US government shuts down after Senate
Democrats fail to support stopgap funding bill
Posted By: Mercedes44, 10/1/2025 4:06:46 AM
The federal government partially shut down at midnight Wednesday, hours after all but three Senate Democrats voted down a short-term funding bill. The shutdown is the first since December 2018, which saw non-essential government operations cease and tens of thousands of federal employees furloughed or forced to work without pay for 35 days until lawmakers agreed on a stopgap funding measure. White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought notified federal department and agency heads shortly after Tuesday’s failed Senate vote to keep the government funded to begin preparations for a shutdown. V
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Zohran Mamdani just offered fresh proof of his deep anti-cop bigotry with his call to shift key powers to discipline officers to the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
It’s a terrible fix for a problem that doesn’t exist — and one that would lead to worse policing, and so more crime; it would likely even produce a force with far more bad cops.
“What I would do is ensure that the recommendations of the CCRB be understood to be the final voice of the question of accountability,” Mamdani says — without pointing to any actual bad results of the current law, which gives final say to the police commissioner.
The federal government has shut down, readers, and that’s as close as I get to a “snow day” around here at National Review. Nobody’s budging on their negotiating position in Washington for the time being, and we’ve all placed our bets on who’s going to catch the blame. (My position: While this will likely factor into Virginia’s statewide elections in November, it will have no effect on 2026 either way.) Meanwhile, I’m still trying to convince my editors that as long as the feds are on strike I qualify for a fully paid vacation. (Surely I am the living definition of a “nonessential worker,” no?)
Keir Starmer strayed into fantasy when he claimed Channel migrants come to Britain aboard “Farage boats” and cannot be removed from this country due to Brexit.
The Prime Minister’s claim is preposterous and simply not grounded in fact, as even impartial observers agree.
When he referred to pre-Brexit Britain having “a returns agreement with every country in the EU” he was referencing the Dublin Agreement, which was supposed to facilitate asylum seekers being sent back to other European Union countries through which they had travelled.
But, put simply, the Dublin Agreement did not work.
Brilliant! CNN Photobombed in Memphis
Live Shot, Forcing Reporter to Destroy
Dem Crime Narrative 3 replies
Live Shot, Forcing Reporter to Destroy
Dem Crime Narrative 3 replies
Brilliant move by a patriot down in Memphis who photobombed a CNN live shot about President Donald Trump's efforts to crack down on crime in the blue city, forcing the reporter to destroy another Democrat narrative, noting that residents do want federal help.
During the CNN live broadcast in Memphis, the reporter was doing a report from Tennessee about Trump making good on his promise to make all of America safer again by sending in the National Guard to assist local law enforcement efforts in the blue-run city in the red state.
Following the midterm “shellacking” of 2010, President Obama and Eric Holder began the “secret research project” targeting political opposition using the IRS. DOJ asked the IRS for the donor data of all supporters to conservative groups. [Schedule B’s of 501c(3)(4)].
The IRS was used to identify targets 2011 and 2012, until discovered April ’12. President Obama has a problem. President Obama then sends his Chief of Staff, Jack Lew, to run the IRS and block discoveries around the IRS weaponization.
From 2012 through April 2016, the Obama administration then began spying on political opposition, using the FBI to conduct surveillance through their access to the NSA database.
We’re in the midst of a massive leftist counterattack that desperately seeks to distract us not just from the fact that one of their own, the trans/furry-tapping pervert, murdered Charlie Kirk, but from the fact that America is indisputably getting better. They’re scared. They’re really scared because they didn’t know this was going to happen, and they didn’t expect this to happen, and even now, they don’t fully understand the implications of either Trump’s success or of what their freakish ally did when he lit the fuse by pulling the trigger. The Charlie Kirk memorial was incomprehensible to them, with its patriotism,
A staffer for US Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) who burned to death in her backyard set herself on fire with gasoline, according to firefighters — but her family still insists it was an accident.
Regina Santos-Aviles “doused herself in gasoline” in Uvalde on September 13, according to a report from responding firefighters obtained by the Uvalde Leader News.
Regina Santos-Aviles, a congressional staffer, stands in front of the Capitol Building.
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Texas congressional staffer Regina Santos-Aviles, who burned to death in her backyard, appears to have sparked the blaze herself.
Regina Santos Aviles / Facebook
The 35-year-old mother then “was ignited in flames,” the report said, adding that burning gasoline cans were extinguished when firefighters arrived.
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Three members of the Senate Democratic caucus broke with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Tuesday and voted for a House Republican-drafted bill to fund the government through Nov. 21, revealing divisions among Democrats about how aggressively to confront the Trump administration.
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Google has entered the chat.
Long a primary offender when it comes to free speech and censorship, the Big Tech giant made what could go down as one of the most consequential 180’s in modern history last week. In a letter sent to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Google admitted to its ugly past of viewpoint-based censorship on its flagship brand, YouTube. The company’s mea culpa blames a host of cancellations on sustained pressure from the Biden administration, which it now denounces as “unacceptable and wrong.”
Following the example set by Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg just before President Trump was sworn back into office earlier this year,
The federal government partially shut down at midnight Wednesday, hours after all but three Senate Democrats voted down a short-term funding bill.
