/r/TrueReddit top posts by year
This was an experiment for me using the Pushshift API / psaw. It grabs the top 20 posts (ranked by score / excluding removed submissions) of each year since the subreddit was created.
The first number of each entry is the post score, the second is the number of comments - click to go to the comments. Click a username to view a user page. Click the title of the post to go to the submitted URL.
The API doesn't include proper scores for posts made after September 2018 yet so it stops there for now.
- 48 / 16 (duode):
Fast Flip from Google Labs - 43 / 9 (kenlubin): Is Chinese hard to learn? Yes. Chinese is so hard to learn that a group of Chinese scholars of Chinese couldn't remember how to write the word for 'sneeze'.
- 41 / 37: I had a "pillow case" epiphany today.
- 41 / 3 (evtx): Carl Sagan was even cooler than you thought.
- 39 / 1 (SuedeRS100): Over the course of 1400 years fewer than five of Japan's hundreds of pagodas have been lost to earthquakes. Here's a potential explanation for why.
- 34 / 7 (aenea): My father, the terrorist - A son of Osama bin Laden paints an intimate portrait of the man who would become the world’s most infamous terrorist.
- 40 / 4 (kleopatra6tilde9): reredd.com - the reddit time machine
- 36 / 3 (duode): Susan Klebold breaks her silence about her son and the massacre at Columbine High School which took place 10 years ago
- 37 / 8 (pragma): I like Ike.
- 29 / 2 (syuk): 1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell
- 26 / 1 (prototypist): Deaf Children, left to their own devices, invented their own sign language
- 25 / 2 (DarkDeath):
As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow - First Chill - Then Stupor - Then the Letting Go :: The cold hard facts of freezing to death - 24 / 1 (aenea): Married (Happily) With Issues - By trying to make their good marriage better, Elizabeth Weil and Daniel Duane tested it.
- 23 / 1 (duode): Mike Rowe Answers Your Questions, Discusses Karma, Belts Out Some Puccini and Much More
- 25 / 0 (viborg): “In 1960 maybe 80% of the people down here in the wetlands of Louisiana spoke French - now it’s down to just a few of the older generation.”
- 25 / 4 (DarkDeath): How to Survive a Long Fall
- 24 / 4 (kleopatra6tilde9): "The reptilian always wins" - Looking inside a consumer's head
- 25 / 2 (pragma): Gentle Seduction: Singularity sci-fi (resubmit for truereddit)
- 21 / 1: Cool Visualization of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
- 23 / 5 (aenea): How DNA Testing Is Changing Fatherhood - The scientific advance that was supposed to offer clarity instead reveals just how murky society’s notions of fatherhood actually are.
- 497 / 106 (token78): People are people wherever you go - There's no uniform in the world that's actually able to disguise their essential humanity - a photo from North Korea (Reposted from /r/pics, where it was listed in quite different terms)
- 500 / 65 (workingsmart): Perhaps something actually damning has come out of Wikileaks after all. State department knew that taxpayer funded corporation DynCorp "helped pimp out little boys as sex slaves to stoned cops in Afghanistan" and tried to hush it up.
- 423 / 238 (scottb84):
WikiLeaks just made the world more repressive - 405 / 59 (SanchoMandoval):
One of the classic internet originals: In 1995, this guy deposited a novelty check for $95k. The check cleared. Here is his story. - 367 / 35 (dimmu_burger): Lawsuit filed to end the use of full body scanners by the TSA.
- 343 / 60 (kleopatra6tilde9): New subscribers, please adjust your voting behaviour. Somebody who provides interesting facts doesn't deserve to be downvoted to -8, even if you think that you know better. It's time to trust your fellow redditors again, they may actually be right.
- 333 / 190 (Kyusu): Being Vegan is worse for the environment? - An fascinating exercise in fact checking.
- 321 / 52 (HeIsMyPossum): In case you missed it, Julian Assange was on the Colbert Report. Stephen actually seemed to be serious at some points IMO.
