Tuesday January 2 Daily Links

TUESDAY 1.2
NEWS STORIES
2024 is 1996 All Over Again
If you have an old 1996 calendar, you can use it again this year and save yourself a few bucks, because 2024 and 1996 are exactly the same and for some reason people are very excited about this.
This means the yankees are going to the world series!
Bill Clinton Expected to Be All Up in the Epstein Docs
Now that the Epstein documents are being unsealed, its expected that Former President Bill Clinton will be identified as “John Doe 36” and his name appears over 50 times in the docs.
Clinton doesn’t mind being in the docs, he just doesn’t understand why he wasn’t in the will.
All Undocumented Immigrants in Cali Can Get Health Insurance Now
As of January 1 all undocumented immigrants qualify for Medi-Cal, California’s own state version of medicaid. The program has been slowly expanded for years, extending first to children then young adults. This new extension now qualifies those aged 26-49.
Now if we could only do that for documented citizens.
UK Has a Fish and Chips Shortage
A British tradition is in danger, experts are warning. Chippies or fish and chip joints are in danger, sparking the need for a campaign to Save the Chippies with purveyors cutting hours and going out of business due to rising cost of doing business.
Their two biggest problems are that fish are overfished, and newspapers no longer exist.
SPORTS
Panthers Owner Threw a Drink at a Jags Fan?
David Tepper was furious during this week’s game and maybe that’s because the Jaguars beat his team 26-0. But it probably was a bad move to throw a drink at a fan.
If you’re going to have a drink thrown in your face, might as well be by a billionaire.
CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT
Andy Cohen Got Scammed
“Someone called saying they were fraud alert from my bank,” he said, which was sort of true, because they were defrauding him. He didn’t say how much money they got, but it was “a lot of money”.
It’s true the elderly are having a lot of trouble these days.
Green Day NYE Performance Trolls Trump Heads
He sang, “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda,” instead of “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” making Trump supporters see red.
If you’re not offended by redneck, why would you be offended by MAGA?
David Schwimmer Calls Rape Foundation Anti Semetic
Schwimmer has spent 20 years on the board of The Rape Foundation — a non-profit for victims of sexual assault and abuse. And now he is calling them out for not standing up for Israeli victims of the October 7 Hamas attack. “Where is their outrage?” he wrote in an Instagram post Friday. “In the weeks and months that followed, it became clear that their activism, their advocacy, is conditional. “They’ll fight like hell for ALL victims of sexual violence — unless they’re Jewish.”
Can’t we all be Friends?
Taylor Swift Breaks an Elvis Record
Taylor Swift has now spent the most weeks at No. 1 on Billboard 200 chart, beating Elvis Presley’s prior record of 67 weeks.
Yeah but at least Elvis didn’t jinx the chiefs.
Mariah Carey Continues Really Long Tradition of Dipping in a Dress
Every year she takes a dip in a hot tub while wearing a designer gown, and this year was no exception.
The last person who did this was Matthew Perry
Rex Reed Best & Worst Movies of 2023
Maestro, Saltburn, and Zone of Interest were at the top of his list which includes his four star, three and a half star and all the way down to zero star hack jobs like Renfield, and the one movie that he considered too awful to even review- Barbie.
He’s classy, he’s sassy and believe it or not he’s still alive
VIRAL & TRENDING
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