A soda delivery truck plunged rear-first into a sinkhole in Mexico City over the weekend. No injuries were reported — unless you count the bottles of Jarritos that went, “my little soda pop.” Photo credit: Reuters
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🇩🇪 Germany plans to more than double its army, adding 100,000 active troops by 2029 in response to the perceived Russian threat. Key word: perceived.
🇹🇷 Tens of thousands of people protested in Ankara, Turkey against a court case that could oust opposition leader Özgür Özel after a year-long legal crackdown including the detention of mayors and hundreds of party members.
🚐 Two men were arrested in Utah after an incendiary device was found under a news media vehicle, which had been lit but did not detonate, and investigators are considering terrorism and weapons charges.
🏛️ The U.S. House passed a large defense budget that also repeals the 1991 and 2002 Iraq war authorizations, curbing presidential war powers.
💥 An Israeli airstrike struck the offices of 26 September and Al-Yemen newspapers in Sana’a, killing at least 25 journalists and civilians, in what the Yemeni Journalists Union denounced as a war crime.
🔪 The alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson, is reported to have had a “furry” fixation and lived with a transgender partner whose past social media posts showed support for Joe Biden.
🐒 The House Appropriations Committee unanimously approved an amendment to the 2026 NIH budget to defund taxpayer-funded transgender animal experiments — including sex-change procedures on monkeys. Presumably, the research will continue, but no longer on the government’s dime.
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Over the weekend, dozens — maybe hundreds — of people were fired for celebrating the political assassination of Charlie Kirk and many companies warned employees not to be next. The right applauded these firings, but it’s worth remembering that the same people once condemned “cancel culture” when the left went after vaccine skeptics and gender critics. Is there really a difference here?
Most of the posts that cost people their jobs were grotesque celebrations of Kirk’s murder. It feels proportionate to fire, say, a school police officer who openly cheers political violence. But what about an accountant? A cheerleading coach? A comic book writer?
Honestly, we should all stop to think about this.
The First Amendment draws a clear line: it protects speech, even offensive, hateful, or cruel speech. What it does not protect is actual violence or true threats of violence. Celebrating an assassination is disgusting, but unless someone is urging more killings, it remains protected speech.
Some of these posts were urging more killings though.
And here’s the wrinkle: the First Amendment only protects you from government punishment. It doesn’t stop an employer from firing you because they find your speech offensive, damaging, or simply uncomfortable. A school district, a corporation, or a small business can decide you’re no longer a good representative — even if what you said is legally protected.
But maybe this is less about “cancel culture” and more about a revival of professional norms: a reminder that what you say in public reflects back on your workplace.
As the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression put it:
“Charlie Kirk’s assassination was an attack on free speech and open discourse… But it is precisely for that reason why we must not respond to mockery of Kirk’s assassination by canceling everyone who offends us: because that too creates a society where people are afraid to express themselves.”
And look, I don’t want to see anyone gloat over this horrific death but I also don’t want anarchists lurking in the silence and a destruction of our First Amendment rights.
The plan, long frozen under international pressure, has now been green-lit. The timing is deliberate: Israel may as well take the hit for both Gaza and the West Bank at once — while the U.S. looks the other way.
The expansion calls for thousands of new housing units and infrastructure in the sensitive E1 corridor near Ma’ale Adumim. That corridor is strategically critical: by building there, Israel bisects the West Bank and cuts Palestinians off from East Jerusalem — a death blow to any two-state solution.
According to rights groups, as many as 7,000 Palestinians stand to be displaced by this construction. The move follows Israel’s ongoing full military occupation of Gaza and signals an intent to consolidate permanent control over all Palestinian territories.
Reactions are mounting. Palestinian officials say this proves Israel never intended to allow Palestinian sovereignty. The EU and UN are expected to issue condemnations. Not so the United States. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spent the weekend making a pilgrimage to the Western Wall and posting overtures about America’s steadfast support for Israel.
The Biden administration was at least “troubled” by the West Bank settlement expansion. The Trump administration: Full approval.
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Unite the Kingdom Draws Massive Crowd, Government Dismisses as ‘Far-Right’
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Over 100,000 people showed up to the Unite the Kingdom rally in London over the weekend. Some estimate that the number was far larger. The rally was organized to oppose immigration, call for stronger border controls, and promote free speech and national unity.
It was mostly peaceful but police say that there were dozens of police officers harmed and at least 25 arrests.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the country “will not stand for assaults on police officers doing their job or for people feeling intimidated on our streets because of their background or the colour of their skin. Britain is a nation proudly built on tolerance, diversity and respect. Our flag represents our diverse country and we will never surrender it to those that use it as a symbol of violence, fear and division.”
Yet the government leans on labels like “far-right” and “violence” to sidestep the substance of what was on display: a potent populist movement demanding to be heard.
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are trending because Kelce played against The Eagles (and lost) on Sunday and he wore an odd suit to show up to the game and Swift was apparently snuck in behind a media screen.
The Emmys are trending because the TV award ceremony happened on Sunday.
Frozen is trending because this X account claims to have uncovered the plot of the upcoming Disney sequel.
News By The Numbers
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23,000. That is how many Corvettes were recalled by GM because of a known issue regarding a cooling fan that can ignite spilled gasoline.
51%. That is how many people in the U.K. consider the Royal Family either “very important” or “quite important.” That is an all-time low since this survey began in 1983.
40. That is how many wild dogs are reportedly terrorizing the town of Godley, Texas.
According to The Wall Street Journal, “The dairy industry in California has faced years of challenges including a trend toward plant milk, the momentum seems to be shifting. Dairy milk sales in the U.S. declined 0.3% by volume over the 52 weeks that ended Aug. 10 and grew 4.6% in dollar terms, according to market research firm Circana.”
Meanwhile, plant-based milks are losing market share, which the WSJ attributes to “rising prices of products in the category and consumers’ desire for “clean” ingredient labels.”
Plant milks are anything but clean. They’re a science project full of seed oils, stabilizers, and chemicals — with a higher carb load and thus a bigger glycemic spike than dairy milk.
“U.S. plant milk sales declined 6.1% by volume in the year ended Aug. 10 and 3.5% in dollar terms, according to Circana. The sector has been flattening and declining since hitting a dollar sales high in 2022.”
It’s the same story across vegan products more broadly: the hype peaked in 2022 and reality is catching up.
The Got Milk campaign revival is starting in California with 12,000 residents taking milk mustache photos in mobile studios across the state.
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