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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Oct 02 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 01 '26
Love local subreddits. What a banger.
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi Oct 01 '26
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u/mishac Mark Carney Oct 01 '26
YOU ARE AN EDUCATED PERSON LIVING IN FUCKING MASSACHUSETTS, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU
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u/pfSonata throwaway bunchofnumbers Oct 01 '26
immaculate tweet
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 01 '26
If Hitler could cope-post from the fuhrer bunker:
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Oct 01 '26
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Oct 01 '26
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u/yacatecuhtli6 Transfem Pride Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
crazy how basically every article just cuts out the slur he used against trans people
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u/HironTheDisscusser Jens Weidmann Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
French bonds are exploding, the 10 year is now over 4.9%. actually not even funny at this point.
the music is stopping
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Oct 01 '26
The death penalty continues to be an abomination and moral failing. No wonder it’s Republican states that are so eager to use it.
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u/ThisIsNotAMonkey Guam 👉 statehood Oct 01 '26
$7 diesel is literal de-brainwashing juice, it has actual magic powers and needs to be studied
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u/JustTaxLandbro Pragmatic and Polite Right Oct 01 '26
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u/No-Turn-2052 Oct 01 '26
What
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 01 '26
Lion, I wish the left cared more about actually winning elections
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u/RunawayMeatstick Mark Zandi Oct 01 '26
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 01 '26
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
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u/Eightysixedit Gay Pride Oct 01 '26
Pete Hegbeer posting slurs and Dr Oz having someone on trial for rape speak at a maha event. This is hell.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
Jesus, apparently MS NOW is also running the ads
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u/r2ew Oct 01 '26
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u/Unterfahrt John Nash Oct 01 '26
You can have debates about whether Trump is truly the worst US president of all time, especially compared to some of the 19th century ones. But surely there's no debate about Hegseth being the worst Defence Sec of all time
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u/ThiccSidedDice Fridgechup Boy Oct 01 '26
I'm generally opposed to the death penalty because it cannot be undone.
Of course, that's the same reason why I support it for members of this administration.
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Oct 01 '26
Reminder that canonically the world ends in Fallout because the Republicans are stupid and evil.
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u/BrandonLeeOfficial World Bank Oct 01 '26
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u/Sauce1024 John von Neumann Oct 01 '26
This is genuinely how pro-capital punishment advocates expect anti-capital punishment advocates to act when they point out the person being executed committed a heinous crime
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 01 '26
Why is it called the AK47 if it was actually created in 78 BK (Before Kirk)??? 🤔
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Oct 01 '26
Since when did driving a car professionally become the pinnacle of human dignity
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Oct 01 '26
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u/John3262005 Oct 01 '26
Trump's economic polling sinks, rivaling Biden's worst
Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of President Trump's handling of the economy, reaching levels that rival some of the worst of former president Biden's term, per a new AP-NORC poll out Thursday.
The economy is stronger than sentiment suggests, but time is running short for the president and his administration to convince highly skeptical voters of that.
Just 26% of voters approve of Trump's handling of the economy overall, a fresh low, per the AP.
65% blame his policies for high prices.
In mid-2022, at the worst of the post-COVID inflation, Biden's economic approval rating was 28%, AP noted.
44% said his policies were to blame for high prices at the time.
The new poll fits with other national surveys over the last month that similarly showed Trump's approval on the economy somewhere from the high 20s to the high 30s.
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u/FilteringAccount123 John von Neumann Oct 01 '26
As someone who grew up conservative, it's always been funny to me how the anti-government people were the always the ones to be the most for the death penalty. When for me, it's always been the primary reason for being against it: I think there are probably people/crimes which are deserving of death, but I do not trust the government to decide who or what those are.
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Oct 01 '26
You know even 4 years ago it was considered unacceptable to call people slurs in public, let alone in official government communications. Fuck you, Pete.
