Government Shutdown Costs Kristi Noem Her Extensions open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

That big, bubbly chemical reaction isn’t the powerful cleaning agent you may think it is. Combining these two compounds neutralizes the effectiveness of both, making a much less powerful cleaner than if you were to use them separately. nyti.ms/46qX5Je

#OpEd When Metropolitan Tikhon hails Charlie Kirk as a Christian model, it’s less theology than geopolitics, argues Sergei Chapnin.

This will really upset all those MAGA ppl who care about human rights

Pete Hegseth is f—king embarrassing www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

The judge ordered charges dismissed with prejudice against a man accused of assaulting a national guardsman. DOJ wanted to prosecute him in local court instead, but leave open the possibility of bringing him back to federal court later. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A federal judge unloaded today on DOJ's handling of prosecutions in D.C. lately. She says it has "been charging cases notwithstanding apparent constitutional violations" and has " have rushed to charge cases before properly investigating them," leaving people jailed in the meantime. And more.

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

Can't wait to hear your podcast today. Sweet Jeebus, so much happening. Not sure how Hegseth looks in the mirror, such an embarrassment! In way over his head, disgusting he was confirmed.

I only did 3.5 years on active duty and this racist, sexist pomade-soaked meathead makes my fucking blood boil - I can only imagine how it feels for someone who's been in for decades to be berated and talked down to by the quasi-human equivalent of less than a shart stain in Lloyd Austin's underwear

Hegseth said yesterday he wants to ban any symbols of “superficial individual expression” by people serving in the military. Of course, he was probably talking about dangerous things like rainbows.

SCARBOROUGH: When law forbids troops from being used for crime prevention, do you have concern about Trump using military to fight 'the enemy within'? McCLAIN: Again, what's unfortunate is that we're even having this conversat- S: It's a simple question. Do you support troops doing crime control?

Furious Kim Jong Un Claims Trump Stole His Idea of Gathering Generals www.borowitzreport.com/p/furious-ki...

This is the first government shutdown since 2018, the last being in President Trump’s first term — which was the longest ever at 34 day. There is no clear path to a resolution.

Taiwan won't chip in to US effort to make half its own processors

One week after HUD whistleblowers Paul Osadebe and Palmer Keenan filed their official complaints, the Trump administration fired them in “a stunning act of illegal retaliation.”

New York state sued the Trump administration to restore $33.9 million in anti-terrorism security funds for mass transit that were blocked because of the state’s immigration sanctuary policies