Camp Mystic Will Reopen Over Objections From Parents of the Dead Twenty-seven children and counselors died in the Texas Hill Country camp, and many of their families expressed shock that the retreat on the Guadalupe River would be open for its 100th anniversary. tinyurl.com/wOvrzH

Trump Upends Shutdown Talks With Democrats as Deadline Nears Trump said Democrats must drop their demands for renewing health care subsidies and ending Medicaid cuts before he’ll agree to negotiate with congressional leaders tinyurl.com/rIvqlC

The Secret Service seized a network capable of shutting down New York City's cell service The Secret Service says it thwarted a telecommunications cyber-op in New York City. The agency announced that it seized a network of SIM servers. It was capable of jamming cell towers. tinyurl.com/gAlrxQ

FCC chair doubles down on Jimmy Kimmel hours before show set to return FCC Chair Brendan Carr is doubling down on his attempt to punish Jimmy Kimmel — and now blames Democrats for the wave of backlash after Disney and ABC pulled the show last week. www.rawstory.com/jimmy-kimmel...

Super Typhoon Ragasa Soaks Hong Kong, Death Toll In Taiwan Rises 14 people dead in Taiwan after barrier lake overflows. Super Typhoon Ragasa, the world's most powerful tropical cyclone this year, lashed Hong Kong with hurricane-force winds and torrential rain on Wednesday tinyurl.com/tEpxqL

FINAL SCORE: New York Mets 9 Chicago Cubs 7 The Cubs really need some help. After tonight’s loss at Wrigley, the Cubs have now lost FIVE IN A ROW. The last time that happened was in May…OF LAST YEAR. Game #2 of the three game series is tomorrow night.

The Jimmy Kimmel battle is far from over — and it’s exposing a deep fracture in broadcast TV With Sinclair refusing to air Kimmel’s show on its ABC-affiliated stations, and Nexstar continuing to preempt the late-night show, this free speech tug-of-war is far from over. tinyurl.com/hEbpfX

Elon Musk’s Father Accused of Child Sexual Abuse Errol Musk has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993, a Times investigation found. Family members have appealed to Elon Musk for help. tinyurl.com/wInrzL

Rural Georgia hospital plans to close its labor and delivery unit, in part due to Medicaid cuts St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will discontinue its maternal health services next month as its parent company moves to consolidate OB/GYN services. tinyurl.com/jEzpfQ

Trump Assassination Plotter Attempts Suicide in Courtroom Drama Ryan Wesley Routh attempted to stab himself in the neck with a pen after he was found guilty on all charges related to his attempt to assassinate Donald Trump last year, according to reports from the scene. tinyurl.com/gUvpdX

Can Progressive Mayors Redeem the Democratic Party? Much has been made recently of the plight of the congressional Democratic Party, as it struggles to find a response to President Donald Trump’s unprecedented assault on our system of government. tinyurl.com/qOgmzH

PENTAGON OFFICIALS RIDICULE HEGSETH’S PLAN TO STOP WAR DEPT LEAKS Three current Pentagon officials decried a new War Department policy designed to restrict press freedom. The Department said it will forbid reporters from gathering any information that had not been approved. tinyurl.com/sOkqDb

What policymakers need to know about China’s role in US drug supply chains and what to do about it Policymakers are increasingly concerned that a major geopolitical conflict with China could disrupt U.S. drug supply chains, causing widespread drug shortages. tinyurl.com/sOqhxT

FCC chair doubles down on Jimmy Kimmel hours before show set to return FCC Chair Brendan Carr is doubling down on his attempt to punish Jimmy Kimmel — and now blames Democrats for the wave of backlash after Disney and ABC pulled the show last week. www.rawstory.com/jimmy-kimmel...

Denmark Links Drones at Copenhagen Airport to Hybrid Attack Across Europe Denmark said drones that halted flights at its main airport on Monday were the most serious attack yet on its critical infrastructure and linked them to a series of suspected Russian drone incursion. tinyurl.com/vOqbtJ

After Meeting With Zelensky at U.N., Trump Shifts Stance on Russia President Trump said Ukraine might be able to reclaim all its lost territory in the war against Russia. He previously said NATO countries should shoot down military aircraft that enter their airspace. tinyurl.com/mExptL

ABS Challenge System coming to MLB full time in '26 The Joint Competition Committee voted Tuesday afternoon to bring the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System, powered by T-Mobile, to the big leagues following several years of experimentation

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Trump Takes His Many Lies And Grievances To The United Nations Trump took his familiar lies about his accomplishments to the UN Tuesday while also complaining about a malfunctioning escalator and teleprompter. tinyurl.com/qUmdkS

Cruise Passenger Sent Chilling Text Before Going Missing An American tourist who vanished during a cruise left staff a chilling message telling them not to come looking for her. Jessica Collins, 47, left a Carnival Horizon cruise ship after it stopped in Bonaire on Sept. 17. tinyurl.com/vEqlFv

Trump Antifa Order Seen as a Weapon to Attack Left-Wing Speech, Protests “The order appears to be a green light to law enforcement and intelligence to spy on and investigate left-wing political speech,” said one First Amendment advocate. tinyurl.com/wIvlwC

Always obvious, the Trump-Nixon parallels are now downright uncanny Until very recently, the consensus among historians and political observers was that Richard Nixon was the most corrupt president in American history. tinyurl.com/jYxlwW

Leavett: “Homan Never Took the $50k Cash” He Was Caught On Video Taking There is one constant with Trump: they cover for each other, no matter the crime. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denied the massive scandal involving Trump's border czar, Tom Homan. tinyurl.com/rIlfzQ

