
The World Humanoid Robot Games gave us a ringside seat,
To robots failing spectacularly at basic human feats.
OK, they’re faster than Usain,
But their limitations are plain,
And they seem to be best suited as hilarious meme tweets.
Poetic Justice
Buck Banks | Aug. 3, 2026
He’s upended the traditional food pyramid, he wants you to know,
And he’s protected us from vaccinations, though not measles and polio.
He’s tackling the goal of food affordability,
He’s extolling roadkill, which is cheap — there’s plenty!
And now Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is going to have his own TV cooking show.
Verbatim
“America has fought a lot of wars since I’ve been alive. Forty-two years. And we have won almost none of them until Donald J. Trump became the president.”
— JD Vance, speaking to reporters.
“I’m not going to bring up the fact that the mother of his two children is his second cousin… It’s not something that I’m going to be emphasizing.”
— Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), quoted by Politico, on challenger Troy Jackson (D).
“Ken Paxton, you might not like the way he dresses, and I say this, it’s so insulting to him, but I might as well say it. You might not like the way he looks. You might not love his television interviews. But he was the best attorney general and that speaks a lot louder than the suit he’s wearing that doesn’t look so great or than anything, frankly.”
— President Trump, speaking about Ken Paxton.
Numerati
70%
A new American University Sine Institute of Policy & Politics poll finds 70 percent of respondents aged 18 to 34 said they weren’t proud of “where America is heading as a nation.”
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50,000
“ICE officers and agents arrested roughly 50,000 people in August,” NBC News reports. “That number is on par with July’s number, which was the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration.”
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67%
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that 63% of Americans said they opposed renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, compared to just 14% in favor.
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200,000
“The Trump administration is planning what may be the largest mass visa revocation in U.S. history, targeting up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for asylum status,” the Wall Street Journal reports.“The government is looking to take away business and tourism visas from immigrants who officials say came to the U.S. for a short-term visit and then filed for asylum.”
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35%
In the July 2026 snapshot, signs of AI authorship can be found in over one-third of pages published after ChatGPT was released, according to Pew Research. This is in line with other studies that have shown that large shares of recently published pages on the internet were likely written or substantially edited by AI.
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