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House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes. Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

Well, thank goodness America has the moral high ground when it comes to triggering unnecessary trade wars! Will make it so much easier to organize a collective response with other Nations!

It's all a grift.

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Listen to the former Keystone XL executive here. Straight up climate change denial, fine with trampling on Indigenous rights, wants existing environmental policy undone.

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It's been a pleasant surprise the number of football writers who now post about Trump &/politics. There are times i wish I could just enjoy football without the real world creeping in but I can always scroll by a post when I want too.

The Trump administration says mass federal layoffs have begun.

“We’re all being DOGE’d,” another CBS News journalist told me about Bari Weiss' memo. “And she’s also looking out to see who will kiss up to her.”

Same!

Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do.

Looking at you, all major news orgs.

Courage & integrity, two things Trump & all of MAGA lack. Ridiculous world we live in that this is actually a serious question.

Also this:

⚡️The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado.

The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded it for "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

The right’s Nobel obsession is useful because it is inexplicable as anything other than trying to make Trump personally happy. 95% of all Trumpworld obsessions have the same root (2020 election, James/Comey) but rarely is it so hard to retcon a justification for it.

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The Great Derangement: Carney, Trump and the Return of Keystone XL Well, that was unexpected.

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I'm really agreeing with UNIFOR President, Lana Payne: the best deal for #Canada might be no deal at all. Better no deal, than a bunch of small bad deals. IMO Canada needs to buy out minimum 16 #F-35 and the rest from Saab, send a message. Pull away from the US faster
#cdnpoli #tariffs #Canadasky

Tells me more about Hillary Clinton than it does anything else. Taking this booking is just fucking incredible.

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats" subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

Hell yeah! #Cdnpoli #ElbowsUp #Karma #freedom

The Washington Post is using bothsidesism to justify everything Trump is doing.

From yesterday on political purges in the military. They compared it to covid vaccine policies.

lol. this is the GOP's new line. The Dems demands are actually our demands and if the Dems would just open the government we'd finally do what the Democrats aren't allowing us to do by closing the government. makes sense.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

Every ceasefire the IDF fire never ceases

honestly fu** you if you think gazans are only allowed to ask for help to cover their very basic necessities when they’re starving or being killed, calling a gazan a grifter for trying to secure her education proves that you don’t see gazans as humans who deserve to live equally.

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Carney says he’s spoken with Tony Blair, Jared Kushner about Israel, Gaza | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that he’s recently been in touch with two key players in U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan for Israel and Gaza.

Everyday, Carney shows us a bit more of the callous, crappy person he is. Nothing is a surprise anymore. Pathetic. #cdnpoli
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it’s all just a grift