Idiocracy

“Well, after a year of unplanned career suicide, many questionable life choices, and a gap in my LinkedIn profile that cannot legally be explained, I’ve decided to start a podcast. Not because anybody asked, but because statistically speaking, it was either this or join an MLM. So here we are. And unlike your Ben Shapiros or Megyn Kellys, I’m not …

NPR reports: Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between Trump and Putin in Anchorage. Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the …

Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports: A man accused of throwing a Subway sandwich at a federal officer in D.C. was back in federal court on Thursday, facing felony charges. A judge released 37-year-old Sean Dunn — a former Department of Justice employee — on his own recognizance, despite prosecutors pushing for serious felony assault charges that could carry up to …

The Washington Post reports: Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday that a Justice Department employee has been fired after he was arrested for allegedly throwing a sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer Sunday evening. In court documents filed Wednesday, police allege that Sean Charles Dunn approached law enforcement officers, including Metro Transit Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection …

Time Magazine reports: The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will hold the first-ever professional mixed-martial arts fight at the White House during America’s 250th birthday celebration next year. UFC CEO Dana White confirmed on Tuesday that the fight would take place on July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. “It is definitely going to …

The Huffington Post reports: A TV reporter went viral last week after online conspiracy theorists accused her of being a “lizard person,” but she’s leaning into the madness. “The internet comes in tsunami swells,” Molly Martinez told HuffPost. “This will blow over.” Martinez, a journalist in the Washington bureau of local TV chain Gray Television, was seen on camera June …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump Jr. is keeping up his streak as purveyor of unusual memes involving his father with a new Instagram post featuring Donald Sr. on the roof of the White House. The image, taken from a meme account on X called “Grand Old Memes” and which is at least partially AI-generated, shows Donald Trump on the …

“Florida’s pasteurized milk supply is safe, nutritious, and closely controlled from the farm to your local grocery store. There have been no reported illnesses from pasteurized milk products in Florida, so Floridians should continue to buy and enjoy nutritious and wholesome dairy products from Florida farmers. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services are encouraging Floridians to protect their …

The Hill reports: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday used imagery from “South Park,” which had dedicated its season premiere to mocking President Trump, to encourage recruitment for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ahead of the show’s next episode, which deals with Trump immigration enforcement. All the characters in the ICE vehicles were depicted wearing masks covering the …

CNN reports: The National Weather Service has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians just months after being hit hard by Department of Government Efficiency-related cuts and early retirement incentives. The new hiring number includes 126 new positions that were previously approved and will apply to “front-line mission critical” personnel, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official …

CBS News reports: The Florida Department of Health is warning about the risks of drinking raw, unpasteurized milk after 21 people, including six children under the age of 10, were sickened by E. coli and campylobacter bacteria linked to raw milk from the same farm. Seven people have been hospitalized, and two have developed severe complications. “Sanitation practices in this …

Politico reports: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, the first major action by the former Fox News host as the interim NASA administrator. The first country to have a reactor could “declare a keep-out zone which would significantly inhibit the United States,” the directive states, a sign of …

“What has happened over the past 30 years is the whole system has devolved, and it’s become a quagmire for parents and children and the parents of children who are vaccine injured. These parents are desperate. In many cases, their kids are very needy. Some of these injuries are absolutely debilitating. And the system just simply doesn’t work. “And we …

NewsNation reports: Heston Cobb, 21, who goes by “Heston James” on his now-deleted TikTok account that had 1.6 million followers, was arrested at his home in Tempe on Wednesday, according to a Tempe Police Department statement. The department said between the months of March and July, businesses in the area started reporting several instances of a group of men coming …

NewsNation reports: One Tennessee school district will no longer accept doctors’ notes to excuse an absence despite objections from parents. Lawrence County School System officials said the school is instituting the policy to teach students work ethic and reliability, saying that students will be expected to go to work sick or injured as adults. With no federally mandated sick leave, …

Politico reports: A Venezuelan Little League baseball team will not be allowed to participate in a championship tournament because the team was denied travel visas to the U.S. Little League International said on Friday the Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela will not participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series in South Carolina this year, despite qualifying …

The Guardian reports: One of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the US says he caught measles in west Texas and traveled back home – but he seems not to have alerted local authorities of his illness, which means the highly transmissible virus may have spread onward. Brian Hooker, chief scientific officer of Children’s Health Defense, filmed an interview in …

ProPublica reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system. Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic. In his crosshairs is the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, a system designed to provide fair and quick payouts for people who suffer rare but serious side effects from shots …

Snopes reports: In mid-July 2025, after Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa visited the Oval Office to meet with U.S. President Trump, an image comparison began circulating online. The pair of images showed how the Oval Office looked during the Biden administration compared to its appearance a few months into Trump’s second term. A Snopes reader wrote in …

“Your car air freshener is turning you gay. It is depleting your testosterone. It is wrecking your hormones. I was just in an Uber and the Uber driver had like a pack of trees, a pack of car fragrance trees. It’s disgusting, right? They need to be banned. So I told the Uber driver, ‘Do you realize that those are …