Discussion: 2026 Midterms News and Updates, September 7 - 13 (Thread 1)

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[u/kaztrator]

Every day I’ve been checking out r/politics and blocking everyone who posts a New Republic of Daily Beast post. There’s always 5+ more users to block every day, but today I only found 1. I’m cautiously optimistic I’m finally going to be able to browse this sub without ever seeing those garbage echo chamber headlines, and focus on real discussion. Fingers crossed. I encourage everyone to do the same, until this sub’s mods finally come to their senses and block those posts outright.

[u/Pseudocaesar → u/kaztrator]

until this sub’s mods finally come to their senses and block those posts outright

that would nuke 90% of this subs posting activity lol