Sunday, June 8, 2025

Today's news and jokes

Just walked into the most upsetting room hotel setup I've ever seen

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— Jacob Geller (@jacobgeller.com) June 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM


this is the opening to Portal 2??

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— Adam (@johngudmann.bsky.social) June 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM


this room is nicer

— ceptemzorpus (@ceptemzorpus.bsky.social) June 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM






"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM


(Longtime helicopter reporter for local news)

Hope other countries are excited for the LA Olympics!

— Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM


Although the Houston ICE arrestee is described in the story as part of the Afghan army, his attorney identifies him as a veteran of the Kandahar Strike Force—aka the QSF or NDS-03, the CIA’s Afghan surrogate force in Kandahar. Here’s a 2021 story of mine about NDS-03’s very difficult escape:

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— Wesley Morgan (@wesleymorgan.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM


taskandpurpose.com/news/army-mu...

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— Ronni Gelgoog (@xwnhist.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM


Army faces bipartisan backlash for plan to gut funding for troops' housing to fund border mission www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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— Steve Beynon (@stevenbeynon.bsky.social) June 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
("One of the Army's largest installations has disbanded its teams responsible for routine and preventative maintenance of soldier housing, according to a service spokesperson, a move that comes amid a federal hiring freeze and deep cuts to the government workforce.")















jesus christ lmao

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— Brandy Jensen (@brandyjensen.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM


THE NEW YORK TIMES ETHICIST (watching Zone of Interest): haha nice. sick house

— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant.lawyer) June 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
("as a beneficiary of a trust that rents a property to ICE, your leverage is minuscule. You can’t unilaterally break the lease. Even if you could, ICE would simply relocate its facility")







3.5 times increase in telecoms sabotage. 30 instances since Easter. ๐Ÿฃ Concentrated to highway linking south Sweden/Europe to southeast coast/Gotland ferries.

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— auonsson (@auonsson.bsky.social) June 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM








neither here nor there but this is literally the plot of season 5 of the x files,,,

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— Carรฆsten ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ (@cara.city) June 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM


dude this is so funny

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— Carรฆsten ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ (@cara.city) June 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM








For context on this story: before these lifts were added, passengers in wheelchairs intending to head north from Alfreton station had to take a train south, change platforms at another station, then come back north www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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— qntm (@qntm.org) June 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM








Ugh. I knew both Peter Bourne and his accuser Keith Stroup. They set back drug policy reform by many, many years. Not the proudest moment for them. Jimmy Carter was going to decriminalize marijuana before this scandal.

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— Sanho Tree (@sanho.bsky.social) June 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
(Wikipedia)































*How much Trumpian Big Tech enshittification will people put up with, before they just automatically think that anything made-in-China is lots better www.chinatalk.media/p/chinas-ar-...

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— //medium.com/@bruces (@bruces.bsky.social) June 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
































(I don't see how a coach can fix a team without players who can reliably trap and kick a ball.)























@mk.vigerrrr

gimme my rights back

♬ good days - ‍r7ptor








@sammimurrayy

humbling experiences getting in/out the car

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@eufyoncam Why did Hedwig have to do me dirty?! ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿฆ‰ #fy #fyp #caughtoncam #securitycamera #owl #koipond #koi #waitforit #wildlife #bird #fish ♬ original sound - eufyCam








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