Random News: July 27, 2025

DISCLAIMER: Zak's Random News is very random and doesn't cover many things, and not everything may be accurate, because I'm just some guy. Go find a real news source.

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Good morning. It’s July 27, 2025, and it’s a Sunday. I am waking up with what could only be described as a food hangover. I’ll tell you more about my insane dining overindulgence from last night in a little bit. First, let’s see what’s happening around this world of ours.

• While Dumpy is out golfing — at a resort he personally owns, once again monetizing his presidency at the expense of the rest of use — I thought it would be fun to talk about his imaginary numbers.
• Last week, he told a group of Republican lawmakers that he would drive down drug prices by as much as 1,500 percent — “numbers that are not even thought to be achievable,” he said.
• He’s right about that. If you have a prescription that’s $300 and you get 100% off, that price is now free.
• “1,500 percent off” is not a real number. Neither is Dump’s claim that the cost of gasoline had fallen to $1.99 a gallon in five states.
• There is no state where gas is under $3/gallon. It’s closer to $5 here in California. Dump does these things; he pulls information out of his ass with zero concern about how easily disprovable it is.
• In that same speech, Dump congratulated Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins for having an approval rating of 92 percent.
• There is no information that Collins has any approval rating at all, and in this world in which we live, no political entity from any party has an approval rating close to that.
• Dump himself has an approval rating of 38%-42% depending on which recent legitimate poll you believe. That’s lower, by the way, than other recent presidents at this point in their second terms, including Obama and Bush.
• Anyway, the fact that Dump is a lying moron isn’t any kind of news, nor is the fact that he’s fucking off in Scotland playing golf badly.
• We’ll just keep the Epstein pot on simmer until he gets back from vacation.
• Onto more important things…
• After more days of killing and genocidal aid blockades — with dozens more Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes and gunshots in the past couple of days — the people of Gaza are finally getting a little relief.
• Jordan and UAE have been able to drop 25 tons of food aid and essential humanitarian supplies into Gaza.
• Israel — under pressure by the international community — claims they will implement pauses in fighting to allow the most urgently needed humanitarian efforts to boost aid in Gaza.
• While the air drops seem like a good idea, and they’re certainly better than nothing, it’s not nearly enough of its own.
• They’d need 160 such flights just to provide a single meal for each of Gaza’s approximately two million people. The far more significant aspect here is that “humanitarian corridors” may be opening to allow for a more steady flow of aid.
• Whatever your feelings are regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict, think good thoughts for the people of Palestine. It’s going to be a very sad mark in the history books once the true level of devastation is acknowledged.
• Moving on.
• A brief note to mention that had three court decisions not shut down — at least for now — Dump’s evil efforts, today would have been the end of birthright citizenship in the USA.
• And for awhile, it looked like he was going to get away with it. I’m sure you recall the Supreme Court decision last month that limited the use of nationwide injunctions by lower courts.
• Instead, those lower court judges have gone in a different direction, preventing Dump’s unconstitutional executive order ending birthright citizenship from taking effect for now — and possibly ever.
• And more of those lower court decisions against the Dump administration may be coming. We will look back on those judges as heroes of democracy that — if they continued being successful — kept our country alive through a very dark time.
• It was U.S. District Judge Joseph LaPlante in New Hampshire who blocked Dump’s order nationwide via a class action lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.
• U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour in Seattle had his decision upheld that Dump’s order was in violation of the 14th Amendment.
• And then Friday, U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin repeated his conclusion that Dump’s order “is unconstitutional and contrary to a federal statute.”
• I state again: these judges — who are merely upholding the law as per their job descriptions — are fucking heroes, intentionally or otherwise.
• Let’s keep moving.
• Back in May, after he was sentenced to 53 years in prison for having stabbed an innocent 6-year-old Palestinian American boy to death for no reason other than his race, I wrote the following words: “Czuba will definitely die in prison, and I hope every day in there is miserable for him.”
• Well, I’m mostly happy to report that Joseph Czuba is now dead in prison at 73.
• He lasted only a couple of months locked away after his sentencing. My only regret is that he couldn’t have lived longer to be miserable. But at least he’s dead.
• Let’s move on.
• I probably don’t have to tell you to be careful of hot weather. Especially if you live in the Southeast. Summer is hot. We know this.
• But I’m telling you, this heat wave you folks down there and over the whole East Coast are getting now and moving into the coming week is some nasty shit.
• The National Weather Service issued heat advisories for a large swath of the U.S. from central Florida to Virginia. Central Florida had heat indexes reaching up to 110º F. The outlook was similar up through Georgia and the Carolinas.
• Temperatures are10 to 15 degrees above average for this time of year, with feels-like temperatures over 100 degrees expected in multiple areas as a heat dome moved across parts of the U.S.
• A heat dome — as you know by now — happens when hot air is trapped over an area due to a persistent high-pressure system. And during extreme heat and high humidity events, heat-related illnesses increase significantly.
• Stay cool, you hot people.
• P.S. High of 72 here at the beach today. Sorry, but also not sorry.
• Moving on.
• I’m pretty sure everyone on Earth has had their personal info hacked multiple times by now.
• Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America confirmed yesterday that hackers gained access to personal data on the majority of their 1.4 million customers.
• They said the data breach happened on July 16 when a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party, cloud-based system used by the company. They notified the FBI, for what little good that will do.
