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  • Jason Weisberger
    12:16 pm Fri, Jun 12, 2026
    Lake Powell is approaching the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops making power

    Lake Powell is still more than 150 feet above dead pool, but it is only about 38 feet above minimum power pool, the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops generating… Read the rest of the article: Lake Powell is approaching the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops making power

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  • Jason Weisberger
    12:02 pm Fri, Jun 12, 2026
    Grandpa Pudding Brains set to invade Washington, D.C. Trump kiddie pool

    Grandpa Pudding Brains has found another election he may not respect: a Democratic mayoral primary in Washington, D.C., may serve as a reason to impose martial law. Clearly, this man… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains set to invade Washington, D.C.

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  • Jason Weisberger
    11:09 am Fri, Jun 12, 2026
    Watch the live Kennedy Center stream of Trump's name coming down (video) Kennedy Center (Matthew Hodgkins/shutterstock.com)

    Reversing the egocentric high watermark of the MAGA Clown Reich, a newly re-annoited The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts shares this livestream: How cheaply, and in the… Read the rest of the article: Watch the live Kennedy Center stream of Trump's name coming down (video)

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  • Jason Weisberger
    10:58 am Fri, Jun 12, 2026
    The FBI's protest-harassment fit has sponsors Image: FBI; Dzelat / shutterstock.com

    In a Threads post, Craig Brittain, a former Arizona Senate candidate, says an FBI agent confronted him while he was protesting ICE at Delaney Hall in Newark, and the alleged… Read the rest of the article: The FBI's protest-harassment fit has sponsors

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  • Jason Weisberger
    10:42 am Fri, Jun 12, 2026
    Mel Fisher's treasure hunters find another chunk of Atocha silver

    Mel Fisher's treasure hunters are still pulling Spanish Empire leftovers out of the Florida Keys, and this time the ocean coughed up a 22-pound silver bar. After hitting the object… Read the rest of the article: Mel Fisher's treasure hunters find another chunk of Atocha silver

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  • Jason Weisberger
    11:20 am Thu, Jun 11, 2026
    Grandpa Pudding Brains says Iran is in submission, they just don't know it yet Undated photo of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at an event together released by the House Oversight Committee in 2025. (Credit: House Oversight Democrats)

    Dementia Donnie has a bold new theory of diplomacy: drop $250 million worth of bombs on people, then announce they are "really in submission" even if they have not noticed.… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains says Iran is in submission, they just don't know it yet

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  • Jason Weisberger
    10:51 am Thu, Jun 11, 2026
    Retail archaeology finds the bones of Circuit City everywhere CIrcuit CIty

    America is full of dead big-box stores wearing new signs, but none are as evocative of Gen X's coming of age as a place that sold us a DVD player… Read the rest of the article: Retail archaeology finds the bones of Circuit City everywhere

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  • Jason Weisberger
    10:45 am Thu, Jun 11, 2026
    Melania Trump, noted independence expert, explains success

    Melania Trump, who married into the dirtiest, most scandal-slimed money pile she could find herself photographed rolling in, would like everyone to know success is really about independence. Speaking about… Read the rest of the article: Melania Trump, noted independence expert, explains success

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  • Jason Weisberger
    10:32 am Thu, Jun 11, 2026
    Orcas, bears, squirrels, and now sharks have notes shark fin

    Orcas are attacking boats, bears are enforcing trail etiquette, Santa Monica's squirrels are turning Palisades Park into a snack-funded burrow empire, and now a Florida shark has added teeth to… Read the rest of the article: Orcas, bears, squirrels, and now sharks have notes

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  • Jason Weisberger
    10:25 am Thu, Jun 11, 2026
    Pasadena cops discover "just joking" does not stop bullets

    Pasadena police released dashcam video of an officer shooting another officer during what the chief called "horseplay," which is a cute word for people with badges forgetting guns are not… Read the rest of the article: Pasadena cops discover "just joking" does not stop bullets

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  • Jason Weisberger
    10:16 am Thu, Jun 11, 2026
    Coal finally loses to the Sun

    Electrek reports that solar supplied 12.8% of U.S. electricity in May 2026, beating coal's 12.2% for the first month on record, according to analysis from Ember. Five years ago, coal… Read the rest of the article: Coal finally loses to the Sun

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  • Jason Weisberger
    1:22 pm Wed, Jun 10, 2026
    Tomatoes do not need to die on the vine for flavor

    Reading r/tomatoes taught me that "first blush" started life as a gardening term, and now my tomato yield is up because the local birds and mammals have been shut out… Read the rest of the article: Tomatoes do not need to die on the vine for flavor

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  • Jason Weisberger
    12:49 pm Wed, Jun 10, 2026
    MAGA Mike is sneaking around your Social Security Image: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), official photo

    MAGA Mike Johnson is doing that thing Republicans do when they stand near Social Security with a wrench and insist they are only here to help. The 2026 Social Security… Read the rest of the article: MAGA Mike is sneaking around your Social Security

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  • Jason Weisberger
    11:59 am Wed, Jun 10, 2026
    Iran has American theme bars because people are better than governments

    Governments can spend decades teaching people to hate each other, and then some restaurant will put up a Route 66 sign and ruin the whole story. A video from Iranian… Read the rest of the article: Iran has American theme bars because people are better than governments

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  • Jason Weisberger
    11:37 am Wed, Jun 10, 2026
    Grandpa Pudding Brains loves the inflation Mugshots of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump

    The Orange Menace was asked if he was worried about the latest inflation numbers, and answered with the sort of accidental campaign ad Democrats usually have to edit together: "No,… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains loves the inflation

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  • Jason Weisberger
    11:24 am Wed, Jun 10, 2026
    Santa Monica created a squirrel buffet and got a squirrel problem

    CBS LA found the squirrels eating cheesy crackers and ranch dressing, which is funny until you remember these are native ground squirrels that normally burrow into the bluffs above the… Read the rest of the article: Santa Monica created a squirrel buffet and got a squirrel problem

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  • Jason Weisberger
    9:29 am Tue, Jun 9, 2026
    Repair Geek tests tire sealants so you don't have to spray hope into a flat

    Repair Geek did the useful thing and stabbed a bunch of tires, so the rest of us do not have to discover which can of roadside optimism works after we… Read the rest of the article: Repair Geek tests tire sealants so you don't have to spray hope into a flat

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  • Jason Weisberger
    8:56 am Tue, Jun 9, 2026
    Before refrigeration, one obsessive Boston guy sold winter to the tropics

    Before refrigeration, keeping things cold meant waiting for winter, cutting up a frozen lake, packing it in sawdust, and hoping a lot of it survived the boat ride. Veritasium has… Read the rest of the article: Before refrigeration, one obsessive Boston guy sold winter to the tropics

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  • Jason Weisberger
    8:46 am Tue, Jun 9, 2026
    Grandpa Pudding Brains snoozes while New York boos and boos Mugshots of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump

    Diaper Don went to Madison Square Garden expecting New York to love him, got booed on the Jumbotron, and then appeared to take the most expensive little courtside nap in… Read the rest of the article: Grandpa Pudding Brains snoozes while New York boos and boos

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  • Jason Weisberger
    8:33 am Tue, Jun 9, 2026
    Noted Nazi cosplayer Gregory Bovino thinks he should be president Bovino in media coverage and his official portrait

    Gregory Bovino, the trench-coated immigration goon whose public image already looks like authoritarian cosplay with a federal expense account, apparently thinks America needs more of him. Daily Kos reports that… Read the rest of the article: Noted Nazi cosplayer Gregory Bovino thinks he should be president

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