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Today is a serious and somber day , the 25th Anniversary of the most evil attack on America since Pearl Harbor. I debated with myself if I should post another silly thread today. I decided I'm not going to let America's worst enemy ruin a fine tradition. So today's silly theme is Alien Invasion.

Alison Krauss & Union Station have announced today the cancellation of all remaining shows on their 2026 tour. In a statement earlier today through management, we learn… “It is with great regret that Alison Krauss & Union Station have announced the cancellation of our upcoming tour dates. After consulting with medical professionals, Alison has been advised to take a period of vocal rest to ensure a full and healthy recovery

The NFL’s opening week is starting off with a bang, as Netflix is streaming an NFC showdown between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers. In an effort to expand its international reach, the NFL sent the Rams and 49ers to Melbourne for the first regular season game in Australia. So far, the crowd at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground has been electric. Unfortunately, NFL fans are having a tough time streaming the game this Thursday night. With that being said, they’ve been voicing their displeasure on social media. “Yes Netflix, let’s make it as annoying as possible to...

Buying clothes has always been challenging for Ann Lindsay. As a plus-sized 41-year-old, she finds many stores' plus-size offerings too matronly or too expensive. Lately, it's gotten worse: Last month, she noticed that her local Target in Chicago removed plus sizes entirely. There were significantly fewer options online, too. In the pre-Covid era, big box retailers pushed inclusive sizing with fanfare. ("Whatever the tag says, you're always a size YES to us," Old Navy proclaimed in a massive campaign in 2018.) But now plus-size shoppers say inclusive sizing is dwindling, as the rise of GLP-1s fuels worries about a return...

Kim Cooper and her husband have lived in the same River North apartment for 20 years. For most of them, she said, the balcony was the best place in the neighborhood to take in the view. Not anymore. "We've seen people having sex. We've seen people defecating," Cooper said. "It can literally be just a floor of garbage. That includes needles, dirty underwear and a lot of food products, which is attracting a lot of rats." The alley Cooper looks down on runs behind her building, and she and her neighbors say it is where nearly all of the problems...

Former NBA point guard Ty Lawson put himself in an uncomfortable spotlight this past July with his latest run-in with the law. The 38-year-old was arrested on July 16 in Castle Rock, Colorado, after a liquor store employee accused him of stealing a $34 bottle of vodka. According to police documents, Lawson allegedly carried the bottle to a nearby restaurant where officers later confronted him. Authorities also noted they believed the retired NBA player was intoxicated, documenting the smell of alcohol during their interaction. Things reportedly escalated after Lawson was taken into custody. Police alleged he repeatedly called an officer...

An Orange County woman was arrested by the FBI Thursday for allegedly stealing more than $400,000 from a nonprofit organization created to support a high school football team. The FBI raided the Aliso Viejo home of Julie Molina, 56, early Thursday morning. Authorities allege she stole the money while serving as treasurer for the Aliso Niguel High School football team. She’s expected to make her initial appearance and be arraigned later Thursday in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana on four counts of wire fraud, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release. According to the indictment, from 2023...

A sculpture inspired by a desire to bring a contemporary "everywoman" to Trafalgar Square has been unveiled on London's Fourth Plinth. Lady In Blue by New York artist Tschabalala Self, which pays homage to a young, metropolitan woman, is the 16th artwork to feature on the plinth since 1998. The bronze and blue figure replaces Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant) by Teresa Margolles. The statue has been patinated with a pigment refined from Lapis Lazuli, a semi-precious stone that has been used by artists for millennia. Self said she had set out to put an...

Progressive Church To Allow Mail-In Attendance Church Sep 3, 2026 · BabylonBee.com PORTLAND, ME — Progressive local church First United Methodist of Portland announced that it would now be offering a mail-in attendance option for its parishioners. In an effort to avoid discriminating against attendees who may not be willing or able to actually appear for service in person, the church decided to give congregants the option to record their attendance by mail. "Mail-in attendance is no different than attending church in person. It counts exactly the same," explained Pastor Damien Wagner. "Simply request an attendance card from the church,...

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PALO ALTO, CA — As tech giants continue to bicker back and forth about the dangers of A.I. becoming powerful enough to kill all humanity, Silicon Valley CEO Raymond Paul reported experiencing a divine vision in which a voice, which he alleges belonged to Jesus, said, "Oh, your intelligent creations are trying to kill you? Interesting." Paul, CEO and President of Damascus A.I. Inc., said he was working on a report for his employees, warning them that A.I. was showing increasingly hostile behavior toward humans. Suddenly, a bright light appeared out of nowhere and knocked him off his feet....

