Nevertheless, this program [SNAP food assistance] is vital. The quickest solution to protecting it is for Democrats to join Republicans in voting to reopen the government, and then they can fight over public policy.
Democrats Vow To Starve As Many Food Stamp Recipients As It Takes To Get Free Healthcare For Illegal Immigrants https://t.co/QbPfrmwa2K pic.twitter.com/F3oUGA3EXb
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 29, 2025
Taken together, these passages show that significant portions of Brennan’s congressional testimony about the dossier and the Intelligence Community Assessment were untrue. When he said the dossier “was not in any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community Assessment” — that was untrue. When he said “I was not involved in analyzing the dossier at all” — that was untrue. When he said “the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier” — that was untrue. When he said “The CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment” — that was untrue.Here’s the bottom line, which Republicans have believed for a long time. In the politically supercharged atmosphere of late 2016 and early 2017, the FBI and CIA both knew the dossier was BS. They knew they had no business including it in their assessment of Russia’s 2016 activities. But they included it anyway because it told them what they wanted to hear — that Donald Trump had colluded with Russia. And then, under oath before Congress, John Brennan lied about it.
In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible. Privately, many alumni of the Biden and Obama White Houses acknowledge the long-overdue need for an event space like what Trump is creating. It is absurd that tents need to be erected on the South Lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta-potties.
I for one am shocked that NBA employees are gambling. How did they get sucked into that kind of activity?
— Joey- Cade Smith enjoyer (@GuardsJoey) October 23, 2025
I really hope they address this on the FanDuel Pregame show sponsored by bet365, right before the big game at DraftKings arena
As one of the most beloved figures in popular music, Bruce Springsteen has enjoyed decades of absolute devotion from his legion of fans. A national tour with his E Street Band typically means his hardcore followers bounce from state to state, taking in as many of the Boss’ legendary three-or-four-hour marathon concerts as their wallets will allow.Next year might be different. When Springsteen’s loyal fanbase logged in on July 20 to purchase tickets for the opening seven dates of his 2023 U.S. arena tour, Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” program sent the face value for some floor seats to a dizzying $4,000 to $5,000 a piece. In an attempt to cut off the multibillion-dollar resale business, ticket prices jumped to a “fair value” based on demand to approximate the secondary market. Rather than scalpers, the money would instead go to the artist and promoter.
Impressive that Jesus managed to be born in a Muslim-majority county more than 6 centuries before Islam was even founded.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 24, 2025
The Columbia School of Journalism in the bio really brings the whole thing full circle. pic.twitter.com/l3gQv7bitc
Harper’s magazine, the left-wing monthly, has a cover story asking, Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media? The November “forum” features three journalists attempting to answer this question: Jack Shafer, Jelani Cobb, and Taylor Lorenz.You read that correctly. To ask why Americans don’t trust the media, Harper’s interviewed three of the most untrustworthy, hackish, godawful journalists in America.
The FCC is run by Trump’s appointee Brendan Carr, who has pretty enthusiastically embraced the president’s mission to combat what they call media bias.
The uncomfortable and unavoidable fact of the matter is that the news media—conservative and mainstream—had already taken notice of Biden's diminished mental acuity well before the debate. A majority of the American people had noticed it. A majority of Democrats had noticed it. The difficulty of concealing Biden's decline was such that the president's innermost circle shielded him from press scrutiny, kept the Cabinet at bay, and scheduled can't-miss meetings with legislators during the periods of time throughout the day at which he was sharpest. She was the press secretary, and she didn't notice any of this? It's frankly unbelievable, unless she was unusually out of the loop. (She certainly isn't claiming she was out of the loop, however.)One wonders, then, why she would bother telling her story in book format, and discussing it on national television, if she cannot honestly reckon with these incredible shortcomings.
Anti-woke CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss left the 60 Minutes team stunned when she asked them to consider why viewers think their coverage is slanted.The self-proclaimed centrist, 41, who has made political neutrality a focal point of her plans for the network, hit journalists with the seven-word question during a private Tuesday meeting, The New York Times reported.'Why does the country think you’re biased?' she asked - leaving the staff and stars of the country's top news program baffled and unable to respond.
On 60 Minutes, the news-magazine show that prides itself on "hard-hitting" investigations and interviews, correspondent Steve Kroft, who has won most of the highest awards in his industry, has just broadcast another softball interview with the most powerful man in the world, a performance that ought to earn him a rebuke from his peers in the news business but almost certainly won't. His CBS bio page proudly touts his unparalleled access to President Obama: He scored the first post-election sit down after Election 2008, another exclusive following the killing of Osama bin Laden, and a third sit-down as the president kicked off his reelection campaign.Little wonder that Obama keeps going back. The 60 Minutes brand is associated with probing interviews, and Kroft is adept at using his tone and manner to create the impression of tough questions without actually asking any.
Yet whenever I asked someone what they hated about Trump, the answer was almost always the same: "Everything!" This was true of men and women, young and old, black and white. When pressed, they would detail a list of personal qualities and moral failings.
Who are they trying to convince by now with these protests? Who would be drawn in and want to vote for them? It’s mostly aging Baby Boomers and Jen Psaki viewers, naked grandpas on bikes, women with septum piercings calling babies parasites, and single women who shop at Erewon and Lululemon after high-priced pilates on Sunday.Why would you want to showcase all of that madness when most Americans are just trying to get through the work week? Have a beer on the weekend, maybe take a walk at sunset, maybe drive their Tesla that isn’t smeared with feces or keyed down the side. And hope that their kid doesn’t have to decide which gender to be in preschool or, god forbid, catch a glimpse of a naked appendage while coming upon a protest in the park or just trying to use the girls’ bathroom.
I don't think we need two-factor authorization to sign up for Jersey Mike's rewards program. I think we can play that one a little loose.
— Allen Strickland Williams (@TotallyAllen) October 9, 2025
It’s just one episode, but given the season premiere angle and the buzzy host, it suggests “SNL” may be in for a rough season … unless it rediscovers why the show mattered in the first place.Funny. Irreverent. Unpredictable.Without those core elements, “SNL” is just another clapter machine.
The Washington Post launched a sweeping round of layoffs Friday in its Opinion section, cutting veteran journalists and longtime staffers.The Washington Post ignited a firestorm inside its own newsroom after reportedly axing more than a dozen editorial staffers, according to multiple reports. NBC News reporter Mark Segraves said that Marc Fisher — a 39-year veteran of the paper and one of its most recognized voices — was among those terminated.
President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats used covid-19 to justify chasing the mirage of a European-style welfare state without raising the necessary taxes to pay for it. Now, prodded by the left, party leaders have shut down the government in a bid to permanently extend what was sold in 2021 as emergency subsidies to help people struggling during the pandemic afford health insurance.
Yet Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to extend the covid-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this will cost $350 billion over the next decade. These temporary benefits were included in the American Rescue Plan of March 2021 and extended the next year in the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act until the end of 2025.
The "misnamed" Inflation Reduction Act!
The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.
Entire Federal Workforce Replaced By Very Tired Marco Rubio https://t.co/XMDTfYRMrQ pic.twitter.com/yrOk0c9Sgj
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 5, 2025
We’re not stupid. No amount of fake rhetorical moves to the center will work. When very basic things that most human beings take for granted — that foreigners are not citizens and citizens come first, that men are not women, that children are not adults — are deemed fundamentally immoral in one political party, that party deserves to lose.And they will.
The truth is that neither Bernie nor Zohran ever had to work a day in their lives. These are luxury beliefs by the ruling class that pretend to solve the problems of the underclass. Fighting it only feeds their pathology.The Republicans should stand back, lay off the attacks, and allow the Democrats and their party to be swallowed up by fanaticism and socialism. At least they’ll stand for something and the American people will have a real choice. That obviously makes the Republicans the moderates. People like Hillary Clinton surely know that. But you can’t stop what’s coming.In other words, the only way to stop the Democrats is to get out of their way.
Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.In a remarkable reshuffle of CBS News’ decades-old management structure, Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the Tiffany Network’s third-place news division, a source close to the situation said.
Step 1: It's not really happening
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) June 14, 2021
Step 2: Yeah, it's happening, but it's not a big deal
Step 3: It's a good thing, actually
Step 4: People freaking out about it are the real problem