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| Candidate | District/Office | Adopted By |
|---|---|---|
| Abigail Spanberger | VA-GOV | u/nopesaurus_rex |
| Ghazala Hashmi | VA-LTGOV | |
| Jerrauld Jones | VA-AG | |
| Josh Thomas | VA HD-21 | |
| Elizabeth Guzman | VA HD-22 | |
| Atoosa Reaser | VA HD-27 | u/SobrietyRefund |
| Marty Martinez | VA HD-29 | |
| John Chilton McAuliff | VA HD-30 | |
| Andrew Payton | VA HD-34 | |
| Makayla Venable | VA HD-36 | |
| Donna Littlepage | VA HD-40 | u/ornery-fizz |
| Lily Franklin | VA HD-41 | u/pinuncle |
| Gary Miller | VA HD-49 | u/DeNomoloss |
| Rise Hayes | VA HD-52 | |
| May Nivar | VA HD-57 | |
| Rodney Willett | VA HD-58 | |
| Scott Konopasek | VA HD-59 | |
| Stacey Carroll | VA HD-64 | |
| Joshua Cole | VA HD-65 | u/toskwar |
| Nicole Cole | VA HD-66 | |
| Mark Downey | VA HD-69 | u/Lotsagloom |
| Shelly Simonds | VA HD-70 | |
| Jessica Anderson | VA HD-71 | u/SomeJob1241 |
| Leslie Mehta | VA HD-73 | |
| Lindsey Dougherty | VA HD-75 | u/estrella172 |
| Kimberly Adams | VA HD-82 | |
| Mary Person | VA HD-83 | |
| Nadarius Clark | VA HD-84 | |
| Virgil Thornton Sr. | VA HD-86 | |
| Karen Robins Carnegie | VA HD-89 | |
| Phil Hernandez | VA HD-94 | |
| Kelly Convirs-Fowler | VA HD-96 | |
| Michael Feggans | VA HD-97 | |
| Cathy Porterfield | VA HD-99 | |
| Mikie Sherrill | NJ-GOV | |
| Maureen Rowan & Joanne Famularo | NJ LD-02 | |
| Dave Bailey Jr. & Heather Simmons | NJ LD-03 | u/poliscijunki |
| Dan Hutchison & Cody Miller | NJ LD-04 | |
| Carol Murphy & Balvir Singh | NJ LD-07 | u/screen317 |
| Andrea Katz & Anthony Angelozzi | NJ LD-08 | |
| Margie M. Donlon & Luanne M. Peterpaul | NJ LD-11 | |
| Jason Corley & Vaibhave Gorige | NJ LD-13 | |
| Wayne P. DeAngelo & Tennille R. McCoy | NJ LD-14 | u/Lotsagloom |
| Mitchelle Drulis & Roy Freiman | NJ LD-16 | |
| Vincent Kearney & Andrew Macurdy | NJ LD-21 | |
| Guy Citron & Tyler Powell | NJ LD-23 | |
| Steven Pylypchuk & Marisa Sweeney | NJ LD-25 | |
| Michael Mancuso & Walter Mielarczyk | NJ LD-26 | |
| Avi Schnall & Claire Deicke | NJ LD-30 | |
| Lisa Swain & Chris Tully | NJ LD-38 | |
| Andrew Labruno & Donna Abene | NJ LD-39 | |
| Ron Arnau & Jeffrey Gates | NJ LD-40 | u/timetopat, u/One-Recipe9973 |
| Brandon Neuman | PA SUP CT | |
| Stella Tsai | PA COM CT |
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u/Joename Illinois 2d ago
I cannot say enough about Governor Pritzker's leadership right now. He is striking the absolute perfect tone. We ARE living through a dangerous period. We DO have the power to stop it. Both are true.
His ability to get out ahead of this bullshit Trump wants to bring to Chicago is just so admirable.
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u/OptimistNate Wisconsin 2d ago
One thing this Admin is really good at is propping up strong Dem voices.
Mamdani in New York
Troops in LA/Gerrymandering in Texas has really propped up Newsom.
Rhetoric against Chicago, propping up Pritzker
Just to name a few.
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u/Meanteenbirder New York 2d ago
Newsom walked so Pritzker could run
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u/ProudPatriot07 South Carolina- Rural Young Democrat 1d ago
I'm really liking both of them right now and appreciate their leadership. Also hoping this helps Democratic governor candidates in other states in 2025 and 2026 (my state needs to get a Democratic gov. candidate first, hopefully soon).
