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Congressperson tells Pam Bondi he believes she is lying to Congress
I hope someday someone holds Bondi to account. Lying to Congress used to be serious.
 • Jason Weisberger
ICE gives the world another reason to skip the U.S. World Cup
Broadcasting an ICE presence as "security" for the World Cup seems like a good way to keep ticket prices down.
 • Jason Weisberger
Congressman demands a federal probe into 13 minutes of televised twerking
As this two-hundred-and-fifty-year experiment in Democracy comes to a close, we can celebrate that a sitting congressperson demanded we focus resources…
 • Jason Weisberger
FBI file claims Epstein introduced Melania to Trump, contradicting the fairy tale
If the fairy tale were true, it wouldn’t keep springing redacted footnotes with Epstein’s name on them.
 • Jason Weisberger
Federal judge bans one “less-lethal” launcher, LAPD finds another
When a court takes away one "tool," and the immediate response is to grab the next one off the shelf, we aren't looking at reform. We're seeing…
 • Jason Weisberger
Unredacted Epstein files contain a whole lot of “Donald J. Trump”
Justice seems to be a lost concept in these United States.
 • Jason Weisberger
Idaho high schoolers build two airplanes, then go fly them
Turns out if you hand teenagers rivet guns instead of standardized test prep, they’ll build something that actually gets off the ground.
 • Jason Weisberger
UK Supreme Court: oat milk can’t be called milk
In a big win for the local dairy industry, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court today affirmed a law that “milk” refers only to the stuff that comes out…
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, February 11, 2026
Party balloons, ice cream battleships, and goose confusion
 • Mark Frauenfelder
After 88 years, Gallup will no longer poll presidential approval ratings
In Gallup’s final measure of Donald Trump’s approval rating, Trump was stuck at 36%—his lowest since the end of his first term in office.
 • Rob Beschizza
“Cartel drone threat” that shut El Paso’s airport was a party balloon
The Pentagon’s new high-energy laser works great against party balloons.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
If this masked woman asks if she’s pretty, the correct answer is “average”
If a beautiful woman in a surgical mask asks if she’s pretty, the correct answer — according to decades of Japanese folklore — is “average.” Anything…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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