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Amy Poehler Understood the Assignment The actor was the perfect host for the actual 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live.

While Amy Poehler can snark with the best of the cast on SNL’s latest episode, which aired on the same day as the show's premiere 50 years ago, "she always radiates a palpable compassion," Michael Tedder writes:

Obamacare was designed to fail, which is why we’ve been attempting to repeal and/or sabotage it for the better part of two decades now.

NEW JERSEY POLL - Governor

🔵 Mikie Sherill: 46%
🔴 Jack Ciattarelli: 40%
🟡 Other: 4%
⚪️ Not sure: 9%

Rasmussen Poll

Yea, if Rasmussen has this race at Sherill +6, she's safe lol

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.

SAMHSA is responsible for overseeing the new 988 suicide prevention hotline. It also gives out billions in grants for mental health and addiction services. It was created in 1992 through bipartisan legislation signed by then-President George H.W. Bush.
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Despite having what many see as an essential role in protecting the nation's mental health, SAMHSA has not been viewed favorably by the current administration, Trump calling it a 'liberal' department...

Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.

SAMHSA has now been slashed in half compared to where it was before this fascist regime took over. I really hate this timeline. But if you get rid of SAMHSA, NIDA, CDC, AND health research, I guess Tangerine Palpatine hopes a dementia diagnosis can disappear because it won’t exist then, right? 🤦🏻‍♀️

Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.

""I think the general feeling today is shock — and not understanding why?" the source told NPR.

[T]he total number of employees at SAMHSA who lost their jobs was around 125, []. SAMHSA had employed around 900 people at the start of th[e year], but had already lost a third of that [] in the spring."

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Donald Trump Says He Doesn't Think He's 'Heaven-Bound' After Fundraising for Help Getting There President Donald Trump is once again referencing his wish to be 'heaven-bound.' Speaking to press aboard Air Force One on Oct. 12, the president joked, 'I think I'm not maybe heaven-bound.'

why does he keep bringing this up people.com/donald-trump...

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

I believe that Trump, Mike Johnson and Greg Abbott should not have started this and continued with it in multiple states to rig the midterms. No Democrats want this, but we can’t unilaterally disarm in the face of multiple threats to fair representation nationwide.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Terrible movie, but like you said, visually stunning. The primary colors, my god!

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE. A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

Stafford misses wide open guys but makes the insane shit. I can't take this. Might as well do meth

Zelensky: "We will be very happy to nominate President Trump next year for the Nobel Prize if he will...pressure and stop Putin...God bless that he can do it, of course in this case we will nominate him and we will be proud to congratulate him."

Ex-Trump White House Attorney Ty
Cobb: “Trump is waging war on people who offend him… I think it will take at least a generation for 🇺🇸 to regain the freedoms we enjoyed 9 months ago.”

I have some bad news for Yale Law School if they teach their students to ask whether someone has “violated a crime” (twice in three sentences!).

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View of Upper Yosemite Fall

Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park


#NPS #NationalParkService #Yosemite

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

Bullshit.

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog


S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.


(So, no, he didn't)

Top House leaders signaled today that there’s virtually no appetite for their parties to cross the aisle and engage with the other side’s demands to pass a bill to reopen the government.
https://cnn.it/46NqlKp

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision