Saturday, May 3, 2025

Today's news and jokes

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I wrote about the wave of cocaine that has been smuggled into Hamburg’s port and how it’s profits enable gangsters to corrupt officials in Germany www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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— Max Daly (@maxdaly.bsky.social) April 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
("A kilo of cocaine is worth $2,000 in Colombia, but once in Europe its value rockets to an average of $40,000")







("French Justice Minister ... has suggested the attacks are the work of gangs who are retaliating against a new government crackdown on drug trafficking")







“Activists who were planning to sail a ship to Gaza say it was struck by drones in international waters off the coast of Malta - appearing to accuse Israel of being behind the attack.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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— Shashank Joshi (@shashj.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 5:34 AM
("The ship was heading to a point near Malta where it was to pick up activists, including the climate-change campaigner Greta Thunberg")







United to cancel 35 daily flights from Newark, cites FAA staffing, equipment reut.rs/4iG6SxP

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— Reuters (@reuters.com) May 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
(The move comes after nearly one-quarter of all FAA air traffic controllers for Newark Airport (EWR) “walked off the job” this week due to malfunctioning technology)



BREAKING: A federal judge has permanently BLOCKED the entirety of Trump's executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Related coverage www.allrisenews.com/p/jenner-tru...

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— Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) May 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
("in purpose and effect, this action draws from a playbook as old as Shakespeare, who penned the phrase: 'The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers'")



BREAKING: The USDA has dropped their lawsuit against Maine over its transgender student athletic policies. “I told him I’d see him in court. Well we did see him in court, and we won,” Gov. Janet Mills said. www.pressherald.com/2025/05/02/m...

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— Dylan Tusinski (@dylantus.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
(Here's the Fox news write-up explaining why withholding money for school nutrition funds was justified to assist "girl athletes.")



i think it is great that even after electing trump a second time, one of the two major parties is falling even further into madness arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) May 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
(Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating two leading toothpaste makers over their use of fluoride, suggesting that they are "illegally marketing" the teeth cleaners to parents and kids "in ways that are misleading, deceptive, and dangerous.")



Trump's surgeon general nominee, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, faces scrutiny over credentials www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...

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— Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Imagine being lectured by RFK Jr about how to be healthy and then having Mark Zuckerberg tell you how many friends normal people should have

— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant.lawyer) May 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM




Congratulations to Colorado for signing a bill limiting school library book bans!

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— Courtney Milan (@courtneymilan.com) May 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
("Only parents of students in the school district will be allowed to challenge books, and reviews of individual books will be limited to once every two years.")







("had been on the job since only Jan. 15")







I’m not at the Edgars — catching up on the livestream — but I’m genuinely surprised and disappointed at the use of AI-generated images when there are hundreds of writers in the room, some of whom are plaintiffs in ongoing litigation.

— Sarah Weinman (@sarahweinman.com) May 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
("An opening video, surveying treatments of the genre on the big and small screen, was narrated by a creepy AI version of Humphrey Bogart, complete with imperfect lip-syncing, later followed by one featuring an even creepier, black cat-holding, artificially-generated Edgar Allan Poe")







Another sign of how careful they're being at the Derby... The horse Bob Baffert was counting on for his return has been scratched, too. www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM








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In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much (Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)

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— Elle (@elleisanisland.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
















No joke, a new TCG is taking over the small Japanese town of Kawara. But instead of fighting fantasy creatures, Kawara's kids are collecting cards of elder volunteers at the local community center. @chasecarter.bsky.social writes about the intergenerational beauty that is the Ojisan TCG.

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— Rascal News (@rascalnews.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM








I need you all to know that the Croc remaster that came out today has an extensive feature that teaches you how to crochet your own Croc plushie.

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— Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM








Holy shit.

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— Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM








@bleacherreport Shilo jokes with Shedeur about Coach Prime being their agent 😂 (via shilosanders/twitch) #nfl #nfldraft #football #shedeursanders #shilosanders ♬ original sound - bleacherreport








@lars_the_gsp Went to visit my friends! Dad helped me get a closer look today! #pointer #fyp #dogsoftiktok #huntingdog #germanshorthairedpointer #puppy #hunting #gspsoftiktok #dogowner #spring #basspro #bassproshops #birddog #foryoupage #geese #ducks @bassproshops ♬ Anxiety - Doechii




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