Trump Endorsed Cuomo: “You really have no choice,” Trump says. New Yorkers do, actually, and it seems pretty likely that more of them will select Zohran Mamdani as their mayor.
I hope you will select Katie Wilson as yours. Please don’t make us endure another four years of Bruce Harrell, a man who thinks being the mayor is standing at a podium and announcing something. His case for mayor is basically: I should be mayor. He may be from here, and he may have a compelling personal story, but God, this guy SUCKS. Wilson may not be very charismatic, but she actually wants this city to be a better place. We have other endorsements, which you can read here. Turnout is never great, but it’s also not great this year.
PSA: Seriously, don’t mail your ballot today. Due to new USPS postmarking rules, it probably won’t be counted, officials say. Go to a drop box instead. Take someone cute with you. Make a date of it. Then, make sweet love to celebrate the democratic process.
Former VP Dick Cheney Dead: The Machiavellian warhawk died from a combination of pneumonia, cardiac disease, and vascular disease. He was 84. Cheney backed the Iraq war, even when the facts and the people were not with him. He defended the surveillance state he helped set up after 9/11. He was never President, but nearly had the power of one. Here’s a sendoff song:
More Election Stuff: The Urbanist wrote about six mayoral and city council elections outside Seattle that could signal broader trends in the region (friends don’t let friends vote for Mark Mullet as Mayor of Issaquah).
Weather: It’ll be partly sunny, with a high near 56. There’s a slight chance of rain between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
He’s got a GREAT ASS record, so naturally, Mariner Cal Raleigh is finalist for MVP of the American League. Baseball is more Nathalie’s department than mine, but The Seattle Times writes that Raleigh’s season may never be replicated by another catcher. He led the MLB in homers and the American League in RBIs. He broke Mickey Mantle’s record for most homers by a switch-hitter in one season. I have only one thing to say to Cal and his teammates this year.
ICE: Washingtonians have reported that State Troopers asking for immigration documents during traffic stops, but the troopers have no record of that happening—which means they’re probably unmarked ICE officers. So state officials have these recommendations: if you’re being pulled over by an unmarked law enforcement vehicle, turn on your hazard lights and drive to a public area (they recommend the nearest fire or police station). If you can’t figure out whether or not they’re actually law enforcement, call 911. But for an Issaquah community that’s been rocked by these arrests recently, none of these options feel safe. KUOW has more.
Crumbs: The federal government will only pay partial SNAP benefits this month, which is great news for the tens of millions of Americans who were planning on only partially eating this month. It’s unclear when these benefits are going out, but it could take weeks. Republican Senate Majority whip John Barrasso showed his bare-ass-o when he shot down the Democrats attempt to fully fund SNAP with unused revenue from tariffs this month.
He Doesn’t Even Go Here: It’s really, really rich that a Republican party that’s going around claiming, without evidence, that Joe Biden didn’t know what pardons he was signing with autopen, is led by a man who just pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the cryptocurrency billionaire and Binance co-founder he apparently didn’t know. President Donald Trump told 60 Minutes that he heard it was a “Biden witch hunt.” It was not. Zhao committed financial crimes and, as a result, paid the biggest corporate penalties in the history of this country, according to former US Attorney General Merrick Garland. The pardon allows Zhao to run financial ventures again. The crypto crazy Trump is probably lying for his financial benefit, but it’s still rich, ya know?
Bleak: Trump is threatening military action in Nigeria. The White House said he’s been tracking this for some time. But two sources familiar with the matter told CNN that he got the idea from a Fox News story on Friday about Islamic groups allegedly targeting the country’s Christians (the killing is not limited to Christians—radical Islamic groups are killing Muslims, too). Within an hour, he was posting. Additionally, Trump threatened to pull aid to Nigeria. And in this administration, posting can soon enough become policy.
On Posting: Trump threatened to disobey the federal court order that would make the government pay any SNAP benefits. It’s unclear what will actually happen, but it’s definitely not good.
Play a Funeral March with Microwave Beeps: Duane Roberts, billionaire inventor of the frozen burrito, died in his sleep at 88.
