Friday, May 30, 2025

Today's news and jokes







(Article is paywalled, but the subhed really is, "Most Israelis are not aware of what is going on in Gaza.") (Author's last name is interesting: "a descendant of the Saragusti family, a surname popular among Jewish families originating from the city of Zaragoza (a.k.a. Saragossa) in northeastern Spain")







Would love someone to do a reported piece on what it means to have a governing class stuffed with guys on Barry-Bonds-in-2001 levels of gear.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM








("The Pentagon is shifting $1 billion meant for maintaining and renovating Army barracks to instead fund its surge of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, a move that coincides with the service's gradual deprioritization of quality-of-life initiatives for soldiers")









Ofwat fines Thames Water £123m, cites ‘unacceptable’ impact on environment – business live

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— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) May 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
("Last week, we announced a record 81 criminal investigations have been launched into water companies")







Elon Musk's SpaceX company town -- Starbase, Texas -- warns residents they could "lose the right to continue using [their] property for its current use." Read the full notice -- @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/e...

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— Lora Kolodny (@lorak.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
(The article seems to indicate the zoning change would expand potential uses of land, but the notice includes this language: "The City is required by Texas law to notify you of the following: THE CITY OF STARBASE IS HOLDING A HEARING THAT WILL DETERMINE WHETHER YOU MAY LOSE THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE USING YOUR PROPERTY FOR ITS CURRENT USE, PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY.")







It is amazing that Trump admitting he is letting a Chinese company illegally operate because it helped him win and that isn't even a top story of the week

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— Jon Walker (@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM


(ABC's write-up)







There's a whole type of politics, mostly but not exclusively on the conservative side, that's like "every problem you have is caused by a bad person or group of people and we can't fix the problem, it's impossible, but we can get revenge on the people for you" and that's enough for lots of people

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— Christina Holland (@mortalwombat.info) May 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM








BREAKING: We're now describing the Liverpool driver as a "lovely man" with a "nice family" after discovering he is white British ♥️

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— Normal Island News (@normalisland.co.uk) May 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
(Former Royal Marine.) (I didn't see speculation as to motive/suggestion of intoxication/mention of history of reckless driving)







He must be polling pretty well if the "his platform is too ambitious/unrealistic" pieces are dropping.

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— Bob Gurnett (@bobgurnett.com) May 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM

We're now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.

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— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM


Illegal right on red. Common suburban driver mistake.

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— David Meyer (@dmey.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM








We are watching the NHL playoffs and on every commercial break, Canadian corporations have their own championship over whose ad can be the most embarrassingly jingoistic

— Kate Beaton (@katebeaton.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM

Don’t fuck with us bro, nationalism is hot, *turns to camera* hot like my Tim Hortons coffee

— Kate Beaton (@katebeaton.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM








A DISGRACE: Today management at @businessinsider.com sent out an email announcing layoffs that will affect many of our Insider Union members. The email references how difficult the day will be for everyone – then takes a sharp right turn into “we’re all in on AI.” ....

— The NewsGuild of New York (@nyguild.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM


The Wirecutter now has AI summaries!?? The whole point of that site is human curation! Watching every last site on the web become increasingly terrible is really hard to sit through.

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— Jason Bergman (@jasonxbergman.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
(Haven't noticed this myself)







































































@espnw #WNBA #AzziFudd #UConn #minnesotalynx #dallaswings ♬ original sound - espnW


@okaysokate jokes 🤪 but she was so patient all night, bless her #azzifudd #azzi #paigebueckers #wnb ♬ original sound - SHOTTAWORLD🌍🩸








@misaki.yoshizawa No but actually this was the only thing I for sure wanted to do to start the new decade 😂😂 had a blastttt at @DigThisLasVegas 🤍 #lasvegas #vegastiktok #lasvegasactivities #birthday #excavation #bulldozer ♬ original sound - Misaki Yoshizawa








@trinitykirkland Someone move that wall for them !!! 😭 #fyp #love #dog #puppy #fypシ ♬ Reception At The Palace / So This Is Love - Ilene Woods & Mike Douglas




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