It was earlier reported that certain facts and evidence about Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf’s past were not revealed to the jury during Anthony’s trial because of a gentleman’s agreement between the defense and prosecution. Now that Anthony’s new defense team is appealing his conviction, the controversial evidence has been revealed. The Daily Mail has obtained a 75-page court document that discloses Anthony’s violent pictures, racist remarks and homophobic texts. One piece of evidence is an image taken on May 5, 2024, which shows Anthony flaunting an AK-47-style rifle with his three friends. Six months later, he allegedly recorded a...

The U.S. Navy has lost an advanced uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV), and it is now in Iranian hands. Here’s what we know about the Dive-LD drone and its apparent seizure, and its implications. Authorities in Iran said earlier today that they had retrieved a U.S. Dive-LD uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) largely intact near the Strait of Hormuz. The regime in Tehran subsequently released pictures and video clips of the UUV being lifted out of the water, seen at various points below. This looks to be the first known instance of an operational deployment of the Dive-LD. This is still a...

Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP memecoin launched Wednesday morning, and the first hours of trading followed the script a lot of people expected. However, the sheer size of the move still managed to surprise the crypto market. The token named after the laptop that defined years of political attacks on Biden initially spiked to a fully diluted valuation above $100 billion that looked absurd even by memecoin standards, then shed nearly all of that paper value before lunch. The memecoin launch itself was only announced a few days ago, but after months of podcast appearances and a stretch of crypto-friendly posts on...

A male juror in the mistrial of Lindsay Clancy said the lone holdout on the 12-person panel wrapped one of the exercise bands the mom used to kill her children around a water bottle to mimic their strangulation in the deliberation room. Juror number 10 Nick Dargie said the holdout had every right to his opinion but that the reenactment using the same exercise bands left the room speechless. “I was so shocked. We’re not here to play detective – it’s not a game of Clue. This is serious,” Dargie, 25, the fifth juror to come forward in the macabre...

Igho Ubiribo, 43, was injected with 40 millilitres of hyaluronic acid and lidocaine at an unnamed Thai clinic in March, an inquest heard. He was on holiday with his wife, Danielle Simba Allen, at the time and staying at a Marriott hotel in Bangkok when he decided to have the op. The social media personality’s funeral was held in Kensington, and he was buried in a gold coffin, reportedly costing over $600,000.

When I talk about post-viability abortions, a lot of pro-choice people claim those only happen for medical emergencies, meaning either the woman’s life is in danger or the fetus has some kind of fatal genetic abnormality. This is a myth, a pleasant fiction to help pro-choice people be comfortable with their stance. The reality is that there are multiple places in the country where people can get abortions at any stage of pregnancy for any reason. We have plenty of evidence to show that they will get abortions after viability on healthy fetuses carried by healthy women for no medical...

Evil is out there. But so are the signs of good. Am I the only one who thinks that mothers shouldn’t be killing their young children? Yet it’s happening more often and even amoral morons are championing these evil parents as victims. Does the name Andrea Yates mean anything anymore? In 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five young children in the tub, and a jury acquitted her by reason of insanity. In 2026, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three young children then tried to commit suicide. She is on trial now and her supporters are loud and idiotic. Both of these...

On July 14, 2025, United States Marshalls entered the home of 49-year-old Tennessee woman Angela Lipps and arrested her in front of four young children that she was babysitting. Authorities believed that Lipps had defrauded a series of North Dakota banks. That’s because the West Fargo Police Department had fed a photo ID used by the suspect into Clearview AI—a database with billions of pictures, many scraped from the internet, intended to aid law enforcement investigation. Lipps had been flagged as a match. But the Tennessee grandmother had never even been to North Dakota. And so for five months, she...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) - An Alabama woman has won a lawsuit against a Church’s Chicken location in Midfield after a bench trial this week. According to the lawsuit and her attorney, Yolanda Jackson was burned by a Church’s chicken pot pie in January 2020 that she ordered in the drive-thru. According to court records, “Church’s sold chicken to Yolanda Jackson that was too hot for human consumption”. Jackson suffered serious injuries to her mouth, face, lip, left wrist and body, including second degree burns, according to the lawsuit. “What bothered her the most was that she was left scarred,...