Happy Halloween, you little ghouls: I have compiled an especially spooky, scary morning news for you. Except, not really. These are just the regular headlines. Because every day is hell.
The Scariest Thing This Halloween: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy explained the recent 14,000-person tech layoffs (2,303 of which hit Seattle Amazonians). He said the reason wasn’t financial nor was it about AI. Instead, it was culture. He said the company grew fast, hired faster, and now had too many “layers.” This is not the way to operate, apparently. With so many people the company can’t “be flat and… move fast.” The culture Jassy speaks of is this: Amazon is not in the business of people, but of course, in the business of profit. Too many people bogs down the profit. This year, Amazon reported $180.2 billion and Amazon Web Services reported $33 billion in sales. It is never enough. After the layoffs, Amazon’s stock ticked up 14%.
Watch Out, This Could Be You:
Man Wouldn’t Have Worn Costume To Work If He’d Known He Was Getting Laid Off
— The Onion (@theonion.com) October 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Another Halloween Fright: Traffic will be bad for those of you stuck in your little cars. Take a bus or a train to your Halloween party. The I-5 Ship Canal Bridge construction will continue this weekend in the southbound lanes. Rain won’t stop that mess. Rain could stop the planned construction on I-405. If it doesn’t, then prepare for multiple northbound lane closures between Northeast 124th Street and Northeast 160th Street. Annnnnd all westbound lanes on I-90 from Mercer Island to Seattle are closing Friday night through early Saturday morning.
The real horror: Halloween is the day the most child pedestrian deaths happen in the US. Don’t drive your stupid car tonight in the stupid rain and hit any stupid kids. I’m warning you!
Happy Halloween!!!
Reminder that Halloween is the most dangerous day of the year for pedestrians, so:
1. Don’t drive
2. If you must drive, slow down!
3. Longer term, advocate for more walkability where you live— Kevin Verhoff (@kevinverhoff.bsky.social) October 31, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Trick or Treaters beware. An atmospheric river-like weather system will unleash a soggy hell on this evening’s festivities and the weekend that follows. It’ll be gushers only in your candy pail. Cause of the rain.
Darkness Falls: The clocks roll back starting Sunday morning at 2 a.m. Winter is readying its cold, spindly fingers around our necks. After this weekend, sunset will fall at a dastardly 4:49 p.m.
In Skeleton News: Flava Flav has been anointed the official hype man for the US bobsled and skeleton teams in the 2026 Winter Olympics. In case you, like me, forgot there are Olympics next year, there are and they will be held in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
Stripping Prince Andrew: No! No! Not like that. Well, a little like that? Britain’s King Charles has started the process of severing his brother‘s ties with the monarchy. The now-almost-ex prince has been mired in controversy over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. The scandal of being friends with a serial sex pest creep reached new heights recently after Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir alleged Andrew assaulted her when she was a teen. Andrew denied these allegations. Not enough! No princely titles and no more lodging at royal estates for you, buddy.
Trump Calls for the End of the Filibuster: President Donald Trump would like the shutdown to end. Not through compromise, of course. On Truth Social, Trump screamed, “INITIATE THE ‘NUCLEAR OPTION,’ GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER.” Overcoming a filibuster in the full Senate requires 60 votes. The Republicans hold 53 seats in the Senate. To abolish the filibuster as a whole would change how the Senate does debate. Democrats continue to block the measure that would fund the government because they’re fighting for the reinstatement of healthcare subsidies so Americans don’t suffer even more exorbitant insurance costs. Trump called getting rid of the filibuster the Senate GOP’s “TRUMP CARD.” The GOP fears eliminating the filibuster could hurt them if the Democrats ever regain control of Congress.
Whatever happens, it’ll be too late to save SNAP benefits before they run dry on Nov. 1. The government shutdown has lasted 31 days. It will at least last a few more. Senators left D.C. without making any deals. Millions of people will have to deal with their SNAP benefits lapsing tomorrow. However, there is a shred of hope. A federal judge from Massachusetts will decide Friday whether the Trump administration must continue to fund food stamps during the shutdown.
Justice? Some Senators couldn’t get home last night after their long day of not re-opening the government. Why? Shutdown-induced delays at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Melissa Kills 49: Hurricane Melissa killed 30 people in Haiti, and 20 people are still missing. In Jamaica, Melissa’s death toll reached 19. The now-Category 2 storm steered mostly clear of Bermuda, which experienced her wrath as a strong tropical storm.