See a Movie: Charles has a nose for a good documentary, like this dreamlike one about the 1999 WTO protests. Read all about it.
The Pokemon Police: Walmart is joining the war on scalpers on the side of children and adult nerds by limiting Pokemon card buyers to “five packs and/or boxes” “per visit.”
I’m in a dour mood. This song always does the trick.
I award today’s slog a full five emojis on the thumpmeter. 😄
Someone said, “Maybe radical Muslims sometimes commit genocide in some places?” and the Hamasnik lefties completely lost their shit! 🤣 Ha ha ha, I did not realize this was a sore spot for you guys! 😆
@47: on the one hand you have Ted Cruz and Laura Loomer claiming there is a specific Christian “genocide” in Nigeria and on the other you have people who know what they’re talking about.
Here’s a link
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-christian-killings-claims-ted-cruz-insecurity-e9d2fb7ae02bd3169194fb60872bb3d4
Eulogy for a Fiend
In a truly sane society, Richard Bruce Cheney would have lived out his life in relative obscurity, working as a gardener or something. In a fairly sane society, people would have realized what a monster Cheney was before he could do any major harm in Washington, and he would have been driven out of any town he tried to enter. In a slightly sane society, he would have been punished for the rape of Iraq and lived out the rest of his life in a cell in The Hague.
But we do not live in a truly sane society, or in a fairly sane society, or even in a slightly sane society. We live in the sort of society that lets a man unleash a chain of events which kills millions and displaces tens of millions causing more human suffering than the mind can possibly comprehend, and then live out the rest of his life in comfort and privilege, with zero consequences of any kind.
Dick Cheney is dead now, but his legacy lives on. The damage he did is still unfolding. The hegemonic, hypermilitaristic ideology he promoted has become the baseline norm. New swamp monsters have stepped in to fill his shoes and advance the same murderous and tyrannical agendas he advanced, confident that they too will suffer no consequences and live long and comfortable lives in reward for their loyal service to the US empire.
Dick Cheney left a stain upon our species that we will spend the rest of our lives trying to scrub out. All decent people want our world to move in the exact opposite direction he spent his entire blood-spattered career working to steer us toward. All decent people want to undo everything that Dick Cheney was.
–by Caitlin Johnstone; 11/4/25
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/cheney-should-have-died-alone-in
@47: Okay, you don’t. You could have just said that or ignored my request.
@53: She seems nice. Mary Cheney, a grieving lesbian, can be disregarded.
@53: thumpus heuristic: outside the realm of space opera, if you ever find yourself using the word “hegemony” or any of its derivatives, you have automatically lost whatever argument you were hoping to have 😄
yea cuz
Murdering
tens of thousands
is equal to calling out*
someone for murdering
tens of thousands. brillant.
*do
Lesbians
grieve, too?
good one,
wormmy!
@56 so much for my theory you are or were an IR grad student I guess
@27: Actually, genocide is a specific crime, and therefore has a specific definition, which depends not at all upon “common parlance.”
“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
(https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf)
@29: Our friends here have spent two years in rock-solid agreement about “genocide”. They know what it is when they see it — just ask them — and they had no problem accusing Israel of it in Gaza. It’s every one of the other mass killings across the planet during that time which have given them pause, rendering them unable to, um, render a judgment on whether those killings should be called “genocide” or not. In all of those other cases, including in Israel itself on 10/7, it’s just too tough for them to call. (Gee, I wonder what could have possibly differentiated Gaza from all of the rest?)
@the Wormtongue:
Translation?
THEY HATE THE JEW.
bugger off wormmy
you’re just Angry
the Neolibs &
Cons’re all
LOSING.
buck Up, man!
you KNOW them
Progs’re just gonna
Fuck Things Up for like
EVER! right? right
wormmy? wormmy?
speaking of War Crimes
or just Crimes Against
fucking Humanity:
“Still can’t wrap
my head around the
fact that internationally re-
nowned activist Greta Thunberg said
she was tortured and sexually humiliated by
Israeli soldiers when she was abducted for trying to bring
aid to starving civilians and the world just shrugged and moved on.”
