Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Today's news and jokes







“a second ex-wife has come forward” agreeing that her ICE agent ex was a natural born killer is definitely a headline for our times.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) July 19, 2026 at 10:53 AM








NEW: The @aclum.bsky.social has created a toolkit for defense attorneys that allows them to more easily uncover whether their clients were subjected to police surveillance tools, the use of which is often kept secret despite evidence laws. @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop:

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— Andrew Couts (@couts.bsky.social) July 20, 2026 at 5:43 AM
ACLU















(Paramount's lawyer was on The Town this week--one of his arguments, if I understood correctly, was they had structured the deal in such a way that heavily penalized the company if the deal was delayed--and that was a reason for permitting the deal to go forward ASAP)







Interesting bit in this Variety article about The Odyssey where the American writer takes issue with the characters' American accents, dismisses Greek accents as "a bit much", & argues that British (I assume he really means English) accents would have been fine. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

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— Paul Cornish (@paulgcornish.bsky.social) July 20, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Turning the dial and looking to the audience for approval

Well they could have been gods in disguise

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— Vituperative Erb (@vituperativeerb.bsky.social) July 19, 2026 at 7:06 PM








finally, Shang-Chi will face his mortal enemy Gambit, in a clash fans have demanded for generations

— David Sims (@davidlsims.bsky.social) July 20, 2026 at 6:34 AM
(Haven't watched the trailer, or Deadpool 3, and didn't finish Shang-Chi (hated every second I watched, taped out during the Trevor car ride)(didn't like the Incursion storyline or Secret Wars, either--would love for Ribic to get paired with better projects)))







Quick result I saw was four: Vaporization by Jean Grey, Sentinel Attack, Stabbing by X-24, Neck Snap by Wanda Maximoff







As someone who was 19 that summer I just want to assure you that for a while we were all turning towards our friends with a death glare and going "Not GAY... Not STRAIGHT..."

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— Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 (@halfrobot.com) July 17, 2026 at 11:55 AM
















(I've heard a report that the league will basically slow expansion talk until they're sure the Blazers have extracted everything they can from the highest bidder. I'm unclear if the Allen estate has maintained a reduced ownership interest in order to benefit from any such move.)(Make sure that trust clearly expresses your wishes!)







Did he call him out on a twitch stream yet?







Say what you will about that Argentinian team, I’ve never seen any side incorporate Brazilian jiujitsu so fluidly into their football

— HK (@hkesvani.bsky.social) July 20, 2026 at 2:35 AM








(I don't know whose fault it is, or if my taste has just changed, but the broadcasts have been terribly boring this year.)







There was a dark manosphere guy who posted about the predatory male drive to smoke cigars and own Lamborghinis on Twitter like a decade ago who when he liked a tweet he would screenshot it and post a picture of himself pointing at it and smiling,

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— 聖☆Alex Degen (@adactivity.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM

So a lot of his feed was pics of him in an ill fitting suit pointing and smiling at tweets from like the dilbert guy

— 聖☆Alex Degen (@adactivity.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 9:01 AM

Can’t remember his name it was like “The dark man” or something

— 聖☆Alex Degen (@adactivity.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 9:05 AM








I’m reading an odd little 1950s pamphlet about reciting poetry and the writers keep breaking off to talk about how much they hate various modern tendencies including, most notably, people who listen to music out loud instead of using headphones

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— Holly Gramazio (@hollygramazio.bsky.social) July 7, 2026 at 9:20 AM
















@reuters Firefighters in Venezuela's coastal La Guaira state rescued a parrot from the rubble after powerful earthquakes devastated the area, video released by Miranda State Firefighters showed on July 3. #parrot #rescue #venezuela #earthquake #laguaira ♬ original sound - Reuters




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