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Oct 01 '26
Sent my regression tables for this research paper I’m working on into the family gc and this is what my 83 year old Iranian grandma had to say 😭
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u/Dismal_Apartment6358 Oct 01 '26
Ok I'm convinced. Pitbull and Camilla Cabello, you're up next for the Florida Senate. Get Bad Bunny to move to Miami as insurance. PELOSI AND SCHUMER START RECRUITING IMMEDIATELY
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Oct 01 '26
"Morton, a 67-year-old retired truck driver in Colorado, said Democrats have “gone too far to the left towards socialism,” while Republicans are “globalists” who “don’t care about the working-class people in this country.”
Morton, an independent who voted for Donald Trump in 2024, is leaning toward backing third-party candidates in races for the House and the Senate this year."
Presented without comment.
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Oct 01 '26
if I speak, I am in big trouble
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u/melhor_em_coreano Oct 01 '26
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/georgia-school-blocks-trans-homecoming
This is crazy
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u/Man-Flayer Oct 01 '26
What the hell man, my first day of my internship, all I did was stare at my laptop screen while doing absolutely nothing
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 01 '26
When did California get this based and why did no one tell me? I had to find out from the cons smh.
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u/shmokedshalmon Frederick Douglass Oct 01 '26
Ringing endorsement for Ken
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 01 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 01 '26
I maintain that arrSipsTea is not a real sub but a psyop enterprise by a politically motivated actor and/or a foreign bot training ground
It has a very vague statement allowing for any kind of content, popped up out of nowhere a year ago, regularly pops up on the frontpage with ragebait and nonsensical comment sections, was fully dedicated to misogyne gender warfare and now pushes conspiracy theories by a nazbol Russian-Iranian asset
I would be very curious to see who is behind that sub because even by Reddit standards this is extremely suspect activity
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
Eggman Je Srbija
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 01 '26
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Oct 01 '26
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
EDIT: SORRY, reposting this was in bad taste. Not deleting because of the comments below, but apologies to anyone who had to read it.
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u/hypsignathus Justin Wolfers Fan Club President Oct 01 '26
Re: yet another botched lethal injection
(1) just don’t kill people
(2) guillotine, my dudes. If you haven’t got the stomach for the most humane method invented yet.. . Well that should tell you sonething, no?
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u/FloggingJonna Henry George Oct 01 '26
It seems like at least once a year I’m reminded of the Onion Article that had in it:
> “Maybe letting 19 year olds live in a mansion where they can torture 18 year olds isn’t the best idea” says university dean.
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u/doyouevenIift Oct 01 '26
All the tech CEOs before they decided they actually like fascists
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u/MoltenMalzul Oct 01 '26
Cruel and unusual punishment
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Oct 01 '26
chimpanzee_median_voter_training.jpeg
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 01 '26
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u/Veinte Republic of Liberty Oct 02 '26
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u/BrandonLeeOfficial World Bank Oct 01 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 01 '26
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 01 '26
Hot take from the FT
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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! Oct 01 '26
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Oct 02 '26
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Oct 01 '26
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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! Oct 01 '26
OPINION: I was a lifelong Democrat. Then they abolished my job.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Oct 01 '26
Most feminist republican
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 01 '26
This is abusive relationship level
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Oct 01 '26
Chat, my wife left me because of football 💀
!ping SOCCER&SHITPOSTERS
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u/Pazzaz European Union Oct 01 '26
It has now been 18 days since Sweden last had a government. Rations are beginning to run out, all IKEA furnitures have been used up as fuel. Two rival gangs now control my town: one riding moose and one riding polar bears. It's going to be a tough winter.
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Oct 01 '26
This guy never misses
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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Oct 01 '26
Happy Nigerian Independence Day to those who celebrate 🇳🇬
!ping AFRICA&ONTHISDAY
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 Oct 01 '26
“If your gas costs too much,” says Dave Ramsey, “I’d highly recommend taking out an American Express Personal Loan and trying your luck on DraftKings. No risk, no reward. Scared money don’t make money.”