Illinois Advocates Sue Feds: Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois and the MacArthur Justice Center have sued Immigrations and Custom Enforcement for its treatment of detainees. According to the suit, ICE officials have blocked detainees from contacting lawyers, deprived them of food and medical treatment, and forced them to sign papers relinquishing their rights.
Have you voted yet? Well, do it. We made this video to make it really easy. And we made these endorsements to make it even easier. You have until Tuesday night at 8 p.m. to return your ballot to a King County ballot dropbox. If you’re mailing your ballot, do it today.
We Have the Louvre Heist at Home: Thieves nabbed more than 1,000 items from the Oakland Museum of California’s off-site storage facility. They stole metalwork jewelry, Native American baskets, scrimshaw walrus tusks, and 20th century sports memorabilia. We are in a heist heyday!
A Long Read: Rich liberal family hires part-time live-in nanny for their child at their upstate New York home. The nanny gets kind of weird, then refuses to leave.
I hate when this happens! A Kentucky woman opened a package expecting the medicine she had ordered. Instead, she found “arms and fingers.” The county coroner said there had been a mishap with “an airline company, a freight company, and a courier.” The coroner picked up the arms and fingers from the woman and intended to return them to the courier so the arms and fingers can go to their intended recipient. It is unclear who ordered the arms and fingers and for what purpose. Likely, not for medicine.
Viva la France: A 77-year-old French cyclist fell 130 feet into a ravine and survived for three days thanks to the bottles of red wine he was toting in his grocery bags.
A Song for Your Halloween: It is really the only song to listen to today.
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“… he was promised
Israel would suffer serious
punishment for the war in Gaza.”
wormmy
YOU’re the
only one who here
Drools over Punishment
tho your Ideological
Blinders will NOT Allow You
to SEE the DAMAGE bibi’s Done
/Doing to Israel and not incidentally
the Damage/Harm
he’s Causing to Jews fucking
PLANETWIDE with his Ongoing Massacre
of Palestinians. but keep Arguing how WE ALL
HATE ISRAEL. I suppose it’ll soothe You, in some small way
now,
fuck off
@101: “keep Arguing how WE ALL HATE ISRAEL”
But you progressive do hate Israel. 😁 That’s the meaning of antizionism 😂 “Antizionist” is not a name your opponents made up to insult you, it’s a name you proudly made up for yourselves ha ha ha!
@102 – Oh you “fuck off” with your BS, there’s no ongoing massacre of Palestinians in Gaza as much as you wish so that you can play the Paul Revere of all things horrible. You just want to claim the mantle as the most passionate for their cause even when their cause has been met.
103 refers to 101 – sorry thumpus
I “hate Israel”?
utterly ridiculous
is what you are
but then again
you and your puppetmaster’ve
spent the last Two Years equating
anti-genocide with Hating Israel and
IF That’s ALL Israel IS– just there for the
Genociding — then perhaps your are Correct
though most Jews on this planet’d
laff at your childish proclivity to
Lie so impulsively,
thumfpfnsorna “Tentsores” Wormtongue.
fuck YOU
and the Stranger too
for allowing your bad
faith Commentary
wormmy
fucking
jr.
@KkKoolie
you think
I’m in this
‘for the Glory’?
you right wing
nut jobs and your
nutty fucking projections
I hate
injustice
as do Most
HUMAN Beings
your
reptilican
brainstems’re
likely what’s gonna Do
this gorgeous little Planet In
&
your
Celebration
of its Demise’ll
echo throughout the
fucking Galaxy, little buddy:
right There’s
YOUR “glory.”
@105: “I hate Israel? utterly ridiculous”
lol you’re on here every day with your AIPAC conspiracy theories, your “Jewish lobby,” and your Zionist occupied government! You’ve got Jews on the brain my dude and it’s poisoned your ability to think! 😂🤣😂🤣
@107
are you* Truly
this Ignorant — is
it Willful, a character de-
fect, or were you ‘accidentally’
Dropped off the roof, at an early age?
(good thing you didn’t Land upon
your Head, little fellah — you
wouldda Bounced clear into
the Next damn County) 😂
what a sad, time/Soul-
sucking personage you Are
thumpfnsorna T. Wormtongue.
*are you This way
in real Life?
@103: ‘Oh you “fuck off” with your BS, there’s no ongoing massacre of Palestinians in Gaza as much as you wish so that you can play the Paul Revere of all things horrible.’
