Thursday, June 5, 2025

Today's news and jokes

context: some hospital room has "clown visit" and "singer visit" buttons on its services app

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— zaratustra (@zaratustra.bsky.social) May 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM








(Haven't seen the audio on this)



Particularly bizarre framing when even the Abundance book specifically remains pretty agnostic about unions.

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— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies.com) June 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
(And this)







NEW: A requirement that ICE agents ensure courthouse arrests don't clash with state and local laws has been rescinded by the agency. ICE declined to explain what that means for future enforcement. W/ @dell.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-qu...

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— Dhruv Mehrotra (@dmehro.bsky.social) June 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM


How often do they nonironically tell people, "You are not a wolf"





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— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd.bsky.social) June 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM




Another demonstration of the fact that there is no point in bending to Trump, not just morally, but strategically. Columbia gave in & he just hits them harder... MAGA's goal is to destroy the universities (& newspapers & law firms etc etc etc) and the only logical approach is to unite and fight back

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— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum.bsky.social) June 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
(This)

In defiance of President Trump’s announcement last Friday that he was firing her, Kim Sajet — the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery — has continued to report for work.

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— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) June 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM


Guatemalan deportee arrives in US after judge orders Trump to facilitate return reut.rs/4n1xLjk

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— Reuters (@reuters.com) June 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM






Parents are making increasing emotional and financial investments in youth sports. (One in 9 think their kids are going pro.) It’s a compounding factor in the push to make trans athletes a wedge issue. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) June 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
(The article is actually focused on parents using their wealth to exploit every edge, although I don't think it mentions the tactic of sending a kid to public school kindergarten and then transferring to a private school where they can repeat as one of the oldest, biggest, most coordinated kids) (The Little League eligibilty age changed twice over a short period of time recently, which presumably had a massive impact on kids making all-star teams and future possibilities--I must have missed all the thinkpieces written about it)



Would you guys watch this

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— Mina Kimes (@minakimes.bsky.social) June 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM


Immediately cast Steve Smith in my head

— Gregg Rosenthal (@greggrosenthal.bsky.social) June 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM








Hilarious how many different separate failed publication models people are doing callbacks to when they hear about the Washington Post's plan to flood its site with unpaid slop from community contributors—it's not just a bad idea, it's one of the most thoroughly proven bad ideas in the industry!

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) June 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM

the only advantage major news organizations will carry into the next era will be "this is a masthead under which i can presume correct information, verified by professionals, is being printed" but they only keep that if they want to.

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— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) June 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM








This is similar to @mattlevine.bsky.social's frequent argument that the reason a founder who loses billions of dollars can ever successfully fundraise again appears to be (paraphrasing) "clearly someone thought he was smart enough to trust with a billion dollars before and he has moxie."

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— Sen. Lemon Gogurt (@ugarles.bsky.social) June 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM








So basically, Texas is going to win Game 1 because NiJaree Canady doesn't know how to intentionally walk somebody. (Because why would she?)

— Bill Connelly (@espnbillc.bsky.social) June 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
(She took responsibility but everyone watching (including the hitter), except apparently her coach and catcher, saw a disaster developing)















(For Kane, that means there will be an essence of the Northshore Winter Club underneath his feet. “Oh, really? Obviously, I didn’t know that story,” the Oilers forward said at the podium during media day at Rogers Place on Tuesday. “It’s kind of cool.”)























IF THIS IS NOT CORRECTED, WE WILL HAVE TO INFORM THE SPACE COMMITTEE.

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— Ken Parille (@kenparille.bsky.social) April 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM








@visit_sicily

Etna is making a mess with her volcanic ash in Sicily šŸŒ‹ (@rickrvsso)

♬ original sound - visit_sicily








@aleighnaxo left a good concert then had to deal w this bs šŸ™ƒ #sofistadium #concerts #kendricklamar #sza #traffic #inglewood ##losangeles ♬ Shake It To The Max (FLY) (Remix) - MOLIY & Skillibeng & Shenseea








@kyanfrancis The Alex and George bromance is well and truly alive🄹#kyanfrancis #f1 #formula1 #fyp ♬ original sound - Ky








@pitbull_hub_ We know what we want Cre: Chevy #pitbullhub #pitbull #americanbully #pitbulls #dog #doglover #pitbullsofficial #pitbullsofinstagram #staffy #amstaff #pitty #pittie #apbt #pitbulllover #pitbullgram ♬ nhįŗ”c nền - Pitbull Hub








@_goldeng_ #dogsoftiktok #dog #fyp #funny #funnydogs ♬ original sound - Grace and SophiašŸ’œšŸ¾








@binkythechichi2

The king of drama

♬ original sound - cass




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