–Caitlin Johnstone; @caitoz.bsky.social Nov4 2025
https://bsky.app/profile/caitoz.bsky.social/post/3m4thsqkn6s2m
“BUT HAMAS!”
“BUT HAMAS!”
right, wormmy?
wormmy?
right?
yeah,
Israel just
Cannot Catch
a gott Damn Break.
wormmy?
@62: “Still can’t wrap my head around the fact that internationally renowned activist Greta Thunberg said she was tortured and sexually humiliated by Israeli soldiers when she was abducted”
Yeah I can’t wrap my head around it either 😆
@63: Wait, she’s now speaking out against rape? I thought she was trying to bully the New York Times into retracting a story about rape! What gives?!?
speaking of calling a fucking spade a spade:
Whilst the US’s
‘Border Czar Admits ICE Sees All Immigrants as Criminals’
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/4/2352036/-Border-czar-admits-ICE-sees-all-immigrants-as-criminals
and Cadet Bonespurs calls anyone even slightly
to the “left” of the dick fucking Cheney
“LUNATIC COMMUNIS TERRORIST RADICALS”
our dear King of the Pedanticies
Wormtongue trumpfnsorna
INSISTS we MUST Follow HIS Mandate and
Wait! till ALL parties agree IN Fucking
FULL and it becomes Universally
Acknowledged by AIPAC, Israel
and its rabidly, rapidly shrink-
ing cast of accomplices!
all to distract
and keep his ‘the
Fog of War’ from revealing
the utter Atrocities Israel and
US commit on the fucking Daily
in Palestine,
Okay,
wormmy.
peace plan?
Don’t Make
me laugh 😆
@63 — your
groveling complicity
is duly noted wormmy, jr 😆
@64
so
Greta’s
now ‘the Bully’
and Israel, the “Victim”?
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
😆 oh, wormmy, 😆
😆 you Do Work in 😆
😆 “Mysterious” Ways! 😆
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆!
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
😆 oh, wormmy, 😆
😆 you Do Work in 😆
😆 “Mysterious” Ways! 😆
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆!
fixed!
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
😆 oh, wormmy, 😆
😆 you Do Work in 😆
😆 “Mysterious” Ways! 😆
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆!
fixed!
[for reals!]
@55:
speaking
or those poor,
Grieving Lesbians:
[breathlessly] :
this just in from
Sinclair Broadcasting Corps
(or FOX, or Whereverthefuckingfuck) :
[Remote correspondent
to Important, concern-
ed News Anchor, sit-
ting at desk, with
deeply-furrowed
non~Botoxed
brow] :
“Let me tell you something, Jen:
I think it’s SICK to celebrate
Captain Torture’s Death.
THOSE People should
be Locked UP. and
also TORTURED.”
[back to Newsanchor,
looking even More
Concerned],
looks like These People
speak thumpfnsorn-
aese, too!
whatchya Say,
wormmy, jr?
you
Like?
😆😆😆?
@69: What on Earth are you babbling about?
@70
wwwwhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooossssssssh!
and
Yes, you
may Quote me.
(“It is difficult to
get a man to understand something,
when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate
for Governor: And How
I Got Licked)
[have You ever
been Licked,
KkKoolie?]
@71: “wwwwhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooossssssssh!” what?
@71: What kind of licking are you referring to?
@72
that’s a Bingo.
@73 ~ nevermind.
perhaps when you’re Older.
this Is, after all, a
Fambly News-
paper.