Not “all things horrible.” There’s plenty of horrible things happening in Gaza, about which our local All Gaza All The Time friends have absolutely nothing to say. For example:
“Since the truce last month, Hamas fighters have emerged from the rubble and begun consolidating power in some areas. In some cases, they have publicly executed their rivals.”
(https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/next-question-for-gaza-peace-plan-who-wants-to-police-it-1a63cb9a?mod=Searchresults&pos=1&page=1)
We’re also getting reports of Hamas having used hospitals for shelter during the war, and Hamas’ thieving of humanitarian aid for its own purposes. The longer this peace holds, the more real journalists can work in Gaza, and the more of these reports we’ll receive. And our friends here will continue to remain obediently silent about every last such atrocity reported.
“The longer this
peace holds, the more
real journalists can work in Gaza… “
oh wormmy
your AIPAC is
Showing, yet Again:
from the Wiki:
The killing of journalists in the Gaza war, overwhelmingly Palestinians killed by Israel,
along with other acts of violence against journalists, marks the deadliest period for journalists in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict since 1992
and the single deadliest conflict for journalists in all known conflicts in the history of the world,
according to the Costs of War Project.[2][3][4]
According to the United Nations, the number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war stood at 242 by 11 August 2025.[5][6]
On the other hand, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported that 192 journalists, at least 184 of them Palestinian, had been killed by Israel as of 10 August 2025[7][8]
while the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) reported the killing of at least 180 Palestinian journalists and media workers by Israel as of 11 August 2025.
[9] A July 2024 count by the Gaza Government Media Office placed the number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel at 160.[10][11].
By January 2025, Israel had reportedly killed 42 more Palestinian journalists to raise this number to 202,[12] and by July 2025, it had reportedly killed 15 more journalists to raise the number to 217.[13]
An aggregation of data from multiple sources, including from the CPJ and the IFJ, which listed the names of all journalists hitherto reported to have been killed by Israel concluded that, by 11 August 2025,
Israel had killed up to 274 journalists, with 269 of them Palestinian.[14]
praying for an Ignorant
Commentariat ain’tcha
Wormtongue?
“The longer this
peace holds, the more
real journalists can work in Gaza… “
what a piece
of work this
wormmy IS.
can’t
access
comments
@111:
To see comments past 100, use a url with a comment number beyond what you think the total is:
https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025/10/31/80305114/slog-am-seattles-soggy-halloween-prince-andrew-is-a-prince-no-more-trump-demands-that-gop-kill-filibuster/comments/120
@110: Yeah “journalists” like Mr. FAFO, a uniform-wearing, rifle-toting member of Hamas, ha ha ha! Thanks but that’s “journalism” we can live without, sorry Mr. FAFO rest in peace! 😂
@76: Calvin dear, my BINGO to DOUG @49 was because he called you on trolling with your head up your ass.
I don’t need any more proof, sweetie. Ya gotta stop slurping the KKKool Aid. Felon Mu$k’s Mein Trumpf, FOX TeeVee, and hydroxychloroquine will rot your brain.
speaking not of Hating
Israel but Hating some
of the Shitty things
they Do — which
you Neoliberals
and Cons simp-
ly ADORE,
duh:
do you NOT find it Ironic, thumpfnsornas
that We, the People send to Israel
TENS of BILLIONS of Dollars OF
Our Tax Monies to support &
“defend” Israel & Israel thru
AIPAC or WETF spends ONE
HUNDRED MILLION of OUR
TAX DOLLARS thru AIPAC
or WETF on Defeating
Progressive and/or
“Insufficiently PRO-
ISRAEL” Politicians,
Right Back Here,
in the Homeland?
silly question, eh?
Of COURSE You Don’t!
but WE DO.
@113, thumpfnsorna — your
Complicity is Duly Noted:
see You @ the War 😂
Crimes Tribunals! 😂
@115: “ Israel thru AIPAC or WETF spends ONE HUNDRED MILLION of OUR TAX DOLLARS thru AIPAC or WETF”
Ha ha ha, well first AIPAC is American not Israeli, and second AIPAC isn’t financed through tax dollars. Your weird Jew-conspiracy fixation has scrambled your brains! 😂😂😂
@114: You stupid twit, it was an acknowledgment that Kurt Vonnegut was a better example of culture in Indiana than Terra Hutte. Doug didn’t mention me. Asshole.
