Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Today's news and jokes







The F-15E pilot shot down over Iran had already been shot down during the Iran war - by a Kuwaiti F/A-18 just a few weeks previously. And the weapon systems officer shot down with him over Iran survived a parachute failure. By @seandnaylor.bsky.social: thehighside.substack.com/p/pilot-of-f...

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— The High Side (@thehighside.bsky.social) June 2, 2026 at 6:19 AM








The Manhattan Institute is seeking to criminalize more and more protest. FIRE has invited two prominent Manhattan Institute figures — Ilya Shapiro and Heather Mac Donald — as keynote speakers at their 2026 conference.

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— Hostile Work Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) June 2, 2026 at 1:18 PM








L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) June 2, 2026 at 11:32 AM








Stumbled across a rather interesting ad for Paramount’s ad service

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— Jake Lahut (@jakelahut.bsky.social) May 31, 2026 at 9:49 PM








New York sues over Interior Dept.’s $1B bribe to an oil company stop wind power

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— Electrek (@electrek.co) June 2, 2026 at 3:06 PM
("The attorneys general of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont joined")







Subway surfers are stealing MTA conductors' keys and buying them on Amazon, NYPD says gothamist.com/news/subway-...

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— Gothamist (@gothamist.com) May 27, 2026 at 1:38 PM
















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Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

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— Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 (@shayman.bsky.social) May 26, 2026 at 1:17 PM








I remember when we were at that museum and there were signs all over the place saying like “gold hat this way,” like three stories of that, and we just kept being like “no hat can possibly live up to all this hype.” And then—

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— K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë (@keithpille.bsky.social) May 24, 2026 at 6:57 AM








@bleacherreport Winston Bolt won the 2026 Bulldog Races Championship at Emerald Downs in Washington 😮‍💨🔥 (Via @Winston Bolt⚡️) #dog #frenchbulldog #bulldog #race #dogs ♬ original sound - bleacherreport








@cocothemaltesedog My fluffy supervisors🫡🐶😂 #fyp #dogsoftiktok #maltese ♬ Sirtaki - LucasGitanoFamily




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