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2026-07-14 Social General Briefing Summary

 2026-07-14  380 words  2 minutes   #social  

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US outbreak of parasite causing ‘watery diarrhea’ rises to more than 2,800 cases (r/news)

• luminousrobot: 2800 REPORTED CASES. The real number has to be much higher
• Violet_Paradox: A parasite that was on the CDC watchlist until RFK specifically took it off.
• ArguesWithFrogs: Oh no. If only we had some sort of government organization responsible for tracking & containing outbreaks of diseases.

U.S. judge voids Trump’s settlement with IRS, refers lawyers for discipline (r/news)

• JimDemintRecession: Some of you may be disbarred, but that is a price I am willing to pay
• AverageJoe-707: Trump and his entire family should be audited EVERY YEAR including past years.
• nevermindthebolox: Great to hear about this pushback. As others have said it might not get too far, but at least it’s being fought against, it will hopefully make others think about their actions in future.

Lake Powell reaching critically low elevation levels, nearing ‘dead power pool,’ experts say (r/news)

• YodaForceGhost: Went to Lake Powell about a decade ago and there was concern from some tourism workers that the lake may not exist by 2030 or beyond. Looks like we’re at that point a few years early
• Responsible-Grand-57: Sure seems to me like it’s time to revisit those “water rights” contracts? Every user of this waterway is screwed if entities keep using their “rights” to the fullest extent possible.
• 71351: Until they adopt “same in same out” at the very least, dry winters like was just had will make the dead pool a sure thing. Data centers anywhere in the greater Colorado river drainage should be DOA. Citizens can never offset industrial/agricultural demands. It’s not complicated math really

What is a hidden gem YouTube channel that is so high quality you are shocked it’s completely free to watch? (r/AskReddit)

• CMMH93: I love Tasting History, such good and interesting content.
• zebra0312: TechnologyConnections. Especially reasonable since he is from the US.
• NakedScrub: The Taskmaster channel. Hundreds of free episodes of full series on there.

What everyday thing from 20 years ago disappeared so gradually nobody noticed? (r/AskReddit)

• _-Samsara: Family photo albums instead of thousands of photos sitting unseen on a phone
• Superb_Algae5308: Web forums for niche interests. Reddit is the dumbing down of that concept.
• TheCoop1986: Insects. Populations have crashed worldwide.

2026-07-13 Social General Briefing Summary

 2026-07-13  483 words  3 minutes   #social  

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Sam Neill, Jurassic Park actor, dies aged 78 (r/news)

• Sportsman180: Rest in Peace, Dr. Grant! Thanks for the memories!
• _Ludovico: His expression upon seeing dinosaurs for the first time still gives me chills
• Jetman54: Devastating news. We obviously can’t know what celebrities are like behind the scenes, but everything I’ve ever seen or heard about him seemed to indicate that he was a lovely human being. He’s leaving behind an impressive legacy, to say the least. RIP

US Senator Lindsey Graham dies (r/news)

• Have_A_Jelly_Baby: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.” - Lindsey Graham, 2016
• LegacyLemur: Not the one I was expecting to see in the headlines
• DazDaSpazz: Everyone is wondering if Mitch McConnell is alive and Lindsey says hold my ladybugs.

Outcry after Atlanta tosses unhoused people’s belongings near World Cup spot | Atlanta (r/news)

• Skin_Floutist: That’s a public park that people couldn’t use because of the homeless.
• leetfists: If I left a bunch of my shit on the ground in a public space, I wouldn’t expect it to be there for long. Everyone is this thread is acting like this is some sort of crime against humanity, but do you really think people should just be allowed to leave their junk lying around in a public park indefinitely without it ever being cleaned up?
• lurpeli: Standard response to the homeless. Make them appear as though they don’t exist and then ignore them.