- 311 / 54 (nevesis): Stratfor: The idea that WikiLeaks could hurt diplomatic relationships between the United States and the rest of the world also assumes that the rest of the world conducts diplomacy in a more “honest” manner — it does not.
- 305 / 78 (mjk1093): Mr. Lindwall was my favorite teacher at Glenbrook High. He understood me when no one else did. He was also a budding serial killer who could have been "worse than Gacy." Is it OK that I still like him?
- 303 / 126 (NotPhil):
They’ll have better attendance, wreck fewer cars and be more agreeable. All we have to do is let high school students sleep in. - 296 / 351 (marquis_of_chaos): If homosexuality is ok, why is incest wrong?
- 292 / 17: Interesting read on usability: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem Much More “Readable” Than Those of Its Competitors?
- 281 / 115 (pooya72): “Over time, we began to realize that many teachers had been grading kids for compliance — not for mastering the course material”
- 278 / 119 (sadax): Women choose to be lesser than equals in the Netherlands. And they love it.
- 273 / 88 (trocar):
Four myths about WWII that are particularly annoying and misleading - 267 / 139 (Theoden): How I Joined Teach for America—and Got Sued for $20 Million
- 269 / 106: I like feeding trolls sometimes, and here's why:
- 267 / 50 (DarkDeath):
What Happened When I Went Undercover at a Christian Gay-to-Straight Conversion Camp - 253 / 77 (charlieb):
Getting shot by a handgun
- 2105 / 499 (AngelaMotorman): CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...
- 1897 / 370 (daskalam): Did you ever wish you could take a good look at Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel in the Vatican? Now you can; I am overwhelmed.
- 1513 / 352 (kleopatra6tilde9): A Reminder about Eternal September
- 1478 / 304 (Rocketbird): 3 Misconceptions about the US that need to die
- 1440 / 743 (Khiva): On July 4th, a (qualified) defense of America and its culture.
- 1360 / 109 (nomdeweb): "So the way my father used to tell it, my parents’ second date went something like this..."
- 1357 / 309 (tresdrole):
Ten years ago Portugal decriminalized drugs, look how they're doing now. - 1336 / 523 (hexbrid): An alternative to reddit
- 1313 / 3059 (SolInvictus): "Reddit Makes Me Hate Atheists." by Rebecca Watson
- 1286 / 109 (viper86): The nightmarish SOPA hearings: "There ought to be a law, I think, that in order to regulate something you have to have some understanding of it."
- 1140 / 49 (VisibleNinja): Chilean girls have been occupying their schools for five months in education rights protest, and I have only just read about it... Weekly protests of 50k students. Support from 6 in 10 adults.
- 1137 / 344 (Aqwis): Sometimes the Bad Guys Win
- 1119 / 611 (SolInvictus):
I'm sick of pretending: I don't "get" art - 1114 / 191 (deepwank): Law enforcement officers in US are getting fired for joining LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition)
- 1082 / 282 (rhythmicidea): The "overlearning the game" problem
- 1080 / 249 (ten_thousand_puppies): What Dr. King REALLY accomplished, a perspective I've never considered before
- 1060 / 158 (Epistaxis): Last October, I won the Nobel Prize in economics for my work on unemployment and the labor market. But I am unqualified to serve on the board of the Federal Reserve — at least according to the Republican senators who have blocked my nomination.
- 1047 / 369 (mycroft2000):
School: It's way more boring than when you were there. New studies show that the disappearance of art, music, and even recess is having a devastating effect on kids. - 1028 / 331 (skeeto): Our Blood Stained Roof
- 1036 / 341 (saute): No, Congress did not declare pizza a vegetable
- 3710 / 1103 (undercurrents): When Janni Schofield was not even a month old, she was able to correctly identify colours. At 1 year old, she could read. At 18 months, she could speak fluently. What her parents originally took for genius turned out to be a mask for something much darker. An incredible story.
- 3567 / 542 (madcat033): NY Times: "It is a dark day for the rule of law. Federal and state authorities have chosen not to indict HSBC, the London-based bank, on charges of vast and prolonged money laundering, for fear that criminal prosecution would topple the bank and, in the process, endanger the financial system."
- 3398 / 577 (braclayrab): The Author of XKCD, Randall Monroe, has started a blog answering all the physics-y "what if" questions he's emailed. The first one is "What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?" and the post is great.
- 3346 / 729 (backronyms): The case for PBS: "PBS is a cheap way to educate.... If you let the market choose your programming, sooner or later, it will lead to Honey Boo Boo."
- 3350 / 1023 (madcat033): President Obama: "Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?" Guardian Columnist: "It's a valid question. He should apply it to the violence he is visiting on the children of Pakistan."
- 3303 / 416 (Epistaxis):
"The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me." - 3104 / 1249: The Psy Scandal: "Americans would benefit from less outrage at anti-US sentiment and more energy toward understanding why it's so widespread" | The Guardian.
- 3011 / 635 (Uberhipster):
The real scandal here is that when the head of the CIA sleeps with someone who is not his wife, it causes a national scandal, but when the agency manages a drone program that serially violates the sovereignty of nations worldwide [...] it does not. - 2645 / 899 (azz3879): "I am sharing this story because I am Adam Lanza’s mother. I am Dylan Klebold’s and Eric Harris’s mother. I am Jason Holmes’s mother. I am Jared Loughner’s mother. I am Seung-Hui Cho’s mother. And these boys—and their mothers—need help." - One mothers struggle with a desperately mentally ill son.
- 2609 / 690 (SolInvictus): Maddox: I Hope SOPA Passes
- 2490 / 408 (mjk1093): Libraries still matter, because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere these days: A public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
- 2400 / 894 (Epistaxis): It's all kissing babies and shaking hands, only with more LOLs - the Reddit AMA is a terrible format for extracting information from a politician
- 2401 / 629: Legal expert who created fake CP to demonstrate that CP can be faked ordered to pay $300,000 for making CP, even though the court knew it was fake.
- 2315 / 601 (maxwellhill): Eastern Germany: the most godless place on Earth: Study found that 52.1% of people asked whether they believed in God identified themselves as atheists; survey was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 in eastern Germany who believed in God
- 2266 / 203 (madcat033): CNN works with governments to create "sponsored" stories that are not labelled as advertisements. "As negative news stories of its brutal repression grew, the Bahrain regime undertook a massive, very well-funded PR campaign to improve its image. Central to that campaign was CNN International."
- 2240 / 1103 (impotent_rage): What teachers really want to tell parents - Educators are leaving the profession in record droves because they just can't handle the parents any more
- 2197 / 754 (boss413): Five interviews of with Americans, each earning five times as much as the last. Only one of them is angry, and it's not the dishwasher.
- 2058 / 704 (Kevinflo): The importance of looks in Korean culture
- 2042 / 271 (dhoshino): To My Old Master: A former slave's letter in response to his old master's request to work for him again
- 2034 / 457 (vtjohnhurt): Porn industry group claims 350,000 porn scenes shot without condoms since 2004, and ZERO new H.I.V. infections
- 3721 / 1041 (brfly): Dear Spike Lee
- 3676 / 990 (bluestblue): Walmart's Worst Nightmare: WinCo is an Idaho-based grocery chain that frequently beats Walmart on price while providing health care benefits for any employee working over 24 hours a week, as well as an annual pension. (x-post from r/FoodforThought)
- 3369 / 787 (imitationcheese): Scott Adams (Dilbert): I hope my father dies soon
- 3224 / 294 (imautoparts): The incredible shrinking Internet - how Verizon (and other service providers) are lobbying to dramatically restrict content, throttle download speeds and charge websites for 'access' to their customers. Here are the reasons we need to fight hard to keep a free and open 'net here in the USA.
- 3158 / 419 (DiffTang): 50% of the Senate and 42% of the House left gov't to become lobbyists between 1998-2004. Their average increase in salary was 1452%. These numbers have only gone up. We will never have any real reform with this level of corruption.
- 3068 / 623 (DavidCarraway): Reporting on government shutdown has failed democracy -- "The shutdown is not generalized dysfunction or gridlock. It is aberrational behavior by a political party that is willing to take extreme action to get its way. And by not calling it what it is, the political press enables it."
- 2941 / 598: Huy Fong Foods Inc, the privately owned company that creates Sriracha hot sauce, sold $60 million dollars worth of sauce last year. The company has never spent any money on advertising.
- 2907 / 445 (CanadaCarl): For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
- 2818 / 509 (solac3): Aaron Swartz commits suicide
- 2815 / 493 (DoremusJessup):
Mr. Obama, Tear Down the Private Profit Prisons - 2792 / 665:
Why PBS is thrilled Discovery is faking nature documentaries (megalodon fiasco fallout) and all the programs on the History Channel are about pawn shops and storage lockers. - 2768 / 889 (jmillikin): Don't Fly During Ramadan
- 2684 / 1611 (simoncolumbus):
"Why I will never return to the USA": After travelling the world, a Dutch writer boards a train from Montreal to New Orleans. He won't get there. - 2666 / 356 (appleflaxen):
Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke - 2648 / 983 (eyeheartyou): Everything is Rigged: The Biggest Financial Scandal Yet
- 2648 / 274 (Orangutan): In 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a South California mosque who pretended to be a radical muslim, and the muslims in the mosque reported him to the FBI
- 2601 / 247 (Hrodrik): Snowden is more distraction than traitor - NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is being used to distract Americans from the truth behind spying allegations.
- 2572 / 483 (AngMoKio): Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (x-post from r/parenting)
- 2511 / 139 (journothrowaway42): [meta] A plea from a journalist: Can we stop linking to aggregated content and instead link to the original source?
- 2437 / 279 (ij_reilly): David Foster Wallace: "Assume for a moment that some of these measures really have helped make our persons and property safer—are they worth it? Where and when was the public debate on whether they’re worth it? Was there no such debate because we’re not capable of having or demanding one? Why not?"
- 4563 / 330 (nxthompson_tny): Times have changed: the Pope is now more scientifically literate than the US Senate.
- 3540 / 488 (westernhaiku): "S1337 would make it a crime, punishable by imprisonment, to simply photograph or videotape abusive, unsanitary or otherwise unethical activity on a farm. Even employees and journalists who take photos or video to document misconduct on farms could face criminal prosecution."
- 4056 / 741 (GunnerMcGrath): Study Reveals It Costs Less to Give the Homeless Housing Than to Leave Them on the Street
- 3302 / 787 (mellowmonk): Teens spend so much time online not because they can't handle hanging out face-to-face but because overprotective parents, anti-loitering laws, and other factors conspire to keep them home. "They’re not allowed to hang out the way you and I did, so they’ve moved it online."
- 3120 / 755 (unglaublitch): Kindergarten teacher: My job is now about tests and data — not children. I quit.
- 2924 / 448 (BriMcC): I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society
- 2860 / 439 (davidreiss666): Housing is most cost-effective treatment for mental illness: study -- "For every $1 spent providing housing and support for a homeless person with severe mental illness, $2.17 in savings are reaped because they spend less time in hospital, in prison and in shelters".
- 2982 / 558 (runnerdood): Abusing Chickens We Eat: "Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That’s agribusiness."
- 2784 / 293 (misterchief117): Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, along with various other tax preperation organizations have consistantly lobbied against new tax reform laws that would make it easier to file taxes.
- 2740 / 576 (mister_geaux): The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson - Glenn Greenwald
- 2725 / 3425 (big_al11): Reduce the Workweek to 30 Hours- NYT
- 2559 / 664 (dallasdarling): “Laws never prevent abortion.... They never have, and they never will. All they prevent is safe abortion"
- 2530 / 937 (Minifig81): Utah spent $30,000 to drug test 4,730 people on welfare. 12 came back positive.
- 2461 / 420 (eirawyn): How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username. "As of today I no longer control @N. I was extorted into giving it up."
- 2436 / 139 (nosecohn): What I Did After Police Killed My Son — Retired Air Force officer pushes Wisconsin to pass the nation’s first law calling for outside review of police shootings.
- 2368 / 190 (sidewalkchalked): So far this is the most honest I've seen anyone be about Robin Williams' death. Jim Norton for TIME
- 2304 / 269 (Sgt--Hulka): When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred.
- 2292 / 247 (QuarterPounderz): Vietnam is sentencing corrupt bankers to death, by firing squad. Others just get life behind bars.
- 2232 / 699 (Ganonderp_): "Recently, I’ve noticed executives becoming irritated when I tell them how important it is for companies to hire and train high-potential young people just out of school. Their emotions, I soon discover, often relate to disappointments they have experienced with their own children or grandchildren."
- 2216 / 940 (AmbitionOfPhilipJFry): In 2008, 25% of all Americans in the 18 to 29-year-old age bracket considered themselves to be "lower class". In 2014, an astounding 49% of them do. It is hard to believe, but an astounding 53% of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year in wages.
- 3455 / 700 (A-MacLeod): Entrepreneurs don't have a special gene for risk—they're rich kids with safety nets
- 3420 / 348 (mad_bad_dangerous): “We held tobacco companies responsible for lying about cancer. Let’s do the same for oil companies and climate change.” - Sharon Eubanks, a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney
- 3242 / 515 (SirBastionOfPimp): Donald Trump isn't destroying our democracy—he's exposing its phoniness and corruption.
- 2997 / 297 (Quouar): Native Lives matter too - American Indians are more likely than any other racial group to be killed by the police, but apart from media outlets like Indian Country Today, almost no attention is paid to this pattern of violence against already devastated peoples.
- 2960 / 660 (sambugred): America dumbs down: U.S. overrun by wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking
- 2826 / 756 (Master-Thief): The Coddling of the American Mind: In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.
- 2785 / 951 (the_last_broadcast): I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me - How a simplistic, unworkable, and ultimately stifling conception of social justice took over the American college campus
- 2527 / 584 (SushiAndWoW): In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant, known for her high IQ, wrote a column answering the Monty Hall problem. She received over 10,000 derogatory responses, including from scholars and PhDs, belittling her and accusing her of incompetence. Her solution was correct
- 2512 / 530 (asterbotroll): Police K-9 units maul suicidal Florida teenager, unable to eat for a week. On their way to the scene, cops text "COME GET UR BITE" and "IM GONNA TAKE UR BITE IF U DONT HURRY UP". After the incident "CONGRATS" to the officer getting his first "bite". (possibly NSFL photos)
- 2508 / 1262 (istara): How One Stupid Tweet Ruined Justine Sacco’s Life
- 2511 / 398 (imatworkprobably): Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S.
- 2491 / 725 (amaxen): The NYT heavily edited the article 'Comparing: It’s Silicon Valley 2, Ellen Pao 0: Fighter of Sexism Is Out at Reddit ' after it was posted to /r/news. Here's a map of the edits.
- 2464 / 650 (automaticmidnight): Nick Kristof -- To Kill a Chicken: "IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you’re likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you’re an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen."
- 2398 / 932 (nonviolence6): "When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job: Among many climate scientists, gloom has set in. Things are worse than we think, but they can't really talk about it"
- 2378 / 463 (virak_john): Poor people don't lack self control. Poverty forces them to think short-term.
