Friday, June 20, 2025

Today's news and jokes











Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

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— Senator Scott Wiener (@scottwiener.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM


You can see the ICE agents in their minivans then the LAPD cars in the back appearing to block the Dodger Stadium parking lot entrance. When I asked an LAPD officer if they are blocking ICE from entering the parking lot she said “put it this way. The Dodgers don’t want them coming in.”

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— Molly Knight (@mollyknight.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM


(NBC's write-up.) (And LAT) (BTW, since there were comments about Frank McCourt's possible role today, from 2012: "The new ownership group, which entered into a $2.15 billion deal to purchase the Dodgers on Tuesday night, has control over the parking lots and land around the stadium. McCourt, the sources said, is in line to see future profit from the land only if it is developed in the future. However, according to two sources, there is no plan for development in the near future.") (If it's true the VP is being sent out, I'd assume it's to try to create a real spectacle)



He was detained outside church. “He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”

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— The Daily Beans Podcast (@dailybeanspod.com) June 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM




The US has denied the visas of all 12 members of the Senegalese women’s basketball team who were scheduled to travel to the country as part of their preparation for the Afrobasket tournament that begins in August. Afrobasket is also the African qualifiers for the Olympics. #wnba

— Nanjala (@nanjala.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
(In addition to pulling the plug on the training, Prime Minister Sonko thanked China for having "awarded dozens of training scholarships for our athletes and their coaches")







I wrote this week on how China has become the single most important enabler of Russian defence industry & by extension the war in Ukraine. It is still avoiding large-scale lethal aid, but there are signs it has walked up to the line, or stepped across. www.economist.com/china/2025/0...

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— Shashank Joshi (@shashj.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
(High tech from China, slave labor and canon fodder from North Korea)







(This)







*Oh yeah. Crypto. So much safer than fiat money *Especially if your country's in all kinds of trouble, man, you need to stack that crypto

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— //medium.com/@bruces (@bruces.bsky.social) June 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
("The theft spanned a range of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin and more")















🚨Tron was linked to more illicit crypto activity than any other blockchain last year—58%, per a report. Donald Trump just expanded his partnership with it. My story for @forbes.com 1/

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— Zach Everson (@zacheverson.com) June 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM








("Like many African countries, it loses billions of dollars to gold smuggling due to the absence of certified gold refineries and traceability programmes")

















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— Tobias Wilson-Bates (@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM








Chuds use "npc energy" as an insult but NPCs are the most memorable characters of every game they're in.

— Pavel🐀 (@spavel.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM

"you have npc energy" oh you mean I'm well written? Fully voiced by a professional actor, while you express yourself entirely through grunts and mouse clicks? That's what I thought.

— Pavel🐀 (@spavel.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM

I have rich lore and backstory while you just wandered in off the street? People have written award winning fiction due to the extent to which they crave me carnally? I have a place in society and a surplus income, while you must rely on my charity to scrounge a few coppers? That kind of NPC?

— Pavel🐀 (@spavel.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
























there's a local kebab place whose website claims to have a PDF of the menu, but when you open the PDF it's just a single photo of a kebab and chips

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— Daniel Kennedy (@fliglman.bsky.social) April 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM








@ansleyrwelch This is so smart & honestly it makes sense now #bioremediation #biology #bionotes ♬ THE DAYS DENNETT EDIT - Dennett








@millermccurdy cold calls are 10x colder when there's a “wheel of destiny.” #lawschool ♬ Easy - Commodores








@aldawap

♬ Alahsîn.Nichel - Alahsîn








@magiclittlemoon

He’s all gas no brakes mate

♬ un homme et une femme - 💌




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