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u/Sounder1995-2 Ohio 1d ago
I really don't get why he's so low in the few existing 2028 Dem POTUS primary polls right now. I imagine that it's just 'cause Newsom and Harris have had longer to soak in the spotlight. Plus, they've more memes.
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u/caligaris_cabinet IL-08 1d ago
You got it. Polls at this stage are name recognition only. Harris, Pete, and Newsom have been in the national spotlight longer than Pritzker. Polls won’t matter much for another two years or more.
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u/meltedchaos2004 Tennessee 2d ago
Broadcasters told not to air any booing of Donald Trump at US Open men’s final
Anywhere he goes, he deserves to be booed and honestly they broadcasters should do it purely out of spite lmao
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u/Dancing_Anatolia Washington 2d ago
If we boo enough eventually he'll be censored from the air altogether.
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u/DavidvsSuperGoliath CA-48 -> WA-7 -> CA-48 2d ago
Can’t wait for his own staff starts booing him and he won’t be on television at all
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u/Meanteenbirder New York 2d ago
Y’all know we gonna see so grainy cell phone video of it today and it will look phenomenal
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u/Birkin2Boogaloo 2d ago
Yeah, if anything this will practically guarantee that he gets booed. The official broadcasts will just be really weird
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u/wishingstarsmars 2d ago
it probably won’t even be grainy a lot of these videos are high quality now
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u/SecretComposer 2d ago
A truly popular president/administration wouldn’t be having to make this “request”
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u/DavidvsSuperGoliath CA-48 -> WA-7 -> CA-48 2d ago
A truly popular individual wouldn’t be having to make this request
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u/DeNomoloss North Carolina 2d ago
Good thing CBS will have the only cameras in the building. Would suck for Trump if someone else at the venue had a small camera, like the size of a cell phone.
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u/dishonourableaccount Maryland - MD-8 1d ago
What’s up with Alcaraz giving that statement that he’s happy to have a head of state attend? I hate lookingninto the politics of athletes but it sounds like more than a “just covering my butt politely” kind of statement.
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u/SmoreOfBabylon Blorth Blarolina, c'mon and raise up 1d ago edited 1d ago
There was another interview he gave a couple years ago wherein he remarked that the one celebrity appearance at his matches that truly impressed him was Michelle Obama. So IDK.
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u/Meanteenbirder New York 2d ago
For those wondering about the DOD renaming, it’s not actually renamed. The order specifically allowed for the use of alternate naming on official documents, PR, announcements, etc.
Possibly bc changing it would require an act of congress?
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u/Historyguy1 Missouri 2d ago
This is "Gulf of America"-level of stupid.
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u/Meanteenbirder New York 2d ago
I have legit just seen one thing in the wild referencing it (an ad for one of the oil companies). Might be a bit harder to do with this since most people just call it the Gulf, where this is a whole department.
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u/ProudPatriot07 South Carolina- Rural Young Democrat 1d ago
I agree, but we need to keep calling it the DOD and basically ignore the renaming until it's official, if that ever happens. 45/47 wants the attention from it and the more we give it to him, the more we say the name like it's official, it feels like we are hinting that it's okay for him to do this. Don't obey in advance and don't use the terminology (same with Gulf of Mexico).
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u/diamond New Mexico 1d ago edited 1d ago
I agree, but we need to keep calling it the DOD and basically ignore the renaming until it's official, if that ever happens.
Highly unlikely it ever will IMO.
I'm pretty sure this requires a bill to pass through Congress, and while the perpetual monkey knife fight of the Republican House caucus might calm down long enough to do this, there's no way it passes the Senate. They won't get one Democrat to vote for this, much less 9, and I have a hard time believing that Thune would kill the Filibuster for something this stupid.
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u/table_fireplace 2d ago
Yeah, I see this as Trump wanting to show how tough he is - between the ultra-aggressive name, and continuing to ignore Congress. The name won't officially change unless Congress does it, but Trump's going to keep calling it the new name and see if everyone goes along.
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u/SecretComposer 2d ago
The problem, though, is 99% of the population doesn’t know this and won’t care. The idea of it being changed is enough for his war hawk supporters to love it and super peace loving leftists to hate it
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u/br_k_nt_eth 1d ago
Plenty of his supporters also hate the perpetual wars. They remember Iraq and Afghanistan and voted for him thinking he’d be more isolationist.
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u/MrCleanDrawers 2d ago
https://bsky.app/profile/grahamformaine.bsky.social/post/3ly6xs7yxms27
Beginning tomorrow with an online rally, Graham Platner will be doing a 22 Rally Tour of Maine from Late September to Mid November, called The Un-Shuck The System Tour.
