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Moscow will drop 'charges' against Prigozhin and he'll go into exile in Belarus, they are pulling out of Rostov msnbc breaking news -- nm* - zeitgeist Jun 24, 13:04 4
- "So Prigozhin has agreed to give up, move to Belarus and disband Wagner, one day after announcing a mutiny?" -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 13:18
- "Vlad, I'm still your main bitch here, right? Right? Like, I'm not being replaced....right?" -- nm - Lukashenko Jun 24, 13:13
- reporter points out that no one who has acted in even far less against putin has ever lived..for long -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 24, 13:07 1
  - I think literally everyone has pointed that out, but it's a fascinating situation since he was Putin's personal chef and trusted advisor. -- nm - David Jun 24, 13:14
"James Nixey, head of the Russia-Eurasia program at Chatham House, says today marked the worst day for Vladimir Putin in all his years of presidency." - David Jun 24, 12:57
Putin possibly fled to Tyver where he has a residence, dozens of other oligarchs have flown their jets away too. -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 24, 12:56 [mastodon] 2
- If Putin had to flee, where could he go, the Hage has a warrant for him.... China? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 24, 12:58 1
  - China or anywhere that will take a massive influx of cash from him. -- nm - Remlik Jun 24, 13:00
I highly recommend this article about a former French NBA first round draft pick. -- (link) - David Jun 24, 12:32 1
- Vince Carter stole that man’s hope! -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 24, 12:34
This is all because one of the mercenaries asked if they were there yet, right? - Fuzzy Jun 24, 12:10 5
- 2 mercenaries. the second needed to stop to use a bathroom and Putin said, NO!!! -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 24, 12:47
- Ha! -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 12:33
- They ran out of Fruit Cups! -- nm - eag Jun 24, 12:18
- ha! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 24, 12:17
- 😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 12:12
This picture is real. -- (link) - David Jun 24, 12:05 1
- What's the deal with the kid waiters? Is it related to the small wine bottles? - the wrong element Jun 24, 12:17
Chart of the annual death toll, of the Titanic - Flavorize Jun 24, 12:05
One good result for one person. Joe is on his way to Camp David for the weekend and Jake Sullivan gets to go. - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 11:56 1
- Remember how Trump would create new crises to hide prior ones? The universe is doing that for Biden! -- nm - David Jun 24, 12:02
CNN: Zelensky claims Putin is "no longer in Moscow" -- nm - mud Jun 24, 11:53
"The man from the Kremlin is obviously very afraid and probably hiding somewhere, not showing himself. I am sure that he is no longer in Moscow." - David Jun 24, 11:53
Watching BBC reinforces just how badly CNN has lost its way. - David Jun 24, 11:48 7
- I don't watch CNN anymore. Fuck them. I watch BBC News and PBS News Hour. -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 12:27
- Link -- nm - con_carne Jun 24, 12:20
- wow, there's no way you've been watching any CNN for the last 7 hrs -- nm - mud Jun 24, 11:50 4
  - "These are the moments that CNN was made for." -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 11:56 3
    - this must be important. CNN is using the red ticker -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 24, 12:10
    - Christiane Amanpour ♡ ! -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 12:01 1
      - "If it feels like CNN is trending back toward pre-Licht era, in some ways it is… wall-to-wall coverage of Ukraine.. " -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 12:03
"With you all chumps distracted, you wouldn't *believe* what we've been up to in the last 24 hours..." -- nm - The Orcas Jun 24, 11:46
“didn’t even get out of the opening credits of Crimson Tide” -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 24, 11:40
Anna sure is cute. Bummer. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 11:39
“He’s gay! He’s gay! He’s gay!” -- (link) - Tim Jun 24, 11:37 1
- I only found out an hour ago I knew Harley as a singer before this. - David Jun 24, 11:43
So, to paraphrase these events ... - Beryllium Jun 24, 11:32 7
- Wagner troops just turned around, went to within 200km of Moscow, only to turn around again. How high would you guess troop morale is? -- nm* - David Jun 24, 11:42 5
  - So...Mad Max: Fury Road? -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 12:30 2
    - They lacked the guitar player strapped to the tank so thought better of it. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 24, 13:19
    - Exactly! -- nm - David Jun 24, 12:46
  - They got to flex on Russia for 400+km, with everyone - citizens, police, troops, other contract armies - cowering in fear. - Beryllium Jun 24, 11:47
  - The regulars are cannon fodder. Wagner has more BDE than Pete Davidson -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 24, 11:44
- like the military analysts predicted a few hours ago -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 24, 11:34
One interesting thing to me about the NHL cap is there is a cap floor minimum. I'm guessing MLB doesn't have that and should think about getting it. - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 11:30 7
- MLB owners won’t accept that unless they have a cap ceiling. MLBPA say no. So you get the A’s and O’s running crap payrolls. -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 24, 11:34 6
