Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Today's news and jokes







mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 6:01 AM


A problem with a lot of analysis at the moment is it operates from a tradition that views war as a limited extension of politics to achieve specific strategic goals rather than engaging with the mindset of elites that might view it as a means to totally eviscerate an enemy

— Alexander Clarkson (@aphclarkson.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 8:26 AM


*looks around shiftily to make sure we’re not being overheard* Stealth oil tankers

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 10:51 AM




("Crew members on the Ford have been told that their deployment will probably be extended into May, which would put them at an entire year at sea, twice the length of a normal aircraft carrier deployment")















Strike has begun, 3,800 meat packing workers in Colorado have walked off the job

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— Michael Sainato (@msainato.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 5:39 AM
("They were charging workers for the replacement of personal protective equipment, which they are required to buy for them. Some of this equipment is $1,100 and they are garnishing that at full cost for the equipment")







When Christi Webb tried to cut off the flow of millions in welfare funds to ex-pro wrestler Teddy DiBiase, Mississippi welfare chief John Davis called her crying, she testified. “‘The only way I can have friends is to give them money. He’s got to keep getting this money,’" she recalled him saying.

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— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman.bsky.social) March 13, 2026 at 4:24 PM








A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death has been convicted of aggravated murder in his death

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— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 6:37 PM








If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

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— Megan Wachspress (@meganwachspress.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

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— Megan Wachspress (@meganwachspress.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM
(The NPR article includes this: "Biss, who is 48 and Gen X, leads in local polls")









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— She's A Beast (@shesabeast.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 10:03 AM
















One Andy Cohen wasn’t enough. So Peacock is getting ready to unleash…AI Andy Cohen. www.vulture.com/article/peac...

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— Joe Adalian (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) March 13, 2026 at 9:08 AM








Denmark's women's curling team are down to three curlers. This results in some improvisation such as a thrower becoming a brusher.

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— JM =^) (@jm539581.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 2:40 PM
















never too old :)

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— wwxwashere.bsky.social (@wwxwashere.bsky.social) March 6, 2026 at 11:08 AM
















I don’t know why but I really like this headline

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— Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM








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