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FAA reports staffing issues at airports as government shutdown continues No air traffic controllers were expected at the tower at Hollywood Burbank Airport in the Los Angeles area, and the Denver and Newark airports were experiencing delays due to shortages.

As expected, the already underpaid and understaffed air traffic controllers are feeling the effects of the government shutdown. Reminder, this shutdown is happening because the Republicans didn't want to fund programs that would stop people from dying sick and hungry. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Day 1322 of this terrible war.
7 October 2025, the second anniversary of appalling events in Israel + the 73rd birthday of a war criminal in Moscow.

Also the 19th anniversary of Putin having journalist Anna Politkovskaya murdered for reporting inconvenient facts about his wars.

Billionaires are trying to buy the Tennessee 7 race. We are trying to stop them. Help GOTV by spreading the word and donating and phone banking! #nashville #tennessee7 #billionairetakeover #aftynbehn @aftynbehn.bsky.social

I AM HUMBLY ASKING FOR YOUR VOTE TOMORROW

15 seconds explaining why you should vote for me tomorrow in the TN-7 Democratic Primary. I'm the only candidate who is not bankrolled or backed by corporate special interests, the only woman, and the only progressive. #LetsDoThis

Stephen Miller calls federal judges who rule against Trump’s law breaking terrorists, and then this happens the next day…

#50501movement #USnews

The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.

Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.

Trump says he’s made a decision on sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine — he just needs details on how they’ll be used. Two weeks?

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump + Beginning November 1st, 2025, all Medium and Heavy Duty Trucks coming into the United States from other Countries will be Tariffed at the Rate of 25%. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

More tariffs.

The Everything Recession — The Atlantic First Washington, then the nation?

Staring down the barrel of that #TrumpSlump

Trump says he’s ready to invoke the Insurrection Act but it hasn’t been necessary so far.

YouTube video by Michael Naphys Music Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (Acoustic Cover)

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (Acoustic Cover) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK30... #acousticcover #warrenzevon #excitableboy

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn ) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

They’re not acting like they’re in a four-year term.

They’re acting like they’re in an everlasting dictatorship.

Are we all clear on this?

Ukrainian drones once again hitting Belgorod. Most of the city is still blacked out after the thermal power plant was targeted last night.

#explodey

I live in Portland and I don’t feel unsafe, there is no war zone here, life is as normal. Protests all exist within a single city block that doesn’t affect me at all. Protestors are all in plainclothes or dumb cosplay, peaceful and unobstructive to anyone other than ICE

Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.

Here’s a tip for the ICE chads hiding their faces- if you’re zip tying children’s hands you’re not the fcking good guy.

Minnesota Hand Count Uncovers 6–8% Shift in Election Results Precinct 8 counted their ballots by hand, and the down-ballot anomalies disappeared. Again, math doesn’t lie. People do.

Minnesota Hand Count Uncovers 6-8% Shift in Election Results
District 8 counted their ballots by hand, and the down-ballot anomalies disappeared. Again, math doesn't lie. People do.

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ICE Building Social Media Surveillance Team to Hunt People Down ICE is gearing up to watch your every move.

The ICE terrorists are gearing up to violate your rights based on your social media posts. This is an intimidation tactic designed to silence you, a truly dystopian nightmare. Even so, we need to continue resisting these attacks on our liberty. Freedom dies in silence newrepublic.com/post/201328/...

As whooping cough cases rise, newborns most at risk, experts say - UPI.com When someone has whooping cough, the gasping "whoop" as they struggle to catch their breath between fits of coughing is unmistakable. Now, this once-rare illness is making a comeback in the U.S.

Are we great yet? www.upi.com/Health_News/...

Ballots are here!

VOTE YES on 50, California!

🚨STOP PROJECT 2025!!!😱

No more fighting the scourge of fascism with one arm tied behind our backs.

Feds plan ‘full investigation’ into Portland police after arrest of conservative journalist The U.S. Department of Justice says it will launch a widescale probe of the Portland Police Bureau following the arrest of a conservative online journalist and influencer Thursday.

Remember, the Feds aren't enforcing law anymore, they're punishing those who dare stand in the way of their fascist ambitions, even when it involves police arresting a propagandist trying to incite a riot. They're compromised. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

In the words of Chumbawamba, "They're out there burning houses down and peddling racist lies". Magats are a nazi terrorist death cult. time.com/7323442/sout...

Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From Ghislaine Maxwell

Excellent, for now. Pressure on Trump to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell will amp up.

#Epstein

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They hired Bari Weiss to stop this kind of info from being published. Wonder if Trump will magically no longer be underwater in the polls when she takes the helm

Bari Weiss would've of course worked for CBS without buying out her website, but the oligarch class wants to reward her for her years of service to their cause including her time as an infiltrator destroying the New York Times from the inside.

if you mute "bari weiss" make sure you also mute "bari fucking weiss" and "bari are you fucking for real right now weiss" and "bari no fucking way weiss."

just to make sure you catch 'em all.

Paramount Buys Bari Weiss’s the Free Press for $150 Million — The Wall Street Journal Weiss to take control of CBS News’s editorial vision, aiming for ‘news that reflects reality’

Slogans like “news that reflects reality” are always disturbing in an age where media groups often choose their own reality.

Reform poised to raise Kent council tax as Musk-inspired attack on costs falters ANNA GROSS - KENT Kent's local authority will probably raise council tax rates next year as Reform UK strugglesto find big savings under an Elon Musk-inspired cost-cutting drive. Kent was one of 10 councils that Nigel Farage's rightwing populist party seized in a swath of local election victories in May. He vowed to save "a lot of money" by abolishing "wasteful" spending. But Diane Morton, Reform's cabinet member for adult social care on Kent county council, told the Financial Times that services were already "down to the bare bones". "We've got more demand than ever before and it's growing." she said, stressing she did not believe access to those services should be limited. "We just want more money." As with many local authorities in England, the bulk of declined to say whether council tax Kent's budget went on adult and chil- would be raised but other Reform coun- dren's social care, as well as on children cillors said they wanted to avoid hitting with special educational needs, which the full 5 percent. together accounted for about 50 per Reform's experience highlights some cent of its £2.5bn annual expenditure. of the obstacles it may face in national All councils have a legal duty to bal- government if it won the next general ance their books and will set next year's election and pursued its pledge to slash budgets in February or March. Ahead of taxes and spending. "Everyone thought that, most councils in England are we d come in and there were going to be expected to increase council tax by 5 per these huge costs we could cut away but cent, the maximum allowed. there just aren't," said a third senior "I think it's going to be 5 per cent," Reform cabinet member in Kent. Morton said of where Kent would land Farage has set up a Reform Depart- on tax rises, adding that every 1 per cent ment of Government Efficiency team - increase equated to an extra E10mn. modelled on Musk's "Doge" i…

Anyone remember Reform promising to go into their new councils with DOGE-style units to slash “waste” and stop taxes from rising? Yeah, it went exactly as you’d expect if you put people in charge who have no idea how anything works.