If we're being honest... I would have sold the tooth. - Charlie
CONGRESSMAN ON HIS WAY OUT SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO WANTS TO WORK
Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican who lost his primary in May to a Trump-backed challenger, walked onto the House floor Tuesday and read eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth out loud, starting right after the chamber gaveled in at noon. A man with no job come January, spending the time he has left making 434 colleagues vote on the thing they want to vote on least. The first three articles say Hegseth blew past the 1973 War Powers Resolution by starting and continuing the Iran conflict with no declaration of war and no statutory authorization, then kept the hostilities going after Congress directed U.S. forces out. The rest allege he disregarded laws meant to limit civilian casualties, ordered extrajudicial killings in operations against suspected drug traffickers, and retaliated against a sitting senator. Massie's own statement accuses him of kidnapping foreign leaders and intimidating critics for exercising free speech. None of it has been adjudicated, and Hegseth and the Pentagon had not responded. Here's the part leadership hates. Massie filed the resolution as privileged, so the House has to take it up within two legislative days, meaning a vote by Thursday, seven weeks before the November 3 midterms. Republicans can move to table it and end the whole thing, which is what everybody expects, and which requires every single one of them to push a button with their name attached. This also comes amidst a wave of congressional abscenses as a way to defer votes until after the midterms.
WOMAN LOOKING FOR ENDANGERED FROGS FINDS A PERFECT 10,000-YEAR-OLD MASTODON TOOTH STARING AT HER
Brigid Lynch, a geomorphologist with Balance Hydrologics, was walking a wooded creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains for a habitat project meant to help the threatened California red-legged frog. She saw something in the water that did not match the rocks she'd spent all day looking at. Her own description of the discovery process: it was sitting in the middle of the creek, half in and half out of the water. She has joked that it wasn't hard to find. Ten thousand years of erosion, earthquakes and Bay Area real estate development, and the thing just laid there waiting for somebody with a clipboard. It's an intact molar from an adult Pacific mastodon, roughly nine inches long, crown and root both intact. Stanford curator Chrissy Garcia says you can see the root canal. Paleontologist Wayne Thompson called the tooth immaculate, the most complete mastodon molar from the area and the most spectacular he's ever seen, and said he got chills and shivers up and down his spine. That is a man who looks at old teeth professionally, soaking himself over a molar. The tooth went to Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability for carbon dating and a 3D scan. Midpen gets a replica for public education, so eventually some eight-year-old will hold a plastic copy of the best fossil the Peninsula has ever coughed up.
CRYPTO'S DREAM BILL NEEDED 60 VOTES, GOT 49, AND THE MARKET PROCEEDED TO TANK
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act needed 60 votes Tuesday afternoon. It got 49. Fifty senators voted no, including every Democrat and four Republicans: Susan Collins, Josh Hawley, Jerry Moran and Thom Tillis. Tillis filed a motion to reconsider on his way out, so the corpse is technically still on the table. Markets had priced in the exact opposite. Monday, Coinbase closed up 9.2% at $191.45 and Circle jumped 7.5% to $97.42 on the rumor a deal was basically done. Tuesday, Coinbase fell as much as 6.7% and Circle dropped 8%. Bitcoin slid to around $75,750, down 3.5% and the cheapest it has been since Aug. 21. Who killed it depends on which outlet you read. Cynthia Lummis, the bill's loudest defender, stood on the floor and called it the product of good faith and compromise. Democrats said the ethics language was too thin to keep the president's hands out of a sector where his crypto ventures generated $1.4 billion in revenue in 2025. Underneath that sat the stablecoin yield fight, which happens to be worth roughly $1.35 billion a year to Coinbase in USDC rewards. Nobody folded. Brian Armstrong's position all along was that the SEC and CFTC will hand crypto its rules regardless. Lummis has warned that if this Congress whiffs, the next realistic shot is 2030.
FLORIDA COUPLE FINDS A SUPRISE UNDER THEIR BED
Police say Ritchel Calvaire, 25, of North Miami, had already been shown the door at the Provident Doral. He checked out August 31 and was told not to come back, then showed up two days later for belongings he'd left behind and got escorted off the property. So the ban was in place. The balcony fence, apparently, was not. On September 9 a couple checked in around 9 a.m., closed the blinds on the rear sliding glass door and went to sleep. Police allege Calvaire got over the fence, came in through that door, and, in the affidavit's words, "concealed himself stealthily" underneath their bed. The woman felt movement near the bed at 4 a.m. At 6:30 a.m. she felt it again, coming from under the bed. At 7:45 a.m. she looked down there for a misplaced belonging and found a whole adult man. The couple got out and went to hotel security. Officers found him still under the bed and arrested him on the spot. So, close to four hours of a grown man lying on hotel carpet inches from strangers, holding perfectly still, while they sleep... creepy. He's charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling, a second-degree felony in Florida carrying up to 15 years, plus resisting an officer without violence. He was booked into Turner Guilford Knight with bond to be set and declined to answer questions without a lawyer, the first smart move in the entire file. I don't think we will be hearing any "Free Ritchel" chants any time soon.
BETTING APP SWEARS ITS NUDE AD IS ABOUT "JUST SPORTS," REACTION IS ANYTHING BUT
Novig is a prediction market app that swears it's different than the rest, on Sept. 9 it launched its first national campaign: Sydney Sweeney naked or barely clothed, holding footballs, a tennis racket, a baseball bat. She also sits on top of a basketball hoop and crouches in front of a hockey net. The selling point is that Novig only does games, no elections, no disasters. "No betting on wars, or deaths and no politics," she says. Focus firmly on sports, everybody. The Instagram cut pulled 37 million views in four days. Then the athletes arrived. Four-time Olympic swimming gold medalist Ariarne Titmus wrote that she can't describe how infuriated she feels watching it. British sprinter Amy Hunt finished fourth in the 200 meters in Budapest, looked into a BBC camera and told Sweeney this is what women in sport look like. Gymnast Gracie Kramer posted a montage of herself training and competing with the same message stamped across it, which turned into a trend of athletes posting their own footage. Sweeney's answer was an Instagram story pairing a nude shot from the ad with ESPN Body Issue photos of Serena Williams, Ronda Rousey and Jason Kelce. That series ran 11 years and ended in 2019, and everyone in it got there by playing sports. She's also not a rented face. Novig confirmed she approached the company about investing, became an equity holder and strategic partner, and CEO Jacob Fortinsky said she helped shape the campaign's creative direction.
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- cnn.com - Sydney Sweeney under fire from athletes over nude sports-prediction ad
- variety.com - Sydney Sweeney's Naked Sports Betting Ad Ignites Backlash From Olympic Athletes: 'Stop Sexualizing Women in Sport'
- thehill.com - Sydney Sweeney criticized by female athletes for nude sports prediction market ad
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