Friday, August 15, 2025

Today's news and jokes







If you listen to the head stormtrooper's answer, it's "we don't have politicians that will keep us safe, so we're going to do it ourselves," which in a sane world would justify breaking not only his career but the entire organization that made him feel comfortable saying that on camera.

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— Ronni Gelgoog (@xwnhist.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM


Military "showing force" at the very same site where Japanese Americans were rounded up for incarceration during WWII.

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— Carolina A. Miranda (@cmonstah.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
(Another photo looking like a promotional image for The Purge)

Trump sending ICE agents to Newsom’s press conference is thuggish totalitarian behavior, but more than that it’s deeply pathetic, insecure, and petty.

— I Did It I Threw The Sandwich Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM


Newsom: He is a failed president. Who else sends ICE at the same time while having a conversation like this? Someone who is weak, broken. His weakness is masquerading as a strength. The most unpopular president in modern history.

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
(LAT's write-up, including identifying the speaker in the first clip)







Absolutely incredible construction to claim that the countries we've invaded have actually been freeloaders using up our super crime-fighting military resources while Americans at home are deprived of that wonderful phenomenon

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— Hemry, Local Bartender (@bartenderhemry.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM


In a couple months republicans have gone from "well they're not arresting people, it's not a posse comitatus violation" to "actually the only purpose of the military is domestic law enforcement"

— Hemry, Local Bartender (@bartenderhemry.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM








A guy in dad shoes chuckin a 6-inch sweet onion chicken teriyaki at a cop being called The Deep State™️ is the funniest possible outcome of the Boogeyman politics Republicans have governed with the past decade. It’s perfect and beautiful.

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— Kristi Yamaguccimane (@wapplehouse.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM


I hope he opens a “Deep State Sandwiches” sub shop in DC, with “state secrets” printed on the inside of the sub wrappers like Snapple Facts

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— Rob Sheridan (@rob-sheridan.com) August 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM


BREAKING: Federal prosecutors said today they went to a grand jury twice to indict a D.C. woman for assaulting an FBI agent during an arrest by ICE — and were twice rejected. Notably, she faces the same charge as the District's alleged sandwich thrower. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

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— Jordan Fischer (@jordanonrecord.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM


The White House posted an insane video of the police arresting the sandwich guy in a safe and wealthy neighborhood.

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— amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM












Gosh, I wonder who picks fresh vegetables.

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM


We are pausing the sale of framed prints to the USA until we figure out what the hell the new rules mean. They seem to have been written by a monkey punching a keyboard. Prints are still available, for now.

— Black Dragon Press (@blackdragonpress.co.uk) August 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM


📢Important Update: Temporary Suspension of Orders to the USA

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— Broke Studio (@brokestudio.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM






This sounds very much not good: For the first half of the year, NYC added under 1,000 jobs. Same period last year was 66,000. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...

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— Jake Lahut (@jakelahut.writes.news) August 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM








Out of the blue, Trump called the Norwegian finance minister to ask when he would get the Nobel prize suggesting he would impose tariffs if he did not www.dn.no/politikk/fre...

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— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Politico. (I assume the backup plan is to just grab the medal like he did the soccer trophy)







i'm now operating on the assumption that there's someone at Meta legal who's working there entirely to generate documents that eventually leads to the arrest of Mark Zuckerberg

— Kelsey Atherton (@atherton.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM


It’s one thing for a technology to have unintended consequences. Quite another for human being to be carefully working out how the machine should compliment a shirtless eight year old.

— Alexander Williams (@floatinginwaves.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM


"An internal Meta policy document seen by Reuters as well as interviews with people familiar with its chatbot training show that the company’s policies have treated romantic overtures as a feature of its generative AI products, which are available to users aged 13 and older."

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— Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com) August 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM


the phrase “moral panic” gets thrown around a lot but I’m not sure what other reaction I’m supposed to have to the information that facebook, on purpose, built chatbots for the purpose of having cybersex with children

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— ceej (@ceej.online) August 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM








("'The Vatican had asked the archdiocese a couple of months ago for reports about some of these allegations, and the archdiocese slow-walked them, so that’s when the pope decided to send these people to investigate'")







(Nicknamed “The Blade,” the Figueroa Corridor is by far the most notorious sex trade hub or “track” in the city.)















(“I didn’t know where it was coming from all this time,” neighbor [] said about the horn...She’s lived in the neighborhood for 24 years and couldn’t pinpoint the source of the horn blasts...“He’s a nice enough man and I say hello to him whenever I walk by,” she said. “You know this is in the Book of Revelations. The horns. Well, trumpets. But it’s like the same thing. It’s alarming.”)















("I’m not scared about the top. I think the real one-of-one stuff could go up forever. What scares me is the bottom — call it the $100 to $1,000 cards.")















in cyberpunk games you shouldn’t lose humanity for modifying your body you should lose humanity the more money you get

— Aaron Lim 林家丰 (@ehronlime.bsky.social) August 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM








new tactic for fucking weirdos

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— Ken Lowery (@kenlowery.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM








My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch

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— MENTEMORI (@mentemori.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
















@nbcchicago

A shortage of licensed educators has led the Gary Community School District to temporarily bring in virtual teachers — a move that’s drawing both praise and criticism. More than 4,000 students are in the district, but only a small percentage will be instructed by a virtual teacher. As of Thursday, a little less than 13 virtual teachers were teaching subjects throughout the district, because school officials said about one-third of their teachers were not properly licensed. Tap the 🔗above for details⁠ #virtualteachers #schools #cps #garyindiana

♬ original sound - NBC Chicago








@principalbuffum This will be interesting. Different for the kids. But going back to my days as a kid. We will survive. #relatable #middleschool #teachersoftiktok #principalsoftiktok #fyp #foryoupage ♬ It's The Hard Knock Life - Annie Movie








@kollynspeed She said let’s go girls💅🏼 #animals #farm #wedding #alpaca #trending #bridesmaids ♬ Like a Prayer - Madonna








@kb_dean So rude #dogs #spaniels #springerspaniel #dogshow #doghandler #fetch #gunnerkennels #boyfriend #dogbreeds ♬ Hit Me - Megan Hilty & Christopher Sieber & Jennifer Simard
(I am very much my rescue's spare human, in case you were wondering)







@briappenfeller Noah was not about to let anything happen to his siblings😂#toddlersoftiktok #fyp #siblings #momsoftiktok #siblinglove ♬ original sound - Bri Roush




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