This Week and Next: October 17, 2025

The Government is Closed, Costs Sky Rocket, War Continues and Trump Frees Santos.

Dear Readers:

So here we are again, surveying the week’s atrocities with all the enthusiasm of someone opening their credit card statement after the holidays.

Let’s begin with Tom Homan. Trump’s border czar—doesn’t that title just roll off the tongue like a threat—accepted fifty thousand dollars in cash from men he believed were businessmen seeking favors. They were FBI agents. The money came in a Cava bag. Not even a proper briefcase, mind you, just a takeout sack from a Mediterranean chain restaurant, because apparently corruption has stopped bothering with appearances altogether. Rather like wearing sweatpants to the opera, except the opera is our entire system of justice and the sweatpants are stuffed with evidence.