  - But at least the Os have an eye for talent. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 11:36 5
    - That’s the hope - we have and will run bigger payrolls. Others never have or will. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 24, 11:37
    - nah they’ve just been so shit for so long they kept getting #1 picks -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 24, 11:37 3
      - It looks like they only have one player they drafted in the top 10 on the active roster. - the wrong element Jun 24, 12:08 1
        
        Elias is a drafting guru. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 24, 12:32
      - The last 6 1st round picks are all killing it which is rare as hell in baseball. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 24, 11:38
Judge told reporters he tore a ligament in his toe. Previously, the team just said it was a sprain. -- nm - budice Jun 24, 11:21 2
- ST snapped at me for mentioning Judge is often injured, and Yanks should think twice about signing him at 31, to a 9-10 year deal - Flavorize Jun 24, 12:00 1
  - No one thinks it's a great deal, but New York can't not pay that for a guy who hits 62 homers. - Will Hunting Jun 24, 12:44
"things aren't going back to how they were before" -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 11:15 1
- I’m assuming at this point, he passed the job interview to be deputy commander in chief … their SecDef just got pantsed. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 24, 11:32
This BBC News analyst is just crushing Prigozhin. -- nm - David Jun 24, 11:13 9
- Apparently, this dude started as a street criminal, opened a burger stall, went into *catering*, and then befriended Putin. - David Jun 24, 11:15 8
  - Got paid in Diamonds for work in Africa. It's crazy -- nm - Remlik Jun 24, 11:39 2
    - which is legitimately a Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol gimmick -- nm - David Jun 24, 11:44 1
      - Those diamonds were stolen from Leo and Djimon. -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 24, 11:45
  - There but for the grace of God goes Mark Wahlberg. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 11:33
  - I saw this last night but didn’t know the context -- (link) - Tim Jun 24, 11:26
  - Putin has a thing for convict culture and uses prison slang in his campaign -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 24, 11:25
  - Nearly delivered the goods -- nm - budice Jun 24, 11:16 1
    - hrrmmm .. goods -- nm - homer Jun 24, 11:17
Bulls not expecting Lonzo Ball (knee) to play this season -- (link) - Remlik Jun 24, 11:11
an appropriate 50 year old song for today. Al Stewart, The Roads to Moscow -- (link) - Peglegpete Jun 24, 11:02 [youtube]
This reminds me of how for about 9 hours in June 2008, BOP News was on the verge of overthrowing the rest of the BOP site - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 24, 10:58 2
- Back in the day tru and I led a coup at HSJ. It was mostly bloodless. - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 24, 11:35
- A free newspaper subscription! - David Jun 24, 10:59
I’ve been catching bits and pieces of the Wagner-Russia situation but I’m going to need a CNN Tik Tok version to make sense of it all. -- nm - Dano Jun 24, 10:40 8
- I know you're quipping, but here's an amazing fact. -- (link) - David Jun 24, 10:42 7
  - I am kind of quipping, but I liked the "CNN Tik Tok" clip that was posted and so much has happened in the past 2 days I need something simple. -- nm - Dano Jun 24, 11:21 3
    - Yeah, TikTok are just modern sound bites. -- nm - David Jun 24, 11:25 2
      - BOP should buy Tout! -- nm - Remlik Jun 24, 11:40
      - one step removed from blipverts -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 24, 11:30
  - I'm sure something like this must be true. This is still breaking combat reporting right? -- nm - con_carne Jun 24, 11:18 1
    - Yes. Dmitri is the Estonian who has been one of the go-to sources since the invasion's start. -- nm - David Jun 24, 11:24
  - "The Russian military is the 3rd best in the w.. Russia " -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 24, 10:54
That Russian Defense Minister is about to fall out a window. -- nm - David Jun 24, 10:38
According to Belarus - Prigozhin agrees to de-escalate. We'll see. -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 10:33 10
- My weekend freed up all the sudden -- nm - budice Jun 24, 10:48
- From the ogre's mouth -- (link) - Reagen Jun 24, 10:34 8
  - So was the 'plan' to just freak Putin out? This guy won't survive unless Lukashenko gives him asylum or something. -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 10:39 6
    - His fortune cookie says "Avoid windows." -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 24, 10:50
    - Dick measuring contest between him and the Russian SecDef. He won since his guys didn’t get stopped. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 24, 10:46
    - It's possible the plan was to guarantee a supply of quality tanks for Wagner, and he just showed he can go wherever he likes. - Max Jun 24, 10:44
    - Does Hallmark have a "Sorry for attempting a coup" section? -- nm - Reagen Jun 24, 10:42 2
      - From Moscow with Love -- nm - David Jun 24, 10:43 1
        
        I bet they were cranking Back in the USSR as the tanks were steamrolling north -- nm - Remlik Jun 24, 11:09
  - Special Tourism Operation -- nm - Max Jun 24, 10:38
Somebody blinked -- (link) - Reagen Jun 24, 10:32 1
- or cashed a check. -- nm - Remlik Jun 24, 10:34
Who is that wrestler I see on the ads that looks like Aaron Rodgers' crazier brother? -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 24, 10:29 5
