Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Today's news and jokes

Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.

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— Chris Person (@papapishu.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM






‼️Two Israeli soldiers arrested and interrogated in Belgium over war crimes accusations The Israelis were at the Tomorrowland festival in Boom www.instagram.com/p/DMXq3iDNqtb

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— elia ayoub 🌱 (@ayoub.bsky.social) July 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM

"One of them posted videos of his unit blowing up property in Gaza and Lebanon," said Minogue. "The other posed next to a Palestinian who was being used as a human shield by his unit." www.middleeasteye.net/news/two-isr...

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— elia ayoub 🌱 (@ayoub.bsky.social) July 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
(Guardian)







California, too































Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns. He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

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— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) July 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
(A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson responded, “It is laughable that a career public employee, who claims to serve the American people, would choose to resign over our refusal to hastily approve a six-figure deployment contract without basic financial oversight” . . . “We’re being responsible with taxpayer dollars, that’s our job.”)



New Jersey’s federal judges rejected President Donald Trump’s choice of Alina Habba to serve as U.S. attorney in the state, delivering a sharp rebuke to one of his most controversial Justice Department nominees.

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— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) July 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
(Trump administration immediately fired her replacement)





NEWS: In a resurfaced interview from nearly a decade ago, rapper Uncle Luke of 2 Live Crew says he fled a Trump party in Palm Beach in the early 1990s after seeing what appeared to be underage girls at a sex- and drug-fueled event

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) July 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
(Video link, 2:30 is the specific comment)



Howard Stern asked Trump how young Trump would go. When Quivers asks for his “age limit,” Trump starts out by saying he doesn’t have one — but then gives a point of reference that looks not great in any light, saying he would draw a line at “12 year-olds”: www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

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— Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) July 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM

In 1999, Trump said on Howard Stern: “I have a deal with Ivanka. She’s 17 and doing great. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her. So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

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— Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
NY Daily News posted it



FT Exclusive: Weiss has met with David Ellison, the incoming owner of CBS News, over a potential deal to sell her three-year-old media company, according to several people familiar with the matter. https://on.ft.com/4eZ6WbM

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— Financial Times (@financialtimes.com) July 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM


Feel like the reported "million subscribers" plays differently when you see "paying subscribers." (NYT has 11 million paid digital subs; Wired pulled off 62,000 subs this year during DOGE; the "dumb sports blog" (complimentary) Defector has 42k and doesn't require $15 million from investors to run).

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— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies.com) July 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM


cBs FiRed CoLbERt bEcAuSe hIs ShOw WaSn'T pRoFiTaBlE 🥴

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM


All Hollywood journalism is at some point how much water you want to carry for any side. So when the "Hollywood truth teller" (or a load of Belo-gna) mostly wants you to believe the numbers don't add up, maybe it's time to read someone willing to actually look at the facts on the ground:

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— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies.com) July 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM




("Starlink internet works great if hardly anyone uses it") (A thread)



Needless to say, awarding contracts on the basis of which billionaires you are/aren't on good terms with at a particular moment is not a very efficient program-management strategy.

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— James Cameron (@jjjcameron.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM








important context for headlines like this: Altman also runs a company (Worldcoin) that he claims will solve this problem he also created

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— Molly White (@molly.wiki) July 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
















(“It’s vibes versus science.”)







There was a hot rumor in my subdivision that Ozzy would throw a puppy into the audience in the middle of his show, and say "we will not play another note until that puppy is DEAD." Terrifyingly plausible to 8-year-old me. If I found out a friend liked "Flying High Again," I was like: "OH NO."

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— Dave Holmes (@daveholmes.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM








If people knew how many stories I got from IDing people from google reviews they would never

— Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) July 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
















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