Forgetting to read the comments on here for a day and then going back and reading them all at once only highlights the vast mental illness that runs rampant on here. Some of you are batshit crazy.
@118: But you’re not batshit crazy, right?
@117 Um, yeah, actually I did refer to you @49. “If we don’t renew the Medic One levy who will extract your head from your ass?” was quite clever in my opinion. And you agreed. Well done.
@21, the one time I can think of that I would drink from a wine bottle which I had opened by breaking off the neck is if I were lying half dead at the bottom of a cliff.
@22, Pas de deux.
@30, There’s a ton of videos on YouTube that seem to indicate that shoe method is more likely to break out the bottom of the bottle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMb6GNYPqXA
Also, half dead at the bottom of a ravine & I’m going to let a spec of cork stand between me & pain relief?????
@21, the one time I can think of that I would drink from a wine bottle which I had opened by breaking off the neck is if I were lying half dead at the bottom of a cliff.
@22, Pas de deux.
@30, There’s a ton of videos on YouTube that seem to indicate that shoe method is more likely to break out the bottom of the bottle. Search “Bare Hand Bottle Busting- Science Investigation” Mark Rober
Also, half dead at the bottom of a ravine & I’m going to let a spec of cork stand between me & pain relief?????
@21, the one time I can think of that I would drink from a wine bottle which I had opened by breaking off the neck is if I were lying half dead at the bottom of a cliff.
@22, Pas de deux.
@30, There’s a ton of videos on YouTube that seem to indicate that shoe method is more likely to break out the bottom of the bottle. Search YouTube “Bare Hand Bottle Busting- Science Investigation” Mark Rober
Also, half dead at the bottom of a ravine & I’m going to let a spec of cork stand between me & pain relief?????
@118: What’s different about this thread? kristo’s output never significantly varies, and if the quote @116 accurately represents his output in this thread, kristo’s loss of his favorite toy war, while devastating to him, simply increased his insanity incrementally. Remember, even before the peace deal in Gaza, he was already a full-blown paranoid conspiracy theorist, seeing his ‘Jewish Lobby’ everywhere in the world, and tiresomely insisting I was a sock-puppet master who single-handedly wrote most of the comments which refused his nonsense. There was already so little reality in any of that, it’s difficult to understand why you claim to see any difference now.
shove the damn cork into
the damn bottle and be
Done with it
@116
thumpfnsorna:
Every penny a US
Billionaire hands to
fucking AIPAC is a Penny
they don’t hafta send to Israel.
speaking of the
‘Humanity’ of the
Palestinian’s Oppressors:
They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
Israeli settlers were filmed torturing
lambs which belonged to Pales-
tinians in the West Bank.
Gouged their eyes out.
Smashed them with cinder blocks.
Beat them to death in front of their mothers.
Lambs.
It’s not the most evil
thing the Israelis
have done.
Not by a long shot.
Hell, all of human civilization sub-
jects animals to cruel abuses every minute
of every day through the horrors of factory farming.
[speaking of what wormmy calls “the Fog of War”
{which’s Really just the Pink Mist created from
Israel’s Murdering of all those Pesky damn
Journalists {{that thumpfnsornas call
“undercover Hamas!” or some
Other utter Bullshite}}:
But this particular incident
shines a special sort of light in-
to exactly what’s going on behind
Israeli eyes over there in that sadistic society.
https://x.com/haaretzcom/status/1984980799792271535
continued below:
continued from above:
Think about
the hatred and savagery
you’d need to summon up within
yourself to gouge the eyes out of a living baby sheep.
Think about the kind of person
you’d have to become to do some-
thing like that to an innocent creature.
Those lambs didn’t know they were Palestinian.
They didn’t know
anything about Hamas or
October 7 or the Nazi Holocaust,
or any of the other reasons Israelis
generally cite for their abuses of human beings.
They were just sitting there, doing absolutely
nothing that could possibly be construed
as harmful by even the most
talented hasbarist.
And those settlers went in there
and inflicted completely
gratuitous suffering
upon them.
–Caitlin Johnstone; Nov 4, 2025
oodles,
if you can
stomach more:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank
I do NOT
Hate Israel.
I DO Hate the
Barbarity they’ve al-
lowed themselves to succumb
to under this psychotic nutnyahoo regime.
@118 — Thank you.
@124:
El Wormtongue,
wagging his second
most favorite appendage:
“kristo’s loss of
his favorite toy war . . .
