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Americans exposed to Hantavirus upset about being forced to quarantine in Nebraska (r/news)

• Negative-Solution108: Typical behavior for the time we live in. Even the smallest sacrifice is too much to ask
• Smooth-Boss-911: These are indeed the times we’re in. It’s all about “me me me” no one gives af about their community.
• Blazah: Sorry not sorry. Sit your butt in Nebraska till you can’t infect the rest of us. NOBODY trusts you to isolate in your own home. We’ve SEEN how people behave before.

Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement (r/news)

• sithelephant: ‘The meme Bushart posted that prompted his arrest read: “This seems relevant today…” and featured President Donald Trump and the words, “We have to get over it.” That quote, the meme explained, was said by Trump in 2024 after a school shooting at Iowa’s Perry High School.
• Hrekires: I’m almost certain that I’d be fired if I made a mistake that cost my company $835k in damages.
• bigredthesnorer: Can he sue the Sheriff for $2B?

Harvard faculty votes to make it more difficult for undergrads to earn As (r/news)

• lurpeli: Grade inflation is well known. Any top tier university is going to be giving largely As and Bs to all students even if they barely pass a class. Makes GPAs hardly matter.
• groglox: We had this and it made being an RA so much more stressful. The required GPA over 3.5 combined with how difficult achieving that actually was ended up creating some of the most stress-filled students I have ever seen.
• prodigaldummy: What is the purpose of a grade? Is it an objective reflection of a student’s mastery of a subject, or a reflection of a student’s mastery of a subject relative to their peers?

What is a minor, unwritten rule of society that absolutely infuriates you when people break it? (r/AskReddit)

• Legal_Interaction498: when a group of people spread out into a straight line on the sidewalk, completely blocking the way
• I_sleep_on_a_bed: When people blast whatever video they’re watching in public
• mossyfern45: Speakerphone in public

TIL that Tom Lehrer - MIT mathematician, satirist, and the guy who wrote both the Harvard fight song and a song teaching kids the periodic table - invented the Jell-O shot in the 1950s to sneak booze into a government Christmas party. (r/todayilearned)

• AcceptableWheel: He also made all his songs public domain when he was older specifically because he wanted rappers to sample him.
• Sage1969: TIL he died last year :(
• erksplat: A regular Renaissance Man.

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US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns (r/news)

• Salarian_American: In a sane world, asking to be exempted from all future auditing would be a reason to audit someone immediately.
• nickkom: Corruption, plain and simple
• cointoss3: Haha the justice department can’t affect future attorneys general from reverting this. Only way to make this for real for real is a law. Guidelines can always be amended.
• soundisloud: Absolutely ruined the integrity of America

NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights (r/news)

• TurkeyVolumeGuesser: If only this would happen but I don’t see it
• MidnightMoon1331: Can we boycott the IRS and not pay taxes over slush fund and tax immunity too?
• Ok-Replacement6893: Hit them where it hurts them most.
• oldmaninparadise: Michigan, Wisconsin, Maryland, Penn. All great football programs. California, Oregon and Washington too. Problem is there are only 25 new slots per year per team.

Trump Wants Russia and China to Help Combat the International Court That Charges War Crimes (r/worldnews)

• TubeframeMR2: When a guy starts recruiting autocracies to weaken war crimes tribunals, you have to wonder what we don’t know.
• aircooledJenkins: “Trump, a good boy, Is Following The Orders His Leash Holders Have Given Him.”
• nativeridge_: Americans you have a suicidal government at the wheel and you are full speed off the road ploughing through the undergrowth
• Banana-phone15: So Trump wants to start a boy band for war criminals

What is a ‘single person luxury’ that people in relationships completely miss out on? (r/AskReddit)

• Ok-Refrigerator-8664: Never having to discuss plans with anyone. No discussion on dinner, what to watch, what to do, or where to go. You just do what you want all the time.
• LateNightLatin: Knowing things will be exactly where the left them. The amount of time I go looking for the kitchen scissors.
• headcase-and-a-half: Knowing that the piece of chocolate cake you left in the fridge will still be there whenever you want it.
• Fresh-Package5303: Being able to do absolutely nothing all weekend without having to explain it to anyone

