Seejo Valacheril

Republicans were able to win in 2024 without the SAVE Act. So why wouldn’t they be able to win in 2025 without the SAVE Act? Oh yeah. Because this administration sucks and the SAVE Act is a voter suppression Hail Mary to save them from consequences. They’re literally admitting it’s voter suppression in their talking points.

An Auntie Anne’s original pretzel cost about $3.50 in 2009. Today it’s $7.29. The pretzel tracked inflation almost perfectly. The pretzel is accidentally the most honest inflation tracker in America. It’s priced in flour, sugar, labor, commercial rent, and energy. Every cost that went up in 17 years is baked into that $7.29. One mall receipt tells you more about the economy than most dashboards. Now do the rest. Gas in 2009 averaged $2.35 a gallon. Today it’s $3.81. Up 62%. The median U.S. home sold for $172,000 in 2009. The latest FRED data has it at $405,300. Up 136%. Average public university tuition went from about $7,000 to $12,000. Up 71%. Health insurance premiums for a family of four went from $13,000 to over $24,000. Up 85%. Every price in the economy moved. The federal minimum wage of $7.25 was set on July 24, 2009. It has not changed once in 6,088 days. $7.25 in 2009 had the purchasing power of $10.47 today. That’s a 30% silent pay cut delivered one year at a time, while the number on the check never moved. In 2009, $7.25 bought two Auntie Anne’s pretzels. In 2026, it doesn’t buy one. The dollar lost 30% of its value. The pretzel adjusted. The wage didn’t.

This is Adam Mockler explaining to a MAGA panel how NATO actually works. The woman is furious. America is fighting in the Strait of Hormuz and the allies won’t show up. “What’s the point of an alliance if they won’t help us?” she asks. Mockler explains, with the patience of a man teaching long division to a golden retriever, that NATO is a defensive alliance. Article 5 is not a blank check. It does not activate because one member decided, unilaterally, to go to war in someone else’s waterway. Europe does not scramble its navies because Washington picked a fight and then expected company. The face she makes says everything. This is the real cost of ideological illiteracy in a nuclear-armed democracy. When the people advising power have never bothered to understand how the world is actually assembled, every institution becomes a betrayal. Every ally becomes a coward. Every rule becomes an obstacle. They spent years calling Europe freeloaders. Then started a war. Then got angry that the freeloaders wouldn’t come. The confusion is genuine. That’s the part that should keep you up at night. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

The entire planet is counting down to the single most satisfying obituary ever written.
Because he is, was, and forever will be an irredeemable piece of shit.

Usain Bolt is sitting somewhere knowing his record isn’t safe. Gout Gout running 10.04 at 16 is mental. Adidas has signed him already and he’s shattered all Australian records at this age 😭 His coaches say he has not reached his top speed yet😂😂

You bolt awake at the White House. It’s April 30, 2011 and you are David Litt, Obama’s joke writer, and you’ve changed your mind. You won’t include any Trump jokes at that night’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner.

This is unhinged. The President of the United States went on a late-night rant, making clear he believes the Supreme Court justices he appointed owe him their loyalty and should always rule in his favor. The President of the United States is openly attacking the independence of the judiciary, the very institution that stands between every American and unchecked executive power. Courts don’t work for the President. They work for the Constitution. And a president attacking the judiciary for doing its job is telling you he believes he is above the law.

spot-on, from @anneapplebaum Money quote: "Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places." "He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

Ant Edwards. President Barack Obama. It began at Team USA Training camp and turned into a game of one-on-one we didn’t know we needed.

BREAKING: Germany’s government rejected Donald Trump’s demand that NATO allies help secure the Strait of Hormuz, saying the alliance has no role in the war. Stefan Kornelius, spokesperson for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “This war has nothing to do with NATO. It’s not NATO’s war. NATO is a defensive alliance, an alliance for the defense of its territory. I would also like to remind you that the U.S. and Israel did not consult us before the war, and that Washington explicitly stated at the start of the war that European assistance was neither necessary nor desired.”

Trump just posted a graphic bragging that he’s “reshaping the media.” It literally lists journalists pushed out, public broadcasters “defunded,” layoffs at major outlets, and regulatory pressure as “wins.” Read that again. A president openly celebrating the use of political power to punish critics and pressure the press. That’s not media criticism. That’s media capture — the playbook authoritarian leaders use to bend the information system toward themselves. [1][2] And the most dangerous part? He’s not hiding it anymore. Sources [1] Encyclopaedia Britannica — “Authoritarian Control of Propaganda” britannica.com/topic/propagan… [2] National Library of Medicine (PMC) — “Media Capture and Democratic Backsliding” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC74…

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why

@Mr_Husky1 Reminds me if this mediapartners.com/giveemthepickle

I walked into an empty Subway to purchase a sandwich.. I asked for tomatoes, and the employee puts two on my sandwich, so I asked for more, and she states she’s given me the allotted amount of tomatoes per sandwich.. So, I tell her I’m no longer interested in the sandwich and proceed to leave.. Needless to say, I got my extra tomatoes, and as I was leaving, it made total sense why that Subway was completely empty.. 🙄

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@TheBatFan24 @TheSaviour I was hoping someone would tweet a reference about the game.

@TheSaviour The cartel is basically Santa Blanca from ghost recon wildlands at this point 😬

Don’t worry guys, the Mexican army is here to save everyone! Oh wait, this isn’t the army… This is the Special Forces of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel!

This really some Michael shit

never thought i would see a sport worse for your health then #powerslap but i was proven wrong

RT for a chance to win this SIGNED D-Rose jersey 🌹

The @avis app has to be one of the glitchest apps in the travel space. I can log into the web but not the app for some reason. Even changed the password, deleted and redownloaded. #frustrated