Patti LaBelle Lock 🤼‍♀️

Lunch is on the house: Being in the heart of downtown DC, we love that so many of our Federal employees stop by during lunch for a Donburi at China Chilcano or a Fútbol Club at Jaleo. And just because the government is shut down doesn't mean you have to miss out on your favorite lunch spot- because this time, its on us! Join us for lunch from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM at any of our participating restaurants and enjoy a free lunch item when you present your government ID-you heard that right! Dine in with us Monday through Friday and choose your favorite: a sandwich at Jaleo, a donburi at China Chilcano, a wrap or pita at Zaytinya, or a torta at Oyamel. We've always believed in serving our community with open arms and good food-no shutdown can stop that.

Government workers 👇🏾

do you guys ever think about how in a better world José Andres could just like. have some restaurants. and instead he’s consistently doing the work we’re supposed to have governments for

GoFundMe CEO says economy is so challenged people are raising money to buy food GoFundThis: Some surprising items have begun to make the list for crowdfunding lately, according to this CEO.

finance.yahoo.com/news/gofundm...

I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

God, it's ME... again

Mmm hmm. Enjoy the kibble.

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

Tell yo grandma to watch her purse then

Enjoy: www.tumblr.com/moonwoodholl...

Very Soon, ICE Will Know Exactly Where You Are All the Time ICE is planning on buying a tool that will let it see hundreds of millions of phones’ location data.

newrepublic.com/post/201294/...

Link for those looking for a source.

13 Spine-Chilling Books for October! Brace yourself, horror enthusiasts! This was going to be a shorter list, but we felt it was only right to start off October with lucky number 13. So here are 13 new books to rattle your bones befor…

Grateful to @locusmag.bsky.social for including TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS, my coming-of-rage horror collection, as part of "13 Creepy New Titles to Read in October"

What a coincidence, there are 13 stories in the book too 😈

locusmag.com/2025/10/13-s...

I will download some for you!! 🥹

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

Poster featuring an illustration of Gustavo the Shy Ghost. Text reads "Don't be afraid to READ!"

Don't be afraid to READ!

Get into the spooky season with this poster featuring Gustavo the Shy Ghost from Mexican artist and New York Times bestselling author Flavia Z Drago.

Purchase here: https://bit.ly/4nZO2EO

Upstairs neighbor is stomping around so hard that *I'm* shaking. 😐

‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’ After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Man-Made Famine & Malnutrition in Sudan, Exacerbated by U.S. Aid Cuts Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who jus...

Sudan’s famine is the biggest and most intractable in the world.

Yeah, it's a Cerberus kinda situation!

Jesse L. Douglas, Aide to King in Marches From Selma, Is Dead at 90

#Respect #RestInPower
Jesse L. Douglas, Aide to King in Marches From Selma, Is Dead at 90.

A lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. and a fellow preacher, he played a vital role in organizing voting-rights protests in 1965 that began with “Bloody Sunday.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

This sounds so fun. How was it?

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

Thank you! I worked really hard for this 🥹🏆

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

I know this year got me all the way fucked up bc I keep forgetting good friends' birthdays and that's not like me at all. Shit.

The moustacheeeeee 🥰

Vaccinate your kids. Christ almighty.

Spider Gwen is a Young Rottweiler mix

Spider Gwen 🐶
Young female Rottweiler mix
Adoptable from The Animal Foundation (Las Vegas, NV)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/spider-gwen-78724740/nv/las-vegas/the-animal-foundation-nv26/

This government is a well-oiled machine that’s definitely not suffering from internal power struggles hastily papered over as technical mistakes