Sunday, July 12, 2026

Today's news and jokes







It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

— chris delano’s bluesky account (@chrisrd19.bsky.social) July 12, 2026 at 4:33 AM








Getting diarrhea like, "Hope this isn't the diarrhea that was on the news"

— Blue sky nice ghost (@rajandelman.bsky.social) July 11, 2026 at 11:38 AM
















Hunter Biden has been cleaning up lately apple.news/AppCI-z_OQDO...

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— T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) July 11, 2026 at 3:27 PM








Reid Rasner, an openly gay Republican running for Wyoming’s sole House seat, is suing members of his own party over 'pedophile' slur

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— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) July 10, 2026 at 9:30 AM
(“This just isn’t the Wyoming I knew or thought I knew...he got some viral attention for a gag video where he pretended to kick a man (his political rival ...) out of a women’s bathroom")







Somebody (Rebecca Onion) didn't read the books. If they read the books, they would know the Black doctor is in the books. He nurses the Ingalls family through malaria. He's based on a real Black doctor who lived near the Ingalls family in Independence, KS, REBECCA ONION slate.com/culture/2026...

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— G. Willow Wilson (@gwillow.me) July 10, 2026 at 5:15 PM
("There’s no other way for me to put this: Netflix did indeed woke-ify Little House on the Prairie. This new version makes a deep bow to contemporary concerns about the politics of the source material. Some of the Ingalls family’s closest new friends on the show are an Osage couple, a Black doctor and Black storekeeper") (A summary of the 1981 show: "Dr. Baker is enthusiastic about his new assistant, a young university-trained physician named Caleb LeDoux ... until he realizes he is black. The Ingalls family are among the few to accept Dr. LeDoux, while others' reactions range from prejudice to outright racism.) (George A. Tann.)







When the subject of a picture sees a “photojournalist as a protective shield, not an intrusive force.” How a Getty photo intern got this pic from a subway car crowded with white nationalists. And what that man you see at the left had to say about him. My piece via CJR www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) July 10, 2026 at 4:37 AM
([The photographer] "can’t find the men at first, but a helpful cop points him toward a Metro station. Then, as [the photographer] told me, “I get back on the scooter, and I’m just hauling. I went straight up Pennsylvania Avenue, towards the Eastern Market Metro station, and the first thing I saw was three hundred, four hundred of them.” [The photographer] managed to squeeze his way into the station and onto a subway car that was filling up with the white nationalists")







The beach access guy







Lots of youth soccer discourse in the aftermath of the USMNT's World Cup exit. So, I wrote about "pay-to-play" — what it actually is, why it's a problem, why it's different in the U.S. vs. elsewhere, & why the real issue is "pay-to-travel-and-play." Free to read (ironically...) @theathletic.com:

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— Henry Bushnell (@henrybushnell.bsky.social) July 10, 2026 at 5:19 AM
("across all youth sports, costs rose 46 percent from 2019 to 2025") (the difference between expensive and outlandish is travel, it's much more viable if the parents agree to look for tourneys close to home)











































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@ringo.the.whip Every day, all summer long… #sighthound #citydog #greyhound #dogmomlife #longdog ♬ On Melancholy Hill - Gorillaz




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