Protests have taken place around the world calling for action to avert environmental catastrophe.
From London to Sydney, here's a look at some of the millions of people joining the global youth climate strike.
People shared some of their favorite signs on Twitter as well:
It's ok to have to be taught a bit or learn a little more.
But most of the people who need the lessons seem to be the most oblivious.
That's why I've given up and embraced celibacy.
Mama is too tired to teach.
Redditor XposeLLC wanted to hear about the times people had to end sexy time with a certain partner, so they asked:
"What’s the pettiest reason you stopped sleeping with someone?"
"She would enter the metro before the people got out."
- IloveponiesbutnotMLP
"Just like people who enter the elevator before letting others out."
- DrooDrawDrawn
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"I didn't like the smell of her hairspray. In fairness, this was in the late '80s when hairspray ruled the world."
- yakfsh1
"Oh man, I totally get this! I was a kid at the time, but I remember sometimes I’d be near a teenage girl (at the mall, or a girl who lived on my street) who would be very attractive but had this TOXIC hairspray smell that actually irritated my nose/sinuses. I was really young, so I just assumed it was a normal 'girls are yukie' thing, but reading your comment was like a time warp for me!"
- blue-wave
"He was VERY dumb, and it gave me a guilty conscience. It was almost like I was taking advantage of him or something. I wasn’t, he was just THAT stupid."
- Barfignugen
"Not sleeping with, but I started to date this dude over the summer, and when he visited, we made out a lot and then I realized holy crap this feels wrong. It almost felt like I was taking advantage of him. I’m 18, and he was 20, but I swear he was not a day over 14 in his mannerisms and just everything. It was awful."
- Snakes_and_Rakes
"Her breath. I can deal with normal bad breath. This was not normal bad breath. It almost seemed like a reaction to something, like she was taking a new medicine or something, and horrific breath was a side effect. I could see in her mouth while she was talking one night, and I swear the back of her tongue was green."
- whitemanwhocantjump
"She didn't know Hawaii was a state."
- ScreamingNinja
"Mine didn’t know the number of United States. Maybe same person."
- txlady100
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"Gave the worst bridesmaid speech in the world, never looked at her the same way again. Well..she pulled the folded up paper with the speech out of her bra, spent the first half roasting the bride, revealed that when the bride met the groom she said 'Oh no way would I ever marry him,' proceeded to lead into saying the bride was never choosy about the people the she slept with anyways, then tried to make a bunch of bad jokes to save the day, none of which hit."
"Quite literally crickets the entire speech. Bride didn’t smile once, then proceeded to wipe tears away by the end. Then I had to pretend things were all good the rest of the night - was just hoping the whole place would set on fire during the speech so I could run out."
- sexualpeelin
"When we were having sex anytime she started to feel good she didn't moan. Instead she did this yell that would rise a little then start to crack. It sounded painful and was very grating on the ears. Not to mention she sounded hella distressed like she was being murdered. Couldn't keep it up."
- Master_Thief_789
"She kept leaving half-drunk cups of coffee around my house."
- Euphoric_Surprise776
"My wife does this."
"I keep falling for it too, stupidly assuming that all of the dirty dishes are located around the kitchen so I fill the dishwasher and turn it on. Then I see a cup in the living room, one in the bedroom, one on the outside table, sometimes one just sitting on the ground in the garden."
"But if that's the worst thing I've got going on in my life then I ain't got no problems."
- BatmansShoelaces
"When we hooked up, his 'moves' were comparable to a Chihuahua. Just, short, quick, rapid movements while holding on for dear life."
"Haven't experienced this during sex before, but in a similar vein with kissing. I met a guy at a club and was dancing with him. The conversation was great and I gave my friend the 'thumbs up,' but then he kissed me... It was like a snake tongue darting in and out of my mouth in rapid succession. My thumbs up behind his back immediately became a thumbs down, and my friend quickly snatched me away, LOL."
- tacoslave420
"I knew he played Sudoku, which is honestly a plus, but then I learned he didn’t understand it. He would just fill in random numbers and 'try to make it work.' When I tried to explain the rules, he said it was too complicated and he preferred his own way of playing."
- DaintyBadass
"This cracked me up. It’s like on one hand, he was having fun but on the other… Imagine playing a game where it’s like accepted that there’s a less than 1% chance of you solving it and just being ~fine~ with that."
- jady115
"She kept telling me how everything happening in her life was because she was a Hufflepuff."
- Nibblefritz
"I think my stepdad thinks every Harry Potter fan is like this, treating the houses like zodiac signs. My fiancée is a Hufflepuff but doesn't frame her life around it, of course."
- mathemusician96
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"Happened to a friend of mine, she was dating a guy for a couple of months, 30s still living at home, parents were older but were independent. A sister close to his age also lived at home."
"He would come over to her place, have sex but would never sleep over. Was kind or serious, and introduced her to his parents."
"Leading up to Christmas/New Years, she wanted to make plans to go away for New Years, he said ok."
"But he stalled booking, they ended up having a fight, and he finally confessed he could never go away with her because he could never leave his parents, not even overnight."
- karenskygreen
"She said she didn’t want a drink when ordering at Subway, then drank most of mine and asked if she could refill it for herself to go."
- Tmunk16
"My husband does this. I just buy a larger size and expect him to eat it. He does."
