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The article is from NPR, the most credible news outlet in the US.

No.

This was the Pew Research Center, the most credible polling organization in the US

The most credible car wash is still just a car wash. It’s not magic. Polls get it wrong all the time. 9,000 chosen respondents is as many people as there were in the local grocery store between 8am-5pm. It’s nothing. Yeah they fixed it with math, sure. Because they have all the variables and every one is dead-on. No.

People need to snap out of this denial that the US didn't willingly vote in a fascist because we were sick of stagnation

What

Fucking NPR goddammit.

The survey of almost 9,000 voters was conducted in the weeks after the 2024 presidential election.

You don’t see any problems with that?

YES SERGEANT!

Wait . . Dinner’s a whole other hour away. Liar.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's pulling back from the bilateral trade discussions because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's ending all trade discussions with Canada while signalling he may impose a blanket tariff to hit back at Ottawa for imposing a tax on web giants.

Gotta earn his bribes. As opposed to doing anything useful or competent.

I’ve been waiting thirty years

Speaking of. Why aren’t you potheads flinging truckloads of seeds along the nation’s roads and highways?! We should be neck-deep in high-quality ditchweed at every corner by now!

And another thing! How come I can’t get no Tang around here?

Most people can/t figure out how to change their password. Those technologies are going to have to get real easy real fast to get somewhere.

I mean “one button” easy.

They said I was mad when they removed the headphone jack - well who’s mad now??! AHAHahahahaaaaaaahhhhcrap it’s me.

I’m still mad. Fuckers.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww YAH

He doesn’t have to answer that.

Just noticing the guy in the top video who sees the camera and ducks.

Isn't it just! Astounding.

Oh that's the original report - that's what's showing on the sculpture? cool.

In the process I found this abomination which trump apparently sharted out in February.

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=5jl78mv-VWo

(If you don't want to use Invidious, just put the video ID in youtube)

Not disagreeing, but if I had thousands of starving people and a truck full of food - I think we could see it's going to be a scrum and chaos just all by itself, without war crimers war criming in the middle of it. They deliberately destroyed all the mechanisms that were in place and have no plans to replace them. This - nobody move until they open - is the evil war crime version of the lunch manager yelling at everyone to wait outside until 11:30.

I used an archive link for the article (no video) and I don't see it in the comments but apparently I have a couple of people blocked so maybe that's it. I didn't see it is what I'm saying, but glad to know it's there.

More here: https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/06/26/yet-another-anti-trump-statue-has-shown-up-on-the-national-mall/

Won’t somebody think of the billionaires??!?!

Yeah! who needs ’em!

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid centers began operating in the Strip at the end of May. The circumstances of the foundation's establishment and its funding are murky: it is known to have been set up by Israel in coordination with U.S. evangelicals and private security contractors. Its current CEO is an evangelical leader close to U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The GHF operates four food distribution sites – three in southern Gaza and one in the center – known in the IDF as "rapid distribution centers" (Mahpazim). They are staffed by American and Palestinian workers and secured by the IDF from a distance of several hundred meters. 

Thousands, and at times tens of thousands, of Gazans arrive daily to collect food from these sites. 

Contrary to the foundation's initial promises, distribution is chaotic, with crowds rushing the piles of boxes. Since the rapid distribution centers opened, Haaretz has counted 19 shooting incidents near them. While the shooters' identities are not always clear, the IDF does not permit armed individuals in these humanitarian zones without its knowledge. 

The distribution centers typically open for just one hour each morning. According to officers and soldiers who served in their areas, the IDF fires at people who arrive before opening hours to prevent them from approaching, or again after the centers close, to disperse them. Since some of the shooting incidents occurred at night – ahead of the opening – it's possible that some civilians couldn't see the boundaries of the designated area. 

"It's a killing field," one soldier said. "Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire." 

The soldier added, "We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away, and sometimes we just charge at them from close range. But there's no danger to the forces." According to him, "I'm not aware of a single instance of return fire. There's no enemy, no weapons." He also said the activity in his area of service is referred to as Operation Salted Fish – the name of the Israeli version of the children's game "Red light, green light".