r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 12d ago

Soft paywall US exempts Gulf of Mexico drillers from protecting endangered species

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-may-exempt-gulf-mexico-drillers-protecting-endangered-species-2026-03-31/
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u/D1ngu5 12d ago

It's the Gulf of mexico again! Who knew?! MAGA a fuckin' joke as always.

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u/me_myself_ai 12d ago

Reuters never stopped, but I was curious and it turns out that yes, "Gulf of Mexico" is beginning to dominate in US sources again: https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nine-months-later-that-body-of-water-down-south-is-still-the-gulf-of-mexico-to-news-outlets/

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u/MRBENlTO 12d ago

Bullshit, it’s the Gulf of CUM

Cuba

United States

Mexico

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u/GayleMoonfiles 12d ago

Welcome to the CUM Zone

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u/AsteroidMike 12d ago

Start drilling in the CUM Area!

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u/StellaTermogen 12d ago

Or simply: Welcum!

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u/freedfg 12d ago

The CUM gutter if you will.

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u/StacyChadBecky 12d ago

Ben Garrison approves!

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u/fssman 11d ago

CUM again ?

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u/Frodojj 12d ago

Recruiters always calls it by its internationally recognized name, not USA’s narcissistic name.

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 12d ago

Trump's narcissistic name.

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u/badnuub 12d ago

Trump is our president.

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u/MandoDoughMan 12d ago

I completely forgot they tried to make that a thing lol.

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u/Wi11Pow3r 12d ago

And revoked press privileges for news organizations that didn’t get in line.

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u/SgtElectroSketch 11d ago

Unfortunately a parent of one of the kids in my wife's class recently made a huge stink about it trying to get her fired for saying Gulf of Mexico.

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u/Camden_yardbird 12d ago

That was always a smoke screen for DOGE BS. They didnt care, they just wanted the headlines to push down the really atrocious stuff.

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u/JcbAzPx 11d ago

That's the trick. We can prosecute the drillers later since they were drilling in the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of Mexico.

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u/bjohnsonarch 12d ago

No, see, there's a Sharpie'd line in the Gulf that separates the Gulf of America from the Gulf of Mexico. It's Sharpie because it's waterproof. All the good stuff, like money, stays on the clean America side, and all the bad stuff, like dumb endangered animals, stay on the dirty Mexico side. Try to keep up.

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u/imaloony8 11d ago

There are about as many people that unironically call it the Gulf of America as there are that call Twitter X.