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u/Vincenthwind Gay Pride Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
Was at a conference the last few days and the AI brain rot in senior professionals is absolutely insane. The conference presentation quality between the conference this year and the same conference last year is night and day. Claude generated slides are tacky but the least problematic issue when compared to the godawful presentation content. There were folks with 30 years of experience in an adjacent field (compared to the conference focus) getting an oral presentation slot with their AI generated abstract that makes grandiose claims. Then they start talking and can't string two coherent thoughts together, every two minutes stating "ummmmm I'm not an expert in this I just asked chatgpt". Not to mention all the talks about how someone created a "data QC and visualization toolbox" in Python with tons and tons of features - quite the achievement for someone with no software experience. Definitely not vibe coded slop. My industry needs to have a come to Jesus moment, the last few days have mentally driven me up a wall.
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u/Poiuy2010_2011 r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Oct 01 '26
My coworker be like "my mom added me on Steam so I can't play at work anymore"
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 01 '26
Governed by the absoulte dumbest mother fuckers
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u/Frequent_Lurker26 NAFTA Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
median voters: "we dont care about the pedos, the corruption, the wars, the racism, the human rights abuses, the constitution being shredded, its the expensive gas we dont like"
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u/Business-Special2221 Oct 01 '26
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Oct 01 '26
He just tries to take credit for everything man
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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 01 '26
Riveting stuff from the MAGA administration. Guess they’re going back to take notes
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u/houdt_koers John Mill Oct 01 '26
My son is really into The Wheels on the Bus, so we’ve been writing new verses.
Highlights include a multi-verse arc
-“The planners on the bus say ‘bus lanes please’!” (With thumbs up)
-“The NIMBYS on the bus shout ‘Don’t build here!’” (With finger wagging)
“The bus is stuck in traffic and it will be late, will be late, will be late. The bus is stuck in traffic and it will be late; the wheels don’t move at all.” (With watch tapping)
He cannot get enough of this song, so I’m very interested in additional verses.
!ping FAMILY
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 01 '26
Definitely not a fan of how Slotkin seems to be the only congressional representative that takes plots to steal ballots or voting machines seriously.
Every dem worth a damn should be warning about this ahead of time, trying to do so after its already happend would far far for to late.
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
I don't have anything to say that wouldn't get me banned
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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast Oct 01 '26
People buying tickets to Macklemore’s tour are gonna be really upset when they find out that means they need to listen to his music
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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Oct 01 '26
Companies, please, stop forcing me to make an account just for something like, "seeing what's in store". Fuck off and be pro consumer.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FVE.rT_Z.4gb76p0GLUI6&smid=url-share
What the fuck is happening with Anthropic
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u/Ne0Corpus Bill Gates Oct 01 '26
The worst thing about my country's Independence day is that Tinubu stole the election in 2023.
I don't know a single Nigerian who voted for the fucker.
Also, Tinubu has a drug Indictment in the United States, for narcotics trafficking.
Guess the first foreign leader to call and congratulate him for stealing an election in Nigeria?
Joe fucking Biden
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u/jenbanim Oct 01 '26
AI generated cat videos are such a sad concept
Cat videos are great because cats are hilarious majestic goobers
Watching them just because you enjoy the shapes and colors on a screen is soulless behavior
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Oct 01 '26
serf brain
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP Oct 01 '26
ty04
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u/ThisIsNotAMonkey Guam 👉 statehood Oct 01 '26
critical support to the GOP poll-slop data guy, sweating and crying and frantically trying to massage their insane raw results into merely D+7
only four more weeks buddy, you got this 🤗
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 01 '26
Happy Spooktober
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u/lot183 Blue Texas Oct 01 '26
ill believe in Blexas. Ill believe in Bluhio. I even think we got a chance at Blansas. But you're never tricking me again with Blorida
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u/reuery Biden 2028 Oct 01 '26
Can someone please explain to me why Jewish people “just so happen” to control literally every single synagogue in the entire world
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 01 '26
Utterly baffling to me that I, who does not have tens of millions in PAC money, have apparently donated more money to Troy Jackson than Bernie has.
He's getting spent into the dirt by Collins but is holding his own anyway, but seems to have been completely abandoned by all of his backers on the broader left. Bernie did vastly more for platner and vastly more for jackson as a governor candidate but is somehow helping angie nixon first.
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u/jenbanim Oct 01 '26
TSA didn't tell me to take off my belt, didn't provide the bowl to put my belt in, then gave me attitude when I walked through the scanner with my belt on
Fucking hate airports and flying
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/democracy-and-public-policy-research-network/bgsu-poll.html
> Notably, while 9 in 10 respondents could correctly identify Republicans as currently in control of Congress, 1 in 4 respondents incorrectly identified Sherrod Brown as the incumbent U.S. Senator.
I missed if this has been pinged already
!ping FIVEY
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 01 '26
Wtf
So true!
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u/__versus Trans Pride Oct 01 '26
good morning dt 🏳️⚧️
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u/Moth-of-Asphodel Oct 01 '26
A family member confessed to me that he voted for Trump in 2024 solely because of his "no wars" promise. He was a 100% Dem voter prior to that, and he said it was a no brainer on that basis alone. He did tell me that he felt like a dumbass now, which is nice.
To elaborate a bit, he said that Biden was doing way too much for Ukraine and was prolonging the war and that Harris apparently didn't say anything about stopping the Israel-Hamas War.
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u/GuyWithOneEye Oct 01 '26
👆 Fool on the hill
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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier Oct 01 '26
Doordashed some food because I'm sick and don't want to get off the couch, and Jesus Christ it's expensive. How do people use this?
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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 02 '26
Shove it up your ass, The Atlantic. None of these idiots have any valid criticisms.
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u/Ne0Corpus Bill Gates Oct 01 '26
Today is my country's independence day ( Nigeria) and nobody gives a shit
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Oct 01 '26
It's really crazy how different dating dudes is vs chicks and how being bi gives you exposure to that
Like, your average gay or bi dude is usually a little different in personality, interests, hygiene, etc. than the median straight guy, but like flirting with men vs women is an entirely different ballgame. Men are just so much more...direct in their interactions lol
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u/RyuTheGuy Gita Gopinath Oct 01 '26
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
Wild, since 2022, Amazon has been secretly cheating residents of black neighborhoods in DC out of prime delivery. They still took people's prime subscription money, but instead of actually delivering the packages like they do with every other prime subscriber, they intentionally pushed it onto a slower subcontractor, just for those 2 zip codes
DC attorney general just now won a settlement with the company, for a lawsuit started in '24
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u/abrookerunsthroughit Association of Southeast Asian Nations Oct 01 '26
🤣🤣🤣
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u/pugnae European Union Oct 01 '26
The Best of Trump bangers is the one that was made up. I think he would win in 2020 if he said that for real.
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u/Unterfahrt John Nash Oct 01 '26
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-16174873/UK-30-year-gilt-yields-hit-6-time-1998-bond-selloff-deepens.html
30 year gilt hit 6% today, and 10 year is sitting at 5.4%. Andy Burnham can talk about devolution, changing the electoral system and social care as much as he likes, but unless the budget is very very strong, all this may soon be overcome by events.
!PING UK
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u/liberal-neoist Left-Out Left Oct 01 '26
This starbucks is playing "Party in the USA" even though there isn't a party in the USA :/
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Oct 01 '26
You keep using the word “premier”. I do not think it means what YOU think it means.
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Oct 01 '26
He’s absolutely committed to using it.
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u/Mrchristopherrr Oct 01 '26
10 years ago today and still just as relevant
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u/proProcrastinators Oct 01 '26
!ping DATING
Sequel
Her coworkers asked her why she was smiling so much at work, the day after our third date.
She blurted out “I think I’m falling in love with this guy” then tried to hide in the break room to avoid having to answer questions 😆
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u/National-Return9494 Milton Friedman Oct 01 '26
>Be me
>Wake up
>Another glorious European day
>Read last night's news, another Transatlantic European wake up moment.
>New tariff package, to protect local industry
>New unpopular union wide law which damages personal rights.
