Original Fiction Download Reactor Original Short Fiction Highlights 2025! By Reactor | Published on December 17, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share Were you intimidated by our impressive list of All of Reactor’s Short Fiction in 2025? Do you want to dive in, but don’t know where to begin? Try our new short fiction bundle! Our new bundle, Reactor Original Short Fiction Highlights 2025, gathers a selection of this year’s stories in one easy-to-read place. With work from A.C. Wise, S. E. Porter, Hildur Knútsdóttir, Cameron Reed, Tade Thompson, David Erik Nelson, Wen-yi Lee, Quan Barry, Isabel J. Kim, Champ Wongsatayanont, Kate Elliott, and Ruthanna Emrys–there’s a little something for everyone! As ever, a big thank you to our wonderful readers and to all the authors, editors, illustrators, art directors and copy editors who contributed their talent, passion, and skill to Reactor’s short fiction program this year. We’ve got so many incredible stories to share in 2026; we hope to see you back here in January! Until then, wishing you a peaceful holiday season and a happy new year! Download: PDF | EPUB Reactor Original Short Fiction Highlights 2025!Table of Contents “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon” by A.C. Wise“Red Leaves” by S. E. Porter“The Shape of Stones” by Hildur Knútsdóttir“The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For” by Cameron Reed“Liberation” by Tade Thompson“The Nölmyna” by David Erik Nelson“The Name Ziya” by Wen-yi Lee“Redemption Song” by Quan Barry“Freediver” by Isabel J. Kim“Where the Hell is Nirvana?” by Champ Wongsatayanont“Barnacle” by Kate Elliott“All That Means or Mourns” by Ruthanna Emrys  Cover art for this bundle is adapted from Terra Keck’s illustration for “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon” by A.C. Wise. *As a reminder, Amazon stopped supporting MOBI in August 2022, but both EPUB and PDF are now Kindle-compatible file types. Please visit Amazon for more information, details on how to send these files to your Kindle and additional Kindle support. The post Download <em>Reactor Original Short Fiction Highlights 2025</em>! appeared first on Reactor.

What can Donald Trump do to stop morphing into Joe Biden? The two presidents could hardly be more different in most ways—but in the one that counts most with voters, Trump is in danger of resembling his predecessor. Americans rejected Biden and the Democrats last year because they were incensed at the lousy state of the economy. Right now, they’re not much happier with Trump’s economy. Inflation was the No. 1 concern on voters’ minds last year, and it’s still a top concern today. Trump’s team say they plan to tout “affordability” as a theme Republicans can win on in next November’s congressional midterms. If the election were held today, that pitch wouldn’t sell: An AP/NORC poll released last week found 67% of Americans view the president’s handling of the economy negatively. Yet Trump told Politico’s Dasha Burns in a Dec. 8 interview he’d give himself an “A-plus” grade on the economy—and when she questioned that, he raised it to “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus.” The administration thinks Americans will come around to Trump’s perspective on the economy sooner rather than later, and well ahead of the midterms. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reassures his colleagues, and his boss, that come April 15—when Americans see just what the permanent tax cuts Trump shepherded through Congress this year mean for them personally—everyone will feel great. And Trump has a plan he thinks will guarantee a high-growth economy next year: getting the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates. He told The Wall Street Journal last week he wants “the lowest rate in the world”—indeed “1% and maybe lower than that.” Early next year, Trump is set to appoint a new Fed chairman. He says of one leading candidate, Kevin Warsh, “He thinks you have to lower interest rates” and “so does everybody else that I’ve talked to.” Lower rates mean easy credit, with businesses and individuals able to take out more loans to finance whatever improvements, new ventures or other spending they wish. That sounds great—it’s almost free money!—but it’s a recipe for inflation. The benefits Americans get from keeping more of the money they earn, thanks to Trump’s tax cuts, will be wiped out if inflation accelerates. A Harvard/Harris poll last week found 57% of voters think Trump is losing the fight against inflation, and while that’s an improvement over last month, when 60% said the same, it’s a warning the administration can hardly afford to ignore. If Trump gets inflation wrong, nothing he gets right will save the GOP next November—or in 2028. The good news for Trump is that his overall approval ratings, in the low 40s, are a little higher than Barack Obama’s or George W. Bush’s at this point in their second terms. The bad news is Obama and Bush both saw their side lose big in the next congressional elections, and neither man was succeeded in the White House by a member of his own party. Trump is betting big on artificial intelligence to drive the kind of economic boom Bill Clinton enjoyed thanks to the telecommunications and internet revolution. The administration wants to beat China in AI development no matter what, which is why Trump just issued an executive order limiting states’ ability to regulate the technology. But there’s another angle, too, as a report in Semafor notes: “A big car company might promise a $5 billion or $10 billion investment. The big AI companies can raise and spend orders of magnitude more” and “Trump is good at counting zeros.” The public, however, takes a darker view of AI, with fully 50% of Americans polled by Pew this fall saying they’re more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life—compared to only 10% who were more excited than concerned. Trump can’t bank on AI giving him that A-plus for the economy he thinks he deserves. What the administration can do, however, is boost other sectors as well by making slashing red tape and regulation a top priority in Year Two. Freeing up the economy is the healthy alternative to a Fed-driven credit binge. Interest-rate cuts are a drug that may produce instant euphoria, but the withdrawal symptoms are deadly—as debt-driven booms turn into devastating busts. Trump inherited a debilitated economy from a debilitated President Biden; voters will make some allowance for that. What they won’t do is give the Republican Party another chance if it makes inflation worse instead of better. Americans voted for Trump; if they wind up with Biden’s economy anyway, there’s going to be hell to pay at the ballot box. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Trump’s Inflation Trap appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Is Anybody Shocked That Biden's DOJ Pressured FBI to Search Trump's Residence?

Or is it all make-baleen?

Rock-a-bye baby in the tooth hole.

President Trump and Vice President Vance have every right — and every reason — to call out Republican senators who hide behind the so-called blue-slip tradition to block nominees for key executive positions, especially U.S. attorneys.The effect is simple and damaging: Trump is denied the full exercise of his constitutional authority over the executive branch. Without aligned U.S. attorneys across the country’s 94 districts, the administration’s de-weaponization agenda stalls. In some cases, it collapses outright. So far, the Senate has advanced just 18 of the 50 U.S. attorneys nominated by the administration.That is the real function of the blue slip. It is not institutionalism. It is careerism. It lets senators hide.The blue slip is a Senate custom requiring the consent of both home-state senators before certain nominees — U.S. attorneys, judges, U.S. marshals — can advance to committee. In practice, it operates as a hack of the Constitution. The Senate’s role is advice and consent by the full body. The blue slip transfers that power to two senators, and often to just one, who can halt the process without explanation or accountability.Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has insisted that the Republican Senate will not reconsider the practice despite the abysmal pace of confirmations. “There are many Republican senators — way more Republican senators who are interested in preserving that than those who aren’t,” he said. What he has not explained is why.The answer is avoidance. The blue slip spares Republican senators from taking difficult votes. The fewer Trump-aligned U.S. attorneys brought to the floor, the fewer public positions senators must take. The blue slip allows them to kill nominations quietly rather than oppose them openly.Despite years of rhetoric about party realignment, the Senate remains dominated by politicians hostile to Trump’s agenda. Some were forced out. Many more learned to mimic an America First accent without embracing America First policy. They do just enough to deter primary challengers while staying safely aligned with donors, lobbyists, and institutional power.Forcing senators to vote up or down on Trump-aligned prosecutors like Alina Habba in New Jersey or Julianne Murray in Delaware — both of whom were serving as acting U.S. attorneys until the Senate ran out the clock — would expose those evasions. So the Senate stalled them instead.I watched this play out firsthand during the failed confirmation of Ed Martin, Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. Because D.C. is not a state, the blue slip did not apply. Senate leadership attempted a different maneuver: delay until time expired.When the base demanded a vote, Senator Thom Tillis (RINO-N.C.) stepped in and tanked Martin’s nomination outright. As a judiciary committee member, Tillis effectively wielded a one-man veto by shifting the committee balance back toward Democrats.That decision carried consequences. Shortly afterward, Tillis opposed advancing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in its existing form. Trump threatened a primary. Tillis burned through his remaining political capital and soon announced that he would not seek re-election.Had Tillis been able to blue-slip Martin, he might have avoided that outcome.RELATED: Accountability or bust: Trump’s second term test Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesThat is the real function of the blue slip. It is not institutionalism. It is careerism. Cloaked in collegial language, it operates as a mutual defense pact among Republican senators to shield one another from accountability. It lets senators hide. A six-year Senate term has become a financial asset in a hyper-funded political system. Assets avoid risk. Votes create risk. Fewer votes mean greater protection.Defenders of the blue slip claim it preserves the Senate’s unique institutional character. That argument belongs to another century. Today’s Senate is neither deliberative nor restrained. It lurches between performative hearings and massive spending bills, punctuated by social media sound bites. Any appeal to Jeffersonian dignity at this point borders on parody.Notably, the blue slip never restrains Democrats. When Democrats want nominees confirmed, process does not stand in the way. For Republicans, the blue slip amounts to unilateral disarmament dressed up as principle.Trump and Vance should keep attacking this practice publicly. The only antidote to procedural cowardice is exposure. Voters who support a mandate deserve to see whether their senators will carry it out — or hide behind tradition while returning to business as usual in Washington.Even if Republican senators ultimately vote against these nominees, at least the votes would happen in the open. Accountability begins there.

New Media Angle: Sydney Attacks, Inspired by ISIS and Targeting Jews, Had ‘Nothing to Do With Religion’

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