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Vet cures puffed up kitten
Zoe the kitten certainly does look like a balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, March 12, 2026
Butter runs, brain bacteria, and a grandmother wrongly jailed
 • Boing Boing
Amazon faces criminal trial in Italy over €1.2 billion tax evasion
Amazon already paid Italy €527 million to settle a tax dispute.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Profound documentary reveals horrors of Louisiana’s non-unanimous jury system
By Natalie Dressed
 • Boing Boing
Grandpa Pudding Brains celebrates Women’s Day as only he can
Grandpa Pudding Brains, who once declared himself “the best thing that has ever happened for women,” told the audience he was too busy to even know who…
 • Jason Weisberger
Private credit default rate hits 9.2%, worst on record
Nearly one in ten U.S.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
You can churn butter on a 6-mile trail run
Libby Cope and her boyfriend, Jacob Arnold, filled zip-top bags with heavy cream and salt, stuffed them into their trail-running vests, and headed out…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Grandmother jailed 108 days after facial recognition got it wrong
Angela Lipps was babysitting four young children at her Tennessee home when U.S.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Stanford study links gut bacteria to age-related memory loss
Old mice got smarter when researchers tweaked their gut bacteria and stimulated the vagus nerve — restoring cognitive performance to young-animal…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Trump’s DOJ dismantles hate-crime prevention office and pretends nothing happened
A whistleblower claims the Trump Justice Department effectively eliminated the government’s only office dedicated to preventing hate crimes and…
 • Jason Weisberger
The FBI will now train with cage fighters in the latest Trump-era reality show
Bug-eyed and quirky FBI Director Kash Patel has announced what he calls a “historic opportunity”: bringing UFC fighters to Quantico to train FBI agents…
 • Jason Weisberger
Artificial intelligence is just underpaid human labor
The glossy story Silicon Valley tells about artificial intelligence usually involves brilliant engineers, trillion-dollar valuations, and a future so…
 • Jason Weisberger
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