29,000 jobs against 84,000 expected, plus 60,000 repossessed from July and August — the summer got laid off retroactively. 🦆
News That Never Left the Wreckage
It's National Boyfriend Day, the only holiday where the bar is "he texted back." He saw your post about it, and he will still swear nobody told him. It's also National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day, honoring two creatures that hover, look gorgeous, and bolt the second things get serious — so, Boyfriend Day twice.
And now, the damage report.
29,000 jobs against 84,000 expected, plus 60,000 repossessed from July and August — the summer got laid off retroactively. 🦆
The 100 million barrels come to one day of world oil demand — apocalypse oil, spent because the apocalypse arrived with a press office. 🦆
DR CONGO: They were reportedly sweeping a displacement camp for weapons — and burned the one thing in it aimed at the actual killer. 🦆
FRANCE: After years of never delivering the textbooks, the chairs, or the repairs, the one thing France got to these schools on time is the bill. 🦆
TENNESSEE: Two hours, seven needles, a ventilator — and the state's first move was the 1947 case that let Louisiana's electric chair try twice. 🦆
MAINE: Here's the crime, in full: people stood in a Home Depot parking lot and filmed ICE agents — legal, boring, free. Homeland Security typed them into surveillance-for-hire Palantir's counterterrorism database as "Threat to Law Enforcement, Professional Protestor." That's a job title that does not exist, assigned by the only people in that parking lot actually drawing a paycheck. Their faces went through "Mobile Query," which is what you name a dragnet when the lawyers won't clear "Dragnet." One observer got booked for mandatory border searches through January 2027 — harassment with a calendar invite. This is an agency that loses actual human beings in its own custody but has never once lost a grudge. The whole American counterterror arsenal, aimed at a phone, in the parking lot where this country buys plywood. DHS calls the suit meritless — a bold vocabulary critique from the authors of "Professional Protestor." 🦆
ARIZONA: 62% of U.S. guns found in Mexico came from Arizona — one legislature arming a continent of organized crime, on purpose, with votes. 🦆
"I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down."— Mitch Hedberg
FLORIDA: 252 cases, one death; Tampa Bay, dump every saucer and gutter and wear repellent — the one invasion you end by tilting your hand. 🦆
Four two-minute holds, three days a week; anyone already hypertensive asks a doctor first — the hold spikes pressure before it lowers it. 🦆
Also linked: 30% higher hospitalization odds. The sleepless should ask a doctor about therapy before pills — negotiator beats dart gun. 🦆
The NIH will fund studying their kidneys all the way to the autopsy; the one experiment nobody will run is treating them. 🦆
The agency kept its $2.2 billion and is mailing $500 checks, 71% reportedly to battleground states. A mugging with a loyalty program. 🦆
CHINA: No other mammal, living or extinct, ever pulled it off — your ancestors traded free teeth forever for two sets and a dentist's drill. 🦆
ECUADOR: Locals vetted the hairstyle — wrong hair "looks like a different tribe." Three millennia in the dirt and a bad haircut still gets you disowned. 🦆
ITALY: Entanglement usually demands a whisker above absolute zero; the most pampered diva in physics just did its act on a virus-sized grain. 🦆
Roughly 97% of dogs on farms that already closed went to slaughter, not rescue — the industry read the 2027 deadline as a quota. 🦆
Thirteen of them break anti-propaganda law, a watchdog group says. Homeland Security finally found a homeland worth defending: the one between Trump's ears. 🦆
LA County's at 69 rabid bats, tying its season record with weeks left — somewhere in the dark, one is foaming at the mouth for number 70. 🦆
MISSOURI: After 58 years, the confession was "Yeah, I'm afraid so" — copping to one of America's great voices like he'd backed over the guy's mailbox. 🦆
That's the firehose. Press your back against a wall for two minutes and call it cardio, go to bed at an hour you're not ashamed of, treat every mosquito like it's carrying something personal, and if the voice on the phone sounds like yacht rock, that's family — keep him. Tomorrow is World Animal Day, sharing the calendar with National Taco Day and National Vodka Day. Humanity will pledge its love to the animal kingdom at breakfast, fold part of it into a tortilla by lunch, and use the vodka to reconcile the two by dark.
Until next time —
Ya roasted!
— Roastie