- 2349 / 1009 (datakeep): I lost my dad to Fox News: How a generation was captured by thrashing hysteria
- 2349 / 309 (Libertatea): Drug cops took a college kid’s life savings and now 13 police departments want a cut
- 2348 / 380 (runnerdood): Why don’t taxpayers subsidize the foods that are better for us? "Taxpayers heavily subsidize corn and soy, two crops that facilitate the meat and processed food we’re supposed to eat less of, and do almost nothing for the fruits and vegetables we’re supposed to eat more of."
- 2343 / 1073 (nirad): Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture
- 2344 / 265 (carsonbiz): To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
- 4255 / 460 (thisisthewurst): "In truth, fake news is not a shocking betrayal of media principles, it is the logical end point of for-profit news — not a disease in its own right, but a symptom of an almost purely commercial media system that prioritizes profit above all else."
- 4519 / 364 (grahamiam): Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All.
- 3948 / 887 (walrup): An extraordinary level of tension has emerged - The CIA confirms american elections were undermined. NSA officials warn FBI can't be trusted. In unprecedented move, President Obama orders federal security investigation while Senators clash and President Trump attacks security state establishment
- 4490 / 349 (marcus_goldberg): The Intercept : Indians just staged one of the largest workers strike in human history. Not a single american cable news network ran a segment on it. Even on Labor Day.
- 4092 / 282 (shzadh): "We live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there’s remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost. But when you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist people who are suffering, then suddenly we come very cost-conscious.”
- 3875 / 229 (r4816): Meet the most hated man in the Pentagon: Some of the nation’s leading defense companies are declaring war on a powerful enemy — an obscure Pentagon official named Shay Assad who has helped cut more than $500 million from military contracts with his aggressive scrutiny of their costs.
- 3277 / 1064 (moriartyj): Trump team says they'll kill open Internet "as soon as possible"
- 3200 / 218 (speckz): When the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law it erased many of the vital checks & balances that stood between the American people & their government. The civil liberties world warned them: "Your president has just fashioned a weapon that will be wielded by all who come after him."
- 3458 / 580 (madam1): President Obama, pardon Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning - When it comes to civil liberties, Obama has made grievous mistakes. To salvage his reputation, he should exonerate the two greatest whistleblowers of our age
- 3130 / 517 (marcus_goldberg): It’s time to congratulate the real winner of the 2016 election : Goldman Sachs. Trump named two Goldman bankers to his cabinet and the President of Goldman Sachs just became his top advisor. As for Hillary Clinton, they paid her and she is family. Her win would have been a great victory too
- 3370 / 234 (mister_geaux): "Some will try to downplay it, to dismiss it, to tell you it's a big misunderstanding... But don't believe it. The release of the Panama Papers is a very big deal."
- 2985 / 481 (waaaza): The Obama administration will send $30 billion dollars to Israel, a rich country with healthcare and nuclear warheads. Usually, when someone hands you billions of dollars, you don't demand more. But Israel says it's not enough
- 2956 / 718 (marcellus_Wallas):
MIT Professor Chomsky in 2010 : I’m old enough to have heard Hitler’s speeches. In 2 years Nazis went from 2% of votes to millions of votes. America is looking exactly like Weimar Germany. This level of anger and fear is like nothing I can compare in my lifetime. I fear fascism will come to America - 3203 / 835 (speckz): The University of Chicago to Freshmen: Don’t Expect Safe Spaces or Trigger Warnings. "We do not support so-called 'trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces.'"
- 3100 / 146 (sharpcowboy): Bet You Didn’t Hear Shell Spilled a Bunch of Oil in the Gulf
- 3088 / 397 (Sybles): South Dakota charges a defendant $92 an hour for his public defender, owed no matter the outcome of the case. If a public defender spends 10 hours proving that her client is innocent, the defendant still owes the lawyer $920, even though he committed no crime and his arrest was a mistake.
- 3016 / 211 (mjk1093): 60 Minutes: Police departments have been coercing young people into becoming informants by threatening them with long prison sentences for marijuana charges, forcing them into transactions with dangerous drug dealers. Some of them committed suicide or were murdered by the dealers.
