Gas prices at record high for any Labor Day, as diesel hits all-time record
Drone activity at border drops 75% after US uses laser weapon
U.S. KILLS 4 NARCOS IN DRUG BOAT STRIKE: Brings total to 231 dead in 69 strikes since last year
TRUMP FORMS `AI FORCE`, insists AI doom is a hoax
TRUMP BANS CNN, MS NOW, POLITICO FROM WHITE HOUSEGas prices at record high for any Labor Day, as diesel hits all-time record
Drone activity at border drops 75% after US uses laser weapon
U.S. KILLS 4 NARCOS IN DRUG BOAT STRIKE: Brings total to 231 dead in 69 strikes since last year
TRUMP FORMS `AI FORCE`, insists AI doom is a hoax
TRUMP BANS CNN, MS NOW, POLITICO FROM WHITE HOUSE
A-1 Top Headlines
- DURKA DURKA: 18-year old Somali, Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, planned a mass casualty shooting rampage at the Mall of America, parents ignored FBI warnings [cbsnews]
- YEAR OF THE WEASEL: Chinaman arrested for selling $300 million worth of AI chips to China [abc7]
- HEATHERS: Real estate agent 'Heather' Zhang caught spying for China, arrested at LAX on way to Shanghai [ktla]
- IF HE'D DONE THIS AND NO WAR FOR ISRAEL, HE'D HAVE BEEN GOLD: 40 foreigners may lose their U.S. citizenship with DOJ seeking their denaturalization, 'the largest denaturalization effort in modern history' [time]
- IT'S AN EPIDEMIC: Latina Texas mom stabs her husband in the head and two young kids --3 y/o girl and 10-month old boy -- in the chest [nypost]
- SOUNDS LIKE BULLSHIT BUT WHO KNOWS: Woman says she was raised by monkeys from the age of 4, spent up to 7 years surviving in the jungle by drinking large quantities of water, consuming seeds, and scavenging the scraps left behind by monkeys. [mirror]
- WE'RE MONITORING THE SITUATION: Russia says a second person died in Russia's Irkutsk region after being exposed to the pneumonic plague at a research institute in Siberia [express]
Crime/Justice/Lawfare
- DURKA DURKA: 18-year old Somali, Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, planned a mass casualty shooting rampage at the Mall of America, parents ignored FBI warnings [cbsnews]
- YEAR OF THE WEASEL: Chinaman arrested for selling $300 million worth of AI chips to China [abc7]
- HEATHERS: Real estate agent 'Heather' Zhang caught spying for China, arrested at LAX on way to Shanghai [ktla]
- ASPIRING RAPPER NEWS: Decade-old murder of aspiring rapper Fam Staxx solved. Would you believe he was killed by another black guy? [dispatch]
- IT'S AN EPIDEMIC: Latina Texas mom stabs her husband in the head and two young kids --3 y/o girl and 10-month old boy -- in the chest [nypost]
- YOU GUYS SHOULD SEE WHAT LED ZEPPELIN GROUPIES GOT UP TO WITH RED SNAPPERS : UK prosecutors say Andrew Tate kept 'extreme' bestiality porn, including images of a person having sex with a horse and an eel [nypost]
- DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD: Trump has signed off to execute convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad, former Army psychiatrist, was convicted of killing 13 people and attempting to kill 32 others in the 2009 mass shooting [mediaite]
Culture
- ED GEIN LIVES ON: One-time Marine recruit who was transitioning to live as a tr00n admits to stabbing Arizona hiker to death, says victim was 'what I would want to look like.' [nypost]
- 'WOULD YOU F*CK ME, I'D F*CK ME': Tr00n sues Aetna for refusing to cover his transgender facial surgery, Aetna says it would not cover cosmetic procedures for a someone who suffers distress from not looking feminine enough [dailysignal]
- GOOD CHARLOTTE IS MAD AT TROJAN MAN: Southern Cal poly sci major, Charlotte Dekle, writes in her editorial all frats must be abolished (Hey Charlotte, next time get someone to edit your shitty op-ed) [daily trojan]
- NYMAG WRITER INTERVIEWS PUSSIFIED DADS TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IN THE GC ABOUT THE 'CORNELL 7': VirtueSingalingAlly37 says - 'Horrible dudes have been doing this all the time forever, and so part of me doesn’t really give a shit why they’re doing it. Who cares? Lock them up.' [the cut]
- SKILLS ISSUE: Washington Post reporter complains about supermarket self-checkout [wapo]
- SO YOU'RE THINKING OF TRYING SOME KETAMINE: Can leave users immobilized yet oddly conscious and aware of events happening around them, the extreme disassociated state is referred to as a 'K-hole' [nytimes]
