Hello fellow web crawlers! Kira here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.
Today’s top stories are about: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s response to a recent episode of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ the hackers who took down the Cop City developer’s website, the three-way dance battle between Amazon, UPS, and FedEx drivers, and a viral video of a cop getting spooked by an acorn.
After that, David’s got a juicy ‘Deplatformed’ column for you.
Until next time,
— K.D.
⚡ Today’s top stories
🎬 POLITICS
Upset over ‘Curb,’ MTG vows to protect Georgia from ‘nasty commies’ who generated $4 billion for the state last year
The state is home to a massive industry that MTG now wants to go to war with.
💻 TECH
Hackers take down Cop City developer’s website in honor of protester killed by police
The hackers cited Manuel Paez Terán, the Cop City protester who was shot at least 57 times by police last year.
🕺 VIRAL
‘Those I got better health insurance moves are good’: UPS driver responds to Amazon delivery driver who challenged him to break-dancing battle
An Amazon delivery driver started a TikTok dance-off, and drivers from both UPS and FedEx have responded to the challenge.
🌰 WTF
‘Reno 911 IRL’: The internet is obsessed with video of a cop shooting up his police car with a suspect inside after hearing an acorn hit the ground
“The deputy essentially imagined the whole thing,” a user wrote on X.
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🚉 Deplatformed
By David Covucci
Politics & Technology Editor
Putin’s Q Drop
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🕸️ Crawling the web
Here is what else is happening across the ‘net.
🧸 A worker on TikTok shared a side hustle that pays $25 an hour. Hint: it involves stuffed animals.
⛪ Fox News claimed that the shooter at a mega-church was transgender. It’s not true.
🍹 A woman on TikTok revealed if bartenders prefer patrons close their tabs or leave them open.
🚽 A frequent traveler shared his hack for finding roadside bathrooms that don’t look like a crime scene.
🥤 Customer says Chick-fil-A served her Diet Coke 3 times even though she’s allergic to aspartame.
🦷 Woman says Rite Aid asked her to leave job interview because she was using an ice pack for tooth pain.
🧌 From the Daily Dot archive: Here’s how Multi-User Dungeons built the internet.
📝 Question of the Day
Everyone’s got opinions, and we want to know yours. Just click a button below to answer the question, and tomorrow we will let you know how fellow web crawlers like you answered.
WHICH DO YOU PREFER, UPS OR FEDEX?
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👋 Before you go
A woman on TikTok says her manager asked her and her co-workers to guess the new incentive their company was offering—and the answer left her speechless.
So, what was the incentive? Not a gift card, or a trip to Disneyland. “They’re going to pie each other in the face if we get our metrics back up,” Tanya revealed.
Viewers on TikTok were outraged by the childish offer. “That’s the same incentive teachers gave us in middle school,” one user commented.
