Thursday, March 19, 2026

Today's news and jokes

@montereyaq Sometimes when you are lost, you don’t have to look too far to find your home. ✨Thanks to our sea otter team who made this swift reunion last week between mother and pup. Sea otter pups can become stranded when storms separate them or when they drift away while mom is diving for food. Once alone, these pups have little to no chance of survival. This lucky pair was reunited quickly, found less than a mile apart. The healthy pup was returned to the water as soon as mom was spotted calling out in response to pup’s SQUEE. Our expert team holds permits from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to carry out this important work. We’ve released over 80 sea otter pups back into the wild where they belong.  Here’s to many more reunions. 🦦💙Check the link in our bio to learn the facts about sea otters and our work with rescuing and releasing wild otters. #SwiftRescue #montereybayaquarium #seaotter ♬ [Raw recording] Record playback noise 01 (3 minutes) - Icy Light






Time to dust off the realest post www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

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— Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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"We can think of...an escalation ladder...we are still somewhere in the middle rungs. Pakistan is hitting the Taliban on a near-daily basis. The Taliban attack Pakistani positions...intermittently and have launched drone attacks against Pakistani cities." goodauthority.org/news/pakista...

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— Shashank Joshi (@shashj.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 8:14 AM


NEW: Pakistan’s strikes on Afghanistan are widening out from border areas, and the country is uniting in response, repo Fazelminallah Qazizai for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/pa...

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— New Lines Magazine (@newlinesmag.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 5:27 AM




















I can't get over the jiu-jitsu stuff nut Markwayne Mullin has also told exaggerated stories about experiencing the "smell of war." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/markway...

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— Hunter Walker (@hunterw.bsky.social) March 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
("Mullin said he and the union leader, Sean O’Brien of the Teamsters who was sitting behind him in the audience, had become friends")







In recent months, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy have all been photographed wearing shoes that look a half-size or so too large for them. It’s an affliction — and not one relegated to the Trump administration. nyti.ms/476cwGN

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— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) March 17, 2026 at 8:56 AM








Paramount stock is down by more than a third. Its debt could reach $80 billion or so. This could be an Ishtar-style disaster open.substack.com/pub/theankle...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 9:42 AM








They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

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— Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (@london.gov.uk) March 17, 2026 at 3:03 AM
("London, San Francisco and Beijing are among 19 global cities that have achieved “remarkable reductions” in air pollution, analysis has found, having slashed levels of two airway-aggravating pollutants by more than 20% since 2010")







Pretty amusing: the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti simply omitted the best documentary *feature* film category from its Oscars roundup, apparently in order to avoid reporting that the award went to "Mr. Nobody Against Putin."

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— Kevin Rothrock (@kevinrothrock.me) March 16, 2026 at 10:10 AM








If Sinners came out in the 90s there would be an SNES and Genesis game that would be made by totally different developers. The Genesis version youd play as Smoke and you’d have a gun and in the SNES version you play as Preacherboy and you fight vampires with your guitar

— Tom Joad the Wet Sprocket (@colonelnemo.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 10:57 AM








"The adversary gets a vote" is also something said in my household about raising children.

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— Aaron Mehta (@aaronmehta.bsky.social) March 10, 2026 at 1:52 PM
















("On Monday, a senior baseball writer at the Athletic misidentified Rojas as the recipient of an 80-game suspension for the use of a banned substance on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. ... The writer...quickly deleted the post and corrected it")









(They're so deep at guard, she didn't even start (and the outside shooting is still...yikes))















































@champagnepammy Waiting for her man / dad lol 🥹 ❤️#maltipoo #maltipoosoftiktok #dogsofttiktok ♬ original sound - RhythmRoom




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