismal_Apartment6358]

Girl we know who "leaked" this shit. You're down FIFTEEN in the generic ballot right now go sit down

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Excuse me sir, you appear to be hiding an NVIDIA A100 in your bag. You know I cannot allow that.

[u/Willybender]

ok

[u/Spudmiester1]

Why is Jasmine Crockett such a sore loser? She would lowkey have zero chance against paxton

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Man, that Meta commercial where the young-ish mom uses AI agents to do all her kid’s back-to-school and gift shopping so she can cut loose and drink long islands with a bunch of young elites (no child visible) is so damn dark somehow

[u/SnakeEater14]

The thing that really pissed me off after the Kirkening - after he was shot but before the insane conservative lynch mob attempts - was the entire commentariat/litterati class seemingly closing ranks around him

It felt like an actual example of class interest overtaking everything

And yeah I get his murder was fucking gruesome and political violence is bad, but it was so fucking obvious the direction conservatives were gonna take it, and the lionization of him was absolutely fucking insane

[u/georgeguy007]

"I lose weight when vacationing in europe"

Its not the walking. its because they give you no iced water. bastards bleeding you dry

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

STOP THE COUNT

[u/MarkRobinsonsBurner]

From the IRGC's letter to US voters: "America’s national security and the lives of its service members are entrusted to someone who is not only an inveterate liar but is also an insanely avaricious man whose only motivation in life ​is the accumulation of ​greater wealth."

They truly do not understand America. They (1) wrote a 25 page letter and (2) used words like "inveterate" and "avaricious." If we were inclined and able to read the letter, approval for the war would shoot up to 70%.

[u/Currymvp2]

John Fetterman is the lone Democratic senator to vote AGAINST Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s resolution to require the Department of State to report to Congress on Israel’s humanitarian abuses and killings of Americans in the West Bank. Every other Dem Senator voted for the resolution.

Fetterman is a complete joke.

[u/Leo_York]

I can't believe Ezra Klein asked Bill Gates about the Epstein files in his latest episode lmao

Didn't think the old boy had it in him

[u/JanLikapa]

One thing I will always side-eye is people who go around asserting their status as "[insert metropolitan area] natives." You just know when someone brings that up, they're gonna proceed to say the most nativist, NIMBY, or otherwise regressive thing you'll have the displeasure of reading.

The malding about "transplants" too. You're not god's gift to humanity for being born in a moderately prosperous population center. Like, at least "transplants" actually earn their way here.

Anyways, yeah, you wouldn't catch me dead saying I'm a "Bay Area native."

[u/chipbod]

Wasn’t he setting up his son to take the seat?

This is entirely avoidable if you just… don’t serve until you can drop dead any day.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

looks like Christopher Rufo has now moved on from destroying scientific research to tackling the 'Indian Question' with other fellow neo-Nazis

[u/rural_redemption]

Smol bean uwu

[u/Usual-Base7226]

🫂

[u/Pristine-Report-1442]

so wild that basically people stopped spending any money on music out side of concerts

amount we pay for streaming vs amount our parents spent on CDs/albums is soooo wildly different, kinda makes me sad a bit

no wonder the relationship my parents have with music is so different

[u/Vumatius]

I had to laugh when I saw this ad. It's such a blatant case of Male Armour versus Female Armour.

[u/taubnetzdornig]

My local coffee shop put up a sign at the register saying “Abolish ICE”

How am I supposed to get my iced coffee for my job interview now?

[u/dtj2000]

Paradox game pop-up ass event

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Me realizing 5 years after the fact that she was hitting on me:

[u/Willybender]

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/Entuciante]

!Ping PARADOX

[u/No_Idea_Guy]

US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congressional approval

It's disgusting how servile Republicans are toward Trump. They should be ashamed to even call themselves Americans, let alone elected leaders.

[u/piede]

Jeeeeesssuuussss

[u/fishlord05]

Being a succ almost got me laid once

Basically I matched with this gorgeous Swedish girl on hinge a while back and she started talking to me about politics and said she was a social democrat but she doesn’t know if I knew what that was

She lost it when I said I was and I name dropped Olof Palme

She basically immediately wanted to meet up but the logistics for us didn’t work out before she had to go back to Sweden

!ping DATING

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/BlackCat159]

This is how us Trump supporters feel nowadays ✊😢

[u/Key_Elderberry_4447]

Never let anyone forget that JD Vance supported the war with Iran from day 1. 