The shutdown is the first since December 2018, which saw non-essential government operations cease and tens of thousands of federal employees furloughed or forced to work without pay for 35 days until lawmakers agreed on a stopgap funding measure.
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought notified federal department and agency heads shortly after Tuesday’s failed Senate vote to keep the government funded to begin preparations for a shutdown. V
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Democratic candidate Ruma Romman posted her campaign ad to social media platform X on Monday where she spouted all the usual leftist drivel about people being put last while big, bad corporations hold down them down. She promised to feed the hungry, increase the minimum wage, open hospitals, and help small businesses. “Georgia belongs to all of us, not just corporations and special interests,” Romman declared in front of a group of paid actors.
Charlie Kirk is dead. Americans must face why.
His murder was not random, not confusing, not detached from the battles he fought so fiercely in life. It was the direct consequence of his bold refusal to bend before one of the most aggressive and destabilizing ideologies of our time: transgender radicalism.
For years, Kirk warned about the dangers of this movement. Not just its cultural consequences, but the deeper crisis of mental illness and violence it has unleashed across the nation. In the end, his voice was silenced by precisely the pestilence he spent his career opposing.
The facts are painfully clear. On Sept. 13, 2025, police captured Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old suspect
Zohran Mamdani just offered fresh proof of his deep anti-cop bigotry with his call to shift key powers to discipline officers to the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
It’s a terrible fix for a problem that doesn’t exist — and one that would lead to worse policing, and so more crime; it would likely even produce a force with far more bad cops.
“What I would do is ensure that the recommendations of the CCRB be understood to be the final voice of the question of accountability,” Mamdani says — without pointing to any actual bad results of the current law, which gives final say to the police commissioner.
Randi Weingarten prioritizes far-left
politics — and selling books — over
students’ tests scores 13 replies
politics — and selling books — over
students’ tests scores 13 replies
Randi Weingarten has taken to wearing a paper clip on her lapel as a bizarre symbol of her crusade against “fascism,” aka Donald Trump.
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The paper clip, she likes to explain to anyone who will listen — mostly on MSNBC — symbolizes a Norwegian protest against Adolf Hitler in World War II.
When we first got close to Dot, DoorDash’s new delivery robot, we looked right into its big blue, pixelated eyes and gave it a kick. A little one. A tap, really.
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Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones was convicted of reckless driving in 2022 after police clocked him speeding at 116 miles per hour on a highway at midnight, according to a new report.
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I see Forbes is saying this morning:
"The $7,500 EV tax credit was one of many casualties resulting from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. While this bill was signed into law on July 4, the credit did not expire for several months, according to Forbes. However, as of October 1, these credits are no longer available, leading to questions about the future of this segment of the automotive industry. Most notably, the tax incidence for purchasing these vehicles shifts from the Federal government to the purchasers or the car manufacturers."
Buckle up, kids. I’ll tell you right up front: I’m cheering that this tax break has been ended. Truth is,
JK Rowling on rift with Emma Watson over
trans rights: 'She’s ignorant of how
ignorant she is' 9 replies
trans rights: 'She’s ignorant of how
ignorant she is' 9 replies
JK Rowling has responded after Emma Watson made conciliatory comments in a podcast posted Wednesday about their relationship, which has been marked for years by conflicting views on transgender rights.
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"Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology," Rowling wrote. "Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn’t want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them."
She then targeted Watson and her "Harry Potter" co-star
Two regional Delta jets full of passengers and crew collided while taxiing at LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday night — as one flyer recalled the flights “absolutely” smashing into each other and part of a wing being ripped off.
The wing of Endeavor Air flight 5155, departing for Roanoke, Virginia, collided with the fuselage of Endeavor Air flight 5047, arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina, on the airport’s taxiway just before 10 p.m., according to preliminary information provided to The Post by Delta Air Lines.
CBS News producer Joey Annunziato, a passenger on the flight from Charlotte, described the chaos inside his plane’s cabin after the collision as “super jarring.”
CA Sec. of State Owns Up to Big Mistake
on Newsom's Gerrymandering Special Election Ballots 8 replies
on Newsom's Gerrymandering Special Election Ballots 8 replies
When they are in power, Democrats love to make up the rules as they go along. But when Republicans take over and decide to play the game by the rules Democrats made up, well, that's a problem. Former President Barack Obama was fond of chiding Republicans with a condescending "elections have consequences" reminder. Recently, Republicans on both the national and state levels have not been so subtle about returning that same rebuke in the form of an old Democrat "strategy": mid-decade redistricting, or gerrymandering, before the 2026 midterm election. Democrats are not happy, and the epicenter of their unhappiness is California.
Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed Thursday to cut all state funding for any universities in California that sign onto a compact circulated by the White House asking major institutions to agree to a series of conservative ideals in exchange for more favorable treatment as they seek federal money. The Trump administration sent a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” this week to nine universities, including USC, calling on the institutions in part to adhere to restrictions on the use of race and gender in the admissions process, banning biological males from competing in women’s sports, capping admission of international students and requiring a “vibrant marketplace of ideas” on campuses