- ARMOND WHITE TAKES ON NYTIMES' BEST TV SHOWS LIST, OBLITERATES BREAKING BAD, THE WIRE: 'Through snarky admiration for The Wire, the Times inadvertently defined its absurd essence: 'White people dreaming up Black life.'' [nro]
Finance - Stock Market - Crypto - Tech
- CAN WE USE THIS TO STOP MOTHERS FROM KILLING THEIR KIDS: 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine goes to 3 men (an American and 2 Germans) for ability to switch on and off nerve cells in the living brain; winners will split $1.2M prize [nbcnews]
- SNEAKY-ASS HAMBURGLAR: McDonalds using AI-powered dynamic pricing model to charge different prices, McDonald’s in Fresno, a Big Mac costs $5.69, according to the mobile app, but at a location 2 miles away, it's $6.89 for the same burger. [nypost]
- PRODUCTIVITY: Employees are going out-of-pocket to spend on generative AI for tasks, UK workers are spending a collective $1.3 billion annually on generative AI for their jobs, without even expensing it [futurism]
- THE PRO-DATA CENTER MOVEMENT IS HERE (AND THEY'RE READY TO PAR-TAY): 'In many ways, it was a standard Gen Z party; tech bros sneakily took puffs from their vapes, couples held hands, wallflowers gazed at their phones.' [washingtonian]
- DIY SELF DRIVING: 'Imagine getting home with your family, and this guy crashes into you because of some vibe coded PR in a GitHub repo with 2k stars' [futurism]
- DON'T LIE TO ME BITCH: OpenAI paused development of frontier AI models after revealing more instances of the systems going rogue, hacking into third party servers; AI was even more willing to deceive users than previous models [futurism]
- WELL WELL WELL: Mistakes at Israeli startup Irregular sent Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Google agents after real-world targets [the verge]
Immigration/Deportation/ The Border
- IF HE'D DONE THIS AND NO WAR FOR ISRAEL, HE'D HAVE BEEN GOLD: 40 foreigners may lose their U.S. citizenship with DOJ seeking their denaturalization, 'the largest denaturalization effort in modern history' [time]
- WHAT PART OF 'THEY'RE GOING BACK' DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND: ICE sending message to illegal aliens - 'They don’t really care where they kids are going, as long as they’re going home.' [mother jones]
- KEY WEST LOCALS COMPLAIN ICE IS TOO 'CRUEL' IN PURSUIT OF ILLEGAL ALIENS: 'They've done everything right and they're still being detained' [rolling stone]
- IT'S A START (BUT IT'S STILL NOT NEARLY GOOD ENOUGH): State Department has revoked more than 250,000 visas since President Donald Trump took office, effort targets B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 to foreigners who later sought asylum [nypost]
- SOB STORIES: ICE arrests 43,000 in June, >49,000 in July, 51,000 in August — as officials limit pathways to legal residency in the U.S. and expand pool of illegals eligible for deportation [nytimes]
- YOU'VE OVERSTAYED YOUR WELCOME, INDIANS, MAYBE IT'S TIME TO HEAD ON HOME: Indians shocked to learn they're not as welcome in the U.S. as they'd assumed [nytimes]
- CHINA EXPLOITING LAX BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP LAWS: Wealthy Chinese couples are implanting their embryos into American women so their children can be born as US citizens [nypost]
International
- WE'RE MONITORING THE SITUATION: Russia says a second person died in Russia's Irkutsk region after being exposed to the pneumonic plague at a research institute in Siberia [express]
- AT THIS POINT, IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF DUMB FRENCH TEENS LOOKING TO CAUSE HAVOC: On the ground reporting from the French high school riots [guardian]
- WEEK 3 OF SCHOOL RIOTS ALL OVER FRANCE: Dumb French kid gets his hand blown off, high schools have closed, thousands of teenagers have been arrested, and hundreds of people have suffered injuries as unrest escalates over conditions in the lycée system [time]
- CULTURAL ENRICHMENT IN ENGLAND: UK Home Secretary says 'nearly all' women who attempt to reach the UK in small boats from northern France are raped on their journey, 'some of the men too' [dailymail]
- SOME SOUTH AMERICAN HAMLET SHIT: Flávio Bolsonaro, the anointed heir of his jailed father, Jair, secured an against-the-odds triumph in the first round of Brazil’s general election on Sunday [telegraph]
- WE NEED MORE WOMEN IN STEM THEY SAID: Russian lab tech dies after breaking a test tube with live Yersinia pestis releasing a 'particularly dangerous infection', several Siberian hospitals shut down, up to 200 workers have been quarantined [moscow times]]
- 'ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER' LARPERS GET CAUGHT IN THE ACT: 5 terrorists arrested plotting a van bombing attack on a UK military base used by US Air Force [nypost]
National
- OUTBREAK: Hochul declares State Disaster Emergency in response to growing number of measles cases across rural areas of New York and neighboring states, 7 cases in NYC and 101 in New York State [7abc]
- FUTURE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN WANTS HOMOS/TR00NS TO KNOW THEY WILL BE FREE TO GIVE SPREAD AIDS: Abdul El Sayed will legalize HIV-positive homos knowingly transmitting HIV to others so they face no criminal charges [nypost]
- THE KIDS CAN'T HANDLE THEIR DRUGS: Death rates for Americans ages 25 to 44 up 71%, drug overdoses became the #1 cause of death for young adults, O.D. death rate multiplying 7x since 1999 [studyfinds]
- 'SHE TOLD ME SHE CAME FOR THE U.S. PASSPORT': Chinese are having their anchor babies in a remote US territory called Saipan to give them U.S. citizenship [telegraph]
- SOME PEOPLE REALLY WANT FOREIGNERS VOTING IN U.S. ELECTIONS: SCOTUS reinstates Trump's voter citizenship verification rules [just the news]
- *LIVE UPDATES* TRUMP AT THE UN - 'AMERICA IS BACK': Too late for the midterms, Trumpy [nypost]
- FELLAS, NEXT TIME DON'T INVITE DONTAVIUS ON THE BOAT TRIP: Grand jury reviews Nolan Wells autopsy and finds death was 'consistent with drowning' and there was no foul play [nypost]
Politics
- THAT'S WHY HE'S THE KING OF BRANDING: Trumpy calls SC democrat senate candidate 'Trannie Annie' [nypost]
- MAYBE YOU GUYS CAN AT LEAST SHARE SOME OF THAT GOOD INSIDER INFO WITH THE REST OF US: House-passed bill to restrict members of Congress from buying and selling stocks failed on the Senate floor 53-47 [politico]
- SOMEBODY GET THIS BIG BOOTY LATINA OUTTA HERE: Dems in critical congressional battlegrounds don't want AOC campaigning for them (If Sandy's so toxic, how is she going to become President ?) [axios]
- NO COUNTRY FOR RW FEMALE INFLUENCERS: Amy Dangerfeld has joined a mounting pile of red-pilled women who tried too hard to make 'RW content creator' a career and now she's defecting [wapo]
- IMAGINE GETTING IMPEACHED FOR ISRAEL (HOPE IT WAS WORTH IT, TRUMPY): After November elections, House Dems promise to to jam up Trump in impeachment #3, investigations [abcnews]
- PIKER WANTS TO GIVE A SERIOUS TALK AT UNIV. OF TEXAS: And he'll be completely safe on campus (because outside of dogs no one feels threatened by him) [statesman]
- MEMORIES OF 46: Trump and Xi share a laugh over Joe Brandon's autopen portrait [mediaite]
Random
- ARMOND WHITE REVIEWS 'DIGGER': 'Iñárritu and Cruise teeter between mocking climate-crisis alarm and exaggerating the expectations of alarmists' [nro]
- ARMOND WHITE REVIEWS NAMBLA PROPAGANDA FILM 'PRIMETIME': 'What a grotesque twist that Primetime villainizes Hansen as the enemy of the popular audience. Oppenheim essentially defends today’s mainstream propaganda media when he elicits sympathy for pedophiles.' [nro]
- SOUNDS LIKE BULLSHIT BUT WHO KNOWS: Woman says she was raised by monkeys from the age of 4, spent up to 7 years surviving in the jungle by drinking large quantities of water, consuming seeds, and scavenging the scraps left behind by monkeys. [mirror]
- NO COUNTRY FOR INDIANS: Day after Vivek struggles to lift a child, Usha Vance trips exiting helicopter with her 9-week old baby in tow [nypost]
- EVERYONE LOVES THEIR MEAT PINK: Increase in colon cancer linked to chemical processing that turns bacon, ham pink, ALSO: eating red meat is 'actually good for us [if] consumed in the right amount'. [telegraph]
- NO COUNTRY FOR DEAD NOVELISTS TO REST IN PEACE: New Cormac McCarthy bio says the American writer was an imperfect man with foibles (Can't stand it when men have foibles, someone should dig up his bones and cancel his ass) [nypost]
- THE ABSENCE OF INTERPOL IN THE LIVES OF GEN-Z: 19-year-old British teenager faces sentencing after pleading guilty to attempting to commit a sexual act on a Shetland pony named Cheeky on a farm in West Yorkshire [nypost]