wtf
On occasion, it is my duty and privilege to dig deep into established facts, figures, and other inconveniences so that you might gain a greater understanding of just how forehead-slapping stupid everything is.
This is one of those occasions, and it starts where so many things end: with your toilet.
The U.S. government quietly acquired a device in late 2024 that officials believe may be connected to the debilitating condition known as “Havana Syndrome,” which more than 1,500 American officials have reported experiencing since 2016, according to multiple sources briefed on the matter who spoke with CBS News.
The device was purchased clandestinely in the final weeks of the Biden administration by the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations division, using Pentagon funding that exceeded eight figures, according to two people familiar with the matter. The device is portable, backpack-sized, and contains components of Russian origin, the two people said.
If Biden bought it then I call fake.
Iran: Woman publicly removes her burqa to reveal a T-shirt carrying an explicit message against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Such an act is punishable by death under Iranian law… but protestors willing to take that risk and challenge the regime.
– @nabilajamal_ pic.twitter.com/6pOKDwnHSI
— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) January 12, 2026
🇳🇿 Meanwhile in New Zealand
New Government Police Ai Surveillance & facial recognition tech is deployed to catch Motororists & Pedestrians doing anything the Government doesn’t agree we have said they can prosecute them.
Coming to a Western country near you. pic.twitter.com/UqYxLZqahd
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) January 13, 2026
Court docs reveal that Derek Carl Kirven, who attacked and injured multiple senior citizens, was racially motivated.
Kirven reportedly called detectives names such as "confederate, hillybilly, and white trash" while saying he hoped to kiII people.
Story to disappear in… pic.twitter.com/QANIEzgZRZ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 13, 2026
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body have been thrown into doubt by scientists who say the discoveries are probably the result of contamination and false positives. One chemist called the concerns “a bombshell”.
Studies claiming to have revealed micro and nanoplastics in the brain, testes, placentas, arteries and elsewhere were reported by media across the world, including the Guardian. There is no doubt that plastic pollution of the natural world is ubiquitous, and present in the food and drink we consume and the air we breathe. But the health damage potentially caused by microplastics and the chemicals they contain is unclear, and an explosion of research has taken off in this area in recent years.
A Roman Catholic diocese in Germany has expressed regret over a televised Christmas Eve mass featuring a portrayal of the newborn Christ by an adult woman covered in sticky rice paper that was described by some critics as “slime Jesus”.
The broadcast on ARD television from St Mary’s in Stuttgart showed a manger in which a female performance actor was huddled up in a foetal position and covered with sticky rice paper.
The officiating priest, Thomas Steiger, said during the service: “The nativity scene shows a real human being, lying there miserable, naked and exposed.”
Pro-Nazi social media posts lead to courtroom argument between Calgary teen, judge
A 19-year-old Calgary man who was once placed on a terrorism peace bond for social media posts promoting ISIS and the killing of gay men got into an argument with a judge Monday about his pro-Nazi beliefs.
The teen was caught posting more ISIS videos and pro-Nazi materials, in breach of court-ordered conditions that he stay off social media. He was also caught taking a selfie at a synagogue, also a breach of a court-ordered condition.
This punk doesn’t sound like a Neo-Nazi in my view but it sure reads better to the lying CBC than “Muslim” I bet.
A German court will this week revisit a controversial conviction over a political meme that has drawn international attention and reignited debate over the limits of satire and freedom of expression in Europe.
On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the Bamberg Regional Court will hear the appeal in the criminal case against David Bendels, editor-in-chief and publisher of the Deutschland-Kurier (DK), who was sentenced to seven months’ probation for sharing a satirical meme depicting then–interior minister Nancy Faeser holding a sign reading “I hate freedom of expression.”
It will happen here …
💥REPORT: The Canadian Race Relations is educating Police forces across the country on how to police language in their communities, by using the Government’s new interpretation of what a Hate crime is in Bill C-9.
Need more proof it’s all theatre? pic.twitter.com/38Kdza3mGc
— Wiretap Media (@WiretapMediaCa) January 13, 2026
He shot her because she was gay?
It’s ICE, not LICE (Lesbian Instigation Crime Enforcement). pic.twitter.com/06Cn8mfrjD
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 13, 2026
LOL! 🌬️🤢@fancypants_s https://t.co/9F6xszRt07
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) January 13, 2026
H/T Auntie Polly
Sarita Patel has been running Superette Foods in Nanaimo, B.C., with her husband since November 2024.
She says theft has always been an issue, but now, in the meat section, things have gotten out of hand.
“They are stealing sometimes $70 of meat, sometimes $100 of meat,” she told Global News.
Motherly, mother tongue, maiden name and masterpiece are “banned” words in a new EU-funded gender-neutral guide to aid greater European linguistic integration.
The guidelines are designed to counter the use of language that is “biased, discriminatory or demeaning” by implying that “one sex or social gender is the norm”.
Instead, it sets out detailed lists of language which aim to provide people with gender-sensitive, non-sexist, inclusive and gender-fair alternatives.
Cat's reaction to touching ice for the first time.. pic.twitter.com/H0HqtnH66g
— o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) January 2, 2026
