Yeah, same. I can't imagine that many real people responding like this, especially since so many of them seem to be saying exactly the same things without responding to the context.

Rapidly falling teen births since 1991

The provisional fertility rate for teenagers in 2025 was 11.7 births per 1,000 females ages 15–19, down 7% from 2024 (12.6) and another record low for this age group (Table 1, Figure 2) (4,5,9–11). The rate has decreased by 72% since 2007 (41.5), the most recent period of continued decline, and by 81% since 1991 (61.8), the most recent peak. The number of births to females ages 15–19 was 125,933 in 2025, down 8% from 2024

One of the biggest social shifts of our lifetimes
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Cory Booker GOES OFF on Trump and Democrats’ Tax Plan YouTube video by Pod Save America

I dunno. You can listen to Cory Booker's Big Bold Idea for a NEW New Deal is.... <drum roll> a tax cut!

He recognizes that life is too hard for most American's, but his BIG SOLUTION is warmed-over GOP ideas from the 2012 Romney-Ryan campaign.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VYW...

A soldier swings a hammer at a statue of Jesus

An Israeli soldier smashes a Jesus statue’s head in southern Lebanon.

Maybe he thought it was Trump.

Photo by Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi.

Honestly, the best thing they can do is reshuffle the cast for Season 3. An academic ER has a constant flow of people coming and going. They should cut some of the big names and not even explain why. That's real life.

If they start going down a route of "what is Mel's story?" "Will Santos find true love?" "Maybe Whitaker will marry farm girl and adopt the abandoned baby, and they all have a ceremony at The Pitt!" Ugh, please don't.

This is so especially true about a show like The Pitt. It's trying to be ultrarealistic to the point of showing one hour after another on a particularly bad day in the ER. The relationship stuff needs to be messy and unsaid and ambiguous if they are going to maintain that realistic posture.

Clavicular ran into a news leader at 60 minutes and got brutally smirk mogged by him👀😂

Clavicular ran into a news leader at 60 minutes and got brutally smirk mogged by him 👀😂

Clavicular ran into a news leader at 60 minutes and got brutally smirk mogged by him👀😂

Especially since Justice of the Supreme Court is essentially a political position, even if modern-day USSC journalists and current Justices themselves pretend that it isn't.

Let's drop the pretense and put Lyin' Ted on the court.

I wish it was

Clavicular explains how he got pissmogged😭 #clavicular #fyp #mogged @Clavicular TikTok video by ClipCity

Found it.

This is mental illness.

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I wish I was joking

POTUS called Alex Jones a bankrupt low IQ loser that falsely attacked the the Sandy Hook shooting families. Alex Jones responded by daring Trump to say one more nasty thing about him.

MAGA leaders are spineless and pathetic. They always come back to Fuhrer Trump.

I saw an interview where Clavicular talked about getting "piss-mogged", wherein the man standing at the urinal next to him had a stronger stream of piss while in a public bathroom.

It's an incredibly sad life if you are constantly sizing yourself up to everyone around you on the dumbest stuff.

Q: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?

TRUMP: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do Red Cross. Only the fake news could come up with that one.

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Could have Sheldon Whitehouse do it. Would be an honor to watch him tear down that stupid ballroom

Yep. More US oil exports means less on the mainland to be used for energy here, which means distributors need to pay more to mean demand, which higher prices to consumers.

Recession incoming by the end of the year....

i have my criticisms of liberals on immigration but looking at this chart and blaming liberals is insane

All beef is tactical. That's redundant.

The other thing not made clear by this fig is that there are hundreds of ships trapped in the Persian Gulf right now. They would have left by now and had been scheduled for other deliveries elsewhere. The whole supply chain is FUBAR right now because they are trapped.

SoH transits from Lloyd’s List:

I had the same thought. Like, um, we would have seen these before today.

One of the worst things about living in the AI era is how easy it is to make disinformation.

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The photo on the left looks fake, and the one on the right is ABSOLUTLEY fake. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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The US had sprayed more than 11 million gallons of Agent Orange over Vietnam, causing massive ecological and agricultural devastation.

You are comparing apples to oranges. The Iran conflict is horrible, but if it was half as bad as Vietnam, I can assure you students would be protesting.