A Fresno County farmer says a legal dispute over his nectarines left 125,000 pounds of fruit sitting in the orchard, unsellable and waiting to rot. His solution was beautifully simple:… Read the rest of the article: Farmer gives away 125,000 pounds of nectarines rather than let Big Ag rot them
JD Vance has apparently reached the part of Catholic conversion where he sees a yard sign and hears the Council of Nicaea screaming. "Love is love" is not a theological… Read the rest of the article: JD Vance discovers the Nicene Creed in a yard sign
The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security is apparently doing soccer taunts now, telling a World Cup security briefing he was "so happy" when Iran was eliminated that he may have… Read the rest of the article: DHS chief does happy dance after Iran exits World Cup
For nearly 30 years, climbers on Everest's north side have passed a dead man and called him "Green Boots," turning a person into a landmark because the mountain is too… Read the rest of the article: Everest's most famous body finally has a name
The Orange Menace responded to the Supreme Court allowing states to ban transgender girls and women from girls' and women's school sports with the emotional maturity of a playground bully… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains celebrates Supreme Court permission to be mean
Tasmania's favorite suburban elephant seal has returned, bigger, weirder, and apparently still committed to the bit where he turns roads, lawns, and traffic cones into supporting characters in the Neil… Read the rest of the article: Tasmania's favorite 1,000-kilo chaos seal is back on land
The man accused of stealing the Sea Scouts' 30-foot sailboat, swapping its registration numbers onto a junker, and leaving the worse boat behind has reportedly been arrested, which means he… Read the rest of the article: Man accused of stealing Sea Scouts' boat probably doesn't get his old boat back
Trump's Great American State Fair has moved past empty booths, busted rides, and a cow named Melania into its next phase of patriotic pageantry: people gagging through a pancake-eating contest.… Read the rest of the article: America 250 celebrates with contestants nearly puking pancakes
Grandpa Pudding Brains has solved another national crisis, announcing that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's "criminally made algae" is gone. These are some criminals. This is the purest Grandpa Pudding… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains declares victory over "criminally made algae"
The cannon looks fantastic and works, but the entire process is the adventure. This is a very serious potato cannon, and the deep research undertaken to arrive at such a… Read the rest of the article: Man builds a belt-fed potato cannon, because he could
Near the south end of the Salton Sea, California has a bubbling mud hole that appears to have looked at roads, rail lines, and pipelines and decided: those belong to… Read the rest of the article: California's slowest natural disaster is a wandering mud hole
Elon Musk demanded that critics name "a single" person who died because of DOGE-driven foreign aid cuts, and then experienced the rare online phenomenon of receiving exactly what he asked… Read the rest of the article: Elon Musk demands one name of someone killed by aid cuts, gets a list
A judge has ordered Huntington Beach to adopt ranked-choice voting after finding that the city's at-large elections diluted Latino voting power, which means Surf City's latest culture-war adventure may end… Read the rest of the article: Judge orders Huntington Beach to add more democracy to its democracy
The Gary Fadden incident is one of those American folk tales that sounds like it was generated by a gun-store campfire: road rage, a 17-mile chase, a 6'8" weapons salesman… Read the rest of the article: That time road rage met a 6'8" guy named Gary with a machine gun
House Oversight's Epstein probe took a turn Friday when Chairman James Comer issued two subpoenas to billionaire Leon Black during questioning, after lawmakers said Black refused to answer questions about… Read the rest of the article: Leon Black's Epstein testimony ends with Congress demanding receipts
A woman lying on the sand at Half Moon Bay's Francis Beach was struck and run over by a lifeguard vehicle, because apparently even relaxing on the beach now requires… Read the rest of the article: Woman lying on beach run over by the person theoretically guarding lives
The Great American State Fair, Trump's 16-day National Mall celebration of America's 250th birthday, reportedly began with empty stalls, electrical chaos, and a cow named Melania, which may be the… Read the rest of the article: Trump's "Great American" state fair opens with busted rides and a cow named Melania
The Cigar Galaxy is a cosmic mess: warped, dusty, furiously making stars, and apparently photogenic enough that Webb stared at it for nearly three days and produced a 223-megapixel glamour… Read the rest of the article: Webb spent three days photographing one beautiful galactic mess
ICE agents reportedly tracked down a Syracuse poll worker on Election Day to demand she remove an Instagram post, because apparently, federal immigration enforcement now includes showing up in person… Read the rest of the article: ICE does in-person Instagram moderation now
Generative AI was supposed to make computers smarter, but its most immediate consumer benefit appears to be making every other computer more expensive. The Verge reports that Apple is raising… Read the rest of the article: Apple raises prices because AI ate the RAM
