Friday, September 25, 2026

Today's news and jokes







Ballot seizure by Riverside County sheriff was 'unlawful,' California Supreme Court rules

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— Los Angeles Times (@latimes.com) September 24, 2026 at 11:23 AM
(In a footnote, justices also took a swipe at Bianco’s initial effort to have the case tossed for lack of standing — a move apparently undertaken on the legal advice of an elaborate AI hallucination, reminding lawyers of their “professional duties of competence and candor.”)



Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

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— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 11:00 AM








Completely misunderstood







Again, this is what Tucker says to normal audiences. To his own audience, literally today, he went on a deranged rant about, among other things, how Oswald Mosley wasn’t a Nazi.

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— Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 7:37 AM


Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...

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— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 4:58 AM
("Carlson has taken the view not only that Israel influenced Trump to launch the war, but that Israel gave Trump no choice, and in fact that outside forces control both American political parties")















@wgn9chicago What are so many Chicago Public Schools so empty? And why are so few talking about it? @BenBradleyTV reports… #wgninvestigates #chicagopublicschools #enrollment #cps ♬ original sound - WGN9Chicago
("CPS data shows 13 high schools are 80% empty")







New from Nikole Hannah-Jones: In fighting for every Black child, Did I betray my own? ‘A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge NYC’s unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice’

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— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) September 20, 2026 at 7:44 AM
(After she got a cover story featuring her daughter in 2016, "Producers invited me for interviews, book publishers came calling and I was asked to speak all over the country")



(This, alas, is also why parents get so crazy about club sports)







(FWIW, the Guardian's headline is "Huge El Niño projected to cause more than 450,000 deaths by February", 31k in Nigeria.)















there are infinite number of bad things that republicans have done but if i were a republican politician not wanting to do culture war stuff i would just point at the LAX people mover train situation over and over and over again and say look at this incompetence ktla.com/news/local-n...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 1:10 PM




































("said he was able to persuade DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub to lower their commissions in exchange for the restaurant’s business")



















(I couldn't find the Sky Sports clip, but Chadwick was also commentating during this moment, and correctly warning against panic-spraying the car because it would damage the engine)













































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@pawpawdaily28 This little puppy even has two different faces. #puppy #dog #dogsoftiktok #cutedog ♬ âm thanh gốc - PawPaw Daily




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