The government shutdown stops USDA from administering farm subsidies, raising the specter of growing farm foreclosures. It also delays a bailout President Trump had promised for farmers impacted by tariffs.

Take it from a former Vox employee- you can make this woman cry. Don’t resign, don’t declare the death of the fourth estate, just don’t be quiet

Vance spokesperson: “Gavin Newsom wants people to think this exercise is dangerous.” <shrapnel hits Vance’s motorcade> Vance spokesperson: No comment.

Those Epstein files must be bad. #KY04

It's going up to $40 billion. USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

“Kids”

It’s important in all this to remember: official press conferences are a minuscule part of the job and exist to present one side and control questioning. Much reporting, often the best reporting, happens without ever having to flash a press pass

Hundreds evacuating from hardest hit Western Alaska villages following storm A tribal administrator talks about how shocking it was to be drifting in his house, worried they would hit another house. Six kids in that home. alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

"i, someone who does not engage in mitigation of the harmful pathogen, do not know anyone who has been harmed by the pathogen." i've heard this so many times before, with seeming no thought that the lack of mitigation correlated with peoples comfort in confiding in, let alone sharing air, with you.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Happy 64th birthday to the man who makes us want to believe, Fox Mulder. How do you think he and Scully are celebrating? Sweet potato pie? #TheXFiles

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..." www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Join us in wishing the man, the myth, the master behind #TheXFiles Chris Carter a very happy birthday!

By strict confidence they also mean immediately leaked 😂

Girl needs an editor.

Yeah, tell me more about this antichrist thing? "Another Epstein schedule notes a planned lunch with tech billionaire Peter Thiel on Nov. 27, 2017, and a breakfast with conservative political strategist Steve Bannon on Feb. 16, 2019..." www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

Not to continue to do this Cassandra bullshit, but here is a clip from two years ago that outlines exactly the playbook in this moment: a government and private law enforcement army run entirely on grievance, culture war slop, and weaponizable data points, deployed against boogeymen, absent facts.

Our beloved Mark Snow honored 'In Memoriam' at The Emmy Awards tonight! If you haven't watched his Television Academy interviews, you're in for a treat. Check them out here: interviews.televisionacademy.com/news/remembe... #TheXFiles

On a personal and professional level, this has been one of those weeks where I’ve been reminded that the standards I hold as a journalist are truly not shared by those in the highest echelons of my profession.

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

UPDATE: Save NASA” Protest Expected speakers include: - Rep Suhas Subramanyam - Monica Gorman Area Vice President GESTA - Colette Delwalla Exec Director, Stand Up For Science - Dr Mollie Manier National Institutes of Health - Matthew Biggs President, IFPTE nasawatch.com/activism/ano...

In the NASA Kennedy town hall yesterday KSC Center Director and former Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro said that it was that DOGE and the Administration who told her to consider firing probationary employees 'because that's an easy way to cut down the work force'.

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

Just going to leave this from @onthemedia.bsky.social here

I proofread a fanfic for a friend and thought hey, I might actually like this show. Sat down to watch my first episode that weekend, which was ‘Dreamland’ and fell in love! I may have been late to the party but I sure made up for lost time 😂❤️

NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:

Wait, and they're saying we need to dig up the bottom of the ocean? www.sciencenews.org/article/usef... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Chris Kluwe on Gavin Newsom and his treatment of the trans community: www.thehandbasket.co/p/chris-kluw...

David Duchovny announces the release of his new poetry collection "About Time" coming this September. Go see him at Bookends in Ridgewood, NJ on September 3rd tinyurl.com/myzxadtz or The Strand in NYC on September 4th tinyurl.com/mryh2ybx

Really great article in WIRED this morning, about what we're really losing (hope, wonder, the true "greatness" that NASA brings us) by defunding and devaluing science here in 2025. The Destruction of NASA Would Be a Blow to Our Collective Imagination. www.wired.com/story/the-de...

Cinematographer John S. Bartley shaped the look of the early seasons of The X-Files and won an Emmy for the episode ‘Grotesque’. He also worked on IWTB. Barley passed away August 17 at age 78. theasc.com/news/in-memo...

I wish people were as wary of COVID itself as they are of hearing about it or how to avoid it.

honestly, whatever I worked at a place called The Daily Beast I don’t care what it’s called

Gonna try this again with a bit less anger, lol. It is disappointing to see a major media outlet reproducing police statements about what happened on Friday without doing a shred of due diligence to verify those claims. The 2 people transported were not “pretending to be media,” they *were* media

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Dearest Gillian Anderson, we hope your birthday is all laughs! Happy 57th Birthday to the force behind Dana Scully, Stella Gibson, Jean Milburn and so many other memorable characters.

JUST IN: Lovell commanded the mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and electrical supply. The inspiring story of their survival was made into a hit movie.

I’m old 😂😬😭

Even if a total of 450 folks are added back, that will leave NWS ~a couple hundred short of what it was in January (and it was already widely regarded as understaffed even then). The loss of institutional knowledge is definitely another concern and could complicate the hiring process. 🧵

Editors are often the unsung heroes of TV production. Chris Willingham cut some of The X-Files Season 8's heartbreaker episodes. He also worked on Millennium, Harsh Realm, and The Lone Gunman www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/c...

Simpler times 😭❤️

Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns. He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

🚨BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 🚀 the Voyager Declaration has LAUNCHED. NASA employees join a growing rebellion against Trump’s anti-science, anti-American agenda. 🧵(1/4)

SpaceX worker injury rates at Starbase outpace industry rivals

NEW: ICE officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid. Why? To find "information concerning the identification and location of aliens in the United States.” www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...

"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process." My latest:

Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

The Television Academy remembers Mark Snow www.televisionacademy.com/features/onl...