Washington state got absolutely wrecked by flooding that turned homes into literal islands and forced over 100,000 people to flee their houses. Liz Trujillo from Burlington ended up stuck with her horses and a goat chilling in the front yard while water completely surrounded everything. Trump signed off on emergency help through FEMA after the governor called up Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for backup.
Emergency crews pulled off at least 250 water rescues across the region. Some folks in Sumas are dealing with their second major flood in just a few years, and the PTSD from last time is hitting people hard again. Insurance payouts are gonna be trash compared to actual damages, and families are seriously debating whether...
The SEC basically rolled over for every crypto company with Trump connections after he got back into office. The agency dropped or froze over 60 percent of its crypto cases from the Biden era, which is completely unheard of for a single industry. Binance got its fraud case tossed, Coinbase walked free, and Gemini Trust, run by the Winklevoss twins, got its lawsuit paused even though customers lost access to their accounts for months.
Trump and his family have business deals with a bunch of these firms through World Liberty Financial. The Winklevoss brothers threw cash at Trump campaign funds and White House renovations, while Justin Sun bought millions in Trump tokens right before his fraud case got frozen. The agency tried to...
Private equity firms are absolutely wrecking volunteer fire departments across the country by buying up all the emergency response software and jacking prices through the roof. ESO Solutions grabbed Emergency Reporting and FIREHOUSE Software, then told customers they were killing those platforms and forcing everyone onto way more expensive systems. Norfolk Volunteer Fire Department in Connecticut was looking at costs jumping from $795 yearly to over $5,000, and when they tried to bail, ESO wanted $1,200 just to hand over their data records.
Vista Equity Partners bankrolled ESO's buying spree, and the company handles software for about 20,000 of the 30,000 fire departments nationwide. Chiefs are getting squeezed because the three main...
This PhD student at Brown was grinding away in an engineering lab when the active shooter alert blasted his phone, and he ended up hiding under a desk in the dark for hours while cops swept the campus. The gunman killed two people and hurt at least nine others in a first-floor classroom at the Barus and Holley building before bouncing. More than 400 law enforcement officers swarmed the area with armored vehicles and helicopters circling overhead, but the shooter was still at large by late that night.
The East Side of Providence went from cozy Christmas vibes to absolute chaos with sirens everywhere and armed cops posted up on every corner. Students who were just trying to finish finals got stuck sheltering in place with zero...
Brown University got hit with a shooting that killed somebody and left eight people hurt, and the gunman just vanished into Providence after walking out onto Hope Street wearing all black. The campus sits on a hill without any fences blocking it off from the rest of the city, which probably made it pretty easy for the shooter to bail.
The school has been getting wrecked by Trump for months after he tried to yank over half a billion in research money because of antisemitism claims during the Palestine protests. Brown caved and made a deal to get the funding back, but that pissed off a bunch of students and faculty who thought the university was rolling over for the administration.
The whole divestment thing from companies tied to...
Brown University went into full lockdown after shots rang out at the Barus and Holley engineering building, where students were grinding through finals. Owen Fick was out grabbing ice when he spotted cops in tactical gear swarming the area with a ton of ambulances and gurneys. Parents started freaking out while kids barricaded themselves in classrooms and dorms, frantically checking texts and social media for updates.
One freshman named Ansel Edison was working on his philosophy paper at the science library next door when everything popped off. His mom said he texted her about a friend trapped in the engineering building before cops banged on the library door and pulled everyone out. Student council president Talib Reddick said the...
The Ninth Circuit told Trump to pull the remaining California National Guard troops out of Los Angeles by Monday after finding the feds illegally kept them there way past when the immigration protests actually ended. About 100 soldiers are still hanging around, even though the peak deployment back in the summer had roughly 4,000 Guard members and 700 Marines stomping around the city. California Attorney General Rob Bonta is hyped that the military presence is finally ending after half a year of this mess.
The appeals court mostly backed a lower judge who said the whole thing was sketchy, but they paused the part that would have given Governor Gavin Newsom control of his troops back right away. The state sued when Trump first grabbed...
A United Airlines Boeing 777 heading to Tokyo had to turn around and land back at Dulles after one of its engines lost power right after takeoff. Part of the engine cover fell off and started burning, and debris from the thing sparked a small brush fire near the runway that got put out pretty quickly. All 275 passengers and 15 crew members made it back safely with zero injuries reported.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed the engine cover piece came loose and caught fire before hitting the ground. Some dude grilling steaks near Quantico watched the whole thing go down and knew something was wrong when he saw the commercial jet banking hard and what looked like fuel getting dumped. The FAA is looking into what happened.
This DoorDash driver in Indiana got busted for allegedly spraying something nasty on a customer's food order, and two people got sick from it. Kourtney Stevenson was caught on doorbell cam hitting the delivery with some aerosol, and the couple who ate it started puking hard with their mouths and throats burning. Cops tracked her down through DoorDash records and grabbed her in Kentucky on felony charges for battery and product tampering.
Her excuse was that she was killing a spider during the drop-off because she's scared of them, but the police called BS since it was way too cold outside and spiders don't move around at that temperature. The husband spotted red spray on the bag and checked the security footage, which showed the whole...
