@reuters Groups of anti-immigration South Africans seized foreigners from their homes in Johannesburg and handed them to police in a hardening of protests that have sown fear in communities and strained ties with some countries. Correspondent Nellie Peyton has more. #immigration #protest #southafrica #johannesburg #humanrights ♬ original sound - Reuters
(The company has denied purposefully claiming commissions from competitors’ affiliate links, telling Bloomberg, “Within the last 24 hours, we were made aware that in a recent release our codebase was causing misattributions from a subset of users. As soon as we were notified, our team worked overnight to identify, mitigate, and has since resolved the issue.”)NEW: Leaders in affiliate marketing tell me they had long suspected Phia was behind their lagging revenues. Others tell me they'd kicked Phia off their platforms prior to Bloomberg's revelation about Phoebe Gates' startup stealing commissions from competitors. www.inc.com/sam-blum/lea...
— Sam Blum (@samblum.bsky.social) July 17, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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In interviews people sometimes ask me to sum up what was different for LGBT people in the early nineties when we first set up Pride Scotland. Thanks to @workingclasshistory.com for the reminder that the answer is "The press used to treat all LGBT people as badly as they now treat trans people."
— Duncan Hothersall (@dhothersall.bsky.social) July 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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Scoop: On June 11, Ken Paxton threatened to sue the Big 12 if it sanctioned Texas Tech for fielding QB Brendan Sorsby.
— Kayla Guo (@kaylaguo_) July 16, 2026
The day before, Texas Tech Regents Chair Cody Campbell, a Sorsby defender, donated $274,300 in support of Paxton's #TXSEN bid: https://t.co/PFXypvzrz1
Mr. Paxton got an extension on his April federal candidate filing, so he did not disclose these purchases during his contentious primary with John Cornyn.
— Lauren McGaughy (@lmcgaughy) July 16, 2026
A campaign spox did not answer questions about the new purchases or their links to the Frisco home.https://t.co/6ZVmbXhdEm
Oooooo I love creepypasta
— Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) July 17, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Which by the way…I wouldn’t be surprised if the NFL’s first big gambling scandal came because of draft props
— Justis Mosqueda (@JuMosq) April 17, 2024
NFL now has confirmed the indefinite suspension of Cardinals personnel executive Ryan Gold for violating the league’s gambling policy.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 17, 2026
NFL statement: "The NFL confirmed today that Ryan Gold, Director of College Scouting for the Arizona Cardinals, has been suspended indefinitely…
(Didn't read, but made me laugh)Fascinating. Obviously I’m not clicking the link and scrutinising whether Gavin’s summarised it correctly because I’ve got more scrolling to do.
— Jim Waterson (@jim.londoncentric.media) July 16, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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When will my husband return from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
— Jeremy Noel-Tod (@jntod.bsky.social) July 17, 2026 at 8:43 AM
This is absolutely CHAOTIC! This is the first @DisneyLorcana pre release at @DisneyParks @WaltDisneyWorld #disneysprings since they started the “no parking until 7” rule. This is NUTS! People are fighting with security. People are already succumbing to the heat… pic.twitter.com/btys3NzOkx
— rundisney tableguy (@JamesIaniro) July 17, 2026
I’ve seen some massive lines at Disneyland but nothing that stretched this far before with this many switchbacks. Good luck to all the Lorcana fans this morning! pic.twitter.com/1CwJRhXH28
— Matt (@DisneyScoopGuy) July 17, 2026
Amazon has bundles at various price pointsThey are putting autographs in Magic The Gathering now pic.twitter.com/SbznhdDNbN
— Card Purchaser (@CardPurchaser) July 14, 2026
I love this: The Wheel of Fortune YouTube page has posted the 80s episode featuring the first time someone bought the infamous Ceramic Dalmatian. Here’s hoping they post more shopping era episodes. youtu.be/GoofWYfkCCY?...
— Joe Adalian (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) July 14, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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I FOIA’d the Nantucket police department for the audio of @AdamSandler’s call to dispatch requesting information on where he could play outdoor hoops following the Kelce-Swift wedding. @Sportico got the recording of the call today. 👇 https://t.co/UfnR5yjERh
— Daniel Libit (@DanielLibit) July 16, 2026
BBC engineers built robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife at distances no human crew could ever get close enough to reach.
— Digital Brain (@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social) July 17, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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@ellyefoley r u taking ur dog to #flavortown #nyc ♬ original sound - migorengmedia
@rumbleponies Only in Binghamton 🥰🥰 #rumbleponies #mets #jonahtong #baseball #bobbleheads ♬ original sound - Binghamton Rumble Ponies
@larry.the.gsp he loves water #gspsoftiktok #gsp #dogsoftiktok ♬ C.B.Rhumba by Sage Guyton and Jeremy Wakefield - SpongeRadio
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