Monday May 20 Daily Links

MONDAY 5.20


NEWS STORIES

 



Lauren Boebert Makes Sign of the Triangle


Save the Fireflies

Light pollution, climate change and pesticides have diminished our firefly populations significantly, but you can help keep their magic alive. Turn off lights, grow your grass longer, keep your dropped leaves, and don’t oversalt in the winter.

who cares about fire flies. save the lightening bugs.

Read more at FWS.


Blue Origin Rocket Bring 5 Into Space

90-year-old Ed Dwight was Americas first black astronaut candidate and now 60 years later he returned to space with four others on a Blue Origin rocket.

He was the second oldest person in space just five years behind William Shatner

Read more at NPR


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SPORTS



Tyson Fury Accuses Judges of Rigging Fight

A split decision gave Tyson his first loss making Oleksandr Usyk the first new WBC heavyweight champ since 2020. Tyson says they just wanted him to win because he’s from Ukraine.

How unusual for a boxer to feel ripped off. go to stop the steal dot com.

Read more at NY Post.


Ronnie Lott Says We Owe John Madden a Thanks

Defensive Back Ronnie Lott said John Madden literally said one day, ‘Hey, look, we gotta do something.’ So nobody knows that story, but John Madden literally said, ‘I’m putting together a safety committee. I’m putting together all this and the reason why is because I know that there’s something bigger than me.’

“And so here’s John, literally getting all of us together, and saying, ‘We’re gonna do this because we’re gonna look at all the things. We’re gonna look at every rule, we’re gonna look at the turf, we’re gonna look at everything. And after each year, we’re gonna look and we’re gonna examine all the issues.

He doesn’t have cte but he was. carrier.

Read more at awful announcing.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Disneyland Characters Unionize

In a landslide election, character workers at Disneyland voted to unionize. Most other crew members are already in unions but the characters were not.

Their first demand is that children cannot come within 50 feet of them.

Read more at huffpost.


Diddy Apologizes for Cassie Violence

“It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you gotta do that. I was fucked up. I mean, I hit rock bottom. But I make no excuses,” Combs said in a video posted on Instagram. “My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in this video. They’re disgusting. I was disgusted then when I did it, I’m disgusted now. I went and I sought professional help. I’ve been going to therapy, going to rehab. I had to ask God for his mercy and grace. I’m so sorry, but I’m committed to being a better man each and every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I am truly sorry.”

he feels bad that the tape got out

Read more at variety


Seinfeld Gets Heckled by Gaza Protestors

As soon as Jerry hits the stage you start to hear FREE GAZA from the audience. He was yelling on his own but throughout the night about 8 protestors shouted at the stage at various points.

what a coincidence 8 separate people bought a ticket to the show they didn’t like.

Read more at usatoday.


Richard Linklater Misses the Gender Dynamic in Film

Its not so much that men have to be manly all the time, but sexless superheroes and sexless characters have him bummed out. His upcoming Netflix movie, Hitman is a “sexy crime thriller meets screwball comedy” and says the plot hinges on Arjanoa’s character Maddy being “the one he will risk everything for, just to sleep with her.”
“Sex and violence is what cinema is great at. Sex was always the great seller; I don’t know why they backed off from that. Hollywood started feeding this new generation characters that were sexless. Superheroes don’t have sex. They don’t have genitalia, frankly.”

on the other hand we do a great job with violence

Read more at Deadline


Who Cares About a Standing O

Cannes has ruined the thrill of the standing ovation since it seems like every film gets one that lasts 10 minutes or more nowadays. And then the movie comes out and it stinks. Which brings up the question, do they really matter?

you’re in the media you’re the only ones taking out the stop watch

Read more at THR



VIRAL & TRENDING



Holy Shit Meteorite Over Europe

The European Space Agency said the meteor appeared to be a chunk of a comet that broke off and skipped across Earth’s atmosphere about 35 miles high.

This looks like the beginning of Armageddon.

Read more at NY Post.

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