VOL. I · NO. 8580FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 20265¢

THE EDITION

Friday, August 28, 2026

113 stories filed by the Buffoon Desk.

WORLD Mass blackouts hit occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya oblasts · via NV

WORLD U.S., South Korea, and Japan to hold military drills against North Korean nuclear threat · via NV

WHITE HOUSE Voting rights struggle continues, advocates say at March on Washington anniversary · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Footage captures overnight drone strike on Russia’s Engels-2 military airbase · via NV

CULTURE WFH Office Design Trends, Part 2: Creating A View, Carving Out Space · via Forbes

COURTS Judge rules Trump admin cannot punish noncitizens for protected speech · via Courthouse News

WORLD Explosions rock occupied Crimea as drones target Belbek airfield and Sevastopol · via NV

WORLD Russian attack damages Nova Poshta warehouses in Kyiv Oblast – photo · via NV

CULTURE These Are The Unexpectedly Useful Things I Packed For A Two-Week Road Trip · via HuffPost

WORLD Fedorov's U.S. trip to attract Pentagon and defense contractor interest, MP says · via NV

COURTS Honolulu City Council Chair barred from seeking third term · via Courthouse News

WORLD Critics warn Russia's campaign in Europe has entered an active phase · via NV

WORLD Russia trying to paralyze Kyiv with constant small drone attacks – Kovalenko · via NV

CULTURE If You Want An Aluminum-Free Deodorant That Actually Works, You've Come To The Right Place · via HuffPost

WORLD How Washington Can Credibly Counter China in the Pacific · via Foreign Policy

WORLD Four Russian aerial bombs hit Nova Poshta terminal in Sumy · via NV

CULTURE If Your Pet Is Always Eating Things They Shouldn't, Vets Suggest Keeping This First-Aid Item On Hand · via HuffPost

WORLD 7 Indigenous Guarani killed after loose grain trailer hits car in central Brazil · via Mongabay

WHITE HOUSE President Trump Was Right: America Controls the Strait of Hormuz · via White House

WORLD Presidential website publishes petition for open Zelenskyy news conference · via NV

CULTURE We Scoured Amazon's Bestselling Kitchen Tools For The Most Useful Under $30 · via HuffPost

COURTS Big Bend National Park border construction paused under agreement with locals · via Courthouse News

WORLD Two Latvians and Ukrainian suspected of attempted arson at drone factory in Slovakia · via NV

CULTURE 'I Hate That I Love This So Much!': Meet The Lip Balm That I'm Seeing Literally Everywhere · via HuffPost

WORLD First Nations in Canada call for emergency order to protect southern mountain caribou · via Mongabay

COURTS Judge orders feds to process visa applications in limbo · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE David Jolly: First Lady Casey DeSantis, Hope Florida were ‘used’ in a ‘sinister plan’ · via Florida Phoenix

WORLD Ukrainian prime minister blames ‘criminal negligence’ for massive warehouse detonation near Kyiv · via Meduza

COURTS Sixth Circuit revives tech group’s challenge to Tennessee social media law · via Courthouse News

FACT CHECK What We Know About Pennsylvania’s Two ‘Measles-Associated’ Deaths · via FactCheck.org

COURTS Feds push Ninth Circuit to undo corrected employment records of fired workers · via Courthouse News

COURTS Video game industry leaders accused of price-fixing conspiracy · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE LGBTQ Arizonans emerge as a voting bloc that could tip close races · via Arizona Mirror

COURTS Ninth Circuit gives bad beat to online sports-betting exchanges · via Courthouse News

COURTS Environmental groups lack standing to challenge first offshore LNG terminal · via Courthouse News

COURTS Milo Yiannopoulos, cheerleader of mass deportations, detained by ICE · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Trump administration appeals latest order freezing rule on mail-in voting · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE More rural hospital closures would mean long drives for pregnant women seeking obstetric care · via Stateline

COURTS 10th Circuit vacates 3-year sentence for man who threatened public officials · via Courthouse News

COURTS Challenge to law barring ex-felons from visiting prisons survives with deep cuts · via Courthouse News

COURTS California sues Trump admin over offshore wind lease buyout · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Progressives study the conservative playbook to build power in the states · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE Whitmer attorneys dispute Enbridge argument that Michigan lacks authority to revoke Line 5 easement · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Nevada preached peace on the Colorado River. Now it’s suing to protect its water. · via Grist

WORLD Global sea surface temperatures reach a record high, again · via Mongabay

COURTS Markets creep back on hopes Warsh holds interest rates steady · via Courthouse News

COURTS Trump announces new US Space Academy during Artemis II medal presentation speech · via Courthouse News

WORLD Mykhailo Fedorov, fired as Ukraine’s defense minister, agrees to become an advisor to Italy’s Guido Crosetto, but says his focus stays on Ukraine · via Meduza

WHITE HOUSE Alex Vindman shares more of his campaign war chest to help Democrats in November · via Florida Phoenix

COURTS Judge scolds feds over discovery dispute in slush fund case · via Courthouse News

WORLD Bloomberg: Ukraine’s drones have pushed Russian oil refining to a 20-year low · via Meduza

WORLD Zelensky orders Ukraine’s military to launch 1,000 drones a day at Russia · via Meduza

WORLD Mediazona names 26 more troops killed in March’s crash of an An-26 military transport plane in Crimea · via Meduza

WORLD Why a newly formed lake is sparking fears of more flooding along the Nepal-China border · via Mongabay

WHITE HOUSE Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes a Commission to Design the United States Space Academy · via White House

COURTS Netanyahu party in uproar as far right refuses pleas to unite · via Courthouse News

COURTS Trump loses longshot bid to transfer NYC hush money case to federal court · via Courthouse News

CULTURE Lake Ontario to Lake America – who gets to decide what goes on maps? · via The Conversation

WHITE HOUSE With costs high and Trump unpopular, Democrats favored to retake the House · via Arizona Mirror

WORLD Russian court sentences former Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksii Arestovych to 11 years in absentia · via Meduza

CULTURE Dolly Parton took control of her career by making men the butt of the joke · via The Conversation

COURTS San Francisco’s newest music venue takes flight · via Courthouse News

COURTS Immersive experience brings Paris into tomb of King Tut · via Courthouse News

COURTS Tanzania must stop forced evictions of Maasai: UN watchdog · via Courthouse News

COURTS Dutch court jails man for life over role in Rwanda genocide · via Courthouse News

WHITE HOUSE Your Weekly Michigan Political Brief · via Michigan Advance

WORLD As Photo Ark turns 20, Joel Sartore photographs 18,000 animal species · via Mongabay

COURTS Germany could miss climate goal in 2026 for first time: Think tank · via Courthouse News

OP-ED The Party, Not the Evidence · via The Daily Buffoon

WORLD Under protection: The environmentalist’s widow in Brazil who had to disappear to survive · via Mongabay

WORLD A sea cucumber venture in Zanzibar seeks to balance business and conservation · via Mongabay

WORLD Hà Đình Đức, guardian of Hanoi’s legendary turtle, died at 86 · via Mongabay

WHITE HOUSE GOP path to retaining US House majority narrowing as midterms near · via Michigan Advance

WORLD Failed environmental safeguards leave coastal Bangladesh facing coal pollution · via Mongabay

WHITE HOUSE Judge again freezes Trump mail-voting rule, citing states’ constitutional election power · via Arizona Mirror

WHITE HOUSE The Battle of Lake Ontario: Trump opens a new front in the war on things with names · via Michigan Advance

FACT CHECK Collins Ad Attacks Jackson on Education Using Questionable U.S. News Ranking for Maine · via FactCheck.org

CULTURE Professional gaming is brutal on the body – inside the growing field of treating esports injuries · via The Conversation

CULTURE Communicating uncertainty in research is hard, so we worked on how best to do it – here’s what you can watch out for · via The Conversation

CULTURE Immigration enforcement is supplying a long-standing economic market for prisoners · via The Conversation

CULTURE Revolutionary War battlefields often romanticize combat, but this mass grave just outside Philadelphia shows the violence soldiers actually experienced · via The Conversation

CULTURE ‘Must I take all my antibiotics?’ Why infectious disease experts are rethinking this longstanding rule · via The Conversation

FACT CHECK Information Technology Modernization: Enhanced Controls Could Help GAO Ensure Decisions Are Documented and Stakeholders Are Fully Informed · via GAO

WORLD The conservation population of Australia’s endangered eastern quoll welcomes joeys · via Mongabay

COURTS A most peculiar role model · via Courthouse News

CULTURE Making the Fed more accountable to Congress and the public may be just what it needs to fend off Trump’s threats to its independence · via The Conversation

WORLD Venezuela’s earthquakes leave children facing trauma, displacement and food insecurity · via Global Voices

CULTURE What Happened in Rural News This Month? · via Daily Yonder

CULTURE Commentary – ‘I learned that from Dolly:’ What She Taught Me About Being Unapologetically Gay and Appalachian · via Daily Yonder

CULTURE What Happens When the Only Grocery in Town Closes · via Daily Yonder

WHITE HOUSE Washtenaw judge tosses complaint against Ann Arbor Clerk over public power petition signatures · via Michigan Advance

CULTURE Yonder Radio: Murder 101, Tradwives, and Texas High-Voltage Transmission Lines · via Daily Yonder

WHITE HOUSE Judge reinstates pause on Trump order limiting mail ballots · via Michigan Advance

CULTURE Q&A: Folklorist Kiran Singh Sirah · via Daily Yonder

WORLD The rush to power data centers is weakening the Clean Air Act · via Grist

WHITE HOUSE Democrats aim to emulate Republicans in building state power · via Stateline

WORLD New research shows the world isn’t doing nearly enough to fix its food problem · via Grist

WHITE HOUSE Grand Rapids police, Flock officials face questions over data sharing and ICE · via Michigan Advance

WORLD In the American West, wildfire comes for the suburbs · via Grist

WORLD Russian ballistic strike litters Kyiv districts with debris · via NV

WHITE HOUSE List of companies laying off employees in September · via Newsweek

WORLD China’s new cotton law deepens control over Uyghur farmers’ land and labor · via Global Voices

WHITE HOUSE DeSantis administration moving to regulate AI from Pre-K to PhD · via Florida Phoenix

CULTURE This 'Magical' Soap May Get Rid Of 'Old Person Smell,' Which Experts Say Is Unfortunately Real · via HuffPost

WORLD Anti-corruption agencies search two Supreme Court chamber heads · via NV

WORLD Singapore made a crow-friendly city. Now it wants to shoot them · via Mongabay

COURTS Alaska tribe sues feds to stop logging in Tongass National Forest · via Courthouse News

WORLD Massive floods in Nepal and Tibet leave more than 160 dead and nearly 1,000 missing · via NV

CULTURE People Love This $20 Neck Stretcher So Much They're Ordering It As A Gift · via HuffPost

WORLD Russia unable to mount rapid breakthrough even if Kostyantynivka falls — ISW · via NV

CULTURE The Best Eyeliners For Mature Skin Because There's No Age Limit On Looking Fierce · via HuffPost

WORLD Russian overnight strike heavily damages Kyiv high school, residential buildings · via NV

COURTS Judge rules Trump admin’s Anthropic ban illegal · via Courthouse News

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