The word “Fambly” is a racist dog-whistle
@60: Yes, I wasn’t going to go there, but even after multiple, furious invocations of “linguistic science,” Libretto still managed to flub the definition of genocide. 😁 I tolerated his Miriam-Webster definition because it was close enough for purposes of this discussion, but you are correct: there is a more precise and more relevant definition of genocide, one that is not to open to reinterpretation through “common parlance.” 😂
If you are going to invoke genocide in a political or legal context, it behoves you to use the political-legal definition. If you prefer to use a layman definition, then you preclude yourself from advancing credible political or legal arguments; you confine yourself to merely rhetorical arguments. 😄 It’s not wrong, it’s just not very persuasive. 😂
But even under Libretto’s squishy, layman’s understanding of genocide, I still wouldn’t dismiss out of hand the argument that some of the Islamic radicals in Africa are engaged in genocide. Mind you, I don’t think the commenters here have put forward a strong argument that genocide is occurring in Africa, but i suspect a better-informed commentariat could. 😃
@75
so
Sayeth
thee Commentator
most widely Known as
‘Mayella Ewell’ for Reasons
that were Once Unfathomable
to me but’ve since been made Clear As
A Bell.* Hat Tip to Libertto68 for his Contributions!
see @34, 37, 39
&, most Impor-
tantly, see:
@fucking
Forty.
(and Maybe
@42 & 43 for
Further Edification).
https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am-pm/2025/11/04/80310504/slog-am-its-election-day-and-dick-cheneys-dead-so-go-vote/comments/39
Thank you for your
Attention to this
matter!
*or a
Dogwhistle!
if you’ve made it
THIS FAR, bippie?
Congratulations!!!
now bugger off.
“bugger off” is an anti-homosexual, homophobic slur phrase
@78 — not in This context.
“When I use a Word”
said Humpty
Dumbty
(like a Fawkin’
Trainwreck,
Ain’t it?
you
Cannot*
Look Away.
*ah:
the price
we pay for
our trollings)
@76
@TheWormtongue
Suspicioning
“something”
MUST BE
“up”:
“but i suspect a better-informed commentariat could … “
ah, Wormmy, but
NO ONE’s Your
Equal! you’ve
hammered
that point
Home
since day fucking One.
“put forward
a strong argument that
genocide is occurring in Africa,”
once again
you DEMAND
we accompany
the Mighty Worm-
tongue on his Selfless
Path at Righting Injustices
Wherever they rear their Uglynesses.
join him
as he takes Us
Round The World
Bending that ole
Arc of Justice toward
the fucking Honorable Light
(everywhere
but in Palestine
most Inexplicabley)?
naw.
we’re
gonna
Pass. it’s
gonna be
just You and
your Sidekick
Sockbott WETF
from Here on out.*
but don’t let That
Stop you from
Trying!
*and may-
be a few of
your psycophants
Okay.
that was
Fun whilst
it Lasted. bye!
@76: “If you are going to invoke genocide in a political or legal context, it behoves you to use the political-legal definition. If you prefer to use a layman definition, then you preclude yourself from advancing credible political or legal arguments; you confine yourself to merely rhetorical arguments.”
What’s fun is when they ricochet from one to the other, trying to accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza, whilst ignoring the obvious: 10/7 fits the legal definition much better than either 10/7, or the IDF-Hamas war in Gaza, fits either definition. Hence word games like Libretto’s, where they will simply redefine “genocide” specifically to include the IDF-Hamas war in Gaza, and exclude 10/7, whilst miserably lacking the honesty to admit what they’re so obviously trying to do.
@78: ‘”bugger off” is an anti-homosexual, homophobic slur phrase’
kristo’s still at it, eh? (Of course he is.) Back when I would use him for a foil, each episode would always feel like a peculiarly aliterate version of a “Choose Your Own Adventure” story; no matter what choices I made, or the resultant length of path, only two nearly-identical endings existed: one where he SHOUTED, “Fuck off, [cravenly stolen IP],” and the other, where he SHOUTED, “Bugger off, [cravenly stolen IP].” Either SHOUT meant the end of the ‘adventure.’ In the latter case, he was also LOUDly engaging in anti-gay and sex-negative bigotry, which came (ha!) as a bonus for my having earned that ending.
BUGGER OFF WORMMY!
well
there ya
Go, Wormtongue.
@81 — see also:
@5, 15, 22, 31, 58, 61, 62, 65, 66-69, 80,
and, just in case you may’ve
Forgotten, already,
@82.
you’ve
Earned ’em.