A lovely vista of mountains receding into the misty golden distance. In the foreground, the following verbiage: Fuck off. Then keep fucking off. Fuck off until you come up to a gate with a sign saying “You Can’t Fuck Off Past Here.” Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever.

I saved this image years ago, sadly cannot now recall the source/credit. An aspirational sentiment to share with those you *loathe.*

Dems must HOLD - THE - LINE! The GOP is pulling out all the stops to make the shutdown as painful as possible in hopes Dems will blink first.
Dems, lock on like an old-time bulldog & let the GOP beast exhaust itself trying to get away from the consequences of its own actions. Ultimately, it won’t.

This may be happening and I have just missed it…but it seems like an opportunity for House Democrats to let it be known they are donating all pay received during the shutdown, and challenge why Republicans are keeping *theirs.*

Screen grab from the God Podcast article “Bless This Reporter For Fact-Checking Trump To His Face.” Photo shows an enfeebled elderly man with a strange, square-topped white hairdo and puffy, half-closed eyes, slumped low in an executive-style office chair and holding his left arm in front of his chest in a contorted position that suggests stroke.

Quite aside from everything else in Your letter, God, this photo shows the advanced state of physical decay of its subject.

That was a very good year! My whole life changed trajectory that year, in the best possible way!

You win BlueSky today! 😆

🤣🤣🤣 oh god I snorted my election-celebration margarita!

*Thank you* for posting this. I had purchased some for my 90-year-old mother so…mad scramble to the freezer.

Shows list including “Notice” (the judge’s directive) and statements from Departments of Commerce, Homeland Sec, Justice, Education, Energy, EPA, HHS, HUD, Interior, & Treasury.

These are the agencies/statements:

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Nov. 4 update to the AFGE vs. OMB suit over apparent plans by some Fed agencies to run RIFS during the shutdown: earlier,
Judge Susan Illston had ordered these agencies to provide statements regarding RIF plans. Ten statements are posted & downloadable from link (scroll down to Nov. 4):

What kind of questions were asked during jury selection to rule people in or out??

I see what you did there 😁

Cloudless climes?

“Portals.” Accounts for medical affairs are now called “portals.” And boy, they don’t like it when you decline to set one up and insist on phone calls and paper copies.

I know I could get into trouble for posting the Antifa battle flag, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

I’m a mom and can confirm that sometime or another, every mother out there has felt just like Jeff looks. 🙋🏻‍♀️

I am sorry you’re going through this (again). I’ve been in a similar place and it is numbing, heartrending, and exhausting all at the same time. Hugs to you. 😢

Always pensive, now this song is heartachingly sad.

Agree, all the garbage Hatch Act-violating verbiage is coming from the Trump appointees installed at agencies, NOT the career status federal employees.

In the weekly “VA News” email to vets enrolled in the system. I got it. 😡

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 for the alt text!

Thank you for all this info. Will send to a West Coast Fed entering their first shutdown, at an office 50% staffed and with no HR onsite. ☹️

Seconded.

The expressions in the audience say it all. Absolute stone.

Same! 😂

😞

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I thought it had that Austal “look”…their design in the attached article is also a “look”…and not an attractive one. Hopefully its seakeeping ability is worth the ugly.

This story gave me goosebumps. Thank you for sharing.

Hulu website screenshot that reads “Sorry for the inconvenience, our system is currently down. Please try again later.”

Done, just now. When I confirmed cancellation, up popped an offer to provide comments. I accepted, but the next screen was this:

One of my two favorite poems. This, and The Waste Land.