2026-05-11 Social General Briefing Summary
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Black Hills drilling project canceled after backlash from tribes (r/news)
- rieirieri: Such a welcome reprieve from all the depressing headlines. Good on the tribes for fighting this. I’m so glad they won.
- get__jinxxed: HELL YEAH! Great job to the tribes!
- Lazy-Impress-9708: Great news. Need some wins like this up in Alaska.
6 people found dead inside cargo train boxcar in Texas (r/news)
- YcemeteryTreeY: Sadly it was probably human smuggling. Smugglers dont care, they will abandon everyone if they think theyre going to get caught.
- lormightymike: Reminds me of the beginning of Season 2 of the Wire when they found 13 dead women in the shipping container.
- thatgirl25_: How strange and tragic is the reality that we currently. That people need to risk their lives and flee to other lands to feel safer. And the only thing separating us from this horrific ending is geographical luck. First world nations existing on the exploitation of the second and third world will not last.
Fugitive former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro is now in the United States courtesy of a visa from President Donald Trump after fleeing Hungary (r/worldnews)
- pixtax: “i have the best people.”
- ButterscotchOk5339: Welcomed by both Orban and Trump? Sounds guilty to me.
- gianluca_antonelli: He doesn’t want immigrants because they would increse the criminality, then proceeds to host criminals in his country👍
Vatican recognises the ‘pain’ experienced by LGBTQ+ Catholics in landmark report (r/worldnews)
- urbanek2525: The Pope tried to condemn the practice of slavery in the US too. I guess he’s going to find out that most Catholics listen to him only when he tells them what they want to hear.
- Cultural_Meeting_240: only took them like 2000 years to figure that one out.
- Miss-Information_: Ooooo just in time for politics Monday in the Catholicism sub
TIL that the oldest active organization affiliated with New Orleans Mardi Gras hasn’t marched in the parade since 1991 because it refuses to let non-white people join. (r/todayilearned)
- ComprehensiveForm129: Each step of the way, I couldn’t have predicted where that sentence was going
- puddinfellah: To be clear, the ordinance was struck down in 2000 for privacy concerns, but unlike the other krews, it did not return to the parade.
- Klockworth: So it’s a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant crewe that didn’t allow Catholics marching in a parade celebrating a catholic holiday?
What’s a “rich people thing” you experienced once and immediately understood why rich people love it? (r/AskReddit)
- AfterHoursAllure: A first class lie flat seat on a long haul flight. I showed up tired, ate real food with a metal fork, put on pajamas, and slept horizontally at 35,000 feet. Got off the plane like a human being. No neck pain, no regret. Suddenly understood why people never go back
- Concave007: tailored clothing. wore a shirt that actually fit once. spent the next 10 years angry at every shirt i’d ever owned.
- ZebraMussell: I used to think rich people were impatient because they were entitled. I realized they’re “impatient” because they’ve tasted what it’s like when the world actually works efficiently, and once you’ve had that, every 15 minute delay feels like a personal tax on your life.