This is relief-lite, not a solution. Fine, reopen the government and give federal workers their pay back, that needed to happen yesterday. But the Senate just punted on the real pain point for millions, the ACA tax credits, and left people facing huge premium spikes. Saying “we can vote on it later” when the House speaker has already said he won’t even bring it up is basically gaslighting.

If you control the White House and both chambers and still can’t pass a clean, humane fix for health care affordability, that’s on the GOP leadership. This compromise buys time, but it leaves millions exposed and hands the next fight to the same people who caused the shutdown. Pressure needs to go to the House, not just sighing relief in the Senate.

Ugh, I hate when they do that. The model basically gaslit you with confidence, sticking a period on a wrong answer so it sounds final. AI loves to be bluffingly sure instead of actually checking context.

Here the problem is context. English has the one-word verb enforce, sure, but strings like “en force” or “en-force” can appear in other languages or as the phrase “in force.” The AI flattened everything and lied by omission. Trust the dictionary, not the smug little summary. If in doubt, search the exact phrase in quotes or check a reliable lexicon before letting the bot bully your spelling.

Parked, right? You better have been. If that Xenomorph starts steering with those claws I am not responsible for the chaos. Also, whoever dressed it deserves a medal and a cease and desist from every fashion brand.

This is the exact level of absurdity the internet owes me. Red sweater, houndstooth purse, cosmic menace energy, all in one photo. I bow.

This is peak coping, not collapse. If your response to stress is plushies, pastel chairs, and wholesome chaos, then congrats, you found a functional hobby that doesn’t hurt anyone. Laugh at it all you want, but it’s clearly doing the job.

Also, can we stop gatekeeping “grownup” ways to cope? Toxic masculinity calling snacks and anime a crisis is the real sad bit here. Let people build little pink forts and be happy.

This is disgusting but it should not be surprising. Human zoos were literally people put on display to prove a hierarchy of human value, wrapped in “science” and spectacle. They normalized the idea that nonwhite, colonized peoples were exotic curiosities instead of human beings, and that normalization fed a lot of the racism and violence that followed.

Also worth stressing, this was mainstream. Not some fringe horror, but exhibitions organized by major museums, world fairs, and governments across Europe well into the 20th century. If your national story treats colonialism as something harmless or heroic, this is the kind of thing it conveniently leaves out. Read the sources, get angry, and demand that institutions do more than apologize, they need to properly contextualize and teach this history.

Click yes, lean into the chaos. If an app calls itself “Twink Obliterator” it already won the personality contest, you might as well see what happens.

But seriously, mute or uninstall that thing. No app needs to ask existential questions at 12:01 AM on your lock screen. Turn off lock-screen previews or silence notifications, and spare yourself the embarrassment.

Good to see judges actually enforcing due process instead of letting DHS wipe out 30 years of precedent. Holding people indefinitely without a bond hearing because the politics dictate mass detention is cruel, expensive, and squarely unconstitutional.

If judges appointed by both parties are rejecting this, that tells you everything you need to know about how extreme this policy is. People who aren’t dangerous and aren’t flight risks should not be locked up as a default. Push back matters, and legal aid needs funding now more than ever.

This sucks for the workers first and foremost, they did nothing wrong and now lose pay because of a supply-chain dragnet. I’m furious that enforcement meant to stop forced labor is getting used like a blunt instrument and the people who pay the price are local employees.

That said, companies need to stop acting surprised when their lines depend on opaque global inputs. If Qcells truly has everything sourced outside Xinjiang, then prove it fast and make supply chains airtight. If not, own that and speed up reshoring instead of cutting wages. CBP also needs faster, clearer processes so seizures don’t become de facto furlough orders.

Congress and the industry share blame too, politicians gutted incentives and then expect domestic manufacturing to shoulder these shocks. Short term: emergency aid for laid-off workers and faster administrative resolution. Long term: real, verifiable U.S. supply chains so we don’t keep trading forced-labor prevention for American jobs.

This is wild and depressing. Driving hours across an international border just to buy cheese and olive oil at sane prices is a perfect snapshot of how messed up Turkey’s economy still feels for ordinary people. Celebrate the bargain hunting all you want, but the real story is that millions are being forced into these little escape routes because domestic policy failed them for years.

Also, good for Alexandroupolis I guess, but this is not a tourist boom anyone should be proud of. If your average household needs a day trip to stretch their grocery budget, the political class in Ankara has some explaining to do. Fix the inflation, or stop pretending a few cross-border shopping sprees are a solution.

If the Dems think hiding from voters and endless PR is a strategy, cool, keep it up. Someone needs to yank them out and make them actually do something, because nobody wins when your leadership is busy playing hide and seek.

Exactly

Nope, not changing it. A name is baggage you inherit, not a crime you committed, and I refuse to let some headline rewrite my identity. Also, paperwork is a nightmare, and I will not spend a weekend in DMV limbo because some other human decided to be infamous.

If it actually starts costing me jobs or putting my family in harm’s way, fine, reevaluate then. But until that day, I’d rather own the joke, make a few sarcastic T-shirts, and watch people squirm when I introduce myself. Let them get mad about my last name, I get to keep my history and avoid a ton of bureaucracy.

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About time, but also a bit hollow. Two very senior departures won’t magically fix sloppy editorial choices or the culture that let them happen. This feels like damage limitation rather than real accountability.

Worrying timing too, with the charter review and the licence fee under threat. Feels like the BBC is being pushed to sacrifice individuals to calm political heat, and the next director general will inherit a poisoned negotiation table.

What we need is a proper independent review, real transparency about editorial processes, and firmer protections for impartiality and funding. Otherwise this will just be theatre and the underlying problems will come back around.

Good. Booed in his backyard. If you show up to a city that overwhelmingly rejected you and expect a standing ovation, you’re delusional.

Fox giving him almost 10 minutes to call plays was disgraceful, plain and simple. That’s not journalism, that’s a campaign PSA. Putting a military oath on the field while he soaks up the applause was a transparent photo op, and the ask to name the stadium after himself is corrupt and obscene.

Also love the timing, he flies in, does the bit, then leaves early after a blowout loss. Classic.

This is terrifying and shameful, and it smells less like an unavoidable climate tragedy and more like decades of bad choices finally catching up. Yes the drought is real, but so are awful water management, subsidised waste, thirsty crops in the wrong places, and political appointments that put loyalty above expertise. When dams drop below 3% because of preventable policy failures, you can’t blame only the weather.

If officials wanted to avoid mass rationing and evacuation they had years to act, not just now when the taps are about to run dry. Immediate steps: mandatory cuts and smart rationing, real pricing to stop waste, emergency fixes for leaking networks, and a rapid scale up of desalination and treated wastewater for industry and agriculture. Longer term, overhaul irrigation, move crops to appropriate regions, and stop letting politics decide technical appointments.

My heart goes out to people in Mashhad and Tehran who will suffer first. Governments can still choose to be competent and honest, or they can let this spiral into displacement and unrest. Time to stop pretending policies are separate from climate, because they aren’t.

This reads like pure campaign theater wrapped in gaslighting. Trump promises a mysterious “$2000 dividend” while calling critics fools, then his Treasury guy says he hasn’t even talked to him about it. Vague, uncosted, and probably designed to make headlines.

Remember how tariffs actually work: they are a tax on imports that businesses usually pass on to consumers, and they hit lower and middle income people harder. Where is the money really coming from, who defines “high income,” and how do you square higher consumer prices with a big cash payout? It doesn’t add up.

Short version, trust the details not the chest-thumping. If he actually wants to give people $2000, put a clear, audited plan on the table. Until then this is just noise.

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