Tuesday July 12: Daily Links

TUESDAY 7.12


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Judge Undercuts Steve Bannon Defense at Contempt Trial

Bannon is going to trial for contempt of Congressional subpoena next week after he refused to produce documents and give testimony before the Jan 6 committee. According to CNN, the judge ruled today that the government here only needs to prove that Steve Bannon willfully and deliberately defied that subpoena back in October of last year. The judge is saying that Steve Bannon cannot bring in extraneous information. He can’t say that he was relying on the advice of counsel when he defied that subpoena. He can’t say he was relying on claims of executive privilege asserted by then-President Trump.”

Well judge, you’re about to get a podcast thrashing

Read more at Mediaite.


Herschel Walker Explains Climate Change as Only Herschel Walker Can

Senatorial candidate Herschel Walker says America has the cleanest air in the world, but other countries don’t clean up their air.

“Since we don’t control the air, our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got we to clean that back up.”

Science is really confusing, Herschel.

Read more at Mediaite.


Andrew Yang Wants Matthew McConaughey to Run for Prez

In an appearance on Shane Gillis’ podcast, Andrew Yang said we need an “ex-institutional” candidate. “My paragon example of this is someone like Matthew McConaughey. Like, so McConaughey is from outside the institutions, but he’s not an asshole, like, uh, in the same way (Donald) Trump is. So I look at someone like that and think ‘God, like, that’s the kind of figure that we need to get us out of this mess.”

As long as you’re not working on getting Andrew Yang to run for president.

Read more at Mediaite.


Vice Tested Vapes to See What's Inside

Three popular vapes were sent to a lab to see what you’re actually inhaling. They tested an IGet XXL, an IGet King, and a Gunpod.

Even vice doesn’t want to know what’s in Juul.

Read more at Vice.com


Buzzfeed Asks Juulheads, What Now?

What are you going to do without Juul, Buzzfeed asked Juul users who are going to have to accept that their favorite vape is going bye bye.

Most people will just get drunk in their lit pits.

Read more at Buzzfeed


Biden's Approval Rating is a Whopping 33%

A New York Times/Siena College poll found Biden has a 33% approval rating.

What is wrong with 1/3 of the country?

Read more at NY Times


Was Elon Musk's Twitter Just a Smoke Screen?

Fortune mag is suggesting that maybe the whole “I’m buying Twitter” was just a cover so he could sell his eight and a half billion worth of Tesla stock. Lux Capital founder Josh Wolfe said on Twitter, “Entire thing was a clever ruse to SELL + LIQUIDATE $8.5 BILLION of TESLA STOCK (w/plausible excuse for doing it),” Josh Wolfe wrote along with included math that suggested Musk would walk away with more than $7 billion in liquidated stock—even after paying the $1 billion breakup fee. “Honestly think he can ‘land rockets’ but can’t fix ‘bots’?”

So maybe he is a genius after all.

Read more at Fortune


Amazon Makes Most of Their Money From a Service You've Never Heard Of

No, it’s not off your Prime subscription or even all those damn packages you order. Amazon Web Services is the company’s biggest cash cow, powering major providers like Netflix.

Great. Can you help me with my MySpace?

Read more at Digg


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SPORTS



Ja Morant: I Would Have Cooked Michael Jordan

ON a bleacher report podcast, Morant said in a one on one, he could have beaten the legendary Michael Jordan, even in his prime. He said he “would’ve cooked” Jordan in a game of one-on-one because “I’m never gonna say nobody gonna beat me in one-on-one or anything. Yeah. I don’t care what it is. What sport it is. Soccer who the best player in soccer. Come on. We can play!”


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CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



97 Year Old San Francisco Theater Reopens

Hundreds stood on line to attend the reopening of a historic bay area movie theater. The Stanford Theater opened with two Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Classics, “Top Hat” and “The Gay Divorcee”

The only good shit is the old shit.

Read more at sfgate.comt


Leonardo DiCaprio Offered to Coach Buttigieg on Public Speaking

Lis Smith said Leo had offered tips while Buttigieg was running for president, but Pete didn’t bother getting Leo’s number, which she saw as a mistake.

What’s weird is that he did agree to be coached by Adam Sandler

Read more at TMZ


Lea Michele Replacing Beanie Feldstein in Funny Girl on Broadway

Does she have a famous brother too?

Read more at Washington Post


Watch Eddie Murphy's Father Daughter Dance at His Daughter's Wedding

TMZ shared footage of Eddie and his daughter dancing to Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely” at her wedding.

This looks like shit compared to coming to America.

Read more at TMZ


RATM Says Abort the Supreme Court

It was their first show in 11 years, and Rage Against the Machine had a message for America: Abort the Supreme Court

You’re a little late boys, this baby’s been born. Where were you 10 years ago?

Read more at Pitchfork


Den of Geek Wants to Convince You Grease 2 Was Cooler than the OG

Was Grease 2 starring Maxwell Caufield and Michelle Pfeiffer way cooler than the original John Travolta Olivia Newton John musical? DoG thinks so.

Well yeah, you had Shooter McGavin in it. That’s cheating.

Read more at Den of Geek


George RR Martin's New GOT Book Will Not Track the TV Series

The Game of Thrones author says his writing on The Winds of Winter has been meandering away from how the HBO series ended, which is probably for the best since everyone hated that ending. Martin had not finished his book series when the HBO series aired.

I’ve got one question. Is winter still coming?

Read more at Coming Soon



TRENDING & VIRAL



Black Bear Waits for a Bus

Where you going on that bus, bear? The Honey Store?

Read more at TMZ


Sea Lions Chase People on San Diego Beach

Great job Joe Biden.



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