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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
Criminal Justice
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Fargo Police Held a Woman for Five Months Based on Facial Recognition — Then Dropped the Charges
Angela Lipps was arrested in July 2025 for bank fraud in Fargo, North Dakota. She’d never been to Fargo. Her bank statements proved she was somewhere else when the crimes occurred. No officer from the Fargo Police Department spoke to her before issuing the arrest warrant. She spent more than…
Culture
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Happiness Report 2026: Finland Dominates, Youth Wellbeing Craters, Social Media Gets the Side-Eye
Finland just claimed the top spot in the world’s happiest countries ranking for the ninth consecutive year. Not eighth. Ninth. At this point, it’s less a streak and more a statement—like watching someone casually lap the field while the rest of us are still tying our shoes. The 2026 World…
History
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Ancient Machine Gun Marks Found on Pompeii’s Fortress Walls
Tight clusters of quadrangular holes. Arranged in curved lines. Spaced at regular intervals along the northern stretch of Pompeii’s fortress walls. Not random damage. Not erosion. Not the work of Mount Vesuvius, which buried the city under ash in 79 CE—nearly two centuries after these marks were made. According to…
Airlines
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Frontier Airlines Removed a Deaf Passenger for “Not Listening” — The Legal Bill Just Started
A deaf woman boards a Frontier Airlines flight. Her accommodation is documented on her ticket. She’s seated. Ready to fly. Then a flight attendant decides she’s a problem — because she can’t hear instructions. The crew removes her from the plane. The entire exchange is captured on video. Posted to…
Culture
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Doomsday Believers Aren’t Fringe Anymore — They’re Your Neighbors
There seems to be quite a bit of chatter about the end of times in the news. Yesterday, I wrote about Peter Thiel hosting a four-day event on the Apocalypse. Then, a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that one in three Americans believes the…