More than 150 unvaccinated children in South Carolina have been placed under a 21-day quarantine after exposure in a measles outbreak. State Health officials hope to halt the spread. Last… Read the rest of the article: South Carolina measles outbreak sends over 150 unvaccinated, exposed children into quarantine
The Los Angeles area chain of restaurants, Great White, denies racism as customers and ex-staff describe years of bias. Great White co-founders Sam Trude and Sam Cooper also previously owned… Read the rest of the article: "Everyone is welcome," says restaurant accused of putting everyone not white in one corner
A study recently published in the journal "Intelligence" says Gen Xers are in or approaching peak mental performance. Several of the traits we measured reach their peak much later in… Read the rest of the article: Whatever: Study shows Gen X reaching peak mental performance
On Sunday, Trump's Gestapo arrested a member of Portland's Unpresidented Brass Band as they played the "Ghostbusters" theme song across the street from the Portland ICE field office. As of… Read the rest of the article: ICE Gestapo arrests banana-clad clarinetist at Portland protest
MAGA morons who were duped into buying Trump watches by commercials starring Trump himself are unhappy with the slow delivery, refund run-around, and fake reviews. The company flogging Trump Watches,… Read the rest of the article: Trump's "Swiss-made" watches appear to be mostly made of disappointment
Politico obtained seven months of Telegram chats between young GOP leaders based in New York, Kansas, Arizona, and Vermont. The leaked messages reveal Young Republican leadership discussing using gas chambers… Read the rest of the article: Leaked Young Republicans chat overflows with racist slurs and threats
CNN has a great piece out about how Crypto ATMs are used to scam people out of their money. The companies behind the ATMs, at best, do not care that… Read the rest of the article: Crypto ATMs profit as scammers run wild
Noted violent slaver, spreader of disease, and forced conversions to Christianity, Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria, was reproduced as a replica in 1987. It sank off the coast of… Read the rest of the article: Watch as the replica of Columbus's Santa Maria sinks (video)
The US vaccination rate for the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has dropped steadily for the past five years, resulting in the worst year for measles since the disease was declared "eliminated."… Read the rest of the article: Falling vaccination rate leads to worst year of measles outbreaks in decades
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson claims to be an upstanding Christian "warrior" of the faith, but his actions suggest otherwise. Here MAGA Mike stands by as DHS agents shoot… Read the rest of the article: MAGA Mike Johnson's priorities are super weird
ICE agents are not known to be truth tellers, so it seems unlikely these four US citizens were actually doing wrong when ICE detained and abused them in Forest Park,… Read the rest of the article: ICE attacked and detained four US citizens in Illinois
The protests in Portland continue. Costumes are available for folks who'd like to try them on, and the only aggressors are ICE and some MAGA jerks trying to instigate. Mostly,… Read the rest of the article: Portland still not a war zone, more like a party
In May, reports indicated that 10,000 or more Cybertrucks were sitting on lots, unable to be sold. Elon has decided to buy them himself, magically helping Tesla's numbers. Here is… Read the rest of the article: Elon has SpaceX and his AI company buying up unsellable Cybertrucks
John Oliver discusses Bari Weiss, the new Editor-in-Chief of CBS, and how she spells doom for journalism at CBS. Oliver details how Weiss, who describes herself as a liberal, looks… Read the rest of the article: John Oliver explains the problem with Bari Weiss
In one of the most profoundly American police standoffs imaginable, a man in Washington allegedly set fire to his own apartment, fled from police with a car full of fireworks,… Read the rest of the article: Dairy Queen Blizzard ends armed standoff
The two iconic slackers of 1990s MTV fame learn that AI might do their homework, and one day wipe out humanity. They're rooting for it. ChatGPT and the Great Cornholio… Read the rest of the article: Beavis and Butt-Head discover AI, immediately start rooting for the apocalypse
A distraught family shared the story of Customs and Border Patrol entering their home without permission and murdering their dog. Unsurprisingly, the CBP agent responsible attempted to hide and refused… Read the rest of the article: Border Patrol murdered a dog named "Chop"
An interview with the Portland Chicken, one of the most visible inflatable heroes of the "War in Portland," explains their absurdist assault on the false reality of an "Antifa Army"… Read the rest of the article: Portland Chicken optimistic: "We're winning this" as the Frog Brigade grows
Forty-four years after Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers, in a union-busting act of bravado, reshaped federal labor policy, and left the FAA chronically understaffed, the… Read the rest of the article: The FAA's 40-year staffing hangover from Reagan's mass firings just got worse
Our friends at Laughing Squid have shared filmmaker Steve Bustin's new documentary on SantaCon, tracing how a small San Francisco art prank snowballed into an international, booze-fueled holiday ritual. The… Read the rest of the article: SantaCon: how a surrealist prank became a global red-suited pub crawl