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u/DeepPenetration Florida 2d ago
Fresh faces with bold ideas coming your way! This guy has the perfect background of being working class and a veteran. Hopefully Maine gets the job done.
Susan Collins, Rick Scott, and the rest of the GOP creeps can go kick rocks. The fact that having universal healthcare is a controversial idea is bonkers to me.
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u/Meanteenbirder New York 2d ago
Planter really feels like Maine’s own Bernie Sanders the more you hear about him. The bigger difference is he is truly part of the state-specific working class and running while part of it. Not saying Bernie wasn’t, just that it’s been decades since he was not in politics.
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u/MrCleanDrawers 1d ago
https://nitter.net/admcrlsn/status/1964716970374480120#m
23 days of Government Funding left, Adam Carlson agrees with a rare sensible position from Matthew Yglesias who says that Democrats should say no votes for The Government Funding Bill UNLESS the Republicans agree to renew the Obamacare Subsidies that are set to expire in 2026.
https://bsky.app/profile/grahamformaine.bsky.social/post/3lyb2hufjyk2l
Expanding on that, Graham Platner says that the reason he is pro government shutdown is that he believes absolutely everything should be tried to slow down the authoritarianism of The Trump Administration.
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u/LinkSeekeroftheNora Ohio 1d ago
Restore Medicare and Medicaid and no more national guard invading cities. If there’s no promise of no more national guard invasions, no funding.
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u/OptimistNate Wisconsin 1d ago edited 1d ago
Those subsidies should be an easy get as already 10 house republicans have pushed forth a bill to extend them past midterms.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/aca-enhanced-tax-credits-extension-00544565
So even many Reps know they are in very troubled waters come 2026, and letting those subsidies expire would kill them.
I believe Schumer and Jeffries are pushing for something stronger, a full reversal of BBBs Medicaid cuts, and reigning in the executive, especially regarding rescission packages.
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u/gbassman420 California 1d ago
They should vote NO because republicans will go through w whatever recessions they want after the budget is passed, anyway. You can't make a deal w untrustworthy people
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u/Alexcat66 WI-7 (AD-30, SD-10) 1d ago
Plus the government has already been ravaged by DOGE cuts and mass resignations plus low morale, so what further damage that hasn’t been done yet will a government shutdown do? Arguably little if any. If anything, it may slow down some of the worst things various federal agencies are doing such as the ICE raids.
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u/gbassman420 California 1d ago
Exactly! It's the only real tool we have, and it satisfies the "do something" cries from those who don't pay much attention
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u/ornery-fizz Pennsylvania 2d ago edited 2d ago
I don't often feel confident enough to discuss foreign affairs but
Afghan women die in rubble as male rescuers refuse to touch them
If not the US, other partners are needed to craft practical solutions to improve Afghan women's quality of life.
Edit: Anyone with any ideas or groups that help our Afghan sisters, I'm sick for them and would love to learn about what I can do.
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u/senoricceman 2d ago
It’s sad this story won’t receive any attention. This poor woman is literally dead because of archaic thinking.
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u/meltedchaos2004 Tennessee 2d ago
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u/singerinspired Georgia 2d ago
Got our Covid vaccines in Georgia! Took over an hour and had to jump through more dumb hoops. Felt so bad for the pharmacy staff because they were just as confused as we were. Worth the chaos though
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u/ProudPatriot07 South Carolina- Rural Young Democrat 1d ago
So glad. We have having a surge of COVID here in SC and it is rough.
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u/StillCalmness Manu 2d ago
I saw just watching a video on another sub about a Donald voter absolutely giddy that he “just signed into law a bill that eliminated taxes on anyone making below $120,000”. A sort of “suck it Liberals” thing too. Boy these people are in for a rude awakening next year.
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u/North_Handle9205 2d ago
Saying he thinks that already happened?
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u/gbassman420 California 2d ago
Chuds think bills just need to be introduced, and then they're automatically law..They have no clue how anything works
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u/StillCalmness Manu 2d ago
If she were working she’d see that taxes are still being taken out. But it’s not likely GOP voters have any sense of consistency. To put it mildly the video was low on facts so it’s not clear how she came to that conclusion.
Edit. The video is from TikTok but judging from the comments there also seems to be a bunch of “he eliminated taxes” posts going around on Facebook. Go figure.
