r/WhatIsTheTea • • 27d ago

📢 Community Update — Please Read

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Hey everyone,
We want to give the community a quick update.
Reddit admins recently reached out to us regarding activity in r/WhatIsTheTea. Some of the top moderators and a number of users were banned, and we were informed that some posts and discussions had crossed the line when it came to violent, threatening, or overly inflammatory content.

We want to make sure WhatIsTheTea remains a fun, active, and welcoming place for everyone, so we’re going to be paying much closer attention to the content posted here.

Going forward, please:
🚫 Don’t post threats or content encouraging violence.

🚫 Don’t encourage harassment, targeted abuse, or brigading.

🚫 Avoid excessively graphic or violent content.

🚫 Don’t post personal information or attempt to identify/private individuals.

🚫 Don’t use the subreddit to organize harassment against someone.

⚠️ Keep heated discussions within Reddit’s rules. You can disagree, criticize, and debate without crossing into threats or harassment.

📜 Please follow both Reddit’s Content Policy and our subreddit rules.

We don’t want to kill the personality or the drama that makes this community what it is. Tea is still tea. ☕️
We just need everyone to help us keep it within the lines so the community can continue to exist and grow.
If you see something that clearly violates the rules, please report it rather than escalating the situation in the comments.

Thanks to everyone who helps keep r/WhatIsTheTea alive. ❤️
— The Mod Team


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 20h ago

Zohran Mamdani: “I have said directly to the president, to the secretary, as someone who cares about public safety, who cares about law and order, I am demanding that ICE cease their operations in our city immediately because these operations make New Yorkers less safe."

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 22h ago

Abdul El Sayed on why he's campaigning with when he previously criticized him:" Do you love your dad? Do you agree with everything your has ever done?... There is no world in which I get to run for office without somebody like President Obama..."

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 21h ago

Abdul El Sayed: "And chances are somebody told you I care a lot more about the West Bank than I care about the west side of Detroit. When we send our tax dollars abroad to drop bombs and drive tanks in places like Gaza and the West Bank, that's money that's not being spent on schools like this one."

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 6h ago

Cat unwound.

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 4d ago

Abdul El-Sayed very eloquently discusses how being pro-life can shape who you are

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 6d ago

Mike Rogers: “The doctor isn't really a doctor.” Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: “I have a medical degree from Columbia University. If he has issues with my credentials, take it up with them. But it's not about me. It's about whether YOU can see your doctor.”

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671 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 6d ago

Japanese march in protest against the building of a Mosque in Fujisawa City after gathering more than 33,000 signatures opposed to it's construction

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 5d ago

Celebrities Tea How a Reporter Traced the Digital Bread Crumbs of Hollywood Smear Campaigns

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 6d ago

Political Tea Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 9d ago

watch this That's Wild

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 10d ago

Zohran Mamdani: “I don’t use much AI in my day-to-day life. You have some of the leaders of the creation of this technology saying there’s a 10% chance that humanity could come to an end as a result of this. I think when that kind of language is par for the course..."

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 10d ago

Abdul El Sayed, never stop roasting people

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 11d ago

watch this Girl managed to record a tiktok video after being ran over

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 11d ago

watch this Extended Warranty May Come In Handy

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 12d ago

watch this Man accused of smuggling $300M in computer servers to China faces federal charges

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The owner of a Southern California-based tech company faces federal charges after allegedly selling millions of dollars' worth of computer servers containing U.S.-manufactured graphics processing units to China, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Greg Lui, 38, who also goes by Yiu Kong Lui, was charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act and the Export Administration Regulations, one count of outbound smuggling, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, the department announced in a media release.

"Protecting America's national security means keeping our advanced Super Intelligence technology from being used to strengthen our adversaries' military capabilities," said First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli. "This defendant allegedly used false paperwork and shipments through third countries to smuggle more than $300 million in export-controlled computer servers to China. We will aggressively prosecute those who put our national security at risk for profit."

Between 2023 and 2024, Lui and others used Earthmade to buy and send export-controlled items to China without the required licenses issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Instead, the items were sent to countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, where no such license is required, then illegally re-exported to China.

He is expected to make his first court appearance Friday in Los Angeles.

Lui faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison on the conspiracy count, 20 years in federal prison on the money laundering count, and 10 years in federal prison on the smuggling count.


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 12d ago

Dr Abdul El Sayed called for Cornell university to be held accountable for protecting the 7 students who gang-raped a young woman for seven hours

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 12d ago

NYC Mayor Mamdani and former GOP rival Curtis Sliwa team up while getting flu shots

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435 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 13d ago

watch this Young Man Thinks He's Getting a Sonic Burger For His Birthday

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897 Upvotes

Buts it's not that.


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 12d ago

watch this I Have So Many Questions

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 12d ago

Abdul El Sayed on if he thinks the war in Gaza qualifies as a genocide: I do and I've been clear about why genocide is both outcome and intent. And when you have foreign ministers declaring intent, and the outcome is tens of thousands of children who have been killed. I would call that a genocide...

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 13d ago

NY Governor removes Ithaca’s DA from the Cornell 7 case, replaces him with a State Attorney

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NY Governor Kathy Hochul has removed Ithaca's DA from the Cornell 7 case, a power rarely used by governors.

In his place is Letitia James, a state-attorney who has previously prosecuted Trump for fraud and former governor Coumo for sexual harassment. She is a black woman and is basically a shark when it comes to these types of cases, especially against the powerful.

This follows a statement from NY's governor, in which she claimed that Itcaca's district-attorney failed to properly investigate the rape claim and falsified victim testimony to the point of negligence.

It appears that Jane Doe's "original story" was not actually her original story, just a fake story that Ithaca's DA fabricated/misconstrued. She did infact originally describe events that classify as rape according to sealed police-records leaked by reporters, but the DA misinformed the media to save-face.

Jane Doe’s newest statement is basically the same as her old one, that she was pressured into using drugs and was unconscious for most of it. And that she didn’t know she had a train ran on her until word spread around campus.

It is questionable if the DA will ever work as a prosecutor, or as any lawyer, ever again. Governor’s rarely use this power so it’s a really bad look, especially given the circumstances/publicity.

Many speculate that the case against the Cornell 7 has grown much more serious.

Before the news broke out, Jane Doe was already suing, and it seemed like a slam-dunk win in civl-court for a group of wealthy and well-connected fratboys.

But the publicity has blindsided their legal strategies. It has grown into something much more serious and potentially damning, with the possibility of criminal charges.


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 13d ago

Viral/Internet Trends Angry baby.😤🎋

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 13d ago

watch this HOA Crazy Lady Bites and Steals

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Crazy lady steals dudes fishing rod & then tries to bite his buddy when he goes to help get it back.


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 14d ago

watch this When Your Card Won't Work

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139 Upvotes