TIL After Francis I exchanged himself in spanish captivity in 1526 with his two sons, aged 7 and 8, he annuled everything he signed in exchange for his release, but the kids remained in captivity for nearly 4 years. His eldest son and heir was scarred for life as a result (r/todayilearned)

• GarysCrispLettuce: Father of the Year 1526
• AskAskim: It’s pretty clear to me from all of history that “family” either meant something way tighter than we are familiar with now, or absolutely nothing.
• cometlin: TIL After King Francis I traded himself for his sons to escape Spanish captivity in 1526, he later annulled the agreement, leaving the boys imprisoned for years
• Exact_Touch_4794: This is similar to how Byzantine emperors also thought. Some even killed or blinded their own children. It’s all about how important you think you are and what God wants

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Trump says he’s postponing ‘scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow’ at Middle East leaders’ request (r/worldnews)

• Leather_Net_3330: its not even tuesday yet.
• Flimsy_Category_9369: This feels like Groundhog Day at this point
• lastpassonright: This idiot has absolutely no way out of this mess.
• Temporary-Canary-346: Sorry there were attacks scheduled for tomorrow?!?

Bodies of missing Italian divers found in Maldives (r/news)

• ScottScanlon: Sad situation all around, but you can’t pay me enough to be going deep into caves in the ocean.
• Tyrrox: The had an improper gas mix for the depth they went. It’s a sad story but unfortunately even tenured diving professionals get complacent with the dangers.
• ThriftyMegaMan: New YouTube video from like 12 different content creators coming in 3, 2, 1,
• Hefty_Anywhere_8537: I’m a diver, and very nearly died on a 50m nitrox dive in French Polynesia. Traumatic experience, this is so sad and tragic.

Active shooter reported at Islamic Center of San Diego: Police (r/news)

• lostroadrunner22: Its over, both shooters are dead.
• YOSHIMIvPROBOTS: Police say shooters appeared to have killed themselves.
• Brilliant-Concern620: People are celebrating it on YouTube. We are living in sick times.
• Jamie00003: Can you just stop for 5 minutes America?

An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth (r/worldnews)

• Catchphrase1228: It’s the bugs again!
• orangelity: Am I to understand that our entire planet’s radar capabilities to provide us with radar information on these types of objects were dependent on only one telescope (which collapsed 6 years ago) and one antenna (which is currently down for extended maintenance)?
• TheOriginalBroCone: Why are redditors so weird about wanting people to die from asteroid strikes? 
• RandomPantsAppear: Getting hit by an asteroid feels like it would fit right in with the 2020s itinerary. 

What is something you’ve officially stopped buying in 2026 because the price has become genuinely insulting? (r/AskReddit)

• xxleoxangelxx: Fast food
• myotheroneders: Fast food. The prices are so stupid that I can go to my locally owned sports bar and get much better food for a comparable price. I can’t justify spending that same amount of money for shitty food.
• garej: Food delivery. Buying a taxi for a burrito is too expensive.
• queenmellyy: Beer/wine/liquor at a restaurant. The drink shouldn’t cost as much as a meal.

TIL that the son of the man who welcomed the puritans and fed them when they were starving had his head cut off and put on a spike for 20 years at the same location as the first thanksgiving. (r/todayilearned)

• Gargomon251: Wait his SON? What the hell did HE do?
• SeaBearsFoam: And that’s where the Thanksgiving tradition of killing one of your family members and putting their head on a spike came from.
• LAAccountant: He was killed by another native.
• Porlarta: Deeply misleading way to talk about King Phillips war.

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A solar plant in Minnesota planted flowers beneath its panels, and soon monarch butterflies and dozens of new plant species began to appear (r/news)

• Rattus_NorvegicUwUs: Finally. Some good news.
• Laniidae_: This is solarpunk and I’m here for it
• CMG30: It’s almost like the push to ban solar on agricultural land is a paid astroturf campaign to delay renewable energy and preserve fossil profits…
• guinnypig: There are a zillion of these solar farms around me. I want this to happen so badly!

2 Navy jets crash during air show in Idaho, 4 crew members eject safely (r/news)

• bassicallyinsane: What a great use of 136 million dollars
• MountainlessBiking: I’m glad when I fuck up at work it’s just an email or something. I can’t imagine the verbal abuse this would cause 
• Rare_Contract_8657: I’d be really interested to see what caused the crash. Was it user error? Equipment malfunction? Glad the pilots are all safe though!
• NigeySaid: I saw the video and I’m still baffled by them all surviving

Latest militant attacks on schools in Nigeria leave more than 80 children missing, officials say (r/news)

• OkBuy4754: Heartbreaking. Nigeria needs real security reform, not just empty promises again.
• IBitePrettyPeople: Religious warfare in the big 2026
• Vepariga: only the weak prey on the defenseless.

Zelenskyy Confirms Ukraine Was Behind Massive Moscow Drone Strike (r/worldnews)

• dimgwar: Tell Cersei,. I want her to know it was me
• CaptCurmudgeon: I love that phrasing – long range sanctions.
• Undernown: This really hammered home how Ukraine allowed Putin to have a safe victory day parade.

Who destroyed their own career within seconds by being an idiot? (r/AskReddit)

• SparkyandDolche: The people on the Coldplay “kiss cam.”
• AdeptVeterinarian541: The white lady who called the cops on a black man who was bird watching in a public park and asked her to put her dog on a leash. When she called the police she was screaming about a “black man trying to get me” and he was this nerdy looking guy who watches birds. She had a very lucrative job at Franklin Templeton Investments, she was fired.
• NOT-packers-fan2022: The FBI agent that did the back flip in a bar, dropped his gun, grabbed it, negligent discharge, someone was hit but lived, arrested, prosecuted and terminated.
• cageytalker: That woman who tweeted that she was flying to Africa and she hoped she didn’t get AIDS. She turned off her phone and when she landed, she saw that her life exploded.

TIL in 2014, Ben Affleck received a lifetime ban from the blackjack tables at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas after surveillance footage showed him counting cards during a high-stakes game. Security informed him he was “too good” and classified him as an advantage player. (r/todayilearned)

• WelshBathBoy: This is why the house always wins, making perfectly sensible game play ‘against the rules’. Counting cards is just using a bit of deduction by keeping tabs of the cards played - hardly cheating.
• wrighteghe7: This is such a hilarious rule. What kind of fucking game is it where its “cheating” if you win at it and why people play it still?
• I_Never_Use_Slash_S: Guess he wasn’t acting in The Accountant.
• SorryAboutLater: How can you tell if someone is counting cards? Can you just kick anyone out for winning and accuse them of this.

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Maldives military diver dies while trying to recover scuba diving victims in underwater cave: Officials (r/news)

• Fitdoc50: I really hope I don’t die in an underwater cave. How to prevent this?
• shoulda-known-better: I thought the first rule was don’t go back for people in cave diving
• girusatuku: What is the #1 cause of death among cave divers? Cave diving. What is #2? Retrieving the bodies of those who died from #1.

Humpback whale released after spectacular rescue effort found dead (r/news)

• KimJongFunk: So many marine biologists and veterinarians advised against moving this whale but the social media uproar demanded action and this is what happened. RIP Timmy :(
• FrankieTheD: Once a whale at the point it’s disoriented and beaching its pretty slim odds right? Remember a few cases in the news it rarely works out
• Masterweedo: Sadly, I didn’t expect any other outcome.

At least 3 killed, numerous residential buildings hit in mass drone attack on Moscow region (r/worldnews)

• xmuskorx: Ukrainian telegram channels are posting oil infrastructure burning in Zelenograd and Solnechnogorsk (basically a suburb of Moscow)
• BionicShenanigans: Can you imagine hearing this a couple years ago? Ukraine has the initiative
• Sonyguyus: How dare Ukraine invade the country that invaded it first!

