Emmy in Ballard

Obama: As for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes and gold plating the Oval Office and building a ballroom… If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry. He will save you a dance.

What he said: 💯 🎯

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Olga Nesterova ‪@onestpress.onestnetwork.com‬ Per Danny Kemp via press pool Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL “Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”

So Trump has posted about 20 photos of the refurbished Lincoln Bathroom, which should satisfy the needs of the unemployed and hungry. In addition to looking pretty crummy, I have some questions about this toilet, which will have a great view of the new ballroom and vice versa.

This is some crazy 'let them eat cake' nonsense. Roaring Twenties parties and gold plated bathroom fixtures... Yikes.

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.

He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…

…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

Beautifully said.

Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

A few seconds of Kitty Zen from Callie:
(volume up!)

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?”

Mike Nellis (@mikenellis) Mike Johnson fucked up on CNN just now and admitted they're defunding SNAP as leverage to get Democrats to fold on the shutdown. Letting 40 million Americans go hungry just to try to win a political ...

substack.com/@mikenellis/...

I've wanted to see more of this for a long time. And I'd love to know if there is any longitudinal data that could tell us whether the public has become less informed over the years.

Money that could have been saved for retirement.

Hey all, have you tried the Make America Kittens Again app? Replaces photos of Donald with photos of kittens. Doesn’t work on all websites, but when it does it makes things easier. I think it’s $1.

This is why I bought a t-shirt that says “we tried to warn you”…

Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.

Jonathan Karl breaks news in "Retribution" — reprinting the calendar page where Mike Pence kept notes from the heated conversation he had with Trump on the morning of Jan. 6.

Trump to Pence: "You'll go down as a wimp ... I made a big mistake 5 years ago." tinyurl.com/bdub2m7u

Bari’s Bright Ideas (Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call. Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre. On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.” Layoffs, as previously reported by Breaker, are expected to begin on Wednesday morning. But that didn’t stop Weiss from announcing a new hire of sorts on Tuesday. Former Wall Street Journal Deputy Editor…

Turns out the kinds of story ideas your friends and family found so charming at your bespoke blog don't land so well when you're assigning them to real journalists who believe they should be covering real news.

www.breakermedia.com/p/air-mail-s...

And what irks me is ICE and others never learned you never ever point a gun straight at a person. That’s rule number one about handling a gun.

The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies.

Trump just won’t release it.

440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.

I'm retired but as a freelancer I used Obamacare. It meant I could save money for retirement instead of all my profit going to pay health insurance premiums.

He was just about to salute the trumpeters.

I have a very bad feeling about this...

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

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.

While Donald Trump builds his knock-off Versailles on White House grounds, his government shutdown is depriving millions of Californians of federal food assistance.

Trump and his lapdog Congress just don't care, period.

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 27 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

REPUBLICANS LIE All of em

This clip is from the great @jesscraven101.bsky.social

FUNDING FOR SNAP BENEFITS IS AVAILABLE
Republicans blame Dems & try callous cruelty to America

There is a 5-6 billion dollar
contingency fund