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Besides being sick fucking freaks what do Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgeway, Dennis “BTK” Rader, and Richard “Night Stalker” Ramirez have in common? They grew up in areas polluted by lead and arsenic from industrial smelting facilities – many concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, where the first two – and plenty of other psychopaths – got their starts, author Caroline Fraser argues in her new book titled “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers,” previewed by Grist.

“Recipes for making a serial killer may vary, including such ingredients as poverty, crude forceps deliveries, poor diet, physical and sexual abuse, brain damage, and neglect,” Fraser, a Pulitzer Prize winner, writes in the book. “Many horrors play a role in warping these tortured souls, but what happens if we add a light dusting from the periodic table on top of all that trauma?”

Damn that’s snappy. Could be an indicator that the book contains more valuable insights than the vast majority of the “content” produced by the true crime TikTokers and podcasters out there.

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 19, 2025

Poor wealthiest man in human history whose rocket that’s supposed to go to Mars exploded again just like his bladder from all the drug abuse, not to mention his brain that’s so addled he’s posting an MS Paint of Pepe smoking a cigarette when he’s got an extremely powerful AI at his command.

In a statement issued Wednesday but posted as if it were a news article, WDIV Detroit VP and General Manager Bob Ellis writes that “We here at Local 4 have been made aware of an external investigation regarding Hank Winchester. As of this time, he has been placed on administrative leave. While the investigation is ongoing – we won’t make any further comments.”

Which is a shame because they could’ve had the scoop that crosstown rivals Fox 2 Detroit got about the “Help Me Hank” watchdog beat reporter’s indiscretions: Last Friday cops executed a search warrant at Winchester’s home and seized his electronics after another man reported that Hank had helped himself to some “unwanted sexual advances” toward the man during a massage. Winchester is reportedly studying massage therapy on the side so the unwelcome Hanky Panky attempt presumably occurred during some sort of practice session but there’s no further detail on that.

Also unclear is why a sexual assault accusation led to a judge signing off on a search warrant, an indication that there’s more to this than just Hank getting a little too handsy.

An anonymous “House Republican aide” admits to Punchbowl that the GOP are having a hard time selling the Big Beautiful Bill to the public and the Democrats aren’t making it any easier, at all.

“A messaging void is political death,” Punchbowl quotes the aide a few lines down from godawful polling numbers for the bill, like the Quinnipiac survey last week finding it at just 67 percent support among Republican respondents, and 27 percent overall. Of course this being America dominated by the MAGA Republican Party, Punchbowl does not waste any space entertaining the idea that the unpopularity of it will end up sinking the bill because lol no fucking way is that happening.

Could some of the shittier provisions get watered down? Definitely. Some already have. But as far as adding trillions to the debt and fucking over poor people goes it’s just a question of how many trillions and how badly they’re going to get fucked. They don’t give a shit how unpopular that is.

“Senior” officials in the Trump Regime are prepping “for the possibility of a strike on Iran in coming days,” Bloomberg reports, writing verbatim that “Some of them pointed to potential plans for a weekend strike. Top leaders at a handful of federal agencies have begun getting ready for an attack.” The agencies were not named nor whether they’re strictly military in nature.

“Erick is about to make landfall along the southern coast of Mexico. Its rapid strengthening episode has ended, likely due to the interaction with land. The eye has become obscured on satellite imagery, and the intensity is adjusted to 120 kt in agreement with the latest objective estimates from UW/CIMSS. Erick remains an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane. However, rapid weakening will occur after the center moves inland and the system moves over the mountainous terrain of Mexico,” says a National Hurricane Center bulletin on the very freaking early season storm

“Smoothing out the trochoidal wobbles in the track, the motion estimate, 310/8 kt, remains about the same as before. This general motion, on the south side of a weak mid-level ridge, is likely to continue until the system dissipates within the next day or two. The official track forecast is just slightly west of the previous one and close to the latest corrected consensus, HCCA, guidance.”

The riveting saga of the disposition of former Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s dead body entered its 12th or maybe 13th day on Thursday as Lungu’s family delayed the repatriation of the remains for a second time out of fears that the successor Lungu so hated, Hakainde Hichilema, would show up to receive his remains at the airport, ZimNews reports. The newest twist in the sordid drama came when the Lungu family found “it very difficult to believe that the government will stick to their end of the agreement” to stay out of the funeral planning, even though the Lungus had agreed this week to allow Hichilema to preside over a state funeral next Sunday. So who knows what the hell’s going on.

Convicted felon President Trump has been asking top military officials whether the “bunker buster” bomb capable of destroying Iran’s main nuclear facility, found only in the US arsenal, will actually get the job done – a question that Axios sells as indicating that the fat bastard is leaning toward it.

“We’re going to be ready to strike Iran. We’re not convinced yet that we’re necessary. And we want to be unnecessary, but I think the president’s just not convinced we are needed yet,” a source said.

The Republican treasurer of Benton County, Missouri was arrested last week on charges of enticement of a child under 15 years old and sexual misconduct involving a child under 15 years old, after he allegedly tried to proposition underage users on Grindr, KOMU reports.

Richard Renno, 62 of Lincoln, allegedly admitted to investigators that he used Grindr to talk to boys under 18 years old “two or three times,” according to the probable cause statement.

Couchfucking Vice President JD Vance was banned from lib-centric Twitter alternative BlueSky in under 15 minutes on Wednesday, some right wing influencer chode on Twitter reports.

