Wednesday April 17 Daily Links

WEDNESDAY 4.17


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Trump Fell Asleep AGAIN at Day Two of His Trial

CNN contributor Norm Eisen tweeted on Tuesday: “Trump is asleep again” at nearly 11:00 AM. And his account was corroborated by others on site.
Why can’t anybody see this as confidence?

Read more at mediaite.


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OAN Settles Defamation Case with Smartmatic

I think you spelled O n A wrong.

Read more at CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/media/oan-smartmatic-settlement/index.html


Sesame Street Writers Plan to Strike

Get ready for a picket line on Sesame Street.

Writers at the Sesame Workshop have voted unanimously to authorize a strike against the nonprofit organization, the Writers Guild of America said Tuesday.

S is for Strike. M is for money.

Read more at Deadline


Kelly Slater Reign Coming to End

The greatest surfer of all time will likely be hanging up his competitive board now that he failed to qualify for the World Surf League’s mid-season cut at Margaret River.

He’s been the most famous surfer for 30 years and still left the sport right where he found it.

Read more at the guardian


Rob Scneider Too Vulgar for the GOP

The free speech party, also known as the anti-woke party, also known as the GOP cut Rob Schneider’s set short at a recent event for being too gross and too vulgar. They cut him off after about ten minutes.

Come on, you can do it.

Read more at mediaite.




SPORTS



Travis Kelce Snagged Host Role of AYSTaFG Spinoff

Amazon’s new incarnation of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader will be hosted by Travis Kelce, His version will be called Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity.

If you’ve ever seen celebrity Jeopardy then you know the answer to that question is always yes.

Kelce is not worthy….foxworthy.

Read more at THR


Caitlin Clark Breaks Another Record

The Womens Basketball super star has sold more jerseys than any other draft pick ever, male or female.

This is great but how come the shorts aren’t moving.

Read more at TMZ




CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Chris Hemsworth Wanted Costner Role and Did Not Get It

Chris Hemsworth wanted to play a role in a film project directed by Kevin Costner, but Costner actually had written the role for himself. “There was a movie, a script that I’d read and loved and was like, ‘I want to get that,’ and then someone said, ‘Kevin Costner has that [role],’” Hemsworth said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I’d love [to have] him as a director. I was like, ‘Goddamnit!’ [I spent] an hour the other day trying to convince him, and he was like, ‘I’m doing it, kid.’ Didn’t work. I didn’t get the part.”

You thought you had a shot at a role Costner wrote for himself? It’s almost embarrassing that you wanted it.

Read more at deadline.


Heidi Gardner Talked About This Weeks SNL

“This makes me feel almost even worse and unprofessional. When I looked and saw Mikey in the dress rehearsal, I lost it. I was shocked,” Gardner said. “I’m thinking about it right now and laughing. I recovered and tried to tell myself in between dress and the live show, You can’t laugh like that again. I was trying to imagine seeing him in my head so I was prepared for it, but I just couldn’t prepare for what I saw. I really tried. I even saw Mikey out of the corner of my eye seconds before I went live. I saw the red shorts. I knew I couldn’t look over there again. Mikey even told me later that he was bending down and hiding himself so I wouldn’t see him.”

“Mikey does seem to turn his head just a little bit and bug out his eyes. It’s like he’s doing a subtle acknowledgment. That was new,” she continued. “Maybe the fact I was trying to give myself pep talks contributed to it. Mikey and I sit next to each other during table reads, and he makes me laugh a lot. It’s easy for us to mess with each other. Something in the way he moved on live television felt like when someone messes with you to make you laugh.”

Just admit that you faked it.

Read more at Variety


Elon Musk Planning to Charge New Xers

“Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots.”

Charging money should definitely get more people signed up right?

Read more at awful announcing.



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