Women of Reddit, what is your ultimate “I am an adult and no one can stop me” purchase that you are both incredibly proud of and slightly embarrassed by? (r/AskReddit)

• cherrycocktail20: Every time I buy chocolate milk my inner six year old cackles in unrestrained glee. Stop me now, mom!
• OliverTwist123: I remember the life altering moment when I realized I could have birthday cake whenever I wanted. And, for that matter, that cake does not strictly have to be a ‘birthday cake’. I could just bake a cake because I wanted to. And I did. And that’s when I knew I was an adult.
• flugualbinder: I drove 8 hours one way for a specific cheeseburger. Between the cost of the food and the gas to get there and back home, it was the most expensive burger of my life. And it wasn’t even gourmet 😂

What famous person have we suspiciously not heard from for a long time now? (r/AskReddit)

• thebanger71: Fabio. Was everywhere in the 80s and 90s. Gone since that bird and rollercoaster incident
• mugglequeen: Hillary Swank! I just looked her up yesterday to see what she’s been up to. Started a family and was (is?) caring for an ailing parent.
• EducationalStay3365: tbh gotye. he made a song about being someone that we used to know and then actually became someone that we used to know. he really committed to the bit and then just vanished.

2026-07-12 Social General Briefing Summary

 2026-07-12  376 words  2 minutes   #social  

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New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices (r/news)

• vector_search_blue: Perhaps the first US city, but California had this ban for a while.
• Aromatic_Employ3392: Needs to be a national law ASAP
• No_Internal9345: Can we replace all of DC with clones of Mamdani?

Legal fight between Circle K and employee over $12.8 million lottery ticket (r/news)

• g—e: Its not new at all. This has always been procedure for any convenience store that sells lottery tickets where ive worked
• Jjmanks_13: I used to work at QuickChek (New Jersey) in high school and they also had the same policy.
• amateur_mistake: That’s a really evil policy.

Houston ICE shooting witnesses claim driver didn’t try to ram agents, report says (r/news)

• nerfedbeyblade: ICE rarely has actual reasoning behind their attacks.
• ailish: It comes as a shock to no one that ICE lied.
• torcsandantlers: If you told me they told the truth, I’d think you were lying to me.

LGBTQ+ cruise ship refused entry to Egypt days after Turkey turned it away (r/news)

• ClassicHando: Won’t lie, if I was going on a gay cruise I’d want to be stopping in places more friendly
• madogvelkor: Yeah, don’t go to countries that hate gays and have laws against you.
• Vibrantmender20: Did the coordinators of this cruise put in any amount of forethought?

What’s a movie cliche that happened to you in real life, even though they “never happen in real life”? (r/AskReddit)

• CoffeeExtraCream: In college I (male) lived in an apartment my sophomore year. The layout was weird and each floor had 2 apartments. The apartment across the hall from us we noticed was a bunch of girls moving in. So we joked amongst ourselves that we should go over and ask to borrow a cup of sugar to meet them. Almost immediately after we made the joke we hear a knock on our door and it was our neighbors from across the hall asking to borrow a cup of sugar.
• NotTheGreenestThumb: Inherited money from a relative none of us ever heard of before.
• Commander_Cyclops: More of a general comedy cliche, but I once slipped on a banana peel on a public sidewalk. Fell backwards and landed right on my ass, just like Curly.

2026-07-08 Social General Briefing Summary

 2026-07-08  317 words  2 minutes   #social  

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China sentences official to death for taking \$325m in bribes (r/news)

• Andy_LaVolpe: Embezzlement and bribery should be treated as treason. Public officials that accept bribes should be treated as traitors to the people.
• Quinocco: Not a fan of capital punishment, but if you’re gonna have it, I’m all for using it for rich people crimes.
• Wonderful-Process792: Three hundred and twenty-five million? If this is true, aside from this guy’s personal actions, somebody is not minding the shop. That’s a lot of money to go unnoticed for so long.

ICE agent fatally shoots motorist during traffic stop in Houston (r/news)

• 2daytrending: A loss of life should always trigger serious scrutiny, regardless of agency involved.
• limbweaver: it’s not a traffic stop, ICE can’t do traffic stops.
• TheObsidianHawk: This just in, there was no body cam footage. It went missing.

‘Buckling’ beams at Manhattan high-rise under construction trigger mass evacuations (r/news)

• Drum_Roll_Plz: FDNY confirmed the building is still actively moving and they cant get anyone inside to shore it up until it stops.
• airwalker08: The building has not moved since 12 p.m. That’s a sentence I never expected to read
• OpenMindedMajor: Surprised to hear this. The architect, Gensler, has a pretty great reputation within design/construction. Interested to know what’s happened here

IOC lifts suspension and paves way for Russia to compete at LA 2028 Olympics | International Olympic Committee (r/news)

• invyros: FIFA and IOC competing for least moral sports org.
• tanbug: Is there a secret competition among countries, organisations and companies to become the biggest assholes on the planet?
• Saint-Caligula: Trump must have called the IOC as well.

Three tankers hit in the Strait of Hormuz as US revokes license authorizing sale of Iranian oil (r/news)

• Prudent_Rice7840: But the Memorandum of Understanding!
• Fallouttgrrl: On a Tuesday? kalshi bettors must be so upset right now
• Ive_seen_things_that: Good news is Trump gets another peace deal with Iran!!

2026-07-07 Social General Briefing Summary

 2026-07-07  243 words  2 minutes   #social  

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Pentagon restores mandatory flu shots for all recruits as boot camp outbreak sickens nearly 300 (r/news)

• StevieOfPhoenix: Wow it’s almost as if vaccines could have prevented this in the first place.
• OrderAdditional1791: “Nobody knew” this could happen
• TheRexRider: Ok. So what have we learned?

Camp Mystic, site of deadly Texas flooding, files for bankruptcy (r/news)

• Icouldusesomerock: And that’s what happens when you don’t prioritize saftey
• Dull-Ad8161: It should also be facing criminal charges.
• CaseyAnthonysMouth: CANNOT BELIEVE they were trying to reopen this year.

Arby’s manager accused of giving customer herpes after spitting in food, court records say (r/news)

• Similar-Wolverine-10: As if I needed any more reason to stop eating fast food.
• FlyingFlipPhone: This is why you should NEVER return food to the kitchen.
• Health_throwaway__: And this is why I don’t eat out

Millions lose food stamps under Trump cuts. Arizona is hardest hit (r/news)

• justmitzie: Poverty exists not because we can’t feed the poor, but because we can’t satisfy the rich.
• africanlivedit: Time for those who voted for him to pull themselves up from their bootstraps!
• Fit-Let8175: On the bright side, the very rich are richer still!

Powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas (r/news)

• lee7on1: Early videos are already looking very bad, this is so sad…
• Itzli: This is awful, it’s the last thing they needed. Fuerza Venezuela!
• sjhesketh: We’re in Aruba on vacation and felt an aftershock around 6PM. Very noticeable.

2026-07-06 Social General Briefing Summary

 2026-07-06  279 words  2 minutes   #social  

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Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr. (r/news)

• handDrawnEevee: I am honestly surprised that something as risky as stem cell injection is the goto for ‘treating’ autism among antivaxxers. Like it’s so much more complicated than just a getting a vaccine, you can’t be anti-vax and pro-unregulated stem cell treatments, that’s nuts.
• avid-shrug: Medical experimentation on the disabled is honestly the natural conclusion of the anti-vax movement.
• imoftendisgruntled: Don’t the conspiracy theorists think that stem cells are from abducted children?

Judge orders Justin Baldoni to cover Blake Lively’s legal fees for Wayfarer lawsuit (r/news)

• SquareSecond: Don’t pay expensive lawyers to file meritless lawsuits.
• shanghaisnaggle: Let us never speak of this again.
• rThundrbolt: Counterpoint: can everyone just stop talking about these people?

Former Louisiana mayor sentenced to 90 days over rape charge, inspiring outrage from his daughter (r/news)

• SpaceForceAwakens: Would almost be more acceptable if they just let him go free and stated they don’t care.
• BaronGreywatch: Rapist gets 90 days.
• BiteMeHomie: That’s it, we are officially beyond parody.

Active shooter barricaded in building in Midland County, Michigan; police officer, civilian wounded (r/news)

• comfortably_nuumb: I work in the building across the street from that hospital. Yesterday was extremely surreal.
• Expensive_Plastic186: I love my country so much, but holy shit America do you have a gun violence problem. I can’t even imagine
• Only-Newspaper-8593: This shit is exhausting

Gene Shalit, ‘Today’ show movie critic, dies at 100 (r/news)

• AudibleNod: I love this quote from Roger Ebert “Gene Shalit has a merry way with words, and a mustache to match.”
• skarekroh: Gene Shalit was still alive?
• ThePiggySlasher: 100 years old. Just a kid.

2026-07-05 Social General Briefing Summary

 2026-07-05  304 words  2 minutes   #social  

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400 Masked White Nationalist March on Through Washington D.C. chanting “Reclaim America” (r/news)

• MacrotonicWave: look it’s the folks maga told me didn’t exist
• nd_annajones: Reclaim America from whom? You all seem to be in charge of everything
• WallyMcBeetus: They took socialist transit to get there.

Paul Pelosi in hit-and-run in California, car left with major damage, authorities say (r/news)

• StuffonBookshelfs: …just another old person that should have had their license revoked a long time ago.
• kna5041: Time to hand the keys over if you can’t drive around a parked car without hitting it.
• insertnamehere57: Wait is this a new story? This happened again? why is he still driving?!?

Over 842,000 without power across the country as US is blanketed by heatwave (r/news)

• xXxSovietxXx: In Michigan, where we already pay ridiculous rates to DTE (who also haven’t paid taxes in a decade), say they won’t have it fixed by Monday at 11:30pm by the latest
• altmannnn3: Wish we had funds for better infrastructure… I don’t think I’ve heard that word once from the president…
• bluehawk232: Well the important thing is the oil execs made a lot of money

Ukraine hits major oil terminal in Russia’s St Petersburg (r/news)

• Dwayla: Never forget, Ukraine goes after military targets, Russia goes after hospitals, schools, and kindergartens. They are terrorists.
• D00bage: Interesting how far they have come now that they stopped talking to the White House
• Knightrider319: Never too early to start the 4th fireworks!

What movie is a perfect 10/10, but you never want to watch it again? (r/AskReddit)

• newmaninlaca: Dear Zachary
• Effstop1: Trainspotting. It’s great. But I’m a recovering addict (luckily not H) and the downward spiral of watching addiction ruin lives is a bit too much nowadays.
• Queasy-Cap1666: Schindler’s List. One of the greatest films ever made, but it’s emotionally exhausting

2026-07-03 Social General Briefing Summary

 2026-07-03  296 words  2 minutes   #social  

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Autopsy released of Mississippi baby killed by police (r/news)

• MaidoftheBrins: Why is it taking so long for any video to be released? Walmart, dashcam and body cam all need to be given to Crump and the ME.
• mustardmeated: The cop’s gonna get off on qualified immunity, without a doubt.
• PorQuepin3: The US is a third world country

More people than thought may be at risk for red meat allergy caused by ticks (r/news)

• whowhodillybar: It’s crazy to think of how life changing it would be to just become allergic to meat and potentially dairy.
• dskot: My MAGA neighbor just put a sign out front of his house about how Billy Gates is behind this one and they want us all to eat lab meat. Wonderful.
• FireRotor: I met a guy in French lick Indiana, who would smoke meat for veterans and I asked him what he smoked and he said just chicken because everyone has the damn allergy.

Vatican excommunicates all members of ultra-conservative rebel group SSPX (r/news)

• CoalCrackerKid: Chicago Pope doesn’t play around
• rhino910: This was a good move by the Pope. A radical right-wing group in the Church that refuses to acknowledge the Pope or the Church’s teachings is bad for the church
• GearhedMG: SSPX Excommunicado 6:00pm Eastern Standard Time.

‘Moscow will fall’ — 13 Russian power stations shut down across occupied Ukraine, military says (r/worldnews)

• Scribble_Box: What an absolute, colossal fuck up this has been for Putin. You love to see it. Slava Ukraini!
• BKinBC: SOMEBODY has to be thinking, ‘maybe I can get him near the window…’
• MustardEnema007: Have they hit the distilleries?

