Found some color!

I’m pissed off because I finally have time this trip to stop and take my kids to all the national monuments I’ve been wanting them to see, but I can’t because the government is closed because republicans don’t want us to have healthcare or see the Epstein files!!!

Went to the forest today.

Painter and television host Bob Ross' original work will be auctioned off to help support public television stations after funding was cut by the Trump administration.

I had to break it to my dad that he got duped by a deepfake video of Sanjay Gupta into buying a supplement that he hoped would help my mom’s dementia. He said, “well there goes all my hope”. It’s so heartbreaking.

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Tried to search for some ideas of what to do for my 20th anniversary and the AI suggested a trip to China. Will not be doing that.

A “rise in school vouchers” is once again forcing public school closures — now in Amphi schools, one of Tucson’s most historic districts. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

He's so proud of lying to the American people about Project 2025 and can't stop gloating about it any chance he gets.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

1. UPDATE: Billionaire Rob Citrone, whose hedge fund bet heavily on Argentina, pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, his longtime friend and former colleague, to rescue the country, according to Argentine media. Shortly thereafter, Bessent announced a $20 billion taxpayer-funded bailout.

I have to go in for a fasting blood draw today, so I have to drink my coffee clear this morning.

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

“I saw several co-workers who were walked out, crying, saying, ‘How could he do this? I voted for him!’” --What happened when DOGE came for one of this Trump-loving area's largest employers--the IRS. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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I did not expect this kind of fire from Eliot Cohen, but he has Hegseth absolutely pegged www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

Someone’s finally saying it aloud!

basic pattern in 2025 polling -repolarization on age and race/ethnicity, with the shifts to Trump in 2024 among young and non-white voters being more or less wiped out but paired with -increased gender polarization

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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

You know it’s the end of the month when you’re getting three fundraising texts per hour.

Hegseth says it's okay to commit war crimes. Not you, fatty.

Two senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal. The Democratic alternative CR had language that would address this, but the White House came out strongly against.

From basic we were trained to obey the laws of warfare, though the bad guys never would. There’s tactical benefit in morale, cohesion and esprit knowing, “We’re the good guys” that Hegseth is totally missing. You lose that when your drone strike levels a school full of kids to kill one terrorist.

This passage nearly broke me.

They flew generals all the way from their assignments to watch a Major in the U.S. Army National Guard’s give a Ted talk about the “Manosphere”.

The is currently the front page of hud dot gov #hatchact

Feature, not bug www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My oldest became good friends with a sweet, soft-spoken, delicate-looking girl, who’d moved here from abroad. She graduated HS a year ago and joined the military as soon as she turned 18 because it’s what her stepdad told her to do. I worry about her every day.

This is so sad. He leaves four kids, another son about to be born, and his US citizen wife (per NPR reporting yesterday). A breadwinner and homeowner; “they were trying to get him permanent residency” www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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I don’t understand how people can read without hearing a voice saying the words in their head. How do you know what the words say if you don’t hear them?

* BLS: BLS WILL SUSPEND ALL OPERATIONS IN EVENT OF GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN * US ECONOMIC DATA RELEASES TO PAUSE IN GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS SAYS * BLS: ALL ACTIVE DATA COLLECTION ACTIVITIES FOR BLS SURVEYS WILL CEASE IN EVENT OF GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN @reuters.com

If RFK makes abortion pills less accessible, more people will be pregnant against their will. The Trump admin just told women to "tough out" symptoms that could cause miscarriage, birth defects, and premature birth

Yes, the trend for teen age dresses is really short and often skimpy right now, BUT all the girls I know wear shorts underneath, whereas when I was a teen, we were just wearing thongs. So I think this is an improvement.

Got double yolks in the duck eggs we bought at the farmers’ market.

I’m telling you, there’s just not enough outrage about the craven actions of Speaker Mike Johnson.

there’s a plane! a pretty girl! maybe an island! those are the files you all wanted, right?

One puzzle we’re going to have to solve after Trump is how to rebuild trust in institutions. You can and should say “don’t listen to the CDC here”, but that’s also undermine trust in institutions, which is also part of their agenda. It’s a nasty little trap and I don’t know how to get out of it.

My husband sent me a facebook reel about how every couple has the person who cares about expiration dates, and the one who is willing to risk everyone’s life. If there was any question about who holds each role in my house, 5 hrs later he tried to feed me bacon that expired a month ago.

Arguing with the husband about if it’s a good idea to feed the dogs heavy whipping cream.

My HS senior has been trying to get her little sister to let her help her with her math homework for forever now, and the dream finally came true tonight. She is sounding like such a professional tutor, and she’s so excited about it.

when you're out of ideas

www.azcentral.com/story/news/p... Speaker Johnson could stop the swearing in of newly elected Adelita Grijalva until the her election win is certified that could be in early October Anything to stop the Massie and Khanna vote RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

According to a new report from New York Magazine, Kristi Noem might be the face of the Department of Homeland Security, but Corey Lewandowski is running the show. www.jezebel.com/you-know-ice...

First they came for James Comey and I said, "Huh, ironic... But still very bad."