Thursday, August 7, 2025

Today's news and jokes







“Police had twice visited the home of the gunman who killed four people in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper in recent years over fears he was armed and suicidal, according to criminal records including 911 calls and body-camera footage.” And got a gun permit www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...

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— City Nolan (@ndhapple.bsky.social) August 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
("[He] worked in the security department at the Horseshoe Las Vegas, a company spokesperson told 8 News Now. [His] supervisor sold him the rifle for $1,400, with the supervisor's attorney telling the outlet the sale happened in October 2024 and followed all legal channels.")







What good is being VP if you can't abuse your power to have the Army Corps of Engineers making your kayaking trip more ideal by changing the waterflow of a lake? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) August 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM




Arriving en masse in a nondescript rental truck is a tactic white supremacist agitators have recently developed www.npr.org/2022/06/11/1...

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) August 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM


(LA Times)



A Trump-appointed judge gave officials until Thursday to prove they can legally detain migrants in the Everglades.

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— Miami New Times (@miaminewtimes.com) August 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
CBS's write-up



So this is pretty much just going to be the gen z nazi podcaster version of wingnut welfare right

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— Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social) August 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
















NEW: GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa's Guardian Angels group is soliciting donations while portraying itself as a tax-exempt charity — even though it lost that status years ago amid tax filing failures and a federal fraud probe ensnaring its treasurer. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/05/g...

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— Chris Sommerfeldt (@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social) August 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
("Trump Weighs Getting Involved in New York City Mayor’s Race")







("Because national party operatives view his seat as safe, there is little incentive for GOP leaders to engage as the accusations swirl")



The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old. www.rawstory.com/utah-republi...

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— Nita Cosby (@5-2blue.bsky.social) August 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(Recent headlines from the Salt Lake Tribune: "Utah’s Senate president prompted law change that helped a teen charged with child rape"; "Here’s what Utah law says about minors having sex and when they can consent")







This is an optimistic take, but I think the fact the fascists are explicitly pro-confederacy and also pro-pedophile will afford us more opportunities to discredit their ideology than it would be a world in which they’re more subtle.

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— Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) August 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM


Okay so the situation is basically, you’re paying way more taxes called “tariffs” so a pedophile can protect other pedophiles.

— Dennis Detwiller (@drgonzo123.bsky.social) August 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM








Stanford's student paper sues Noem and Rubio, saying their policies cause non-citizen students to avoid expressing themselves freely in the Daily's pages due to fear of detention and deportation h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) August 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
NBC







Russia has started attaching anti-tank cluster mines to Shahed drones. The photo shows one of the drones spotted today over Ukrainian territory. Such drones have recently been observed among a group of Shaheds entering the borders of Sumy and Chernihiv regions.

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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) August 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
(This looks more like Tron than the new movie)







("Even the Epic Bacon has been taken off the menu")















Visited a physio on Tuesday for my shoulder, which was very helpful! Less helpful is the third-party app I had to download to access the recommended mobility exercises, which will expire in exactly one week (when I scheduled a followup).

— Chase Taylor-Carter (@chasecarter.bsky.social) July 31, 2025 at 3:26 AM
























(Too dangerous?)







despite everything tumblr remains undefeated as a platform full of the funniest people online fyi

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— Allegra Rosenberg (@tchotchke.bsky.social) June 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
















Andy Sturdevant was offered the job of designing an alternate Star Wars poster for us and come up with this incredible take on ‘80s teen comedies. STAR WARS begins in June. www.trylon.org/film-series/...

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— Trylon Cinema (@trylon.org) May 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM








@thetimes Residents on one of London’s most photographed streets in Notting Hill have repainted their homes black in protest at crowds, noise, and social media tourism. Read the full story at the link above. #nottinghill #londontiktok #londonhotspots #instagramvsreality #influenersinthewild ♬ original sound - The Times and The Sunday Times








@holmessweethomie My neighbor’s puppy can’t hear, and at first I didn’t know what she was doing. Then, I realized she’s silent barking because she doesn’t KNOW she isn’t making any sound. This silent puppy bark has got to be the cutest puppy-thing EVER! #foryoupage #dogsoftiktok #deafdog #cuteanimals #cutedog #blueheeler #cutepuppy #funny #viralvideo ♬ original sound - Hannah Holmes




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