Nurse who voted for Trump goes on a viral rant after reclassification
Plus: MAGA trolls exposed by a new feature on X.
Greetings!
Here are the latest trending internet culture stories today:
A nurse is speaking out after her master’s degree was reclassified as not “professional” through the “big beautiful bill.”
Elon Musk introduced a new location feature on X, and the political left had an absolute field day with the newly exposed international trolls.
If you haven’t already heard the leaked quotes from a Campbell’s Soup executive, they’re a doozy.
See you in the next one!
— W.J.
⚡️ Today in Internet Culture
“I can’t believe you’d disrespect us”: Trump-voting nurse is now begging him to classify nursing degrees as “professional”
A Trump-voting nurse is furious over the current administration’s decision to exclude nursing from the list of professional degrees. One of the most recent controversies stirred up by the Trump administration concerns which degrees are classified as “professional.”
This will impact who qualifies for federal loans and how much, which has sparked frustration among professionals in fields that are suddenly being excluded. Nursing, accounting, architecture, social work, and physical therapy are among the degrees not being classified as “professional” under this shift, while theology is.
Irony overload hits X as new location feature reveals many pro-Trump MAGA accounts are actually based outside of America
An ill-advised update on Elon Musk’s X exposed the actual locations of its many accounts, including anti-immigrant voices from overseas.
The problem for a truckload of accounts—the ones that tend to praise Musk and his frenemy President Donald Trump—is that this included an “Account based in” item, which revealed that many of them are based in Southeast Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, or Russia.
“For poor people”: Campbell’s Soup exec allegedly caught on secret audio trashing the “not healthy” product and its customers
A senior Campbell Soup Company executive is under scrutiny after a former employee filed a lawsuit that includes a secret recording containing crude and offensive remarks allegedly made during a work meeting.
The audio, released as part of the complaint, purports to capture Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Martin Bally criticizing Campbell’s products and disparaging the customers who buy them.
🕸️ Crawling the Web
📖 “You’re an author now”: Elyse Myers responds to book criticism on social media, sparking a discussion on reader-only spaces
🛠️ Women are pranking their partners with misleading “handyman” videos, and the results are hilarious
☕ A customer claims Blank Street won’t serve cold drinks without ice, and people are pissed
🚗 British husband slams drive-thru culture, calls Americans the laziest on the planet
🎮 Nintendo quickly pulls customized bikini-clad glider from Kirby Air Riders
🔥 Hot on the Dot
This was the most-read story on the Daily Dot yesterday: