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OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

As someone who relies on her paycheck to live, this is scary: www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

So? Using it under a headline about Portland is misleading.

I had a bullet go through my bedroom window and I still have never felt less safe than I have these past few months. turns out you can't really feel safe in a city when you watch your neighbors get yanked out of their cars by masked thugs! Imagine that.

THAT IS A PICTURE FROM THE LA RIOTS IN 1992

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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S.F. rent surge is outpacing every big U.S. city. Here’s what’s driving the increase San Francisco rentals are leasing faster and pricing higher than they have at any point since the pandemic.

Rent is skyrocketing in SF. “But prices in Oakland, which saw a boom of downtown apartment construction right before the pandemic, are still much softer than they were in 2019. Prices are down 21% from six years ago”

www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Making these tonight after having done the same! :D

the smosh potato is less of a recipe and more of a technique for getting a potato with a creamy center and cronchy edges
there are many ways to make these such as boiling and pan frying or roasting and deep frying but here is one that uses just one cookie sheet and a ziploc bag for minimal cleanup

Which is an entirely different situation. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Or the GOP could negotiate with Dems or end the filibuster. Saying there’s no right answer when the GOP controls both chambers and the White House is mind-boggling.

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

Millions of moms and young kids could lose WIC food assistance within two weeks amid shutdown | CNN Politics

Barbie Anderson is trying to conserve the milk her three young children drink in case she doesn’t get her WIC benefits on October 15 as scheduled.

So cool! Brennan Gilmore captured this photo of Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) on Saturday about 10 miles east of Charlottesville.

This comet might become visible to the naked eye later this month.

More info at cwg.live

Condolences.

WTH. You have BLM in your bio and you do this ridiculous BS? Swapping out white for Black is ridiculous, both historically and in the present moment. We have different histories and current situations! YOU need to look in the mirror!

Or they have other priorities.

Am I old enough to remember WJC using that turn of phrase?

Judge’s $1.5M beachfront home destroyed in massive fire as husband hospitalized The incident happened around 11:30 a.m. as Goodstein's four-bedroom, four-bath home, worth $1,155,200, went up in smoke. The cause of the devastating fire remains unknown as of now.

Found it. The judge.

www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

A great many delusions here, but also: Noah Smith is in his early 40s. Even without googling, he was alive for all of this. So was I.

Has he scrambled his brain so badly he has fake memories of the 90s in which the American left cheered Communism and then, after 9/11, allied with Al Qaeda?

Adorbs! 😍

Gross, Kristin.

cool website you've got here, @jay.bsky.team

Yup.

I've had employer-provided Healthcare my entire working life

But the ACA permitted me to change jobs without all of the Healthcare costs for my disabled wife to be 100% uncovered due to "pre-existing conditions"

Just because you dont get your insurance through an exchange, you still use ACA

We should fix it now means …??

You really put a “but” in there? Why?

It appears that the federal agents occupying Portland have people embedded with them charged with the task of producing stories presenting the government’s version of events. Ironically, this was the sort of work JD Vance did in Iraq before he decided he was against that war.

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