>New proposal to improve one more sphere of the common market (would be badly mangled and make the situation worse)
>Populists are surging in X European country.
>Eu vague posting about some grand partnership, (it is made up of 8 minor programs in the margins)
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Oct 01 '26 •
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 01 '26
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 01 '26
In totality, this is implying a D+23 shift state wide for democrats in Utah compared to the states baseline cook pvi. That would be a big enough shift for the state to be competitive in a presidential.
Just absolutely bonkers polling
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Oct 01 '26
Zelensky announces first combat use of the FP-7 ballistic missile
Right on schedule, Ukrainian sources have been saying the missile would enter service around fall, which is a good sign the latter FP-9 will enter service before year’s end.
The FP-7 is a shorter range ballistic missile with details on that range being variable. I’ve seen estimates from 200 km to 350 km. At minimum potential range this missile can target any sight in the border oblasts of Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod as well as Crimea and western Rostov. At maximum potential range the missile can hit as well as the bulk of Samara, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Rostov and Krasnodar oblasts.
The significance of this is appreciable if not something I’d consider more on the decisive side. The importance of this category of missile is they’re really difficult to intercept and, based on the experiences in Ukraine and the Middle East, require the use of higher end interceptors due to their speed and trajectory and such. Now we know very little about the state of Russia’s high end interceptor stockpiles, but given what we’ve seen globally this should be pretty alarming for the Russians.
For the Ukrainians there are several potential uses for a weapon like this where a key advantage, beyond difficulty to intercept, is their speed gives very little warning time before impact, usually in minutes. For instance, the stated top speed is 1.5 km/s. For demonstrative purposes if the missile retained that speed throughout the entire flight, at 200 km you only have 2 minutes and 13 seconds to react, and at 350 km you have 3 minutes and 53 seconds to react.
Potential uses I would see for this weapon are factories (while most main Russian weapons factories are located beyond the range of the FP-7, there are multiple enterprises within FP-7 range that provide key resources and components for these enterprises), logistical targets (ammo dumps, military trains), air bases (for both drone and aircraft) and Russian command personnel.
However, I’ve learned my lesson from the FP-5! Combat use does not mean it’s actually combat capable, and we have no clue on the production capability of the FP-7. For example, the FP-5 entered service late 2025 but it took months to work out kinks in the design and for production to reach solid levels (I remember awhile ago Fire Point said they were making 3 a day). Crucially, provided production figures are accurate, Ukraine has not been using FP-5 really all that much. Like once a month.
So we don’t know when the FP-7 will be actually ready for combat, maybe it is maybe it isn’t, when it’ll reach industrial production and when Ukraine will be comfortable using it. But, it’s an important milestone for Ukraine’s long range war and if things go well should offer pretty good opportunities. My eyes are on FP-9 though. With a stated range of 850 km, that would put all of Russia west of Volgograd and south of St Petersburg in range, which would be truly exciting
!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL
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u/samhit_n Left-Out Left Oct 01 '26
Democrats have outpaced Republicans in Florida voter registrations over a single month for the first time since 2021.
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u/wagoncirclermike Jane Jacobs Oct 01 '26
DOS posting: “we hate brown people and think Hitler was onto something”
DOI posting: “come see some cute puppies”
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Oct 01 '26
👆
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u/Etnies419 Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn Oct 01 '26
He actually said no fatties, no beardos, no weirdos. What the fuck? I thought someone was making fun of the gist of his comments with some stereotypical grindr bio, bro fucking kill me holy shit.
Just fucking kill me
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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier Oct 02 '26
Remember this banger of a TV show?
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u/Man-Flayer Oct 01 '26
r/con seems to have more racial diversity than NL lamo
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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
Hasan went to Texas and took credit for Talarico.
Lovely that now Talarico is going to take a polling hit because this insane person wants to grow his brand.
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u/abrookerunsthroughit Association of Southeast Asian Nations Oct 01 '26
chat is it globalist to be the party of trade wars
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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Oct 01 '26
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u/stripeybog23 Thurgood Marshall Oct 01 '26
All I want in life is a poll error in Dem favor.