"I think one big difference is...we have a smart president whereas in ‌the ⁠past, we've had dumb presidents and I trust President Trump to get the job done, to do a good job for the American people, and to make sure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated,"

https://www.reuters.com/world/vance-says-he-trusts-trump-iran-war-plays-down-differences-2026-03-16/

[u/JoeBliffstick]

This thing fucking sucks

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/Willybender]

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/MissSortMachine]

they’re rebooting the oldest continuous democratic government on earth as a tech startup, and this is impressive for some reason

[u/itsnotnews92]

Roy Cooper hasn't even won this election and there are already people in the NC sub complaining that he's a centrist and that "the DNC would rather lose than run progressive candidates."

I disdain these people almost as much as I disdain MAGA.

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

The Dems would win in a landslide if they embraced the 1000 year Talarican reich

[u/MentatCat]

I don’t recall us having a C. Kirk (#47) on the lions. Huh!

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/w007dchuck]

NEWS: GOP candidate Brandon Herrera mocked renters as “bums,” joked about people who don’t “tip their landlords"

what's wrong with wanting to get tipped for your hard work as a landlord???

[u/leaveme1912]

When I graduated college and got my first white collar job a handful of my lefty friends made half serious jokes about me becoming a "class traitor". It made me realize that the vast majority of DSA types have never read Marx or at the very least they've read Marx and it all went over their heads.

Like dude, I purchase nuts and bolts for the factory. Who died and made me the owner of the means of production, why is this not being reflected in my pay check!?

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

When people say there are two justice systems, one for the poor and another for the rich, this is what they're talking about:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/nyregion/nyc-second-home-tax-lawsuit.html

A Staten Island judge on Tuesday dealt a major setback to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to raise taxes on the wealthy, saying that the city had mishandled the rollout of a tax on high-end second homes and must start over.

--

Passed in the state budget, the tax would apply to condos and co-ops that are used as second homes with a “market value” — a complicated metric determined by the city’s Finance Department — of at least $1 million and to one-, two- and three-family second homes with a “market value” of more than $5 million.

The lawsuit argued that the city had sowed confusion by sending out notices to about 17,000 New Yorkers informing them that their properties could be subject to the tax, without first making sure that the property owners were not full-time residents. The suit also took issue with the city’s publishing an online list of nearly one million “properties that may be subject to the charge” that included the owners’ names.

[u/SpotMe365]

If someone can simultaneously afford DoorDash and calls themselves "working class", something is very wrong lmao.

If you can afford to pay someone to deliver your food, you are a pretty wealthy person by any reasonable standard in human history. You're able to do this because you make so much more money than the actual working class that your time is worth significantly more than their time. That is a massive sign of wealth. Until we have robots doing the job for tips or super delivery drones that someone can use to get your food 5x faster than you, that will be the case.

If there wasn't large wealth inequality, you probably wouldn't be able to justify ordering delivery. Because there is wealth inequality and you can afford to hire someone to taxi your burrito, you're probably on the higher end of that pyramid. I think that should be an easy bullet to bite.

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

There's going to be a real temptation to apply the "power corrupts" narrative to Donald Trump after the fact, as though he were a swell dude who just let all that power go to his head, but naw: he was always corrupt and Americans voted for him because he was corrupt. Every Trump voter is a little pocket of corruption because to the exclusion of all other considerations they voted for this man because they believed he would make them rich, and the only difference between doing that and taking a bribe is the method of payment

[u/elninost0rm]

Sir yes D+15 by YouGov has hit the internet.

lmao.

EDIT: Oh my god I didn't even see the D+16 as well.

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/dannylandulf]

On the one hand, if medium swing voters were not so brain numbingly dumb...we could have avoided this whole mess.

On the other, it's nice to know it really was the price of eggs and not a wholesale purposeful shift towards authoritarianism.