North America’s largest commuter rail system shuts down as workers strike (r/news)

• Humble_Diner32: I, a long time union member and a third generation union worker, stand with them. Let’s unionize the American workforce.
• RoyalZeal: I stand with the workers, if they were being taken care of they wouldn’t be striking.
• paleo2002: The LIRR is the largest commuter train system in North America? That’s sad. I thought NJT or something in California would be larger.

What industry is actually a complete scam, but everyone accepts it? (r/AskReddit)

• Embarrassed_Ask8293: Ticketmaster
• boomlakshmi: Wedding industry
• bigfatgeekboy: Time shares. Payday loans.

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‘Point of no return’: 36 countries join special tribunal to prosecute Vladimir Putin (r/worldnews)

• asdhjasdhlkjashdhgf: When even Switzerland joins support for an international tribunal you should be able to see the writing on the wall.
• The-marx-channel: Putin’s place should be in the Hague
• Golden–: Yeah, this is meaningless unless you actually plan to arrest and prosecute him.

Mass casualty incident’ after explosion near Maine lumber complex (r/news)

• DNAturation: Sounds like a fire started and turned into a sawdust explosion.
• HorrorAd6729: Unbelievably dangerous situation. Reports indicate a wood shaving silo exploded while crews were already on the scene fighting a warehouse fire, which is why so many firefighters are among the 11 injured. Sending 10 patients to a Level 1 trauma center and calling multiple maydays shows just how catastrophic the blast was. Grateful that all mill staff were safely accounted for, but this is a massive blow to Mid-Coast Maine.
• b0xturtl3: Don’t forget most firefighters in Maine are volunteer.

Phoenix police fire sergeant who brought gun to ICE protest (r/news)

• mastermidget23: Reading the article, this pos went to the protest masked up with gun, literally on camera talked about how he was going to try to get them all to gang up on him to arrest them, while he had people in the distance film for evidence. Fucking psychopaths with no self awareness like Rittenhouse going to protests just to make them dangerous and still think of themselves as “the good guys”.
• OhNoIBoffedIt: Other cops are like “you’re supposed to be in uniform when you commit crimes, dude.”
• Iribumkiak: He is just going to get another police job in another jurisdiction.

What’s a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue? (r/AskReddit)

• obligated_existence: The hole in the ozone layer. One of our biggest (and only) global environmental success stories.
• Longwell2020: Clean water
• chickenmcdruggets: Anything solved by vaccines

TIL that Empress Ma was born poor and during a famine she stole cakes to feed her husband by hiding them in her breasts. The cakes were hot and she got burns. Later her husband became a rebel commander who became Emperor and made her his Empress. He was deeply devoted to her even as an Emperor. (r/todayilearned)

• StaleSunTease: hongwu turned into one of the most paranoid emperors in chinese history and she’s basically the only reason his purges didn’t get even worse.
• Own_Bar2063: This did not stop him from having a huge harem of Korean and Mongolian concubines, and from them he had 26 sons and 16 daughters.
• derpdelurk: I would also be devoted to someone that provided breast cakes.

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US border patrol chief resigns after claims of sex with prostitutes abroad (r/news)

• Mutopiano: It’s always the ones you most suspect.
• Hrekires: Normally I wouldn’t care about consensual behavior between adults but considering Border Patrol would kill US citizens for less… please kindly fuck off.
• IlVeroStronzo: This guy just went to do abroad what he can’t do back home legally or for cheap lol

Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel’s Hawaii trip included ‘VIP snorkel’ at a Pearl Harbor memorial (r/news)

• southendgirl: Is this an Onion article?
• TheGooch01: Fucking head of the FBI is on permanent make-a-wish vacation.
• Ok_Pollution7093: VIP snorkel at a memorial is wild. Read the room.

