#TrumpShutdown ps: #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles Voters say they’ll blame Republicans for a government shutdown 52% of US adults agree with Democrats refusing to sign a funding bill unless Republicans restore health care spending to pre-OBBB levels. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/who-will-v...

Ukraine’s frontline cities filled with dread and defiance Reuters was in the frontline cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk where Russian kamikaze drones hover in the skies looking for targets, forcing tens of thousands to choose: Do I stay or do I go? www.reuters.com/world/ukrain...

Putin’s propaganda flips reality on flights over NATO nations, as Russian public tires of war As support for continuing the war drops to an all-time low, the Kremlin pushes a “Russia vs. the West” narrative to boost public morale. www.politico.eu/article/vlad...

No more ‘woke’ in the US military: key takeaways from Pete Hegseth’s speech Pentagon chief railed against diversity and fat-shamed the troops as he directed his generals to fall in line – or quit www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Elon Musk hit by exodus of senior staff over burnout and politics Musk’s business empire has been hit by a wave of senior departures over the past year, as the billionaire’s relentless demands and political activism accelerate turnover among his top ranks www.ft.com/content/21ec...

Trump’s Shortsighted Campaign of Vengeance Is Already Backfiring As the president knows too well, efforts to censor or convict foes can often make them more popular. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Multiple Federal Agencies Blame ‘Radical’ Left and Democrats for Shutdown Agencies including the housing department and Veterans Affairs used unusually partisan language to blame liberals and congressional Democrats for the pending government shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

5 Takeaways From Trump’s Address to Generals and Admirals The president leveraged the meeting as his chance to trumpet his domestic and foreign policy moves. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

‘His drug is power’: Lukashenko reaches out to the west President of Belarus has been edging out of the diplomatic freeze, cautiously probing for space beyond Moscow www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Trump’s ominous move to recruit generals and admirals to his political cause www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

Trump Says ‘A Lot Of Good’ Could Come From Government Shutdown President Donald Trump threatened to fire scores of federal workers as the US hurtles toward a shutdown with Democrats and Republicans at an impasse to fund the federal government. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It Is Now the Seventh Day – Something That Has Never Happened Before – Of an Emergency Situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant – Address by the President — Official website of the President of Ukraine: www.president.gov.ua/en/news/uzhe...

Trump says he'll fire generals "on the spot" if he dislikes them Paired with Pete Hegseth's speech urging military leaders to embrace the new MAGA military or resign Trump's comment lays bare his intention of bringing in new generals more aligned with him www.axios.com/2025/09/30/t...

Trump’s Grand Plan for a Government Shutdown The Trump administration might use a shutdown to finish the job that DOGE started. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Fact check: Trump falsely claims Democrats want to give free health care to ‘illegal aliens’ in government shutdown battle www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

The Extortionist-in-chief and most corrupt President in US history strikes again. YouTube to pay Trump $22 million for suspending his account after Jan. 6 riot www.axios.com/2025/09/29/y...

We Are Planning Contracts and Production to Ensure That Our Arsenals Are Sufficiently Supplied – Address by the President — Official website of the President of Ukraine: www.president.gov.ua/en/news/plan...

The Trump adminstration will have a hard time spinning this one to blame 'leftist extremist liberals. Thomas Jacob Sanford: Mormon church shooter was Marine ‘who supported Trump’ www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

State-run attorney-disciplinary committees, however, will continue their operations uninterrupted

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

⚡️Russia plants booby-trapped “firewood” mines to kill civilians in Kharkiv region.

Morning coffee when Russia is your neighbor.

The Sunday Times has published an investigation that reveals the identities of the 13 commanding officers in charge of Russian troops accused of the #Bucha massacres. Their identities have been compiled by independent lawyers and investigators using open-source intelligence🔽

The below post is from CBS Chicago reporter Asal Rezaei yesterday. It comes one day after Chicago journalist Steve Held was detained while covering a protest outside the Broadview immigration facility. Absolutely inexcusable attack perpetrated by an ICE thug. He should be fired immediately! 😡

Today, Ukraine commemorates the Babyn Yar massacre - one of WWII’s darkest chapters. In Sept 1941, Nazis executed tens of thousands, mainly Kyiv’s Jews, along with Roma, POWs, and civilians. Babyn Yar stands as a symbol of Holocaust horrors. We remember to prevent history from repeating.

…yep, the war rages on.

So rough out here!

From our totally horrific bike ride this weekend.

Oregon sued the Trump administration over an order to deploy National Guard troops in Portland, with President Trump authorizing the Guard to use “full force, if necessary” in the city. https://wapo.st/4mBSbOb

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

Also went to Columbia Park during golden hour. So war-ravaged!

It would be cool if we had a Congress.

⚡️'Confirmation of Kremlin state policy' — Ukraine slams Russia's withdrawal from torture prevention convention.

Utilities, groceries, health care premiums all going sky high, and he’s blabbering on like he’s Louis XIV in Versailles.

“Motherfucking wind farms. Loud, ugly, harmful to nature,” the Pulp Fiction actor says. Then, shaking his head knowingly and shifting his tone, he adds, “Who says that?"

Another way of looking at it

Saturday: Dinner at Mis Tacones on apocalyptic NE Killingsworth.

Faber lapt de wet aan haar laars. Wat nu? www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/nsc...

One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.

I did it. I added some Keystone Cops music to this:

It’s crazy that they’re making it out as if Melania walking up a stopped escalator was her own Omaha Beach….

via @lincolnsquare.media 🚨 Federal ICE THUGS on top of the Broadview, IL federal building ROOF are SHOOTING non-lethal rounds, including pepper balls and tear gas, at protesters AND the media who pose no threat behind a locked fence. Americans are being shot at for exercising their rights.

The MAGAs don't want to talk about the fact that a Trump voter burned down a church full of Mormons yesterday, so they're currently bitching about the Super Bowl halftime show (too Puerto Rican for them)

Who asked for this?

Here's Nigel Max Edge and Thomas Jacob Sanford. Both committed mass shootings within 24 hours of one another. Two more cases of White on White crime. Is it the fatherlessness in the White community? Are they Inherently violent because of their race? Or, is it the guns? Sip it slowly. 🔥☕️

"Belgorod was struck with HIMARS missiles yesterday. The power was out for many hours. We're at war, everyone's f*cking fighting against us!" Russian propagandists are in panic after yesterday's strikes on Russian energy infrastructure.

There's a lot of em.

Troops gathering to protect the Sellwood waterfront