Friday, June 27, 2025

Today's news and jokes







Pentagon Sends Hurricane Forecasters Scrambling After Suddenly Announcing Shutdown of Key Satellites Forecasters could miss out on “six, eight, 10 hours” of early warning about dangerous storms, one expert said. w/ @emilykennard.bsky.social www.notus.org/climate-envi...

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— Claire Heddles (@claireheddles.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
("Since hurricanes form and strengthen over the open water where direct observations are scarce or nonexistent, forecasters rely largely on data remotely gathered from satellites")







they want to force UVA’s president to resign because he thinks it would be bad if the university reverted to being a lily-white finishing school for the failsons of the old guard southern elite www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) June 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
("The demand to remove Mr. Ryan was made over the past month on several occasions by Gregory Brown, the deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights, to university officials and representatives, according to the three people briefed on the matter. Mr. Brown, a University of Virginia graduate who, as a private lawyer, sued the school, is taking a major role in the investigation.")







The first such system was pioneered in Fallujah during the American occupation and siege over 20 years ago Here’s that boomerang again

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— Ali Winston (@awinston.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM




Media coverage was the actual target of the Fordow strike. they missed

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— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM


Anyways, about Benghazi...

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— Jack Murphy (@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM








(She "and her legal team have long argued that the records were public court records, and she was simply sending them to a colleague as part of an effort by the D.A.’s office to track cops with disciplinary histories")







I'm not sure this nickname will have the impact they think it will

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— Andrew Joyce (@andrewjoyce.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM


We’ve got secret police black bagging people and sending them to gulags, the scary parts of communism are already here idk what these people think a public grocery store will lead to bsky.app/profile/jame...

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— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM


This really made me think about how all the panic about bot influence campaigns is assuming the bots will say negative things against their target (or positive things about their sponsor) but you would probably get a lot more mileage mass-flattering a target and encouraging their stupidest fantasies

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— Christina Holland (@mortalwombat.info) June 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM


Feds just filed new bribery and wire fraud charges against Linda Sun, the Cuomo and Hochul aide accused of acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government. Allegedly, Sun and her husband got "millions of dollars in kickbacks" for steering pandemic PPE contracts, the feds say.

— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
("made off with as much as $8 million in the wide-scale fraud after she facilitated multiple contracts between New York state and two Chinese-based vendors for pandemic equipment")







More evidence Russia is using CS gas in the battlefield in violation of the CWC: OPCW issues report on third Technical Assistance Visit to Ukraine following an incident of alleged use of toxic chemicals as a weapon www.opcw.org/media-centre...

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
(May 2024: "State department officials said Russia used the choking agent chloropicrin to win "battlefield gains" over Ukraine.")







"Leave Fiji alone terrorists!"







So a significant part of tabloid journalism now is browsing Go Fund Me for stories that can be churned out in the hope the algorithm notices them, right? Seeing a lot of viral stories entirely sourced to Go Fund Me with no additional journalism (really no journalism at all)

— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) June 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
























@pov_losangeles Ghost kitchen #losangeles #ubereats #doordash ♬ original sound - pov_losangeles








Grand Central Market, that place famously frozen in amber, where the man who sold ice cream from a little push cart for $1.50 a scoop was definitely not replaced by a slick company out of Santa Barbara selling ice cream for $7 a scoop

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— Laura J. Nelson (@laurajnelson.bsky.social) June 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
(Paid $15 for an (excellent) hot honey chicken sandwich there this week)







I'm news editing at Balkan Insight this week and the stories are always unhinged balkaninsight.com/2025/06/24/f...

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— Max Daly (@maxdaly.bsky.social) June 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
(A video summary)







I would not want Becky Hammon looking at me like this

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) June 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM








Does no one understand what "no love lost" means? I truly felt gaslit trying to read this article. At first, I scanned "Tight" as "Fight" and was like, "Dang, that's too bad." Then I was just confused...

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— Stephen Thompson (@idislikestephen.bsky.social) June 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM








@mikaylarenfroe

I’ve officially fallen victim to Temu. Got me 🤣😭

♬ sonido original - Vibes by Ley








@milfin_at_its_best

♬ original sound - Brittany Hickman








@goldennamedhoney the sass is REAL🫢#honeythegolden #dogmom #creatorsearchinsights #goldenretrieversoftiktok #dogsoftiktok #funnygoldenretrievers #dogtok ♬ original sound - H O N E Y💛








@nicolettekaliroff anyone else’s dog do this 😵‍💫 #pitbull #dog #dogtok #dogsoftiktok #doglover #dogmom #furmom #fyp ♬ The Home Depot Beat - The Home Depot








@tanganyikawildlifepark

When you are supposed to be teaching people about your species but there is a fly in the room.

♬ original sound - Tanganyika Wildlife Park




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