US agents arrest tourist after video shows a rock hurled at endangered Hawaii monk seal’s head (r/news)

• Nv2U: First time I’ve seen “US agents arrest…” in a headline lately and been happy.
• brispence: I’m sure there would be a line of people waiting around the island to throw a rock at this chud’s head.
• Hnl2Nrt2025: I believe there are some local people in lockup ready to greet him

CDC says 41 people being monitored for hantavirus in US (r/news)

• Xsiah: Over 3000 people in the US have had measles this year - how about you monitor them and everyone they’re infecting with their stupidity, or the stupidity of their parents.
• Flash_ina_pan: K, hopefully it doesn’t spread. I don’t think I could stand dealing with the absolute shitbirds a national medical emergency tends to bring out, again.
• Loose_Clock4873: Are we supposed to drink bleach yet?

US man convicted of running secret Chinese ‘police station’ in NYC (r/news)

• dotBombAU: They are doing this all over the world.
• xdeltax97: This is everywhere unfortunately
• Haunting_Explorer376: No shit. There was a expose on the one in Vancouver a few years ago

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Epstein abused me while under house arrest, survivor tells US lawmakers (r/news)

• Beautiful_Special702: Hard to read stories like this and not wonder how many failures happened behind the scenes…
• Tramadol_Lollies: Just want to say how strong these women are for testifying, even with the powerful in the world doing its best to look away.
• Klutzy-Ad-9700: It still blows my mind that the files exist, but we just haven’t seen them. Proof of all sorts of horrific things, just sitting there, but we aren’t allowed to look at it.

Alabama woman sues alleging she gave birth on prison floor as guards watched (r/news)

• avatinfernus: Wow.. the lack of empathy is…off the charts
• Anneisabitch: It’s not even the first time something like this has happened. Another baby was born in that same jail on the bathroom floor.
• run85: In jail because she was accused of substance abuse while pregnant. Then, this is how she is treated while pregnant and giving birth. Wow, Alabama cares so much about babies!

More than 1,000 passengers held on cruise in France after gastroenteritis outbreak (r/news)

• fc_dean: Those cruises are a literal bacteria / virus breeding ground, aren’t they.
• aka_linskey: Norovirus is the worst. That sounds awful.
• SlayerBVC: It’s honestly amazing that the Cruise Ship industry has survived as long as it has considering how the ships are the ideal conditions for these viruses and infections to spread.

Russian parliament passes bill allowing Putin to invade foreign countries (r/worldnews)

• Koekoes_se_makranka: Lmao ok, as if he wasn’t doing it already
• RSwordsman: Good to see that they were following the law until now by only doing approved special military operations.
• Thiht: That’ll fix Russian economy

What are the weirdest ways you’ve heard of someone getting caught cheating? (r/AskReddit)

• FriskiTeddy: The classic Google Street view
• elphaba00: Friend was cleaning his bedroom. Found a notebook he didn’t recognize and started to flip through the pages and read it. It was his wife’s journal of her threesomes – of which he was not invited to.
• DaddyDeluge: Worked with a guy who wrote letters with chocolate for two girls for Valentine’s Day. He mixed up which was which, and the girls got the wrong letters. It blew up in his face while he was at work.

TIL actor Taylor Lautner married a nurse named Taylor Dome. Before their wedding, Taylor Lautner stated that Taylor Dome planned to take his surname, resulting in both partners now being named Taylor Lautner. (r/todayilearned)

• UltimaGabe: Didn’t he also date Taylor Swift? Was his plan always to end up with a wife with the same name as him?
• Necessary_Nothing471: The Taylors Lautner
• oldfogey12345: They could have just both changed their last name to Taylor and cut out all the confusion.

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US inflation jumped to 3.8% in April (r/news)

• NeofelisNight: Wait till we see May, i know they cook the numbers, but Im seeing it with my own eyes on the front lines
• Jonestown_Juice: Hold on to your butts. This roller coaster ride is just getting going.
• McCloudX: 3.8% might still be on the low end

Grocery prices jumped more in April than they did in nearly four years (r/news)

• runnerup1: Cheaper on day one boyssssss
• killerparties: She had a weird laugh though
• Oceanbreeze871: Food isn’t affordable thanks to Donald and his country fools

CIA escalates secret war on cartels with deadly operations inside Mexico (r/worldnews)

• maxsmart01: It ain’t much of a secret if I know about it so maybe let’s quit calling it a secret.
• Actaeon_II: Didn’t the cia spend decades working with the cartels?
• crashorbit: Somehow powerful people always think that this time violence will work.

