Friday, July 18, 2025

Today's news and jokes

one of my broomball teammates took this picture of the baja yesterday and i can’t get over it

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— em cassel (@biketrouble.bsky.social) June 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM






Total nightmare fuel about the decaying media landscape on public policy. Reality show stars with 2m followers using AI to spread misinformation; anonymous but verified X accounts called HustleBitch with 124k followers spreading conspiracies; fact-based media failing www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

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— Liam Dillon (@liamjdillon.com) July 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM








NPR photo editor choosing an unflattering photo of Democrat Chuck Schumer to illustrate their story about "the Senate" (actually only Republicans) zeroing out their own budget is such a perfect encapsulation of how we got here.

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— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) July 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM




President Trump’s agenda of economic chaos just cost Michigan jobs in a very concrete way: We’re talking a once-in-a-generation development project, thousands of union jobs gone, and an economic sea-change that we were working toward in Genesee County and beyond.

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— Senator Elissa Slotkin (@slotkin.senate.gov) July 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM




lol Trump Tower gift shop pranked

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— Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM


man I really hate that I know the answer to this "why now" question but here you go guys

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— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong.bsky.social) July 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM

I could type out a whole long thing here sketching out the media ecosystem, the dependencies, and intersecting beefs but the tldr is that Tucker Carlson is mad about the Iran War and has an axe to grind about Israel, and now openly espousing the theory that Epstein was Mossad

— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong.bsky.social) July 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
(For example, a former Israeli prime minister responds)





Change in Headline

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— Editing the Blue-Gray Lady (@nytdiff.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
























This is a man who never eats dinner with his family and when he does for the photo shoot assumes that everyone gets their own separate salt and pepper shakers. #AndrewCuomo

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— Daniel Drennan ElAwar (@ddelawar.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
(Farcical NYTimes article)







Hyundai is using its three-row IONIQ 9 EV with a built-in drone launch pad to save the planet

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— Electrek (@electrek.co) July 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
(Designed for reforesting by dropping seedballs from a drone)







Lloyd Howell resigns from his role as NFLPA Executive Director, per a statement from Howell released by the NFLPA:

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— Jourdan Rodrigue (@jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social) July 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
("NFL Players Association executive director Lloyd Howell Jr. was sued in 2011 for sexual discrimination and retaliation while he was a senior executive at Booz Allen. But a dispute has emerged about whether the players who voted for him were aware of the lawsuit prior to his 2023 election")







(Article details other violations that coach has been punished for)







this is very sad. I spent about an hour with Felix before he did his space skydive for a story and he was really nice to me and a good interview www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) July 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
(The belief is he crashed because he died midair) (Article ends with a list of "controversies")























actually, for #portfolioday, please enjoy this narrative event from Civ 7 with its corresponding inspiration (both by me)

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— Cat Manning (@catacalypto.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
















kept getting Tapo cam notifications about a “person” in the backyard yesterday 🙄

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— Scott Lowe (@tropicostation.bsky.social) May 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM








there has to be a better way to phrase a going out of business sale

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— Pie (@technicolorpie.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM








Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer, 2014

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— Sam (@ichosebooks.bsky.social) May 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM








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