NASA plans first crewed Moon mission in 50 years for February Nasa said it hopes to send astronauts on a ten day trip around the Moon as soon as February. The agency had previously committed to launching no later than the end of April. tinyurl.com/gOvlwH

Trump Decides to Own the Shutdown TRUMP: “They are threatening to shut down the Government of the United States unless they can have over $1 Trillion Dollars in new spending to continue free healthcare for Illegal Aliens (A monumental cost!).” tinyurl.com/tYqclD

Trump Is Running “the Most Corrupt Administration” in U.S. History Representative Greg Casar says the Trump administration is an alliance of the superwealthy and the right-wing—and that Democrats can defeat them by becoming a pro-worker, anti-billionaire party. tinyurl.com/hUsmtP

Eric Trump’s Latest Sales Pitch Gets Instantly Repurposed Online A promotional blurb touts the 288-page book as an “eye-opening memoir” in which the Trump scion “relays surprising and gripping moments throughout his life and career as part of America’s most powerful family.” tinyurl.com/xYlwnG

Trump whines about 'brutal slog' of governing as he cancels shutdown meeting with Dems Trump canceled a meeting with top Democrats, stating that he did not want to deal with the “long and brutal slog” of governing. www.rawstory.com/trump-govern...

White House quickly changes its story after Tom Homan bribery revelations The White House is changing its story around “border czar” Tom Homan accepting a $50,000 bribe as Donald Trump’s administration was coming into office. www.rawstory.com/tom-homan-26...

US Could Hit Entire International Criminal Courts With Sanctions Soon The US is considering imposing sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court, putting the day-to-day operations in jeopardy in retaliation for investigations of suspected Israeli war crimes.

In Israel, Government Backlash Brews Over Palestinian State Recognition As more countries moved to formally recognize a Palestinian state, a far-right member of Israel’s government called for “countermeasures” including the annexation of the West Bank. tinyurl.com/vEmtzF

This is a photograph of Trump with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika. If there was a thought bubble over Trump’s head, it would say “She wants me!”

Former Chicago Cubs stalwart Kyle Hendricks will probably retire at the end of this season. According to baseball writer Bob Nightengale, Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Kyle Hendrix is planning on retiring. He was an integral part of the Cubs for eleven seasons.

No on 50 advisers worry they are losing attention war to Newsom Charles Munger Jr. is back on the scene after years in the wilderness, having spent $30 million in just a month to protect the independent redistricting process he helped create. tinyurl.com/vElctH

Trump backer running for Wisconsin governor followed sexually explicit accounts online A Republican manufacturer running for governor in Wisconsin as a supporter of “family values” and Trump followed numerous sexually explicit accounts online. tinyurl.com/tAvpfQ

Colombian musicians found dead in Mexico as homicide probe begins The bodies of two Colombian musicians who went missing last week in Mexico have been found, a day after Colombia's president made a plea to his Mexican counterpart to help find the artists. tinyurl.com/hYxlzR

Who here would bet that Trump thinks the West Bank is a financial institution? Raise your hand.

How Israel’s West Bank Strategy Aims To Bury Palestinian Statehood Home to 2.7 million Palestinians, the Israeli-occupied West Bank has long been at the heart of plans for a future nation existing alongside Israel. tinyurl.com/wEmtcJ

WHO REMEMBERS PLAYING “STRATEGO”? I need to find a set and challenge my neighbors. 🤠

I really enjoy sharing news stories with you all here on Blue Sky. I sincerely hope that I bring a few things to your attention that, maybe, we all need to know about. AND it’s too easy to call Trump clever little insulting nicknames. But I will refrain from that. It’s too easy.

The idea for Trump's latest assault should chill you to the bone 2/4/1939, seven months before their invasion of Poland kicked off World War II, the man with responsibility for German media officially forbade five comedians from ever again performing in public. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Trump’s Handpicked Prosecutor Takes Over Comey and James Cases Trump is pushing up against the statute of limitations in his pursuit of charges against a former F.B.I. director, and also wants the attorney general of New York and a California senator prosecuted. tinyurl.com/zEmtcK

Ukraine hits 2 Russian amphibious aircraft in occupied Crimea “This is the first-ever strike on a Be-12 in history," the agency said. The Prymary unit has been responsible for a number of successful drone strikes against Russian military assets during the full-scale war. tinyurl.com/bUcqpF

“Idiot Donnie” Promotes Unproven Ties to Autism With a Common Painkiller and Vaccines Trump, speaking at the White House, gave direct and unproven medical advice contradicting decades of research about vaccines and the use of a common painkiller in pregnancy and infancy. tinyurl.com/rEvpxF

Kristi Noem shocks with out-of-control screaming at DHS staff meeting The former SD governor and her de facto chief of staff Corey Lewandowski gathered DHS officials to complain about June reports showing she demanded to personally sign off on payments over $100K. www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...

Trump’s Tax Cut Is Underwater. Can a ‘Refund Boom’ Save It? Republicans admit there is a problem with the broad tax and health care law they passed this summer. They are hoping a new name, and some ready cash, can fix it. tinyurl.com/gUwltC

Jimmy Kimmel’s Show to Return to ABC on Tuesday Night “Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” the Walt Disney Company, ABC’s parent company, said in a statement tinyurl.com/dObtxP

Jon Stewart and Chorus sing “Go Fu*k Yourself”! m.youtube.com/watch?v=v8MV...

‘What an idiot!' Trump gets no mercy after confused blunder wrongly puts 2 nations at war In a speech carried by C-SPAN, Trump claimed to have stopped a war between Armenia and Cambodia, two countries on different sides of Asia. www.rawstory.com/trump-armenia/