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Next level joke pic.twitter.com/WVRP2uU8pk
— Preston Garvey⚔️✡️ (@Thebeef_shwarma) August 25, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
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Networks Spend Over 18 Minutes Gushing Over Creepy Chinese Robot Convention
Between last Friday and Tuesday, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC spent 18 minutes and 25 seconds on their flagship morning and evening newscasts fawning, giggling, and reveling in the Chinese Communist Party’s second World Humanoid Robot Games with thousands of robots completing tasks ranging from basic household chores to track and field events. Missing was any direct acknowledgment of concerns about surveillance by the CCP.
The most we got were a pathetic two sentences from NBC alluding to a U.S. ban on robots and quadrupeds because of “national security concerns.”
Toronto mayor says Trump should ‘take a page’ from Dolly Parton
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow is accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of waging a “senseless brutal attack” on Canada and is urging him to “take a page” from the late Dolly Parton.
Chow made the comment during an interview with CBS Mornings on Wednesday before repeating it during a subsequent interview with CNN.
When asked by CNN if she agrees with the threat of “cutting off electricity to the United States” Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said “whatever it takes” and “we have to get attention.” pic.twitter.com/lUJK5ryTmZ
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) August 26, 2026
h/t Mauser
Wisconsin Kitten breaks bizarre Guinness World Record for being born with 29 toes
So many toe beans, so little time.
A Maine Coon kitten named Erebus Anomaly has tiptoed into the record books for being born with 29 toes, the most ever counted on a cat.
h/t handy n handsome
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🇨🇦 It's a boy! 🇨🇦
Rachel Notley and Jason Kenney are proud to announce the birth of their newborn son, Douglas Ford Kenney.
Born yesterday weighing 22 pounds, 7 ounces.
Mother and baby are both healthy and doing well.
Boy, that was fast. pic.twitter.com/swJXm5DSZA— Mark Dietz (@MarkDietzinAB) August 25, 2026
h/t Mause
Mexico’s Pamplona turns into a bloodbath with two killed and 11 gored in bull-running disaster
Two people have been killed and another 11 injured in the Mexican version of Pamplona’s famous Running of the Bulls festival.
Horrifying footage captured in the state of Tlaxcala, around 100 miles east of Mexico City, showed people getting killed and seriously hurt during the Huamantlada Festival, believed to be the biggest bullrunning event in the world.
The deaths were the first for eight years at the festival, which has been running in the city of Huamantla for 72 years. Twenty-one fighting bulls were released as part of this year’s event.
🚨 DEADLY BULL RUN IN MEXICO 🇲🇽🐂
The Huamantlada festival in Tlaxcala turned deadly after a 29-year-old man was killed and at least nine others were injured as 21 bulls were released onto the streets.
And the death toll has since risen to two, after a critically injured…
— XPRESS (@Xpress_24_7) August 25, 2026
CNN: Haitians Self-Deporting to Canada After Trump Ends ‘Temporary‘ Amnesty
Haitian migrants are self-deporting to Canada after President Donald Trump’s administration ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti, with approval from the Supreme Court, CNN reports.
WTF?
Three guesses and the first two don't count. Pigs.@fancypants_s https://t.co/gwIvpik1RC
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) August 24, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
Fire destroys Saint-Simon Church on Acadian Peninsula
Saint-Simon Church on the Acadian Peninsula, believed to be the largest wooden church in New Brunswick, was destroyed Monday morning in a fire the police deem suspicious.
Firefighters in the area received a call around 3:30 a.m., pointing to a fire alarm going off in the Saint-Simon community.
More of Justin’s work? h/t Patti Jo
DeSantis cuts tattoos, tanning beds, and tobacco from welfare benefits list
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Monday announced reforms are coming to some welfare benefits, restricting them from being spent on “unnecessary” items.
DeSantis, who is viewed as a possible 2028 presidential contender, said he is working with the Trump administration to amend the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families State Plan, spurring changes to what welfare recipients can spend their Temporary Cash Assistance benefits on. Once implemented, the move would bar funds from being spent on items ranging from vaping products to pornography.
Alarm over $20m plan to supply ICE officers with electric-shock gloves
Plans to supply Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers with special gloves that can deliver electric shocks have alarmed experts and drawn scrutiny amid some high-profile lawsuits over their use in local correctional facilities.
In one extreme case, a 43-year-old man died after allegedly being shocked 40 times by officers with a combination of the gloves and a Taser in a county jail in Kentucky, and the man’s widow is suing authorities.
Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the parent agency of ICE, published plans to spend up to $20m (£15m) to outfit ICE officers by March of next year with the controversial gloves, which are also used in various police departments and some schools.
Where can I get a pair?
Multimillionaire Pop Stars Sign Petition Objecting to Lower Energy Bills
According to the Guardian, a bunch of long-past-their-sell-by-date musicians have been mobilised by Brian Eno, who used to prance about in a spandex psychedelic body suit for a living, to protest about climate change. Eno is the founder of a green NGO called EarthPercent, which turns donations from the music industry into grants for green organisations that lobby for the policies that have created Britain’s crises. In a stunt last week, 211 pop stars put their names to a letter drafted by Eno to Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Miatta Fahnbulleh, urging them to reject the proposed development of North Sea oil and gas. But what has it got to do with them?