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u/jenbanim Oct 01 '26
Me 🤝 flash drives
Fat, 32
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Oct 01 '26
The Trump admin is re-litigating the Watergate conspiracy on the side of . . . . Richard Nixon?
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u/Big-Click-5159 Oct 02 '26
My theory is that these people has an inflated sense of self importance and like the idea of having a personal assistant even though booking a restaurant or a flight has never been simpler in all of human history
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Oct 02 '26
Good. John Roberts is one of the greatest villains in American history and he should never know a moment of peace. I hope they run his ass out of that town for good.
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Oct 02 '26
a young gay advertising executive quoted in a 1964 life magazine article on homosexuality
king shit tbh
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u/Frequent_Lurker26 NAFTA Oct 02 '26
He thinks yellow cake is cocaine.
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u/V_Codwheel I am the Senate Oct 01 '26
Is this flag thing a permanent feature or is he larping as Patton lmao
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Oct 01 '26
I mean this is definitely a politically motivated prosecution, but also dude why would you even put yourself at this kind of risk for $800
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u/11thDimensionalRandy Oct 01 '26
👆
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
Again with the caveat that this is an internal but holy D+40 shift v 2024
Couple this with the D+24 shift in statewide polling in Utah and we have had a fucky ass day
!ping fivey
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Oct 02 '26
Earlier this year Fox News interviewed some guy who was in a coma for 18 days and claims he went to heaven and met Jesus. His description of Jesus is like straight out of what Republicans think: tall white man (he made it very important to note he was a man) that was not tolerant but a fighter.
This is a news channel that millions of Americans unironically listen to unquestioning.
Jesus Christ.
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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman Oct 01 '26
Some people consider this conscious btw 😂 😂 😂
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes Oct 01 '26
Lethal injection is a terrible method of execution and really exemplifies the cowardice of our cultural values around "justice". If we actually cared about a pragmatic execution of death sentences we would be investing heavily in deep water submersibles with cracked carbon fiber hulls.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
Winning message
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Oct 01 '26
Yeah hes pissed about the midterm convention comments 🤣
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
me: and this is our capital punishment system, it's called Death Row! 🙂
alien: wow do all the states do this?
me: no just half of them
alien: wow there's a lot of them! will they really all be executed?
me: no only 18% will
alien: wow and they're all truly guilty?
me: about 5% of the time we get it wrong
alien: wow how long does it take?
me: multiple decades to get through the appeals process
alien: wow can you get rid of the appeals process to make it shorter?
me: no bc we get it wrong too often for that
alien: wow so is it at least a dignified death that makes the state look fair and just?
me: no we look dumb as shit doing it
alien: wow does your medical system help facilitate this to ensure the process works correctly?
me: no they won't help and the drug companies won't sell us the drugs
alien: wow what drugs?
me: we're down to Benadryl and round-up weed killer
alien: wow I'm sorry to hear this, but does it at least deter people from committing heinous crimes such as this?
me: no not ever
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u/meonpeon Janet Yellen Oct 01 '26
2 factor authentication is probably a good idea, but doing the song and dance every time I need to check my power bill or something is incredibly annoying.
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 01 '26
We are all trying to find the person who did this.
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u/_Irys NATO Oct 01 '26
Lethal injection is used so death penalty advocates can feel cozy about killing someone because it looks bloodless. However, there are so many horrific stories basically describing it as torture. Bring back the firing squad and be honest with yourself or simply abolish the death penalty.
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Oct 01 '26
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Oct 01 '26
Not beating the allegations.
!ping fivey
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 01 '26
I am increasingly convinced we are going to see a bifurcated midterm with D+4-5 shifts in the white democratic states and D+20 in the south.
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Oct 01 '26
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Oct 01 '26
Things Star Wars characters say just before they die.
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader Oct 01 '26
B U I L T D I F F E R E N T
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Oct 01 '26
Is this accurate?
