Monday April 25 Daily Links

MONDAY 4.25


NEWS STORIES

 



Macron Wins

France’s president Emmanuel Macron beat his opponent to start a second term, beating Marine Le Pen, and nobody alleged a rigged election.

Take the Macron leave the cannoli.

Read more at CNBC


Off Duty NJ Cops Can Smoke Weed If They Want Too

NJ’s Cannabis law does not make an exception prohibiting police officers from getting high and not everyone is thrilled about that, and Jersey City’s Mayor is threatening to fire any cops caught testing positive for weed..

Relax. Weed is legal.

Read more at Fox 5


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SPORTS



Shaq Willing to Coach Lakers for $100 Million

“If the Lakers offer me $25 million a year for four years, I’ll coach the Lakers,” Shaq said on his own podcast. This would be a significant jump over the current highest paid coach across all US Sports. Bill Belichick is believed to be making the most at about $18 million a year.

What would you coach people to be? Seven feet tall?

Read more at NY Post


Lucius Fox Puked All Over the Mound

Washington Nationals Lucius Fox threw out two pitches and them threw out everything in his stomach, all over the field.

This is why HR tells you to just call out if you’re not feeling well.

Read more at BarStool


Security Guard Tackled Timberwolves Protestor

Another Timberwolves game, another protestor interrupted the action, this time rushing the court during the game. But security is on the lookout now after two prior incidents, and body slammed the runner like he was a defensive tackle. The ongoing disruptions are protesting the team owner’s poor treatment of chickens on his side hustle farm.

Can’t this guy just treat his chickens better?

Read more at Mediaite.


Baker Mayfield Gets a Statue in Oklahoma

Oklahoma University just honored their alum with a bigger than life statue.

And he’s getting a pink slip in Cleveland.

Read more at NY Post.


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CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Will Smith Is in India With a Yogi

Slappy Smith was spotted for the first time after the Oscars, when he landed in India to meet with Sadhguru, a Yogi who teaches powerful self transformation.

This is a very rich person’s anger management.

Read more at Daily Mail


Source Says Bill Murray Was Handsy on Set

Everyone’s trying to figure out what complaint shut down Aziz Ansari’s “Being Mortal” set. An inside source told Page Six that Bill Murray was handsy with the ladies, and very huggy with people.

Sounds like someone wasn’t liking the dailies.

Read more at pagesix.


Wachowskis Auctioning Movie Props

The filmmaking siblings are raising money for programs to assist Trans youth and will be auctioning off memorabilia from the Matrix movies as well as Jupiter Ascending, their Netflix series Sense 8 and Cloud Atlas. You can score some set pieces props and other items for anywhere from 40 bucks to $10,000 (so far).

How about their penises?

Read more at Gizmodo.


Liam Neeson Could Have Been James Bond

Neeson told Rich Eisen that after Schindler’s List, he had heard that he was being considered as a possible James Bond. He said he remembered dancing around the house humming 007 music in the mirror, and his wife looked at him and said, Liam, if you do this role, we can’t get married.

It’s always Yoko, isn’t it.


Billie Eilish Face Plant in the Dark at Coachella

The pop star tripped on the “fucking fire thing” during her Coachella set and told the crowd “Ouch! You guys, I just ate ass up here!” She added, “You guys, I seriously ate s***. Seriously. It was pitch black. You see that square?: This f***ing thing? I went de-de-de-de-de and fell onto my face!”

And all the king’s horses and all the king’s men…

Read more at TMZ


Daniel Day Lewis Was Considered for the Role of Nic Cage

The Writers of Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent said the one of the only good alternatives they considered for the role of Nic Cage was Daniel Day Lewis.

Yeah. Calling bullshit on this one.

Read more at Indiewire



VIRAL & TRENDING



WTF is Shirt Holding?

TikTokers are shirt holding like crazy. And this Twitter vid showing off a few examples has over a million views too.

This is as close a Gen Z comes to having rough sex.


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STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



PBS Investigates the Blaccent

Even though we are more aware of cultural appropriation issues than ever before, the use of the black accent by white and non-black performers continues. PBS takes a look at why blaccent is more popular than ever, and why its a problem.

But this was Robin Wiliams bread and butter.



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