RIYADH: Four airport strikes later, Riyadh, reportedly low on interceptors, moved what's left to the oil and the palaces — not the terminal. 🦆
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It's National Gumbo Day, honoring the dish Louisiana invented by declaring the whole fridge one ingredient and the arguing a seasoning. It's also National Farmer's Day, when a country that can't keep a basil plant alive salutes the people growing everything else. Enjoy your one day, farmers — the banks, the weather, and Congress split the other 364.
Aprons off. The news.
RIYADH: Four airport strikes later, Riyadh, reportedly low on interceptors, moved what's left to the oil and the palaces — not the terminal. 🦆
Hours later, Russian strikes killed three — one a 16-year-old — and hit the power plant his ceasefire was protecting. The dead are real; the peace is a post. 🦆
VATICAN CITY: A pathologist will reportedly decide mid-surgery how much lung he loses — up to a lobe — and the Church still hadn't canceled his November tour. 🦆
NEW DELHI: Erase Japan and you'd still have names left over — that's what India's Election Commission wiped from the rolls and stamped a "revision," the way a wood chipper files under "landscaping." Don't call it incompetence — this state found three protest leaders in the sky and had the cuffs waiting the second their flight from Mumbai kissed Delhi tarmac. It can't keep that many names on a spreadsheet; it can track one dissident at cruising altitude — the competence isn't missing, it's aimed. So the opposition marched to the Supreme Court, and the state deleted the march: barricades, MPs hauled off, Rahul Gandhi atop a police vehicle like the last name they couldn't scrub. And Chief Justice Surya Kant wouldn't even take the envelope — workload, he said. Sure. Lately it's mostly deletions. 🦆
The species that split the atom is answering with sandbags — NOAA puts the odds above 83% this El Niño stays strong into early 2027. 🦆
TIGRAY, ETHIOPIA: The ceasefire an estimated 600,000 dead bought is tearing in both their hands — a human life, worth one six-hundred-thousandth of a page. 🦆
Half the satellites buzzing Starlink won't say where they are — classified — so the plan is a voluntary sign-up sheet. One miss: 57 meters. 🦆
"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."— Katharine Hepburn
One small study, but anyone managing blood sugar has a lab-grade reason to pick the less-processed twin: the pancreas keeps its own books. 🦆
UNITED KINGDOM: 607 pages to reach what waitlist parents screamed for years — help now, paperwork later. Families can ask schools for symptom help today. 🦆
Flávio Bolsonaro — son of the imprisoned Jair — leads Lula 47–45; a jailed man's dynasty is one coin toss from the presidency. 🦆
Across 900 dogs, the loose genes wreck DNA and stoke inflammation — the Great Dane burgled from the inside while the Chihuahua coasts. 🦆
Officially, co-winner Robert Hall has dated every US recession since 1978 — so Stockholm just pinned a preventive-medicine medal on the coroner. 🦆
A $20 million Homeland Security ad buy starring self-cast leading man Donald Trump, now served the document invented for men who can't hear no. 🦆
Black swallowers eat up to ten times their own mass; the stomach stretches see-through. Got a comment? Swallow it — professional courtesy. 🦆
That's the firehose. Confirm your voter registration still exists — apparently that's a subscription now — don't trust any peace deal that only one guy has heard of, and never swallow anything bigger than you are, no matter how good it looks down there in the dark. Tomorrow is International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, which the UN scheduled for exactly one day because reducing disaster risk year-round would put this newsletter out of business. It's also National Yorkshire Pudding Day, honoring a dish that is not pudding, barely a plan, and still the most structurally sound thing Britain has produced this decade.
Until next time —
Ya roasted!
— Roastie