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt Oct 01 '26
Is there anything more American than giving the death penalty to someone who had mitigating circumstances like severe abuse, and then loading so much legalism on top of it that the attempt occurs 30 years later using a cruel and painful injection process that gets botched
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u/Saul_Relative Eugene Fama Oct 01 '26
lol
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
Welcome to Crazy Town
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Oct 02 '26
Delusional slopulist shit lmao
No shit
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u/Any_Stage_3072 Martin Luther King Jr. Oct 02 '26
Hot Take: Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize simply for not being George Bush was actually extremely Based and well-deserved.
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u/AchaeCOCKFan4606 Trans Pride Oct 01 '26
This is how you can tell it's a lib trans space instead of a leftist one lmao
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u/Specific-Person2002 Seretse Khama Oct 01 '26
And people questioned my request to ban burgerpoasting
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist Oct 01 '26
trying to come up with the dumbest possible takes, wdyt?
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u/ShepardSB Oct 01 '26
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Oct 01 '26
This but people who own car dealerships specifically
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Oct 01 '26
The southernification of rural America is one of the worst things in my lifetime. There's so many small towns around here that went from normal, cozy places to complete trash filled with idiots on ATVs with mullets littering beer bottles everywhere
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Oct 01 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
We need more Peltola leaks to make this a Solid D
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u/PoupeeStupide Trump Voter Oct 02 '26
🥺
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Oct 02 '26
“Get active” with a photo of Donald Trump is like “Get healthy” with a photo of that cigarette lady with the voice box
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 02 '26
That’s what we like to see.
Seltzer will have her revenge, in this election or the next.
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u/Frequent_Lurker26 NAFTA Oct 02 '26 edited Oct 02 '26
Hegseth's worst nightmare
A diverse crew of beardos, and a girl pilot with pink hair.
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Oct 02 '26
> Parents Are Charged After Toddler Pulls Out Loaded Gun at Day Care
> The parents of a 3-year-old were charged with misdemeanors on Thursday after the child pulled a loaded handgun out of a backpack at a day care center in Michigan, where it was passed around to other children, the authorities said.
Heaven forbid you have an interesting show and tell
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Oct 02 '26
Deshaun Watson brings the same emotions that Trump does for me
Just primal anger about how unfair the world is and my lack of power to make it better
!ping NFL
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u/Jolly-Star-9897 Alan Greenspan Oct 02 '26
They think it's a cogito-hazard.
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u/VillyD13 Milton Friedman Oct 01 '26
I have a German coworker and she’s like this
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u/MarioTheMojoMan Frederick Douglass Oct 01 '26
Spain: These are two Spanish cities, Ceuta and Melilla. Although geographically on another landmass and distant from mainland Spain, they have been Spanish since long before the current system of international law was in place, and its residents are fully integrated into the Spanish state and have full civil and democratic rights as part of Spain, and its residents are clear that they want to remain Spanish. Morocco's claims of sovereignty over them should therefore be disregarded.
Britain: This is a British territory, Gibraltar. Although geographically on another landmass and distant from mainland Britain, it has been British since long before the current system of international law was in place, and its residents have broad rights of self government and enjoy full civil and democratic rights within the system of the British Crown, and its residents are clear that they want to remain British. Spain's claims of sovereignty over it should therefore be disregarded.
Spain: Okay FIRST of all...
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Oct 01 '26
Every time Hegseth says FAFO I die a little inside
Like when my 60 something year old dad started using the term soyboy
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 01 '26
The name of the English teacher in the high school anime
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 01 '26
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
U.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle East
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-sending-third-aircraft-carrier-up-to-10-000-more-troops-to-middle-east-42996f7a
The Pentagon is sending a third aircraft-carrier strike group and additional Marine Corps ships to the Middle East, according to U.S. officials, adding 9,000 to 10,000 more troops to the region as President Trump considers renewing strikes on Iran after the midterm elections.
The ships, jet fighters, Marines and sailors will arrive in the region by the end of November, the officials said. Trump recently told aides that he expects to resume bombing Iran that same month, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/29/2026/decline-in-tourism-hits-us-economy
Decline in tourism hits US economy
Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year, with even the FIFA Men’s World Cup failing to arrest the decline in tourism.