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u/North_Handle9205 2d ago
I remember seeing that in my local news fb comments when they were negotiating the bill like it was fact it was going to happen but hadn’t seen anyone still thinking that after it’s passed…
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u/spartanmax2 Ohio 2d ago
The level of outright lies floating away. Like where did he even get this idea from
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u/DavidvsSuperGoliath CA-48 -> WA-7 -> CA-48 2d ago
“It’s gonna happen. Lower taxes. Any day now.” -these “true believes”
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u/Looking_Light33 2d ago
These people are idiots. I haven't heard anything about Trump signing a bill that eliminated taxes.
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u/Zetman20 Wisconsin 2d ago
Including sales taxes? Because that is one they'll find out real quick isn't true.
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u/KororSurvivor DET, PHL, MKE, PHX and ATL saved us all. 2d ago
It's been quite a long time since I've been on this sub. But I found something today that I felt I had to share.
I think I've figured out why the Iowa Special Elections in particular have had such enormous swings.
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u/Meanteenbirder New York 2d ago
TLDR, GDP adjusted for inflation decreased the most in the plains states
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u/SecretComposer 2d ago
This is what every Dem candidate running in these states need to be hammering home
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u/ProjectOk8975 2d ago
Hopefully among Republicans who like Tennis, Trump causing a delay will sway their votes in the next election
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u/Meanteenbirder New York 2d ago
A quick SM search confirms Trump was booed mercilessly
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u/ImpossiblePitch9352 1d ago
Uh oh, in coming EO forbidding Americans from playing tennis.
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u/Mongo_Straight California 1d ago
“These tennis courts are a hellhole, so we’re sending the National Guard in.” -Trump while posting Apocalypse Now memes
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u/table_fireplace 1d ago
Video here for anyone who wants it. The crowd really left no doubt what they think of this monster.
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u/justincat66 WI-7, (Assembly-30, Senate-10) 1d ago
Duh. It was so obvious he would be booed hard, and that is why USTA is trying to cover up their tracks by directing broadcasters to not show the booing
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u/ProjectOk8975 2d ago
I also hope(although I am not optimistic) that as I am in the UK the inevitable boos will be broadcast.
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u/kittehgoesmeow MD-08 2d ago
Utah: 6 Democratic candidates to watch if Utah redraws its congressional maps
Luz Escamilla, senate minority leader
Caroline Gleich, nominee for Senate in 2024
Brain King, chairman of the state party and nominee for governor in 2024
Erin Mendenhall, mayor of Salt Lake City
Ben McAdams, former congressman from 4th district
Jenny Wilson, mayor of Salt Lake County who replaced McAdams when he got elected to the House in 2018
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u/No-Advantage5195 1d ago
Seems like anyone that’s anyone in Dem politics would jump in which makes sense since Dems don’t have much opportunity here. I think Wilson or McAdams would be my favorites here.
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u/meltedchaos2004 Tennessee 1d ago
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u/nlpnt 1d ago
This is a couple days old, I think he already lost the first round.
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u/Meanteenbirder New York 1d ago
I don’t think it was him, someone else but got quickly shot down twice.
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u/justincat66 WI-7, (Assembly-30, Senate-10) 1d ago
It’ll end exactly as the 1st 2 attempts did, a throw out and a smack down by the CA Supreme Court. No federal courts will not save him here
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u/flairsupply 2d ago
I love spending an hour at work being tech support (not my job) for a coworker who is 3 weeks late on their project deadline (not my area) who doesnt even know how to right click-
Look Im all for helping at work but this is a lot as 7am-
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u/TOSkwar Virginia 2d ago
Older coworker who never kept up or younger coworker who's too accustomed to phones and tablets and never learned?
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u/flairsupply 2d ago
Older
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u/Jermine1269 keeping Colorado blue 2d ago
I've shared this before, but it's worth telling it again -
I had a gal I worked with who would print out the emails, then take them over to the photocopier and make a copy of the email (she wanted to keep the original for her records) then slap a sticky note on the copy, write a note on it pertaining to the email, and leave it on my desk for the morning.
After a few of these, I rolled over to her desk and got to show her how to forward emails to me. She still printed them out sometimes - if they were important - but for the most part, we got thru it together.
She was in her 40s, btw.
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u/SmoreOfBabylon Blorth Blarolina, c'mon and raise up 2d ago
So I just watched the official teaser trailer for that upcoming Wuthering Heights movie with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi and uhhh, quick question, what the fuck?
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u/Historyguy1 Missouri 2d ago
"If Wuthering Heights was written by Booktok."
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u/SmoreOfBabylon Blorth Blarolina, c'mon and raise up 1d ago
This is the perfect description, yes, lol
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u/throwawaycountvon 1d ago
Does it look terrible? Yes. Am I going to watch it bc Everything is Romantic (Caroline Polacheck Remix) by Charli XCX is my favorite song ever? Also yes.
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u/ImpossiblePitch9352 1d ago
and uhhh, quick question, what the fuck?
Yeah, exactly my thoughts too.
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u/rangatang International 1d ago
I really liked Promising Young Woman and I really hated Saltburn. I am worried that Emerald Fennell is falling into the one-hit-wonder trap.
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u/North_Handle9205 1d ago
I have not read the book so curious what book lovers’ reactions are- is it the general horniness of it?
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u/SmoreOfBabylon Blorth Blarolina, c'mon and raise up 1d ago edited 1d ago
So, the original novel is basically a deconstruction of the dark, brooding Byronic Hero trope, wherein it turns out that the male lead (Heathcliff) really is a horrible, vengeful, abusive asshole and the obsessive love between him and the female lead (Cathy) is portrayed as toxic, destructive, and just generally pretty unromantic. And there has been a long tradition of Wuthering Heights adaptations, fanfiction, etc. comically missing this point and making Heathcliff a sexy, highly desirable bad boy and his relationship with Cathy a beautifully tragic romance. Aesthetically, this one appears to be veering into a bit of Fifty Shades of Grey as well.
Edit: also, the novel explicitly describes Heathcliff as having “dark” skin, akin to a “gipsy”, although whether he’s actually Romani, or something like mixed-race of African or Indian descent isn’t clear. So this movie casting a very pasty white actor to play the one ostensibly POC character in the book has also upset some people, although I’m pretty sure this isn’t the first screen adaptation to do that, unfortunately.
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u/gbassman420 California 1d ago
That looks infinitely more interesting than I remember that book being
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u/Sounder1995-2 Ohio 1d ago
Some people in the comments suggested that it wasn't originally supposed to be Wuthering Heights, and they later changed it to attract more eyeballs. Wouldn't be surprised if that's the case.
On the other hand, they could just be trying to emulate Bridgerton's success.
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u/mazdadriver14 🇦🇺 Australian/Honorary Hawaiian 1d ago
Two of the more interesting true crime cases from the southern hemisphere having, uh, resolutions in the same morning is quite something!
This has been an insane case to follow, and I expect it’ll take about 17 days for Netflix to have a documentary ready, if one already isn’t made.
And in New Zealand, a dude who took (kidnapped?) three of his kids into the wilderness four years ago and has only been sporadically spotted since then was shot and killed by police this morning. Now the mystery is .. where are the kids?
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u/SmoreOfBabylon Blorth Blarolina, c'mon and raise up 1d ago
That NZ one is basically Hunt for the Wilderpeople, but sadder. I hope those kids are found.
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u/DavidvsSuperGoliath CA-48 -> WA-7 -> CA-48 1d ago
I expect it’ll take about 17 days for Netflix to have a documentary ready
Wow, that long?!
EDIT:
a dude who took (kidnapped?) three of his kids into the wilderness four years ago and has only been sporadically spotted since then was shot and killed by police this morning
Wait, I remember following this on Wikipedia. This is absolutely insane. I remember reading about this and thinking this was crazy and how this guy just popped in and out like it was nothing, and commit robberies in between
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u/Meanteenbirder New York 1d ago
We live in the timeline where the iconic David Attenborough just lost the Best Narrator Emmy to…Obama?
Ok, I’ll take it…
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u/redpoemage Ohio 1d ago
...that's his third Emmy!?!?
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u/ArcanePudding Bonamici Bro 2d ago
What’s a name you realized you were pronouncing wrong for years? Just recently I found out that Chellie Pingree’s (Maine’s 1st district) name is short for Rochelle, so her name is actually pronounced “Shellie”
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u/DeNomoloss North Carolina 2d ago
The worst example of this was former NC Commissioner of Labor Cherie Berry. It’s pronounced Sha-Ree, but of course everyone read it as Cherry. She was actually the first to put her picture on every elevator inspection certificate, so every time you were in an elevator, you saw what was essentially a campaign ad. Thanks to this the whole “LOL CHERRY BERRY LIFTS ME UP!” crap got going, with tshirts and bumper stickers and a dumb song. I knew nonpolitical normies who were still like “that’s my elevator queen Cherry Berry!” This allowed her to continually get re-elected despite being horrible at her job. She very literally ran in the first place bc her family owned a factory that got busted for labor violations, which she proceeded to ignore for years. When you read that NC is one of the worst states for workers, a lot of that’s on her 20+ year reign of neglect. But LOL HER NAME IS CHERRY (actually Cherie pronounced Sha-ree) BERRY SHE LIFTS ME UP.
