Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Today's news and jokes

@claudsandbeccaliving The police showed up today for the women’s march to protect a cyber truck <3 love seeing my tax dollars at work!!!! #nyc #newyorkcity #ilovenewyork #manhattannewyork #fyp #tesla #nypd #womensmarch #horror #taxdollarsatwork ♬ original sound - Claudia Smith


don't think that's going to work

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— Pornhub’s Gore Vidal (@milesklee.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM


Since taking over DOGE, Elon Musk has lost more of his own wealth than DOGE has managed to save from the budget.

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM


NEW: Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

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— Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) March 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM






Williams & Connolly is representing Perkins Coie. And/but "[s]everal other firms declined to represent Perkins Coie, fearing that they, too, could become targets of Mr. Trump’s ire." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

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— Greg Lipper (@theglipper.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
("considered among the most aggressive and skilled firms in fighting the federal government")



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A Canadian province that exports electricity to the US raised power prices for three states by 25% on Monday in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s tariffs

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— Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) March 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM








BREAKING: Philippines says former President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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— Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) March 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
("the International Criminal Court issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity in his war on drugs in which, human rights groups say, tens of thousands of Filipinos were summarily executed")







"Long division" jfc www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...

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— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM








*New investigation: Striking guards and prisoners rights activists alike have called for the ouster of New York’s prison commissioner. A year and a half of reporting reveals how Daniel Martuscello III, his family, and their patronage network rose to power. nysfocus.com/2025/03/03/d...

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— Chris Gelardi (@chrisgelardi.bsky.social) March 3, 2025 at 5:11 AM








Three states have now passed legislation making it illegal to manufacture, sell, or distribute cultivated meat.

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— WIRED (@wired.com) March 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
("Violating the law would be a misdemeanour, punishable by a fine of no more than $500 and/or up to three months in county jail. Similar laws passed last year in Florida and Alabama also carry potential jail terms or fines of up to $500")







the feminine urge to

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— Jay 🦋 (@jay.bsky.team) March 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM








YouTube is fantastic. You pull up one fun 3 minute scene from movie MONEYBALL and your viewing options after are either more scenes from the movie MONEYBALL or a two hour white supremacy conspiracy video.

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— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies.com) March 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM








(The tweet is by someone who posts astronomy photos and occasionaly photos of his cat)







Hey it's me, I'm the guy who tells prestige TV writers not to split their casts up in season 2 and tell their stories as a series of deflated vignettes that trade on puzzlebox mystification. I was fired a LONG time ago

— jason grinblat (@jfg.land) March 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I enjoy short speculation clips on Tiktok, but they sure don't convince me to resume watching the show







WHAT IN GOD’S NAME ARE WE DOING HERE, FOLKS? #hatchat

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— Productive Outs (@productiveouts.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM


Yeah but

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— Kevyn (@kevyn9.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM


(george w bush meme but there’s another guy whispering in his other ear)

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— floptimus prime (@jessespector.com) March 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Real









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— Remember the big cow? 🇵🇸 (@alexwarneke.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
































Did they really never release the track from this sequence?







@katieboggs_ Brandy Melville would love this #spain ♬ suara asli - SOUND MEME VIRAL








@mylittlehomestead Dogs Just Wanna Have Fun #dog #dogsoftiktok #dogsofttiktok #doglover #dogtok #doglife #doggo #animals #cuteanimals #cutedog #cutedogs #cuteness ♬ original sound - mylittlehomestead




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