- 2871 / 479 (johnji): “Sanders's fundamental advantage over Clinton is that as voters get to know him better, they come to believe he cares about people like them in a way Clinton doesn't.”
- 2979 / 329 (Jeffreyrock):
FDR Message to Congress in 1938: "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by...any other controlling private power." - 2873 / 541 (pierre_cohen): Glenn Greenwald : After a black president, we are going to get Hillary Clinton elected. Then we will have a gay president. But nothing will really change. It's symbolic messaging to overshadow the real american power structure.
- 5549 / 694 (Public_Fucking_Media): My Family’s Slave - She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
- 4865 / 666 (kattmedtass): Trump filed for reelection in 2020 on Jan. 20th 2017. This means that he, acting as candidate instead of president, can receive large sums of money from citizens as "donations" and nonprofits such as the ACLU and Planned Parenthood can not "campaign" against him without risk losing nonprofit status
- 5003 / 374 (Bluest_waters): Librarian lives frugally entire life to donate a fortune to university library where he worked, university spends money on new football scoreboard 'in his honor'. UNH's tuition is among the highest in the state, thanks in large part to the enormous spending it diverts to the campus football team
- 4362 / 584 (RandomCollection): Millennials Aren't Killing Industries. We're Just Broke and Your Business Sucks
- 3951 / 504 (maarcelus_wallas): Senator Cory Booker Joins Republicans to Kill Measure to Import Cheaper Medicine From Canada - He says it's all about safety. That's why he took more pharmaceutical cash over the past six years than any other Democratic senator
- 3917 / 388 (marcus_goldberg): Apple's headquarter is based in California. The executives work in California and live in California. Instead of paying the California’s tax rate of 8.84%, Apple create a fake empty office in Nevada and said it was their headquarter. How much did Apple pay California ? Zero
- 3879 / 346: Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S.
- 3870 / 198 (speckz): Since decriminalizing all drugs in 2001, Portugal's overdose rate has decreased by ~75% and now has one of the lowest overdose rates in all of Europe.
- 3843 / 273 (redabenomar): You want to understand Russia ? At the end of the Soviet Union 22 Capitalists stole 40% of Russian wealth. 150 million people fell in poverty, nurses became prostitutes, life expectancy collapsed. Western bankers didn't just ignore it, they joined the looting. This is how Vladimir Putin happened
- 3688 / 505 (speckz): What Happens When You Give Basic Income to the Poor? Canada Is About to Find Out. Poor Citizens to Receive $1,320 a Month in Canada's 'No Strings Attached' Basic Income Trial.
- 3611 / 182 (ptlx): "In 2014, for the first time in recorded history, police in the United States seized more money and property through civil asset forfeiture than all burglars and thieves combined."
- 3602 / 740 (speckz): Man Boasts Of Sexual Assault, Later Inaugurated 45th President Of United States
- 3595 / 435 (redabenomar): Senator Elizabeth Warren accused JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon of engaging in illegal activities. His response ? He leaned back, slowly smiled, and then replied “So hit me with a fine. We can afford it"
- 3519 / 615 (Indyfilmfool): Bannon gets a permanent seat on the National Security Council, while the director of national intelligence and chairman of the joint chiefs are told they'll be invited occasionally.
- 3679 / 195 (TheRedDragon88): About 70% of China's "missing girls" is due to not registering their births, rather than infanticide. As these girls are now turning 18 and going to college or working, the early phase of about 20 million teen girls materializing on the census out of nowhere.
- 3454 / 319 (Akkeri): New Evidence Proves That Nixon Sabotaged Vietnam Peace Talks in 1968. That's Worse Than Watergate
- 3437 / 379 (barnaby-jones): Gerrymandering is the biggest obstacle to genuine democracy in the United States. So why is no one protesting?