Like, go to a normie gathering in today and try to say she was bad at her job and people will say you’re no fun, literally bc they still think it’s pronounced Cherry.
Besides, her name wasn’t even the funniest in NC politics. That honor went to my former County Commissioner, Cookie Pope.
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u/SmoreOfBabylon Blorth Blarolina, c'mon and raise up 1d ago
I haven’t regularly watched TV news, especially cable news, in years, and honestly had no idea that the “s” in “Ghislaine Maxwell” is silent. Yes, that pronunciation tracks with it being a French-sounding name, but there are plenty of silent consonants in French words that English speakers fully pronounce all the time (eg. “Paris”).
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u/caligaris_cabinet IL-08 1d ago
I’m usually pretty good (for an American) at pronouncing foreign names but if it’s French there’s a near 100% I’m butchering it.
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u/Sounder1995-2 Ohio 1d ago
Hope that you're including the names of works. For many years in my life, I thought that Les Miserables was pronounced... well, exactly how you'd think that a native English speaker completely unfamiliar with French would pronounce it.
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u/caligaris_cabinet IL-08 1d ago
My favorite bbq place is a restaurant in Lockhart, TX called Kreuz Market. Having never heard the name out loud I’ve always pronounced it “Cruise” and have been for over 10 years. Only when a random YouTube video name dropped it as “Krits” did I realize my decade long mistake. Needless to say my wife got a good laugh when I told her.
Still pronounce it “Cruise” though. I’m in too deep.
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u/gbassman420 California 2d ago
Saw another Yes on 50 ad, this time w our excellent Senator Padilla! Glad to see the campaign at work
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u/Trae67 California 2d ago
NFL Sunday is finally here God I missed it
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u/table_fireplace 2d ago
Still a few hours til the Bills kick off, but I'm still enjoying the action being back! Especially the Miami game right now.
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u/Fkin176 Ohio 1d ago
Well the NFL Got in full swing today
And as per usual...The Browns find new and painful ways to lose.
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u/Sounder1995-2 Ohio 1d ago
The morning after the 2023 Super Bowl (when pregnant Rihanna performed the halftime show), a local radio host put it best: Rihanna's (at the time) unborn baby has been to more Super Bowls than the Browns.
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u/Shaman_in_the_Dark 1d ago
I was watching some nice commercials when a game of football interrupted. Very rude. As someone who only watches live tv for one season a year and uses an adblocker on pc I had no idea that it had gotten this bad.
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u/ProudPatriot07 South Carolina- Rural Young Democrat 1d ago
Last night, my college team was on ESPN+ streaming only. I liked it so much better because instead of commercials, they show a picture of the ESPN building and the words "Commercial Break" on the screen. Beats being marketed to constantly when trying to watch football.
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u/RegularGuy815 Virginia (formerly Michigan) 1d ago edited 1d ago
Some good international news tonight: in Argentina's legislative elections (basically a midterm [correction: that's in October, this was just local Buenos Aires elections]), the center-left party (the Peronists) won a decisive victory over President Milei's right-wing party: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentinas-opposition-peronist-party-wins-election-buenos-aires-province-2025-09-08/
Our good friends at AtlasIntel, and other pollsters, had Milei's party coming out on top.
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u/elykl12 CT-02 1d ago
The one seeming constant about Argentina is no matter who wins everyone loses
The Peronists are objectively the better answer over Chainsaw Pinochet but let’s not pretend they are not without blame for the current situation in Argentina
Hopefully the Peronists can grab the wheel and finally right the ship
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u/DavidvsSuperGoliath CA-48 -> WA-7 -> CA-48 1d ago
the Peronists
I guess I won’t cry for you, Argentina.
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u/senoricceman 1d ago
Meh. The Peronists have decimated the economy for years. Argentinian voters go through hell in the options they have.
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u/Apart-Wrangler367 1d ago
Just a small correction, Argentina’s equivalent of a midterm is at the end of October. This was basically local elections in Buenos Aires, which is still Argentina’s largest province.
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u/RegularGuy815 Virginia (formerly Michigan) 1d ago
Oh, oops. I had looked at the wiki to confirm what seats were up and didn't realize the page was for October elections.
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u/gbassman420 California 2d ago
Goddamn it, I woke up at my normal work time and spent over an hour thinking it was Monday. I was even starting to get dressed and ready for work before I realized it's Sunday. An extra hour and a half of sleep would've been real nice, but oh well.
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u/wheezy_runner 2d ago
Well, look on the bright side: since it's Sunday, you can take a nap any time you want!
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u/friedeggbrain 2d ago
Is there any interesting updates on continuing funding to avert a shutdown. I been following it a bit but it seems to be oddly quiet considering how close to the deadline we are
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u/DavidvsSuperGoliath CA-48 -> WA-7 -> CA-48 2d ago
Fight Song, Day 304: “Mercy Me” by Alkaline Trio
This one goes out to Chicago for fighting the good fight. Here’s some of your local boys.
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u/Geek-Haven888 Virginia 1d ago
Just saw the 2025 Red Sonja movie
This is a frustrating movie cause there is a lot of potential here
There are some great practical effects, set design, and a few good zingers. There are some story ideas that I think could work. I have seen these actors perform so much better in other things. But the direction is weird, there is some shockingly bad "as you know" exposition and ADR, and the pacing is all over the place. If the script/dialogue had been given a punch-up up it could have been a fun B movie
To paraphrase a line in the movie, "I give this a rating for the movie it could have been, not what it was."
If you want to see the main actress, Matilda Lutz, in a much better action movie where she acts much better, watch Revenge from 2017, the first big theatrical movie by Coralie Fargeat, director of The Substance. Like that, it's kinda a feminist horror/action movie, and Lutz is great, although major trigger warnings for SA
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u/Gigliovaljr International 1d ago
Fun fact about the 1985 Red Sonja film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger: He called it "the worst movie I ever made". That's hilarious.
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u/Altruistic_Swim1360 California 1d ago
It has such a goofy charm I can't help but like it. The outrageous hats/costumes, doofy sets, the wizard who gets caught watching sexy loincloth vids, it's so silly
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u/Electronic_Bad_5883 Maryland 1d ago
I genuinely didn't know this movie existed. And I'm a terminally online geek, that typically doesn't happen to me, I generally hear at least a little about movies of this sort. They really must've not advertised it.
I'll always love the fact that Arnold is so embarrassed by the 1985 movie where he plays totally-not-Conan-for-legal-reasons that he joked that if his kids misbehaved he'd punish them by making them watch it.
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u/Altruistic_Swim1360 California 1d ago
Disappointing but kinda what I expected. The trailer was pretty meh. What about the Deathstalker remake though??
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u/Final-Criticism-8067 1d ago
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/teen-titans-greg-cipes-fired-warner-bros-parkinsons-1236511141/ Does he have a discrimination case?
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u/Electronic_Bad_5883 Maryland 1d ago edited 1d ago
Greg Cipes has a history of pushing antivax and crypto shit using his characters on social media, and the timeline of when he says he was fired in February doesn't seem to line up with other posts he's made where he said he had started recording new TTG episodes five weeks ago. He also publicly came forward with his Parkinson's diagnosis in March.
In short, this whole thing seems suspicious. Potentially a Hellena Taylor Bayonetta 3 case where he's lying about why he got fired for sympathy points.
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u/DavidvsSuperGoliath CA-48 -> WA-7 -> CA-48 1d ago
Yeah….Cipes is a cool guy but….out there. I have a friend that works with him and he is very antivax and is basically Beast Boy in the way of veganism.
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u/Historyguy1 Missouri 1d ago
My first day in San Francisco for vacation. Spent some time walking around Chinatown.
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u/IcedCoffee12Step 1d ago
Highly recommend Coit Tower! Super interesting 1930s WPA-era murals on the walls when you walk up the stairs, but there’s also an elevator that should be working if you don’t have my luck. And you can get a half-portion of cioppino at Sotto Mare if you’re by yourself. Delicious.
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u/SmoreOfBabylon Blorth Blarolina, c'mon and raise up 1d ago edited 1d ago
IIRC, the Coit Tower is one of the places where the city’s wild parakeets sometimes hang out (or, at least it was when I went up the tower about 15 years ago).
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u/ckbates Massachusetts 1d ago
San Francisco City Hall is by far the nicest City Hall in the country, I think. Definitely worth checking out.
Brenda's French Soul Food for really any meal, but I loved their breakfast.
Also big fan of Tartine Manufactory. Again, great for any meal.
