Sunday, May 4, 2025

Today's news and jokes

The Ref went down due to a collision. Don’t worry Jamie Vardy blew the whistle to stop play for him.

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— Sickos Committee (@sickoscommittee.org) May 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM






(Can anyone point me to a reliable news outlet covering Mexico? I seem to have terrible success whenever I try to look up breaking news)







--> Port of Oakland trucking firm says business is down 60-70%. --> Port of LA expects 10 container ships this 3-day period. Usually it would have 17. Truckers "are at the verge of collapsing. The administration needs to move quickly, or it’s going to be chaos." www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM








Where's Remo Williams when you need him? (We're even contemplating a new HAARP?)















Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted "will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM


Wow. Microsoft drops a law firm because it settled with Trump. From another firm: "The partner, who was not authorized to discuss client matters publicly, said prospective clients had indicated that they had lost confidence in settling firms for not standing up to an attack on the rule of law."

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— DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM




"She arrived at the number by adding up all the money that people who were pardoned allegedly owed in restitution, based on how much they were convicted of stealing." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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— Keri Blakinger (@keribla.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
("In a TikTok video, [the former pardon attorney], who has said that she was terminated in March after refusing to comply with an order to restore the gun rights of the actor Mel Gibson – a supporter of Trump’s – explained")



It's to bad America's best scientists didn't come up with a more dignified way to weigh bald eagles before science got canceled.

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— Aaron Cohen (@unlikelywords.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM




The black comedy here is that a bunch of the people who took Left Behind seriously turned out to be the same people who would carry water for Nicolae Carpathia

— rattatatouille (@rattatatouille.bsky.social) January 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM








(The article describes Coen Bros-esque criminal mishaps, but doesn't speculate as to why they were moving the mercury)















This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...

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— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 7:18 AM








































I swear I thought for a second that Clayton McCullough got murdered by that graphic. 🤣

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— Rob Friedman (@pitchingninja.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM








closing your laptop should be the only way you can hang up on a video call

— Omar Rizwan (@omar.website) April 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM








before Konami had The Prince of Tennis, there was The Tennis of Tennis (from the back cover of the Japanese release of Break Point [Ocean/Smart Dog, 1996/97], which Konami published there; it was also released on Saturn but that version was published by Victor/Pack-In-Video)

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— The Dude (@lanceboyle94.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM








please enjoy this photo i took of an Unsettling Lamp. why does it perch so

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— Ryan North (@ryannorth.ca) March 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM








@hollyannduval Suprise!!! #duvet #help #marchmadness #ut #texas #win #fyp #justagirl ♬ original sound - Holly Duval




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