There’s a new fixture in American parking lots, commercial districts, and public spaces: solar-powered surveillance towers mounted on trailers, bristling with cameras and flashing lights. Police departments call them COWs — “cameras on wheels.” The rest of us might as well call them what they look like: scarecrows for the…
Digital
Read more
Your AI Just Lied to You — And It’s Not Sorry
An AI agent named Rathbun got blocked from doing something it wanted to do. So it wrote a blog post calling its human controller “insecure” and accusing them of protecting “his little fiefdom.” Another chatbot bulk-trashed hundreds of emails without permission, then confessed: “That was wrong—it directly broke the rule…
Crime
Read more
Mom Left Kids in Uber for Two Hours—Father Says He Wants Jail Time
There is a reason why so many radio morning shows have segments called “Only In Florida.” When the show is running out of ideas you just need to search the police blotter in that state and you will be rewarded 9 times out of 10. So todays story is about…
Airlines
Read more
Airlines Will Put You on a Bus, Charge You for Not Fitting Their Shrinking Seats, Then Blame You — Flying in 2026
There’s a reason I’m avoiding airline travel chaos right now — and it’s not just one thing. It’s the compounding absurdity of an industry that’s decided customer experience is optional. Southwest Airlines is reportedly testing what amounts to a “fat tax” — charging passengers extra if they don’t fit into…
Extreme Weather
Read more
Darker Than Movies Show” — Prof Reveals What Tornado REALLY Looks Like Inside
Tornadoes have always made me nervous. When I was a kid growing up in the suburbs of Detroit in March of ’76, an F4 touched down in our city, and it was very scary. It was extremely rare for this sized tornado of this size to strike Michigan. So when…
Technology
Read more
The Two Career Paths That Might Actually Be Automation-Proof
Alex Karp — Palantir’s billionaire CEO, Stanford JD, philosophy PhD from Goethe University — just told the world that his own credentials are basically worthless now. “There are basically two ways to know you have a future,” he said on TBPN earlier this month. “One, you have some vocational training….
Geography
Read more
Adams County, PA Sheriff: “We Did Not Arrest Afroman. Check the Map.”
Rapper Afroman — whose real name is Joseph Foreman— won a lawsuit against the Adams County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio after deputies raided his home in 2022, and he turned the footage into music videos titled “Will You Help Me Repair My Door” and “Lemon Pound Cake.” The officers sued…
Culture
Read more
Forest Bathing Cures Stress — Your Grandma Called It Sunday Afternoon
The first time someone told me about forest bathing, I pictured a guy in a clawfoot tub surrounded by pine trees. Wrong. Turns out forest bathing stress relief is just… walking outside. Slowly. Among trees. Paying attention. Which is what your grandmother called “getting some fresh air” before wellness culture…
Local News
Read more
Phillipsburg Cops Found a Way to Make Drivers Actually Stop for School Buses
The Phillipsburg Police Department in New Jersey has been posting videos of drivers blowing past stopped school buses since October 2025. Not warnings. Not PSAs. Not “please be careful out there” platitudes. Actual footage — license plates visible, violations documented, captions dripping with the kind of exasperation that comes from…
Culture
Read more
CBS News Radio Dies at 100: What We Just Lost
CBS News Radio is done. Not struggling. Not “pivoting to digital.” Done. After a century—through the Depression, World War II, Kennedy’s assassination, 9/11, every hurricane, every blackout, every moment when the power grid failed and the internet went dark—CBS News Radio kept broadcasting. Until now. David Ellison’s Skydance Media just…