A new Fox News national survey finds former Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon President Trump in favorability ratings by 49 to 45 percent, meaning absolutely nothing at this point in time seven months after the fat fuck got absolutely humiliated in a debate against her, pussied out of the next one, and yet still won the 2024 presidential election because eggs were too expensive.

The survey also found Trump’s approval specific to the matter of inflation at 34 percent, though his overall job performance approval was only 8 percent underwater at 46 percent approve to 54 percent disapprove, better than what a lot of other pollsters have been finding for him lately.

Workers in Peru’s capital city of Lima halted work on digging a new natural gas pipeline were forced to halt their progress last week when they suddenly encountered a dead body buried just 20 inches under the surface of the street, right in their path of the pipeline, the AP reports.

An employee of the gas utility says the age of the dead body makes this one more special than the other dead bodies laborers in the city sometimes come across while conducting their work. “We found remains and evidence that there could be a pre-Hispanic burial,” said Jose Aliaga, an archaeologist who’s on the payroll of gas company Calidda apparently because they find old dead bodies all the time. Another dead body expert, Professor Pieter Van Dalen, dean of the College of Archaeologists of Peru, said “it is very common to find archaeological remains on the Peruvian coast, including Lima, mainly funerary elements: tombs, burials, and, among these, mummified individuals.”

You know Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham might be fucking weasels but at least they’re for something rather than this idiot standing there and saying whatever Trump decides is the right choice on the kind of consequential matter of whether or not to order the US military to drop bombs on Iran.

The home of the late Minnesota state House’s Dem leader Melissa Hortman and the scene of her and her husband’s murder over the weekend at the hands of MAGA terrorist Vance Boelter was broken into sometime late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, the St Cloud Times reports.

The home was under surveillance from a camera mounted on a police trailer stationed out front but not in the back where the intruder(s) pried open a plywood board that had been nailed on top of a window and busted their way in. The burglars had searched the home but appear to have left without taking anything, according to family members. This may be because, per cops, the same relatives had removed valuables from the home on Tuesday before the break-in.

That of course assumes that simple burglary was the motive. Because if they didn’t find the Rolex or the iPad they might’ve stolen if they’d broken in a day earlier and still left without even taking so much as a bottle of vodka or a bag of Tostitos then it raises the more troubling possibility that this asshole or assholes were not there to steal anything but “truthers” there trying to find some sort of “evidence” that the murder was a “false flag” staged by the Deep State and blah blah blah.

British prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday convened an emergency meeting of his cabinet to discuss a “grave and volatile” situation amid concern the US military might strike Iran from the joint Indian Ocean base on the island of Diego Garcia, the Financial Times reports.

A letter to the editor at Talking Points Memo raises an extremely important reason to doubt convicted felon President Trump will actually go through with joining the Israeli attack on Iran.

Reader “PT” writes that Trump “needed something that could chase the parade and the protests off the front page and put him back in a way that was not humiliating to him. Voila! He changed his tune on Iran. Having done that, of course, he’s now doing what he learned to do from reality TV: he’s tuning his daily messages on the topic to keep it front-and-center, and this is accomplished by teasing the final decision for as long as possible, keeping everyone on the edges of our seats while we wait to see what he’s going to do. Given his motivations, though, the last thing he wants to do is to actually send in US military forces. Why? Because then he stops being the center of the story!”

“The center of the story becomes the actual US military forces that are carrying out operations, the actual state of the fight in Iran, etc. Plus: it would let Netanyahu preen as the guy who was so powerful he coerced Donald Trump into supporting Israel’s fight against Iran. In other words, once he does that, he sets the stage for Netanyahu to be the big hero in the media, not Trump. Given that background, Trump simply has to snub Netanyahu and avoid moving the actual military into the center of attention,” the letter continues and damned if that does not ring pretty effing true.

After all, it’s been two days and the Israeli attack’s only going to last so much longer. Shouldn’t the US military have gotten involved already if they were ever going to?

“Teens get a month of free rides when they fail their driver’s test” says Uber in a blog post linked from a push notification sent out Wednesday afternoon, kind of incentivizing failure.

Of course the details of the promo are quite a bit short of “a month” of free rides: “If your teen fails their driver’s test this summer, Uber teen accounts has them covered with one month of free rides (up to 6 rides, max $20 per ride, while supplies last). Terms apply” and those terms being “Expires the earlier of 7/18/2025 or until all offers have been redeemed. Max discount of $20 per ride on up to 6 Teen rides, per Teen account. Discount expires 30 days from account application. This promotion is valid only for Teen users who have never taken a ride or ordered with Uber and/or have an existing Uber teen account and have not previously redeemed this offer. Offer does not apply to rides requested by an adult on the teen’s behalf,” and blah blah blah you already got the point.

Still, $120 of free Uber rides is very far from nothing to a middle class 17 year-old and if it’s not incentivizing failure it’s definitely incentivizing false reporting of failure. Of course Uber might have better resources than other companies to figure out whether or not a failed driver’s test is real or not but you should still be bullish about the kids’ chances. Plenty are going to take Uber for a ride.

Responding to convicted felon President Trump’s repeated demands that the Federal Reserve Bank lower interest rates, chairman Jerome Powell lowered them by 0.0 percent on Wednesday, a bold move signaling Powell’s level of confidence in Trump’s stewardship of the American economy.