“Certain benefits will continue to be administered: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and assistance for Veterans. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will not be affected initially, but could be if the shutdown goes on for a long time. The federal Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program will not be able to accept any new applicants starting today. In the past, “inspections of chemical factories, power plants, oil refineries and water treatment plants were disrupted because the Environmental Protection Agency furloughed most of its employees in charge of monitoring pollution and compliance,” reports the Times. “Some routine food safety inspections also stopped.”
National parks have previously had their operations hobbled; open-air sites will probably stay open but visitors centers or other areas that need staffing will shut down. The Department of the Interior says that restrooms will be cleaned and garbage will be collected”
https://reason.com/2025/10/01/trump-government-shutdown-could-do-a-lot-of-good/
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaeoDlLNnok
Argentina’s Economy Is Struggling. Why Is the White House Stepping In? | Big Take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw2YddQ6s18
Russia-NATO Confrontation – Drones over Poland & MiGs over the Baltic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG7sVKNP-yo
Some of the taxes you pay are going to bailout farmers who only need to be bailed out because of Trump’s tariff policies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVPQRK-gF0
ICE agents have repeatedly gotten unnecessarily rough with people. These are people here working, not criminals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGFTp4ov8Sw
No free speech for FBI agents?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fbi-fires-agents-photographed-kneeling-001808478.html
Trump’s strikes on drug boats appear to be illegal. These military men and women are likely breaking the law by following orders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYAwwZDLUy4
RFK and Trump are spewing bullshit about autism and misinforming the public.
RFK and Trump are spewing bullshit about vaccines and misinforming the public.
RFK and Trump are spewing bullshit about medicine and disease, misinforming the public.
RFK chose two less rigorous studies to justify his advice on Tylenol while ignoring larger, more rigorous studies that find no association between Tylenol and ADHD or autism.
Fever can harm the unborn child and even cause miscarriage. Tylenol can prevent that by lowering the fever. Because Trump told women to not take Tylenol, some women won’t take it when they should, with bad consequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohsYDUj0gfU
“The two Trump administrations have launched as many airstrikes at overseas targets as any other administration. Although childish and superficial, his renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War doesn’t telegraph a love of peace. Nor does his authorized strike on a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean. His policies in the Middle East have amounted to little more than giving Israel the greenlight to do as it pleases. Then there were his attacks on nuclear sites in Iran and his constant threats to send troops to root out cartels in Mexico.
Whether or not you agree with these policies, they don’t adhere to any principled non-interventionist philosophy. And that takes us back to Russia and Ukraine. The problem with appeasement is that it emboldens the aggressor rather than secures lasting and just peace. No serious person is calling for American troops in Ukraine, but Trump’s insistence on blaming Ukraine and not pushing Russia for serious concessions has escalated the conflict.”
https://reason.com/2025/09/19/donald-trump-is-not-a-peace-president/