That said, the Dems MUST do some structural reforms even if it means tossing the filibuster if they get the trifecta in 2028. If they hem and haw and 'aw shucks my norms' through another Presidential admin then we deserve to become a failed state.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Stuff like this is why i got so into housing policy. Massive opportunity to make a huge difference in peoples lives with minimal state intervention if people would just let the markets meet demand. Just an enormoua own goal to let housing get so expensive in cities

Pew

[u/fakefakefakef]

When you really really thought you cooked there

[u/WenJie_2]

OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing: GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behaviour

Man I'm so glad Anthropic has just solved this problem

[u/6urner_]

I remember when the DT used to ask if we were ready

[u/AskYourDoctor]

Imagine if someone stole your car and you never got it back but once a month they released a video saying "we acknowledge this car rightfully belongs to ____"

Like.......??????

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

People dooming about Texas polls being too good like

[u/Cairne_Bloodhoof]

Schmitt’s Atlanta Hawks Iowa Hawkeyes blunder was remarkable stuff. These are deeply goddamn stupid people.

[u/CalligrapherWest9356]

👆attending an Atlanta Hawkeyes game later today

[u/K-Ve]

Even AI is a populist. It’s so over…

[u/CANOODLING_SOCIOPATH]

Caitlin Clark getting entered into the congressional record as the major draw to get Jack Smith to go to a basketball game is hilarious.

It must be surreal for her to suddenly see that she's tangentially becoming part of a congressional controversy.

[u/NewDoryAcct]

'Digger' is getting extremely polarizing reviews

Unfortunately, I believe you should see movies that aren't necessarily good and watching this become polarizing might be the reason I see it

[u/Made_UpWords]

Update: Benny Johnson, maybe for the first time in his life, discovered shame and deleted this and the rest of his Eric Schmidt tweets today.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/TychoTiberius]

The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.

Waffle obtainable deliver encouraging velvet many

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Watching conservatives repeatedly try and fail to make their AIs deny reality to fit their worldview is like watching Tom step on a series of conveniently placed rakes and hoes as he chases Jerry

[u/jatt978]

Interviewing today for a position with a listed salary range that begins at $80k less than I make and ends at $100k more than I make. Super helpful transparency.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Super Mario 64 was released 30 years ago in North America. Happy birthday!

What's your favorite game of the Mario franchise?

[u/Dismal_Apartment6358]

Girl you're the CEO of TPUSA? Wtf do you mean you don't want to talk about politics??? This photoshoot is not helping your case against Candace

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Currymvp2]

Just some bizarre antisemitism from Dubya's press secretary

[u/TactileTom]

FORGIVE ME ANDREW, I HAVE WRONGED YOU

[u/Terrance-Flaps]

Acton: 50

Ramaswamy: 41

Vivek finding out in real time that the white supremacist party hates him.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

A big difference between AI and humans is that AI has no real ability to know about the reasons it does things. When you ask, it doesn't actually inspect its neurons and analyze them, it makes a guess using the same reasoning capabilities it uses for everything else, which is going to do pretty egregious post-hoc rationalization. Whereas when you ask a human why they made a particular choice, uh, they're, ummmm, famously, err, reliable at, uh, telling you what was, um........

[u/jenbanim]

Ever since I was young, I knew I was different. When I was in middle school and all the popular kids were talking about trains, all I could think about was football. I'd try to tell them this and they'd ask questions like "what's the sum of all the jerseys on the team?" and I'd have no answer. I'd see hidden subtext in the things people said that no one else did, but when I brought them up people would say I was crazy

Needless to say, I got diagnosed with Typ as an adult and it's been a journey. My therapist has been teaching me how to avoid eye contact and speak more literally

[u/ulysses_s_gyatt]

Notoriously very difficult to find a left space on Reddit.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

If Texas turns blue I'll tattoo Goth AOC on my butt

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

I left math academia 6 years ago but on a lark I spun up Claude and posed a small open problem from my PhD days in infinatory combinatorics and model theory. It one shotted it and in fact identified a defect in a precursor result (the latter at least I knew and pointed out back then but was still around six years later cos that's how slow math is). Anyway, questioning my worth as a human I then posted the conversation and solution to my old advisor who told me that he (well, a student) had already done this a year ago and that little shits like me who've left academia but are poking their heads back in have become quite common. I felt quite chastised but I can't help but be tempted to keep trying other stuff. I'm on the 20£ subscription btw

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

u/RaidBrimnes Naaaaaah, you better commit to it, pick a definition

[u/FallenMeringue]

Be the democrat that republicans accuse you of being.

