The front page of today’s @nydailynews.com.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

Tonight was a very bad night.

Any deal that does not include an extension of #ACA subsidies should be a nonstarter for Dems— But at least 10 Senate #Dems are expected to support a procedural motion to end shutdown

No health care, no deal.

It should be that simple.

Episode 961: "Open Offer" is out! @imbou.bsky.social is recovering from surgery, so @abulsme.com is joined by Ed and Bruce this week, and they pick the topics. We've got everything from tariffs at SCOTUS to advice for Sam to... https://curmudgeons-corner.com/ccep.php?epnum=961 #podcast #USPol

This move by Democrats today (which I called for 2 weeks ago) really exposed the Republican position. It smoked them out in the open. They refuse to extend the ACA subsidies which will cause insurance premiums to go up for 22 million people. It’s not about anything else.

Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath? Character isn't something you tell people about. It's something you live.

A woman working as a cleaner was shot dead after she arrived at the wrong address for a cleaning job in Whitestown, Indiana. Police said they found the woman dead on the front porch, after responding to a call about a “possible home invasion.”

Jeanine Pirro bragging in August that she just arrested Sandwich Guy and was going to teach him a lesson in court.

The SNAP contingency fund holds around $6 billion. Trump refuses to spend it on the American people. The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina. Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.

@imbou.bsky.social listens to @abulsme.com rave about how the battery life on his iPhone 17 Pro Max compares to his ancient iPhone 12 Pro Max. -- Clip from the 2025-10-10 episode of the Curmudgeon's Corner #podcast

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

@abulsme.com and @imbou.bsky.social talk about their view that driver assist tech is more dangerous than fully autonomous driving tech, so until we really have the latter, we're in a hazardous zone. -- Clip from the 2025-10-10 episode of the Curmudgeon's Corner #podcast

@abulsme.com listens to @imbou.bsky.social rant about what he calls the GOP's "Lie Generating Machine" and discusses the complete breakdown of cross-partisan trust. -- Clip from the 2025-10-10 episode of the Curmudgeon's Corner #podcast

@imbou.bsky.social and @abulsme.com joke about the Q-Anon Shaman's lawsuit for $40 Trillion. -- Clip from the 2025-10-04 episode of the Curmudgeon's Corner #podcast

@imbou.bsky.social tries to convince @abulsme.com that at this particular point of time, having the government shut down may actually not be that bad. -- Clip from the 2025-10-04 episode of the Curmudgeon's Corner #podcast

Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone? Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate. They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.

Wow! Very impressive for them to do all of this in 2020 while Trump was president and they weren't in the government! Very normal post from the President of the United States!

Episode 959: "Second Choices" is out! @abulsme.com and @imbou.bsky.social discuss the Maine Senate race as their big newsy topic this week. They also hit on the Virginia Giuffre book, Trump's attempt to pay himself, and of... https://curmudgeons-corner.com/ccep.php?epnum=959 #podcast #USPol

We are recording the next Curmudgeon's Corner episode right now! Join us on YouTube for the video livestream! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxYyl8SZ94s ...or wait a few days for the finalized audio version. 🙂 #podcast #livestream #USPol

Priorities.

Reason, on all the shameless lying Tricia McLaughlin does. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...

Trump and Stephen Miller’s authoritarian playbook is painfully predictable: 1️⃣ Target a Democratic city 2️⃣ Lie about crime 3️⃣ Deploy heavily armed agents to aggressively detain innocent people and violate their rights 4️⃣ Create stress and chaos 5️⃣ Use self-created chaos as excuse for militarization

Arizona A.G. Kris Mayes explains why she is suing Mike Johnson for not swearing Adelita Grijalva into office. "By not swearing her in he's depriving 813,000 Arizonans of representation. That's called taxation without representation. We fought a revolutionary war over that."

Episode 958: "Welcome To Be Here" is out! On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner @imbou.bsky.social is away, but @abulsme.com bumps into Emily at No Kings 2, and she joins him for the rest of the show. They talk about movies and... https://curmudgeons-corner.com/ccep.php?epnum=958 #podcast #USPol

AOC: The problem is that the Trump administration, they think that destroying our health care, making sure that housing is too expensive to live in, that jacking up the cost of our groceries—they think all of this is about hurting Democrats. What they are doing is hurting Americans

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals  You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

Neguse: "What Trump is attempting to do is create a perception that he has all the power & create a sense of hopelessness or helplessness in the public. We've gotta resist the temptation. He's electorally unpopular. In fact, the most unpopular POTUS at this juncture than any modern POTUS in history"

Public health should never be politicized.   In the wake of the federal government abandoning science for conspiracy theories, it's up to governors to step up.   Proud to join my colleagues in the Governors Public Health Alliance to keep communities safe and put our people first.

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

Trump is stooping so low that he’s gutting the federal Office of Special Education. Attacking students with disabilities is wrong. Every child in America deserves a fair shot at success.

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

Portland, OR, 2025

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois. We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

I love that we live in a world where we're all supposed to now praise Trump for his peace-making and ignore the fact that at least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed on his watch, with bombs & bullets - & rhetorical support! - that he supplied to Israel. That's all erased now.

A Chicago citizen confronts the hypocrisy of a fellow Hispanic man working for ICE, shaming him and making a powerful point by asking how his family ended up in the United States.

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

Normally, I'm wildly opposed to disseminating Trump's Truth Social posts, but I'm making an exception here.