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u/jazzycat42 California 1d ago
I got married (first time - still friends with ex) at SF City Hall and had celebratory dinner at Brenda’s afterwards years ago. Absolutely delicious!
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u/gbassman420 California 1d ago
Enjoy the actual public transport!!
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u/SmoreOfBabylon Blorth Blarolina, c'mon and raise up 1d ago
I went on a business trip to San Francisco a few years ago, and one day when I had the whole day to myself, I bought a Muni pass and just kinda rode around everywhere, lol. From a transit nerd standpoint, I think I liked the vintage streetcars that run through the Fisherman’s Wharf/Embarcadero areas even more than the cable cars.
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u/RubiksCutiePatootie Pennsylvania 1d ago edited 1d ago
Late to comment, but it's time for the weekly book club. What have you been reading?
I sadly had to give up on Hyperion because it really wasn't grabbing me at all. It felt like I was reading a list of proper nouns more than an actual story. My apologies to all the Hyperion fans, I might give it another go in the future though.
So I switched to The Godfather instead. I haven't seen the movies in over 20 years, so aside from major plot points I'm practically going in blind. So far I'm enjoying it, but Francis Ford Coppola said in the introduction that he initially thought the book was "filled with sex & silliness". And he wasn't wrong, this book is raunchy as hell for no reason. It's pretty distracting when you're getting sucked into the plot when the book pauses so one of the POV characters can go on a rant about how they enjoy hitting their wife & then go into explicit detail about the sex they have with some random girl. And this happens pretty often throughout the book.
I still overall enjoy it, but Mario Puzo definitely should've toned that aspect way down.
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u/diamond New Mexico 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm impatiently waiting for the new Slow Horses novel to come out (two days now!), so in the meantime I'm reading a classic of the political thriller genre: The Bourne Supremacy. I read The Bourne Identity a few years ago, and I'm finally getting around to the sequel.
It's fascinating to me, because I know this is a classic, and the story itself is really interesting, intricate, and well-constructed. But the writing itself? Yikes. Ludlum was clearly a very smart and thoughtful guy, but he wrote prose and dialogue like an edgy 13-year-old. Like... it's really painful to read sometimes. The only other book I can think of like this was The Three Body Problem, and I just chalked that up to the translation.
I don't mean to be disrespectful; the guy was doing what he loved, he gave us some classic and memorable stories, and good for him. But I'm honestly surprised his career got off the ground in the first place. Maybe standards have changed in the last few decades, but I would expect most publishers to look at something written like this and go for an immediate Hard Pass.
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u/DavidvsSuperGoliath CA-48 -> WA-7 -> CA-48 1d ago
Read/Reread the second and third hardcover volumes of Lumberjanes since my kickstarter finally came in. I forgot how much I love that comic and what kids really need now, especially those who want to find out who they really are.
FRIENDSHIP TO THE MAX!
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u/7deadlycinderella 1d ago
I'm desperately trying to carve out some time to read a Maeve Binchy or two. I could use something comforting.
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u/Trae67 California 1d ago
Game of the year at week 1 Bills just don’t give up
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u/ChardHot8060 I'm the hurrdurr guy (IYKYK) 1d ago
As a Chiefs fan, even I must give Josh Allen his flowers. He and Keon Coleman were absolutely possessed by some mad spirits in the fourth quarter. What a game, I don't even smoke and I need a cigarette.
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u/Harper1898 2d ago
I appreciated Ezra Klein's article about the shutdown this morning. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/opinion/trump-senate-democrats-shutdown.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kE8.Q4qn.eyFSV1Z0VsU6&smid=nytcore-android-share
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u/elykl12 CT-02 1d ago
Ezra Klein calling out Dem leadership for failing to articulate a strategy for this upcoming shutdown was not on my bingo card
But seriously the unnamed Democratic Senator in the article talking about restraint is how we got here.
Pritzker, Newsom, and Mamdani- who don’t agree on everything might I add- are all fighting and showing the party if you stand up to a bully he backs off
I’m glad Klein is calling it out
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u/neoliberalevangelion Illinois 1d ago
Ik people generally meme on him and I am not a fan of all his ideas but this is a good take on the situation w Dem engagement and optics
Hopefully something is happening behind closed doors
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u/Yukie_Cool 1d ago
If Democrats Have a Better Plan, I’d Like to Hear It
Aaaaaand you lost me, Ezra. God forbid we actually try and look like we’re doing something by trying to get back medicaid funding.
The pundits seriously need to fuck off at this point. Especially when they never gave Trump or the GOP this level of scrutiny ever.
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