Saturday, June 21, 2025

Today's news and jokes



(Also, Starbucks is testing a drink that "pairs a banana-flavored foam, packed with 15 grams of protein, with a sugar-free vanilla latte")







Beloved Ohio high school soccer star kidnapped by ICE and deported www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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— Andrea Chalupa (@andreachalupa.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM


ICE lured the spouse of an active duty Army solider out of her workplace near Houston by lying and saying her car had been damaged, then snatched her up and detained her for three months before deporting her to Honduras without her husband and young child thewarhorse.org/military-fam...

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— Mike Hixenbaugh (@mikehixenbaugh.com) June 20, 2025 at 4:34 AM


Mind boggling to me that half the east coast was in a panic last year after mistaking ordinary air traffic and stars for “drones.” Now we have hard evidence of an actual federal drone surveilling an area of millions of innocent people and no one cares.

— Scott Lowe (@tropicostation.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM


It is true that sometimes New York City is frightening. For example today these men were loitering in the hallway of the 12th floor of the federal building.

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— Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM


chatting with a venezuelan friend last night, he said this picture got posted in his group chat with other south americans with “oooh don’t spoil the plot of this one for the americanos lol”

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— metal dot txt (@metaltxt.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM






(Don't miss this footage)







What if there was a Waymo down there? Hmm?

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— Ronnie Gooja (@yanquigohome.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM








This is amazing.

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— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
("On Wednesday, India refuted claims by Trump that he had stopped the war between Pakistan and India")







A write-up























The Post is cutting its stand-alone Metro section, as circulation drops below 100K for the first time in decades. Local stories will now be buried between Style and Sports.

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— Washington City Paper (@wcp.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM


NYT’s opinion editor tells me the Times was “imprecise” when it announced its ban on endorsements in local elections last year. And they now “reserve the option to make endorsements in the future.” Plus: Musk’s AI and Loomer take on the SF Chronicle— get it wrong. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
















The summer solstice is just a made-up holiday to sell more henges.

— Scott Linnen (@scottlinnen.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 5:03 AM
















“FATBOY” WIGGINS RB Qwantavius “Fatboy” Wiggins has committed to FIU πŸ”₯🐾

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— Sickos Committee (@sickoscommittee.org) June 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
























Not fact-checking this















Snoopy would have loved @sickoscommittee.org

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— Dave (@thedavebray.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM








@drewpack1 His name is Rancher and he is getting used to the neighborhood really well ☺️ #wontyoubemyneighbor #dogs #ball ♬ Won't You Be My Neighbor? - Mister Rogers




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