Kathy Deitch

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. My wife Jane, who directs UC Irvine’s Initiative to End Family Violence, has some thoughts on how we can support DV survivors.

Please join us in working to end domestic violence.

Handin' out pocket-sized Constitutions to trick or treaters this year. Go get a Snickers bar next door, Waldo. Uncle George is hooking you up with the Separation of Powers and whatnot.

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I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

My last Halloween as a Controller.

Time for a (Nintendo) Switch.

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Nevada regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of nearly 800 environmental violations in the last two years as it digs a sprawling tunnel network beneath Las Vegas for its Tesla-powered “people mover.”

By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social and Dayvid Figler

He's building a gold-guilded ballroom to host the foreign officials who come to bribe him, while denying millions of hungry kids food. Just how thuddingly obvious, how over-the-top, how florid & theatrical does this story have to get before the media starts honestly telling it?

Cute light beige dog dressed as a Halloween ghost.

Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”

Stop shaming the poor

CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs. All of them are women EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

NEW from me:

Eight on-air personalities were fired from CBS News yesterday as part of the layoffs -- and every single one of them is female, with half of them being POC.

Also, sources tell me a male correspondent saved his job by whining to Bari Weiss.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump Administration’s Food-Aid Halt Likely Unlawful, Judges Say Two federal judges ruled the Trump administration’s decision to suspend food-aid benefits for tens of millions of Americans during the government shutdown is likely unlawful and that US officials…

NEW: Two federal judges ruled the Trump administration’s decision to suspend food aid benefits for tens of millions of Americans during the government shutdown is likely unlawful and that US officials must use contingency funding to at least partially keep the program operational
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Why Has Trump Been Flirting With a Third Term? Trump cannot be president again. But he and his loyal followers have every reason for wanting to make people think he can.

"Can Donald Trump run for a 3rd term?"
No.
"What if he..."
Still no.
"How about..."
STFU, No.
"Then why are we talking about it!?"
Because evil MAGA apparatchiks need you to fear that he will.

I explain in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

WTAF! Opening fire with kids in the car!

If this isn’t grounds for termination, nothing will be!

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

“There’s this machinismo aspect that they don’t want to accept that we have breasts, but we do,” said Kirby Lewis, who served in the Navy and was diagnosed with breast cancer a dozen years ago. He called the decision “very upsetting.”

I think 🤔 I see the problem.

To recap: Trump is spending money Congress never appropriated to pay federal employees with guns, and cutting programs and grants even when Congress has appropriated funds.
They literally have a contingency fund for SNAP that they are refusing to use.
No Speaker has done more to weaken Congress.

What you can do to help SNAP recipients keep food on the table More than 1 in 10 Washingtonians use federal funds from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP or food stamps, to pay for groceries.

My local newspaper wrote this up, read it instead www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...

NEW: The states with the highest proportion of people relying on disability benefits are West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama — all states that lack their own aid programs for workers to turn to amid federal cuts.

The president had a MRI but won't say why.

He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.

He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.

He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.

How is any of this ok?

John Dickerson To Depart CBS News In First Major Talent Exit Under New Paramount Owners John Dickerson, co-anchor of CBS Evening News who has been with the network since 2009, said that he is exiting at the end of this year.

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

My student just talked about a prom photo from olden times. My curiosity was piqued. What year, praytell, is from the olden times? Friends, the year was 2005.

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The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.

im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied

Food Banks Brace for Overwhelming Demand as SNAP Cutoff Looms

Food Banks Brace for Overwhelming Demand as SNAP Cutoff Looms www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

“The addition of these six individuals brings the total number of known people enslaved by Thomas Jefferson over his lifetime to more than 610.”

Words no longer have meaning.