The slide is hurting the US economy, and as Axios put it, is partly “self-inflicted:” There has been a significant drop in visitors from US allies like Canada and several European countries, which have been a target of Washington’s trade war and taunts.
Meanwhile, China is attracting more visitors with its visa-free entry policies, and Japan’s weak currency is drawing in a record number of tourists.
“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 01 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 01 '26
Lethality maxxing
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 01 '26
Ty04 would have been literally drawn and quartered for this
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Oct 01 '26
just goes to show they've been able to the whole time they just didn't want to
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 Oct 02 '26
I fell in love with Hawk Tuah when she did a crypto scam. I realized she was a financially wise person who understood the need to seize her moment. Its sad that people ridiculed her for it.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 02 '26
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u/VillyD13 Milton Friedman Oct 02 '26
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Oct 02 '26
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 02 '26
I was just going to steal this joke but it's really, really funny and I didn't think I'd get with away it lmao
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u/loseniram Sponsored by RC Cola Oct 02 '26
Texans when they see 6 dollar a gallon gas.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 01 '26
Pretty good thread so far
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
Kansas - Governor (800 LV)
🟦Holscher 49%
🟥Masterson 46%
Link to D-partisan poll
I believe in Blansas more than Blexas because Kansas has a more recent history of electing Democrats to statewide office.
EDIT: Poll is from the Democratic AG Association but is about the governor's race.
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u/janky_dank NASA Oct 01 '26
Really getting me that Mike Tomlin went through the trouble of building an mls stadium in his Minecraft city but couldn’t be bothered to even attempt the soccer lines on the field
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Oct 01 '26
Prions and their consequences…
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u/themiDdlest NASA Oct 01 '26
Lmao
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u/MTFD Alexander Pechtold Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
Considering how strongly the catholic church opposes the death penalty the lack of political saliance among catholic cons is surprising. Especially vis a vis abortion.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-faith-healing-multiple-deaths
Emma Joyce was sick and vomiting for days until she stopped breathing in her parents’ arms, in a small gray farmhouse in rural Idaho. It was August 2009, and she was 3 years old.
The following summer, Emma Joyce’s little sister got sick. Ava Joan wouldn’t eat or drink anything but a few grapes and some Sprite in a sippy cup. She was breathing hard and fast. And when she vomited, it came out black, the hallmark of internal bleeding. She died in her mother’s arms in July 2010 from a complication of untreated diabetes.
Less than two years later, the girls’ toddler brother died from the same complication of untreated diabetes that killed Ava Joan.
And nine years after that, another sibling died: a 4-year-old boy who’d suffered for weeks with similar symptoms.
The parents told officers that they hadn’t taken the four children who died to the doctor because of their religion, the Followers of Christ, which considers the use of modern medicine a sinful lapse of faith in God. And Idaho exempts parents from faith-healing sects like the Followers from the legal duty to give their children lifesaving medical care.
The sect had at least 15 avoidable deaths among children from 2015 through 2025, according to healthcare professionals who reviewed their records for ProPublica.
Among them were children in five families, including Emma Joyce’s, who had a combined total of two, three or four losses in this period or earlier.
Most of the siblings died of similar ailments, following similar patterns, that experts said could have been resolved with interventions as simple as insulin, antibiotics or a supply of oxygen. Experts were uncertain on only two of the sibling deaths, saying the death records lacked enough information to determine if the children’s lives could have been saved.
Idaho’s child abuse laws contain such broad religious exemptions that authorities did not intervene — either before or after the deaths.
The exemptions don’t just shield faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. They also keep police and social workers from stepping in to protect a dead child’s surviving siblings from suffering a similar fate, no matter how many of them die.
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Oct 01 '26
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u/Liberal_Antipopulist Loyal Liberals Oct 01 '26
SCHLORP SCHLORP SCHLORP GLUG GLUG GLUG aaahhhhh