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Thursday August 7, 2025. 01:26 AM
Donald Trump told reporters today that he is thinking about taking control of Washington D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department. 'Are you considering taking over the D.C. police?' a reporter asked, referring to Trump's threat yesterday to 'take Federal control of the City.'...
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Even taking the transphobia out, Harry Potter is weird. You ever feel like giving a bunch of twelve-year-olds weapons of mass destruction might have been a bit of a mistake? Evidently, so does sketch comedian CalebCity. Here's how that first class at Hogwarts would actually...
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I recently discovered the hard rock band Adam and the Metal Hawks, which formed in 2019 in Long Island, New York. The band, which includes lead singer Adam Ezegelian, John Barry on guitar, Ryan Daverse on bass, and Griffin McCarthy drums, creates original music that, to me, ...
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In a twist that would make Bizarro Superman proud, Dean Cain has traded in his red cape for an ICE badge and join an organization that traumatizes immigrant families. According to USA Today, Dollar Store Superman is now strutting around with a badge, bragging about a $50k...
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Disney and NBCUniversal created Hulu as a streaming brand to front their content without committing to any one thing. Soon it'll be an unmissed memory. Hulu will become a content hub inside of Disney+. Disney will no longer be promoting the brand independently, and I guess...
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Remember when Marie Antoinette built a fake peasant village to play poor? Our boy JD Vance just had the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rejigger an entire river system for his special birthday boy boat ride. As reported in The Guardian, Vice President...
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Do not forget that masked, easily impersonated, and barely identified Federal officers are abducting everyone from lawful citizens to documented laborers under whatever pretense they manufacture. LA Taco reports on the ongoing horrors: Yesterday, August 4th in...
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Wednesday August 6, 2025. 11:42 PM
A GOP economist proposes doing away with rent control to improve access to affordable housing because rich people. Somehow, Dr. Charles Steele, an Associate Professor of Economics at Betsy DeVos's Hillsdale College, does not understand that his 'friends' with...
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TL;DR: The Ember Mug 2 keeps your coffee or tea at the exact temperature you choose—Get this 10oz smart mug for $69.99 (MSRP $129.95) while supplies last. The self-heating mug is the dream of coffee and tea drinkers across the globe — and someone finally made a...
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Los Angeles County's Signal Hill appears to be the latest in Tesla's dumping grounds for temporarily tagged vehicles—taxpayer-subsidized storage. Signal Hill is not the only city that's noticed a slew of Teslas spilling over into surrounding areas. Dozens of unsold Teslas ...
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A trophy hunter who once boasted of killing thousands of doves in just three days met a violent end in South Africa when a Cape buffalo — known as 'Black Death' — fatally gored him during a safari expedition. Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking the 1.3-ton bull at the...
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The Justice Department is demanding access to voter files in nine states. Homeland Security agents are showing up at election offices asking to inspect voting machines. And the FBI Director openly threatens to prosecute election officials. These aren't scattered incidents...
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Yesterday, we shared that Amazon had added a much-desired feature to their line of Kindle e-readers: Assistive Reading. Today, we learn it has been removed. Last week, Amazon released a new software update for its 11th and 12th generation Kindle e-readers. — Read the rest...
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A serial parcel pirate was set upon and assaulted by the locals whose lives they had terrorized. 'You like to steal mail? You like to steal mail?' one of the residents can be heard in the footage as he confronted the man residents believe has been stealing their mail. ...
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Not known for keeping cool and collected when presented with a challenge, President Ketchup-on-the-walls lashed out at CNBC's Joe Kernan for pointing out the 70% popularity Trump was touting might be his number among Republicans, but not all voters. CNBC host Joe Kernen ...
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Pop Mart, the Chinese toy company behind this summer's essential toy for kids and grown-ups alike, is going after a U.S. retailer selling knockoffs: 7-Eleven, sued last week in Federal court. Labubu, meet Lafufu. [via Aftermath] 7-Eleven and the other Defendants have...
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As reported by ABC News, VP JD Vance is hosting a little emergency dinner soirée with top deplorables to figure out how to package a totally-not-suspicious sequence of events for public consumption: 1) An imprisoned sex trafficker gets nine hours with a Trump-appointed...
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Vibrio vulnificus is so hot right now… because it's so hot right now. According to a warning released by the Louisiana Department of Health, the flesh-eating bacteria is living its best life in the waters slopping up against the beaches of America's east coast. — Read the...
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Constitution.congress.gov is the U.S. Congress's official website presenting the Constitution of the United States of America. Visitors noticed this morning that passages from it were missing, as can be shown by comparison with snapshots of the page at the Internet Archive's ...
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I thought y'all might want to see some real, actual baby bunnies after perhaps being fooled by that recent fake, AI-generated video of those bunnies jumping on a trampoline that was recent circulating online. Referring to the fake video, Snopes explains: We reached out...
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