What’s a movie that was clearly meant to start a franchise but failed? (r/AskReddit)

• wish1977: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• MidnightPrevious4473: Eragon
• Tels315: Jumper

2026-07-02 Social General Briefing Summary

 2026-07-02  255 words  2 minutes   #social  

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Egg producers will pay \$3.3M and donate 53 million eggs to settle price fixing claims (r/news)

• Imnotsureanymore8: Fines are worthless. These folks should see jail time.
• thirtytwoutside: And the average consumer who paid the higher prices will see none of that.
• aschesklave: The people who shouted “the price of eggs is Biden’s fault” must feel really dumb right now.

U.S. beats Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 to advance to round of 16 and keep its World Cup dreams alive (r/news)

• DieHardNole: Okay Seattle we need your stadium to do your thing Monday
• halfredowl: does this effect lebron james legacy?
• Adventurous-Fact-523: USA, Canada, and Mexico are still alive. USA are gonna be slight favorites vs belgium

Trump declines to renew major trade deal with Canada, Mexico (r/worldnews)

• noidontwantto: A trade deal that he negotiated himself, fucking guy
• CountOnBeingAwesome: The fart of the deal
• Rsantana02: Canada and Mexico are leaving the US behind and looking for other trade partners and allies. It is a loss to the US.

What was the shortest lived fad? (r/AskReddit)

• willieyobslayer: Backwards pants a-la Kriss Kross.
• silently_fluid: 3D TV
• SpeedBlitzX: NFTs

People who are highly observant: what is a tiny, almost invisible psychological ’tell’ that instantly reveals someone’s true intentions or character? [Serious] (r/AskReddit)

• tretschinken: How they treat people they don’t need anything from. It’s surprisingly hard to fake consistently.
• dinkinflicka02: The assumptions they make about other people’s intentions tells you more about a person than almost anything else.
• GordonGartrellShirt: doing something good when they think no one is watching

2026-06-30 Social General Briefing Summary

 2026-06-30  349 words  2 minutes   #social  

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Luigi Mangione’s federal trial in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing postponed until January (r/news)

• upvoter222: TL;DR: The federal trial is being delayed until after the state trial since it’s impractical for Luigi’s team to work on both trials simultaneously.
• chocolateboomslang: How much time is he going have served already if they sentence him?
• firefighter26s: So it’s my understanding that any time served in prison leading up to the trail can be deducted from the sentence if found guilty, but what if he’s found innocent? How is that time handled? Is there any kind of reimbursement?

Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to appeal E. Jean Carroll \$5 million verdict (r/news)

• Mockturtle22: E.Jean knows he will never pay that money. She just wanted him held accountable. Which is something that will also never really happen.
• ImperfectRegulator: Trump and his admin are taking some Fat L’s today, and I’m here for it
• New-Leader-7891: Is it just me, or does it seem like the Supreme Court is constantly tied up with BS Trump cases when it should be focusing on actual laws that effect actual citizens?

Venezuela earthquake: father and son found alive in rubble after four days as death toll nears 1,500 (r/news)

• trunksshinohara: 51000 people are still missing.
• Som12H8: The longest someone has survived in a collapsed building due to an earthquake is 27 days, in Haiti, so I hope they keep digging. Basically I think you need access to water to survive that long.
• BeginningPlastic3747: four days under rubble and they came out alive, that’s genuinely hard to wrap your head around.

Which fast food restaurant do you think will go out of business soon? (r/AskReddit)

• poizon_elff: Panera bread (fast casual I guess) it’s so expensive for what you get
• Kaos99: Panera. Went to private equity and has sunk ever since
• ellistonvu: Buffalo Wild Wings is hemorrhaging money. Not sure how long that will last.

What has gradually disappeared over the last 10 years so subtly that most people didn’t even realize it? (r/AskReddit)

• lencastre: right to privacy
• Extra_Ad_5451: Cocoa content in chocolate.
• QueenOfSplitEnds: SkyMall on flights

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