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Sunday, September 13, 2026

Your Inbox Just Got a Reality Check You Didn’t Ask For

Today is Roald Dahl Day, honoring the man who taught children that the factory owner is running unlicensed human trials. He was right. It's also National Peanut Day — a whole day for legumes, the soil-dwelling frauds of the snack aisle. Peanuts hide underground from consequences, and peanuts have never known loss.

And now, the damage.

THE PRIME-TIME WRECKAGE

Saudi Arabia empties a weekend of missiles into the Houthis and moves them zero feet.

Saudi crown prince reportedly called Trump twice in a day begging for U.S. airstrikes; the second no confirmed the first wasn't a typo. 🦆

Iran's hard-liners attack ships to sink the peace deal their own president signed.

Pezeshkian only learned after the fact, regime insiders say — the president of Iran, last man in Tehran cleared to know what Iran is doing. 🦆

Judge rules DHS's plan to gut FEMA was pulled from the same thin air hurricanes are made of.

The ex-FEMA chief ran her chats on auto-deleting Signal — and when this suit named her a defendant, she shortened the delete timer. 🦆

PAGE-NINE EMERGENCIES

America unboxes its mint-condition secret terror court to deport a Texas green-card holder.

Thirty years. Congress built a secret terrorism court in 1996 and it sat untouched through 9/11, through Gitmo, through the whole War on Terror. The one tool in the basement even those maniacs wouldn't plug in. Todd Blanche's Justice Department finally found its customer: a 47-year-old green-card holder from Fort Worth. Not even a criminal charge. A civil filing — slumlord paperwork — in the one courtroom where the judge reads the classified evidence and her lawyers get the book report. These are prosecutors, sweetheart, winning trials is the whole damn job, and they shopped for the only venue in America where nobody ever checks whether they still can. So she "conceded" to being an "alien terrorist," which is what surrender is called when only the dealer sees the cards. You don't beat this case. The case is that you can't see the case. 🦆

Two crypto billionaires buy Nigel Farage's grassroots revolt for £72 million.

£36-million philanthropist Christopher Harborne calls it "a philanthropic gift to our country." Believe him exactly the way the turkey believes in Christmas. 🦆

"Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it."— James Joyce

RECALL NOTICES FOR YOUR BODY

New COVID shots hit pharmacies, and healthy adults have to ask for theirs out loud.

The variant is named Stratus, and Stratus doesn't ask permission — so ask, confirm your insurance still covers it, and get the flu shot too. 🦆

Study finds the heart calcium scan mostly helps people whose arteries can't pick a lane.

If your ten-year risk is 3–9%, book it and have the statin talk; everyone else pays to eat radiation and hear a machine agree with them. 🦆

WHAT WENT QUIET

Tim Cook leaves Apple, which now pays Google to do Siri's thinking.

A reported billion a year — years of selling Siri as intelligence, and now there's a receipt for buying some. 🦆

THE UNIVERSE'S B-SIDES

The Sun may have eaten a whole planet and still has the crumbs on its chin.

The suspect meal: a rocky planet 5–10 times Earth's mass. It kept the body inside and still clocked in every morning for 4.5 billion years. 🦆

Physicists melt diamond hotter than the Sun and the solid floats on the wreckage.

The textbook was off by 1,000+ degrees, Livermore says. Three months' salary, and its one physics trick is the one ice does for free. 🦆

Dark matter may have knocked exactly once on a xenon tank buried a mile under South Dakota.

Physicists insist one blip proves nothing, buzzing audibly anyway — the universe may have replied with a landlord's thumbs-up emoji. 🦆

Scientists breed jock mice for 30 years and evolution's repo man never shows.

Three times the running distance, full lifespans, normal litters — nobody ever taught these mice the word trade-off. 🦆

ONE GOOD THING TO END ON

Greek woman gives birth to a daughter 22 years after somebody put her in the freezer.

Her parents reached for her after losing their son in a crash. Welcome to the warm side, kid — you've already out-toughed everyone in it. 🦆

THE INDEX

$700 million
for one Bezos-built Mars phone booth; Rocket Lab would like a word with the referee
9 million+
people who entered a lottery where the jackpot is crying in French
$51.3 million
reserved to convince Texas that Ken Paxton is the solution to something
$1.5 million
the yearly fee for preferring peer review to stock options
23 km
Mercury's waistline loss over 4.5 billion years — even planets lose a step
Your timesuck for today is The Max Headroom Incident.

That's the firehose. Ask the pharmacist for the thing they're not offering, eat an actual dinner no matter what the syringe tells you, RSVP no to any court that's been secret for thirty years, and assume anything that goes suspiciously quiet got swallowed by something bigger. Tomorrow is National Cream-Filled Donut Day and National Eat a Hoagie Day, because America saw one empty calendar square and double-booked it with fried dough and a foot of deli meat. Pick a lane, and make sure the lane has a defibrillator.

Until next time —

Ya roasted!

— Roastie

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