Lmao someone tell the Middle East Forum about the $1 trillion Pentagon budget

It is pretty insane that I have personally watched the president of the United States fall asleep like 18 different times

Just got a notification about the markets closing and instantly thought about what crazy shit Trump is going to do this weekend in Iran before they open again. Really awesome times.

You could be sentenced to life in prison for using the bathroom

I feel like I'm pretty good at understanding the appeal of things even if they aren't for me, but Bill Maher is not one of them. This man's continued relevance in public life is utterly baffling. Literally who could this possibly be for?

You don't hear much about Jordan Peterson these days

Okay fine whatever. Just end it.

There have been a lot of progressives acting as if Mallory McMorrow and Abdul El-Sayed are basically the same candidate. I hope the last couple of days break people of that illusion, and they can support the only left choice in the election.

When you compare Hasan Piker to Nick Fuentes, and people tune in to see Hasan saying completely reasonable things, what exactly do you think that does to people's perception of Nick Fuentes?

All the discourse is about Graham Platner, but the real story (and reason for Platner's success) is that Chuck Schumer recruited a horrendous politician who is old, centrist, dishonest, and entitled. They picked the precise kind of candidate that the base is trying to reject.

Lmaooo JD Vance is now the one having the "tough, difficult conversation with Netanyahu leaked to Barak Ravid" that won't go anywhere or change anything.

This is hilariously indicative of conservative "Trump critics." 1) They never bring up Trump's name. It's always people leading him astray. 2) Rogan is giggling about billions worth of corruption. When he talks about Dems, they are destroying the country. When it's Trump it's just a funny goof.

Once again, Dems don't actually mean it when they talk about the "big tent." That tent doesn't even include one of the most popular streamers in the world who advocates the most basic politics of social democracy and anti-imperialism.

I would agree

You never really hear panicked stories about cops being exposed to fentanyl anymore. Almost like it was a completely fake crisis invented by law enforcement and perpetuated by the media while Biden was in office.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Just an absolutely psychotic rogue state

This is what one might call concerning

I refuse to believe there is a single human being who would ever watch this

One of the underrated downsides of social media like Bluesky and Twitter IMO is that they make you feel like you need to have an opinion on every topic that comes across the TL when you really don't. For example, I've seen dozens of posts today about Josh Shapiro pushing cursive.

This is a colossal failure for Schumer. He spent months recruiting Janet Mills, endorsed her explicitly, and funneled millions of dollars to her campaign. And she might lose by 25+ points.

Democrats would have a 1,000-year reign with this demographic

Wow. It seems like the Maine Democratic primary is essentially over. Emerson has Graham Platner leading Janet Mills by 27 points.

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I don’t know what “woke 2” entails but please god let it be the end of this shit

No one has ever done it like Druski

Y’all 😭😭😭

Ignoring the obvious issues, WTF do you people want? The Atlantic wrote 68,000 articles about how those protests were bad, now they are lamenting their absence?

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this is the fourth time a company has said they'd either send openai billions or get openai to send them billions that's never actually come through - AMD's 6GW of data centers, SK Hynix/Samsung's 900k of DRAM wafers, NVIDIA's $100bn, and Broadcom's 10GW - none of them are real!

That Trump first term part of the graph is insane

Incredible to think that this won’t impact Weiss’ ego, position, or bank account in any way but positively

just some quick napkin math on this, $375 million is 0.18% of meta's reported 2025 revenue of $200.97 billion, or 0.62% of meta's reported 2025 profit of $60.46 billion. $375 million is the maximum penalty allowed by law. the system just like, fundamentally doesn't work lol

Untimely has got to be the worst type of demise

THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED DONALD TRUMP'S STATE HOUSE DISTRICT IN FLORIDA'S #HD87: Emily Gregory (D)- 51.2% Jon Maples (R)- 48.8%

you wouldnt believe this big wooden horse, oh it’s so beautiful you wouldnt believe and theyre saying “mr trump youll never get that horse in.” look at em back there. the fake news. but we’re gonna bring in that horse folks and we’ll say “thank you, bye bye” but they don’t think we can get it in

I don't really care about Hasan Piker personally, but man the online community of people solely dedicated to hating him is some of the most unhinged shit the internet has to offer

I like Moira but this strikes me as a case of being absurdly too online

Here is a really good reason: actuarial tables

Can we stop acting like children? Eleven straight years of this shit.

Agreed with this. Aside from Obama breaking through, the 21st century has been these legacy candidates that have a superficial connection to educated constituencies and donors but don't really connect with the base. Dems seem ready to break from that, where Gavin Newsom offers a return.

"I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free." - Hossam Shabat, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago today

Israel is distinctly unpopular with the Democratic base and pretty unpopular with independents. this should help clarify that Newsom isn’t trying to move away from *unpopular* lefty positions, he’s trying to abandon the left entirely

Tfw I’m a guy in nature

CNN gives no indication of how senior this source is, but hopefully this is true. Tehran has been confident in its rejection of any peace talks thus far.

Gavin Newsom is running the most baffling campaign I have ever seen. It seems he wants to get a soundbite to send around to every single voting constituency. He started out in the pro-Israel lane, and then he went and did his "apartheid" soundbite to appeal to the base, and now he's walking it back?