- That IS Aaron Rodgers! -- nm - Mop Jun 24, 10:48 1
  - Honestly, for a second, I thought it might be. -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 24, 10:49
- CM Punk? Adam Cole? - David Jun 24, 10:39 2
  - Pretty sure it's the first one. Looks like I'm not the first to note the resemblance. -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 24, 10:49 1
    - Strange. I look nothing like CM Punk. -- nm - David Jun 24, 10:58
It’s like a 99th level chess move at this point but certainly can’t be great for the objectively pro-Putin US a presidential candidate it Putin goes -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 24, 10:26 1
- I think if your chess game has gone to that many moves, neither of you should be playing chess. -- nm* - Qale Jun 24, 10:59
FactOfTheDay: Harrison Ford is older than Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) -- nm - budice Jun 24, 10:26
Ego boost, at the bus stop just now I was asked out by a 24 year old. - LMS Jun 24, 10:16 2
- hubba hubba! -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 24, 10:20
- get it girl -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 24, 10:19
Red Square is shut down, yet there are pictures of tourists taking selfies. Their luggage is right beside them. - David Jun 24, 10:16
"The Russian army was second in the world, then it was second in Ukraine, now it's second in Russia." - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 24, 10:07 2
- But they weren’t woke! How could this happen? -- nm - Tim Jun 24, 10:28
- It feels like the cold open to every 90s political action movie -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 24, 10:15
R.I.P. Frederic Forrest, 86 -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 09:59
Kudos for the Dickens... -- (link) - David Jun 24, 09:29 1
- dang funny -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 09:35
Wagner forces now entering the most grueling stage of their march on Moscow -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 24, 09:20 1
- :-D -- nm - mud Jun 24, 09:24
god-level trolling -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 24, 09:14 1
- I did like the graphic on her retweet -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 09:18
Putin needs to cancel that Wonder build and rush build some mechanized infantry. -- nm - Reagen Jun 24, 09:11 1
- they hypersonic weapons? -- nm - Remlik Jun 24, 09:16
Time lapse: transforming London Stadium into a ballpark -- (link*) - znufrii 🦄 Jun 24, 09:08
Prigozhin looks like Vigo from Ghostbusters 2. -- nm - Diva Jun 24, 08:57 1
- He looks like Sloth got a makeover. -- nm - Reagen Jun 24, 09:06
Watching Royal Ascot, it's disconcerting to hear "and here comes Her Majesty the Queen and see Camilla rather than Elizabeth :/ -- nm - Meg Jun 24, 08:50 1
- indeed -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 09:05
Ranking every NHL team’s salary-cap situation, from best to worst - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 08:47 3
- Anna Kendrick, here you come! -- nm - David Jun 24, 08:58 2
  - As lovely as that would be, that write up wasn't good news for the Preds -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 09:09 1
    - Sure it was, Mr. Kendrick! We fixed our cap woes at the deadline! - David Jun 24, 09:22
Watch a clip of the OceanGate crew getting stuck on the bottom because a thruster was installed backwards. - loosilu Jun 24, 08:37 [youtube]
I like how the Ukrainian MP who was linked on B2 spoke with a backdrop of the Ukrainian flag in between the flags of NATO and the EU. Not subtle - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 08:36 1
- are you shilling for FSB/IRA now? :-] - mud Jun 24, 08:48
whoa oh we're half way there! -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 08:27 [youtube] 3
- I never suspected you of liking Jon Bon -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 24, 08:31 2
  - hardly. for a couple years, ~40 years ago, MuchMusic played their catchy tunes with hot chicks (and Sambora was no slouch) -- nm* - mud Jun 24, 08:34 1
    - hotties -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 08:44 [youtube]
This situation is honestly insane to me that it’s still being allowed to unfold. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 24, 08:22 8
- It's amazing that they haven't fired a bunch of missiles into this column. -- nm - Reagen Jun 24, 08:50 2
  - much reports of regiments standing back and letting them by. -- nm - mud Jun 24, 08:52
  - Yeah, like they are either unwilling or unable to defend against. -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 24, 08:52
- this is a nightmare scenario for sure. breakway parts of Russia should be considered now. What are the nuclear commanders going to do? -- nm - Remlik Jun 24, 08:40
- Seems to be an interesting week to be in Poland. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 24, 08:27
- resolved? China? could you expand on that -- nm - mud Jun 24, 08:24 2
  - Russia is in such disarray, that the only thing keeping it viable are the nukes and fear of using them. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 24, 08:41 1
    - China would more than likely just buy it. If they marched in, no way the west would allow that. China wants those oil fields - Remlik Jun 24, 08:46
JPost: Ukraine mocks Vladimir Putin, Russia for Wagner coup -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 07:53 3
- ouroboros! -- (link) - mud Jun 24, 07:57 2
  - Yup—that logo is super cool. Striking and effective -- nm - Flavorize Jun 24, 08:31 1
    - Millennium -- (pic) - mud Jun 24, 08:58 [Attachment]

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