Sunday, November 9, 2025

Today's news and jokes

Gus Johnson on every snap right now

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— Luke Knox (@lukeknox.me) November 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM


Also, this has never stopped being funny:







A coca farming boom in Colombia has led to a “virtually inexhaustible supply” of cocaine across South America, German prosecutors say. But what caused this boom — and how are traffickers reacting to crashing cocaine prices? Here’s what the experts say: www.occrp.org/en/feature/f...

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— Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (@handle.invalid) November 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
(“There are huge stockpiles. You have examples in Spain where the cocaine is buried in the bunkers under the ground”...The amount of land where coca is grown in [Colombia] expanded by almost two-thirds between 2018 and 2023)







oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM








For months, I’ve been following a Canadian ostrich farm ordered to cull its flock after a bird flu outbreak. It was a cause cΓ©lΓ¨bre for MAHA activists, a MAGA billionaire, and, of course, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The trucker convoy with birds ended last night. They lost. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

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— Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
("as attention grew, so did the claims. By summer, the farmers were telling Rebel News that their ostrich eggs could cure Covid but that they had been silenced"..."supporters watched what they could from the highway, while others trained a high-powered camera from a nearby mountain, everyone streaming their scenes on Facebook")







Our doddering octogenarian president. "A WaPo analysis of multiple videofeeds found that Trump spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open… The White House denied that Trump was dozing during the Oval Office event and suggested the question was inappropriate.”

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— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM








Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM








40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

— Jesse (@requiemarm.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM








if the headline sucks I'm not going to investigate. they should write better headlines! i clean up after too many people already

— good hyuck, babe! (@markpopham.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM


Change in Headline

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— Editing the Blue-Gray Lady (@nytdiff.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 6:50 AM


lol r u kidding me

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
(CNN too)







Lachlan Cartwright puts his magnifying glass on NYT's big subscription bump in the latest quarterly earnings report. www.breakermedia.com/p/behind-the...

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
FWIW, if you thought the numbers sounded suspicious







A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧡

— Paul Fairie (@paulisci.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM








17-year-old idol Fujisaki Azu is out of a job after her group, HEROINES, dismissed her for a "severe contractual violation." The announcement came two days after she shared a picture that Netizens say proves she - gasp! - has a boyfriend. buff.ly/DPkGYJY

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— Unseen Japan (@unseenjapan.com) November 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
(Not fact-checking this--supposedly she accidentally revealed her boyfriend by posting a photo where he was visible in a glass's reflection)







have just been made aware of this book of ~400CE jokes www.mori.bz.it/Umorismo/Phi...

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— Jake Eakle (@jseakle.bsky.social) October 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
(The wikipedia entry for the book.) (It's nauseating and also a little comforting to think how similar people have been for so long.)







The real question is will WE be able to wear red robes and bring orbs? wdwnt.com/2025/11/star...

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— No Proscenium (@noproscenium.com) November 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM

Thankfully, the fans have successfully prepped security to expect robes and orbs over the last six years! (They even started selling official orbs and snuggies a few years back.)

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— Nick Tierce (@nicktierce.com) November 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM








(Did you know the lyrics to Tusk are, "U-C-L-A Sucks"?)















He's 7'9"















@twochocchips didn’t expect the bouncer to join in hahaha, UPDATE found him!! @Just Call Me Lord 8th #karaoke #nashville #phantomoftheopera #singing #surprise ♬ original sound - sith & savi








@brooklynfcw Don’t get caught in the photo: not super successful. Lol. @alicebarbieri23 @the palace @Nikki ♬ original sound - Brooklyn FC








@mrpeentheween Should we pay them extra to spoon feed him? 😭 #dog #puppy #dachshund #funny ♬ Funny video "Carmen Prelude" Arranging weakness(836530) - yo suzuki(akisai)








@theespicynugget

I love him he’s the best but I just can’t do dogs in my bed 😩 I’m sorry don’t hate me

♬ original sound - Elisabeth F




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