Meta caught snooping in popular period tracker
Trump plans new limits on non-white refugees
‘This ends now’: AG Bondi issues threats over Northwest sanctuary jurisdictions
Blue no matter who? Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries refuse to endorse Zohran Mamdani
AND NOW THE NEWS
#542
AUGUST 16, 2025
a recurring roundup
of news, memes,
and my brilliant opinions
SO MUCH BULLSHIT
Trump misstates Washington crime data to justify takeover
The coverage isn’t worth clicking; you already know Trump’s lies are lies. It only catches my attention because the New York Times thinks Trump’s lies are ‘misstatements’, which makes me want to fly to New York, find a bus to 620 Eighth Avenue, drop trou, and leave a liquidy poop just inside their front door. As I can’t afford airfare, could someone in New York City handle that for me? Thanks.
Federal agents in Trump’s crime crackdown set up checkpoint in popular DC, nightlife area
More bullshit journalism, this time from NBC News: Violent crime in DC is far below last year’s numbers, so why do they treat the lie of “Trump’s crime crackdown” as truth?
Most of DOGE’s numbers don’t add up, of course
IT IS ALWAYS THEM AGAINST US
SpaceX gets billions from the government, but pays little or nothing in taxes
WHAT WILL BE RUINED NEXT?
Trump & the Republicans are drawing up plans to attack Mexico
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
HHS revives child vaccine safety panel sought by anti-vaccine activists
BUT THAT’S UNCONSTIPATIONAL
Trump regime halted lawsuits targeting civil rights abuses of prisoners and mentally ill people
GIVE US YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE, SO WE CAN IMPRISON THEM
New Zealand woman and six-year-old son kidnapped by ICE and jailed for three weeks, so far
Tennessee town approves deals to turn closed prison into privately-run ICE concentration camp
ICE hides planes’ tail numbers to avoid accountability
Pretty sure that’s illegal, but so’s most everything Trump & the Republicans do.
Pennsylvania restaurant employees say ICE raid left a trail of destruction for the business
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DYSTOPIA
Trump administration can illegally withhold billions in aid, appeals court rules
Christian groups pressure retail pharmacies, including Costco, not to carry abortion drug
As always, these Christians want their to remake the world so it’s what they imagine their imaginary God wants. More noteworthy to me is the article’s explanation of things I didn’t already know — that mifepristone is ridonkulously over-regulated already.
Excerpt: That’s in part because of complicated regulatory requirements that do not exist for any other medication. Each pharmacy that dispenses the drug needs a certification. Each provider who prescribes the drug needs a certification, and each provider needs a certification on file with each pharmacy they might want to send a prescription to.
“It’s bureaucratically ridiculous,” Prager said. “I would have to fill out that form and have it sent to and approved by every different pharmacy from which patients want to pick up the medication.”
These requirements “do not serve a medical or a biochemical or a scientific or a safety purpose,” Prager said. “They serve zero purpose other than to restrict access to the medication.”
Trump says he’ll host Kennedy Center honors, none of which will go to anyone “woke”
Sub sandwich slinger is charged with assaulting federal agent
LIMITLESS CORRUPTION
‘Corporate crime pays’ under Trump as his agencies drop enforcement against 165 companies
Nvidia, AMD pay a 15% bribe to the US Treasury to keep selling chips to China
LIMITLESS STUPIDITY
State Dept left “sensitive documents” in Alaska hotel’s photocopier
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Trump cold-called Norway’s Finance Minister to ask about Nobel Peace Prize
Trump says Putin agrees with him US should not have mail-in voting
KNOW YOUR REPUBLICANS
Republican Senator’s bill to make all porn a federal crime advances to committee
Republican Congresswoman says lawmakers have evidence of “interdimensional beings”
AND ALSO
Man accepts plea deal for 2023 deadly Goodyear bike crash
This man killed two people, maimed others, but because he did it with a car it’s a frickin’ misdemeanor.
Excerpt: He now faces between six months and one year in prison. In addition to the pending prison sentence, he must pay $2,500, complete 60 hours of community service and submit to quarterly drug testing as part of the plea deal. His driver’s license will also be suspended for nearly six months.
LA Olympics to sell naming rights to some venues in game-changing deal for 2028
Oh look, they’ve found a way to make me even less interested in the Olympics.
Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription
American police are out of control
Ignoring the climate emergency
The Lord works in mysterious ways
My browser history, minus the porn
And that’s the way it is,
and nothing will
meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives
8/16/2025
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Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn’t always shitty.
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