[my ‘favorite toy war’?
THAT’s what you call bibi’s
KeeptheFuckouttaPrisongambit?
CUM fucking GENOCIDE? wow, wormmy
you one very. Sick. puppy.]
[[oh & it ain’t Gone
Wormtongue~sadly, it’s
only temporarily postponed]]
. . . while devastating to him . . .
[the Devastation Continues
just as Soon as bibi
gets bored]
. . . simply
increased his
insanity incrementally.”
there’s that
psychotic Projection
rerearing its horrendous head.
bugger off
sick sockbott/
Projection Master.
@118 tbass1981: I second kristofarian’s thank you.
@119: Shhhhhh, Calvin, dear. Just give it up already.
Batshit stupid is no way to go through life, son.
You already shot yourself in the foot.
@120 DOUG: And another batshit stupid (@117) goes down! lol
I swear, the MAGAs are getting dumber by the nanosecond.
Frankly, I’m amazed ol’ Calvin can actually see where he’s going.
@126
Drawing a parallel
to bibi & HIS
IOF:
look no further
than Cadet Bonespurs’s
and his ICE Stormtroopers
and
you’ll
See what
I’m Getting at
unless
you Prefer
NOT to
See —
like
our dear
wormmy
because to See
is To Admit
Complicity
and
he hasn’t
apparently
the stomach
for That sorta thing
he’d
Much
Rather
Point his
guilty finger
right. at. me.
Obviously.
That’s why
they call it
Projection.
@127~Gracias, auntie Gee.
but
Come
Back wormmy
and tell the World
how I LOVE
to HATE
Israel
@127: A shot foot, I can deal with that. Can you deal with no brain? You insufferable stupid deranged one-cell amoeba.
@130
Sadly
Unpoetic,
even for You, KkKoolie.
Wanna try it again?
@130: Calvin, sweetie, just log off your mother’s account, go back to 7th grade remedial, actually LEARN something, and stop wasting everyone’s time here before you embarrass yourself any further.
@131 kristofarian: It’s gotta be awfully dark for Calvin to type, let alone see from so deeply up inside his butt.
I wonder if he uses a flashlight? That’d be one helluva story if he had to go to the emergency room to get it out.
Just when jovial interns think they’ve seen it all, along comes Calvin, Taco Donaldo’s dumbest MAGA fool.
Not even a system override can save his ass: …can’t….find….the…switch!!! Send HELP!!!
@131 kristofarian: I’m guessing ol’ Calvin is 40 going on 14, and supposedly being “homeschooled” by his mom who juggles two minimum wage jobs outside the trailer in the woods behind a suburban Wal*Mart. He’s supposed to be “looking for work”, but………just doesn’t get around to it. Trolling inane word salad 24 / 7 doesn’t actually pay anything, but–gawlly gee willackers!—being the dumbest of MAGA fools online is so much FUN!!! ‘Cuz his loco Emperor, Taco Donaldo, sez so on FOX TeeVee.
What happened to comments past @130?
@134: Please see @112, and add: the URL’s trailing number should be the same as the number of comments displayed at the bottom of the headline post. (It was ‘135’ BEFORE I posted this comment.) Making the trailing number too much larger than whatever the actual number of comments is may obscure the final comments, so you might want to adjust that number a little from input to input.
now kick
KkKoolie’s
baboony Ass
auntie Gee~whilst
it’s displayed in all its glory
@135: Thank you, tensorna. I was beginning to think my comments were getting pulled. ??
@136 kristofarian: Oh, I plan to—with gusto. 🙂
I guess Calvin had 8:00 pm curfew. Either that or he finally got his head and flashlight surgically pulled out of his ass. That’s gonna be one helluva hospital bill to swallow.
@137: “Thank you, tensorna.”
You’re very welcome! I’m always happy to be of service.
(BTW, did you happen to notice the commenter at whom you’d repeatedly hurled insults tried to help you, but the ones you’d thanked and praised all simply ignored your request for help? Do you think you might possibly learn something from this?)
“I’m always happy to be of service.”
we Know!
and bibi
and AIPAC
and Genociders in
General’re all utterly Delighted
with your Unwavering Support, wormmy!
even if it means Supporting,
unwaveringly, Horrific
fucking War
Crimes.
what a
Gentleman.
@138: Tensy dear, now you’re going to argue about number of people who “tried to help, but…” ?
Project much?