The Pug Bus News Desk

The Pug Bus News Desk catalogs the ongoing collapse of public dignity, decency, and social media. We describe current events, add random cheap shots, and call it a public service. Some stories are exaggerated for satirical effect. Others arrived demented already. The truth hurts; we just twist the knife.

🦓The Latest News

These may not be our best work, but they are the damn sure newest dispatches from a world in flames.

Local HOA Enforces Mandatory Paint Color Ordinance
Local Town Rebrands Itself as Wellness Destination
Most People Only One Minor Inconvenience Away From Starting a Podcast
The Tuesday Afternoon Whaling Song and Loan Default Extravaganza
Hospital Asks ER Patients to Describe Symptoms Using Metaphors
Roadkill Management Program Debuts in Pennsylvania
Subscription Service Introduces Premium Plan for Services You’re Already Paying For
Most Personal Growth Occurs After Winning an Imaginary Argument
Nation’s Introverts Exhausted by the Need to Explain Introversion

🦓Animal News

Covering wildlife, pets, and the increasingly uncomfortable overlap between two-legged and four-legged behavior.

The Most Embarrassing Animal Parts We Still Eat
Bidens New Dogs. WTF?
Mistakes Experts Make When Reading Canine Behavior

šŸ’¼Business News

Reporting on capitalism as it reinvents old scams using newer fonts and subscription models.

Merchants Extend Limited-Time Only Indefinitely
Nation’s Most Influential Thought Leader Is Guy With Podcast in a Truck
Silicon Valley Discovers Ancient Financial Concept Called ā€œDebt,ā€ Ruins It
The Morning Forecast Affair: An Alexa Satire

šŸ›ļøGovernment News

Tracking public institutions as they continue operating with undeserved confidence and deeply confusing priorities.

The Unfinished Projects Division of the FBI Launches Door‑to‑Door Audit
USPS Introduces a New Class of Mail: Unsent Letters
Federal Recall Issued After Expired Leftovers Become Sentient
Florida’s English-only Driving Exam
President Threatens England with Economic Ruin over ā€œMagastarā€
The Last Mile of Virtue Signaling: An Adopt-a-Highway Map
The Bus Ticket Flim Flam: A Civic Evasion in Three Acts
The Gilded Palace of Spin: President Trump’s White House Changes

šŸ“œHistorical News

Revisiting the past to confirm that people have always been irrational, vindictive, and weirdly ambitious.

The Last Human With Phone Notifications Turned On Finally Located
The Duke of Marlborough’s Golden Toilet Legacy
The Dirty Little Secret of Every State
Deranged Landmarks: A Satirical US Atlas

šŸšLocal News

Reporting on neighborhood tensions, municipal oddities, and the fragile social contracts holding suburbia together.

County Library Introduces Quiet Hour Enforcement Drone
Courtesy Clap Enforcement Begins in Willow Brooke
Neighborhood Group Chat Slowly Radicalizes Itself
Local Springfield HOA Votes to Secede
Regional Transit Authority Debuts Emotional Support Bus Driver Program
The 911 Calls Hall of Fame
Today’s Obituaries: The Death of Nuance

šŸšPersonal News

A place for the stories that affect ordinary people directly, or at least inconvenience them in highly specific and memorable ways. Personal News covers developments in the private lives of citizens, families, coworkers, neighbors, and other individuals whose decisions somehow become everybody else’s business.

The Five Stages of Self-Deception Identified

šŸ”¬Scientific News

Reporting on breakthroughs, studies, and peer-reviewed nonsense that confirms what nobody needed confirmed.

The National Weather Service Introduces Emotional Forecasts
Scientists Confirm Most Couples Held Together by a Shared Password
Your Brain Is No Match for a Cat’s Brain Chemistry
America’s Dumbed Down Youth: With 40% Less Brain Per Serving
Deaths from Weighted Blankets on the Rise
AMA Dropping Elitist Foreign Names for Phobias
Biden Vows to Investigate Alarming Rise in GPS Malfunctions

šŸ‘ļøSurreal News

Documenting the slow psychological unspooling of modern civilization one completely plausible headline at a time.

Extreme Mindfulness: How the Pros Do It
The Nation’s Shadows Form Shadow Government
Load Management in Everyday Life
Most Americans Maintain a Long-Term Feud Known Only to Themselves
Does Your Third Eye Need Glasses?
North Pole Dispute: Frostbite Tribe Demands Return of Santa’s Workshop
When Trees Communicate About Humans (It’s Not Pretty)
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue to Feature First Mormon Cover Model
Meditation Secrets the Gurus Do Not Want You to Know
Amazon Prime Afterlifeā„¢: Subscription Metaphysics

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