Politics/The Platinum Plunger
King Charles Pays Prince Andrew’s £1.5 Million Royal Lodge Repair Bill
The monarch used private funds to settle the dilapidation costs owed by his brother after the lease on the 30‑room Windsor mansion ended.
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Sports/Financial Fair Play Fallout
Man City Manager Defends Titles as Appeal Looms
Enzo Maresca says Manchester City’s trophies remain untarnished while the club fights the Premier League’s financial verdict.
Politics/Deportation Dividend
Trump’s Racist Tantrum Is Coming Straight Out of Your Grandma’s Pocket
A study for The Guardian projects Trump's immigration purge will trigger an 8.6% Social Security cut for seniors, costing them over $2,150 a year starting in 2034.
Politics/BUREAU OF PETTINESS
BOP Director To Federal Judge: My Illegal Union Busting Is Now A Fresh, New Illegal Union Busting
The Bureau of Prisons got caught killing its union contract with what a judge called an 'entirely pretextual' excuse, was ordered to reinstate it, and eight days later Director William K. Marshall III issued a 'fresh decision' to kill it again. The DOJ's position: that is compliance.
World/Fuck Around And Find Out Prize
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to ICJ Judge Navi Pillay
Norwegian committee honors former UN human‑rights chief for her work on international law and the Gaza genocide inquiry.
Politics/Understaffed Shitshow
FEMA’s Hurricane Drill: Send Thoughts, Prayers, and the Three Interns Who Remember How the Printer Works
As Isaias aims for the Gulf, the disaster agency faces its first major test after 4,300 staff fucked off, disaster declarations now take three times longer, and the only 'systematic' plan was a judge saying the 50% cut idea was illegal.
Business/CAR KEYS HELD HOSTAGE
FTC Sues Florida Kia Cartel for Bait‑Switch Bullshit, Hostage Keys, and Laughing at a Woman Who Believed Their Fake $2,500 Prize
Greenway Automotive advertised cars for thousands less, then added five layers of mandatory fees, held trade‑in keys hostage, and mailed bogus winning scratch‑offs. When a winner showed up, a salesman laughed and said they run this scam in different states all the time. The FTC, after a warning, watched them double down with “ZERO HIDDEN FEES” banners.
Business/LAUNDRY DAY AT AMEX
American Express Spent Eleven Years as a $13 Billion Money Laundromat, Using Its Own Clueless Staff as Wash Assistants
The OCC says American Express, one of the largest card issuers, failed for over a decade to stop $13 billion in suspected trade-based money laundering - sometimes using its own employees' accounts - because its compliance program was a fucking joke.
Politics/BUGS DENIED PERMIT
Cockroach Party’s Protest Permit Smashed, Founder Still Plans to Be a Pest
Police cite short notice and past tantrums, but founder vows to swarm anyway, claiming the nation needs saving from his own obscurity.
Sports/COGNITIVE DISSONANCE DERBY
Maresca’s Manchester City Defense: ‘I Saw Them Try Really Hard’
Manager's first press conference a masterclass in ignoring the 800-pound gorilla in the room, and then insisting it smells great.
Politics/Jihad for the Job
X-post: Pete Hegseth Vomits Regurgitated Shit About Fort Hood
Trump's Pentagon stooge parrots disproven claim about Fort Hood attack.
Business/Monopoly, My Ass
T-Shirt Titans’ Price‑Fixing Scheme Unravels Faster Than a Cheap Hem
Gildan Activewear and S&S Holdings get their exclusivity clause gutted after the FTC probe of Robinson‑Patman Act violations, forcing a contract rewrite.
Politics/Arithmetic Cunts
Tory Net Zero Cost Doubled by Spreadsheet Dickheads Who Can't Do Sums
The Conservative party's 'The Right Way' policy document cites a £957 billion net zero cost, a figure that appears to be the result of adding spreadsheet subtotals on top of their own component costs, effectively doubling the Climate Change Committee's £478 billion estimate after savings.
Politics/THE FENCE OPERATION WITH A WEBSITE
California Turned a Brazilian’s Address Into “CA [California] 00000” and Sold His $708,000 in Google Stock
A new court filing accuses State Controller Malia Cohen’s office of rewriting foreign investors’ addresses to look Californian, grabbing their stocks without notice, and feeding the cash to Sacramento, where unclaimed-property seizures are the fifth-biggest revenue line.
World/Truth Detention
Egyptian State, Petrified of Footnotes, Arrests the Fact-Checkers
Fact-checkers get the state's standard fact-free service: beatings, forced confessions, and a forensic clean bill of health.
Sports/ACCOUNTING CLOWNS
Oliver Glasner Pleads With Premier League to Stop Letting Man City’s Billion-Pound Fake Money Circus Fuck the Sport’s Last Shred of Credibility
Forest boss says league's brand is globally tarnished while champions play 'respect the process' with appeals funded by the alleged sham contracts.
