Thursday, August 21, 2025

Today's news and jokes

"The Republican Party has a long and proud history of producing the nation’s finest male cheerleaders. In the past 50 years, more Republican presidents have been male cheerleaders than seen combat."

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— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) August 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Not fact-checking this





Up until June, my wife's job title was "Historian of Global Slavery" at the Smithsonian NMAAHC. Hence, I have strong feelings about the administration's words in support of erasing the history of slavery today. Expecting he'd be doing something along these lines, we went ahead and pulled... 1/2

— Greg Ruddick (@pearli.to) August 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM

all of the known ship manifests for the transatlantic slave trade from the National Archives database. I uploaded them to Archive.org. If you want to help preserve vital records of US history, I beg you to download / torrent / repost / share the following link: archive.org/details/Slav...

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— Greg Ruddick (@pearli.to) August 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
(Can't vouch)







For anyone who thinks boycotts don’t work:

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— Jordan Carlson (@jordantcarlson.bsky.social) August 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM








BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

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— THE CITY (@thecity.nyc) August 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM


Oh my god she tried the “I’m just a little guy” defense.

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— Ben "Ben Pack" Pack (@packbenpack.bsky.social) August 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM


Winnie Greco has lived in New York City for a quarter-century or more. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) August 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
(A guess, FWIW, and the problem with dealing with clown crime)

This “red envelope”’ with cash for reporters showing up at events was such standard practice in mainland Chinese media that it inspired a novel about posing as a reporter to collect red envelopes

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— Gady Epstein (@gadyepstein.bsky.social) August 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
(The Uninvited, I believe)

"It has no cash value, that's decided by the secondary market that we pinky promise we never look at" is how WOTC justifies trading card packs not actually being gambling so maybe you could get away with bribing someone by handing them a box full of out of print GW minis or foil MTG cards

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— Sam (ABeardedPanda) (@abeardedpanda.bsky.social) August 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM




























No arrests















An Italian waiter in Ireland once served me a pasta with salmon dish and asked if I wanted Parmesan. I said yes, which he misheard as no, and responded “Bravo!” Then I explained that I actually did want Parmesan and he said “Ah, not so bravo.”

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— Matthew Parkinson-Bennett (@matthewpb.bsky.social) August 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
























@weatherchannel It was a wild scene as waterslides … yes, waterslides … hit the interstate during rush hour. 📍Atlanta, Georgia 🗓️Tuesday, June 17 #TheWeatherChannel #fyp #ATL #waterslides #wind #weathertok #weatherchannel ♬ original sound - The Weather Channel








@nowwaaaa I have no explanation for this other than it was for the giggles 🤭 #india #travel #tuktuk #newdelhi #semesteratsea #abroad ♬ πρωτότυπος ήχος - Spiros Zorpidis








@yashajj patience wasn’t in the room with us this evening #arabtiktok #arabdad #arabfamily #middleeastern #dadsoftiktok #dadlife #dadjokes ♬ original sound - william springfield








@tallgirlkatiee

Today was interesting but of course I said yes! 🙌🏼 🥰

♬ original sound - Hannah Taylor








@strangealmhazan THIS IS BRAZIL ! #fyp #humor #futebol #perros ♬ original sound - Neymarae




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