• Let’s just move on.
• Hey, did you hear the one about the naked guy inside the Minnesota State Capitol Building?
• Oh wait, that actually happened. 
• On Friday night, authorities found 36 year old Dominic Terrell Peace, who was naked but thankfully nonviolent, inside the Capitol after hours. He was taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation, and the hospital released the man.
• The next morning at 7:30am, he was back on Capitol grounds. Once again, he was taken back to the hospital. 
• And then last night at 7:30pm, Peace decided to come by for a third time. He is currently being held in the Ramsey County Jail, awaiting extradition in connection with an arrest warrant from Wisconsin.
• Sometimes you just gotta be naked, I guess.
• I mentioned up top about a night of overindulgence.
• Some of Kat’s family had come through town, so we met them for dinner at the local seafood restaurant we usually reserve for fancier occasions.
• And I make no excuses; I was a giant pig. Bread, oysters, crab cakes, calamari, my entree of pan-seared sea scallops with spinach and cremini mushrooms, and then I decided to wedge in a creme brûlée.
• It was at that point that I realized… I done fucked up.
• And now, The Weather: “Lemon Garland” by runo plum
• Let’s do a chart.
• It’s late July 1971. I am two years old. I don’t have many — if any — direct memories of that time.
• But in that month, Jim Morrison was found dead in his bathtub in Paris, France; Koko the gorilla was born at the San Francisco Zoo; and the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution was formally certified, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18.
• I’m sure other things happened as well. Things tend to happen. Here was the top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at the time…
• 1. Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian) (The Raiders). 2. It's Too Late/I Feel The Earth Move (Carole King). 3. You've Got A Friend (James Taylor). 4. Don't Pull Your Love (Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds). 5. Mr. Big Stuff (Jean Knight). 6. Treat Her Like A Lady (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose). 7. Draggin' The Line (Tommy James). 8. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (Bee Gees). 9. Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver With Fat City). 10. Sooner Or Later (The Grass Roots). 11. Rainy Days And Mondays (Carpenters). 12. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be (Carly Simon). 13. Never Ending Song Of Love (Delaney & Bonnie & Friends). 14. She's Not Just Another Woman (The 8th Day). 15. Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) (Marvin Gaye). 16. Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again (The Fortunes). 17. I Don't Want To Do Wrong (Gladys Knight And The Pips). 18. Bring The Boys Home (Freda Payne). 19. Beginnings/Colour My World (Chicago). 20. Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants) (Pt. 1) (James Brown).
• From the Sports Desk… the Little League Baseball World Series is coming quickly.
• Youth baseball players from the ages of 10-12 compete every summer with the hope of getting to Williamsport, PA, the city that’s hosted baseball's premier youth competition every year since 1947.
• Do great Little League players end up in the pros? Some of them definitely do. Stars in the LLWS include future MLB greats like Gary Sheffield (1980), Jason Varitek (1984), Todd Frazier (1998), Bryce Harper (2003), and Cody Bellinger (2007).
• But one team who won’t be at the tournament is the Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela.
• Donnie Dump has denied the kids entry into the United Sates. Venezuela is one of several countries whose nationals are restricted or limited from travel into the U.S. under the presidential proclamation signed by Dump in June. 
• LLWS organizers say they have since replaced the team with the Santa María de Aguayo team from Tamaulipas, Mexico, which was the runner-up in the Latin American championship.
• Dump’s travel ban restrictions allegedly include an exception for “any athlete or member of an athletic team, including coaches, persons performing a necessary support role, and immediate relatives, traveling for the World Cup, Olympics, or other major sporting event as determined by the Secretary of State.”
• I guess screwing kids out of their dreams is okay for Dump and Li’l Marco Rubio.
• Today in history… Siward invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth north of the Firth of Forth (1054). England requires all goods bound for American colonies must be sent on English ships from English ports (1663). The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men,” establishing the U.S. Army Medical Department (1775). The USA establishes its first federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, later renamed the Department of State (1789). Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution” (1794). The first transatlantic telegraph cable is completed, running from Ireland to Newfoundland (1866). Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later (1890). The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period (1919). Researchers at the University of Toronto prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar (1921). A cartoon called ‘A Wild Hare’ is released starring a new character named Bugs Bunny (1940). The US, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement ending the Korean War (1953). 5,000 more US military advisors are sent to Vietnam bringing the total to 21,000 (1964). The House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 to impeach Richard Nixon for obstruction of justice (1974). Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union (1990). A pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta (1996).
• July 27 is the birthday of Shingon Buddhism founder Kūkai (774), Earl of Sandwich Edward Montagu (1625), pilot/engineer Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), actor Keenan Wynn (1916), writer/producer Norman Lear (1922), game designer Gary Gygax (1938), singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry (1944), figure skater Peggy Fleming (1948), singer Maureen McGovern (1949), drummer Bobby Rondinelli (1955), singer-songwriter Julianna Hatfield (1967), wrestler Triple H (1969), actress Maya Rudolph (1972), singer-songwriter/guitarist Pete Yorn (1974), MLB player Alex Rodriguez (1975), MLB player Max Scherzer (1984), NFL player Ryan Tannehill (1988), and golfer Jordan Spieth (1993).

I’m going to take a shower and make myself feel and look more human in various ways now. Enjoy your day.