Tuesday September 12 Daily Links

TUESDAY 9.12


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Protestors Arrested for Squatting in Kevin McCarthys Office

Activists occupied the House speakers office chanting “Pass PEPFAR now, McCarthy! Pass PEPFAR now, McCarthy!” They were demanding passage of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

What did he think that poor man could do for him?

Read more at mediaite


Delta Passengers Diverted to an Island and Scolded To Calm Down

Airline officials had no sympathy for complaining Delta passengers who were upset that their flight was diverted to a Portuguese Island and put in an isolated part of the airport. Officials told them not to start a revolution and to just be grateful they didn’t crash.

Every flight on Delta is like an episode of Lost.

Read more at Yahoo

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/delta-passengers-stranded-remote-island-192634408.html


Cyber Attack Leaves Vegas Guests Locked Out of Hotel Rooms

Someone took a shot at MGM’s computer systems leaving thousands of Vegas visitors stuck when their room keys stopped working.

You can’t have backup keys? This never happened in the rat pack days.

Read more at Daily Mail.


Orangutan Horrifies Zoo Goers By Launching Possum Out of Enclosure

It all went down an Australian Zoo. The possum invaded the Orangutan’s space, and so the annoyed Orangutan solved his own problem.

And this is why he won’t do six shows a week anymore.



SPORTS



Aaron Rodgers Out, Maybe For Good

It was a surreal moment as Rodgers left the game during his first set of downs playing for the NY Jets- barely even getting a play off before exiting.

What’s the medical term for panic attack?

Read more at USA Today

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2023/09/11/aaron-rodgers-injury-jets-debut-mnf/70827054007/

Eli and Peyton React

https://x.com/espn/status/1701393836503666988?s=20


Ricky Williams Says He Could Have Been a Contender..in Baseball

Former Miami Dolphin Ricky Williams says he could have been an MLB all star. He was an 8th-round pick to the Phils in the ’95 MLB Amateur Draft and played for the rookie league and Single-A teams for years.

He didn’t want to play 162 games.

Read more at TMZ


Draft Kings Apologies for Bad 911 Promotion

The promo encouraged people to bet big on NY teams for 911, learning nothing from past blunders by companies trying to use 9/11 to push specials.

This is why they’re called draft kings not class kings

Read more at NY Post


Barstool Sports Caught Using Burners to Evade Copyright Infringement Issues

Knowing you can’t post copyright protected photos and video without permission, but you can post tweets, Barstool created dozens of burner accounts to do their dirty work for them. And they got caught.

This was almost the perfect crime.

Read more at NY Post


The NFL Season Gets Off to Ugly Start

The numbers prove it.

And this is before Rodgers took a giant shit.

Read more at WSJ



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Old Tense-ish Fallon Incident Goes Viral

An exchange with Amy Poehler during an SNL table read is going viral amid allegations that Fallon heads a toxic work environment.

Jimmy, you’re not out of the woods yet.

Read more at at NY Post

https://nypost.com/2023/09/11/jimmy-fallons-tense-exchange-with-amy-poehler-resurfaces-amid-toxic-workplace-claims/


Drew Barrymore Show Kicked Out Strike Supporters in Audience

The DBS announced they were coming back to television despite the WGA and SAG strikes, and drew plenty of protestors. Guess it made them. nervous because they started kicking out audience members who were wearing pins representing the strikes.

Seems like Drew is racing Jimmy Fallon to see who can be the next Ellen.

Read more at Buzzfeed


Cage Delivers

Nic Cage’s latest movie, Dream Scenario, is being called his best work yet, and critics are calling it Comedy Gold.

The problem is he didn’t know he was doing comedy.

Read more at Screen Rant


Rachel McAdams Coming to Broadway

She plans to star in “Mary Jane,” a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog.

Hey Rachel you know you have act in theater. You can’t just be cute.

Read more at Variety.



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