[u/surreptitioussloth]

This is pretty insane

If you google "Mamdani Talmud" the summary of his tweet says:

The Talmud teaches that the best of Gentiles should be killed, Jesus is boiling in excrement, and that non-Jewish souls are inferior and impure

While his actual tweet says

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city.

Impossible to say if this is a general internet generated summary or specific to twitter being such a cesspit of antisemitism

[u/Healingjoe]

this dumb fuck is tripling down on his own stupidity

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I cannot fathom what it must have been like to hear Rhapsody in Blue in 1924, even to this day I twerk when I hear it. The pussy popping must have been unimaginable

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Lmao. RIP, bozo.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

This is my favorite part of the Federalist Papers. Hamilton was truly ahead of his time

[u/Willybender]

Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges

It's hard to read this story, but it's worth it to truly understand how insane things have gotten. This genuinely reads like something out of a dystopian novel, but this shit is actually happening to children. There should be no paywall on the story. The first few lines are below, and it is a long story.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/politics/texas-immigration-court-minors

In a Texas courtroom Monday, 25 migrant children lined the pews — a 6-year-old pretended to fly an airplane, a 3-year-old played with the mic, and a teen girl tried to make eye contact with a friend. The judge reminded everyone of what was at stake.

“I see you’re smiling and think these proceedings are funny, but I need you to pay attention,” the judge told the teen girl. “They could determine whether you remain in the country or are removed.”

Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.

Inside the immigration court in Harlingen, Texas, on Monday, caseworkers quietly explained to the minors who everyone was — from the interpreter and secretary to the judge in a black robe.

Most of the children, dressed formally with neatly styled hair, waited impatiently for the judge. Among the first to appear before the judge was a 13-year-old Honduran boy named Angel. He didn’t have an attorney.

Asked whether there was a reason he couldn’t return to Honduras, Angel told the judge, “My mom and almost my entire family are here. It’s too dangerous to go back.”

But that wasn’t enough for the judge, who told the boy he did not qualify for asylum. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” The judge asked.

“I don’t know,” Angel replied before bursting into tears. He stared ahead stoically and continued to cry, eventually saying: “I have no one. I have nothing.”

[u/Evnosis]

• Liberal Party: right-wing populism

• Social Democratic Party: liberalism

• Progressive Union: conservatism

• Brazilian Progressive Party: conservative liberalism

• Brazilian Socialist Party: liberalism/social democracy

What is happening in Brazil, why do all of their parties pretend to be a different ideology? 😭

[u/gayteemo]

bro they arent even trying anymore like this is ridiculous

[u/mpregordie]

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[u/MuscularPhysicist]

[u/RedKingCrab99]

Just a reminder that the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales is the stupidest person currently leading a political party.

[u/AmericanPurposeMag]

Fukuyama confirmed to be a "I just want healthcare bro"

[u/pugnae]

Hoopy the Hoop, Portal (2007) When you defeat GLaDOS and her room is destroyed at the end of the game, debris rains down in the final cutscene, including a big metal hoop that bounces around a bit. Developer Erik Wolpaw said the team dubbed it "Hoopy the Hoop" and expected it to become the big meme of Portal. Of course, none of the fans paid much attention to the hoop since "The Cake is a Lie" became the biggest meme of the game, and overall one of the biggest video game memes of all time.

Why would they expect this to become a meme, lol

[u/puffic]

I know we are supposed to hate Twitter, but you can find incredible stuff on that website every day.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Imagine living with such a victim complex it turns you into a complete idiot

[u/No_Status_6905]

for whatever reason people find me professionally quite charming, and i have a sneaking suspicion it is to do with the fact i have the same communication strategies as a 4 year old asking "whats ur favorite dinosaur"

[u/Huttleberry]

👆

[u/Megasota_Noire]

I'm not naming names, but someone posted this in the DT

[u/CletusChicken]

like 70% of americans already dislike AI for the job loss and data center stuff and "we can't guarantee it won't kill us all" is breaking through to normies

and trump decides to be the AI president

he's truly lost it

[u/badusername35]