What famous person chose to step away at the height of their fame? (r/AskReddit)

• Montag_311: Bill Watterson, the cartoonist who did Calvin and Hobbes.
• roygbiv-it: Barry Sanders. Feel so sorry for him he was on shit teams. What a talent.
• Similar_String9573: one of the most notable is J.D. Salinger. dude wrote a classic and just dipped from the public eye totally. wild choice but kinda legendary.

TIL about firefighter Donald Herbert. After lapsing into a coma following a firefighting accident he awoke a year later unable to recognize friends or family. He then lapsed into a minimally conscious state for over 9 years. Miraculously, he awoke again and his first question was about his wife. (r/todayilearned)

• Greene_Mr: SPOILER ALERT: He died just months after that. :-(
• Technical_Chair_3641: i wonder how much of his 9 years in a minimally conscious state he was actually aware on some level. there’s been some fMRI studies showing some PVS patients can follow commands mentally even when they show zero outward response
• PartsUnknown242: So what what exactly happened with his brain here?

Why don’t we get a discount for using self-checkout? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

• Run-And_Gun: Because they got rid of the cashiers to increase their profits. Not to save their customers any money.
• comrade_zerox: You do, if you know how to use it ;)
• DIY-exerciseGuy: Do you get a discount for pumping your own gas?

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US and French nationals test positive for hantavirus after leaving ship (r/news)

• careful__now__: Gosh these last 20 years have been so exhausting
• PuertoricanDude88: Patient zero getting a sudden urge to travel around the world.
• browsk: Lol we can’t even learn from an event from the same decade

Teen dies hours after his parents reunited with him following immigration detention (r/news)

• TabascohFiascoh: Christ, dying of colon cancer at 18 is tragic as fuck.
• Lalocal4life: No one with stable mental health wants to see a family with a child like that die under those conditions due to “paperwork”.
• darkultima: I been following this on telemundo for a couple days now. It’s so fucking sad

Netanyahu announced intention to phase out US military aid (r/worldnews)

• vini_2003: Nobody read the damn article here. They’re still going to be partners to the US, but their aim is to integrate at a deeper level in the defense and intelligence sectors and stop “just” receiving aid for the sake of aid.
• Feisty_System_4751: It’s like me announcing I will start a diet on Monday.
• hamstringstring: I assume this means we can stop paying taxes to Egypt as well?

What’s a ‘middle class success’ purchase that secretly becomes a financial burden later? (r/AskReddit)

• sitewolf: ‘Oh honey, let’s buy a camper’ (that you end up using twice a year after the excitement of the first one)
• Successful-Fan2742: Upsizing to a bigger house and then realizing you’ve also upsized taxes, maintenance, and stress
• thanhngx153: Huge houses. People think about the mortgage, but forget furniture, maintenance, repairs, insurance and property taxes never stop

TIL: In 1998, elementary students in Aurora, Colorado started buying slaves in Sudan to free them, this gained global attention with schools in other countries starting slave buyback programs until it became clear that the money was just helping slavery grow (r/todayilearned)

• Randvek: Cobra farm vibes here.
• AxelNotRose: Infinite money loop for the slavers.
• Stuck_in_my_TV: Giving money to someone perpetrating an atrocity will only perpetuate more atrocities as you have increased the incentives for them to keep committing heinous actions in the hopes of future payouts.

Why does the expected % for tipping keep increasing? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

• someguy2355: Yeah it’s dumb. Percent already scales, that’s literally the point.
• RangerDickard: The boss doesn’t have to pay wages if you do it for him. That’s why
• dogsn1: They’re trying to milk more money out of you