- 3410 / 204 (mjk1093): Imagine that after each year’s Super Bowl the winning team got to rewrite the rules of the game, tweaking them to play to its particular strengths, increasing its chances of victory in subsequent seasons. That’s essentially how America’s electoral system functions today.
- 3621 / 995 (speckz): Iceland has almost eliminated Down syndrome by aborting virtually 100 percent of fetuses that test positive. Should the rest of the world follow suit?
- 3367 / 306 (Bluest_waters): Trump’s pick to run Environmental office says more CO2 is good for humanity: She's said renewable energy is ‘parasitic’ and that carbon dioxide ‘has no adverse environmental impacts on people.' “Her views are so out of the mainstream, it’s almost as if she falls in kind of a flat earth category.”
- 4314 / 468 (trumpismysaviour): Russiagate Is Far Wider Than Trump and His Inner Circle: It isn’t just the story of a few corrupt officials, or even a corrupt president. It’s the story of a corrupt Republican Party
- 4144 / 1057 (trumpismysaviour): Nazis separated me from my parents as a child. The trauma lasts a lifetime: I know from experience that the Trump-sanctioned brutality at the US border with Mexico will scar its child victims for life
- 5134 / 664 (NonskidFacade): David Brooks : I miss Barack Obama. I disagreed with many of his decisions but Obama had basic integrity and humanity. He had elegance. He had respect for people working for him. He avoided despair, cynism or fear. He had self-control under extreme pressure. I really miss him
- 4837 / 1217 (speckz): Giving every adult in the United States a $1,000 cash handout per month would grow the economy by $2.5 trillion by 2025, according to a new study on universal basic income.
- 4934 / 258 (DictatorDan): The Dutch are developing a machine that rewards crows with food for picking up and throwing away cigarette butts.
- 3458 / 217 (speckz): The Senate just quietly passed the biggest rollback of Wall Street regulations since the financial crisis
- 3351 / 482 (Bluest_waters): In the richest nation on earth diabetics are desparate and dying due to skyrocketing insulin and diabetic care costs. One young man's diabetic care costs $1,300 a month, he died after running out. Insulin is easy to produce and not in short supply. But pharma companies see a profit opportunity.
- 3304 / 144 (speckz): Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750,000 Meant To Feed Inmates, Bought Beach House
- 3297 / 428 (ouroboro76): Average American worker takes less vacation than a medieval peasant - Business Insider
- 3959 / 369 (speckz): Jeff Sessions is helping the police to take your stuff away. The Trump administration has decided to support the deeply unpopular policy of civil forfeiture.
- 3221 / 182 (Momojo): John Bolton didn’t just pretend to have evidence that Cuba had biological weapons in 2002. He berated and tried to fire intelligence analysts who challenged him on it.
- 3160 / 400 (speckz): A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on. U.S. Customs took it without charging him with a crime.
- 3040 / 317 (trumpsuxd): Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not: American workers are being shut out of the profits they are helping to generate. The decline of unions is a big reason
- 2864 / 325 (trumpismysaviour): Almost 80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck. Here's why: America doesn’t have a jobs crisis. It has a ‘good jobs’ crisis – where too much employment is insecure, and poorly paid
- 3142 / 1312 (SuccessfulOperation): Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader.
- 2829 / 371 (atomicspace): Wikipedia has updated America's history of concentration camps to include the migrant "detention centers" along the Texas border.
- 2939 / 352 (cincilator): How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudoscientific American Fantasyland
- 2707 / 525 (trumpismysaviour): The Tyranny of Politeness: The proper time and place to protest, they say, is always the time and place where they feel they can most easily ignore us. When we show up at their churches, homes, and country clubs, we are no longer constrained by their rigged rules
- 3266 / 207 (TroyHernandez): The Same Democrats Who Denounce Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers
- 2675 / 361 (Ultravis66): Harvey Weinstein’s $1 million get-out-of-jail card shows the injustice of bail (and how it favors the rich)