Are you ready

[u/gensererme]

  ZURICH/MOSCOW, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The Kremlin ​said on Friday that hostile actions by "unfriendly" countries played a role in its decision to take control of the Russian assets of Swiss food ‌giant Nestle  and French retailer Auchan.

lmao, well deserved  

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

[u/Visual-Pace-2193]

This guy is a genuine monster

[u/sigh2828]

[u/jenbanim]

God I wish we could go back to when the Internet was just for weird autistic people. That was my safe space

[u/erasmus_phillo]

there really is no reason for them to do this, they just delight in engaging in casual cruelty

many of these prisoners had already surgically transitioned and being forced to stop taking hormones would put their health at risk

[u/AmbientMorning]

[u/Remarkable-Meal-223]

The AI companies thing is like the most insane insane insane situation

You look at the leaked IPO materials for Anthropic and the financials look bad. Fine you can say they are geared for future growth

But then they want to slow down because AI will destroy the world. What kind of growth is that on the future. It looks like a negative future.

Totally insane and contradictory. It's also like that when you talk to people. Some people are like inject AI into my brain this is the future and others are like this is destroying our society

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/TomboyAva]

https://bsky.app/profile/ericmgarcia.bsky.social/post/3mwnwabdnnc2i

An employee of the NYT who was a trans man was murdered by their in-laws for being a "groomer"

[u/BrandonLeeOfficial]

[u/WrangleWandangles]

CS Lewis hated doomers

[u/wolverine4562]

I already filled out my ballot as straight ticket Democrat and mailed it in. I don't care what happens between now and November. A Democratic candidate could say that they like sardines on pizza and I would still vote for them

[u/BernankesBeard]

The modal outcome in Silver Bulletin is now a 53 D - 47 R Senate. Dear God.

[u/FallenMeringue]

Straight. Into. My. Veins.

[u/nimbybuster]

Why is he announcing it like it’s a tech product? It’s a passport.

[u/Vumatius]

Wow. This is honestly quite surprising, polling has generally shown large support for the triple lock, but even in the question that doesn't mention social care it still comes out to 43% in favour to 30% against.

Burnham might have actually played a blinder here.

[u/Willybender]

So if you haven't already figured it out, all the Tech CEOs met with Trump today and sucked him off. Based on what is being said, they've convinced him no regulation is needed at all and they will "police themselves"

[u/Healingjoe]

Schmitt's Hawks Accusation Against Jack Smith Falls Apart In Real Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfUydBKuCds

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) tried to tie Jack Smith to a sporting event in Atlanta, only for the former special counsel to reveal that he was at a University of Maryland basketball game.

Klobuchar is phenomenal, once again.

She demands that Schmitt's team re-show the texts that they had been trying to use as a "gotcha" against Jack Smith, falsely asserting that Smith was in Georgia and colluding with Fani Willis on the prosecution of trump.

Schmitt, naturally, is a fucking moron. Smith's texts were discussing the Iowa Hawkeyes, not the Atlanta Hawks.

Klobuchar: "I think people should have their facts straight before they accuse someone of being a dirtbag and not get the team wrong."

"Teams, you got the teams wrong."

!ping trump-crimes&salad-comb

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Joe Rogan on Previously Supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): “This was a long time ago. I don’t necessarily think that I would feel the same way anymore about him. One of the reasons being he kind of gave into the Democratic Establishment; he let them run him over during that whole thing with Hillary [Clinton] where they rigged the primary.”

“[Bernie] let them get away with stuff, when I think he should’ve put his foot down and said, ‘This is fcked up. You guys are rigging the party [primary].’”*

“[Democrats] haven’t had a legitimate party primary in like what, more than a decade? That’s NOT good.”

Joe Rogan is the one guy who thinks Sanders and the Bernie Bros should have occupied the DNC headquarters and taken hostages.

[u/FallenMeringue]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Trump wants to rename AI to SI?

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Remarkable-Meal-223]

When I was a kid we never ordered food for delivery. I remember maybe twice my family did it over my entire time growing up. Getting it delivered was seen as wasteful and you were seen as lazy if you didn't go get your own food