Politics/Stunt Court Is In Session
Rival Hands Letitia James 52‑Count ‘Indictment’ for Being a Useless Prick
Republican challenger Saritha Komatireddy, a former prosecutor, filed a satirical legal document hours before their first debate, accusing the New York AG of ignoring crime, rape laws, and fraud.
Business/Cyber-Fashion Fiasco
Asos Hacked, Exposing Millions of Customer Addresses and Their Desperate Search for 'Glamorous Wide Fit' Pants
Hackers got in by pretending to be a buddy, grabbing employee logins, and making off with a trove of personal data and your embarrassing search terms.
Business/MULE MANAGEMENT MIDDLE MANAGER
The World's Shittiest Boss Just Pleaded Guilty to Being a Fucking Grifter
Oleg Korniev, a 42-year-old dual citizen of Ukraine and Russia, ran a criminal enterprise called Your Mule Cashout that used over 15,000 unpaid American mules to launder at least $10 million stolen from U.S. bank accounts, all while managing his crew with performance reviews and HR policies.
Politics/Fiscal Fuckwits
GOP’s Billion-Dollar Ad Blitz Is Just a Panic Attack With a Credit Card
GOP panic-buys ads at five times the price because they forgot elections have deadlines, not just donation deadlines.
Politics/After‑Campaign Break Tab
Gonzalez’s Campaign Spent Thousands on Disney, UAE and Zurich Trips After He Called Rival’s Donor Trips “Good Life”
Texas Rep. Vicente Gonzalez’s filings show campaign payments of $1,122.76 to Walt Disney Resorts, more than $13,000 for a 2024 UAE trip, and several hundred dollars for Zurich, Abu Dhabi and Rome expenses that line up with his own social‑media posts of family travel.
Politics/Bloody Livestream
Pentagon to Stream Fort Hood Killer’s Firing Squad Like a Shitty Pay‑Per‑View Event
Nidal Hasan’s December 3 execution will be the first US military killing in over 60 years, broadcast live after commentator Pete Hegseth urged a public demo.
Politics/Calendar-Driven Carnage
Trump says he'll hold off on bombing Iran until after the midterms, because nothing says 'peace' like scheduling your wars around your own election
The president announced on social media that the U.S. will not resume military strikes on Iran before November 3, framing a temporary ceasefire not as diplomacy but as a strategic pause to keep war out of the news cycle before voters head to the polls.
Politics/Editorial Cowardice
ABC News Shits Its Corporate Pants, Vaporizes Trump Kids' War Portfolio Story After VC Firm Whines 'Hit Piece'
The network deleted a report on Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's investments in Pentagon contractors after a single complaint from their VC firm, offering no explanation beyond the sound of its own spine snapping in half.
Politics/Hope and Chump Change
Obama Foundation Staff Tell Jarrett to Shove Her $740K Salary Up Her Own Hypocritical Ass
Workers at the former president's legacy project are unionizing, citing slashed benefits, brutal workloads, and a CEO making three-quarters of a million while they burn out. They've asked the bosses not to interfere with the effort, which is the polite way of saying 'stop being such greedy cunts.'
Politics/ARCHITECTURAL PERFORMANCE ART
Kennedy Center Board Shits Its Pants Over Public Seeing Its Own Floor Plans
The performing arts institution told a federal judge its 163-page renovation report posed a 'material security risk'. The judge noted the media already published it, the public docket was full of schematics, and most of it was 'non-sensitive or already publicly available.'
Politics/Cognitive Dissonance Day
Trump Hands Out Science Medals to Immigrant Tech Titans Hours After Vance Suspends Microsoft from Visa Program
On a day of peak administrative schizophrenia, the White House celebrated foreign-born 'national treasures' with its highest science honor while its VP accused their industry of destroying American jobs via the same immigration pipeline.
Business/Great American Clusterfuck
Microsoft and Adobe Have Their Green Card Applications Suspended, Because They’re Fucking Around
JD Vance, acting like a pissed‑off bouncer at the American Dream club, announced both tech giants are barred from filing permanent‑residency petitions for H‑1B workers.
Politics/Delusional Pump Dreams
Trump's Gas Tax Pipe Dream Is a Joke
Faced with his own party's impending doom, the president floats a dead‑on‑arrival idea he can't enact, then claims prices are already falling while staring at numbers that say they're not.
Tech/ROBOT DEATH PENALTY
USA Today Sues OpenAI for $250 Million and Demands Destruction of Models Trained on Its Content
Gannett’s lawsuit seeks massive damages and a court order to destroy any AI models that incorporated the plaintiffs’ copyrighted articles, branding the training as “the largest theft of labor in human history.”