- PurinMeow
"I try to stay cool when a woman doesn't want fries or whatever and starts eating mine, but I'm absolutely fuming on the inside. It's always me paying. I've offered to get you anything you want, but what you want is on my plate. Grrrr.
- JunkmanJim
"I had a huge crush on him for years. He was gorgeous and pretty shy. Tall and thin with beautiful long hair. He even did some modeling. Well, I finally got to sleep with him, but when he finished, he said, 'Oh gosh,' in a voice that sounded just like Mickey Mouse. I could tell it was involuntary, and it just killed that crush I had on him. The sex was pretty bad, too, but I was trying to convince myself I could work around that and teach him. But the 'oh gosh' was the final nail."
- littletrashpanda77
"She sat on a pair of sunglasses I'd had for like 5 years, then laughed about it."
"It's been nearly 20 years, and I'm still mad about it."
- GoliathBoneSnake
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If someone destroys my property and doesn't apologize... I'm calling the police.
Sunglasses are expensive.
Should've sent an invoice.
Some of these stories are just an ad for celibate living.
Do you have any stories to add? Let us know in the comments.
Endeavoring to once again educate the electorate, New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez( AOC) pointed out Republicans' penchant for breaking promises during a meeting to discuss the budget by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
You can see her remarks here:
Highlighting Republican promises already broken, Representative Ocasio-Cortez said:
"We heard that we should take your word that Medicaid will be protected—that we should trust you that no one is going to be affected by this."
"But as a woman, the word was given to me that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court—and that wasn’t true."
"As an American, the word was given that our First Amendment protections would be in place for everyone, including green-card holders and people who are lawfully here in this country. That didn’t end up to be true."
AOC—as she's come to be called since being elected to Congress in 2019—addressed her committee colleagues and members of the gallery over the GOP's refusal to add an amendment to their budget proposal which includes $880 billion in cuts to the Medicaid budget.
They claim their funding cuts are all going to involve the undefined, undisclosed "waste" identified by Elon Musk's Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE), so benefits won't be touched. But AOC declared she's heard that song before.
She said:
"We have not heard a single concrete number of the amount of waste and abuse that has been identified. There’s kind of this vague magic wand around waste."
She then referred to comments made by Musk and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about government waste.
She added:
"What’s being suggested is that … people seeing the doctor is a waste."
Republicans pointed to prior oversight plans, but AOC countered:
"DOGE did not exist two years ago. 19-year-olds were not raiding the Treasury two years ago. Elon Musk is not a scientist. He is not an engineer."
"He is a billionaire conman with a lot of money. … These are peoples’ lives that are on the line and we cannot laugh them away."
People agreed with her distrust of Republican promises.
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Democrats asked Republicans to put their promise in writing and add an amendment establishing none of those cuts will be to benefits.
The GOP, of course, refused.
Economists warn the decline could signal a looming recession, especially as Trump presses forward with aggressive tariffs that risk driving up prices, stalling growth, and increasing unemployment. Despite the downturn occurring under his leadership, Trump declined to accept even "one tiny, itsy-bitsy" bit of responsibility in a post on Truth Social ahead of the market’s open.
He wrote:
"This is Biden's Stock Market, not Trump's. I didn't take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden 'Overhang.'"
"This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!!"
But compare those words to what Trump wrote in January 2024, when Biden was very much in office:
"THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP – EVERYTHING ELSE IS TERRIBLE (WATCH THE MIDDLE EAST!), AND RECORD SETTING INFLATION HAS ALREADY TAKEN ITS TOLL."
"MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
You can see Trump's posts below.
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Trump was defensive when questioned by a reporter about not taking credit for the stock market now that it is "not doing so well":
"I'm not taking credit or discredit for the stock market, I'm just saying that we inherited a mess both at the borders and you can look at any one of the people here and no matter who it is they're doing better and are far superior to what took place for four years before us."
"When you look at prisoners being allowed to come into our country at will, people from mental institutions, gang members, drug dealers. ... When you look at that and also what happened with finance, what happened with inflation, we've had the worst inflation probably in the history of our country."
You can hear what he said in the video below.
Many have called out Trump in response.
When Biden was in office, Trump infamously said he hoped the stock market would crash "in the next 12 months" because he doesn't want "to be Herbert Hoover," aiming to distance himself from the responsibility of managing a troubled economy:
"When does it crash? I hope it's gonna be during these next 12 months because I don't wanna be Herbert Hoover. The one president I just don’t want to be, Herbert Hoover.”
Trump stands as the sole modern president who, upon concluding his first term, oversaw a decrease in U.S. jobs compared to the start of his presidency.
The global COVID-19 pandemic, which Trump belatedly acknowledged and frequently downplayed or denied during its progression, wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy in his final year in office. The robust job market he anticipated to secure him a second term was obliterated.
In January 2021, just before the conclusion of Trump's term, the Labor Department disclosed that total U.S. employment had plummeted by 140,000 in December, resulting in a total of 142.6 million jobs—approximately 10 million fewer than pre-pandemic levels.
Trump's macabre hopes for the stock market had earlier triggered a strong response from Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who condemned his comments as "insensitive and grotesque" and expressed disbelief at Trump's apparent lack of understanding of the impact such a crash would have on American working families.
